Oh no.

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Yeah, ironically it's the card combat that makes it a pass for me. I just can't take more card games.

Story, dialogue etc. is something I lost any hope for long ago. It's pretty much a mandatory skip. HoMM and MM were just right in that department, and they don't make it look difficult, but apparently what they did is borderline impossible to achieve. Kind of like a decently performing 3D game that doesn't implode on itself.

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I feel it's pretty safe to compare Ross to The Terminator at this point.

"Ross would never stop. It would never leave gaming. It would never hurt gaming, never shout at gaming, or get drunk and hit gaming, or say it was too busy to spend time with gaming. It would always be there. And it would die to protect gaming. Of all the would-be gamers who came and went over the years, this thing, this Ross was the only one that measured up. In an insane world, it was the sanest choice."

See? It works.

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Looks like getting ready to be subsumed by Aspyr? Mythforce didn't seem to do well, their other internal projects got cancelled, and after all the layoffs it started feeling... eerily quiet at Beamdog. The Android versions of their rpg re-releases have been pretty much abandoned, you can't even install PST if you're on newer Android, but it does look like Mythforce is still being updated.

Edit: NWNEE got updated on Android a month ago - that's after... almost 2 years of silence on that platform?

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But I suppose a theoretical RTX 5060 ti with 12GB of VRAM and a $400 launch price ($550 Canadian) might get me to move some shekels.

I think I'll wait until this industry starts to optimise their games again. Or implodes properly, and starts learning.

I mean, upscaling tech is the primary selling point of your overpriced consumer hardware. Ray tracing is the secondary selling point. These two combined is Laurel and Hardy shenanigans. Yeah, no. Thanks.

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For the past few years I've been considering an upgrade, but there's just no point with the quality and quantity of AAA releases, most of which I'm not interested in at the end of the day. So, the grand total of 3 games I'd want to play from the past few years that don't run well for me, and the few more that may or may not appear up until then I'll likely enjoy on a Steam Deck 2 in a few years, and that'll be that.

I'm not exactly complaining, but it is funny how the target audience for your high-end GPU is not necessarily what you'd call a hardcore gamer, but really the casual crowd who wants their FCs and GTAs, and CoDs to... just run out of the box.

I'll be in the corner over there playing some more Dwarf Fortress all day everyday on my 20W device. Weird times.

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Quoting: kuhpunktI hope they will fix the bundle price, lol.

If you already own Remake, you should get a bigger discount...

They lowered the price on the first one, so that's your discount.

But I already have the first one.

Same here. Early buyers get fleeced, always. I guess 'early' in the case of FF7R means all buyers not getting all of them when the third one is on a deep discount.

Unless you want that pre-order materia, that is. Major dick move to counterbalance that part 1 discount.

Quoting: PhlebiacI'm a little confused / didn't follow what was happening very well. Do I have it right that they are remastering the original Final Fantasy VII, but it's getting split into 3 parts, and this is the second of the three? Or is the remaster complete, and this is a new continuation of the original story?

I know the original VII was highly regarded as one of the best (never played much of the series except for X myself; too many games and too little time), but it seems like they are milking it quite a bit?

It re-tells (and expands etc.) the original. It won't be complete until the final, 3rd, game, but it's already much longer than the original FF7. If you fly through FF7 in 40 hours you'll probably be spending longer just in Part 1 alone, but even if some people argue it's bloat there are legitimate reasons for at least part of this as well (text boxes in THAT ye olde jrpg style vs proper voiced dialogue, character work you need with increases overall fidelity, and all that entails).

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Quoting: kuhpunktI hope they will fix the bundle price, lol.

If you already own Remake, you should get a bigger discount...

They lowered the price on the first one, so that's your discount.

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Quoting: JarmerInteresting that CDPR partnered with a 3rd party to do this update. I wonder why. Maybe they're helping them with other games right now and it was something to fill a short downtime?

I don't think the concept of downtime exists in outsourcing. I'd guess cheap labour is somewhere on the list of reasons, if not chief among them.

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Quoting: Linux_RocksThe remasters on Battle.net come with the originals too. So I'm not surprised that they're doing this. It's a shame, but it was a matter of when it'd happen.

Are they bundling in the DOS originals? Because if they're not those remasters do not feature the originals. The switching is limited, and what it does feature of the originals is fairly mangled.

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