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Only in visual style. It's a dungeon crawler with no other building or destruction.

Good question. I think the chips they do, the calculators, probably not. My buddy designs stuff, so they have an amount of in-house fabrication. I'm not sure about mass scale production.

Read my post a few comments up. The calculator division is really small. They still do everything else, it's just that average people only hear about the calculators because they made a deal with schools. They still make chips and other electronics, which you can buy, but if you aren't making your own components it's unlikely you'll know. Or you might cheap out and buy Chinese chips. They have color screens now!?

I just wonder if I'm the only one that calls them X bow instead of crossbow.

I didn't play Halo Wars since I'm not into strategy games. Tried it. Didn't get into it. Never touched 2. The issue with 343 is they're really trying to make the game fit around books and movies, some of them they produced, so there's a whole "continuity across mediums" thing. Bungie didn't do that. There were Halo books, but Bungie didn't write them and thus didn't super care about them and would contradict them because they weren't actually canon, they were basically just fan fiction. Halo 4 you can play without all the extra fluff as it takes place right after Halo 3. But after watching a review, I forgot how much I forgot about that game since it's just not very good. Halo 5 is awful. spoilers I'd honestly recommend not playing either 4 or 5. They claim Infinite will be a self contained story, so either they have to explain the stupid bullshit that happened in 4 and 5, or just ignore it entirely. I don't know. Watching the gameplay reveal it looks okay, but actually thinking about it, the open world combined with the story restraints they set for themselves... It might be okay to play, but I'm not sure how it'll really do in narrative.

My biggest shocker from that event is that Playground Games is suddenly doing Fable. And STALKER 2.

That would tend to indicate art style or overall visuals, not graphics. Either way I didn't have an issue with either version of the game. The remastered graphics added a lot of texture, details, and lighting to the interior structures. Either way the metallic structures contrast the open areas with grass and forest.

Well as far as I'm aware they still haven't fixed all the bugs on the console release that launched years ago. Though they are claiming they're trying to get local co-op working, which would be awesome. 5 honestly wasn't great. It was apparently written by someone who knew nothing about the series. It's also the only game in the entire franchise that makes little to no sense unless you have read all the books, comics, and watched the movies. I've been a pretty big Halo fan since H2, but I'm not a big enough nerd to read books, comics, and movies. So there's just a lot of information that's completely absent between Halo 4 and 5, such as Chief suddenly pairing up with his old squad mates, none of which I can remember at all and wasn't ever explained in game. Or Buck (Nathan Fillion) the ODST somehow suddenly being a Spartan now and part of the group hunting down Chief. They tried to vaguely retroactively "fix" the issue by putting in "terminals" hidden around H2A that plays some cutscenes to try and explain some of the shit happening in 5. Apparently even if you have read the books and movies it's still not very good. I'm actually remembering that 5 ends on a cliffhanger, and... I don't think Halo Infinite even starts to mention it, and I have no idea why Chief was found floating in space, or what the hell the Banished are... 343 turned the franchise into a narrative messier than Kojima with Metal Gear. Because you can't visually play anything more than 3 years old or it's proven to burn your retinas. That being said, using emulators to play PS2 games in 4k is pretty great.

I have since bought the MCC, and for some reason Halo 1 in the original graphics barely runs so I had to stick with the remaster. I have no idea why. Also voices and dialogue are too quiet and they don't have their own sliders.

If you want rock crawling you can look into BeamNG Drive. As to the specs, pretty much. It seems to look okay, but it also seems like it's a lot of slow backtracking and a mobile port. The fact that it locks things off for potentially up to a month to finish a 3 hour game is pretty insane. Neat ideas are fun if they don't completely ruin the experience, which doesn't seem to be the case here.

They said in the video that they're doing full mocap with facial capture. It's possible to do that with pre existing models, but it's easier and more accurate for them to look like the actors, which I assume they do. Ditto, though I didn't play the original to compare. They probably could've found people who look or sound more like the originals. Ehh? I only saw one. Remaster ≠ Remake. Mafia 2 was a remaster, which by definition is a slight polishing with some updated textures. At least they made the tunnel look better by adding an actual cliff face. It was also a free update to anyone with the base game, which is nice.

Oh, they're poorly optimized on consoles too.

I would be much more interested in this than the actual game. Skip this week. Looking at Superbrothers it seems to basically be an album with a game attached to it... which is... interesting as a concept I suppose. According to Steam it takes influences from actual lunar cycles and seems to consistently ask you to twat things, so I'm sure that'll be fun. Here's a positive Steam review that consists solely of negative aspects.

