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Play:

Rise of the Tomb Raider (PC) - admittedly my only experience with this
is on the N100 so beloved of high-end graphics hardware aficionados,
but in that context this runs like crap for a 2015 game (well, 2016 on
PC). Highly variable fps, input lag of literally seconds if the fps
drops too far, and an absolute collapse of performance when in combat.
Quite the combination. For it to remain vaguely playable on the N100
in all cases (that I've seen so far) you need to run it in 720p mode
with a maximised window and a scale setting of 25% or so (the scale
setting doesn't work with actual fullscreen, for some reason).
It is... technically possible to play like that, with the glorious
320x180-ish render scaled up to mostly fill the screen. Whether it's
worth playing like that might be more debatable.

Aside from the game not liking the hardware I'm running it on, at the
moment it very much seems to be more of the same as the 2013 Tomb
Raider, which is mostly a good thing as far as I'm concerned. But it's
kind of weird that it's running so badly, especially given that there
was an Xbox 360 version (which hardware-wise the N100 should be able
to outperform IIRC).

Want:

Nothing.

Bin:

RAM prices. I might not necessarily have been intending to upgrade
right this second, but (apparently) the fallout from OpenAI's
wafer-buying escapades certainly isn't encouraging me to do so.

-Rus.
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In article <zEY%Q.10637$n4I4.733@usenetxs.com>,
Russell Marks <zgedneil@spam^H^H^H^Hgmail.com> wrote:

Play:

Phantasy Star Online (DC) - Just for an hour or so because when my kid
wants to play Roblox it ties up my setup with all my regular consoles. Basically I spent a few minutes levelling up the kid's hunter, and I
recalled why I didn't really like the melee classes. It's fine when you
can go one-on-one with slow enemies, but once you're confronted with a
mob you can get overwhelmed very easily and have to spend a lot of time running away. A properly levelled-up spellcaster can just turn sideway,
cast two spells, and hit everything in sight with the appropriate
elemental damage before moving on. I'm reminded now that I have a
Gamecube save of Episode 2 that I need to get back to because I never
did finish the one Plus DLC mission that comes on the second edition of
that disc.

Hotel Barcelona (PS5) - Why does the game keep firing an error message
that I'm not subscribed to PSN? I don't *want* to be subscribed to PSN.
This isn't an error state, this is intentional. The last time I found a
game that didn't properly acknowledge an offline mode it was the Beijing
2008 Olympics tie-in game on the PS3 that required you to yank out the
network cable to make the offline mode go. I'm genuinely angry enough
that I don't remember what otherwise should have been a really nice
Hades clone. Why did they release this game in this state?

Want:

All the PS4 Yakuza games (PS4) - I mean, I own them already. But the
reissues have been reprinted multiple times and the 'Greatest Hits' PS4
discs are absurdly cheap and plentiful. This is on my mind because the original editions of Yakuza 0 and the two Kiwami games are essentially delisted from digital platforms, so if you want to buy new you get only
the revised versions with some content and story changes that are sure
not to please people. For sure Sega owns the property outright and gets
to have final say on what constitutes a definitive version of the game,
but when it comes to the properties I really care about I'm strongly
motivated to have backup copies in hand just in case.

Bin:

RAM prices. I might not necessarily have been intending to upgrade
right this second, but (apparently) the fallout from OpenAI's
wafer-buying escapades certainly isn't encouraging me to do so.

The recent rumour that Samsung would get out of the SATA SSD business as
a result of RAM pricing was supposedly debunked. I'm hoping that the
shortage is followed, per pattern, by an oversupply. Of course, that
would need a crowd of eager and flush buyers to make it work.

-KKC, who has a pile of new Atelier games to try out.
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