Going to tag @neonpizza (as an outspoken fan of glasses free 3D) & @JaxonH (as a fan of cool gaming tech whatever it may be) in on this.
Apparently the dream of glasses free 3D isn't dead yet, as Acer apparently has a series of stereoscopic 3D monitors & (gaming) laptops. Dozens of games are supposedly compatible with the effect & they claim to support new titles every week (including games like God of War, Forza Horizon 4 & 5, Octopath Traveller, & Abzu).
Appears to be super expensive though, as the monitors are around $1,100, & each laptop model over $3,500.
Wild Hearts is looking like another high profile PC port dud. Really bad year for us so far. Fingers crossed Atomic Heart is our saviour, they had some very reasonable PC specs, so we'll have to see if this game is actually properly optimised when it finally comes around.
Currently playing a LOT of Marvel Snap on Mobile and The Last of Us Part 2 (pray for me).
Sadly, despite Atomic Heart being seemingly the first well optimised PC port we got this year, as a game it looks like another clanger. Some of the stuff I've seen people talking about makes me wonder what the hell the devs were even thinking, and whether it is even working as it should. Even if it is working as intended, it is clearly pretty ***** and assuming it isn't baked in too deeply, I am crossing my fingers a massive rebalancing patch will be dropped post launch. Either way, I am glad this is on Gamepass. I feel like I can pretty safely give this a miss, and then later in the year if there is a more quiet stretch I can jump into this with really nothing to lose. Other than my own time.
Currently playing a LOT of Marvel Snap on Mobile and The Last of Us Part 2 (pray for me).
I would love to present to you guys 2 PC games that are absolute HIDDEN GEMS!
1. Kingdom Under Fire: War of Heroes - This RTS was forgotten and almost unplayable because it was a hell to install on a modern PC. I just found out that in December 2022 they released in STEAM! I really hope they make a GOG version as well!
2. Rising Kingdoms - This is another wonderful 2D RTS game that looks hand drawn! It made my the studio that is responsible for Tzar: The burden of the Crown, Celtic Kings, Tropico, Victor Vran. This game is really close to me because the studio is Bulgarian and we do not have many game development studios here, except for some Ubisoft branches that focus on AA games. I also wait for a GOG version
FlatOut
FlatOut 2
FlatOut 3
FlatOut 4: Total Insanity
FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage
Grow Home
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell (yes I did get the widescreen fix)
Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb
Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine
Portal
As anyone who cross posts between here and Push Square has already heard me moaning about a lot since, after a hyper fixation on The Last of Us Parts 1 and 2 over the last several weeks, I have been wandering around lost ever since not sure what to play.
I grabbed Gamepass for PC again, tried a bunch of stuff, none of it clicked.
Then I remembered bought Red Dead 2 on PC ages ago (I played through it on release on PS4 and never since again). Maybe going into something like this after The Last of Us is not the best idea, but palette cleansers through contrast weren't working for me either, so going for maybe my third favourite character arc in a video game after Joel and Ellie's might tied me over until the new releases start picking up again.
The game looks, and runs, great on PC which I appreciate as I feel like 2023 has been like a two decade regression so far of brand new PC ports that all run like absolute *****, even when running a rig that costs as much as my down payment for my house.
Red Dead 2 already blew my mind on PS4 from a technical standpoint, now playing it in 4K 60ish fps at highish settings 'insert that guy saying OMG Wow' meme here.
Sadly, while it is technically great, it is one of many PC ports where the game clearly had a lot of care put into it on a controller, but the PC key bindings just seem to be shat out all over the place kinda randomly. You can rebind all your keys, but there are so many inputs in Red Dead 2 for some reason that require dedicated inputs, rather than just allowing you to overlap inputs. So like for example I got into a brawl and it wanted me to use like the F key to do punches and then some other key along the keyboard to block? Yeah, no thanks.
You could probably resolve some things by making a series of macros so you can bunch inputs together with modifiers like you could on a controller, but I find it annoying whenever a PC Port basically leaves it to the player to make it work on a keyboard and mouse.
I didn't want to switch over to a controller because I knew there was no gyro (or at least none in game, you can try and create a gyro scheme through Steam directly or 3rd party apps, but they are often not the easiest to set up and getting working in as a complete way as properly implemented gyro by the devs).
However, I also forgot that despite the game featuring a lot of shooting, the shooting in Red Dead 2 is sorta more of a quick time event where you just press a button to snap to a target and then click the shoot button to kill them. This isn't about precise headshots, or specific target weak point stuff, they have created a shooting system which has kinda removed the need for aiming entirely. Kinda weird, but it means I can just enjoy the game on a controller.
Enjoying on a controller also means I can be unshackled from my desk, throw the game onto my PC TV, jump into my recliner and play like a king, so winner all around.
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Platforms:Nintendo Switch, PC
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Tech nerd. Meme enjoyer. Media connoisseur.
Platforms:Nintendo Switch, PC
I may post sporadically, but I'll try to reply as soon as I can!
AKA SlashFuture
Survivor of: Moose Club, Cola Wars, MatPat Invasion, Dwight Schrute Hijacking
And... Call of Duty just dropped the 3 missing games onto Steam (Modern Warfare, Vanguard and one other), all of them on sale for $29.99 each. Not sure which of them support mouse gyro with analog and which don't.
Bout time. Man I hope this Microsoft deal goes through so we can get CoD on Switch 2 with gyro aiming. Who knows if that'll ever happen though with Sony on the prowl desperately trying to screw us out of getting it.
@RR529
Didn't see your post til now. I didn't know they were still making them and certainly didn't know they were glasses free. Without it working well for every game though, I doubt it'll ever catch on. Unfortunately.
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