So I’ve been noticing a weird inconsistency with my PC lately, I play on an LG 4k tv and I’ve been noticing that the games I’m playing don’t always look 4K despite always being set at that.

Sometimes the screen looks perfectly sharp and detailed and other times the textures I see look blurry or jagged, I know all about the color settings in the Nvidia control panel but nothing really seems to make a difference, sometimes it looks perfect other times it looks like a lower resolution despite me not making any changes.

If you're in one of the regions where the game is available, I'm happy for you. Enjoy the game.

But I urge you to express solidarity with the people getting hit by Sony's anti-consumer practices. Leave a negative review (on whatever platform you're buying the game on) and urge them to make the game available for everyone. Someone should hold them accountable and you have the opportunity to do just that

For the past two years the only games that really interested me and actually tried have been gacha games. The only exception has been Persona 5 Royal (which I got 100% of the achievments on steam too). I don't know why that is, so I am hoping someone may be able to help me. The non-gacha games that I saw either didn't interest me at all or I tried them but dropped them soon after because I just couldn't make myself launch the game after a while, even if I did enjoy them. The most recent non-gacha game that I played was Baldur's Gate 3. I really liked it at first, it had many things I enjoy in games like good graphics, good story (in my opinion), interesting characters (in my opinion) and nice combat (again in my opinion) but after a few weeks I was like ''eh maybe I'll play later'' and just completely stopped playing it. It has been like 6 months since I last played it and I don't know why I lost interest (since as I said I really enjoyed it). On the other hand I started playing Honkai Star Rail last year when it came out and haven't stopped playing since. Besides spending my daily 240 energy I don't really have anything else to do right know but I still am excited to open the game when I sit down on my pc to play. I happily even spent an entire day to play the newest quest when it came out. Besides HSR the only other games that I am interested in and waiting to play are, Wuthering Waves and Zenless Zone Zero both of which are gachas. I don't get why, especially since they don't really play similarly (for example one is turned based while the other is more open world and you controll the characters). Basically why are the only games that make me go ''hmm this looks cool, I want to play it'' (and I actually spend months playing) gacha games? I want to find a non-gacha game to play more than 15 minutes a day but nothing else sticks like gacha games do.

I am sorry if there are mistakes or if it doesn't make sense, english is not my first language.

I'm having a hard time choosing between The Witcher 3 and Skyrim. The Witcher 3 has one of the best storyline in all of gaming (my opinion) but Skyrim is just so "free".

I think I'm gonna have to go with Skyrim. What about you?

Just a few hours ago, The Division: Heartland, Ubisoft's Division spinoff extraction shooter, was announced as canceled. This follows the canceling of Hazard Zone, the extraction mode of EA's Battlefield 2042, as well as the canceling of DMZ, the extraction mode of Activision Blizzard's Call of Duty MW2.

These were the same devs that leapt at the first chance to release their own battle royales during the height of the genre. Why then, when the extraction shooter genre is still in its dormancy, have none of these big-time devs put any real effort into making a successful extraction shooter?

On console, there's only really Vigor and Hunt: Showdown, two smaller dev games with small playerbases and relatively niche gameplay (especially in the case of Hunt). On PC, there are significantly more options, but the genre's playerbase has been monopolized by Escape From Tarkov, an unreleased game developed by a company that knows it owns the genre and has been treating its players accordingly, doing little to reduce cheating, ignoring a variety of QoL demands from its playerbase, and engaging in shady, anti-consumer business practices.

The extraction shooter genre in 2024 is in the same position as the battle royale genre in the first half of the 2010s. Back then, the titles were few and the even fewer titles that were popular (e.g. H1Z1 and PUBG) belonged to devs who refused to innovate because they lacked serious competition. It was only in 2017, when Epic Games, a AAA developer known mainly for Gears of War and Unreal Engine, released a battle royale mode for their co-op shooter, Fortnite, that the genre was revolutionized and brought where it is today.

All it takes is for one AAA dev to release the Fortnite of extraction shooters, to prove that there is an audience which would be interested in the genre if it had a greater quantity of high-quality titles. The first to do it would immediately convert the console players unsatisfied with their slim pickings and the PC players tired of Tarkov's shit. Then, word would spread and people unnacquainted with extraction shooters would flock to them. The fact that all these devs have done up to now is dip their toes into the water only to recoil away is a travesty.

Reliable leaker from Asia (Lunatic Ignus) mentioned today some new info about "Pearl Abyss" IP's.

He said that "Crimson Desert" will in Q1 2025 and the marketing will progress this Summer at Gamescom with a brand new demo.

Tweets about "Doke V" and "Plan 8" + new IP:

https://x.com/ignusthewise/status/1790304672399376624

https://x.com/ignusthewise/status/1790305190903443878

https://x.com/ignusthewise/status/1790305759361741158

I saw that "Ghost of Tsushima" is launching on Thursday, and the visuals look INSANE! I wonder if it will end up being a good benchmarking game, or not?