16 hours ago, MrBrown said:

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 🤷‍♂️

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

The first two were funny and were good for adventure games these days

Crimson Desert's Steam store page now says Denuvo included.

Which doesn't bother me personally. But it always feels a bit sneaky (or something) when a game adds such after it's already been available for pre-order for a bit etc. vs. just doing it/saying they will from the get-go, even if those that do mind can simply cancel their pre-orders.

I'm still going to be waiting for those initial reviews re: gameplay/mechanics. Like, I'd like to know more about this settlement feature etc. I have high interest/hopes - the no chr-xp-levels aspect also interests me - but it's not quite a "must buy" for me yet. Almost, but not quite.

Gameplay videos mostly turned me off the game. Mishmash of God of War, Dragon's Dogma, Monster Hunter and... Just Cause?

1 hour ago, HoonDing said:

Gameplay videos mostly turned me off the game. Mishmash of God of War, Dragon's Dogma, Monster Hunter and... Just Cause?

I definitely am picturing all the hype is going to = tons of people buying a game that ends up nothing like they were picturing. That's often the end case for hype. For one thing, it seems to be mashing together many styles and loops. It could feel too unfocused/messy, even re: discovery/exploration (my thing).

On 2/24/2026 at 7:20 AM, LadyCrimson said:

Death Stranding 2 now has a storepage on Steam. Where they want you to pre-order. But there are no min/req system specs listed yet. While I'm pretty sure I could at least get the game to run "kinda ok", I need some system specs. I mean come on, launch is less than a month (March 19), why the delay. Oh right, to not scare away get more people to pre-order.

It's also been long enough that I'm now less motivated anyway - still interested, just maybe I'll wait for a sale. I bought DS1 full price twice last time (PS4, PC), so I don't feel bad waiting for a small discount this time around. :P

yeah, i feel the same. The game uses its own upscaler as an option to FRS and DLSS. Notice that the recommended specs are using an 8 gb card. That's pretty forgiving these days. If you are still on a 2080, it should be fine ?

Death Stranding 2 On the Beach Recommended PC System Requirements

Here’s a table that lists the recommended system requirements you need for your PC to install Death Stranding 2 On the Beach from Steam for best performance:

Component	Recommended Requirements
OS	Windows 10/11 Version 1909 or newer
Processor	Inter core I7-11700, AMD Ryzen 7 5700X
Memory	16 GB RAM
GPU	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070, AMD Radeon RX 6800
Storage	150 GB SSD

I noticed DS2 has a Win10 version requirement. 1909+

I remember a game some while back that had me upgrade Win10 once (vs. my purchase version). My System Information says
---Version - 10.0.19045 Build 19045.
No ##H2 included in the byline. Not surprising, it was a long while ago (could've been 3-4 years ago, might have been 4++ years, sorry I can't recall).

Does 1909+ include Build 19045? Is my 19045 actually 1909/19H2 or 22H2 but mine's an early/not updated version which is why that byline doesn't mention any ##H2? (dangit, web search+version naming jumbo is too confusing)/

Edited Friday at 08:45 PM4 days by LadyCrimson

13 hours ago, LadyCrimson said:

I noticed DS2 has a Win10 version requirement. 1909+

I remember a game some while back that had me upgrade Win10 once (vs. my purchase version). My System Information says
---Version - 10.0.19045 Build 19045.
No ##H2 included in the byline. Not surprising, it was a long while ago (could've been 3-4 years ago, might have been 4++ years, sorry I can't recall).

Does 1909+ include Build 19045? Is my 19045 actually 1909/19H2 or 22H2 but mine's an early/not updated version which is why that byline doesn't mention any ##H2? (dangit, web search+version naming jumbo is too confusing)/

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

Slay the Spire 2 apparently sold 3 millions units in a week. Which is pretty well. https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2868840/view/502852451136700526?l=english

Eurogamer.net

"We are not powerless, every action matters" - Indie stud...

"We have power together."

Indie studio Speculative Agency - which is currently making "a narrative courtroom deck-builder about ordinary people who make the powerful pay for destroying our future", called All Will Rise (quote from Kickstarter) - has made the brave decision to return funding given by Xbox and Microsoft to join the No Games For Genocide boycott.

It takes immense courage to refuse funding, especially now. Their Kickstarter campaign is ongoing with 9 days left.

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It annoys me quite a lot that developers choose to keep the high-res textures in the base download. Like, I cannot and will not use them, why would I want deadweight on my drive? It used to be more popular moving them into optional downloads a few (10?) years ago.

Edited Saturday at 05:37 PM4 days by Hawke64

I guess that beaver city builder has left Early Access, and is currently on sale. Too bad I don't feel like playing it at this point. Maybe next sale.

I think Crimson Desert is going to be the March purchase-try. Then DS2 on sale after that.

Still waiting for Light No Fire news. Any news.

So, Obsidian apparently has four projects currently underway. Wrapping up Grounded 2 and Avowed are surely among them. But what are the others? Does anyone here have any info on what's next from Obsidian? It's been way too long since they've released a game that had direct appeal for me, but I still remain very hopeful.

This just in: Starfield Remastered confirmed.


