Games you are currently playing - Part 7

[x Tame Impala]

It’s hard for me to play these classic games because I can’t get over the huge drop off in quality of life or movement we’ve gotten over the last 20+ years.

It’s why I think Halo: Combat Evolved is one of the best games made. I can still play it today with little to no gripes and it came out 23 years ago

 

[pistolpete11]

Looking forward to some games on my list going on sale because I'm done with Elden Ring lol, I'm in the "git gud" phase and I don't have the time or patience for that. I guess I could go farm runes. Really hoping Metaphor or Cold Steel 1 goes on sale.

Played some Organ Trail yesterday, still a fun game despite it's shortcomings.

I'm replaying Elden Ring with a new character so to not go into the DLC in NG+. So far, it's been an absolute breeze, but I'm just about to head into the 'git gud' phase.

I might be overleveled or maybe I got gud from my first playthrough, but I have been messing around with my build more than I did the first time through. Paying more attention to Ashes of War, Wondrous Physick, talismans, buffs, etc. I'm not over here doing math or anything, but I think it makes a huge difference. I guess we'll see as I head into the late game.

 

[Mikeaveli]

Started Majora's Mask for the first time. Two dungeons in, I might quit. The time limit stresses me, redoing things because I had to reset the cycle is not fun. Especially with the (in 2024) wanky controls and absolutely poor framerate (yeah I know about 2Ship2Harkinian but I wanted to play it on the Switch). The atmosphere is top notch though, first two dungeons were ok but nothing ground breaking.

Thats a shame, I was replaying it a while back on PC using Zelda64Recompiled and it holds up well imo. Not sure if it's still in my all time top 5 but it's an outstanding game.

 

[Unholy Diver]

Started Astro Bot, very enjoyable so far

 

[bambamcam4ever]

Started Majora's Mask for the first time. Two dungeons in, I might quit. The time limit stresses me, redoing things because I had to reset the cycle is not fun. Especially with the (in 2024) wanky controls and absolutely poor framerate (yeah I know about 2Ship2Harkinian but I wanted to play it on the Switch). The atmosphere is top notch though, first two dungeons were ok but nothing ground breaking.

You do know how to slow down time, right?

 

[Frankie Spankie]

I got Crysis Remastered earlier this year because it was on sale for $4. Figured I'd give it a shot since I only played the original briefly years ago.

Maxed out everything with my 4090 and it looks great. I did run into an open area that still dropped my frame rate with a really powerful computer too lol

I'll see how it handles, I remember the original was really interesting to experiment with the powers to basically play as a super human in an FPS. I may have to drop some of these settings too which is sad for having the best GPU on the market and playing a 3 year old remaster...

 

[Oogie Boogie]

Started a playthrough of a game called Chernobylite. Have not really got much into it yet, but it seemed interesting.

 

[Osprey]

I got Crysis Remastered earlier this year because it was on sale for $4. Figured I'd give it a shot since I only played the original briefly years ago.

Maxed out everything with my 4090 and it looks great. I did run into an open area that still dropped my frame rate with a really powerful computer too lol

I'll see how it handles, I remember the original was really interesting to experiment with the powers to basically play as a super human in an FPS. I may have to drop some of these settings too which is sad for having the best GPU on the market and playing a 3 year old remaster...

Crysis, bringing computers to their knees since 2007.

You might try this fix from PCGamingWiki:

Poor ray tracing performance on RTX GPUs • Link​

The game might not automatically detect an RTX card due to a bug and might thus not utilize RT cores to accelerate ray tracing, resulting in impaired performance when ray tracing is enabled.[29]

1. Create autoexec.cfg file in the installation folder and open it with a text editor.
2. Add lines con_restricted=0 (if not existing) and ti_UseApiBackedRaytracing=1.

If that doesn't help, it could just be the game. Older games often aren't very multithreaded and are easily CPU bottlenecked, so turning down graphical settings may not help much. Even though it's a remaster, it's apparently based on the console version for the PS3/X360, so it may still be limited in its multithreadedness and not very optimized for PCs, in general.

 

[Soedy]

Thats a shame, I was replaying it a while back on PC using Zelda64Recompiled and it holds up well imo. Not sure if it's still in my all time top 5 but it's an outstanding game.

Yeah I think if you grew up with it and played it at the time you appreciate it more. I have a lot of old games that I love and replay despite their flaws, but my friends, who never played them as a kid can't get into it.

You do know how to slow down time, right?

Yes, I know. It's the fact I still can run out of time and need to backtrack for certain quests that i.e. are building up on each other. I'd like to do it in my order.

Anyway, I continued a little bit more last night and likely will beat it. The atmosphere is just too good to not atleast try to finish the story. I just won't do any side stuff, despite

Spoiler

I managed to get the new sword by doing the Goron race and the stone mask which really helped finding the Zora eggs

And it's the last 3D Zelda I need to beat.