Yeah I was super pleasantly surprised how well Xenia/RPCS3 can run so many commercial games pretty much flawlessly now
If you want to try the Last of Us, a patch vastly improving its emulation came out a few days ago :
It's hacky but kinda works, so if you already got the ISO laying around, could be worth a shot. .
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Metro 2033 Redux (might replay the whole trilogy)
RDR2 SP (after over 300 hours of online, thought I'd try the legend of Arthur)
Have a great journey, partner . He'll grow on you in no time
Thanks Zor, I deffo want to try this game again, but I haven't downloaded it yet as it's kinda still on the large size. I accidentally deleted the iso I had before *sigh* Saying that I may as well start it now heh. Have you tried it yourself Zor, how is the game generally please?. Is it, by and large, more or less playable nowadays mate?. Thanks for the patch info i'll hunt that down too. edit: that vid showing the patch almosts doubles the current framerate, Nice
I think pretty much so M4trix, but as a general rule it's probably required for most games this emu runs to get any sort of satisfactory, possibly, playble performance.
Yeah, sadly my i5-3570k isn't quite up to the task, my FPS was more or less doubled alright but I'm faaaar from that video's level of performance so I didn't bother with it for too long, sorry xyzg
Imo, if you've got other games on your plate, it's worth waiting out that this hacky patch makes it to the mainline of the emulator or something, because from what I've gathered it just removes some FX in order to preserve the look of the game, it's not a "proper" emulation yet.
It still beats trying to play it on PSNow with what feels like a 360p resolution though
Ta mate, you know, any infomation is useful though tbh Zor. Knowing how it runs on your cpu does also give an indication of how it might possibly run on mine too. I did sort of get the impression that if I were to sit down and try and play it all the way from start to finish that the experience might not be a great one. With crashes and having to fiddle about with settings like the guy in the video stated, so I think i'm going to take your advice and sit on this one for a while too, hopefully after some time they will have ironed out many of the faults and glitches that still remain in the game preesently. Nice to know that they even got it up and runningg in the first place though, just a few short years ago I would have thought just getting to a loading screen would have been quite an achievement for this ame. It's one of those games that you automatically associate with the console itselfg I reckon. Like XBox has it's Halos etc, PS has it's Uncharteds and this game. Anyway, Cheers Zor
Replayed Yakuza Kiwami while watching a playthrough of the original.
Waiting on Yakuza 7 and whatever is going on with 3 - 5 and Yakuza 6 so refreshing up on the story a bit first this and then Kiwami 2 and then back to Yakuza 0 which remains my favorite overall thus far.
Interesting to compare against the original works too, Kiwami 1 mostly struggles around with old Majima against new/popular Majima and well the original English M rating voice acting though some of it is actually pretty good even if it's peppered up a bit in tone and intensity.
Guess the big things will be Kiwami 2 against original Yakuza 2 once I get around to a compare with that but there's some good info on what got cut or altered although the main story holds up pretty well and the rivalry makes for a fun villain.
And finally zero with a ton of side content and some really fun albeit brief villains and new characters also apparently some ideas from the team hinting at Zero-2 or something as a possible further backstory expansion.
(How many times can they give Majima another backstory and the transition to the Mad Dog ha ha.)
Also covered a few PSX games including Vagrant Story, amount of minute detailing at least in the cutscenes is incredible for the platform it's running on and also taking into account the Playstations hardware restrictions and shortcomings but working with these for what the game offers.
(There's a few on each console platform really pushing things but still something to see with detailed animations for the environments and characters including smaller stuff and effects.)
And the backlog is mostly just still there as always, covered a number of older games and replayed or re-watched playthroughs of a number of series while some of the bigger remaining titles await further patches mostly.
Will be interesting to see if the Bloodborne PC port (And potential PS5 re-release.) turns out to be true and possibly the Demons remake even if that one has a higher chance of Playstation console exclusivity at least for now.
What else?
Borderlands 3 - Event's over with now it just needs more patches, playable though buggy and the rebalancing changes everything up so it's on the waiting list for a while.