And it's going to be even cheaper to produce than the Oblolololivion UE5 reskin. DLSS 5 -- it just works! 😁

https://youtu.be/dJACkKbN-Eo?si=2AuTloEFsoMDlstj&t=37

Edited Monday at 10:28 PM1 day by Sven_

I have decided that these two need new pairs of glasses. I tried viewing this video both on my tablet and on the OLED.
Ok, sometimes the close-up faces might look a bit better, in an overdone or Ai-uncanny valley fashion, depending on one's artistic POV, but the area/scene examples are awful, even taking into consideration they seem to be filming a screen vs. direct video captures. Most scenes just look like blown out brightness/contrast/color reshade-like filters, with too much forward light (like portrait lighting) and losing possible directional shadow. Not to mention, it adds wrinkles/details to faces, in one case alters upper lip shape of a chr (or at least the lipstick to a point it feels like it) etc. At least I assume it's an option/one doesn't have to use it.

EDIT: also, the demo they got to look at was running on two 5090's. But don't worry, it'll scale downward in the end. >.>

Edited yesterday at 12:22 AM1 day by LadyCrimson

I'll be sure never to get a GPU that supports that slop.

^^ Yeah, it does look like stable diffusion slop.

I can't make Nvidia rhyme with slop

slopvidia.... nah..

22 hours ago, LadyCrimson said:

I have decided that these two need new pairs of glasses. I tried viewing this video both on my tablet and on the OLED.
Ok, sometimes the close-up faces might look a bit better, in an overdone or Ai-uncanny valley fashion, depending on one's artistic POV, but the area/scene examples are awful, even taking into consideration they seem to be filming a screen vs. direct video captures. Most scenes just look like blown out brightness/contrast/color reshade-like filters, with too much forward light (like portrait lighting) and losing possible directional shadow. Not to mention, it adds wrinkles/details to faces, in one case alters upper lip shape of a chr (or at least the lipstick to a point it feels like it) etc. At least I assume it's an option/one doesn't have to use it.

EDIT: also, the demo they got to look at was running on two 5090's. But don't worry, it'll scale downward in the end. >.>

DLSS 5 looks so good, in fact, that the narrators don't appear realistic. Are they AI slop? Just wondering... 😏

On 3/12/2026 at 10:17 AM, LadyCrimson said:

Crimson Desert's Steam store page now says Denuvo included.

Which doesn't bother me personally. But it always feels a bit sneaky (or something) when a game adds such after it's already been available for pre-order for a bit etc. vs. just doing it/saying they will from the get-go, even if those that do mind can simply cancel their pre-orders.

Since Denuvo changed their licensing model a while back, I'm not really bothered nearly as much by its inclusion. Denuvo works orders of magnitude better than any other DRM that came before it, and most games protected by it do not get cracked or at least do not get meaningfully cracked - i.e., maybe one version of the game, usually one close to release, might get cracked, but then nothing after that: it's just too difficult and too time-consuming for cracking groups to really handle. However...while Denuvo used to sell perpetual licenses, they are now a real proper money-gouging "service" (and this is one of the only times I'll ever celebrate that) in that publishers must pay quite a hefty sum to continue to protect their games with Denuvo on an ongoing basis, and this means that even very big games eventually lose Denuvo - at the very least, the singleplayer ones that aren't earning the cash to continue to warrant it.

Way I see it, this means games get protected for 6-24 months, which strongly encourages the people who really want to play them to actually buy them (which is good for the prospects of bigger singleplayer-only titles in particular, which have always been at higher risk of being pirated en masse relative to multiplayer titles), but it also means publishers will eventually push clean builds through Steam et al. somewhere down the road...which is good for those of us who either don't want anything to do with (or straight up can't play with) Denuvo, OR for those of us who would be waiting to buy something at a lower price point anyways. I think this is a fair compromise, and a much better and sustainable situation than those nasty perpetual licenses Denuvo was selling previously. Now that they've pretty reliably proven their DRM works and many publishers use it and will want to continue to do so, it makes sense they'd change their pricing model to take advantage of that, and the rest of us can luckily benefit from it.

Edited 12 hours ago12 hr by Bartimaeus

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/101xp/the-life-and-suffering-of-prince-jerian

kickstarter doesn't seem to be going well

hope they get the 4th goal

23 hours ago, Gorgon said:

I can't make Nvidia rhyme with slop

slopvidia.... nah..

Nslopia 🤷‍♂️

On 3/17/2026 at 1:12 AM, LadyCrimson said:

I have decided that these two need new pairs of glasses. I tried viewing this video both on my tablet and on the OLED.
Ok, sometimes the close-up faces might look a bit better, in an overdone or Ai-uncanny valley fashion, depending on one's artistic POV, but the area/scene examples are awful, even taking into consideration they seem to be filming a screen vs. direct video captures. Most scenes just look like blown out brightness/contrast/color reshade-like filters, with too much forward light (like portrait lighting) and losing possible directional shadow. Not to mention, it adds wrinkles/details to faces, in one case alters upper lip shape of a chr (or at least the lipstick to a point it feels like it) etc. At least I assume it's an option/one doesn't have to use it.

EDIT: also, the demo they got to look at was running on two 5090's. But don't worry, it'll scale downward in the end. >.>

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 🤷‍♂️