My issue isn't with the letterboxing per say (I play a lot of games at a 2.35:1 ratio on a 16:9 monitor anyway) but the fudged way it's been implemented. True 21:9 monitors and 3 screen set ups don't handle this very well at all and seeing as the past id Tech 5 games did (Rage needed a bit of tinkering) I don't think this is a quick fix. That and because it was a consideration from the offset where UI information resides in both the upper and lower portions of the screen it's never going to be perfect. I'd keep an eye on WSGF for solutions.
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STEAM | October 2014 - Proper PC gamers buy a Wii U and Bayonetta 2
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Cool, thanks, I bought it and can see it in my library so I'm all set for tomorrow. Except I don't really have time to dive into it, nooooooooo
14 chapters
derExperte
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Sigils of Elohim is free and a "mini-game prelude to Croteam’s upcoming first-person puzzler The Talos Principle". Only 62MB.
I'll file this under 'bad jokes' and please don't tell me if it wasn't one.
I'll file this under 'bad jokes' and please don't tell me if it wasn't one.
Just... Read Rock Paper Shotgun. Scores are incredibly detrimental to the entire review process and concept.
TES developed by Obsidian, please? They're the only ones that could possibly bring back the glory-days of Morrowind. Although they'd need Arkane's help to make it heff Dark Messiah-esque combat.
Please?
What, you even have me!? I THOUGHT WE HAD SOMETHING SPECIAL T_T
Doesn't the game (TEW) still render what's behind them? I seem to recall being told as much by someone in the know.
AHA-Lambda
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Been seeing alot of reviews average about 15 hours-ish. Seems similar to Alien.
Get in. Time to play some more Ultra on Wednesday then.
The lesson here is that no one cares about your non-games. Not even glorious Nippon cares.
you seem to care a lot, though
don't trust anybody!
keep your laser handy
Gipsy Danger
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People tell me that Parish is a name to trust in video game journalism but in my experience he doesn't have a clue what he's talking about most of the time.
Ray Wonder
Founder of the Wounded Tagless Children
Yeah, that's eventually what I did. Thanks.
Did you have razors in your breakfast bowl?
Gipsy Danger
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I dunno. In his review of Last of Us remastered he recommended using the 30fps lock so that it would be more in line with movie frame rates. I refuse to believe a word he says regardless of era.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
Urgh....this week will never end. I just want to make it to Friday so I finally have some free time again. Stupid exams.
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
The Evil Within PC shots from TheTurboFD in the OT:
And a few from myself (720p as been streaming in windowed mode to read chat, and mine are Steam compressed):
And a few from myself (720p as been streaming in windowed mode to read chat, and mine are Steam compressed):
Gipsy Danger
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Hoping someone will help me but can you or anyone else playing the game tell me if the kb/m controls are any use? I'm hoping they are at least as good as RE:Revelaitons but I fear they may be as bad as RE4. Just a general, they are good would be fine
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
Hoping someone will help me but can you or anyone else playing the game tell me if the kb/m controls are any use? I'm hoping they are at least as good as RE:Revelaitons but I fear they may be as bad as RE4. Just a general, they are good would be fine
I've been playing with mouse and keyboard. They work perfectly well for me. I did alter some stuff around though to make them more comfortable for me. A nice touch is if you switch around buttons, your custom keys will appear as instructions in the game very flawlessly, which is nice.
Chance Hale
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They're good, everything is customizable and you can have multiple inputs for an action(ie, inventory on v/tab)Hoping someone will help me but can you or anyone else playing the game tell me if the kb/m controls are any use? I'm hoping they are at least as good as RE:Revelaitons but I fear they may be as bad as RE4. Just a general, they are good would be fine
Gipsy Danger
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Very good to know. Thank you. Can't wait to play the game when I get home from work
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
Very good to know. Thank you. Can't wait to play the game when I get home from work
Of course, hope you have fun!
I also forgot to post this in my last post, so will just post here. This result made me chuckle when it happened in-game as I was trying to get a headshot.
Chance Hale
Member
Nice to see the Manhunt 2 headshots make another appearance! Hit reactions in this game are great.
Braag
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Wait what? It has supernatural parts in it?
Oh right, I forgot how Crytek loves to add bunch of monsters or aliens little over halfway through their games.
Atraveller
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That waterfall glitch in Bulletstorm, even restarting checkpoint doesn't work!
CJ is in Naruto?
Crab Milk Mickey
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You can save Steam screenshots as .PNG pictures, if you weren't aware of that. Doesn't get uploaded on the community / activity page of course, but the option for no compression is there at least.
Gianni Merryman
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Sigils of Elohim is free and a "mini-game prelude to Croteams upcoming first-person puzzler The Talos Principle". Only 62MB.