Monster Hunter World + Iceboned (Yes it's Iceborne or something but it's a frozen water level and those have a reputation same as their non-frozen variants.) - Just about the same seeing how Capcom re-fucks and de-fucks the game via more patches and fixing and unfixing the game but it's gotten better, rusty as hell so taking on the frozen things of totally-not-Siberia again will be a very interesting challenge.
(So I heard you thought those Gothic 3 boars knew how to knock down and stunlock heh heh...yay!)
Gujian 3 - Might see a offline patch or might just wrap it up, big game and it's just starting so chances are it'll be another 50+ hour journey into ancient China as seen by Wuxia which is something like a cover-all for fantasy sword tales and endless exposition.
(Yes this is the emperors palace please do not Kung Fu fight on the walls it's a bitch to clean!)
Picked up Troubleshooter as well, less of a quirky JRPG with fan-service elements (Somewhat~) and something like XCom inspired gameplay (Not the new spin-off thing though.) but apparently incredibly deep and complex with incredibly involved developers and a lot of potential game time, bit of time to devote and this should be fun.
(Even sans plasma heavy weapons and ripping the entire battle area to bits.)
EDIT: In all fairness the growing Wuxia games and other Chinese and Asian (Several from Korea I believe to use one example.) video game projects heading to PC is refreshing and they're improving all the time possibly even surpassing JRPG's soon enough in avoiding certain problems and common issues.
Genre itself is interesting too with some very long running installments even if only the latter titles might get a (non-machine) English translation or other localization attempts at least before China decides to really cull the gaming effort if they do any more restrictions especially towards Steam or video game content than are already in place.
Sides western villains and characters tend to monologue just as much if not more so ha ha.
Hell it's also comic book trope all on it's own from the 1940's or something taken to ridiculous effects and incredible lengths at times.
Or even older, likely some of the oldest known preserved texts featured it frequently too so it's not that bad depending on how it's used, overall writing quality though yeah now that can differ a bit more ha ha.
EDIT: And on the note of Eastern games the changes here over the last few years especially considering the overall declining state of game systems from PC to console as mobile devices and handhelds or just mobile phones took a much bigger market and saw a rising popularity so PC making something of a return as a popular platform of choice is nice and also quite impressive.
(Something that I believe Nintendo for example noticed during the early 2000's already when this trend started.)
EDIT: Also Vagrant Story is a excellent example of the risks of fashion and the drawbacks of leather armor.
Two-toned probably seemed like a great idea at the time ha ha.
Beware JB, Troubleshooter literally updates itself everyday on Steam!. Suppose it's good to know the games is well supported at least . I bought it myself a little while ago too, but had never really got round to playing it. Does look an okay TBS game tho.
Edit: Have you tried Banner or the Maid JB. Another small TBS title. Reminds me of Jean D'Arc on the old PSP. (Fictional historical TBS Setting). It seems to have fairly decent reviews, although some folk haev commented on it's sometimes unforgiving difficulty level. ie: some maps, are instant replay types by suddenly throwing a bunch of reinforcements at the unwitting player near the end of the level that you had no idea was coming. Forcing you to restart the level.. that sort of thing.
However, the graphics do look quite cute and looks quite nice overall I reckon.
Bloodborne - i guess it's the last time i try a souls game since I'm so bad at them. i can't even get past the first area with about 10 enemies with torches. I died about 10 times and deleted it lol, btw it looks bad on my PS4 Pro on 4K TV, one of the less good looking games i played lately. A PC version will do wonders.
Yakuza 0 - not my first time trying Yakuza games.. i tried Yakuza 3 and 4 on PS3 back then and couldn't enjoy them even with what seemed like great characters, setting and story. I played Yakuza 0 about 6 hours on PC, it looks very good even on 1080p and runs smooth. Sadly still i can't connect to the Yakuza formula.. the story and characters are great and Kiryu looks so badass but the gameplay is just not enjoyable for me. Combat is ok but nothing special imo, the random combat encounters also got old pretty quick. what bothered me the most was that many of the dialogue is without voice acting, that's took away lot of the immersion.
