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I know it doesn’t actually matter but man it sucks that it couldn’t get that one extra OC point because it shapes people’s perception. Biggest issue is how short it is. To which I would say A) It’s $15 and B) You are supposed to get the collectibles and doing so makes it a good length

Oh and since this will be the OT for the game: Game Information Game Title: Pepper Grinder Platforms: Nintendo Switch (Mar 28, 2024)PC (Mar 28, 2024) Trailer: Publisher: Devolver Review Aggregator: OpenCritic - 79 average - 83% recommended Critic Reviews AnaitGames - Víctor Manuel Martínez García - Spanish - 8 / 10 Atomix - Sebastian Quiroz - Spanish - 80 / 100 But Why Tho? - Adrian Ruiz - 9 / 10 CGMagazine - Eduard Gafton - 8 / 10 COGconnected - Michael Chow - 80 / 100 Checkpoint Gaming - Charlie Kelly - 7 / 10 Console Creatures - Bobby Pashalidis - Recommended Cultured Vultures - Joey Rambles - 6.5 / 10 Digital Chumps - Will Silberman - 9.5 / 10 Digitec Magazine - Domagoj Belancic - German - Unscored Echo Boomer - João Canelo - Portuguese - Loved Entertainium - Eduardo Rebouças - Liked-a-lot Eurogamer - Christian Donlan - 4 / 5 Evilgamerz - Peter Derks - Dutch - 8.7 / 10 Fun Factor - Miguel Teixeira - Portuguese - 7 / 10 Game Informer - Charles Harte - 8 / 10 Game Rant - Shane Robert Moyer - 3.5 / 5 GameBlast - Farley Santos - Portuguese - 7.5 / 10 GameGrin - Alana Dunitz - 8.5 / 10 GameLuster - Nairon Santos de Morais - 10 / 10 GameSpew - Kim Snaith - 8 / 10 GameSpot - Steve Watts - 8 / 10 Gamer Escape - Eliot Lefebvre - 8 / 10 Gamers Heroes - Casey Scheld - 80 / 100 Gaming Age - Brendan Reilly - 9 / 10 GamingTrend - Jack Zustiak - 70 / 100 Geeks & Com - Kevin Cormier - French - 8 / 10 God is a Geek - Lyle Carr - 9.5 / 10 Hardcore Gamer - Jordan Helm - 4 / 5 IGN - Tristan Ogilvie - 7 / 10 Kakuchopurei - Jonathan Leo - 90 / 100 Kotaku - Moises Taveras - Unscored La Orden del Pixel - David Cedrés - Spanish - Yes LevelUp - Pedro Pérez Cesari - Spanish - 7.5 / 10 MKAU Gaming - Yasmin Noble - 9 / 10 Metro GameCentral - GameCentral - 8 / 10 Nindie Spotlight - Justin Nation - 8.8 / 10 Nintendo Blast - Davi Sousa - Portuguese - 9 / 10 Nintendo Life - Mitch Vogel - 9 / 10 NintendoWorldReport - Neal Ronaghan - 8 / 10 Nintendojo - Zack Fornaca - B+ Oyungezer Online - Mert Köse - Turkish - 8 / 10 PC Gamer - Abbie Stone - 80 / 100 Press Start - Brodie Gibbons - 8 / 10 Pure Nintendo - Jemma Casson - 8 / 10 Rectify Gaming - 9 / 10 Rock, Paper, Shotgun - Katharine Castle - Unscored Shacknews - Larryn Bell - 8 / 10 Siliconera - Jenni Lada - 7 / 10 Softpedia - Cosmin Vasile - 8.5 / 10 Spaziogames - Salvatore Pilò - Italian - 7 / 10 TechRaptor - Austin Suther - 8 / 10 The Game Crater - Jayden Hellyar - 8 / 10 The Games Machine - Daniele Cucchiarelli - Italian - 7 / 10 The Outerhaven Productions - Charlie Wacholz - 4.5 / 5 TheGamer - George Foster - 4 / 5 Try Hard Guides - Erik Hodges - 10 / 10 Use a Potion - 9 / 10 VGChartz - Evan Norris - 7 / 10 WayTooManyGames - Aaron Price - 9 / 10 ZTGD - Anthony Mann - 7 / 10 video games are good - Nathan Hermanson - 9 / 10

damn dude you are selling it to me now

It’s just it’s a certain type of game that scratched that itch ya know

I mean didnt you just get it

The feel of a good run is sooooooo nice

If you play it on deck it’s the one game you gotta turn up the haptics for, which is system level. You need to feel the drilling it’s a big part of the experience. But after you need to turn it back to normal or you will quickly be annoyed by other games.

