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 Topic: Where Winds Meet (online-only F2P) |
Kezmark
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 Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Sat, 22nd Nov 2025 19:11 Subject: Where Winds Meet (online-only F2P) |
| There is a story you can follow sure, and there are other smaller stories as well. The story mode isn't fully released yet, as they seem to be releasing it in stages but you can complete the first reg ... |
| Topic: Where Winds Meet (online-only F2P) |
Kezmark
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Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Sat, 22nd Nov 2025 14:47 Subject: Where Winds Meet (online-only F2P) |
| The more I play the more I like it. Boss battles are more interesting later on and yeah, it's kind of hard not to ignore its issues, when the important stuff is solid. Also helps that the game isn't p ... |
| Topic: Where Winds Meet (online-only F2P) |
Kezmark
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Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Tue, 18th Nov 2025 16:19 Subject: Where Winds Meet (online-only F2P) |
| PVP feels horrible so far. A lot of it might have something to do with people knowing the game from china, and just having the builds, but so far my experience is that every single fight, win or lose ... |
| Topic: Where Winds Meet (online-only F2P) |
Kezmark
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Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Sun, 16th Nov 2025 10:51 Subject: Where Winds Meet (online-only F2P) |
| Normal enemies become really spongy as you level up the realm, and that's really disappointing. It might be because I've not been following the main quest to be fair, but it is annoying either way. |
| Topic: Where Winds Meet (online-only F2P) |
Kezmark
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Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Sat, 15th Nov 2025 22:10 Subject: Where Winds Meet (online-only F2P) |
| Like I said, if you like wuxia you're probably going to like it since there's not much alternative anyway, especially in the west. If not, and you're not a mobile game zombie, you're going to be put o ... |
| Topic: Where Winds Meet (online-only F2P) |
Kezmark
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Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Sat, 15th Nov 2025 21:46 Subject: Where Winds Meet (online-only F2P) |
| It could have been a good game if it was singleplayer with a price tag. Unfortunately it isn't. It's a free to play asian mobile game, or at least has the skin of one, over the fairly competent gamepl ... |
| Topic: Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader |
Kezmark
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Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Thu, 13th Nov 2025 20:43 Subject: Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader |
| The Lex Imperialis DLC is awful so far. The writing is terrible, with a lot more modern speech in it, or current rather than modern I suppose. Either way, it's the most pushed your RT is into being al ... |
| Topic: The Outer Worlds 2 |
Kezmark
Replies: 191
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Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Tue, 11th Nov 2025 11:11 Subject: The Outer Worlds 2 |
| I dropped it around where I would assume would be halfway through. The game just kind of dragged. It wasn't particularly bad, it just outlasted its stay and didn't offer anything particularly interest ... |
| Topic: Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader |
Kezmark
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Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Sun, 9th Nov 2025 14:53 Subject: Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader |
Well, I'm back to playing it after a looong time. The Outer worlds 2 got so old after a while that I needed a palate cleanser.
And this is really depressing cause again, the prologue and whatever ... |
| Topic: The GPU Discussion thread! |
Kezmark
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Forum: Hardware Zone Posted: Mon, 3rd Nov 2025 17:11 Subject: The GPU Discussion thread! |
I mean it's kind of always been that way that the laptop version is kind of the equivalent of then next lower gpu desktop version, but it's not quite the same.
I'm also going to say, that what ... |
| Topic: The GPU Discussion thread! |
Kezmark
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Forum: Hardware Zone Posted: Sun, 2nd Nov 2025 19:11 Subject: The GPU Discussion thread! |
| I mean, we're unlikely to see the next generation of gpus until 2027. |
| Topic: The Outer Worlds 2 |
Kezmark
Replies: 191
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Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Sat, 1st Nov 2025 05:00 Subject: The Outer Worlds 2 |
| Does stealing get noticed? In my experience, if you're crouched... you might as well be invisible and you can steal everything. But god-forbid you steal something while standing up. Even if you're alo ... |
| Topic: The Outer Worlds 2 |
Kezmark
Replies: 191
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Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Thu, 30th Oct 2025 13:30 Subject: The Outer Worlds 2 |
This helped completely fix noisy shadows/lights for me and further increased performance : https://www.reddit.com/r/theouterworlds/comments/1og2az4/fixing_outer_worlds_2_image_noise_with_dlss_ray/
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| Topic: The Outer Worlds 2 |
Kezmark
Replies: 191
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Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Wed, 29th Oct 2025 11:27 Subject: The Outer Worlds 2 |
| I wasn't trying to imply they had pronouns. It's just I didn't want to spoil, even though it isn't much of a spoiler. I haven't really encountered the pronoun nonsense so far, outside of the typical g ... |
| Topic: The Outer Worlds 2 |
Kezmark
Replies: 191
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Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Wed, 29th Oct 2025 09:40 Subject: The Outer Worlds 2 |
| I'm still playing it. Which is surprising to me. It's kind of inoffensive and I think it kind of has the same thing going for it that Fallout 4 had, where despite it not being a particularly good rpg ... |
| Topic: The Outer Worlds 2 |
Kezmark
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Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Mon, 27th Oct 2025 12:07 Subject: The Outer Worlds 2 |
I mean, it isn't fine, is it ? You're talking about running a game that looks like a 2015 game with mid-high settings and dlls +framegen to get 60 fps at 1440p.
