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Too many Games, too little time

"Gaming" finger sleeve is somehow a thing.

Boxed releases on the Switch with only a code inside need to be stopped. It took 4 years but I was finally tricked into getting one. Returned it the next day.

Is Google Stadia dead yet?

Halo 5 Guardians should be added to the Master Chief Collection sooner or later, regardless whether it had a bad campaign or not. And by extension, ported to the PC platform.

Wonder why Bungie didn't reuse the Assault Rifle audio FX from Combat Evolved for Halo 3? In the latter, the AR sounded like an SMG.

It would seem BeachHead 2020 is VR-centric & has MMO elements e.g. virtual currency & trading. Furthermore, from the gameplay videos posted on YT I can't tell whether the enemies' AI have been improved or merely followed a predetermined path like its predecessors. A hard pass.

The original Crysis 2 & 3 on GOG remains a dream.

Just bought Dead Rising 2 and Portal 2; I wanted to quit my pirating a bit because of good will.
They both seem to be plagued with respectively Games For Windows Live and Steam, both of which I find extremely annoying.
I think next time I'm just going to pirate my games again. Pirates happily crack and remove that shit, so I see no reason why I should waste any more money on this...

Last time I quit pirating is when I buy Monster Hunter 3U and Nintendo 3DS (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

When Crysis was released, Crytek predicted the future of CPUs in the form of "6GHz dual cores". WTF, Crytek? According to the special pamphlet that came with a GameAxis issue, you boasted that CryEngine being so advanced that it supposedly can "take advantage of as many CPU cores as one can throw it".

Too many Games, too little time

Exactly what my problem is (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

I hope Battlefield doesn't delay any more

"Distinctive classic fantasy oil painting aesthetic" sounds like another plain excuse to justify the sub-par graphics in games.

"Distinctive classic fantasy oil painting aesthetic" sounds like another plain excuse to justify the sub-par graphics in games.

why not say "good old nostalgic pixel art" ? (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

They said Halo is only for console peasants. Well, how many FPS games are out there that lets me drive vehicles using keyboard-mouse combination? Controlling vehicles like a racing game felt unnatural in FPS, more so to gamers that doesn't play racing games.

They said Halo is only for console peasants. Well, how many FPS games are out there that lets me drive vehicles using keyboard-mouse combination? Controlling vehicles like a racing game felt unnatural in FPS, more so to gamers that doesn't play racing games.

Console Peasants, Mobile Sultans....
Who dafak coined that term first? (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

When Crysis was released, Crytek predicted the future of CPUs in the form of "6GHz dual cores". WTF, Crytek? According to the special pamphlet that came with a GameAxis issue, you boasted that CryEngine being so advanced that it supposedly can "take advantage of as many CPU cores as one can throw it".

The first game ran quite well on overclocked quad core processors w/ hyper threading. Though the core optimisation past four was not great.

The later Crysis games became more graphics card intensive, though Crysis 2 went absolutely nuts with Tessellation which made AMD radeon cards melt their face. There was an infamous log with a million tessellated layers for no reason.

Crysis 3 went nuts with physics which made Nvidia cards pop. There was an infamous rope that used a ridiculous amount of physics that made Nvidia cards blow a fuse. AMD cards offloaded some of that work to the CPU if you had a quad core. Nvidia ran it all with PhysiX api.

Crysis 2 went absolutely nuts with Tessellation which made AMD radeon cards melt their face. There was an infamous log with a million tessellated layers for no reason.

I believe this was the reason AMD introduced Primitive Discard Accelerator in the Polaris architecture. It's likely the feature is retained in RDNA. Because to me, RDNA is not an "all-new" design but a major revision of GCN.

Crysis 3 went nuts with physics which made Nvidia cards pop. There was an infamous rope that used a ridiculous amount of physics that made Nvidia cards blow a fuse. AMD cards offloaded some of that work to the CPU if you had a quad core. Nvidia ran it all with PhysiX api.

That explains it. I've read about it but I don't recall experiencing significant slowdown in that part of the fist level. Back then, my PC ran on a Sandy Bridge Core-i7 paired with a Radeon HD7870.

Crysis Remastered Trilogy might be Epic-exclusive only for a year. Hope reignited that the trilogy would get released on GOG.

I messed up. Crysis Remastered is now available on Steam, released on September 17.

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