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I read somewhere that DX12 helped a lot for emulators, increasing performance by nearly 40% or so. Not sure where it stands on standard AAA titles

I've decided to play through all of the Mass Effect games, and I've already started now with the first one. I'm 10 hours in and the game is fun so far. I don't remember there being unlimited ammunition in Mass Effect 2, though. What happened to that?
I'm really digging the lore and the story too. There's so much to do and read around in the Codex, it makes me overwhelmed to read through each and every single entry. Anything I examine ends up in the Codex, lol. I'll slowly read through them, one by one.
The graphics still look good, despite being 8 years old. And I can't decide between wanting to have the film grains or not. They sometimes add to the atmosphere and sometimes they look better without it. I just can't make up my mind. I've left it on for now.
 
The story and lore are a large part of why the Mass Effect series are my favorite games of all time. They explain at the beginning of Mass Effect 2 what's up with the weapons. They still have unlimited ammo but they need thermal clips to dissipate heat. I don't think I've ever liked film grain in anything. I hope you have all the DLC as it really adds to the games.
 

^That. I'm sure games that were made with DX12 in mind would show better results.

I finished Superhot a few hours ago. It was short. Much shorter than Firewatch. It was fun while it lasted, which I think was a couple of hours. There's an endless mode after you complete the main game too, which I haven't tried out yet.
 
I don't see the appeal of Superhot frankly. If I want to play a game with lots of time manipulation, I want it to have real life immersion and a fairly good story.

This game to me looks very repetitive and shallow, which is probably why it's so short. It looks like a physics demo using red manikins. LOL
 
It never interested me either. I just thought I'd give it a go anyway and I ended up liking it.
It has a weird and creepy sort of story. These devs made a demo, which you can play through a browser (except Chrome). You could try it out and see if you like it yourself.
https://superhotgame.com/play-prototype/
Max Payne does a much better time manipulation scheme better than any, and Max Payne 3 was pure fun in that aspect.
 
Took a break from Fallout 4 for the moment went back to playing Star Trek Online. Automatron should be a nice distraction, but I really want Far Harbor since it adds more quests.

No Man's Sky has caught my attention at the moment; it is scheduled for release on June 21, 2016.
 


On that we can def agree. I also thought it was very immersive and offered great challenge. Only thing I didn't really like was too many unskippable cutscenes with flashy effects that were just annoying.

 

more from betheda's same page talking about Automatron and hunting down the evil robots:
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i saw another article talking about short "bounty" type missions. i'm guessing they're not hyping the quest aspect because they're very short, just go and kill, quests.

 
Got this too :)

[video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMY0IETkDrU"][/video]

No AntAgonizer though. I wonder if he's feuding with another super villain this time around?
 


Yeah it sounds like just parts scavenging to me, via killing robots. I probably won't go back to chatting about and playing the game until Far Harbor, that looks good to me.

Truth be told I was so put of by pretty much same outcome in each ending that I got distracted by Dying Light The Following and have been playing it instead. I haven't even bothered trying the Institute ending yet.

 
I have been playing GTA - San Andreas Multiplayer for a while now, being a admin keeps me pretty active and interested in the online server.

Other then that, I try to play every game that comes across me, such as the new Just Cause, In my opinion it was not as good as the second game, it lacked large cities, the only real stunts you would do are with vehicles who's handling are not that great. and the story took a path more fake then before.

I am very very very excited about the new Mafia 3 game.

I had got the new Tomb Raider as a torrent, purchased in steam and put in my steam folder, Unfortunately it did not work like previous games, this is the only way I can install games like this due to my slow/limited internet at home, but once I figure it out, I am sure I wont be disappointed in one of the best continuing series.
 
Just started playing Batman Arkham Knight last night. I know, late to the party. LOL

I'm finding with a few file edits the game looks and runs better than I'd anticipated. The only strange thing is, it behaves like it has a memory leak, with increasingly worse hitching after an hour or so of gameplay. When I open Task Manager with the game minimized though, it's always well below 5GB RAM usage. I've been too lazy to try running Afterburner to look for spikes while in game though. For now, restarting every hour or so keeps it in check.

