Brent and I tried this escape room game out (on game pass). It is actually pretty fun!

Though he makes some... I guess we can say 'interesting' choices in life, Brent's MENSA status has not been in question for me and he turns out to be a pretty decent partner for solving logic puzzles.

 

Bioshock meets Fallout? With a sprinkling of Fuck Putin? Count me interested.

https://youtu.be/jLmukRHiXUE

Edited August 31, 20223 yr by robm321

Oh hey, this thread.

This is your bi-yearly reminder that this game exists and you should play it.

 

2K's 'quality of life' change for BioShock is that Linux users can't play it anymore.

That includes the Steam Deck.  Prior to this update, Bioshock Infinite was very playable on the SD. 

This British fella sums the situation up quite well:

 

New Nvidia cards... a nasty joke

Intel to the rescue!(?)

Until they fix their multiple driver issues they won't be an alternative. I´m convinced that they will do it... they are Intel and they have much money but perhaps we´ll have to wait for a second gen of its graphics cards to be a real opponent.

 

Edited September 27, 20223 yr by jose

I agree (the picture was too hard to resist).

I had to deal with old computers that had weird Intel driver problems. You'd think Intel would have figured it out by now because their graphics are the default everywhere.

Good to have a 3rd competitor in the market, anyway.

Edited September 27, 20223 yr by HiWire

For now, the new "middle class" will be the 30-series graphics cards that the bastards at Nvidia haven't sold.

Since they do not want to show us the performance of the new 40 WITHOUT DLSS, I don't think I'll part with my 3080 for a few years

Edited September 27, 20223 yr by jose

Yes, they were pushing DLSS hard. I'm not planning to jump to 4K, so I'm hoping I won't need it.

1440p at ~27" is the sweet spot these days.  Nvidia are getiting high on their own supply with the 40 series launch.  I hope they crater in a spectacular fashion.  It's a hell of a time to buy a used 30 series.  I'm seeing sub-$1000 3090s eveywhere.

The jury is still out on AMD.

The Radeon 6000-series have demonstrated impressive performance, sometimes surpassing their Nvidia counterparts, but it's hard to find any AMD GPUs in mainstream gaming laptops, for example.

Edited September 27, 20223 yr by HiWire

I know many people who have had problems with HP reverbs for example using top GPU+CPU AMD and it seems that although their GPUs have more Vram they perform worse than Nvidia (in VR)

I think so, 1440p at ~27" is the standard but yesterday I saw a slide from Nvidia with the performance of their GPUs in 8K.... who the hell has an 8K monitor?. 😁

Right now is a good time to buy a new 3080/3090 although paying 800/1000€ for a GPU still seems a lot of money.

 

Yes, that's one of the big problems of PC gaming... chasing the never-ending specs inflation (480 Hz monitors?) and parts cost.

I'm disappointed that the energy/heat limits for CPUs and GPUs keep escalating too. I know you can't get something for nothing, but I'm a bit more focused on efficiency and reliability over absolute performance these days.

Edited September 28, 20223 yr by HiWire

I’m pretty excited for 40 series nvidia. Frame amplification tech is pretty much exactly what I want for some of these ray tracing heavy games. Being able to turn a 60fps experience into a 90fps one with some fancy frame interpolation sounds amazing, even if you do need to buffer frames and trade off a little latency to achieve it.

4090 also looks like a beast. An expensive beast, but unlike the 3090 this one might actually be worth the price delta over the 4080s.

Yes, the 4090 is a good value if it performs like Nvidia claims and if the prices are in the ballpark of what they listed.

I'm not sure what availability will be like... will the high-end market be indifferent after such a long drought... at this point, some people are probably trying to figure out whether it's worth purchasing a 30-series or wait for the new products.

The GeForce RTX 30-series is mature (and upgraded with the Ti products) and the drivers should be relatively stable, likewise regarding the hardware power and cooling implementations, mux output, etc.

I can see the 4090 and its relatives being popular for content creators (i.e., graphic rendering, etc.), given the significant performance improvements that could pay for themselves very quickly.

Edited September 28, 20223 yr by HiWire

I also see the 40 series more in "work" environments than in games.

Edti ; It´s already leaking that the 40 series will be an 25% max higher than the current 30 series without DLSS, RT, etc...

Edited September 28, 20223 yr by jose

The frame interpolation/amplification tech looks to be the real deal.

I got back into playing turn-based Go. If you interested in playing, I am on OGS now.

American McGee's Alice might be coming back in a new game, Alice: Asylum

 

Desktop Dungeons is free right now on Steam.  It's a cute roguelike that began development a really long time ago.  The late, great TotalBiscuit covered it over a dozen years ago:

Also TB died 5 years ago this spring.

In case you don't remember a thing about The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (2017 was a long time ago) - the new Zelda, Tears of the Kingdom launches on Friday, May 12:

 

 

 

I am so excited for Diablo 4. I'm going to try and take Friday off to go full degenerate if I can finish my work for the week by the end of the day tomorrow.

Early reviews sound fantastic.