Breaking in my new 83” Oled G5 with a replay of Days Gone, Stellar Blade, Hitman and CyberPunk on PS5 Pro.
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Who here is getting Resident Evil Requiem ? I think I’ll get it on switch 2 and steam. Slay zombies on pc and one more round before bed
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I bounced off of Binding of Isaac, but Mewgenics has had its…claws in me…
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I honestly can’t believe McMillen pulled it off. Mewgenics is a magnum opus… Purrfection. 
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Me and the wife have been playing Split Fiction after completing It Takes Two by the same publisher. Outstanding and very worth playing if you have a partner. 
I wish AC: Shadows was couch coop and both characters were playable simultaneously.
I miss the old Nintendo/Sega days where most games were two player. Like everything else these days, powers that be are trying to program humans to be solitary selfish and lonely creatures smh.
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Played Thank Goodness You’re Here, and as someone born in the Southwest of Arizona, thought it was hilarious.
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Started playing Satisfactory 3 weeks ago, which was not a good idea, because since then I get no sleep, thinking about conveyor belts and how to maximize factory product output X-D
The last time a game captivated me like this was Subnautica… and long before the Diablo 2, of course.
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Checking in as an upstate New Yorker currently living in Los Angeles. The game is laugh out loud funny!
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Some ace recommendations on this list, stuff that wasn’t on my radar.
Top thread 
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I can’t get over how beautiful no man’s sky is, also been digging deeper into the communities and people actually play this game for years, building incredible stuff like cities and whatnot, absolutely grateful that I was recommended this game, I don’t like hopping from one game to another so this feels like a worthy game to invest time into.
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I really would like to enjoy NMS, I got it years back when it first came out. The problem for me is that without a central plot, I just feel like I’m not doing anything useful. Is it just a playground galaxy for exploring and building? That’s fine if it is, but it’s not for me in that case.
Probably a bit late to the party but I started playing Lumines arise last night, everything I hoped it would be and easily as addictive and fun as it’s predecessors… the music and the visuals are just lovely… got lost for a couple of hours with ease…
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there are many central plots, I enjoy the exploring and collecting ships but there are a lot of missions that you can complete, also there’s a community thing called expeditions, it’s like a capsuled focused thing that they do every once in a while, right now it’s the Remnant and the mission is collecting intergalactic trash, sounds weird but I see a lot of people really enjoy it, you need to build a truck, find garbage, take it to a recycling center, you eventually get all kinds of bonuses from these.
but like, the exploring is nuts, you get all kinds of weird planets, you can find very cool ships, and it’s just so beautiful all around.
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This is “video game adjacent”, and perhaps it belongs in the Gear deals forum, but it’s not music gear…
For anyone looking to upgrade your gaming rig, and bemoaning the fact that 5070ti cards are pretty much no longer available due to the great AI crisis, the Supermicro store has 5070ti cards available at reasonable prices:
$701 (MSI card)
https://store.supermicro.com/us_en/supermicro-msi-rtx-5070ti-16gb-gaming-trio-oc-graphics-card.html
$819 (PNY card)
https://store.supermicro.com/us_en/supermicro-nvidia-rtx-5070-ti-gddr7-pcie-5-0-graphics-card.html
For those not familiar with Supermicro, they are a leading supplier of server motherboards. These are just MSI and PNY cards sold under Supermicro stock numbers. I had bought the more expensive one before the cheaper one became available. The $701 is a real steal in the current market…
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Last night watched Digital Foundry video about it, as someone who is in gaming industry from a production side i was curious about technical details. It looks next level, amazing work in their native engine.
Might grab it just for that.
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I’ve been playing it in the switch 2 and it’s nuts what it can do.
I may get a steam copy on my 4090 rig too but I wanted to see how good the switch 2 version was and if delivered.
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NMS is so nice. I spent a lot of time in it when it first came out. It has a certain type of chill vibe to it. Just a nice gamespace to explore and listen to music
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I’m playing Ghost of Yōtei and it’s phenomenal! Definitely one of the best games I have ever played. I love the eastern spiritual setting and the colorful japanese landscapes. I was worried the game would be too much about vengeance but it’s so much deeper than that. The main character Atsu is super agile and can climb steep cliffs, jump long distances and use her rope and hook to swing between branches. Combat is pretty addictive and engaging with many different weapons to use and master. Some missions are very long and I’m usually playing the best ones several times. I’m pretty far into the game but only 53% through. Very fine graphics on the PS5.
I’m surprised it’s not being talked about more here - I wholeheartedly recommend it.
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not sure if 100% recommend … until the reviews come out and such… but tomorrow sees the birth of Esoteric Ebb, and it might be just what the doctor ordered, for those of slow gaming & love-reading-well-written-dialogue-like-let-it-rain persuasion.
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Me! It’s so good so far. I’d guess I’m 1/3 through to 1/2 through based on past experience like 5 hours of gameplay so far but I’m slow as hell at these games. I’m digging the story so far, Grace is an interesting protagonist and the Leon segments so far are fantastically campy action. Aside from the opening I’d say the atmosphere isn’t quite as creepy as the first half of 8 or most of 7, which is unfortunate, but I’m still really enjoying it. Progression feels less obtuse than normal and I can actually comprehend the navigation/ figure out where to go on my own, which is rare for me. Usually I have to look things up with these games pretty frequently.
It’s gorgeous. The opening segments really sold the “totally-not-Chicago” feeling to the extent that I had to double-take at the location name. The first creepy area was appropriately gnarly. The hospital is exquisitely detailed and as usual the environment itself is one of the main characters. Those doors are a 10/10. Nobody does creepy old buildings, detailed interiors and painstakingly modeled objects like the Resident Evil teams. I haven’t gotten as much out of the sound design in this one, but that’s partially because it’s been 80f/ 27c in my apartment and I’ve had fans running full-blast, which drowns out the subtle audio details.
Game’s also brutally difficult. I had to turn it down to the easiest setting after dying five times right after running into
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Chunk or whatever its name is. Those zombies in the room outside that safe space killed me like 8 times.
Too many hallways where I feel like I’m forced to take damage sometimes, w/ not enough places to circle around enemies. But that’s only a mild complaint. I’m terrible at the 'survival part of these games and this one is apparently more dificult than past entries.
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