dualhunter

Finished Arkham Origins Cold Cold Heart and started Mega Man 8.

I have in the past but I would never get around to playing the games before there was no longer a need. Not much point in playing those International version Final Fantasy games with the Remasters out. My Japanese PS2 basically didn't get used but back in the day hard to find overpriced PS1 games had reasonably priced Japanese versions. I got Symphony of the Night and then I got a PS3 and got the English version on PSN. I imported Rockman ZX only to discover that the Capcom store had both ZX games reasonably priced. The one exception is Mother 3 but even then I didn't play it on GBA beyond testing it out since I used the fan translation. The accessories I imported got some use. I loved the SFC Classic Controller for VC games on Wii but on Wii U I'd rather use a Pro Controller to avoid the tether and I used my GameCube component games until I got a Wii. I had a Hori Wii controller shaped similar to a GameCube controller that I think I basically just used in one game for the turbo fire in a minigame (I think it was fishing in Breath of Fire 2 and then back to the SFC controller). I also imported some game soundtracks. I also have a couple of PC games that I didn't import but aren't US versions. I think my Far Cry is the UK version (it was sold in Quebec because it also has French on the disc) and I have the French version of Diablo II on disc which I was able to use to download the English version from Blizzard.

I went back to Besaid to revisit the cloister and sudden found myself getting murdered by Dark Valefor. I couldn't see myself bothering with the Dark Aeons and Monster Arena without the boosters. It would have taken way too long to get the necessary gear and spheres to prepare for it without the max gil and max items boosters. That was why I stopped playing the original, I had spent a lot of time leveling up in the Omega Ruins and still had a long way to go but for what? Finishing the game was easy at that point since Yuna had her celestial weapon so 1MP Holy and Doublecasted Ultima with Break Damage Limit destroyed everything in the main game so wasting tens if not 100+ hours on optional stuff wasn't worth it. With the boosters I was able to get equipped and maxed out so that the Dark Aeons and Monster Arena took a reasonable amount of time to finish and then I Yojimbo'd Penance. FFX-2 is weird, Yuna and Rikku forget how to do 99,999 damage and the Dark Aeons are wimps compared to FFX (except that it's harder to do high damage and you don't have the better armor that you can create in X).

If you have issues with X and XII the remasters might raise your opinion of them. I liked X but the post game filler turned me off a completionist approach to FF games and then XII was even worse. The boosters of the remasters (some of them might be PC only) and new strategies for some of X's more annoying minigames made my second play through much more enjoyable. Still not as good as IV-VII & IX but a better experience than when I played them on PS2. The speed boost is especially great for FFXII.

I'm still not a big fan of the story but it did make more sense the second time. The first time I only made minimal use of the gambit system but the second time I used it a lot. It would be nice to have one or more pages for alternate gambit setup preferably with an easy toggle (I hated having to turn my steal gambit on for each character and then go back and turn it off for each character once I got the item). One set is fine for most of the time but there are some enemies where you need to make lots of adjustments but then you want to go back to how it was before such as when you need to turn off your healing gambits (or at least adjust the target) and turn on reverse which usually means also turning on lure and bubble gambits. It was nice being able to adjust the game speed (4x speed plus 3 characters with a steal gambit made steeling much faster, though most of the time I'd stick with 2x). The license board is kind of annoying, especially having to carefully plan unlocking quickenings and espers to get the best licenses out of those that are stuck behind a quickening or esper. For really high level enemies their level is meaningless. For most of the game you know to avoid enemies above your level and enemies below your level tend to be easy but for many of the higher level enemies you might be 10-20 levels higher and they can still wipe your party (having 2 parties is nice since the backup party can try to revive everybody as long as it's not one of those annoying hunts where it starts doing OHKOs faster than even gambits can revive everybody, I really hated those and for some of them I had to resort to abusing area boundaries though I suppose reverse might have worked too) at which point they might as well be displaying a random number since it doesn't help you gauge how difficult the enemy is. Overall I have a better opinion of the game from my recent play through of Zodiac Age than I do of the original at launch but I still don't consider it one of the best. It's too bad the remaster still left the characters' faces looking bad.

You forgot to edit the link in the quote too

What you really need for Christmas is the correct link

I just replaced my GTX 680 SC+ with an RTX 2070 XC. I'm still on an i5 2500k (4.5GHz) with 16GB 1866 DDR3. I haven't had much time to test it out and I haven't tested anything with a frame rate counter yet. While I was downloading BFV I ran Cradle at 1440p max settings and it stuttered. Last night I ran the FFXV benchmark on High at 4K and my score was barely under the Geforce RTX 2070 score for 4K listed on the stats page. After updating drivers I ran it again on Custom with DLSS and got a higher score. Again, no frame rate counter but it seemed to run smoothly except for a stutter at 2 points and it recommend Standard settings rather than the High that I ran the benchmark with. Battlefield V seems fine at 1440p 144Hz though I've only tried a minute of the beginning of the single player campaign and a match of Team Deathmatch. I'm hoping to try a bigger map with a frame rate counter tonight.

It was grayed out for me too with the driver I had downloaded on Sunday, turns out there was a driver released the day after so update the driver and it works. Thankfully I didn't have to mess around with deleting stuff. Only got about 100 more points from running custom with everything maxed over the high run with the old driver but it looked like it was running better. I still had a couple brief pauses early in the chocobo sequence and summon sequence presumably from my CPU bottlenecking but other than that it ran well on my 2070.

Apparently Toshiba didn't buy all of OCZ. FirePower Technology got the PSU division. I'm still using a PCP&C PSU though I do plan to replace it when I upgrade the rest of my PC.

OCZ bought PCP&C about 11 years ago.

I just noticed but maybe it's grayed out because you're running the FFVX benchmark instead of the FFXV benchmark.

Still downloading, I won't play until later in the week.

Unplug everything from PC, remove video card, put in GeForce RTX 2070, connect everything again, turn on: black screen. Reseat video card and try again: black screen. Remove CMOS jumper, move to reset position, drop jumper while trying to put it back, remove other side panel to get jumper and put it back, hook up essentials, turn on: ugly BIOS splash screen. Enter BIOS, put settings back as best as I can remember (need that OC) and boot, reinstall driver so resolution doesn't suck, finally able to set 144Hz, plug in other stuff: time for supper.

The HX850i is $235 CAN or $215 after MiR. The non "i" HX750 is $150/130. The Seasonic SSR-750PX is $155. The requirements for the 2080ti only call for a 650W PSU so 750W will be fine and will save you a bit.

EVGA GeForce RTX 2070 XC with free Battlefield V

Ordered a Switch Pro Controller, Xbox One Controller and a Dual Shock 4.

I got an LG UHD Bluray player

Do you have any interest in Battlefield V? It's the new promotion for Geforce RTX cards so that would help make up for the extra cost of the 2070.

Controller-wise I miss the N64 original as the C buttons let you fire off Ocarina tunes rapidly but I at least need the resolution boost of the VC versions to deal with N64 visuals.

Steam did the delayed discounts on wishlist thing again. When I checked earlier none of the games on my wishlist showed discounts but I just got an email notifying me that 8 games on my list are discounted. DQXI is 30% off.

Glengoyne Cask Strength

I've never played a Hitman game.

Started Mega Man X4.

Finished Mega Man 6 and the first Challenge and then it crashed and after that the Legacy Collection would crash every time I tried to start it. Luckily Steam users are more competent than Capcom and found an easy fix. The post with the fix is over 3 years old and Capcom still hasn't fixed the issue.