General gaming discussion

A big thing about Ubi games too is, they're always on sale. Half the games they have pretty much take it in turns to be on sale (including the various DLCs, Season Passes, different editions etc). Unless Outlaws releases to great reviews (which going by the previews, it may not), much easier to hang on 3-4 months and it'll be at least 33% off.

I really wanted to like Far Cry 6 but they really did try too hard. One of the things that ruined it most and crippled the enjoyment for me was the utter lack of progression. Best guns and loadouts available after about twenty minutes with absolutely no reason to change weapons thereafter. It was a disasterous decision as it brutally exposed the repetitive skeleton of the game more than ever.

Surely they can see that, people getting Ubi+ for a month just for new releases. Can't be good for the bottom line and as they discount so heavily so soon after launch, it makes people wait longer. Feels like they're shooting themselves in the foot.

Since I've decided to turn the pc into a gaming one, I spent ages last night going through Steam and Epic looking for something to play. And all the time I wished there was a Gamepass/PS+ type service for pc. Then I remembered I have Gamepass on pc. Not looking forward to optimising the game for my setup. Its why I'll always be a console gamer, plug n play is just easier.

And this is exactly why I'll always be a console gamer. I need to get an education to get the most out of the game.

Medium settings, I'm getting 59 in the opening scene and it tanked to 45 as the elevator came down. Into display settings, and yeah, they explain what each settings is but very few explain how it affects and the further down the list you go the more complex they get. There are 26 individual options to change in Starfield display settings. It includes 4 upscaling options with no explanation of what each does (seeings as I have an RTX, DLSS would be the best no? Or maybe the AMD produced FSR3 is better…). Changed a few settings, screen tearing happened but 101fps! Set it to low, stable 59fps but can I not do more? Can I get a stable 120fps? Why does it now look like my game is set underwater…

Guess I'm looking at YouTube videos and guides for a while before I get around to actually playing the game. Pretty sure this is why I never kept the last PC up to date. Press PS controller button, select game, play. No amount of people who know what they're doing telling me it's straight forward or simple will make it so. It's not, not for people who have no idea, not for people who just want to play games. I'm not idiot, but I shouldn't need to understand the inner workings of graphics settings just to play a game as stable and good as possible. The first crowd to genuinely make a program that does all this for you (properly) will be rich.

Pah. I ended up giving up on it. Dropped everything to low and still going between 40-55fps and now it looks like there's a constant film of dust in the air. Probably a bad game to try out the rig for the first time. For now, playing it on my half-the-price Series X is an easier experience.

So decided to try something less taxing, and noted that Dyson Sphere Program is on Gamepass too. Yeah, I'm sure a fully 3d including space rendered production line with millions of moving parts definitely will run smooth… fun game though, even if I'm still so, so early in it. Leaving the planet seems so far away yet, and it's a major part of the game. I can potentially see why people have hundreds to thousands of hours in this already.

I was looking through some of my older games and noticed i only had a few trophies left to get in Mafia Definitive Edition so said I'd download it to get the platinum. Then remembered one trophy was for completing it on classic difficulty which i already did but the trophy didn't pop. No way i can do another party through of that thinking about the race on classic. Sickened, would have been a nice plat to get. Fantastic game none the less for anyone who hasn't tried it.

Oh I have that syndrome for years. But I gave up on Starfield because trying to get it to run good was taking up gaming time. And it's possibly horribly optimised so maybe a bad idea to try out my rig with it. DSP is good though, although I can see myself giving up on it after a while due to the sheer scale of it, my little brain may not be able to keep up!

I started out with factorio and a few years later upgraded to satisfactory. Essentially the same game but different perspectives but both are so much fun.

I must give DSP a go. Is it game pass PC or on console?

Didn't even know Jakey put a new video out.

Remember Me is one of my 7/10 games. Same with Binary Domain.

Just messing because Binary Domain is obviously a 10/10.

Sounds like the forthcoming Jurassic Park game will have more in common with Alien Isolation than Turok, and I'm all for it.

Fingers crossed. It's a series crying out for some decent games!