games

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

probably assumed he was halfway through since it's about 90-100 hours on hard difficult

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

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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

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

what epic super shitty raytracing implementation in the modern year

when we had figured out how to make this look good 10 years ago

wow!

I guess shadows is closest ambient occlusion here

I feel like Witcher 4 is going to be the game a lot of people realize that on since it's moving off the Red Engine and is instead UE5 slop W3 had such great lighting, everything was fire-lit and the sun cast these really warm scenes when it rose/set moonlight was cool

there's just no way that's going to work with modern raytracing

oh itll be orange spooky

itll be the supppper nice

ue5 orange

that every ue5 game has for """"sunsets"""

it's strange that you've had performance issues in games recently, that game doesn't strike me as one that looks super demanding

its not bad unl;ess I have a youtube video playing at the same time

i turned off antialiasing to see if that fixed it and it became unplayable

actually it was youtube as well as an interactive map that froze rendering every time I clicked into it

Nikki was unplayable whatever settings I set

I just put textures on highest and its running fine now

basedbasedbasedbasedbasedbased

Kamiya remains one of the best devs to tweet. Constantly just shitting on people who ask him stuff even if it's not retarded

the shit new va is staying lol

for ciri

the weirdest part to me is they changed her VA in all languages

if it was just the ENG one, they could cope and say it's because the current VA is "too old" or w/e

whens joseph andersons witcher 4 vid