In fairness, I do think HZD is one of those games you have to actually get past the start of before it gets good. The opening is very heavily scripted, typical Sony game material. Once it opens up, though, it's fantastic. Especially as you begin finding more weapons and can fine-tune your strategy against individual robots. Especially against bigger robots, it has that same learning curve as MH. You go from feeling like an enemy is almost insurmountable and surviving encounters with them through over-reliance on resources and brute force to being able to elegantly dispatch them without a second thought. Like MH, that change is less about better materials than it is learning the strengths and weaknesses of your enemy. I've not had a moment like that in The Witcher 3. The combat in that game is purely functional, and amounts to little more than stamina management and a basic willingness to learn dodge timing. Not terrible (like some people insist it is), but not memorable, either.
TW3 is absolutely better-written, though, and the worldbuilding is more organic and less reliant on the lazy method HZD tends to rely on (scattering notes and data logs everywhere, as if people run around just sort of naturally shedding short diary entries wherever they go).
HZD also has a mount system that's halfway between BotW and TW3, and it's better than both, imo.
That’s because Witcher 3 is an RPG. Same reason Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Skyrim and other RPGs don’t have crazy combat systems, and nobody complains, nor does it stop them from being some of the most beloved games in existence. Stamina management and learning dodge timing is 10x what you get in most games of the genre, and so by that I say it’s set a gold standard.
Not to mention the incredible world which is second to none, writing and story which is second to none, wide variety of gameplay from detective work to monster hunting, fighting bandits, bosses, romancing, partying (On more than one occasion I spent at least half an hour drinking and talking, playing games, etc), attending weddings and feasts, exploring dungeons... it never gets old because there’s just so much to do and it’s all fun. Fact I could just ride around that game and have fun without even doing anything. And all of that is what makes an RPG great. It has it in every single aspect where it counts. And, it has some of the absolute best side quests and expansions of any game I’ve played in my entire life... I see now why Hearts of Stone got perfect scores. It’s incredible. And shifts the tone dramatically. More upbeat, light-hearted, yet more grim and dark at the same time. Just, with smaller, more personal stakes.
Tried downloading DOOM Eternal. Says COMING SOON. Seems like preload is a no go. Which is fine. Not really in a rush to play it since I’d rather have the Switch version out where I can jump back and forth (ideally with save data but that’s not going to happen- just being able to play either at will would be preferred though- rather start when I have both at my disposal).
whats the difference between a free game and free to play game on steam ?
A free game is regular game that has been discounted at 100% off.
A Free-to-play game is microtransaction hell.
@CanisWolfred how much money is a microtransaction hell ? a serious question...
Microtransactions are a form of recurrant monitezation, so...all of your money, potentially, if you're not careful and fall for a myriad of tactics that many F2P games employ, even the "good" ones that aren't as obvious and agressive about it. Ultimately, they're designed to encourage the player to spend money, and most of those games probably would have (and certain cases, used to have) a subscription service, but that model ultimately proved to be less profitable than most F2P models, because there's no limit on how much the user could spend (unless you live in a country that enforces a spending limit on games).
I'm just saying, Free-to-play games are only "free" for no other reason than to cast the widest net possible as its creator hunts for the next big fish. Buyer beware.
I've tried Windows 10 Game Bar, OBS, and Elgato to varying degrees of success. Essentially I manage to get snippets of good footage, but for all of these performance takes a noticeable hit after 20 mins or so of gameplay - with video beginning to stutter and/or music beginning to glitch out.
Unfortunately I only have the one PC so cannot capture from a second PC.
@Dezzy I haven't seen the end of Alyx yet (trying to wait and see if I can get the chance to play it), but the end of HL2 Episode 2 also heavily suggested they were working on a sequel 13 years ago...
@Link-Hero Thanks for the suggestion. I've actually tried my Elgato (HD60 S+) capture device, but as I'm using it to record on the same PC I assume it's adding a fair amount of processing in the background.
So far I'd say the best option seems to be the Windows 10 Game Bar.
Strangely recording seems fine for the first 20 or so mins. Could it be that some other background processes are popping up and slowing things down as my gameplay progresses?
Yeah and they WERE working on a sequel at that time. It just ended getting scrapped.
The ending to Alyx is a bit more revealing though, because it's something they really didn't need to do, unless they were planning on a sequel to Episode 2.
OBS is the best software based screen recorder I've used. Seems to have a very limited impact on performance. You do need to play with all the settings though!
Forums
Topic: PC Gaming
Posts 1,041 to 1,060 of 2,190
Please login or sign up to reply to this topic