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  3. Posted

    PC

    Star Wars Squadrons (723 min)

    Tabletopia (306 min)

     

    XB1

    Night in the Woods (52 min)

     

    Oculus Quest

    Beat Saber (459 min)

     

    Took a break from CK as Star Wars Squadrons was coming out, and it's both a lot of fun and a lot of frustration. I don't normally jump on brand new games, and I kinda wish I hadn't here, either. While the game is a lot of fun when it works, especially in VR and with a HOTAS, it's really buggy. My brother and his friend have it and we may try playing online, but cheating seems rampant, so we'll stick with AI battles for now.

     

    Played Orleans in Tabletopia, came in 2nd out of 4, but 1st won easily. Started Night in the Woods, not sure I'm feeling it, but I'll probably give it a bit more of a look.

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  4. Posted

    8 minutes ago, Steven Pendleton said:

    Interesting. I don't have VR, so I can't test it, but I did have a huge frame pacing problem after alt-tabbing to desktop and then back. Have not played the game since then, so I wonder if that will happen again.

    Yeah, when I first fired it up, I couldn't play fullscreen as the resolution was off and I could only see part of the screen. And I didn't want to play windowed, so I started off in VR. Which worked fine until the menu button, both on the stick or the keyboard ESC, stopped working (didn't realize the game default non-inverted controls which drove me crazy during tutorial). So I had to CTL-ALT-DEL out of the game. Happened again the next day, but not right away, as I was able to fix the controls and stuff, and double checked after I started playing, but when I was done, had to hard close the program again.  Yesterday, playing both VR and non-VR, things worked better, and the fullscreen problem was gone, so they're working on plugging the leaks.

  5. Posted

    1 minute ago, Steven Pendleton said:

    Oh, joy, cheating already? What the hell? I think it runs on Frostbite and they figured out Frostbite literally about a decade ago, sadly, so this doesn't really surprise me that much. Still, do you have your v-sync on? Try it, as that should fix the screen tearing. I had it really badly too until I turned it on.

    It's fine non-VR, but it's a known VR issue. The Steam version is apparently even worse with SteamVR, so glad I went with the Epic/Origin version, at least it's playable.

  6. Posted

    Game is bit of a buggy mess at the moment, especially in regards to VR and online ranking, but when it works, hoo boy. VR + HOTAS = incredible experience. Constantly craning my head around as my fingers dance over the HOTAS (that took some training though; "To do this press button 9" Uh, which button is button 9??). Luckily, the VR graphics problems are all during the between missions cutscenes in single player. I've never witnessed this level of screen tearing before. How do you optimize zooming around in space so well, but heaven forbid I shift my head slightly while an NPC is talking to me in a static environment?

     

    From what I've seen online cheating is rampant in online play and ranking doesn't work properly, so not sure how much I'll play outside the single player missions or playing AI fleet battles with friends...

  7. Posted

    Yep, those batteries slowly drain, even in storage.  Once they hit zero, they can't be recharged.

     

    Most people don't realize that when their phone hits zero charge, it's not really zero, it's just the safety point where the phone insists on charge before it will turn on again.

  10. Posted

    PC

    Crusader Kings III (1184 min)

     

    Oculus Quest

    Beat Saber (476 min)

     

    Not much variety this week. My CK3 Ireland game continues, I've got Ireland, Wales, Scotland, Iceland, Brittany, and the Kent and Essex duchies of England. My charismatic king was replaced by his intelligent and somewhat more immoral son, whose wife was pretty awesome administrator. The new heir that just took over is tactically minded, and the army is large, I should be able to unite Britannia soon.

     

    While I'm assimilating, the rest of the world is breaking up.  France has divided into three kingdoms, the Holy Roman Empire is down to basically Germany, the rest is independent kingdoms, the Byzantine Empire is almost dead, and Iberian peninsula is nearly 100% Muslim. Catholicism is collapsing, and the Lollardy branch religion I started near the beginning of the game is starting to creep over Western and Northern Europe. When I took Canterbury from England, I was able to appoint my own pope.  There's a big new patch that came out today and one of the things it does is makes a more powerful Mongol nation, so that should be interesting...

     

    Oculus sent me a $14 coupon, so I spent it on the new Linkin Park DLC for BS.  The maps are pretty complex and hectic. Tried playing through them all in a row and had to quit half way through, as I needed a change of pace before dropping from exhaustion....

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  11. Posted

    16 hours ago, DragonGrafx-16 said:

    I just heard that many people bought up Xbox One X's and S's thinking they were the new ones. There's going to be a lot of disappointed kids this Christmas when they get another Xbox One. lol

    There may have been a couple of these, but I think most of the One X and One S sales are just people taking advantage of discounted current gen stuff.

     

    Plus, the report is that Amazon sales were up 700%. If they sold one yesterday and 7 today, that would do that, for example. So, grain of salt, and all.

  13. Posted

    4 hours ago, JamesD said:

    Not if it means the PS5 looses exclusives, the XBOX gains them, and more people subscribe to GamePass.
    Part of the reason I said no more cheap titles from those studios is because it makes no sense to let people buy older titles cheap when you can use those titles to encourage people to subscribe to Gamepass instead.

