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STEAM | August 2016 - No Man's Sky will leave Mankind Divided
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This is a really poor way of reading into percentages.
Things to keep in mind - Steam has a shit ton of users. At this point, counting all the abandoned and spam accounts (which will be present here) you're looking at well over 200 million user accounts. For perspective, in 2014 when Ars did their Steam Guage, there were over 171 million users.
Steam then has a shit ton of users with practically 0 buying potential, playing only 1-10 games. That actually makes up the brunt of Steam. When you talk about 10% with GTX 9xx / 10xx cards - they do not only cater to them alone, they cater all the way down to the GTX6xx or even GTX 4xx series of cards. That will constitute well over 10% of all users. Considering just how many Steam accounts exist at this point and that spread of cards and spec in general - and the large amount of people happy to play with lower end systems with even these bigger titles - there is some sense in there, and as sales data shows, people indeed buy. No doubt part of the big factor for pubs/devs is the sizeable increase in return per sale, even with a cheaper price to consoles. Even with a lower sales total than other platforms, Steam / other stores are no slouch
Jawmuncher
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If you ever want to see sadness, look at FFXV on Xbox One. I wouldn't wish it on anyone.
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Rainbow Six: Siege AKA How Did My Gun Get This Cute is pretty great.
A fantasy based on reality. Some peple said this looks better than Witcher 3.
LOL. The IQ of that game is worse than that of a person with cataracts seeing the Witcher 2
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but witcha 2 looks pretty good -___-
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Galak-Z is on the humble bundle, I remember buying it at launch, played for 2 hours and never touched it again ...
whats in the dlc?
whats in the dlc?
Eh, it doesn't look that pretty compared to some of the other stuff out there, but as long as the story's good and it's fun to play, I can give that a pass. Just like with people, a plain-looking game can win you over if it's stylish and has personality.
Nyteshade517
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Well, stating to that leak, the story is bland and the gameplay...well, I don't want to say garbage, but that combat system sucks.
Check the 50 minutes video, there are no spoilers (just skip the first two minutes to be sure), it doesn't look so funny to play to me.
Even the old Versus XIII trailer looks much better than this (I know, dev kit, but still an hardware very close to PS3)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiIx9VJWSl8
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
I'm sorry. I'm so, so sorry.
Wait - It's Gamescom! Where are all the PC games at?!
.. that's the joke - cataracts (magnitudes worse eyesight) + Witcher 2 (amazing looking game from years passed) still looks better than FFXV's IQ
I probably tried too hard with that one
.. that's the joke - cataracts (magnitudes worse eyesight) + Witcher 2 (amazing looking game from years passed) still looks better than FFXV's IQ
I probably tried too hard with that one
i'll take my share of the blame, i'm very bad at jokes
also btw i understand where ppl are coming from about ff15, but is it worth it to be so focused on jaggies and stuff when it's not gonna be like that on pc (is it gonna be on pc?)
i personally have more issues with the game itself not looking very fun even if i kind of love the idea of boy band road trip
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My bet is that the "real" FFXV is being built for PS Neo, then later you get the Xbox Scorpio version that is DX12 driven (as with the prior tech demos that were done), and that is what is ported to PC
But yeah, the game itself is the real problem as much as we like to joke. I am yet to properly play an FF game. FFVII is a bit too dated to enjoy (plus I've had most of it spoiled at this point for being so far behind). Any recommendations where to start via Steam?
Nyteshade517
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my 1070 uses Samsung memory
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Well I sure hope not, my Gigabyte 1070 has Micron memory... no problems so far though.
EDIT: Apparently it isn't a 100% return rate, the return rate is 0.1% but there is a 1:1 return rate between OEM/Aftermarket cards, so MSI believes it is an NVIDIA issue, not a production issue on their part.
Well, according to the leak - and that one has been proven correct so far - they aren't even thinking of that at the moment
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1233181
From the steamgames either try FFIX or X. IX is overall better and closer the classics imho, but X is more modern.