I fucking loved this game! I will gift two copies of it. Whatever platform it’s on. Just say you want to play it and you win, first two to do so win. @Brian @crispy4000 @Xbob42 are exempt as they just ask any time and can have it

You should prioritize some though! And this is just a great game.

If the net negative of finally addressing stutter because let’s be real it’s been an issue for at least 15 years is ammo for console bois then I’ll take it!

Yeah that’s why I asked because I figured you have a big backlog already. I thought it was very very good and the kind of game I think you’d appreciate so if you ever want to give it a go let me know and I’ll def grab you a copy for whatever.

@crispy4000 would you be interested in trying pepper grinder if I bought that for you?

honestly I think we mostly agree so hugs

#trytofuckwithsteamchallenge

It’s growing on me too as I get better! Was really feeling the groove last night. How are you doing with the trainings during season mode? That is the hardest part for me now! It’s like I don’t have enough time to properly learn what I’m trying to do and then Im forced to move on..which kind of seems like the opposite of what training should do?

Stuttering IS bad and annoying and should be pointed out and I love Alex from DF’s focus on it and think it’s actually helping the game industry. But there are soooo many types of stutter and reasons why and variables and now I’m seeing it most often mentioned in a light that seems to assume console games aren’t stuttering all over the place.

Touch that aliased to hell grass with NO indirect lighting? I THINK NOT

Ghostwire Tokyo might still have shader comp issues, but it wasn’t bad in that. It does have another stutter issue that is caused by one of the settings you can fix* I forgot what that is. I think most reports online are due to that not the shader comp. While they might not have fixed some shader comp, it was mild here and even if the console versions are perfect smooth 60fps the entire time (no idea if this is the case) that’s also a game so vastly improved on pc that it still isn’t close. Calisto Protocol was fixed actually within about 24 hours for shader comp - beyond that it’s just people having poor performance with RT due to their cpu’s on that one. Other games I hadn’t had interest in to confirm. But even if Bramble, Stray, Wild Hearts, Chernobylite, and Wo Long run better on console or did around launch it’s not a convincing set of titles to bother making it a “plus” vs pc. And that’s just me assuming those games do for benefit of doubt. *it was the texture streaming setting

I think Curb over the last 20+ years has made it obvious where the talent behind Seinfeld mostly lay, so this doesn’t surprise me, but I’m still gonna give it a shot because it’s so dumb

naaa this isn’t even spicy - someone just did a “gaming isn’t an expensive hobby” thread on resetera and I expect that to get much spicier

Also the actual trend with shader comp is a rise in actually doing pre comp and reducing them now, so either way if we are talking about things getting worse..that is a thing getting better. Micro stutters of all kinds have been an issue long before this gen started.

Jedi I mentioned, Elden Ring is a good one I don’t think they did ever fix that, but probably most stable version is ps4 via BC on a ps5 for 60 or steam deck for 30fps so kind of a wash there depending on how you define pc and a proper working console version. FF7R is fixed up and you could mostly resolve it day1 by forcing DX11 and adding hdr back in with SK. Dead Space has the traversal stutters also on console, I’ll easily take 120fps 4k dlaa and enhanced RT for any slight perceived difference in the frequency there. I haven’t played Wild Hearts so I’ll give you that one and you are right that Stray, while I consider it very minor there, they never did fix that. But yeah, there isn’t much to speak of in the “best on console” pile.

It’s not so much of an innovation a much of a rising of standards

Also while developers are going back to the low IQ well to push the generation forward, even pairing it down from last gen, they are doing so along with a real push to bring console gamers to 60fps for most games for the first time in the 3D era.

I think most of this feeling atm is indeed a playstation centric one. And lol yeah you really have to get creative with Switch when thinking of generations especially right now.