    There are still deep discounts on sales for GP games every sale, so interesting take, but I don't think it'll hold up.

  14. Posted

    I wasn't too sure about Starfield or ES6 after the past couple years output from Bethesda. Maybe this will help. The new stuff the acquired studios have done so far have been okay to good. I'm just afraid that Zenimax still being the umbrella over those studios will mean Bethesda will continue to move toward GaaS crap.

  15. Posted

    PC

    Crusader Kings III (751 min)

    Hypnospace Outlaw (97 min)

    Tabletopia (194 min)

     

    Oculus Quest

    Beat Saber (490 min)

    FitXR (89 min)

     

    In CK3, I'm continuing to try and form Britannia through Irish rule, Wales and Scotland are pretty much mine, but England was conquered by the Norse, creating the Empire of Danelaw, so it's not just England I'd be fighting...time to get creative with some alliances, I think. My current ruler is super diplomatic, nobody can hate him for long (plus he's a nice guy, so doing cruel crap stresses him out).

     

    Played Hypnospace Outlaw last night. Uh...this game is a trip. A mix of the authoritarianism from a game like Papers Please and browsing through the gated AOL-like 90's internet.

     

    Played Dominant Species on TT on Saturday and got my ass handed to me as the Amphibians.  Fun, though. In VR, I think I may take a break from FitXR. Lately, instead of just punching out at the targets at about 50%, I'm throwing like I'm trying to beat someone to death (I blame the little score numbers that shoot out; the harder, the better), and now my shoulders are giving me trouble. Might warm up with a different game this week and see if that helps.

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  17. Posted

    On 9/17/2020 at 5:01 PM, Lost Dragon said:

    This is an aspect that i feel Sony have really messed up on. 

     

    They showed tech demos of concepts in games that were only possible because of the PS5 SSD and they talk up the possibilities the soundchip in the PS5 has for games... 

     

    Now it's become apparent some of the flagship titles are being built around the vanilla PS4 hardware, so i am guess the PS5 versions will simply be the same core game, just in a higher resolution and frame rate. 

     

     

    I can appreciate Sony want to support the PS4 for a few years yet, but the studios should be building flagship titles that are only possible on Playstation 5.

    Only speaking for myself, but these weren't system sellers for me, anyway.  Doing this only cemented that idea for me.

     

    But this way, I'll pay full price for the games, instead of on deep discount when I finally get around to buying one.

  19. Posted · Edited by Agamon

    PC

    Crusader Kings III (1189 min)

    Starship Commander: Arcade (13 min)

     

    XB1

    Tell Me Why (209 min)

     

    Oculus Quest

    FitXR (88 min)

    Beat Saber (422 min)

     

    Continuing my conquest of Britannia with my kingdom of Ireland, which is going...okay, I guess. Still getting used to the differences between CK3 and CK2.  The final chapter of Tell Me Why came out this weekend, so I finished it up and found the whole ting pretty enjoyable. The puzzles were head-scratchers, but not difficult enough to have to give up and look online, which was nice, and only one of the mini games was annoyingly difficult.  On VR, I tried a game called Starship Commander: Arcade, which uses voice and eye-tracking as controls. Pretty cool, if very short, experience. I believe it was created for VR arcades (hence the name), and ported to Steam.

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  21. Posted

    That's odd. I assumed all along the b/c catalog was what was available for the current gen, because to assume otherwise didn't make sense. It takes a lot of work to make these games work on current gen, it's not just copypasta ogxboxgame.exe.

     

    Gotta say, I do not need one of these, not right away as my XBox One and my PC does the trick right now. But the price is not too bad, especially with the Canadian conversion rebate. I tend not to get fomo, but hard to ignore the hype wave right now.

     

    I wonder if Sony is going to take bath on their price now, too...

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  22. Posted

    XB1

    Tell Me Why (213 min)

     

    PC

    Complex, The (92 min)

    Crusader Kings III (1093 min)

     

    Oculus Quest

    Beat Saber (305 min)

    FitXR (122 min)

     

    Still on the narrative game kick. I played the second chapter of Tell Me Why, as well as The Complex, which is called a FMV game, but these days that just means a movie interspersed with choices. The lead is played by Michelle Mylett, Katy from Letterkenny, one of my favorite shows, so that's pretty cool. And as far as an indie movie goes, it wasn't terrible.

     

    And, CK3 is finally out, so I expect that will be on my list for the next few weeks. There's something about building a medieval empire and then making sure your heir isn't a bumbling idiot or that your realm isn't split 13 ways between family members when you die. Good times.

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  24. Posted

    16 hours ago, carlsson said:

    Congratulations! Then again that is 12 hours of video games per pound you've lost. I don't know what the going rate is for an exercise bike, cross-trainer or traditional boxing training. Also it depends on how intense you're going, I suppose.

    The main goal is to do something that gets me off my butt, the weight loss is secondary, but nice.  I did other activities for exercise before this year, but they weren't nearly as fun. I still look forward to Beat Saber time, can't say the same about the exercise bike...

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