Mamoulian War

I have a working 386DX-40! ALL HAIL THE PC MASTER RACE!!!

I have added some stuff new stuff to my wishlist, but with my luck, I do not hold any high hopes :D

After a long while, I have finished another game. Blind walkthrough of Tales of the Abyss. To be honest, I was overwhelmed by the amount of the text, which was thrown at me, even for jRPG standards. In the end, I still have enjoyed the game, and spent almost 80 hours while playing it (3 months of real time due to crazy work schedule). Now I just need to think what to play next. I will probably continue with Hard West or Starcrawlers, which I had to put away for few months due to bug introduced by Unity engine to the newest build of the game. Or maybe, it might be a time, to finally finish Pillars of Eternity, now that all patches are out Edit: Well actually it was 2 and half month

If you have not backed Pillars of Eternity 2, and have not played Wasteland 2 yet, there is an awesome promo on GOG now. Preorder PoE2, get W2 for free :-O Unfortunatelly, no W2 for backers :'(

Have any of you heard about this project? http://blackgeyser.com/ Black Geyser, isometric realtime with pause RPG.

Apartments in my homecity around 500€ for 3 room flats/200-300€ for 1 room flat including energy cable tv and internet. Average net salary 500-600€. More than 50% of people here, are bellow that average though.

Just check the reviews properly. I do not know how much they improved, but some point ago, OLED had big issues with longevity of proper display of blue color.

Review of FC5 on Ars. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/03/far-cry-5-review-five-steps-back/

Get the refund?

The 'enhanced' part is supposed to be patched in later. There's quite an uproar about it, too. You're kidding, right?

Ion Maiden available on GOG as a game In Development "early access" alternative to Steam. https://www.gog.com/news/in_development_ion_maiden

I hope it will.

Is there any way how to export UE assets to Unity or vice versa?

Hmm, was that an sarcasm, or you have different oppinion than the tuber? If yes, would you like to share some of your oppinions as well?

About Farcry 5 and Mictrotransactions.

Speaking of which, I want to play through the entire series on my PS4. I need to start with Zero, then Kiwami, which is a remake of the first Yakuza, before moving on to Kiwami 2 and the inevitable Kiwami 3 and 4, then Yakuza 5 and 6. IMHO ne of the best franchises currently on any gaming platform. Awesome sidequests, sarcastic and crazy humour, loads of minigames, and very good system for character growth. I was not big fan of this kind of games, but Yakuza 4 (my first game) completely changed my oppinion. Most western studios could learn from their design decisions.

Woo... End of summer will be really hot!!! http://www.siliconera.com/2018/03/17/yakuza-kiwami-2-headed-westward-august-28-2018-ps4/ Yakuza Kiwami 2 comming to the west!!!

Well as they should, they're in it to make money off the consumersOr, they could maybe make a product, that people really enjoy. Yes, you are right, what a silly suggestion... why would customers ever buy enjoyable and quality products?

No, they are to busy interviewing psychologist, how to implement the most addictive microtransactions without causing customer backlash.

A long-term study by Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Germany's University Clinic Hamburg-Eppendorf on violent video games and human behaviour. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/03/two-months-of-daily-gta-causes-no-significant-changes-in-behavior/

Well, unless it's Colonial Marines vertical slice to live type of change :D

It's not just Far Cry, this is a problem with open world games in general. The vast majority of open world games suffer from what I call Ubisoft Syndrome, that being a giant map littered with a ludicrous amount of icons, which are 90% repetitive busy work. Even the really good open world games suffer from Ubisoft Syndrome, they just manage to be fun despite this problem because they manage to do some things really well to drive the player forward and keep them invested while they continually do what amounts to tedious chores. I'll throw out a few examples of the better (IMHO) AAA open world games of the last half decade or so and what they did to overcome Ubisoft Syndrome. The Witcher 3 manages to dress up the busy work really well, making the tedious chores more palatable. Plus it has a compelling story and good characters to keep you invested. Watch_Dogs 2 has a legitimately likable protagonist and a cast of characters that you give a damn about. Also, the Bay Area is a great setting. Sleeping_Dogs has a terrific setting, in Hong Kong, and some cool characters, even if the game often doesn't spend nearly enough time on them. Mad Max makes traversing the map really fun, which is important, since you will spending the vast majority of the time doing just that. Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag, like Mad Max, makes traversing the world really fun, and it drives you to find more sea shanties for the crew to sing. These games are good despite all being afflicted with Ubisoft Syndrome, but the problem is still there. The issue is that developers feel the need to provide hundreds upon hundreds of things for the player to do, to run up the playing time, because there is a perception that playing time = value. It's a lot easier to program half a dozen different activities and just copy paste them across the landscape than it is to make a bunch of unique content. Personally, I'd rather have a game with half as much content where the vast majority of it is unique and crafted from the ground up, but that's not the way of things these days. Yakuza series says Hello!!!

Poor SonicMage

Agreed, much better article than before. Though I am missing testing on a computer without SSD. Denuvo uses a lot of writing to disk, so this benchmark would be very interesting to see as well. Still hat off to the guy, who tried to implement as objective as possible circumstances for the testing.