Topic: PC Gaming

If you want a new open world game on PC, I'd recommend just playing Biomutant. I think the game got a pretty unfair shake during the review circuit earlier this year and in response they patched it extensively based upon community feedback. I honestly enjoyed this game a lot. It is very much a "podcast game" but I don't think that is inherently evil. I like having a big open world I can sink some serious hours into but also one that is easy enough that I can just chill out and just ride the experience.

Alternatively, if you haven't played it, I highly recommend Far Cry 5, which I think is the best Far Cry game and by a large margin.

@Pizzamorg @PSVR_lover if I can add a suggestion I Will recommend mass effect Andromeda. The facial animations are still not perfect but way better than at launch and the core gameplay loop, setting, dialogue, etc are superb

I mean they aren't open world, but if you are going to play a Mass Effect game, you may as well play the Legendary edition of the trilogy on PC. My biggest takeaway from playing them all again this year is Mass Effect 3 is legitimately a masterpiece, we can quibble over the ending all we like, but that shouldn't take away from how ME1/2 were both effectively experimentations in the name of getting ME3 as close to perfect as they could and I just feel they nail it. The story, characters, interactions, relationships, combat - I think it is my favourite in the trilogy for sure.

In terms of Andromeda , I feel like it definitely got an unfair shake due to the expectations the ME brand has - if nothing else, I thought it was strong mechanically, even if it felt like a mostly massive step back in regards to everything else. A fun action game, with a robust skill system and nice visuals (even if a lot of the spaces are just empty) - just not the choose your own space opera we have come to expect from the franchise. I would never recommend anyone start with Andromeda, over the OG trilogy.

@Pizzamorg well I was giving a recommendation to play Andromeda not to start with Andromeda per se. I would say most people playing on PC has played the trilogy or at least the second.

Gave Rider's Republic another chance, after bouncing straight off of it when I tried it the last time. It definitely clicked more for me mechanically this time, but the multiplayer is weirdly terrible given that seems to be what the game is all about? You only get four hours in the trial and we had to sit through over an hour of tutorials and cinematics, before we could even play together and like some of this ***** was so basic. Do you really need like three paragraphs to explain what fast travel is?

Then when we finally were able to play together we couldn't just load into a full race together, we either raced one another in a boring one on one, or both ran the same race together, as the same time, but in our own solo sessions? Why?

@Balta666 It's funny you should say that, by coincidence I'm just contemplating buying the trilogy right now as I finally have a PC that can play them. I was going to buy it on PS4, but now that I have a decent PC I'm thinking that's the way I'll go.

Mass Effect games are best played on PC or, for the 3rd game, Wii U, ironically enough.

Mapping mouse to gyro is chef’s kiss in those games. It works flawlessly. HDR works well, 4K 60fps is top notch. The Wii U version for ME3 is actually a really good version of the game. It won’t be as pretty as the legendary edition but it does offer Gyro aiming, and the gamepad works really well commanding units. But that’s more for people who don’t have a PC.

That I completed Metroid Dread last night is perfect timing, now that Fatal Frame just released (mentioning this in the PC thread since I'm getting it on Steam).

Mildly annoyed that I am considering buying the anniversary edition of Skyrim. Been playing since day one (recently started over again) but my concern is my mods. Skyrim looks really pretty modded to death but without that… not so much. Plus I would have to recreate my standard Dragonborn that I have been using for a decade. Yet the added items sound nice. Decisions, decisions.

cant you take your save files with you? wasnt that one of the features they presented back when the game was revealed?

Yeah but only saves that haven't used mods, @6ch6ris6 .... Although since Anniversary Edition is boasting about how much "community content" it's adding, that might be most of the best mods finally put in officially

oh damn. i think i only ever used the mod where the game marks books that you already read.

Not the Unofficial Patch, @6ch6ris6 ....? Or the 1 that restores a lot of content that was mostly in the coding but not quite finished? Anyway, I'm not sure if I'll be getting Anniversary Edition yet, I'll see just how much it is & the final details on just what's in it

@6ch6ris6 My game is very heavily modded. I run over 80 mods and that doesn’t include the land texture mods. Also I am running the initial release with dlc so not the legendary edition. As almost all of my mods are either bug fixes or texture mods and inventory enhancements I don’t know if the stuff in the anniversary edition is a good trade off.

Still pretty new to PC gaming, and I've just been informed that my laptop is ready to upgrade to Windows 11.

Will doing so possibly impact performance, mess with my saves, or anything like that? Or would it hurt to stick with 10 for now?

Well, it definitely shouldn't affect saves, @RR529 .... It'd be supposed to improve performance but being in early stages, I wouldn't like to guarantee that, maybe others know how well it's working already?
Apparently, I'd have to go messing around in the BIOS to sort out mine, so I haven't done that yet & it won't upgrade until I do
It certainly shouldn't be a problem sticking with 10 to see how 11 does for a bit longer, though

Heads up, Mass Effect Legendary Edition is now on sale on Steam, $40. Might get cheaper further down the road, of course, but that's a good enough deal for me. One hell of a download, though. I might not be playing this until tomorrow at the rate it's going...

I'm still holding out hope for Mass Effect Trilogy on Switch.

But if it's not announced by the time my Steam Deck arrives, I may just play it there. Need to see battery life though. Once you get accustomed to 5-6 hrs it's hard to go back to 3. Maybe with low settings at 720p/30fps it can top 4 hrs. That would be reasonable.

I’d honestly be surprised if they could get ME running on the Switch natively, without some severe compromises. Even the original ME on the 360 barely ran well for the console it was designed for. What was the Biotic, I think it was warp, the stasis ball you could put down? You could place that and literally tank the frame rate down to single digits. With that in mind, the Leg edition I think would require more optimisation than they’d want to do, to get it to run well on the Switch.

Steam Deck delayed by 1 Quarter. So my Q2 2022 is now Q3 2022, basically a year from now. Whatever.

ATTN EVERYONE
If you're looking to get into PC gaming, or perhaps want an alternative to PS5/XSX, Newegg currently has a very good pre-built for $1250 with an Nvidia RTX 3060 GPU. It's only an Intel i5 CPU and only has 512GB NVMe storage but for $1250 that's a fantastic price to get in, especially with the GPU shortage.

https://www.newegg.com/abs-ali570/p/N82E16883360205?item=N82E...

@Pizzamorg
ME3 ran on Wii U just fine. They could do it like all the other remasters and just port it and make a few changes Switch can handle, like Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag (which ran poorly on Wii U and PS3/360 yet is flawless on Switch).

Question is whether EA will bother. We'll see.