Common issues are proprietary components that you can't upgrade, mismatched CPU and GPU combinations where one bottlenecks the other, single channel and/or slow RAM that causes further bottlenecks, slow and unreliable unbranded SSDs, and PSUs with insufficient power to handle upgrades that are otherwise possible.
Even if you can find one of comparable price and spec to the PC you'd like to build you'll probably end up paying more in the long run because of these issues.
That's not to say that there isn't the occasional exception to the rule, but I'd strongly advise doing your homework before buying any of them.
Has anybody here checked out Hi-Fi Rush on Steam or Xbox yet? It just shadow dropped a few days ago, and it was developed by the team that made The Evil Within. It’s gotten extremely positive reviews so far and it looks like an awesome blend of rhythm and combat action. I’ll probably pick it up once I get through my current catalog of games.
"Science compels us to explode the sun!"
Currently playing:
Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Splatoon 3
Advance Wars 1 + 2 ReBoot Camp
Mother 3 Fan Translation
Deadpool is now in Midnight Suns, and comes with like a mini story campaign along with him, that I wasn't really expecting as I thought the DLC was just new characters.
Honestly, coming back to Midnight Suns after binging Engage since release, kinda made me appreciate Midnight Suns maybe more than I did previously. I thought the Persona elements in Three Houses were complete overkill, then in Engage they are basically non-existent and I feel like Midnight Suns has found a really healthy middle ground in this regard, even if the general quality of the performances and animation is... not great. And even if this part of the game feels really out of place with everything around it.
I also think I have landed in a place where I've accepted that I just don't generally like Midnight Sun's combat model with all the randomness of the cards, and the convoluted heroism system, but there are also lots of elements to the combat model here which I think makes battles feel so much more dynamic than those in Engage. I miss in Engage being able to use my environment for extra damage, I miss combo'ing heroes together, I miss abilities which earn extra moves or allow you to chain attacks together etc Honestly, I just kinda miss abilities in Engage in general, I know Midnight Suns has a lot of crossover and at the heights of Engage when you are using like your Engage move or whatever it blows Midnight Suns out of the water, but it is kinda nice to have a moment to moment combat model where every move is an ability of some kind.
I also realised I really don't care for those dead turns in a Fire Emblem game where you are just moving Units into position, like apparently people find that stuff fun, but I actually much prefer how Suns is just a small location, the enemies are immediately in front of you and you can just get stuck in straight away.
Finished my playthrough of Midnight Suns, its weird because if I was to just list every negative and positive I had for this game, I think the negative column would be far larger. However, the positives simply outweigh those negatives for me, even if there are less of them. This game is understandably polarising, but if you vibe with it and at least enjoy more of it's disparate parts than you dislike, then I think almost everyone will have an excellent time with this. Also, whereas I usually feel super fatigued after a game these days, after like 60ish hours played or whatever it is, I could happily go back for more. The game offers both an endgame and also a New Game+. I am not usually one to NG+, but I would happily do that here and that is like the greatest praise I can offer a game. I might roll a dark male Hunter, as apposed to the light/neutral female Hunter I ran for this playthrough and try and max out the friendships of some of the heroes I used the least the first time.
Currently playing a LOT of Marvel Snap on Mobile and Cassette Beasts.
I was kinda half nervous that Forspoken's atrocious performance on my rig, along with other games like Midnight Suns which had really spotty performance too, that my PC was simply falling too far behind, but I picked up Dying Light 2 and I know it is almost a year old now, but it is an open world game which runs beautifully on my system and reminds me of how important a properly optimised PC Port is.
I have most of the settings up to max at 1440p, and with the help of DLSS I am closer to a hundred frames most of the time than I am to sixty. And I'd argue Dying Light 2 is far more dense and detailed than something like Forspoken is as well, so if I wasn't sure already, I am now basically convinced the problem is on the end of games like Forspoken and Suns, rather than on mine.
I am also enjoying DL2 as a game a lot too, albeit I am only a few hours in. I tried to the first one a bunch of times, bounced off of it every time, not even really sure why. But this sequel just feels so damn good to play - like seriously, is this the first game with first person melee combat that doesn't just feel like total ass? It also has a light loot like system and borrows heavily from the Ubisoft design school which I know are negatives for many, but for me, give me a big map with a bunch of markers and a loot based progression system and I'm basically sold, couple that with it's dialogue tree and this has basically the three pillars I need to like a videogame.
Currently playing a LOT of Marvel Snap on Mobile and Cassette Beasts.
Okay a hopefully quick question to anyone who knows and has a steam deck:
Is it easy-ish to download the Epic Games Store and games from the Epic Games Store to the Steam deck? Because I know it runs Linux, and I've tried Linux before and managed to get Epic Games installed, but whenever I ran games was when it ran into issues... Appreciate any insight on this!
It's possible to get the Epic Games Store running on Linux but it's not exactly straightforward and most games are going to have at least some issues. There are no native Linux versions on it and most won't have been tuned much for Proton either.
It might be worth it for the occasional game or two but if you've got a large library and want to play all of them you're probably better off installing Windows.
Okay so my apologies, more questions about Steam Deck: So, it takes some finagling to get Epic Games working, but once you do has anyone had issues playing games once it was installed? If they were Gold on SteamDB would they still work well even if it wasn't installed from Steam? Sorry for so many questions, just trying to figure things out because I'm interested in it but don't want to make a mistake buying it...
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