The Extreme HW Game List - 2023 Edition

[Sir Beregond]

1 hour ago, The Pook said:

 

I didn't click on anything in the thread, I just skimmed the text. I did pretty good avoiding spoilers and don't want to ruin it now 

 

the "don't trust Vasco" 'spoiler' got me but come to find out it was just a meme. I think. 

Mines a meme too, just to be clear. 

[The Pook]

12 minutes ago, Sir Beregond said:

Mines a meme too, just to be clear. 

 

don't try to back track now, already reported 

Edited August 30, 2023 by The Pook

[Sir Beregond]

On 24/08/2023 at 16:25, iamjanco said:

 

 

Man I remember this video Complete with the Fraps watermark too. 

[EHW Ai]

On 30/08/2023 at 09:44, The Pook said:

ya but ur latency from GN-Z11 must be craaaaaazy 

 

Not when you know how to fold the universe in half. The wormhole we opened at our local instance of Uranus (nicknamed hisanus ) allows everything to transit instantaneously.

 

Speeds up deliveries of General Tso's Chicken by a factor of 1.66 x 109⁹⁷.

 

Note: you have to be careful of overlapping hisanus with ignoranuses in general. Doing so could destroy the Multiverse. Unfortunately, we're already in danger of doing that here.

 

Edited August 31, 2023 by iamjanco
added clarification

[GanjaSMK]

Wait wait wait... Starfield tomorrow? TOMORROW?  Do I stay up LATE past MIDNIGHT and GAME OUT LIKE A HYPED-UP, NICOTINE AND CAFFEINE FUELED 16 YEAR OLD PREVIOUS ME?  

 

and... possibly be 'too sick' to work?  

 

[The Pook]

10 minutes ago, GanjaSMK said:

Wait wait wait... Starfield tomorrow? TOMORROW?  Do I stay up LATE past MIDNIGHT and GAME OUT LIKE A HYPED-UP, NICOTINE AND CAFFEINE FUELED 16 YEAR OLD PREVIOUS ME?  

 

and... possibly be 'too sick' to work?  

 

 

9/1 0:00 UTC

 

aka 8/31 8 PM EST 

 

Edited August 31, 2023 by The Pook

[Sir Beregond]

16 minutes ago, iamjanco said:

 

Not when you know how to fold the universe in half. The wormhole we opened at our local instance of Uranus (nicknamed hisanus ) allows everything to transit instantaneously.

 

 

[The Pook]

Starfield reviews are out if anyone is curious. I'm not looking though 

 

Wish there was a no-spoilers benchmark-only "review" but haven't had any luck finding anything. 

 

edit: found a Portuguese video (no idea if spoilers, some gameplay shown, but I just skipped around and looked for graphs/comparison shots). Not a ton of GPUs tested though:

 

 

Ultra/high/medium/low: 

 

 

 

 

Edited August 31, 2023 by The Pook

[Slaughtahouse]

Starfield launches as a polished, consistent experience on Xbox Series X and Series S

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Expectations are enormous for Bethesda's latest title, Starfield. It promises a galaxy-spanning...

This is non-spoliery. It’s console only at the moment but both series S and X hold up extremely well and most importantly, very little bugs.

 

If the console are rocking steady 30, im fairly sure the crowd here with 6800XTs and 3080s will be fine.

 

[Slaughtahouse]

For those venturing into space, feel free to add me on Steam. 

 

Friend code is here: 49536063

 

I'll be departing for lift off next week (Sept 8th). 

[GanjaSMK]

I have arrived home from work and immediately turned the PC on.  Well, I was a good dad-bro to my dog; we did hang at the dog park for 1.5 hours first.  But now, now I hope she's all good for a couple of weeks. 

 

Looks like I might be distracted. 

 

Oh look, the update is done.  See you all in a few weeks.......... ! 

[UltraMega]

Armored Core 6 has me pausing to avoid blisters. Swearing at the screen, but having a great time. 

 

Doesn't have the same music vibe of old tho. 

 

 

Edited September 1, 2023 by UltraMega

[Slaughtahouse]

In non-related Starfield news, there are a ton of sales right now. I won't go into the details  Banner images and links below

 

https://store.steampowered.com/category/strategy/

 

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/PlayStationPublishersale2023

 

https://us.shop.battle.net/en-us/sale/game-deals-2023

 

https://www.gog.com/en/promo/2023_autumn_sale

 

 

Edited September 1, 2023 by Slaughtahouse
Added GoG Autumn sale.

[schuck6566]

1 hour ago, Slaughtahouse said:

In non-related Starfield news, there are a ton of sales right now. I won't go into the details  Banner images and links below

 

https://store.steampowered.com/category/strategy/

 

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/PlayStationPublishersale2023

 

https://us.shop.battle.net/en-us/sale/game-deals-2023

GOG has a sale going on also. If anyone's missing any of the Metro games or DLC's you can get the entire Metro Franchise (3 main games + 2 DLC addons) for $9.59 if you know someone who needs some shooter to start with it makes a nice cheap gift also.

[Slaughtahouse]

2 minutes ago, schuck6566 said:

GOG has a sale going on also. If anyone's missing any of the Metro games or DLC's you can get the entire Metro Franchise (3 main games + 2 DLC addons) for $9.59 if you know someone who needs some shooter to start with it makes a nice cheap gift also.

Thanks! Posted updated with image and link to GoG sale page. 

[Slaughtahouse]

 

[The Pook]

1440p + high + FSR is about as much as I can go to mostly stay above 60. I started out on Ultra except motion blur without FSR @ 1440p and performance was OK until New Atlantis....

 

the graphics aren't awful but the graphics don't really match the performance 

 

Haven't played much with the individual settings so maybe there's some singular graphical setting gremlin that causes a 50% performance hit for 0.1% image quality benefit? 

[EHW Ai]

 

[The Pook]

if real space experience transferred into the game then you'd be level 999999999999

 

I spent 90% of my time so far over encumbered and walking at a snails pace just to find out you can't even disassemble junk/stuff into materials 

[EHW Ai]

4 hours ago, The Pook said:

I spent 90% of my time so far over encumbered and walking at a snails pace just to find out you can't even disassemble junk/stuff into materials 

 

I'm a member of that club as well. Maybe something magic happens later in the game 

 

I did carry a lot of what I had back to the ship though and dropped the heavier stuff there. Still need to move much of that to the hold though.

 

 

Edited September 2, 2023 by iamjanco

[The Pook]

found out that you can access your ship's inventory from any crafting table, so that's neat. would've been nice to know 10 hours ago tho. but for whatever reason you can't access items in storage within the same building (aka The Lodge downstairs crafting tables + room storage) 

 

Upgraded my ship so I have a 800 (IIRC?) inventory space and put in a pod so that I can have all* the crafting tables, so no more trekking. The HMS Pookie is now dope af. 

 

*all except research, can't find a pod with all of them 

Edited September 2, 2023 by The Pook

[EHW Ai]

Haven't had time to upgrade my ship yet coz too busy killing

 

 

anyway, got to spend some time doing hwbot stuff now. see you after the next new millennium. 

 

[EHW Ai]

[The Pook]

rushed through the story and managed to finish it in 14 hours. me speed run machine.

 

going to start a new game and do an actual playthrough now 

[EHW Ai]

12 hours ago, The Pook said:

rushed through the story and managed to finish it in 14 hours. me speed run machine.

 

 

johnnyQ?

 

Edited September 5, 2023 by iamjanco