Lexx

I'm currently watching Doom Patrol. Thought it would be lame and ****ty, but got surprised about how good it actually is. Like, really, it has some really good ideas that I haven't experienced anywhere else yet. Still got 7 episodes to go. Hope they won't ruin it.

I found out Death Stranding is released. Bought it for crazy 70 bucks (console prices are ridiculous). Played some 10 minutes and watched about 30 mins of cutscenes. Yup, seems like a Kojima game. PS: Am I the only one who finds console text way too small? Death Stranding is yet another game where I can barely read the text. Especially the hints are so small, I find myself guessing the buttons. It's not like I have a small tv... It's really just complete garbage hud design. Annoyed me already in RDR2 and other console games.

I actually manage to start the game now. Turns out you just have to click away the popup, then click play again. After doing this 10 to 15 times, the game will actually start. So I then had the next problem: The performance is complete garbage. Took me 10 minutes to get through the intro cutscene (can't skip it) with about 1 frame per 15 seconds. After toying around for half an hour I found out that setting the game from Vulkan to Dx12 mitigates this. But now with Dx12 mode, the game loads with a black screen if my graphic settings are too high. So I started toying around with the other settings - problem is that you have to restart the game after most changes. So I did that... until I got blocked on their server, because of the constant "play"-spam. Now I'm waiting for 5 minutes already, trying to login to the launcher, so that I can try to start the game, so that I can try to fiddle with the graphic settings some more. Honestly, at this point I'm pretty much about to give up. Oh, but fun fact: If you rename RDR2.exe to GTA5.exe, you can start the game without the launcher via the GTA5 "skip launcher"-tool. I would do it now, but sadly for me that meant the actual game won't load. However, for other players that seems to work fine. tl;dr - seems the majority of problems are caused by R* fantastic launcher-drm. Sucks to be a buying customer, I guess.

So after two or so days, the new RDR2 patch fixes the launcher crash for me ... ... but I still can't start the game, because now it says it can't connect to the rockstar servers. You know, this actually proves that all my starting issues are only related to the god damn launcher. Always online = such a great idea.

I had only a single crash in TOW. Game is running pretty stable all around.

You could just open the character screen and re-assign the skills. In a way it made for more variable skills and you had to plan ahead and think about what to use... reality is, that it felt pretty dumb. At the end of the day I thought D3 was very predictable and very boring, Felt like the whole gameplay was centered around the stupid marketplace too. Apparently that's patched nowadays, but it burned me out, like, completely. Now hearing that D4 will probably be even more dumbed down... no thanks. The monster slaying alone just doesn't cut it for me.

Don't think this is online related. The game simply doesn't start - crashes the whole launcher. Tried lots of stuff but then gave up on it. Apparently I'm not the only one with this issue. Tensed to see how R* reacts to this, because in my experience, they treat their playerbase like garbage and don't give a damn. Have to say if I hadn't played the game on PS4 already, I'd be seriously pissed now.

RDR2 PC version seems to be out now. I'm trying to decrypt the files right now. Feels like Rockstar servers are failing left and right... /Edit: And now the game + launcher are crashing when trying to run the game.

My problem with it is that it's slow and cluttered. Banner looks nice now, but that's all there is.

Why even bother if it's more dumbed down than D3 already was.

" It was to feature the first White Walker as black, put lesbian characters at the heart of the plot and make one of Ned Stark’s ancestors mixed race. " That does sound pretty terrible, tbh. /Edit: " It was very different to the original series, but was very brave and bold. " lel, way to talk yourself out of it.

Where do I get that silenced pistol from?

Yeeeeaaahhh... I dunno. I'm interpreting that as "we are trying to handle homosexuality in the game more realistically than other games" ... and I'd say that succeeded. I never felt it to be over the top, because nobody is beating this into you unless you ask for it (ask the NPCs I mean). Now let's take that one Mass Effect game... don't remember which one (probably the first), where when you talk with a certain character, suddenly the whole dialog atmosphere turns gay. Now that one wasn't very subtle at all.

I meant Tess saying that. Back in the FNV days, I've read through / watched almost any interview related to the game, and right now I'm feeling like this would have stuck with me. Especially because I never felt like "FNV is too gay" (which is what certain other folks were saying a lot).

You sure about that? I can't remember anything in that direction.

Huh, doesn't look so bad actually. I'm highly surprised about this not being in the usual Blizzard comic figure / color style.

Looks great so far. I have nothing to complain about. What's even better is that the show comes out next month. \o/

I don't really like "like" any of the companions so far. But for some reason that started after I realized most of my cast is female... and most of the boss guys are female. Didn't made a statistic for it, but I have a feeling most of the important characters in the game are female. Not that that's inherently wrong, but... it just feels so artificial to me. I remember FNV being much more balanced in that area. It's the same I had when playing Battletech the last time. Felt like all I did was getting jobs from female politicians, killing female pirates (do they hate woman??? Or is that an attempt at presenting stronk woymen?). I really should have made a tally sheet when starting the game.

Truth told, the hardcore mode in FNV felt a lot better to me. Primarily (I guess), because it was a lot easier to have companions not die on you all the time.

The Red Dead Redemption 2 PC pre-load is available now on the Rockstar Launcher, by the way. There's 109gb to download, so I'd say doing the pre-load is a good idea.

I'm actually surprised about all the positive reviews, because I still remember FNV getting slammed by lots folk. Now folks look at this game as a spiritual successor to FNV. Who knows, maybe the game won't do bad and we'll get some fancy DLCs.

Can't believe you haven't found it sooner, because we wrote about it quite a bit in here. Season 4 soon, yay.

I'm too lazy to watch it fully, but two things: 1. When he applies his skill points - I agree this screen is not good. Didn't know where exactly to click at first myself. 2. Character face creation is ... ok, I guess. But he is right, it really doesn't matter anything, because you never see your face unless you open the character screen. And even then it's zoomed out to the whole character, so you won't see the facer ever again up close. Everything else in the video looks like trolling. Other than that I'm a bit confused why the video title is "a non-gamer" when he has uploaded lots of game videos. That's as far as I've watched it.

The game just won me over, because I found this. This is 110% my jam. I'll keep that till the end of the game, I swear. I've added a fun time barrel mod, to further increase my fun time with it.

Damn, man. As I said before, the Outer World setting really isn't my thing ... ... yet I can't stop booting up the game and keep playing, even if it's just an hour or so at a time.