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[zkylon]

i wish riot was at e3

i mean it's not like i don't get enough league of legends like every during the week cos they're announce stuff every day but it's still not enough league of legends

hentai avatar Zkylon? shameful

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Bannerlord at E3 confirmed!

Spoiler

I actually am excited for it though.

me too

i'm a bit worried at how long it's taking tho, and some of the focus they've been giving to weird stuff like making your own swords and shaders and shit?

i just want a new mount & blade

 

[Rhaknar]

wellcant be worse than EA

nothing this E3 can. We give Ubi shit, but they at least always show off lots of games, and we know for a fact that for example, AssCreed Origins will be there and thats already going to be better than anything at EA from what we know.

Sony always deliver, even if their games are like 8 years away. And MS has Scorpio to hype so they will have stuff.

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dont play coy with me, you know exactly what Kill la Kill is!

 

[zkylon]

kill la kill is my passion

 

[Rhaknar]

kill la kill is my passion

I've had passion for many Hentai over the years also.

 

[Tonton]

Kill la Kill is the purest form of art

 

[zkylon]

i find it kind of worrying you capitalize hentai

 

[Uzzy]

wellcant be worse than EA

They should just cut to the chase and show them shutting down companies live for their E3 show. Have their influencers talk about Bioware getting shut down in real time, that'd get me interested.

kill la kill is my passion

You cheating on lol again?

I've had passion for many Hentai over the years also.

Join my Bible Black Club, Rhaknar.

 

[HP_Wuvcraft]

Oh, maybe even Banner Saga 3.

 

[zkylon]

You cheating on lol again?

me?

never

 

[kagamin]

Trying to play games but I don't feel like it, I'd rather just sit at the main menu and stare blankly:

 

[Amzin]

Between the new Steam sales gif and Drift Souls thing last page I just feel a bit better now thanks internet.

 

[someguyinahat]

Trying to play games but I don't feel like it, I'd rather just sit at the main menu and stare blankly:

Maybe you're looking at the wrong menu screen:

Not sure why the actual menu options aren't in this image but it's the best I could do on short notice.

 

[Endruen]

Should I play Nekopara 0 before or after Vol. 1?

 

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[Valxal]

I'm so glad I decided to skip EA's conference

 

[purseowner]

Should I play Nekopara 0 before or after Vol. 1?

The real question is should you play Nekopara at all

Spoiler

I'm faced with a similar situation - 1 was made first, 0 is a side story/prologue. I'll likely start with 0 given that it's short and I can more easily decide if I should waste my time on more of this trash.

 

[Atraveller]

Looks like we might get a Tyranny expansion announcement on Tuesday.

Oh shit! Can't wait for Kyros reveal!

 

[DorkLord54]

Should I wait for the Steam Summer Sale for BG: EE, or go with GOG? I'm pretty sure only GOG has the original version of it bundled with the EE (like how Morrowind comes with the first two TES games on GOG), but I'm not even sure if modern OSes could run the original game.

 

[sadblob]

Should I wait for the Steam Summer Sale for BG: EE, or go with GOG? I'm pretty sure only GOG has the original version of it bundled with the EE (like how Morrowind comes with the first two TES games on GOG), but I'm not even sure if modern OSes could run the original game.

From what I remember, it isn't discounted a lot in Steam sales, I think it was 50% in winter. But sometimes from nothing they will be 75% off, so that's a good time to get both. If you want them now and don't care about owning them in Steam, go with GOG, it's a pretty good price.

I think the originals can run on modern PCs with some tweaking, but IMO the enhanced edition is superior to original + mods.

 

[Kssio_Aug]

I have an RX 480 and I was playing The Witcher 3 with a mix between high and ultra, and getting solid 60fps in almost every area of the game, except in cities like Novigrad. It was never dropping below 40 though. I've recently installed 17.6.1 drivers and now I'm getting 30~40 fps everywhere! What the hell...

Anyone noticed it? I hate to downgrade drivers cause I believe this stuff should be always up to date. But this was a serious performance drop.

Edit: Just checked Doom, and got almost half the frame-rate too. Fuck this shit...

 

[Platy]

the sale is supposed to be at the end of june or july ?

