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Beyond Good & Evil 2 overtakes Guinness record holder Duke Nukem Forever as game longest in development WWW.EUROGAMER.NET The long-awaited sequel to Beyond Good & Evil has overtaken Duke Nukem Forever as the game with the longest-ever de…

7 Free Games Available Now For Amazon Prime Members - GameSpot WWW.GAMESPOT.COM Subscribers can grab several notable AAA games, including Fallout 76, Middle-earth: Shadow of War, and Total War: Warhammer II. Games are up, Shadow of War available on Oct 5th.

Humble Monthly is rumored to be Deathloop, Monster Train and Disciples: Liberation.

Had no idea Fanatical was part of this. Really hope they don't go downhill.

I bought Horizon for $10. I never played past the first 30 minutes, but was honestly planning to give it a go this year. But now, like the TLOU remake, I’ll wait 2 years post release for this to be $10, then jump in. I suppose there’s no reason to buy Horizon West anytime soon either. So maybe Sony is saving me some money? lol

For what it is, maybe. Digital Foundry found the input lag in NSMBU was about ~33ms on the Wii U Gamepad. By comparison, GeForce Now streaming is in the 80-120ms range in the games they tested. (versus around 50ms when played natively) Wii U latency wizardry is no joke.

I care much more about input lag than visual quality on a 720p stream to a handheld.

Makes me hopeful 60fps DLSS3 will actually work out.

I won't be excited about streaming until it's as good as the Wii U was within 10 feet. As big of a flop as it was, the tech is still kind of amazing. Less lag than your TV.

Prime Gaming October 2022 Available starting October 1 Fallout 76 Middle-earth: Shadow of War Total War: Warhammer II Hero's Hour Horace Glass Masquerade Loom Nice group of games on the way. You can still get Shadow of Mordor and AC Odyssey this month.

All that off the table sounds like a really good thing to me. I will say some of the game filters they showed off were nifty. I’d love to see a similar feature resurface someday, locally.

Damn right they should. Thanks Google for the free copy of Assassin's Creed Odyssey btw.

I may have done the same if GPU prices weren't bananas and I didn't own so many PS4 games. There's also the games price/release date factor. Sony seems to delay their single-player PC releases by 2 years. It takes another 2 years after that for their games to hit bargain prices on PC, approaching but not necessarily matching console lows. (ie: Horizon's historical low on PC is still almost double the PS Store's) It's even more apparent if you factor in physical copy deals: I don't think I'll be seeing TLOU2 on PC for $10 anytime soon. Even a cheap ass like myself has to consider if I'm good to wait ~4 years to play God of War 2. Instead, I'll probably end up picking it up on PS5 when the PC port comes around.

For those still slumming it with me: On a 1060 at 1080p, XeSS' Performance mode runs just a little worse than FSR 2.0 Balanced. Sounds like AMD is still the winner for older cards. Nice to see a 1060 get to run the game at 60fps at 1440p-ish regardless.

I was most interested to see the artifacting concerns with DLSS3. DF seems a little confused to how to treat them, since when they show up, it's only for a single frame, pretty much imperceptible at high framerates. I'd really like them to go in depth with lower FPS games though. For example, a game that runs at 30-40fps with DLSS2, then being upscaled (and vsynced) to ~60fps with DLSS3. How obvious are the artifacts then? This has everything to do with the longevity of these cards to me. Latency seems alright. DLSS3 4k performance mode has better latency than native 4K. The bigger question now is where the quality modes stand.

We Tested Intel's XeSS in Shadow of the Tomb Raider XeSS on Multiple GPUs | Tom's Hardware WWW.TOMSHARDWARE.COM Benefits Pascal and later, RDNA 2 and Arc — most of the time Death Stranding also got a XeSS patch today.

Xenoblade 1 has the best story pacing and concept. Xenoblade X has the best exploration and traversal. Xenobalde 2 has the best closing act and world lore. Torna has the best combat and characters. Xenoblade 3 has the best side content and customization. Xenoblade 1 has the worst side quests and inventory management. Xenoblade X has the worst plot progression, music, characters and combat (especially in skells). Xenoblade 2 has the worst systems driven bloat and anime cringe. Torna has the worst … length? But also the best? Xenoblade 3 has the worst developed antagonists and localization/lingo. 1 > 3 > Torna > 2 >>>> X

150+ hours later, I'm finally at the end. It feels like a bigger game than the first two, which were already gargantuan sized JRPGs. You can chalk that up to the world being as big as ever (including Xenoblade X), and the most fleshed out side content you'd ever expect to find in a game this size. There's a lot of completely missable cutscenes that feel as important as main story events, which are no slouch either. Performance is solid. There's less noticeable resolution drops than Torna, which had less resolution drops than XB2. You'll still see jaggies, some ugly textures, small frame dips, LOD pop-in etc. But it's perfectly tuned to what the game is trying to be on this hardware. Even handheld performance is surprisingly great. Story-wise, its main flaw is that ends up being a bit too redundant with its villains, especially if you do the side content. This is only a minor gripe, considering how the story at large pulls you along. But it's also a problem not shared by XB1 and XB2. Still, moments of XB3 hit highs that easily rival series' bests. Same goes for the music. Combat is also quite fun. Unfortunately, setting up a good party composition isn't really needed, so all the job options you have might be overkill. Plus you get 7 party members at a time, which marginalizes your own controlled character’s efforts. It's by far the easiest Xenoblade game as a result. I definitely think Torna edges it out in combat, it feels much more skill oriented. Overall, this is another fantastic too-big-to-be-real JRPG from Monolith. You get much better side content than previous games, at the expense of a slightly less interesting throughline compared to XB1&2 because of the villains. But it's a hell of a world to spend some time in. 9.5/10 I'd still recommend going in order through the main series (1, 2, Torna, 3). But 3 could be considered standalone, much more than 1->2 is. 2022 Death's Door - 8.5/10 Torna: The Golden Country - 9/10 Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion - 7/10 Mail Mole - 7.5/10 Yooka Laylee and the Impossible Lair - 9/10 What the Golf? - 8/10 Greak: Memories of Azur - 8/10 Psychonauts 2 - 9/10 A Hat in Time: Nyakuza Metro DLC - 7.5/10 The Last Campfire - 7.5/10 The Stanley Parable - 7/10 Call of the Sea - 8/10 Panzer Dragoon Remake - 7.5/10 Star Fox Zero - 8/10 Astro's Playroom - 8/10 Xenoblade Chronicles 3 - 9.5/10

Beat the game at 153 hours! Whew. Still got some post game stuff to do, I could see myself putting in another 10 hours or so to wrap more things up. I'll put my thoughts together later in the Games of 2022 thread. If anyone's still wondering if you can start safely start with this game: Yes, you can. Most of its nods to the first two games are strictly in the presentation (character design, enviornmental touches, music, etc). There are some minor cameos, but nothing that needs to be further explained, or that have much relevance to who they were. There's a couple bits in the post-game that will round things out a little more. That said, it feels like Xenoblade 2 was fresher in their minds. There's more consequence to it in the ending. You'd get more enjoyment out of 3 if you played 2 first, and might feel a little out of the loop for a few moments if you don't. I would not say the same about Xenoblade 2 relative to 1. You don't need to play 1 beforehand but it will spoil a substantial twist in 1's ending. And you should play 1 first, to also fully understand the brilliant way they spun 2 out. Anyways, I'm excited for the DLC to hopefully string XB3 closer to the first two games.

Yeah, I'm level 79. I'm going to get the arts I want equipped to class level 15+, then go for the end. Almost there anyways, some characters are maxed out already in each, and the skills are done.