The Last of Us Part 2
WOW. I said I would never play it after the initial leaks, but what a mistake that would have been. Although I'm glad I waited for the PC release. Looks great. Runs great (frame gen looks horrible, but you don't need it). HDR looked great.
It's your typical Sony "movie...
The dodge/parry QTE thing is just awful. Another victim of the "everything has to be Dark Souls" era we find ourselves in. Like most games with "parrying" forced into them, it would have been much better without it.
I do disagree with your flashy graphics comment though. I thought the graphics...
It's not the early 2000s anymore. Wireless has come a long way. Logitech and Razer wireless gaming mice (and probably others, I don't follow the mouse market) have hardly any additional lag and are used by a number of professional FPS players. I guarantee that you'd fail to pick between wired...
Game runs like absolute ass. It looks pretty good, but it's nothing jaw dropping either. Nowhere near good enough looking to justify the performance. I'm getting 70-80 fps at 4k DLSS Performance max settings on a stock-ish clock 4090. Seems like frame rates get slightly worse after the beginning...
The Last of Us Part 2. I said I was never going to play it after the infamous leaks happened, but here I am. About half way through so far and glad I changed my mind.
Borderlands 2 did exactly that 13 years ago. Blizzard has been doing it for like 2 decades. Fighting games have "paywalled" characters for quite some time. The precedent for this has long been set.
Final Fantasy 16 + DLCs
Decided to give this a go after loving FF7 remake/rebirth. What a slog it was. Endless cutscenes. There were times I'd sit through a cutscene, regain control of the character, then walk 100 feet to a door only to trigger another cutscene. The go-fetch side quests were...