Mamoulian War

Yeah, it was not the best place to post, but I have moved it to correct one. Just in case, I am replying to you to, so the notification pops up, and it will be easier for you to find your thread again. 🙂

Aaaand more Square Enix goodness on GOG. 4 SaGa titles. https://www.gog.com/en/promo/saga_launch

Point and click horror up for grabs on GOG. https://www.gog.com/en/game/the_whispering_valley

Doom Eternal finaly on GOG 🤤 https://www.gog.com/en/news/doom_eternal_is_now_available_on_gog

I have not played it yet, but from what I understand, it is possible to make a "tank" build as well, if players has to much issues with parry and dodge QTEs.

Seems like memory shortages might be a history for a while. Micron's stock is nosediving. as it looks like OpenAI overpromised in their deal, and in my region we got price reduction of 30% at the biggest retailers in last two days. Do you have similar experiences around the world?

Well, for me personally, it's very easy to decide, what am I going to do. Especially with the crazy out of touch prices of RAM and GPUs. I'll stay with my AMD CPU and GPU, which I have purchased in 2021 and keep purchasing awesome games I've never played on GOG 🤷‍♂️ And there are other options as well for other people to chose as well, to avoid AI slop and still have enough fun within their budget. The console emulation is also getting better each day, and in my country it is legal to make a backup copy of software you purchased on any platform of your choice 😊

The lightning in most of the shown scenes, completely changes the tone of the scene after enslopification. The worst offender though is that school kid from Harry Potter, who looks 40+ after the touch of DLSS5. For now, it might be offered as an option which can be turned off, but look at what happened with raytraycing. There are already some games built around it from grounds up, and you cannot turn it off. Which in the end, makes these games inaccessible to some people, which are not able to afford last gen GPUs... And this slop needs two of them to run. Note: as one guy on Ars Technica noted, what you see in the video, is the best of the best screens produced by DLSS, which have been handpicked by the marketing gurus of Nvidia, and they still look like a cheap Instagram filter, which fails to keep the tone of the scene as creative director intended 🤷‍♂️

Nslopia 🤷‍♂️

I have the latest Win 10 version, and it is the same as yours, so you should be safe.

I have finished Lyria part of Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tale. So far, I am enjoying it. Some of the puzzles are pretty challenging, and some of them can be still won even if I messed up some moves ☺️ Story is interesting and already had few plot twists. I hope after I finish this, I'll find some guide, which will say, what would happen, if I choose different options 😄

NetEase continues with their cutting spree... I am so pissed now

Strange decision in the wake of super expensive hardware period. Seems like Sony did not get hint from their Japan experiment, that PS5 started to sell much better only after they lowered the price to affordable level 🤷‍♂️

Netflix removed their bid for WB. It looks like only Paramount is now in play. Would this be better for the future of WB gaming studio, or not?

Looks like at least one Grand Wizard did not figured it out 🤷‍♂️

Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates, which are waging proxy war against each other in Yemen and Sudan just announced, that they are joinining together military operations of Israel and USA against Iran.

He pretty much predicted this day very accurately a week ago, all based on weather patterns and Lunar phase in the context of history of similar strikes.

Yeah, I find it logical, unfortunatelly it is very skewed in Euro countries, as some, like Slovakia, Bulgaria or Croatia, still have to pay same prices as in Germany or Netherlands. Despite income being 2-3x lower based on profession.

Not sure where to link it, so hopefully this is the right place for it, but the guy which got everything right about Maduro has another prediction.

French publisher Nacon files for insolvency (they own devs like Spiders [Greedfall]) https://www.vgchartz.com/article/467121/nacon-files-for-insolvency-as-it-assesses-all-possible-solutions/

From 25.98 to 100.76 EUR depending on the region of sale. https://steamdb.info/bundle/59764/

I have completely missed it yesterday, but classic FFVII has been released on GOG https://www.gog.com/en/news/final_fantasy_vii_is_now_out_with_a_limitedtime_discount_alongside_classic_final_fantasy_deals

Goal 2/2026 achieved. February 20, 22:00 – I have decided to follow with one more easygoing game, so I have picked up and finished shortly after Hero of the Kingdom III from GOG. After enjoying the first two games, this one felt a little bit more overwhelming. The main reason was very grindy nature of some quests in the second part of the game, which slowed down the tempo of the game, and made me to do a lot of busywork, before I was able to proceed to the last town, where the game became more easygoing again, but still more grindy, than first two acts. This also artificially prolonged the length of the game, with all achievements unlocked, to almost 11 hours, which is pretty OK, but because of that, the story felt shortest of the three games. There were also a few improvements, like the possibility to shop on the world map, which made the grind at least a little bit more bearable.

Goal nr.1 /2026 achieved I have the first game of 2026 behind me, Celestian Tales: Realms Beyond from GOG. I have been postponing playthrough of this RPG for a few years, because it was meant as a part of trilogy, but unfortunately, the Indonesian studio behind it was acquired by another company, and because the game underperformed the expectations of the new owner, the last game was cancelled :( . Because of that, the game has few small cliffhangers at the end. On the other hand, it offers few plot twists in connection to the first game, but the main premise is still the same. Your party of companions are here not to save the world, but you are helping them to get through their life struggles, and help them making their decisions.

And exactly because of what you said about the risks in this industry, expecting every single game to have 30% margin is IMHO damaging, as there are only few games which could boast with such a margin in last 6 years. According to Bloomberg, the average profit margin in the video game industry is 17-22%. Over the past six years, Xbox has hit 10-20%. To put that 30% target into more context, Sony's PlayStation division achieved a 16% profit margin in Q1 FY25. Link to mentioned Bloomberg article behind paywall, if anyone owns access to them: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-23/microsoft-pushes-xbox-studios-to-hit-higher-profit-margins