Now go do something fun to celebrate!Nah, FFXV was running only on high-spec PC and SE ported it only later on console (this is the reason why old videos look better than new ones, because they started releasing console footaage only recently), I think Tabata didn't even know about Neo, I remember he said so in an interview.
honestly i don't think ff7 is too dated. yeah character models are really bad and the translation is kind of rough but honestly i think the game aged pretty well. the characters and story and world and music and all that are still pretty good, probably less impressive than at the time but still the best one on steam.
if you're not against emulators i'd recommend tactics and 6 as games that also aged really well
AAA devs make games for "only 10 percent" of Steam population because that's the market for AAA games on PC. Don't forget that the third highest GPU is an intel integrated one, and so are 5th and 6th. These aren't people that are even in the ballpark for AAA games.
Half are on CPUs with 2 cores or less and nearly 40 percent have 4GB or RAM or less. 25 percent are on 768p monitors. Now, a lot of these are crossovers, but that means at bare minimum, at least 40 percent of the steam marketplace is off the table, period for an even remotely demanding game.
So suddenly that 10 percent of that 60 that are possibly viable is a lot more attractive. It is a 10 percent that spends money on AAA products.
Half are on CPUs with 2 cores or less and nearly 40 percent have 4GB or RAM or less. 25 percent are on 768p monitors. Now, a lot of these are crossovers, but that means at bare minimum, at least 40 percent of the steam marketplace is off the table, period for an even remotely demanding game.
So suddenly that 10 percent of that 60 that are possibly viable is a lot more attractive. It is a 10 percent that spends money on AAA products.
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It's probably the most dated game visually in the entire series.
Older, sprite-based games, upscale to arbitrary resolutions cleanly with sharp pixels. Games on PS2 and later all look solid via emulation or native PC ports.
The pre-rendered backgrounds of FF7, terrible models, and cgi can't be fixed by emulation or native PC ports. The latter Ps1 Final Fantasy titles don't quite suffer to the extent of FF7.
Total Biscuit put out a good (and long) video about NMS, I pretty much agree on everything he said
No Man's Sky Mods are now available for PC to fix a lot of the crap:
Amongst many others.
- Internal Resolution Multiplier - Fixes the default upscaling! I believe 2x is 1:1. Increasing your multiplier will hurt your framerate
- Fast Actions - Removes the 'hold timer' for UI actions. Everything is instant.
- Fast Into Screen - Speeds up splash screens at launch.
- Chromatic Aberration + Vignetting + Scan Lines Removal - Removes all the post effects some people might find annoying. This one is a matter of taste.
- Instagram Filter Remover - Removes the hazy color glow effects, also a matter of taste.
- ShutUp - Disable "Low" exosuit audio warnings.
- NoHUD - Toggle HUD - Enable/Disable the HUD by pressing F5. Useful for taking screenshots.
- +15 Trainer - Useful if you want to just mess around with your game.
- Blur Filter Removal - Removes the DOF filter
Amongst many others.
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
Why did you cherry pick those requirements?
970 1080p 60fps master race
But fuck Windows store
Terrible models? U TAKE THAT BACK
I have a HD mod, somewhere. It basically changes up all the assets to look... pretty great. Just can't remember which external it is on from years back, now stuck in the attic.
the atmosphere and design is still really good so idk, if it's a resolution thing, then like the music in ff7 is like midis or something but it's still iconic af
in the end you don't play these games for the resolution on the character model textures, if u want that you can play ff12 and bore urself to death at generic whatshisname on his pirate adventures
you play ff7 cos it's got a fun story with fun characters and an awesome universe and all of that is still there, even if the character models are hilariously bad
lmaoTerrible models? U TAKE THAT BACK
also personally i find these adorable
why would you want a boring tall anime cloud when you have blocky mc block with his floating fingerless concrete arms and shit
Baron von Loathsome
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Dang, this is pretty impressive. Their experimental patches seem to be flying out pretty quickly too.
UcchedavÄda
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Probably for the same reason (most) people don't want to see a story that's meant to be taken seriously acted out by a bunch of finger puppets or Sanrio characters.
well it's a known fact most people are wrong
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Did someone say something bad about puppets
Somewhere, Gerry Anderson is smiling.
freshVeggie
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Happy borthday.
Neat! Will try out.
Let's see if there will be a similar case like QB.
Did someone say something bad about puppets
wow, this is looking cool. What's that from?
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