Yes, sort of. I absolutely hate the visual artifacts from TAA and from upscaling, which are both much more commonly used in UE5 games.

I’m also much more likely to try custom-engine games, just because I think people making their own engines is pretty cool ! I have only implemented very basic stuff myself, but it was very interesting to do !

6-people on the Animal Crossing game is peak gaming (two on the gamepad) 😯

It works pretty well on Linux for me, but I’m really waiting for the Steam Controller because that trackpad is just kinda trash compared to what Valve makes x) also I need more back buttons, the DualSense Edge has only two and the placement isn’t great

Can you tell me which games so I can try them ? ☺️

Yah so dont use it ! Use Nix instead.

Making the bait more appealing doesn’t make this any less of a trap than Xbox game pass.

Say no to subscriptions !

If I can’t buy the games on PC I’m not gonna buy them at all. The PS5’s controller is cool I guess, except the only game using it correctly are Astro’s Playroom and Astro Bot… (which gives me flashbacks to Nintendo Land all over again)

They use WINDOWS on this thing ? Do yourself a favour and install either Linux or one of the BSDs…

If char is pronounced “care” then surely arr is pronounced “urr”

I checked out of Fortnite when the brand partnerships started. I really liked the first few seasons though…

It felt like the game had a strong identity that was challenging PUBG’s nonsense. No complicated inventory, just 5 slots. 1 or 2 weapons per category with very well defined playstyles, no incomprehensibly complicated weapon mod system on top. Building is very cool and raises the skill ceiling so high too !

And the style was cartoony and silly : you don’t get cars, you get shopping carts ! Characters have no voices, the “laugh” is a donkey sound !

But when the brand deals started coming, they started wilfully throwing away their identity to replace it with recognizable IP. So I quit.

I buy my games used at the store ! Sometimes that’s even better value than Steam sales !

The result looks more like a photograph than the input, that’s all I’m saying. I absolutely agree that every important aspect of the image is getting destroyed !

What a creative new form of DRM !

Recycling that actually works.

Next they will mandate a “race” field, and the same kind of imbecile will implement it.

Yes ! They will unironically send you messages full of “it’s not X, it’s Y” and use lists everywhere when it’s not appropriate at all 😅 It’s amazing to me that they think they are still writing in a perfectly normal way

Yes, but MMOs spend that time on the 1% of players that bring in over 50% of the revenue. Not on a feature everybody hates, and that doesn’t make money, just because NVIDIA says so.

I think the NVIDIA people just saw that it’s «more realistic» and that was good enough for them. And, to be fair, it is.

But they are so drunk on AI that they missed the inconsistencies, the fake imaginary lights, the impossibility of controlling the result, the random addition of makeup, the fact it fucks up color balance and contrast…

And the COST !? Two 5090s when most people couldn’t even afford one !? Even if the results were perfect, just forget about it ! No sane developer will spend any money on a feature less than 1% of their players will even experience, let alone enjoy.

As much as this sucks, it exists because a (stupid) person put (misguided) effort into it, and there was still something valuable in that.

Digital Foundry somehow still praises it 🤦🏻‍♀️