That gets quite hard after a few levels, I am stuck at level 8
anyway it's free so it's worth a try.By the way, this made me realise I would like a tangram game.
Some of us are on a blackout and trying to avoid the OT.
I find the whole story mode in Naruto really boring. It sucks that you can't fast forward the story mode.
MMBosstones86
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So now that their both out and some people have played both :
Alien or TEW?
Alien or TEW?
The Dear Leader
Banned
System requirement backlash, black bars, and a 30FPS lock, pick your poison.
I got a mail about it. It says that it will send another mail with the key in it if I already have PlayFire linked to my steam account
BinaryPork2737
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One day Valve will finally say something about Greenlight. Maybe two years from now.
All it took was one quick google search, and he didn't even do that. I'm really beginning to lose faith in Parish lately :/
It's not a very good port overall. I think the issues that are there, FOV, black bars, controls, optimization issues, will be fixed, but first impressions are really terrible for this one.
Not only are the first two chapters, reportedly, the worst sections in the game, but you start the game at 30 FPS, with terrible mouse lag in the menus, a ridiculously low FOV, nonexistent graphics menus, and headache-inducing black bars, your mileage may vary on the latter.
NingenJanai
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Making History: The Calm & the Storm, yes or no? reviews seem positive, and it's cheap.
Anyone played it here?
Anyone played it here?
Haunted
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Despite that small error (he could just as easily have named a dozen other games), that is still a great 5000-word article summarising Japan's videogame (and related) industry woes and the direction it's been going into for a couple years now.
Well done, Parish.
Hm, fair enough. I hope they will provide some major patches along the way then. I do plan on picking this up eventually, given how much I love RE4.
paperspace
Member
Yep, that's the thing.. That game gives me a goddamn headache as soon as I start it.
Everything is a complete mess from the point where you start the game until you're done. And I mean everything. The first thing you'll notice is the extreme sluggish mouse movement in the menus. When you're finally playing, you're seeing texture pop-ins everywhere. Stuttering. Awful 30fps. And the fucking black bars. And when you move there's a huge amount of mouse acceleration and some delay.
In other games, I can normally accept one or a few of these things. But EVERYTHING?
I don't know how they imagined anyone could possibly enjoy this.
xBladeM6x
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They probably had controller in mind. Not to say that's a good excuse. Stuttering is likely coming from it using more VRAM than available on your system, and everything else is parity across all platforms the game is on.
paperspace
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Hmm, yeah, I doubt it. I'm using two 970s with 4GB. It doesn't even matter what settings I'm using.
I get the same performance with a 670 2GB, on another system.
One point five American Gigabytes of VRAM....
People are actually running maxed out with less VRAM than that as well. To be honest, literally just about every aspect of this game is extremely mismanaged.
Multiply by one for the conversion factor.
Here's something to ponder. If ZeniMax didn't buy Tango Gameworks do you think we'd have seen a PC version of The Evil Within at all? I doubt it somewhat unless they ended up with a publisher who was PC focused like Deep Silver but I get the feeling PC was never a focus from the off.
The funny thing is this, while the reviews are trending as 'Mostly Positive' the most helpful ones all come up as negative for me but they are by and large highlighting technical problems and most have played little to nothing of the game. Sure it's information to folks who weren't aware of those issues but if you want a handle on the game itself you need to do a little digging. Or just ignore those who aren't on your friends list, that works for me most of the time.
What's the metric conversion of that?
Saying that this backward country of mine still uses the imperial system of measurements along with metric as well.
The funny thing is this, while the reviews are trending as 'Mostly Positive' the most helpful ones all come up as negative for me but they are by and large highlighting technical problems and most have played little to nothing of the game. Sure it's information to folks who weren't aware of those issues but if you want a handle on the game itself you need to do a little digging. Or just ignore those who aren't on your friends list, that works for me most of the time.
What's the metric conversion of that?
Saying that this backward country of mine still uses the imperial system of measurements along with metric as well.
Chance Hale
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It's a great port, steady 30 FPS at 4K, completely customizable controls(on screen prompts change), unique M/K layout, dev console and so on.
Who knows what nonsense they've done to idtech5 to get proper lighting working. I can get 30 FPS at 4K, but 45-60 at 1080P. But still, it's not poorly optimized given how high a resolution I can go up to. And I haven't noticed any stuttering and I'm usually pretty sensitive to it. The exception is going over 3200x1800 has brought some weird flickering issues, others are playing at 4K with no issues though.
Who knows what nonsense they've done to idtech5 to get proper lighting working. I can get 30 FPS at 4K, but 45-60 at 1080P. But still, it's not poorly optimized given how high a resolution I can go up to. And I haven't noticed any stuttering and I'm usually pretty sensitive to it. The exception is going over 3200x1800 has brought some weird flickering issues, others are playing at 4K with no issues though.
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