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logincrash wrote: ↑ March 3rd, 2026, 11:03

The Climate Change cult was a big thing in 2000s.

I like that they added the bit about how modern science has just begun to do something about it because they tried to stay consistent despite their cult beliefs.
Yea, no ****. If it actually is a problem then it would be fixable by a society capable of colonizing other planets.

rusty_shackleford wrote: ↑ March 3rd, 2026, 11:21

Grafx peaked at some point in ~2014 but anything post 2004 or so is high enough fidelity for me. Mass Effect is definitely good looking.

Arkham Knight (2015) looks ten times better than nearly every modern video game.

rusty_shackleford wrote: ↑ March 3rd, 2026, 11:22

Kolgrim wrote: ↑ February 27th, 2026, 22:40

Just finished a playthrough of The Force Unleashed on PS2. I only ever played the Xbox 360 version and didn't know that the older gen version was superior and included more levels. Graphically I think it's held up nicely. The little things like sparks flying when the lightsabers clash and the Vader fight where his armor slowly breaks apart as he loses health were nice touches.

► A few more screenshots

How does it differ from the PC versions?
Also, that's the game that had a unique physics system right?

The PC version is a VERY ****** port of the PS3 version. The PS3 version had better physics and graphics, but the PS2 version is way more in-depth in all the other aspects. Better art direction, more locations, more character customization, etc.
It's worth emulating the PS2 version just to see how much more effort was put into it.

rusty_shackleford wrote: ↑ March 3rd, 2026, 11:22

Kolgrim wrote: ↑ February 27th, 2026, 22:40

Just finished a playthrough of The Force Unleashed on PS2. I only ever played the Xbox 360 version and didn't know that the older gen version was superior and included more levels. Graphically I think it's held up nicely. The little things like sparks flying when the lightsabers clash and the Vader fight where his armor slowly breaks apart as he loses health were nice touches.

► A few more screenshots

How does it differ from the PC versions?
Also, that's the game that had a unique physics system right?

The PC version is a port of the 360/ps3 version which had the unique physics system. I think that version feels much better in regards to force throwing enemies as the PS2 version is kind of hit and miss with throwing stuff around. The old gen versions of the game (Wii, PS2, PSP) included more levels and some of the story beats play out a bit different. Specifically you have Jedi trials where Starkiller visits the temple on Coruscant three times. The level design has been changed on the older gens which results in tighter but shorter levels. There isn't as many unlockable skins but you can change your lightsaber hilt in addition to changing the color crystals. There's some alternate powers and the abilities themselves are balanced differently and there's some new enemies. Overall I'd say the gameplay feels a bit more beat'em up then the PC version and it's also more challenging. The older gens also included a versus mode which wasn't in the PC release.

An even more strange thing of note is that the PSP version included exclusives that never made it to the other versions of the game. There was more skins and you had something called historical missions which were recreations of fight scenes from the films that you could play like the Mustafar duel for example. Lastly to make things even more confusing the Switch recently put The Force Unleashed on their eshop and it's a upscaled port of the Wii version. So yeah all in all The Force Unleashed is a weird one. I can't think of really any other game that had so many different versions released like this.

More Warsword conquest. Played a BIT as Druchii and moved back to the Empire.

Warsword Conquest EXPANDED. It adds big monsters, dragons, greater daemons, steamtanks terrorgheist, much more AoE firearms and grenades and a lot of characters. Like Ulrica.

WaterMage wrote: ↑ March 9th, 2026, 03:16

Warsword Conquest EXPANDED. It adds big monsters, dragons, greater daemons, steamtanks terrorgheist, much more AoE firearms and grenades and a lot of characters. Like Ulrica.

I've tried this several times over the years and it's impressive, but it also gets way too silly. It's more like a Soup mod than a Warhammer mod. Is the expanded mod some kind of fork?

I play Skryim

Crimson Desert

Finarfin wrote: ↑ March 20th, 2026, 20:43

Crimson Desert

What are your PC specs?

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070
CPU: 12th Gen Intel Core i5-12600KF
RAM: 32 GB

Set on High, plus disabled some stuff like motion blur, depth of field. Also DLSS is not enabled. Game looks a bit low res sometimes but only if you get real close. Tends to stay at 120 fps so far. Shadows are ****** tho

looks like ****.
no textures beyond 5 meters.

It looks like **** because ****** devs cannot make hair and foliage look good without relying on the ****** smeary DLSS/TAA/ETC. That's why looking at these screenshots feels like going at your eyeballs with a cheese grater

Looks great in motion

The milky way you'd never see under these light conditions and a couple copy-pasted trees that look like ****.
Mind-blowing stuff.

We don't know for sure the trees are copy pasted, to me they look different.

K, half a dozen individual trees (or not, inconclusive), that look like ****.

Crimson Desert

Divine Divinity
Elite Orc killed all the guards I tried using to kill it

Come, my friends. The Ents are going to war. It is likely that we go to our doom. Last march of the Ents.

Crimson Desert

Crimson Desert

That's way too much snow and greenery for a game called Crimson Desert.

It's a grassy desert

No you *******, you get to the crimson desert later in the game. Technically you can try and go there immediately but I'm guessing without gear and abilities that's impossible

Finarfin wrote: ↑ March 25th, 2026, 01:30

No you *******, you get to the crimson desert later in the game. Technically you can try and go there immediately but I'm guessing without gear and abilities that's impossible

So the game starts in the green desert?

It's not a desert and it's not crimson

yangg wrote: ↑ March 24th, 2026, 05:59

Come, my friends. The Ents are going to war. It is likely that we go to our doom. Last march of the Ents.

Crimson Desert

Are you over 25?

Who cares ? I'm having a blast.

yangg wrote: ↑ March 25th, 2026, 03:03

Who cares ? I'm having a blast.

I care, I care a lot
I hate that you like the game and are enjoying it
So I want to make u think the game is **** to drag u down
Seeing people happy makes me angry
I don't like seeing people happy!
..because I'm not happy with myself
(and u got a nice pc and could afford the game on launch which means Ur doing better than me and I don't like that )