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Are videogames for children?

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Zaryiu said:
I got gift cards really recently and i need to get an opinion which of the following would you say are more worth buying of these;
Dragon Ball FighterZ, Elite Dangerous, Gundam Versus, Fire Pro Wrestling World and Persona 5.

Oh and if you could anwser by January 1st 1am (Mountain time) that would help me feel less stressed
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Persona 5.

Cause.
 
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Has anyone been keeping with how Artifact continues to bleed players day after day? It is quite the spectacle to see that people are still defending the monetization of the game, even though it's one of the reasons why people are leaving the game. Not to mention people trying to make the game seem like an investment tool like physical TCGs, sometimes even comparing it to Bitcoin, even though you can't really cash out since you can only sell the cards for Steam money, unless you do some shady third-party transactions.
 
NVIDIA G-SYNC now Supports FreeSync/VESA Adaptive-Sync Technology
Updated by btarunr Today, 05:24 Updated: Today, 06:34 Discuss (16 Comments)
NVIDIA finally got around to realizing that the number of monitors with VESA adaptive-sync overwhelmingly outnumber those supporting NVIDIA G-Sync, and is going ahead with adding support for adaptive-sync monitors. This however, comes with a big rider. NVIDIA is not immediately going to unlock adaptive-sync to all monitors, just the ones it has tested and found to work "perfectly" with their hardware. NVIDIA announced that it has found a handful of the 550+ monitor models in the market that support adaptive-sync, and has enabled support to them. Over time, as it tests more monitors, support for these monitors will be added through GeForce driver updates, as a "certified" monitor.

At their CES event, the company provided a list of monitors that they already tested and that fulfill all requirements. G-Sync support for these models from Acer, ASUS, AOC, Agon and BenQ will be automatically enabled with a driver update on January 15th.

Update: We received word from NVIDIA that you can manually enable G-SYNC on all Adaptive-Sync monitors, even non-certified ones: "For gamers who have monitors that we have not yet tested, or that have failed validation, we'll give you an option to manually enable VRR, too."


https://www.techpowerup.com/251237/nvidia-g-sync-now-supports-freesync-vesa-adaptive-sync-technology
 
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G-Sync is still a thing?

Also. fuck Quake, let's play Mario Party.

 
A Mashed Potato said:
G-Sync is still a thing?
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Sadly yes. If you want VRR on an Nvidia gpu then you need a G-Sync monitor, which are almost always exorbitantly expensive and limited in connectivity (early G-Sync monitors came with only 1 Displayport IIRC, nowadays they only come with 1 HDMI and 1 DP port).

This is pretty much a gamechanger because TVs are now beginning to get Freesync too.
 
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neural said:
Sadly yes. If you want VRR on an Nvidia gpu then you need a G-Sync monitor, which are almost always exorbitantly expensive and limited in connectivity (early G-Sync monitors came with only 1 Displayport IIRC, nowadays they only come with 1 HDMI and 1 DP port).

This is pretty much a gamechanger because TVs are now beginning to get Freesync too.
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G-Sync was a baller move to get rid of their stock of Keppler chips. Can't put them in cards and sell 'em, so put them into shitty TN-screens and say 144hz is the best.
 
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Want to get into the Witcher series but don't know where to start. Should I play in any particular order? Any entries that I should skip/are a must play?
 
Feeling emo again, so let's play more Mario Party.

 
Thiletonomics said:
Has anyone been keeping with how Artifact continues to bleed players day after day? It is quite the spectacle to see that people are still defending the monetization of the game, even though it's one of the reasons why people are leaving the game. Not to mention people trying to make the game seem like an investment tool like physical TCGs, sometimes even comparing it to Bitcoin, even though you can't really cash out since you can only sell the cards for Steam money, unless you do some shady third-party transactions.
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I bought the game when it came out because I was interested in it, but I have to admit that I've had more fun following its massive failure on reddit and 4chan than actually playing the game. Valve really overestimated themselves and the game is turning out to be one of the biggest failures I've ever seen. It will take a miracle for them to right the ship.
 
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usoland said:
I bought the game when it came out because I was interested in it, but I have to admit that I've had more fun following its massive failure on reddit and 4chan than actually playing the game. Valve really overestimated themselves and the game is turning out to be one of the biggest failures I've ever seen. It will take a miracle for them to right the ship.
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Yeah, I feel the same way too, with recent games as a whole. And it's a really bad omen when the drama in a game's community is way more fun than playing the actual game itself.

To be fair though, at least other recent game failures, i.e. Fallout 76, Battlefield V, Activision Blizzard as a whole going down the toilet, drew some attention away from Artifact, but I'm not sure how much more attention the game would have got had those other failures not happened, given how the DOTA and TCG communities as a whole are small compared to other games.
 
The best part about artifacts failure is they had hearthstone to blatantly rip off if they wanted a decent method of getting people to buy fake cards. It's a shame when a company like valve can't even get it right when you hand them a cheat sheet
 
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gobbogobb said:
The best part about artifacts failure is they had hearthstone to blatantly rip off if they wanted a decent method of getting people to buy fake cards. It's a shame when a company like valve can't even get it right when you hand them a cheat sheet
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I'm not sure how much Richard Garfield had say over the monetization of the game, given how MTG began the whole card pack deal with TCGs, and calling other F2P games (i.e. Hearthstone, and I think he even mentioned DOTA 2, in which Artifact is based off of) as "skinnerware".
 
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