Also the camera kinda sucks with auto centering.
Mafia II: Definitive Edition - played around an hour and deleted it... Mafia 3 better in any way.
He is right though, Mafia 2 is a horribly written cliché of a game with very mediocre gameplay, it almost feels like a parody at times. Mafia 1 was amazing overall and Mafia 3 had repetitive gameplay after a few hrs, but it atleast had decent writing, even though it went a bit the Tarantino way.
He is right though, Mafia 2 is a horribly written cliché of a game with very mediocre gameplay, it almost feels like a parody at times. Mafia 1 was amazing overall and Mafia 3 had repetitive gameplay after a few hrs, but it atleast had decent writing, even though it went a bit the Tarantino way.
The gameplay in 2 and 3 really had repetition problems that came in different forms while the original had some crazy difficulty spikes. The story in Mafia 3 felt like a bloated Netflix series that dragged on and got way too many episodes. The concept was good but the execution was lacking.
I personally never found Mafia 2 to have a cliché story because out of all the protagonists Vito is the only one who never stops losing and isn't ever able to truly get what he wants. Even him winning at the end feels like losing so it was frustrating at first but thinking about it made me like the story in 2 Surprisingly it was part 1 which never had an effect on me other than a "yeah, it was decent".
Beware JB, Troubleshooter literally updates itself everyday on Steam!. Suppose it's good to know the games is well supported at least . I bought it myself a little while ago too, but had never really got round to playing it. Does look an okay TBS game tho.
Edit: Have you tried Banner or the Maid JB. Another small TBS title. Reminds me of Jean D'Arc on the old PSP. (Fictional historical TBS Setting). It seems to have fairly decent reviews, although some folk haev commented on it's sometimes unforgiving difficulty level. ie: some maps, are instant replay types by suddenly throwing a bunch of reinforcements at the unwitting player near the end of the level that you had no idea was coming. Forcing you to restart the level.. that sort of thing.
However, the graphics do look quite cute and looks quite nice overall I reckon.
I heard it had issues but the support from the developers is incredibly positive even apologizing for lack of content updates as they provide a lot of bug fixes and tweaks for the game for the last maintenance and update period plus while as usual a bit mixed on these types of games RPG Codex had a overall impressive tone for it and the amount of content included already and current state of the game.
Banner of the Maid is on the list of other tactical games to pick up now that there's been somewhat of a resurgence in this genre again with games taking to Final Fantasy Tactics, XCom and others for inspiration and then putting their own touches and ideas on it.
Need to look into things a bit more but I do like the initial impressions and feedback thus far.
Beware JB, Troubleshooter literally updates itself everyday on Steam!. Suppose it's good to know the games is well supported at least . I bought it myself a little while ago too, but had never really got round to playing it. Does look an okay TBS game tho.
Edit: Have you tried Banner or the Maid JB. Another small TBS title. Reminds me of Jean D'Arc on the old PSP. (Fictional historical TBS Setting). It seems to have fairly decent reviews, although some folk have commented on it's sometimes unforgiving difficulty level. ie: some maps, are instant replay types by suddenly throwing a bunch of reinforcements at the unwitting player near the end of the level that you had no idea was coming. Forcing you to restart the level.. that sort of thing.
However, the graphics do look quite cute and looks quite nice overall I reckon.
I heard it had issues but the support from the developers is incredibly positive even apologizing for lack of content updates as they provide a lot of bug fixes and tweaks for the game for the last maintenance and update period plus while as usual a bit mixed on these types of games RPG Codex had a overall impressive tone for it and the amount of content included already and current state of the game.
Banner of the Maid is on the list of other tactical games to pick up now that there's been somewhat of a resurgence in this genre again with games taking to Final Fantasy Tactics, XCom and others for inspiration and then putting their own touches and ideas on it.
Need to look into things a bit more but I do like the initial impressions and feedback thus far.
Bunch of images around the flowers of war and a certain Valkyria game.