By the way, if you aren't getting 6 ... |
| Topic: The Outer Worlds 2 |
Kezmark
Replies: 191
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Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Mon, 27th Oct 2025 08:00 Subject: The Outer Worlds 2 |
| Played the prologue last night. It's whatever. It's not the worst thing, at least not in the prologue. It does however feel like they're trying too hard to do the funny. The shooting is serviceable. T ... |
| Topic: The Outer Worlds 2 |
Kezmark
Replies: 191
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Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Sun, 26th Oct 2025 17:20 Subject: The Outer Worlds 2 |
| Using Denuvo on a game like this would likely cost them more than they'd make on the sales. Realistically this is just another Gamepass game to make it look like it has any value. If anything, not hav ... |
| Topic: Hades II |
Kezmark
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Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Sat, 25th Oct 2025 14:59 Subject: Hades II |
Yeah, not sure I care if they change they ending at this point. They would have to make a fairly significant change for it to be worth it.
Anyway, I "finished" it in the meantime and yeah, I'd giv ... |
| Topic: Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 |
Kezmark
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Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Wed, 22nd Oct 2025 14:12 Subject: Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 |
This. Funny how suddenly people idolize part one while that one was a huge failure.
It's not sudden. Not for me. It's my favorite game ever and has been top 3 at least since release. But hey wh ... |
| Topic: Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 |
Kezmark
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Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Wed, 22nd Oct 2025 11:56 Subject: Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 |
That's just nonsense. Combat in first one was atrocious in the last chapters, with repeating enemies and long, pointless corridors.
You're exaggerating. But also, I highly doubt you've reached th ... |
| Topic: Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 |
Kezmark
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Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Wed, 22nd Oct 2025 09:40 Subject: Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 |
| And you know what? I get how a lot of people won't take a lot of this shit in mind, since it sounds inoffensive. But my god did this game piss me off the whole time I played it. Everything about it. I ... |
| Topic: Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 |
Kezmark
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Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Wed, 22nd Oct 2025 09:19 Subject: Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 |
Also, cause I was too generous with the game by not mentioning the awful tutorial area.
You know the whole don't kill them by feeding? You know, to give in to the beast bit?
Oh, well you just ... |
| Topic: Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 |
Kezmark
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Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Wed, 22nd Oct 2025 07:38 Subject: Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 |
Yeah I mean ... all this masquarade talk, and me giving it a run for like 1 hour or whatever was just so bad.
Walk out of the tutorial area, run up to the homeless to inform him how disgusting she ... |
| Topic: Hades II |
Kezmark
Replies: 51
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Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Tue, 21st Oct 2025 16:02 Subject: Hades II |
| Ok, so the game was getting old and I looked up the ending. I think I made the right choice, since if I continued playing and that was the ending, I would absolutely hate the game. You way undersold h ... |
| Topic: ARC Raiders (PvPvE) |
Kezmark
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Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Mon, 20th Oct 2025 12:22 Subject: ARC Raiders (PvPvE) |
| I mean, their other game, the finals, also ran well. So really, it's not much of a surprise. Also, it's not like the game is some incredible graphical masterpiece, but it looks good enough for what it ... |
| Topic: Hades II |
Kezmark
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Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Thu, 16th Oct 2025 17:31 Subject: Hades II |
I didn't care for the ending. It was too forced and made everything feel rather pointless.
Some narrative threads were left up in the air and I'm not sure if you have to play more to get some expl ... |
| Topic: Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 |
Kezmark
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Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Tue, 14th Oct 2025 20:43 Subject: Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 |
Which immersive sim has npc's with pathfinding? