Oh man Skyrim never dies...

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Well i can only repeat myself, but this is in it's own club for me in terms of value for money. (A bit of bragging: Just reached the hotk on 5 bsc for the first time, ofc. he disposed of me quickly... But someday I'll enter the Astrolab)

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Quoting: Mal

Quoting: M@GOidGranted, is not the same experience as playing it on a 1000 dollar discrete card, but is the same game. It IS the same game. Vanity pushes us out of our senses, to make us spend a lot of money on a system just to play a game "better than in the peasant consoles".

But consoles have historically always been a comparable "value for the money" proposition with PC. They had (and still have) super competitive entry price but then once you're they slowly and stedily siphon the flesh and the soul out of your wallet. PC had always had a steeper entry price (the hardware cost) but then it would repay itself in a few months thanks to better game prices and services. And the better performance and freedom of use would close the deal.

Now the entry prices for PC gaming are just a no no. Once you put some math on it in there is no way one can recover from that initial investment. PCs have just become the equivalent of the electric cars. A vanity luxury item just to show your status and play to be superior.

Just to be clear it's not a product issue. Both NVIDIA 4000 serie and AMD 7000 serie are awesome hardware. It's the pricing that is totally nuts. Who will buy those things? Rich people? How can they sustain a mass market with just rich guys? And if young adults continue to buy consoles since PC are unaffordables, who will buy PC games in the next years? Who will sell PC games if nobody has PC to play them?

It's not a matter of "a good iteration" followed by a "a bad iteration" followed by a "good iteration" again. We're well over the famous microsoft good/bad iterations game. One can easily check on steam that most gamers sits on the 1000 serie. It's a 7 years old serie. It's 7 years that NVIDIA and AMD don't offer a good deal. 7 years is an era in the entertainment industry. PC gamers and PC gaming are already at risk of extinction.

Well... we have the deck I guess to keep the light on. That's still PC gaming on paper. But it's not the "quintessential" implementation of PC gaming.

I usually sit on my computers for 5-10 years. I had my old laptop from 2011 to 2018 as my main PC, then built an expensive PC (about 300-400$) at the time using the new ryzen processor, which i somewhat regret to this day, since the energy saving modes are fucked up on ryzen 1. It doesn't have a single component that would've been consider 'high-spec' or whatever, maybe not even mid tier. Yet it can even run the garbage Cyberpunk game at 1080p without lags on low-medium setting.

Maybe consoles are better for people who only use their computer to play, but if thats just a component having a computer is worth it, and a decent PC is still cheaper than a quality laptop.

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Quoting: dvdIt's a bad game, and the 1.6 patch is still buggy.

If you honestly think it's a bad game (and you've actually played it) then you'd think so regardless of the very very minor bugs that may still be present since logically you can't possibly like the content itself - of whom you of course are in every right to not do, just like I never really got into Skyrim.

But don't present that opinion like it's a fact.

As for me I have ~400 hours in that game, multiple playthroughs - and I usually never play a game more than once. It's the best game I've played since... Since the Bioware heydays. I still love exploring the map, it's the first game where I *never* use fast travel. I much rather just take the bike to the destination and enjoy the travel.

Really it's not the bugs making it a bad game.
Well, the driving is totally broken (yes, like Saints Row 2 broken or even more), the gameplay is uninteresting, and what makes it even worse is all the good content - i only played it a second time since the artists and writers still clearly did the excellent job they did on the witchers - is buried under stale uninteresting gameplay. The difficulty is also broken, although to be fair that may just be a "modern game" thing, where the enemies can barely hurt you on very hard. I think the way they did the character building could be fun if your choices mattered at all. But they don't, except for maybe the brawling sidequest which is difficult to impossible to finish without investing to the corresponding abilities/attributes. I loved the main story, and most of the "bigger" side stories, but i think they hurt their game a lot by focusing on graphics - made it inaccessible for many people and they could've spent their money on more missions or creative content instead, which would've made the game a fair bit better. I had another rant about it recently, and maybe they can still fix it with the Phantom Liberty expansion/dlc, but i don't have high hopes. I'd love if enemies merging with cargo crates and the occasional rendering bug would be this games biggest problems. But it's not, it's almost everything else. Which is a shame, since the artwork and the writing is good, but the game is not.

