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While AIgen images may probably not eventually lose their characteristic flaws, DLSS 5 needs to run in real time on consumer hardware, which means it will always look like shit. I suspect that no games will ever use DLSS 5 except for the ones Nvidia pays to pretend the product is good.
General Zigger said:
I also noticed they didn't show off any non-human characters, moving characters/scenes
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They did, and they look even worse than the curated snapshots. Also the goblin character in Hogwarts Legacy was mostly unaffected by the filter.
 
General Zigger said:
I have as you can see from my avatar, and what I mean is that for example in ComfyUI when I prompt "Young gen-Z man in a military general uniform, ambiguous race, with broccoli hair, photorealistic style" I get significantly different responses between Model A, Model B, and Model C.
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Throwing text into an image model and hoping for the best is a lot different than using image-to-image generation with custom LoRAs. The reason you're not controlling the output is you're not using any of the tools available to you to control the output.

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I don't think this is a point either for or against this new DLSS 5 tech
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We currently have zero knowledge of what tools DLSS5 actually gives developers. Everybody is assuming that it's just going to paste the same face on every character because they've seen a 4-minute video showing the dramatic possibilities with old games. So far, DLSS has been a consistent winner once the outrage brigade gets done shitting its pants.

General Zigger said:
I also noticed they didn't show off any non-human characters, moving characters/scenes
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The reveal video opens with panning around a forest in Assassin's Creed, and they show the camera walking through a town in Oblivion.

volatile puar said:
DLSS 5 needs to run in real time on consumer hardware, which means it will always look like shit.
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Only needs to look better than transforming bitmaps using wireframes and filters, which it does. Whiners have already resorted to examining pixels on a frame by frame basis because the effect's too dramatic to just wave away. If somebody's argument is that I should be mad because a girl's lip creases look kind of weird if you freeze the frame and zoom in with a 48x magnifier, he's lost me.
 
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So why exactly are people so excited for Crimson Desert? I'm into open world games but haven't really heard anything about this til this most recent week. What other games is it similar to?
 
EmpGulcasa said:
So why exactly are people so excited for Crimson Desert? I'm into open world games but haven't really heard anything about this til this most recent week. What other games is it similar to?
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I watched the trailer and impulse bought it so I'm going in pretty blind. After 3 hours it's definitely interesting. It feels sort of similar to Breath of the Wild with Oblivion but even that doesn't feel like a complete description. I have a feeling I'll be playing a lot more and can elaborate further in the future. The graphics/atmosphere are great so far.
 
Just finished Just Cause 3 and for a decade old game it still holds up. It is, of course, repetitive and if you don't like open world games you'll probably bounce off it but somehow the act of blowing shit up never got hold. I still have 2 of the 3 DLC to finish but my only real complaints would be the collectibles being kinda boring, the gliding/plane controls sucking and the setting being a bit dull.
 
EmpGulcasa said:
Just finished Just Cause 3
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Just Cause 4 is supposedly more of the same if you are enjoying it, but for me it was one of those games that I picked up, played for two hours, then never touched it again. Not sure why, nothing in particular stood out as being horrible, but also nothing stood out as amazing either.
 
General Zigger said:
Just Cause 4 is supposedly more of the same if you are enjoying it, but for me it was one of those games that I picked up, played for two hours, then never touched it again. Not sure why, nothing in particular stood out as being horrible, but also nothing stood out as amazing either.
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JC4 also was very lacking in polish on launch, and I don't know if those issues were ever fixed in patches.
 
General Zigger said:
Just Cause 4 is supposedly more of the same if you are enjoying it, but for me it was one of those games that I picked up, played for two hours, then never touched it again. Not sure why, nothing in particular stood out as being horrible, but also nothing stood out as amazing either.
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That was my experience the first time I tried to play JC3 as well. Not sure what changed but something just clicked this time.
 
EmpGulcasa said:
So why exactly are people so excited for Crimson Desert? I'm into open world games but haven't really heard anything about this til this most recent week. What other games is it similar to?
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Take the non story elements of RDR2, the world of Witcher 3, and Zelda plus mix in some Kingdom Come Deliverance and you get Crimson Desert. The story is crap and the game does not hold your hand, but I am personally really liking it so far because I am a sucker for sandbox open world exploration, interactions, and systems. Controls and UI take time getting used to. It is definitely one of those games you will either love or hate. Very polarizing.

Comes from the same devs of Black Desert Online. If you liked that, then you will like Crimson Desert.
 
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Sometimes a game has sound effects so fucking good that you get some kind of retarded nourisment from it.

I'm playing Warhammer Darktide right now (75% off on Steam btw, also on the low tier Gamepass on Xbox) and I fucking love the sound of chainsawing an armored enemy to death. The saw itself when you turn it on, and then the mixed chaotic squeal of both metal and flesh when you actually murder the fucker. I'm thinking of making it a ringtone or something.
 
Lurkerish Kandor said:
I just saw that DORF, an upcoming RTS that's like Red Alert 2 if everything was 'to-scale', opened up a Kickstarter to raise funds after years of quiet development. It was fully funded within 14 hours.
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I know very little about Kickstarter first hand because I don't use the site, but I'm well aware it very often gets used for dodgy behaviour.

Question to people here who  do pay attention to and back things on Kickstarter:
Does this seem dodgy to you? A game in development for years suddenly putting up a KS, and then getting fully funded in half a day? Something about this rubs me the wrong way, but I don't know enough to know if this is normal.
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I don't follow Kickstarter, but I've been following this game's development a long time on their personal social media, they've worked on the game for years without a dime. They are 100% trustworthy.

Pay up little piggy gamers they are GODS and what they are doing is DIVINE WORK
 
The Mass Shooter Ron Soye said:
Niche Gamer: SSR Wives developer accuses investor of firing staff and stealing project (archive)
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Niche Gamer: SSR Wives investor threatens legal action against original creator (archive) (mega)
Last year, SSR Wives was taken over by Jozef Gherman, an investor who has previously worked with AI products. The developer of the game “Protag” was removed from the project, along with other developers to allegedly replace them with cheap labor and AI.

It’s worth mentioning that Gherman is the founder of “StealthGPT” an AI chatbot that markets itself as a writing tool that can fool readers, and has been charged by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) for soliciting approximately $300,000 from investors based on “false and misleading statements”. You can read the full statement from the CFTC here.
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https://x.com/ssrwives/status/2034758138893935074 (archive) (ghost) (mega) (nitter)
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I am playing Ninja Gaiden 4 right now.... Man, they really tried their best to erase Ryu. I mean the new guy is okay, but this is Ninja Gaiden, I wanna play as Hayabusa. Also, this game seems much easier than the previous game.
 
EmpGulcasa said:
So why exactly are people so excited for Crimson Desert? I'm into open world games but haven't really heard anything about this til this most recent week. What other games is it similar to?
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Pretty much all of the praise I have seen of the game has been extremely superficial culture war nonsense. "In this game you can make a hot woman character" "In this game you can beat up women NPCs".

Very little about the actual story and gameplay.
 
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