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BlAcK_Sw0rDsMaN

@nessisonett Haha yeah, I remember you saying you were a fan of whoever England happen to be playing against at the time. Take it you want India to win tonight's women's cricket match against us as well then? haha, also, just noticed you changed your avatar. Eraserhead, is it? Great movie.

"Even in the face of death, the samurai stands unwavering, for honour is a blade sharper than steel".

PSN: Draco_V_Ecliptic

jdv95

ok so for someone who did not get into the hype train for the game i must say that cyberpunk is not a bad game tbh.

sure you can see the mishaps with the game while in free roam but even then it does not bother me.

i like the story so far,altough it should be a bit longer imo,and the side content is decent aswell.

gunplay is good enough for me but melee can be clunky.

visuals are alright on the ps5. it can look great when in the sun light or in the rain at night.

granted i never payed attention to the pre release footage and marketing and never played the game at launch since i got the game about a week ago,so i'm a bit biased but still. i like it and want a sequel.

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JohnnyShoulder

@jdv95 Glad you enjoyed it. Unfortunately it will forever be marked as hot garbage by some, which is a shame as there is a good game there. Did you experience many crashes, how stable did the game feel?

Life is more fun when you help people succeed, instead of wishing them to fail.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.

PSN: JohnnyShoulder

Voltan

@jdv95 CP had two problems
One was not delivering on some of the promises but people would let it slide if it didn't have the other problem. I mean - it still reviewed extremely well on PC and a bad game wouldn't be able to do that.
The other one was that the PS4 and X1 versions were inexcusably bad at launch - pretty much only ran on PS5 and SX. Gamers got angry and they love to bash the thing they're angry at

Probably should've released as a cross-gen game - with native current-gen versions at launch and last-gen version being what they are now, not 7 months ago. They didn't wanna do it because it had already been delayed several times.

(I have not played it, btw)

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jdv95

@JohnnyShoulder been pretty smooth so far.

only had a freeze yesterday but it was fixed by going into the dashboard without quiting the game.

some frame drops while driving in the city but nothing to jarring tbh. but then again i do play a fair bit of gta online which is also 30 FPS so i'm kinda used to it

it's not a 10 out of 10 game for sure but i would give it a 7 for the content that is included without taking the performance problems into regard. it's fun if you are not aware what the game was supposed to be like.

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BlAcK_Sw0rDsMaN

@Jimmer-jammer I am now trying out electronic music as I am beginning to think rock n' roll is too aggressive for my natural disposition, obviously tried jazz, that didn't work out either, so now it's on to electronic stuff. Where do you stand on a philosophy concerning rock and aggression? Do you think angry people typically gravitate towards rock music? I've read it helps them let off steam. Yet, you don't strike me as a particularly aggressive or even angry person, do you find that that music vents it for you so you don't have to be?

"Even in the face of death, the samurai stands unwavering, for honour is a blade sharper than steel".

PSN: Draco_V_Ecliptic

Thrillho

@TheBrandedSwordsman Sorry for the very belated reply on the cricket front. I saw the one T20 match on the bbc (typical that it was the really low scoring one, even if it was a good game!) and have only followed the rest from reports of match feeds. England did well but Sri Lanka were pretty poor throughout.

@Th3solution On the engine front, have you read “Blood, Sweat, and Pixels” by Jason Schreier? It’s an interesting book on game development focusing on a number of different games, some big ones and some indie ones. I can’t remember which game it was he talked about (each chapter focuses on one) but for one, the decision from the higher ups was to change what engine they were using to make the game and it led to all sorts of chaos as even the pause screen no longer worked properly as they had to make that sort of stuff up as they went along. A very easy to read book and one I found quite interesting.

Thrillho

Th3solution

@Thrillho Haven’t read that (nor heard of it) but it does sound interesting. I know of Shreier and his reputation as a guru in games media. Thanks for the recommendation!

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”

BlAcK_Sw0rDsMaN

@Jimmer-jammer And have you been in bands? Like me? I used to love playing melodic rock in bands as a teenager, would love to get back into that - I know a few guys I could play with, but I can't always count on all of them to be there at the right time, I've often thought about going solo but often I can't motivate myself to write or record stuff and post it online, I've got a smattering of recordings, including some from a different teenage band (metal) online but I haven't updated it in ages. Sco, ultimately, is the most important musician to me these days, even if I am drifting back to rock now.

"Even in the face of death, the samurai stands unwavering, for honour is a blade sharper than steel".

PSN: Draco_V_Ecliptic

Voltan

Right in the kisser

Voltan

TheIdleCritic

Playing A Plague Tale, thanks to PS+. My God, Hugo is annoying. Thank the heavens I didn't pay for this.

BlAcK_Sw0rDsMaN

@Thrillho Are you following the England v Pakistan ODI series? What are your thoughts?

"Even in the face of death, the samurai stands unwavering, for honour is a blade sharper than steel".

PSN: Draco_V_Ecliptic

Thrillho

@TheBrandedSwordsman Again, I've only really been following it from match reports, checking the score, and seeing bits on twitter.

Pretty amazing results seeing as it's essentially a B-team after the outbreak of Covid in the main squad. Both wins seems to have been fairly comfortable and Mahmood in particular seems to have had a blinder! Salt's knock today was supposed to be pretty good too.

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BlAcK_Sw0rDsMaN

@Thrillho Yeah getting the first player out (Mahmood taking the first wicket in the first match) for a golden duck seemed pretty spectacular. Salt played very well, as you say, as well. They were considering nicknaming the team either Class of 2021 or Ben's Babes lol.

"Even in the face of death, the samurai stands unwavering, for honour is a blade sharper than steel".

PSN: Draco_V_Ecliptic

Voltan

I usually enjoy sunny weather but just now I was outside for like 20-30 minutes and I regret it 🥵🥵🥵

Voltan

nessisonett

@Voltan Yeah, I’m really not a fan of the summers we’ve been getting either. Normally it rains throughout the summer but the last few years have been 25C and upwards which isn’t natural. Just want our rubbish weather back.

Plumbing’s just Lego innit. Water Lego.

Trans rights are human rights.

Voltan

@nessisonett I'd love it to be 25C over here right now
Unfortunately it's more like 32... unless there's a thunderstorm at the moment - which looks like it will be in a few minutes.

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nessisonett

@Voltan At least the thunder should clear the humidity. I think I’d melt in 32C 😂

Plumbing’s just Lego innit. Water Lego.

Trans rights are human rights.

Voltan

Aaaaaand it's a freakin tropical storm again
I thought they said Poland was in the "temperate" climate zone

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