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Quoting: BeamboomI'm just happy that CP2077 finally get some recognision for being the really good game that it is, and has been for a long time.

Yes, the consoles were given a version of the game that's been in a sea of problems. That was bad.
But the PC version has been totally playable ever since just a few patches after launch, and only improved from there. Not only bug fixes but tweaks and improvements and additional content aplenty.

And that CDPR kept cool and kept going after THAT shitstorm, well I don't see all devs able to do that.

Now we only awaits the CP2077 DLC this year - that's gonna be xmas all over again :)

It's a bad game, and the 1.6 patch is still buggy.

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Any Valve game would be cool, especially a not multiplayer one, there are not many of those with native versions. I think the Epic/GoG item is the tallest order in your list, even though for GoG it would be a no brainer since they carry so many games with native linux version anyway.

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Well that's exactly what frustrates me about it. There are story missions and characters that elevate the vibe, and highlight the good things, but outside those it just doesn't have the same grab as the Witcher. Even with that the strongest one for me definetly was the Toussaint expansion, where they nailed basically everything. As for the bugs, i played the gog version on the latest patch so i dunno, doesn't seem fixed for me. It wasn't crashy to begin with, and i haven't encountered any bugs in the earlier version so i guess i just got lucky.

I haven't played the original Deus Ex, but i played the recent one and i liked that better than CP2077.

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Quoting: dvdInteresting that Cyberpunk is still there given how buggy and frustrating game it is.

I've put 30+ hours onto that game on my Deck and have so far only encountered rather mild visual bugs.

I did a second playthrough of it on the latest patch, and ironically encountered more bugs (floating radios at main quest locations, getting lunched into the stratosphere from a motorbike, enemies fusing into cargo crates etc...) than in one of the first patches. Performance is worse too. But that is not what makes the game frustrating for me.

It's just that the cool artwork and some interesting characters are hidden in a bad game. It truly feels like you're playing just to get to the next dialouge/cinematicy moment. In the witcher 2/3 i loved those as well, but combat/free exploration was interesting in its own right.

On my second playthrough i was surprised how much less of it i remembered after 1 year gap compared to the witcher which i last played 2 years ago. I guess hype truly carries a game. I'd hope they can carry the good forward to the next and come up with something better for the rest.

It's a shame too as I think a lot of good stuff got buried in the crap game: Johnny, Judy, Panam, the the Peralez', Jackie, Goro, Misty, Viktor, Evelyn they are all interesting characters and would've been better served if they focused more on normal missions than on 'gigs' and whatever. (and they put the Johnny missions, that are some of the best at the end so so its easy to miss wtf...) I refused to do any of those in my second playthrough, simply since the gameplay is the worst part of the game. There is no difficulty, "Very hard" is a cakewalk, only "challenge" is the 1-shot snipers in maybe 2 of the late game missions. Otherwise the enemy couldn't really scratch my character, which was an anti-tank build btw.

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Interesting that Cyberpunk is still there given how buggy and frustrating game it is.

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Quoting: ExpandingManI use Manjaro on all of my personal machines and am extremely happy with it, but I have to use Ubuntu for work and, I gotta say, I am not at all happy with it lately. Not only do you lack a viable alternative to AUR but the repositories you do have are aggravatingly bare, update *waaaay* too slowly, and things have only gotten worse since they started moving things to snap. Concerns about snap are a whole other issue, but removing even the *option* of installing something with `apt` because a snap exists can be annoying.

The default configuration may work ok, but Ubuntu never seems to work right when you try to change the configuration. Try to switch to window manager, it breaks GDM somehow. Install lightdm with apt, of course it's broken on install and has to be fixed to be useful.

Even the idea that there is tons of information on ubuntu because it's so widely used doesn't seem to actually pan out. As far as I know there is nothing even close to as comprehensive as the Arch wiki, and the ubuntu wiki frequently seems badly out of date.

So, yes, Ubuntu may work well if you intend to install it, play games and never do anything else, but for day-to-day use I'm not at all happy with where it is right now.

I had to configure a wined snap for a relative once (printer driver), and it got infected with a trojan in like 2 weeks. I personally wouldn't recommend a linux distro to gamers, but would recommend debian for everyone else.

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