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4 minutes ago, mikechorney said:

I believe that AMD has the consoles locked up for the foreseeable future -- so unless AMD also goes this direction, it will be hard for it to hit the mainstream.

 

Will developers really incorporate Ray Tracing in their engines before a critical mass of people have these cards?

1 minute ago, TwinIon said:

They did mention that they worked with Epic to get it into UE4. If it's a feature that devs can more or less flip on for those special few (and use in all the promo footage), maybe it gets used. If it's much more difficult than that, I doubt we'll see it much for a while.

That's kind of what I'm thinking. On the PC side today, there are any number of optional special effects in games, including Nvidia specific ones like HBAO+. I can easily see better GI options using some limited ray tracing being something similar that can be turned on.

2 hours ago, 2user1cup said:

You've never had a burger? 

That's not too surprising to me. I don't think most burger's I've ordered come with mayo as a default.

1 hour ago, mikechorney said:

I believe that Ray Tracing is the "future" of graphics -- but probably won't be mainstream for many years.

Not full ray tracing, I agree. But I think in the next few years we will see limited ray tracing for better effects and possibly low-quality (compared to fully ray tracing) implementations for approximate GI. Better GI is IMO one of the best ways to improve the naturalness of games.

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That said, I've read that GTX may stay around with the 2060 due to it's slower ray tracing performance...

That would be interesting to have a split on the same line, but that makes sense too.

8 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said:

I remember Ico having some pretty slick camera work, it definitely helped contribute to the atmosphere of the game.

 

Maybe I’d put Journey in there too.

I don't think it holds up anymore, but I do agree that they often had some really nice angles to emphasize the danger of the heights, jumps, and slips.

1 hour ago, Mr.Vic20 said:

Yup, apparently so! Also, its RTX (ray-tracing) instead of GTX from now on.

Yeah I think it's interesting to have that level of rebranding. It's been a long time with GTX and it's interesting that ray tracing is what is making them change it. If ray tracing really does start taking off though, I can see why. It will have pretty significant graphics ramifications.

Just now, Mr.Vic20 said:

Welcome to the 4Ks, its a brutal but beautiful landscape! 

Unfortunately, I won't be able to have that until I also purchase a 4K TV  That's probably going to happen next year.

I'm also slightly concerned about my i5 bottle necking me, but I think it will be okay.

I might get this for the local coop and see if I can swindle my wife into playing it with me. Fuck.

There's a damn good chance that the 2080 will be my next video card.

8 hours ago, johnny said:

Are you kidding me? What Yen did? Triss basically leads Geralt on after he forgets about his past and tricks him into loving her when he actually loves Yen. The books are way more Yen/Geralt and Triss is the third wheel. That’s why you either go Yen or just hook up with both. If you play the game as you then obviously Triss makes a lot of sense. But if you make choices based on what Geralt would do, the game wouldn’t end with being with Triss. 

Trick? It's not like Triss cast a spell to make Geralt fall in love with her. If she did, then yeah, loving someone because of a spell would be a pretty shoddy foundation for a relationship. Huh. What do you know, that's exactly the foundation for Yen & Geralt  

It's not about playing as me. Geralt goes through a lot, grows as a person, and has that spell broken. He also has reached a point where he's settling down. With the arch of the final games, it makes sense for Geralt to make a more adult decision in this regard too.

8 hours ago, johnny said:

It’s pretty fucking clear in W3 if you choose Triss that Yen does love him and is upset when she thinks the Djinn was the only reason he was interested in her. 

 

Triss and Yen are both characters with big flaws and both love Geralt despite doing shitty things. 

 

Geralt is a god damned Witcher not an accountant. 

Yes, Yen loves Geralt in the same way a narcissist does. I don't know about you, but I've met a lot of really toxic people in my life with that personality (fortunately, usually not attached to me, but someone I care about like good friends, my mother's mother, etc.) If you try and disassociate it's all "poor me the world is falling, I can't live with out you" histrionics. But when it's not that they put the person through hell. That is Yen, and fuck that shit. It's not mentally healthy to attach yourself to those people.

Exactly. Triss legitimately loves Geralt. She still helps him to remember in the former game believing she'd probably lose him despite doing. Yen is massive cunt, so much so that everywhere Geralt goes people laugh at how Yen treats him like a dog. Compare Yen's response to Geralt when you meet her in W3 to the meeting with Triss. Triss tries to set aside her feelings and get the job done despite them, while treating Geralt with respect.

In my world for Geralt, he grows as a person and chooses a relationship with a sane and passionate adult.

7 hours ago, johnny said:

In Witcher 3 you either choose Yen or you hook up with both of them. Ending with Triss is a mistake. 

1 hour ago, SaysWho? said:

 

Having played a whole lot of Mass Effect, I made the mistake of trying to choose both of the women and then deciding later.

 

One of these days, I'm going to play Witcher 3 again, making much different choices, and I'm going with one woman.

 Yeah W3 has a lot of interesting down stream consequences for decisions you make. Hopefully your downstream consequences for decision affecting Ciri went better!

3 hours ago, Jason said:

 

Is that the second game?

It's the Blood and Wine expansion of W3 at your vineyard if you do the smart thing and choose Triss.

I do, but I decided i don't really like it  It's' too easy to mistype. Not sure if its a property of being mechanical or if the keys just aren't low profile enough for my tastes.

If he's losing his shit, maybe he should stop posting on twitter and with all the self promotion pretending he's an expert on everything?

3 minutes ago, RedSoxFan9 said:

 

It has occasional dips on Switch, but it's not bad. I've gotten up to the penultimate boss (there is only more area and then the final boss fight) and think I've been everywhere else and it's never been an issue.

It's also one the most ideal portable games around, so it is fantastic on Switch.

Also, someone send the man this link

1 minute ago, SaysWho? said:

 

Can we also stare in awe at the fact that he plagiarized a random GAF poster who said, "I'm not an expert myself," instead of an expert?

Seriously 

20 minutes ago, SaysWho? said:

 

Yup. this is it (the link starts at around 28 seconds):

 

And this is the post:

 

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/how-does-hd-rumble-work.1336582/#post-228858910

 

 

 

 

What a fucking tool. 

Absolutely. There are a few movies/shows we'll differ on, but we have extremely similar tastes by and large.

CDPR off the back of their first attempt that annihilated all former endeavors by other developers.

3 hours ago, Remarkableriots said:

Do you keep your upgrades when you start a new game?

If memory serves, you can just choose any level you want to replay and set the difficulty, which yes carries over your upgrades.