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Don't buy gearbox games. Pitchford is a self important head in the sands salesman. Along with Tim Sweeny, they're a couple of the most used car salesman types in gaming
I can think of just 1 guy who is even more of a used car salesman... Chris Roberts. Literally has been selling digital spaceships like used cars. Including the actual prices of the digital ships being roughly the same as a used car.
As a diehard fan of the Wing Commander series, you take that back right now! Right now!
I bought, and still have, every single Wing Commander game released as they launched. Core experience of my early gaming days.
All kidding aside, Star Citizen is a steaming shit pile of a grift that has gone on for far too long.
Also... why now? BL games always get 90% off eventually, lol.
Or come up free on EGS.
Yeah, but then you have to install EGS.
Or you can use heroic games launcher and never have to install egs
It's fine. The weekly free games are worth it. I've played some weird and cool games I would have never found otherwise thanks to EGS' free games.
If you say so :)
You can use Heroic Launcher instead. And you get an Amazon Games and GoG client as a bonus.
I will continue claiming EGS games, and playing them through Heroic, purely out of spite to Tim Sweeney and his bullshit. He has to pay out of pocket for every license i claim, and i wont say no to that
I briefly watched Jackfrags video on it. The graphics aren't even anything special, the world isn't overly populated and I can't imagine there would be any overly complex calculations running in the background and it performs like shit.
Fuck these fucks.
It's Unreal Engine 5, so the bad performance is included by default. I've played 4 UE5 titles in recent months and all of them ran terrible even though they were far from groundbreaking graphically.
Hell, I could play the gorgeous KCD2 on high settings at a buttery smooth 60FPS but apparently I need to set everything to the very lowest and down to 720p to get the same result on much worse looking Unreal games.
The only ue5 game I have played with good performance is satisfactory and that's because good performance is necessary for a game like that (so they put a lot of effort into it)
I could play the gorgeous KCD2
Now is a great time to play it again. The newest DLC just dropped. Henry gets his own forge. I'm liking it a lot so far.
I love that game so much i played like 30 or 40 hours and hardly did any main missions. I haven't been to the wedding or anything. The game is almost too overwhelming to play for me. I really wanna play the dlc, but i think i have to start over and play like a normal human being.
Wayfinder uses ue5 and runs just fine.
That is the only example I have.
Clair Obscur and Hellblade 2 also ran great on my Steam Deck. And I suspect Fortnite does as well.
My guess is that developers of the other games just pour in high def assets without using any of UE5's crazy LoD techniques.
Yes, that's the thing. UE5 CAN run well, if you don't use most of its fancy features. But then what's the point of that dumb engine?
Just because it can load in high quality assets doesn't mean that everything has to be 4 billion polygons. You use it sparingly for where it will make the most impact. That doesn't mean that a mountain in the background that you'll never get near has to be of the same quality.
I don't think that's really the engines fault.
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That franchise hasn't been good since BL2
BL2 was great. Some of its DLC was even better. Assault on Dragon Keep is one of the best looter shooters ever made. The gameplay was a blast. The jokes were funny..And out of left field it broke your fucking heart by secretly being about a young, traumatized girl's grief.
Have you tried Tiny Tina's Wonderlands? It's basically an entire spinoff game from Dragon Keep DLC with its own unique systems. Personally I think it's the most creative game in the genre.
...and then they turned it into spinoff game with Wanda Sykes' voice constantly grating your brain into shredded cheese
3 was the best out of all of them from a gameplay perspective. People don't like the story but I never cared for any of the borderlands stories personally.
Let's be honest, the only story missions we ever cared about were those starring Handsome Jack.
And it still has the loss of focus in the inventory screen bug that's plagued the game since the first one.
sigh... This generation of games will all suck because of Unreal Engine 5. I'm a patient gamer, I have plenty of unplayed games on my Steam library. I will not upgrade my video card because of this horrendous game engine.
Can’t play your new $80 game due to performance and crashing issues? Hey, if you’re a real fan you’ll find a way to make it happen.
One of the reasons being patent with games is worth it. In a year, they may fix the bugs, they may not. But the only thing you lose is a bit of time playing other games. And cheaper too :D
Bout to finish the main story of bl3, wish it was longer, seems like content was cut so they could sell expansions, idk maybe im just comparing it to borderlands 2 + all expansions, I didnt really do side quests but typically I do these when I need to, playing solo I didn't ever need to leave and do those before coming back to the main story.
As I understand it, BL3 didn’t use the same writers as BL2. The DLC for BL3 did, though, which is why it’s of a very high quality. BL1-2 are some of my favourite games and as someone who doesn’t replay/reread/rewatch I’ve replayed those games a lot, but Pitchford was a huge douche about BL4 and its pricing so I decided hey, I’ll solve that problem by just not buying it.
I tried 3 just to see what all the interest was about, but couldn't get into it. There were loads of guns and none of them seemed great or much different from each other. Was I supposed to collect them and sell them? I wanted to like it cos I enjoy the art style, maybe I should give it another go sometime.
Enough ppl dont complain about how they artificially extend the time by having you wait for ppl talk, thought it was a limitation in older games, especially bad in sanctuary, like let me just play the game, talk while I do stuff, don't make me stand around pausing the game if I open my menu extending it futher.
It literally crashed while Conan was doing a Clueless Gamer promo for it.