EDIT: Should look into Metal Saga one of these days too.
In addition to Suikoden and all sorts of old classics. Hello video backlog and the actual video game backlog ha ha.
EDIT: And maybe pick up a few new ones eventually, maybe.
What's the Flowers of war JB?. I'm guessing it's a tbs game right?. Tried looking it up on the net but couldn't find anything game related. I do like a good tbs game myself heh. Does it happen to be related to the Christian Bale film of the same name?. Coincidentally I watched that film a month or two ago when it was showing late one night on telly and I ended up watching it. About a priest (Bale) who helps a group of women escape during the occupation of China by Japanese forces. Set amongst the backdrop of the 1937 Nanking massacre.
VC4 is a game I have still yet to finish. Your screenies are from the original game JB which I enjoyed back on the ps3. Bought it again when it was released on the PC too. I'm still only about half way through VC4, and have all the DLC missions to get through too. Suikoden is a title i've always wanted to play, managed to download it for the emulators a bunch of times now but never ever got round to start playing it over the years. There's quite a few titles in that franchise, but I don't think all of them have been translated into English unfortunately. I'll take a look at Metal Saga too, another one I haven't heard about.
Edit: Metal saga looks quite good actually JB. Nice one. Just saw an in game shot of the St bernard taking down a tank with that cannon strapped on his back lol.
So that great big massive barrel isn't just for show heh. How about the Front Mission games JB, you might like those, that's if you haven't already played them that is.Theres also Dynasty Tactics 1-2 on the PS2 (Based on the Dynasty Wars franchise) or something a bit more leftfield, are the R-Type Tactics games, but they are only on the PSP. First game has an English version, but the second Operation Bitter chocolate is only in JPN. Check your PM btw mate.
@MirkoOdora I was getting similar errors with Dying light. Although not strictly the same error dialog. Vaguely remember it was something along the same lines as device removed XXXXX hung. Something like that. My error was occuring before the game loaded, and for some weird reason it was fixed by disabling/removing the loading screens which finally enabled me to get into the game. Chances are it probably won't be offf any help to you though unfortunately MirkoOdora.
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@xyzg thanks. Found an archived post on reddit saying that completing a side objective (marked in blue on map) crashes the game. Unmarking the obj before completing solves it.
What's the Flowers of war JB?. I'm guessing it's a tbs game right?. Tried looking it up on the net but couldn't find anything game related. I do like a good tbs game myself heh. Does it happen to be related to the Christian Bale film of the same name?. Coincidentally I watched that film a month or two ago when it was showing late one night on telly and I ended up watching it. About a priest (Bale) who helps a group of women escape during the occupation of China by Japanese forces. Set amongst the backdrop of the 1937 Nanking massacre.
VC4 is a game I have still yet to finish. Your screenies are from the original game JB which I enjoyed back on the ps3. Bought it again when it was released on the PC too. I'm still only about half way through VC4, and have all the DLC missions to get through too. Suikoden is a title i've always wanted to play, managed to download it for the emulators a bunch of times now but never ever got round to start playing it over the years. There's quite a few titles in that franchise, but I don't think all of them have been translated into English unfortunately. I'll take a look at Metal Saga too, another one I haven't heard about.
Edit: Metal saga looks quite good actually JB. Nice one. Just saw an in game shot of the St bernard taking down a tank with that cannon strapped on his back lol.
So that great big massive barrel isn't just for show heh. How about the Front Mission games JB, you might like those, that's if you haven't already played them that is.Theres also Dynasty Tactics 1-2 on the PS2 (Based on the Dynasty Wars franchise) or something a bit more leftfield, are the R-Type Tactics games, but they are only on the PSP. First game has an English version, but the second Operation Bitter chocolate is only in JPN. Check your PM btw mate.
@MirkoOdora I was getting similar errors with Dying light. Although not strictly the same error dialog. Vaguely remember it was something along the same lines as device removed XXXXX hung. Something like that. My error was occuring before the game loaded, and for some weird reason it was fixed by disabling/removing the loading screens which finally enabled me to get into the game. Chances are it probably won't be offf any help to you though unfortunately MirkoOdora.