 

[Doomedfool]

the sale is supposed to be at the end of june or july ?

June 22nd is what's been said.

 

[DorkLord54]

From what I remember, it isn't discounted a lot in Steam sales, I think it was 50% in winter. But sometimes from nothing they will be 75% off, so that's a good time to get both. If you want them now and don't care about owning them in Steam, go with GOG, it's a pretty good price.

I think the originals can run on modern PCs with some tweaking, but IMO the enhanced edition is superior to original + mods.

Thanks. Also, is the interquel worth it, or should I just get BG and BG2?

 

[JaseC]

I have an RX 480 and I was playing The Witcher 3 with a mix between high and ultra, and getting solid 60fps in almost every area of the game, except in cities like Novigrad. It was never dropping below 40 though. I've recently installed 17.6.1 drivers and now I'm getting 30~40 fps everywhere! What the hell...

Anyone noticed it? I hate to downgrade drivers cause I believe this stuff should be always up to date. But this was a serious performance drop.

Edit: Just checked Doom, and got almost half the frame-rate too. Fuck this shit...

Give the previous drivers another go and see if the problem goes away. If it does, and you don't need the latest drivers for anything, stick with them until the next update.

 

[Pachimari]

all they showed for it were a couple trailers and I never heard them mention it was playable there

Yeah, it's gonna be all about Gamescom again then.

 

[Kssio_Aug]

Give the previous drivers another go and see if the problem goes away. If it does, and you don't need the latest drivers for anything, stick with them until the next update.

Downgraded the driver, but got exact the same issues. Even cleaned the 17.6.1 driver with DDU.

That's very strange!!! Could be happening some kinda of conflict? I haven't touched anything; installed nothing but this driver before the issue started.

Soooo frustrating.....

For comparison sake, this is how Doom was performing couple days ago:

Here's how it is performing now:

Same settings....

 

[JaseC]

Downgraded the driver, but got exact the same issues. Even cleaned the 17.6.1 driver with DDU.

That's very strange!!! Could be happening some kinda of conflict? I haven't touched anything; installed nothing but this driver before the issue started.

Soooo frustrating.....

Hmm, could be a power limit/management issue.

 

[Xeroblade]

June 22nd is what's been said.

Good, we need more people to pick up Dead Cells.

 

[Rhaknar]

Good, we need more people to pick up Dead Cells.

its just going to be 15% off at most like its been on Bundlestars all week and nobody cared

 

[Kssio_Aug]

Hmm, could be a power limit/management issue.

I couldn't find that screen, but I right-clicked on the AMD Settings icon in the system tray, went to graphics profile option, and changed from balanced to optmize performance. It didn't change the results in the games though.

LoL.... LIke, out of nowhere!!! If this is an AMD thing I won't go back to it. I didn't use to have a problem with my GTX 570 related to drivers. This is killing me.

Edit: Tried reinstalling the drivers again. Absolutely no difference. I'll sleep, tomorrow will try to open the PC and verify if everything is fine with the hardware, although verifying the temperature and usage of CPU and GPU seems absolutely normal with Afterburner. But for now, I give up...

 

[sadblob]

Thanks. Also, is the interquel worth it, or should I just get BG and BG2?

I haven't played it yet, the high price for simply an expansion (and a short and buggy one based on what I've read) throws me off. Keep in mind it came more than 15 years later than the games, so actually playing 1 and 2 and then SoD makes sense.

 

[JaseC]

I couldn't find that screen, but I right-clicked on the AMD Settings icon in the system tray, went to graphics profile option, and changed from balanced to optmize performance. It didn't change the results in the games though.

LoL.... LIke, out of nowhere!!! If this is an AMD thing I won't go back to it. I didn't use to have a problem with my GTX 570 related to drivers. This is killing me.

Ah, bugger. Well, short of reinstalling Windows if you can back up your stuff and have the time to spare, I'm out of ideas, haha.

 

[Rickenslacker]

I finally found the ankh in Unexplored, but I died while working my way back up to the surface.

This game has some shockingly good music as well.

 

[Kssio_Aug]

Ah, bugger. Well, short of reinstalling Windows if you can back up your stuff and have the time to spare, I'm out of ideas, haha.

