Yes, but also no. Companies that sell skins are less interested in making them marketable, because they don’t get a cut. Steam gets a cut of sales through steam, so letting people buy and sell works out GREAT for them, but a game maker that lets people sell the skins gets nothing, while valve gets a cut. Instead, game…

Let me note that me throwing out 30W was because that is what the higher performance handhelds (like the ROG Ally) use while plugged in, and is the absolute high mark for power draw, not because it’s a thing that’s actually happening. 

At best, we’ll see something like Steamdeck performance, and that costs $500. Comparing a Series S, which sells for $300 but is MUCH bigger, draws more power, doesn’t include a screen, and is sold at a loss, is, well. You know. It’ll be a huge improvement over the Switch, but it’s not ever going to happen to get…

I mean, it would be nice, but it’s a handheld that sells for $300. Making things portable dramatically scales back performance, and keeping it affordable further does that. The good news is it’s going to be WAY better in significant ways than a PS4 CPU or GPU, but the bad news is that it’ll be severely throttled to…

Confusion and angst? No, you blankwads, it was UNDERSTANDING and ANGER. 

While it’s super annoying that Valve called their exposure adjusting stuff HDR, it’s still really excellent and useful tech.

I don’t know who, and I don’t know in what context, but I do know from this that SOMEONE is a nightmare to work with.

lol, sorry.

I had the exact opposite reaction (though I agree his voice is sexy AF), where I was like, oh, damn, Adam Jensen is in the game, and my brain kept adding “I didn’t ask for this” anytime I got a Sam Coe disliked this message. I love his voice, but it got too cemented in my brain from Deux Ex, and now it’s tough to…

Yeah, and honestly, piloting and ship design are much bigger quality of life improvements, because your ship sucks at fights and also at hauling cargo, so being able to get B and C tier ship components just makes the whole...you know, SPACE section of the game better.

Could be. It would also feel like a total copout, and I really hope that they don’t follow that boring path

I’m afraid that the internet has thoughts on this, and I have no idea who is right. There are a good number of articles encouraging NG+ and others encouraging doing side missions before NG+

Same.

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Yup, absolutely. DLSS3 is really incredible, but my 3080 can’t use it. They are doing great work to keep the tech advancing, but they are less interest in that tech helping everyone and more interested in raising prices on new cards and requiring them.

It’s really a stark difference much of the time. If you can’t tell the difference: fucking great. Some people claim not to see the difference between a UHD disc and a 4k stream. Awesome for them! FSR has such prevalent flickering issues that it is a constant distraction. This is true on 4k Quality, and only gets worse…

I mean, that’s fair, but anyone at the sub $300 range is stuck at the best you can get for what you have. At 300, it’s which game is 60fps on medium vs which game is 50fps, and at 600-whatever, it’s what looks the best at 100+fps. Both are absolutely reasonable gauges, but also a different scale.

Yup, that’s an important clarification. The great things about FSR is that it’s card agnostic.

Seems about right. Mostly it seems to be: a Bethesda RPG. I like that, though I have found them less and less wonderful with each iteration (well, FO4 was better than 3). I’m mostly bummed how much the exploration has been nerfed. Guys...that’s your key thing!

I can’t say enough how friggin’ STUPID the conversation between Hera and the council was. Hera is a general, and can’t manage to make a rational argument for tracking the giant hyperspace engines that were being smuggled by Imperial loyalists? She can’t make a rational argument without resorting to childish emotional…