That would depend on the DRM implementation. EGS doesn't have Steam DRM, but it does have games with Denuvo. GOG doesn't have any DRM. The idea would be that you buy you game and all of your accounts are linked so it adds the game to all the accounts (to whatever stores have it.) I don't know why you would install it twice. If you bought it from Epic and want it on Steam, you would just buy from Epic, it would be added to your Steam account, and you download it through Steam.

I'm confused. There's no reason DRM would need to go away, and even less reason for it to be illegal, outside the fact that we hate it.

Changes in Galaxy have been pretty slow, and they don't seem super open to discuss what they're working on.

Steam and GOG already had a select few titles that periodically under publishers consent would allow you to take games from Steam and also unlock them in GOG. So if you bought a game, say... Alan Wake, from Steam, then during a period of time with Remedy's blessing you could unlock it and have it added to your GOG account as well. Then you have it on Steam and GOG. I don't think Steam has ever done the reverse, because good guy Valve might lose out on a buck or two. So if Epic is willing to do that, that means GOG might get some more DRM free games, or it might be the same deal where they require the publishers consent, and only for games already on GOG. In either case, from snatching a bunch of the free Epic games a fair amount of them are actually DRM free. ^ A bunch of EGS games are DRM free. Not all, but a bunch. They don't have their own bullshit DRM like Good Guy Valve, so it's more up to the publishers to use something like Denuvo, but Epic sure isn't forcing them. I keep hearing rumors of games on Steam not having DRM, but then they all have Steam DRM or are shitty free things anyways. Also, technically universal ownership wouldn't necessarily cut out DRM. You'd just tie the DRM to the hardware that you do have and it would function just as it does now.

It has an app or something that splits the monitor in a bunch of different ways to get around that. Don't think it would be that hard to tell it to split the monitor in half while still not having bezels, and then I could just play games native instead of messing around with NV Surround which screws up every time. And no, I'm not paying for Display Fusion to fix a problem that NV should've solved years ago.

I'd honestly rather have the single monitor double wide just to remove the bezels and use ALL of the screen instead of portions. And the smooth curve. At least until they make a triple wide monitor. But your picture really reminds me that I need to get a much taller center post for my stand so I'm not looking down at them or leaning back.

I actively went out of my way to buy a case with no window and only red front intake fans. Adding LEDs only makes it cost more and drops my interest in the product. Currently I have my center 144hz monitor plugged in via DVI and 2 side monitors plugged in via DP to HDMI adapter. My AVR is just HDMI. None of them actually have a DP input. So I suppose that is something to consider. I need at least 4 ports. It's possible I'll eventually get a new monitor, maybe if double wides drop in price, but I'm not really looking to replace mine anytime soon.

I thought the new gen cards didn't make a lot of difference with overclocking? What's wrong with Asus? My 960 is a Strix and I really like it.

I'd rather get the 1660 and later upgrade to a Ryzen platform. The rare occasions I use blender would improve drastically over keeping the 8350.

What's next!? A physical medium for music!? Preposterous! I only like physical because it's annoying as shit to have to update something every time I want to play a game, or when games are removed from market. I guess it's nice to have shelves of games, but it gets messy super quick when you have a really large collection or a bunch of consoles. My buddy has his games on the shelf split between 3 generations of Xbox, 4 generations of Playstation, Dreamcast, 4 generations of Nintendo, Genesis... maybe something else. It's actually kind of funny, he almost has more consoles than games. In any case, how do you deal with generation spanning titles like Halo which have been on all 3 Xbox's, soon to be 4? It's easier to have them in something like Galaxy 2.0 to quickly browse. Same deal with movies, we have DVDs as a backup, but using Plex is way simpler as a browser.

Lifeless planet is a pretty ugly and boring walking sim with a very minimal story. Don't remember much about it other than it being super boring. Tacoma I 100% did not enjoy. Then again, I also didn't like Gone Home. I also don't care what anyone says, I don't like having minorities shoved into games, which Fullbright is very proud of doing. It was actually like a big story point or something. I don't know. I remember it being very boring and none of the characters or their stories are interesting and I seriously can't remember anything else and I got it like... last year? I put a good amount of time into the first one until I cleared the first are and opened the second, and then just... immediately lost interest I guess.

That may be, but we have some Samsung tv in our living room that is 100% not OLED (Probably not even QLED either) and it still gets reflections same as any other TV. So... I don't think I see it as a con when it affects both types. For a period of time we did actually use a projector as a TV, and it FREAKING SUCKED. We don't have blackout curtains and it wasn't a high end super bright projector, so even having the light on would completely wash it out. Having a 80" screen was the only bonus. I think the bulbs burnt out a lot too.