Gameplay wise though, I can see why many complain about it. I expected lots of tank battles, but it seems going with cape and boots isn't even enough inside of buildings. I'm beginning to think this Batman can't even take a crap without driving the Batmobile into the batroom and ejecting himself. LOL
 
I have all the Batman games just because they gave everything to people who bought Arkham Knight ( it came with my 980 Ti ) after it was a broken mess. I won't ever play any of them most likely. I got Arkham Origins in a sale or Humble Bundle a couple of years ago and managed to sit through 3 hours of it before I uninstalled the game. It just bored the crap out of me and since I'm not a comic book fan I wasn't compelled by the story either. Too much of a repetitious button pusher.
 
Well, just found out after some searching that the memory issue seems virtual memory related, or page file. The thing is I already have a fairly large 14.5GB page file located on a partition on the edge of my WD Black 1TB, which clocks at 180Mb/s.

Maybe I'll try increasing the partition size to 16 or 20 GB. Seems very excessive though.
 
That's excessive. I haven't used a pagefile of more than 1GB since I got my first SSD in 2010. If you have 8GB or more of RAM it shouldn't be necessary.
 
I used a program called 'CacheBoost' for GTA V since it too had a memory leak issue and it would stutter like crazy after 30 minutes in or so. After using this tool, I could play for more than an hour without noticeable stutter. It didn't eliminate the issue, but it just let me play longer. Maybe it can work for Batman too?

https://steamcommunity.com/app/271590/discussions/0/611703999978225967/
 
The pagefile size is usually(system managed) set to your RAM amount to mirror it. I have the pagefile on the SSD so it's fast. The complaints on Arkham Knight's performance are kind of overblown though. It's definitely playable and didn't encounter any game-breaking bugs and the graphics are pretty good. I finished all Batman games. IMO Asylum > City > Origins > Knight pretty much in order of release lol.
 
I've set mine to 1GB since 2010 when I started using an SSD as a primary drive. Mostly to reduce reads and writes but also because you lose the size of the page file on the drive it's on. Back when I had a 120GB SSD losing more than 1 GB was terrible. Now that I'm mechanical drive free with 1TB+ of SSDs it's not a big deal anymore. But with 8GB of RAM or more you literally don't need anymore than the bare 400MB minimum. There are odd games that require more though. I can't remember what it was but I distinctly remember one game made me increase it.
 
had talked to a few people with access to the beta Automatron claiming you had to be lvl 20 and then radio broadcasts from the new DLC would commence.
my New Game from last week is only lvl 17 but this morning i have run into a hell of a battle out in the middle of the Commonwealth. two factions of robots fighting with crazy laser weapons and a few humans helping one side. by the time i blasted one side down there was only a single chappie style robot left that was very friendly. now Mechanist quests have begun.

was definitely worth it to start a new game. i had forgotten almost all of the small stories already and it's nice to perfect my weapons & character a bit more this time physically and perk-wise.
 
I haven't got to fallout 4 yet, I'm still working on fallout 3 and NV, but I just started playing ARK this weekend. It is a great game. There are a lot of great elements to it. I'm hoping the devs fix a couple of the more glaring problems. If they do this might be the best game I have played this year.
 
I just completed Mass Effect and it took me 25 hours. What a game!
I decided not to play the DLCs though. I just couldn't bring myself to it. Main story was pretty straightforward, but well delivered. I loved the surprising twists put forward as you progressed to the end. I could never predict any of it. Your choices really had a big effect on the game, or perhaps even the whole series, as far as I know...yet.
I went for a full paragon path and now I've imported my character to Mass Effect 2 and I'm now an hour in. The story seems to weave in just fine, and I'm really happy with it.
Decision spoilers (Mass Effect):
-Convinced Wrex and did not kill him.
-Ashley was KIA
-Romanced Liara
-Council died with Anderson now being the new head
 
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