henke on 9/11/2023 at 17:51
Naah it's more like a cowboy version of GTA IV.
I been playin...
Gotham Knights
Gave it a whirl since it's in PS+. I like the idea behind it, these 4 youngsters picking up where Batman left off, but gameplaywise it mostly just feels like a downgrade from the Arkham games. Everything is clunkier and worse, and there's too much dang RPG bullshit. Played the first 3 missions, but I think I'm done with it.
Deus Ex
I say this is my fave game but it's been a good decade since I last played it probably. Started looking into what's the best way to experience it these days, but all the plugins and launchers and whatnot people recommended soon started feeling like I wasn't even gonna wanna play it any more once I'm done setting all that stuff up. So I opted for the easy route of installing Deus Ex Revision, and just disabling most of the new bling-bling. I'm playing it more fast and loose than my previous playthroughs and having a ball. I'm cappin fools left and right and getting chewed out by everyone. I don't care! I'm the bad boy of UNATCO! :cool:
demagogue on 9/11/2023 at 19:59
I noticed qolelis was really getting into that game too, but now I see he already posted as much above.
It's funny to hear because the original Talos Principle didn't do that much for me, at least as far as I got into it (which admittedly wasn't that far), and superficially TP2 has a similar look. But going by what people are saying, TP2 looks to be on a whole other level in terms of the experience people are having with it.
Pyrian on 9/11/2023 at 21:05
Huhhh. Looks like Talos P2 will run on my ancient device, and only costs $27. Maybe I'll try a new game for a change, lol.
Wait, I have no time. :(
Anarchic Fox on 9/11/2023 at 22:52
Quote Posted by MasterFlaw
The Talos Principle 2 might as well be tantamount to a religious experience. One of those once in a decade titles like Thief and Kentucky Route Zero for me.
I'm really glad this is out, but graduate school in mathematics has left me too fried to play puzzle games during the semester. I'll save it for a post-semester reward, although not this winter, which is reserved for Outer Wilds.
qolelis on 10/11/2023 at 01:02
Quote Posted by MasterFlaw
The Talos Principle 2 might as well be tantamount to a religious experience. One of those once in a decade titles like Thief and Kentucky Route Zero for me.
Yes. This kind of game at this scale isn't being made too often, so I'm glad to be playing now. The whole thing is extremely ambitious.
The most recent game actually being released I can think of is
Reliefs The Time of the Lemures. Quite limited in scope (as it was made by just one person), but still impressive and I had some good fun with its climbing challenges, puzzle solving, and exploration.
Neb on 12/11/2023 at 08:09
I remember about 10 years ago there was an increase in first-person indie puzzle games (that were not Portal-related). I tried out Antichamber, Fract OSC, and others before The Talos Principle dropped - with a demo and a generous price - and cleaned house.
I was planning to be playing Cities Skylines 2 by now, but it seems to have serious performance problems. I saw that the models hadn't been cleaned up and made low-poly enough, with issues like characters rendering a full set of teeth that you will never be able to see. Talos Principle 2 for the moment.
WingedKagouti on 12/11/2023 at 10:17
Quote Posted by Neb
I was
planning to be playing Cities Skylines 2 by now, but it seems to have serious performance problems. I saw that the models hadn't been cleaned up and made low-poly enough, with issues like characters rendering a full set of teeth that you will never be able to see.
That was a reddit theory that has been debunked. Also from people I talk to elsewhere who have actually played it, the performance issues seems to be tied to a couple of the graphics settings and don't affect everyone evenly.
But the game is on Game Pass, so you can try it out there without paying full price if you have that.
Sulphur on 12/11/2023 at 10:29
The teeth definitely aren't an issue, but there's an (
https://blog.paavo.me/cities-skylines-2-performance/) entire bunch of reasons for the performance. Complex models with no LOD variants, massive amounts of polygons, the prior two issues creating issues with shadows taking consequently more rendering power, and so on.
Thirith on 12/11/2023 at 15:50
Half an hour spent with The Exorcist Legion VR has shown me that, nope, this is not a game for me. Even if the scares seem to be relatively predictable and not terribly original, being in VR ratchets the effect of this up way too much for scared little me. Nope, nope, nope.
Harvester on 21/11/2023 at 15:29
I've completed the Quake 2 Remaster, the new Machine Games campaign is quite good, Quake 2 64 was blurry and low-poly but short and still kind of fun to play.
Now after completed source ports/remasters of Ultimate Doom, Doom 2 and Quake 1 and 2 I'll move on to more modern fare for the time being. I've started with The Last Of Us Part 2. There was some negative feedback from GamerGate type of guys on that game, but I don't know the details of what that's about so I'm not going to read about it and I'm going to judge the game on its own merits. Due to my controller suckage I'm playing on Light difficulty because I need the aim assist. But for me this type of cinematic game is more about the experience than the challenge.
