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What game should we play in August?

Poll ended at July 31st, 2024, 23:47

Anachronox
1
7%
Arx Fatalis
0
No votes
Baldur's Gate
3
21%
Bound By Flame
0
No votes
Dark Messiah of Might & Magic
0
No votes
Deus Ex
1
7%
Divine Divinity
0
No votes
Dragon Age: Origins
0
No votes
Expeditions: Conquistador
0
No votes
Fable
1
7%
Fallout
0
No votes
Geneforge
0
No votes
Gothic
0
No votes
Hard to be a God
0
No votes
Icewind Dale
0
No votes
Jade Empire
0
No votes
Knights of the Old Republic II
1
7%
Mars: War Logs
0
No votes
Mount & Blade: With Fire and Sword
0
No votes
Neverwinter Nights
0
No votes
Sabotain
0
No votes
Shadowrun Returns
2
14%
System Shock
0
No votes
The Banner Saga
0
No votes
The Witcher
0
No votes
Two Worlds
5
36%
Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption
0
No votes
Xenogears
0
No votes
I have FOMO and want to take a month off to catch up on other games and get cool badges
0
No votes
 
Total votes: 14

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Picked it up for $1 on G2A.
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I picked it up for $0 on https://gog-games.to/
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Any mods for first-person? Third-person gives me motion sickness.
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Played it only once right around release...is the DLC content obvious in the EPICCCC edition?
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It has the best voice acting I've ever heard.
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Alright, started the game and it actually ain't bad, also has a good german dub. But I notice that it has stutter, any fix on that?
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Didn't realize it was only a 3 year gap between TW 1&2. It's a pretty big difference quality-wise. Also didn't know they released an expansion 8 years after the sequel came out. Seems like it's still up in the air if they'll make a third game though.
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Oyster Sauce wrote: August 1st, 2024, 11:16
Didn't realize it was only a 3 year gap between TW 1&2. It's a pretty big difference quality-wise. Also didn't know they released an expansion 8 years after the sequel came out. Seems like it's still up in the air if they'll make a third game though.
Well, the THQ Nordic Showcase 2024 airs on the 2nd of August. Would be based if we see Two Worlds 3
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Finarfin wrote: August 1st, 2024, 09:45
Alright, started the game and it actually ain't bad, also has a good german dub. But I notice that it has stutter, any fix on that?
When I played a few months ago I tried to figure out how to fix the stutter and came up with nothing. Just pretend it's interference from the second world bleeding into reality or something.
I'm just stating the facts.
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This game definitely looks like it's from 2007 but it plays really smooth with no audio or graphical issues for me. Anyone know if there's any HD texture packs out there?
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Finarfin wrote: August 1st, 2024, 09:45
Alright, started the game and it actually ain't bad, also has a good german dub. But I notice that it has stutter, any fix on that?
Try plopping dxvk next to the game's executable, tends to fix most issues with older DX8/DX9 titles, translates calls to modern Vulkan API.
https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/relea ... 2.4.tar.gz

open with 7zip -> x32 directory -> place all .dll next to the game's .exe in the installation directory

If it's working you'll see a file called GameName.dxvk-cache appear in the same directory, where GameName is whatever the name of the executable is.
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rusty_shackleford wrote: August 1st, 2024, 13:00
Finarfin wrote: August 1st, 2024, 09:45
Alright, started the game and it actually ain't bad, also has a good german dub. But I notice that it has stutter, any fix on that?
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rusty_shackleford wrote: August 1st, 2024, 13:00
Finarfin wrote: August 1st, 2024, 09:45
Alright, started the game and it actually ain't bad, also has a good german dub. But I notice that it has stutter, any fix on that?
Try plopping dxvk next to the game's executable, tends to fix most issues with older DX8/DX9 titles, translates calls to modern Vulkan API.
https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/relea ... 2.4.tar.gz

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I've been shilling this game semi-ironically for months now, but it's actually even better than I remembered. Had a dual-wielding guy last time so I think I'll try blasting fuckers with spells this go around.
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do you get a companion?
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Imagine playing Oblivion when you could be exploring Antaloor

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Humble Beginnings for our hobo mc.
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Talked with Sister, talked some gobbledigook about muh haunting and energies of the nodes
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Talked with this Gandohar fella, sounds turkish or something. His Massa wants something from me.
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It actually looks better than I remembered
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This dumbass in the manual made me laugh

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Oyster Sauce wrote: August 3rd, 2024, 16:12
This dumbass in the manual made me laugh

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It has quite a bit of lore and artwork https://archive.org/details/two-worlds- ... h/mode/2up
As stupid as he looks...I do miss manuals
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Hmm, I seem to have a problem now with screenshots. Prior to the fix @Rusty told me about, I was able to do them but now nothing really works. (I could play it in windowed mode but it crashes as soon as I set it to a small resolution than my screen and refuses to even run when I try to start it again)
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Really wish I had known how good the concentration spell is earlier. Haven't done too much magic experimentation due to the pointless 3 spell slot limit. Did find out that the summon limit of 1 only applies per monster, so you can throw down as many as you have the cards for.

Maybe they'll remake this after Gothic :)

Edit: definitely rebind your spell slots to 1, 2, 3.
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They really frontloaded the good stuff. There comes a point where it's just annoying to sift through enemies for gear upgrades. Only wish I found someone to teach me necromancy.
The final cutscene didn't play - just kicked me back to the main menu after beating the final boss. Off to YouTube!

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Cool looking city tbh. Very nice.
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Game sure got its Atmosphere down. Places felt very fitting to their names and stuff.
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Arrived at the final boss. Gandohar you roach, I'm coming to get you. (and Kira ofcourse, gotta save my wife, ehm I mean Sister)
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Fighting the eternal roach in his natural habitat.
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Gotta say the soundtrack and atmosphere were top-notch.

The main menu has this one and I feel like I got transported to my teenage years.
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Oyster Sauce wrote: August 4th, 2024, 18:43
Only wish I found someone to teach me necromancy.
It's pretty fun and you get multiple summons which is nice.
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you can scale up the UI as explained here
https://www.gog.com/forum/two_worlds_se ... ace_bigger

has eax sound so you can use dsoal for software emulation of eax
https://github.com/ThreeDeeJay/dsoal/re ... est-master
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Now beat the game in a half hour.
(You actually can, and it's not even hard.)
You may as well not bother replying to my posts if it's to argue anything except concrete facts or your personal opinion. I still probably won't see it.
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