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2 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said:

 

It's a magazine man.

That attitude is precisely why I'm skeptical things will work better this time! Don't be so small minded! Or go ahead, and suffer the same fate we've seen over and over.

1 hour ago, Keyser_Soze said:

I mentioned this in the past in a different thread but I had a subscription to Elle magazine though Amazon it was a year's worth for $10. That was back in 2014, so this subscription for game informer is high compared to that.

 

@legend

It doesn't matter if this price is "high" relative to other low quality items if it's still too cheap to make sufficiently high quality physical artifacts.

Let me try and put this another way: if all you try and do is replicate the quality of physical media that already lost to online media, you're going to lose, because we already know that lost. You're going to have to do something really special that only physical can do if you hope to succeed.

It seems too cheap.

I know, that sounds weird. But to me, the only way for physical media to compete with online media which has several content delivery advantages is to lean really hard into of the aspects of physical media that cannot be replicated in software. Make the physical object a high-quality piece of art that you want in itself rather than just for the content it delivers since it cannot compete on the content delivery. If the price is cheap, that suggests you're going to get cheap quality media at which point why bother?

I finished it today and liked it! Never watched the other show or read the book.

Sounds like the combat will be similar to Rebirth combat, which is a good thing.

1 minute ago, finaljedi said:

 

Is anything big enough to withstand a ship that massive?

So many teenage jokes come to mind.

1 hour ago, Greatoneshere said:

I mean, it seems leering at or ogling women, fan service, and pushing the male gaze is strong with this one, regardless of game quality, it should be amusing to see the online discourse on this when it drops. The best part is when he says: "this is entertainment for adults" to justify the teenage boy fantasies. Just be honest my dude. 

 

Stellar Blade dev, also known for butt-jiggling game Nikke, says he "put special attention" into the female lead's back because that's what players see most of the time | GamesRadar+

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"This is entertainment for adults"

 

I feel like I'm more comfortable with it in this because it wears it on its sleeve. Fan service is far worse when you're purporting to be a more serious story and then all of a sudden its fan service nonsensical sexy time for characters that have no business doing that.

33 minutes ago, Xbob42 said:

Looking at any amount of footage for this, my brain just goes "Yup, that's Bioshock" and I immediately move on to something else. I thought Bioshock was kind of dated and unfun when it was new. To "build" a new company (gut and replace, same thing right?) and then just spend 10 years to rebuild the same exact thing is super lame to me. Was there like... really nothing else they wanted to do? Was Bioshock the best he could ever envision?

The interview makes it sound like he's trying to do something much bigger and harder with the narrative. Will he succeed? Fuck if I know, but the goal at least does seem categorically different from the linear nature of Bioshock.

I grew up in Baltimore County and my dad works at Hopkins. Fortunately, no one I know seems to have been involved (it was late at night). Hope the people who suffered it end up okay

 And yeah, 95 and 895 are going to fucking blow so much harder than they already did!

13 minutes ago, MarSolo said:

In regards to that last one, um, holy shit, I’m trying to image how that even works.

If you want to know…
 

4 hours ago, Firewithin said:

do you need to win the queens blood tourney to advance ch 5???  what a dumb fucking mini game.  no matter what deck i use i can get past regina

 

edit: and as soon as i post i win lol

Sounds like you're fine, but the answer to your question is no, you don't need to win  You could have resigned at any level.

But winning is totally worth it for the cutscene at the end.

2 hours ago, Slug said:

OMG the Condor game can eat a bag of dicks. My fun has come to a screeching halt. 

Yeah this is the only one I didn't enjoy, but did enjoy in intergrade. They fucked it up.

18 hours ago, AbsolutSurgen said:

You're not using DLSS?

Not sure if it was clear, but DLAA is better. It's DLSS except instead of going from a lower res to your native res, it goes from native res to native res. Which sounds weird, but the training of the neural net used is always to a higher resolution target (that may then be downscaled to your native res), so the model is basically predicting what the idealized by higher computationally complex AA would do.

At least that's my understanding. There's another way it could be done which is native res with DLSS upscaled to high res and then downscaled, but I don't think they're doing that.

I finished it tonight. Damn good shit. Bring on part 3.

But I did have one giant moment of rage. The first bug/lock up I experienced was quite deep into the final string of boss fights and I had to start it completely over.

4 minutes ago, TwinIon said:

Has anyone here beaten this? I'm curious if it's worthwhile to spend any time grinding materia or levels before the end?

@Xbob42 and @BloodyHell have. I'll finish this weekend.

I think the policy change is a good one done for the absolute worst possible reason and that makes me think it will be selectively enforced for the chuds.

15 minutes ago, best3444 said:

@legend I didn't go back to this. I was just messin around. I actually just finished 16. 

 

Now I put all my focus on DD2 then I'm coming back to Rebirth. I will have a fresh mind starting Rebirth over and will take it as it is. I'm sure I will love it. 

