Personal Computer Game News

[yourbeliefs]

You and my cousin Raymond (who you MAY have played with once online with me) are the only ones that I ever knew that had a Game Gear. However he was a big Sega guy. It started with the Genesis but he ended up getting all the systems up to the Dreamcast.

 

[yourbeliefs]

Trailer for Quake: Champions has been released. Now THIS is what I was hoping for with Doom 4 but apparently they decided to keep it in the Quake world. In any case I'm looking forward to it.

 

[king3pj]

Trailer for Quake: Champions has been released. Now THIS is what I was hoping for with Doom 4 but apparently they decided to keep it in the Quake world. In any case I'm looking forward to it.

It looks cool but as someone who doesn't have any nostalgia for the old Quake games I'm not sure if I will ever play a multiplayer only Quake game. To be fair, I didn't have any nostalgia for the old Doom games either and I'm still really enjoying that.

The difference for me is that the Doom game had an awesome campaign while I will have lots of multiplayer games taking up my attention. I know I will be playing Call of Duty and Titanfall and I also have some interest in Battlefield 1. There is also a decent chance I will still be playing Overwatch and Rocket League by then.

With all of those multiplayer games plus the single player campaign's I want to play I'm just not sure there is room in my schedule or budget for Quake. I guess that will depend on pricing and reviews.

 

[yourbeliefs]

No Man's SKy is coming August 12 for PC

 

[king3pj]

No Man's SKy is coming August 12 for PC

If people end up loving the PS4 version maybe I will splurge on it next Friday and play it all weekend.

 

[yourbeliefs]

I'd wait. Even if the PS4 version is well received there's no real incentive to get the game on release date. You'll have bugs and server problems galore.

 

[yourbeliefs]

So the original Prey was about a Native American town being attacked by aliens and you playing a Native that somehow had special NA powers (that included free revivals for some reason) and you used crazy guns and portals to take them down. The NEW Prey has none of those things, except that it deals with aliens and science fiction. So why not use a new name? According to this interview, I guess Bethesda decided they had nothing better to do with the name and to just use it again.

http://www.pcgamer.com/why-prey-has...source=facebook&utm_campaign=buffer_pcgamerfb

Speaking of the original, it looks like you can't buy it anymore. I suppose that stems from the fact that the IP has changed publishers (From 2K to Bethesda) but it still stinks no one can play the original easily anymore. And it probably doesn't make sense to put the game back up for sale, since it'll just confuse the marketplace with 2 games with the EXACT same title coming out in such a short period of time.

 

[yourbeliefs]

So the original Prey was about a Native American town being attacked by aliens and you playing a Native that somehow had special NA powers (that included free revivals for some reason) and you used crazy guns and portals to take them down. The NEW Prey has none of those things, except that it deals with aliens and science fiction. So why not use a new name? According to this interview, I guess Bethesda decided they had nothing better to do with the name and to just use it again.

http://www.pcgamer.com/why-prey-has...source=facebook&utm_campaign=buffer_pcgamerfb

Speaking of the original, it looks like you can't buy it anymore. I suppose that stems from the fact that the IP has changed publishers (From 2K to Bethesda) but it still stinks no one can play the original easily anymore. And it probably doesn't make sense to put the game back up for sale, since it'll just confuse the marketplace with 2 games with the EXACT same title coming out in such a short period of time.

I decided to expand upon this and make a video explaining my views on the matter. I fear that this may become a more common trend and that we may run into games that simply get lost due to licensing and naming BS.

 

[yourbeliefs]

Apparently someone decided to remake the N64 Goldeneye game in the Source Engine.

 

[yourbeliefs]

Shadow Warrior 2 is coming Early October

http://www.pcgamesn.com/shadow-warrior-2/shadow-warrior-2-release-date

 

[yourbeliefs]

The PC version of No Man's Sky sold well despite a shoddy port.

https://www.destructoid.com/no-man-...-the-year-in-spite-of-its-issues-380250.phtml

 

[king3pj]

The PC version of No Man's Sky sold well despite a shoddy port.

https://www.destructoid.com/no-man-...-the-year-in-spite-of-its-issues-380250.phtml

It's actually running fine for me but there are definitely plenty of people seeing issues. I did have some weird, random hitching yesterday but it was smooth about 95% of the time.

I read a suggestion on twitter this morning to turn of the in-game vsync option and turn the framerate cap to maximum. Then force vsync in the Nvidia Control Panel settings for No Man's Sky. This completely removed the random frame drops I was seeing yesterday and it's a smooth 60 FPS with maxed settings now. The only hitching I see now is on the startup title screen when it is zooming in through the stars to my location. Once the game starts it's fine though.

I am running a 1070 so I don't know if this fix works on weaker cards. It's worth trying if you are having issues with PC performance.

 

[king3pj]

Nvidia's game ready drivers are now available for No Man's Sky. It looks like there was also a new patch for the game pushed out today. People in the Steam forums are reporting good results.

 

[mdram]

anyone try Rust out yet?
i got it for @ $5 on at a steam sale, doing a pvp server atm, having fun raiding people with clan members

 

[king3pj]

anyone try Rust out yet?
i got it for @ $5 on at a steam sale, doing a pvp server atm, having fun raiding people with clan members

Those typically aren't my type of games. I like the survival aspects of games like No Man's Sky and Don't Starve but I've never been drawn to the open world, multiplayer sandbox games like Rust, ARK, and DayZ. Those games are definitely huge on Steam though.

 

[mdram]

something draws me to open world/sandbox. could be my years in Eve. and wahts gaming if you dont lose things when you die.
consequences make it soo much better

of course, being a #$#%, when we find people we dont kill them, we steal thier stuff and wall them in in nothing so they have to starve to death......................

 

[king3pj]

of course, being a #$#%, when we find people we dont kill them, we steal thier stuff and wall them in in nothing so they have to starve to death......................

And this might have something to do with my reasoning for not wanting to play those games.

 

[king3pj]

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/gears-4-pc-system-requirements,32503.html
The Gears of War 4 system requirements have been released. The first thing that sticks out to me is the storage requirement. 80GB for one game?

The minimum GTX 750 Ti requirement is relatively low. The recommended, GTX 970, makes sense since it has been the most popular GPU among Steam users for a while now. They also have an ideal system spec tier that asks for a GTX 980 Ti or GTX 1080. My 1070 is almost exactly half way between those two cards in the ideal range. If you click the link at the top of this post you can see the rest of the specs including their AMD requirements.

It's not really clear what the difference is between recommended and ideal because recommended is usually the hardware you will need for high settings at 1080p/60. There is a pretty massive performance difference between the recommended and ideal hardware.

 

[yourbeliefs]

Yeah I forgot to post about this. Goddamn 80GB? That's 1/3 of my SSD. Well if you want to play it on PC be my guest but I'll be with my XBone. Probably all that extra space is due to those 4K textures. Hopefully they'll show people some mercy and modify the install options to where if you want those super high res graphics you have to opt into them. I mean it would be sort crappy for someone like me with a 960 to be forced to install a bunch of stuff I'll NEVER use.

 

[yourbeliefs]

Well this is big news..

PlayStation Now is coming to PC, along with a new, enhanced USB dongle to allow for better PS4 connectivity.

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2016...pc-dualshock-4-usb-wireless-adaptor-unveiled/