games

did not deserve to win game of the year

Thank God it wasn't Elden Ring

I was worried they'd give it to them

since they won nothing

Hell yeah, the baby game won goty, gaming is saved

would unironically be kino

baeltus

W

I got that too

Installed

wukong added boss rush mode

:D

since this happened just now i wonder if they were saving until after TGA and could of released it if it magically goty (but i suspect they knew they wouldnt)

They mentioned it at TGA

so I imagine they waited

https://weibo.com/6603744955/5111567333196223 The CEO of Game Science, the studio that made Black Myth Wukong, wrote his GOTY speech 2 years ago

It had to be approved by the ccp first

I guess best Game Direction wasn't 2nd place this year since Astro Bot got it as well

I completed A Short Hike, that's now an Archipelago option

the game is fine

im only probably 45%~ through it but; really really good srpg by the gfl devs, remake of their first doujin game it was suppoused to come out like 3 years ago but it only came out this year and i forgot about it. its also funny because you can see all the GFL2 mechanics they ripped from this, including 1:1 debuffs buffs and stats for some stuff its definitely not for most people though the stealth missions are like puzzles with 1-3~ solutions and I think most people will probably hate that quite a bit its also really unique in that not like xcom/fe with permadeath but more just a story game with mission clears, but its mecahnics are pretty unique and I can't think of another SRPG that does it like this. instead of army v army, its your 2-4 units vs 15-150+ units with reinforcements every few rounds, and your units arent any stronger, often theyre weaker, so you setup tripwires, throw teargas, hide turrets, duck in and out of stealth in the trees to pick off hundreds of enemies. the first srpg I've played to nail guerilla warefare perfectly.

of course

spooky has like half the the entire steam store on his wishlist

Reverse Collapse looked good, mostly because there's not been many FireEmblem games outside of really rough indies made in SRPG maker

I'm sketchy on whether I'd like the small group vs huge army

its definitely a lot less fire emblem/xcom than i was expecting

i actually do not know how to describe it its very unique

gureilla warfare bloonsTD fire emblem xcom

I have a feeling he didn't understand the gameplay

liar didn't play for 90 hours

this extraction game has a free playtest thing going on for the next 2 weeks

The developer's previous largest game before this https://starhorse.sega.jp/shpocket/

regarding how my PC graphics are messed up, why would a game run better with antialiasing enabled?

because it's a GPU post-processing effect that applies first, before more intensive GPU post-processing effects and some CPU ones

AA is the literal first, followed by DoF and motion blur, then all the color and light ones

shadows, SSAO, and fog etc. get applied last

but why does removing part of the pipeline make it less performant overall?

because it smoothes edges so if something looks for edges its not finding 3452394402390 edges

its finding like 1000

^

thats a very very very simple way of putting it

k\

it makes shadows much easier on your GPU

thansk for the explanation

tbh, shadows are like 90% of the intensive processing, ignoring stuff like path tracing

in a well optinmized game itd be less of an issue

at this point every game i just run ultra everything shadows high

or medium

because it looks better and runs at 240fps

if i bump shadows up 1 i instantly get like half fps sometimes

its retarded

Indiana Jones is weird Max, I've never seen better shadow maps

but then with full path tracing, it all goes to shit

i mean, i shoudlnt need 160-240 fps, but devs also shouldnt be sacrafcing like 200% performance

for shadows

yup

I feel like shadows are also barely impactful

bad volumetric fog is the worst performance drain

raytracing has killed shadows as a tech because no one wants to make manual shadows anymore

but even slightly high-rez shadows are just not worth it

visually, you can make more stunning scenes by manually tweaking shadows heavily and darkening areas just enough

^

people have forgotten that completely

but its cheaper, faster, and you can put RAYTRACING ON IT!!! if you just have it all raytraced from sources

forced perspective and shadows is 100000x better

so everything now is super accurate, but bland

than "realistic" lighting

nothing hurts more than openig a modern tripple a game, having a flashlight or moving lightsource, and the lightsource moving makes giant ass shadows through the chair and anything with holes