I think that's for the best, but even if you don't love it, that's fine. I was responding to you acting as if everyone here thinks its perfect and cannot be criticized, when really people have just disagreed with you on whether they like the addition of minigames or not.

4 hours ago, Spork3245 said:

Sounds like WotC were starting to be dicks so Larian noped-out

Started?  

There's a decent chance Larian wants to do something new and may have switched gears anyway, but I think your conclusion that WotC being awful had an influence has reasonable precedence too!

2 hours ago, best3444 said:

Don't say anything negative about this game! It’s perfect and so much fun. Mini games and new added features every 20 minutes rules! 

Who are you raging at? People disagreeing with you about what they enjoy isn't them claiming the game is perfect and should be loved by everyone. You're the one who keeps coming back to play it even after it was suggested you take a break. No one is forcing you to play through something you're not enjoying but yourself. 

Swen is also going off!

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"Greed has been fucking this whole thing up for so long, since I started," Vincke said, while collecting the GDCA Best Narrative award for Baldur's Gate 3. "I've been fighting publishers my entire life and I keep on seeing the same, same, same mistakes over, and over and over."

 

"It's always the quarterly profits," he continued, "the only thing that matters are the numbers, and then you fire everybody and then next year you say 'shit I'm out of developers' and then you start hiring people again, and then you do acquisitions, and then you put them in the same loop again, and it's just broken..."

"You don't have to," Vincke went on. "You can make reserves. Just slow down a bit. Slow down on the greed. Be resilient, take care of the people, don't lose the institutional knowledge that's been built up in the people you lose every single time, so you have to go through the same cycle over and over and over. It really pisses me off."

7 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

Larian Studios Won't Make Baldur's Gate 3 DLC, Expansions, or Baldur's Gate 4 - IGN

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At a Game Developers Conference (GDC) panel today, Larian Studios founder Swen Vincke dropped something of a bombshell by revealing that the developer isn't planning to release any expansions or DLC for Baldur's Gate 3, nor a Baldur's Gate 4.

 

 

Beat you by a few minutes  

No expansion

Larian Studios Won't Make Baldur's Gate 3 DLC, Expansions, or Baldur's Gate 4 - IGN

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At a Game Developers Conference (GDC) panel today, Larian Studios founder Swen Vincke dropped something of a bombshell by revealing that the developer isn't planning to release any expansions or DLC for Baldur's Gate 3, nor a Baldur's Gate 4.

The "No dlc" part is a little funny, because Larian has effectively been releasing a ton of DLC already. It's just that it's free  

1 hour ago, best3444 said:

 

Because I have a mental condition that makes me forget almost everything within days/weeks. Especially stories from movies and games. It happened when my twin brother died in 2017 and slowly after I developed a condition in my brain to block out almost everything in its entirety. There is nothing that can be done as I'm just dead weight at this point.

 

That situation traumatized me more than anything ever in my life or anything that could ever happen in my life if he never died. Most people do not understand the amount of pain and devastation there is when you lose not just a brother but an IDENTICAL twin brother who you were attached to for 35 years. Our souls were connected and the amount of love that is involved with twins is beyond comprehension.

 

For instance if I just lost my biological sister in 2017, I'd be completely fine now and over everything. With an identical twin who is basically you in another form, it's life shattering. That's why I am beyond screwed up and have many issues that current therapy is trying to help but it's suicidal type pain daily. 

 

So yea, I start over games all the time because of this. I litteraly cannot remember last week at all and I'm not even remotely exaggerating. 

Sorry to hear that  I hope it will be enjoyable from the start then!

7 minutes ago, best3444 said:

In fact when I do go back to Rebirth ill most likely start over fresh.

I hit the point of no return. My understanding is it's another 4-7 hours or so from there. But I imagine it's going to be a roller coaster which means I'd prefer to play it all in one go.

Unfortunately, it's hard to dedicate that much time during the weekdays. So I may have to put this pause until the weekend when I can really enjoy it  

12 minutes ago, best3444 said:

 

You might be right. I'm really bored when I'm playing it and it has to be FF fatigue. I'm forcing myself to play it so that it's beat before Friday. I know this game is good but I think I'm burnt out. Maybe I'll take a break from this until after DD2. 

I find that feeling like you have to finish a game before you start another game will immediately drop my enjoyment of the game I'm playing (and trying to finish). I was pretty close to the end of Persona 3 Reload when Rebirth came out, but I didn't want to ruin the ending by forcing myself to rush through, so I just put it on hold and started Rebirth. Feels much better. The game will be there when you feel ready, and I know I'll enjoy finishing P3R much more after I'm done with Rebirth and can give it proper breathing room.

So yeah, I think coupling that with just a lot of FF you've been playing lately probably means you need a break! The game will wait for you