Yeah, if I can't find a solution I may give it a try. I checked with Afterburner the CPU and GPU usage and temperature and they were fine; apparently nothing unusual. But I'll try to solve it tomorrow... I can't stand that anymore today. Too stressed.

 

[Atraveller]

Should I wait for the Steam Summer Sale for BG: EE, or go with GOG? I'm pretty sure only GOG has the original version of it bundled with the EE (like how Morrowind comes with the first two TES games on GOG), but I'm not even sure if modern OSes could run the original game.

I'm a little bit tempted to buy those EE games on iOS. Classic RPGs on the go sounds great.

 

[GhostTrick]

Unsurprisingly, Wonder Boy seems to be bombing on Steam.

 

[HP_Wuvcraft]

Given all of the Doom love in the Bethesda Presser trailers/commercials, I am very hyped.

 

[Rhaknar]

Unsurprisingly, Wonder Boy seems to be bombing on Steam.

if I may be harsh, or harsher than usual, but if Humble Bundle / Monthly hadnt made me stop caring about indie devs (caring in the "boo hoo their games dont sell" sense), than Hollow Knight certainly did.

Becuase Hollow Knight is so ridiculously well made from top to bottom, on a shoe-string budget AND it sold for less than 95% of these indies try to sell their games for (whats that Wonderboy? youre 15€? no youre 20€, because of course you are), then I dont care any more about most of the indie sob stories, I'm sorry, but I dont.

Man Hollow Knight really soured me on indie games lol

 

[Ludens]

If Konami shows something, it will be during Sony's conference right?

 

[GhostTrick]

if I may be harsh, or harsher than usual, but if Humble Bundle / Monthly hadnt made me stop caring about indie devs (caring in the "boo hoo their games dont sell" sense), than Hollow Knight certainly did.

Becuase Hollow Knight is so ridiculously well made from top to bottom, on a shoe-string budget AND it sold for less than 95% of these indies try to sell their games for (whats that Wonderboy? youre 15€? no youre 20€, because of course you are), then I dont care any more about most of the indie sob stories, I'm sorry, but I dont.

Man Hollow Knight really soured me on indie games lol

The reason it bombed also is because they launched it 2 month later on PC, with no extra.
Hollow Knight sold close to 150k without any discount yet.

 

[Anteater]

dreadout is stupid

ghosts are stupid

game has microstuttering every 10 seconds, stop using unity, fuck

 

[GhostTrick]

dreadout is stupid

ghosts are stupid

game has microstuttering every 10 seconds, stop using unity, fuck

 

[Rhaknar]

The reason it bombed also is because they launched it 2 month later on PC, with no extra.
Hollow Knight sold close to 150k without any discount yet.

Yes fuck that too. Another shitty indie practice. Im salty with indies man :/

 

[BoosterDuck]

Bethesda wins E3

 

[jediyoshi]

 

[Teggy]

Whatever happened to trying to keep your game announcement a surprise?

 

[texhnolyze]

Whatever happened to trying to keep your game announcement a surprise?

Time has changed.

E3 2017 has already begun, and you can enjoy it from your laptop

Each year, the publishers do a little dance around each other, hoping to give their keynotes the best chance to dominate the E3 hype cycle. They change theaters. They move the pressers a little earlier or later. They spice them with celebrities, popular bands, and Cirque du Soleil. They litter social media with teases and rumors.

But the newest method is to simply beat the competition to the punch. Have you noticed a number of video game leaks, announcements, and ”key art" hitting in the past few weeks? Years ago, these announcements would happen at E3. In 2017, they happen ahead of time, establishing a rhythmic thump of anticipation.

 

[GoldandBlue]

Whatever happened to trying to keep your game announcement a surprise?

I'd rather devs just dump me a list with links to trailers honestly.

 

[jediyoshi]

Time has changed.

Years ago, these announcements would happen at E3. In 2017, they happen ahead of time, establishing a rhythmic thump of anticipation.

This is bizarrely out of touch, EA was even leakier last year than this year.

 

[Teggy]

Was last year Shenmue 3? There was that one leak that basically had everything in one of the presentations.

I guess I will switch to PC for TEW2. I wonder if they will be able to improve the dodgy performance on PS4 and get rid of the letterboxing.