Oh that particular statement is similar to the introduction sequence in Valkyria Chronicles which is a really good game but it has some balancing issues and the ranking is wholly determined by turn count so you simply go with a few high-tier scouts and rush the victory condition which unless you have to do other stuff it makes many of the scenarios unintentionally comedic as a lone scout or a scout + APC single-turn map after map.
The sequels try to build on and improve the formula but were restricted by a focus on hand-held devices and these limits, third game wasn't even localized officially but has a fan translation patch.
Fourth game attempts to go back a bit but it has very uneven difficulty and surprise conditions making it unfair and overall pretty frustrating unless you know what's coming up and how to deal with it plus it re-threads and attempts to be the first game with a couple of additions and a bigger scope of the story overall.
They also made a spin-off but it plays more like a Warriors game.
Still really recommended, first game is a excellent little tactical and strategy mix but it can be broken easily and rewards around rank leads to scout rushing for maximizing gains.
Fourth game isn't terrible either but I found it overall weaker and the mid-mission interrupts and changes can sometimes really screw you over unless you have prior knowledge on what's going to happen.
Also the series doesn't hide that the games re-tell parts of the World War 2 conflict but dresses it up a bit though you might recognize a number of the campaigns and conflicts even if they have altered the names a bit.
EDIT: I'm not sure but I assume the origins of that quote is probably some older literature but I can't find anything specific from a few searches I tried doing on it.
Edit: Have you tried Banner or the Maid JB. Another small TBS title. Reminds me of Jean D'Arc on the old PSP. (Fictional historical TBS Setting). It seems to have fairly decent reviews, although some folk haev commented on it's sometimes unforgiving difficulty level. ie: some maps, are instant replay types by suddenly throwing a bunch of reinforcements at the unwitting player near the end of the level that you had no idea was coming. Forcing you to restart the level.. that sort of thing.
However, the graphics do look quite cute and looks quite nice overall I reckon.
Thank you for this one! Beat it in pretty much 2 days. What a great little game.
Edit: Have you tried Banner or the Maid JB. Another small TBS title. Reminds me of Jean D'Arc on the old PSP. (Fictional historical TBS Setting). It seems to have fairly decent reviews, although some folk haev commented on it's sometimes unforgiving difficulty level. ie: some maps, are instant replay types by suddenly throwing a bunch of reinforcements at the unwitting player near the end of the level that you had no idea was coming. Forcing you to restart the level.. that sort of thing.
However, the graphics do look quite cute and looks quite nice overall I reckon.
Thank you for this one! Beat it in pretty much 2 days. What a great little game.
cool dsergei!, i've still yet to play it. Will probably do so after C&C. Sounds good
Hope the 3rd one is more of a real game than this slightly out of focus kickstarter game.
While it was quite good some of the kickstarter factor (mostly on shrines to discover but also a bit on some locations) was cringy, to say the least. Still, when it was good it was indeed very good, some balance issues aside (like shit energy weapons, even maxed out with all the skills and perks, dafuq?) it was some of the most fun I've ever had with an RPG like this.
In the end it was a bit too easy (even taking Rose into THAT fight...) and me and my 10-12 NPC allies in that battle absolutely pulverized the enemy
Overall good stuff.
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i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then
custom mission made using FRED with latest media pack VP's and custom skybox which gives the illuson of a dogfight in an atmospheric setting. Freespace 2 Open/SCP
custom mission made using FRED with latest media pack VP's and custom skybox which gives the illuson of a dogfight in an atmospheric setting. Freespace 2 Open/SCP
I am going to have to look into the Freespace 2 mod scene it seems. I started playing Starpoint Gemini 3 but it is still only in Alpha and pretty rough but might have some potential unless the devs just give up on it.
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. He'll grow on you in no time 
edit: that vid showing the patch almosts doubles the current framerate, Nice 
Suppose it's good to know the games is well supported at least 
