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I'm legitimately impressed with the DLC stuff they added to the game. I didn't necessarily mean to start any of these, but I've had a total blast with the Automatron, Vault 88, and Nuka World missions. If you're at least level 20'ish, it's worth diving into all of 'em.

The level scaling is odd. It might've always been like this, but I'm definitely noticing it in this replay. I ran into a glowing ghoul that literally took 10 minutes of running around, 20 molotovs, 10 grenades, 200 rounds of minigun fire, and probably 20-30 rounds of 38, 308, and 10mm rounds...

For what it's worth, I feel like 60fps feels about as smooth as it ever has when you're running on high end hardware. At first I was disappointed, but after playing it for a few minutes I stopped caring.

I'm apparently the problem. I like it.

Good to know. I think I have that mission on my list. It's been so long since I've played that I don't remember what's what. I remember the Brotherhood of Steel airship, Fenway park, and the Enclave complexes but I have zero recollection what led me to any of those things. I think it's because...

Having never touched the later content, I'm enjoying the Vault 88 section of the game. There's a lot to do, the storyline is pretty amusing, and they're throwing tons of bosses, building materials, and XP at me. I think the zaniness that occurs in Fallout 3 and Oblivion has me scared to go too...

https://www.tekken-official.jp/tekken_news/?p=82#enCol The latest patch notes are up. Minus a slight damage nerf to his heat smash (which is totally justified), King was left alone. Considering how few tournament players are rocking the character, I think people are starting to realize that...

There's still something to be said for the Xbox being better than a comparably priced PC. At least for gaming. It might not be #1 console, but it gives people access to a Game Pass subscription and does it way better than a $500 PC. I see a need for one unless PC parts pricing falls off a cliff...

Akuma tends to pile on the damage in ideal situations, although Ryu/Ken often do more damage hit for hit. They always give him a boatload of extra tools, though. He has usually played the role of "glass cannon" with his super low health. The catch is that Capcom has almost never balanced him...

With so many fighting game characters claiming to use "karate" and doing a bunch of crazy supernatural shit, I appreciate Lidia.

No technical issues for me, although I forgot how brutal the game can be via level scaling. You can end up in some nigh unwinnable situations at times.

Looks like the same 'ol Akuma. If that's what you want, that's exactly what they delivered. I'm sure the waves of people who just keep jumping backwards and tossing fireballs are ecstatic.

If I get fed up with Fallout 4, I'll probably just start a new game of 76. I didn't think it was half bad back when it first came out and people say it's worlds better now. The gunplay in 76 much more natural than in 4. Since there's no VATS, it kinda had to be.

Good to know. My settings from 6 years ago were apparently retained as I didn't change anything. I started looking for a full-on fix, but apparently the mod loader people are using doesn't work with this update yet.

The weapon debris/RTX thing seems odd. I mean...that has to be a pretty big chunk of the population playing this game right now. You'd think that would be a priority with this update, but apparently not. If isn't fixable, maybe disable it automatically when it does the hardware detection thing?

Welp, I probably waited for this patch for no reason :P Luckily I only just reinstalled the game last week, so no big deal.

The update is now live.

You'll find that almost all competitive fighting games are also locked to 60fps regardless of platform. Per the devs, it just makes balancing things easier when every frame matters. To a degree, Soulslike games are kinda sorta fighting games. It's less than ideal, but it's an area where I'm...

I'd be shocked if they were still doing any work on this game beyond potentially adding DLC outfits or something like that. If the stuttering and frame-gen stuff was fixable, they would have done it by now. It's clearly a load-bearing wall within the code or whoever could have done something...

After playing it 2'ish months ago I'd say the game was still very much a work in progress. It wasn't full-on busted like some other recent games, but it was a pretty long way from ideal. That's after 25'ish of their 30 updates, too. That seems to be the way of the world, though. Games are...

Did they ever finalize support for DLSS frame-gen? That was one of the only ways I was able to get a smooth gameplay experience, but it was unsupported and pretty buggy.

I feel the "old man yells at cloud" meme would be inbound if I could be sure it wouldn't be flagged for "political content" :p

Going to go back Fallout 4 after the Friday update. The show has me reinvigorated for that universe and I haven't touched #4 in at least 6 years.

If they aren't selling, they aren't selling. It's not like retailers want to maintain a product that they have to organize for the 2-3 people that still buy disks. Especially when they can fill that space with something that will sell. My local grocery stores have killed off their Red Box...

No issues thus far. Installed this yesterday and made all my normal BIOS value changes with no problems. It's worth noting that this one warns you that you can't go back to older BIOS versions when you install it. I don't think I've seen that warning for previous versions. It also reboots the...

They seem to take just about anything back within 30 days. At least within reason I'd assume. They'll ask you why for the sake of knowing if they can resell it, but I don't think they care beyond that. I've returned 4-5 things over the years ranging from incorrect adapters to motherboards with...

Out here they pre-allocated them. They gave out tickets the day before and even had a sign on the door that said they didn't plan on having any extras. I don't necessarily love that policy, but it beats camping out for nothing.

Good to know that they're thriving elsewhere. Like you, I buy everything there minus items they don't carry...which isn't much. Occasionally they'll go ham and over/under order certain motherboards, but that's the only major category I've personally noticed. The fact that they seem to have a...

They probably know that the game isn't that long. Giving people 2 weeks will allow people on the fence to blow through it pretty easily. 2 hours is enough time to get people onboard to give 'em some $.

Their prices are pretty much the same as Amazon, although I like that I can get something today. If I don't like it and want a refund, I can also take care of that right then, too. No dealing with shipping things back and hoping/waiting. Ditto with being able to actually see things face-to-face...

I don't live anywhere near there, but I'm glad to see Microcenter expanding and doing well. The Denver store is always packed to the point that there's a long line for the checkout. Hopefully their other stores are like that, too.

As someone who had to RMA that Corsair unit because of issues with their 12-pin cable, I'd take a look at their Shift line instead.

It's not that long (20-30 hours), so that's plenty of time to do everything there is to do. I wish I knew that was coming when I bought it, although I luckily only paid $30 for it.

When I was a kid, Bad Dudes and Heavy Barrel were massive, massive arcade hits. They were in that weird era when the NES/SMS versions couldn't replicate the arcade experience, so they either deviated or sucked. Neither of 'em got a port that was worth a damn for like 15 years. The Atari ST and...

Ratchet & Clank: A Rift Apart (PC) I probably don't need to get too far into the weeds with this review. It's a platformer/action title with shooting elements mixed in, too. If you like those type of titles, it's about as good as any I've played. There are roughly 20 weapons that can be powered...

Interesting that the second round of these boards are mostly trash. It'll be funny if the first batch of B650E boards (and lower-tier X670E) end up carrying most people through the end of the AM5 era.

I'm playing around with NG+ (aka. "Challenge Mode") and trying to get some of the achievements I missed. In an interesting twist, it seems as though ALL of your weapons are now able to be leveled up to 10. Once you hit level 5, the game renames them and unlocks a special Challenge Mode version...

I forgot all about the "next gen" update. The show has me interested in Fallout again, so maybe I'll revisit 4.

I ended up doing everything there was to do in the my first pass. The flying thing with the zurpstones only took me like 5 minutes, so it was no big deal. I missed a couple golden bolts along the way, but went back for 'em since the game at least tells you what levels they're in. NG+ seems...