tuxfool

• The roll is way better than the dodge. (Ciri's dodge is the best thing ever, though.)

@sanity: @korwin:It's been a bad year for AMD, and it's to the point that I really can't recommend them at all. Nvidia clubs them out of the gate with day one driver support, and while all dual GPU setups have a tendency to be some flavor of weird at any given moment, Crossfire tends to be "intense, mind shattering regret" flavored.

Just pony up the extra for Big Green, people. AMD always looks so competitive and cost effective on paper, but they've been striking out on the execution. It's just not worth the frustration.

Sadly, it's getting time for a full PC overhaul for me, so while I could drop a 980 in there and make my woes go away, I'd rather wait a bit to just rip it all out and start from fresh. Games still perform well...eventually.

There is none of that in the sidequests though. The complaint is totally valid in games like Inquisition and it's something I was really worried about but Witcher 3 actually doesn't do that. All of the sidequests have a narrative context, often with at least one choice, or neat background info to explore. It also does a great job transitioning from main story to sidequest stuff too. There is one character in the second area that is part of the main quest. Once you're done with that you get a completely optional follow up questline with that character that concludes the narrative arc of that person (at least for the moment). It is really involved and of a quality that most other RPGs don't have in their main quest. It really is the best RPG I have played in a long time and if it can keep up the quality of the writing, characters and quest design this will end up being one of my favorite games of all time.

Apart from the two distance scaling settings in GTA V I don't consider that game to be all that demanding, it scales well to most hardware. I'll be curious to see what the end performance result will be on sli 980's because I'm still skeptical. I have a 980 and I'm only expecting to have it run maxed at 1080/60. If it's really that optimized and can run that smooth on sli at 4k then I should be able to play just fine at 1440p

There won't be loading screens as you're exploring the open world (even the towns are seamlessly connected to the wilds) or when going from indoors to outdoors, but you'll hit a loading screen during fast travel or when loading a save.

My understanding is that you get load times when you (a) fast travel or (b) die and reload. Generally speaking though, as long as you're just running around, you don't get load screens, even if you enter a building.

@tuxfool: Some quick googling and I got this.

It was originally going to be 40 GB

@tuxfool: Yeah, that's what I meant. I enjoyed the first half. The second half, not so much. The One Reborn looks a lot like the sky is taking a huge shit on the ground.

I'm glad there is somebody else out there who feels the same way I did/do about this game. The first half was pretty cool. Then the Sci-fi Fantasy setting didn't make any fucking sense. It was a huge fucking turnoff to me. The boss fights became more ridiculous, the covenants were pretty useless, and every "class" in the game plays out the same. In the end, just to get done with it, I submitted my life to him. To this day, it's still a gold trophy on PSN. I couldn't bring myself to play it again. It has since then been traded in. I don't regret getting rid of Bloodborne.