The Video/PC Game Discussion Thread

I played through a couple of 2D platformers called Shantae: Risky's Revenge, and Shantae and the Pirate's Curse. They were both fun little games, with light metroidvania elements, mostly for using your abilities you unlock through story areas to go back and explore areas and find health/magic upgrades, as well as items for side quests. They were both very good, and the new one coming next month looks great as well.

Finally got around to playing The Old Blood. Wasn't nearly as good as New Order but they did have like a quarter of the development time so for what it is it was pretty good. 

I would never be able to speed run those games, one because I suck at the more complex platforming parts and fail them a lot, and also because I like to play slow and explore a lot. I took just under 11 hours to beat The Pirate's Curse, which is probably extremely slow, and about 8 hours for Risky's Revenge. 

So it seems the new Deus Ex runs absolutely terrible on PC if most of the Steam reviews coming in are to be believed, with not even the new GTX 1080's able to get good performance. 

Well it would have been around Xmas time before I was even considering getting it anyway, so hopefully they do something before then. Though I did just see an article that said that the Very High and Ultra presets are more about future-proofing to keep the game looking great as technology improves (Rise of the Tomb Raider had a similar setting, though cards that could supposedly handle it did exist for it), so maybe people are reading the GTX 970 recommend GPU as being able to get 60FPS average on Ultra with one or better. Apparently the devs are only promising a 60FPS average on the high preset. Rise of the Tomb Raider was the same, though it still had areas that ran noticeably worse such as the Geothermal Valley. 

Edited by adg211288 - 23 Aug 2016 at 12:19pm

You're right that Fallout 4 didn't. Deus Ex has a small chance but it obviously won't be a massive one. 25% at most if we are lucky (I've actually already seen some 25% offers though some places). 

Can I be honest? I actually forgot about Deus Ex until about a week being it launched. I never intended to pre-order despite how much I like Human Revolution (which I've started replaying in between my current Witcher 3 run), due to finances, but my hype is pretty much completely taken up by Dishonored 2. Which I'm praying has a better launch than Mankind Divided seems to have had.

I had a quick look at Fallout 4 Nuka World this morning though I haven't played beyond the early main mission. For some reason a little way into it several of my active Far Harbour quests failed meaning Far Harbour is now buggered up on my current save, which pissed me off enough to stop playing it. I've now had to revert to an old save to restore my game, losing several hours of progress. 

Edited by adg211288 - 30 Aug 2016 at 3:17am

I haven't really been playing anything in particular lately...some Animal Crossing: New Leaf here and L4D there...not much else!

I've played a little bit of Nuka World so far but I haven't had much time for gaming this week. I did the first couple of missions and then walked a little way into the park but so far the only thing I've really done is bump into that crazy Nuka Cola lady from Fallout 3 again...who I'm sure we all knew was going to be in this DLC as soon as the name was revealed.

I think the first mission was okay but having certain perks (the ones that stop you setting off traps) makes it far too easy. I'm not sold on the plot of the DLC yet unless something really changes though, for the simple reason that a lot of a the good/bad roleplay freedom was dropped from Fallout 4. You're a good person who may or may not be a bit sarcastic with people and that's it. You're not a villain. But all of a sudden you're supposed to be the leader of a bunch of raiders? It makes no sense at all.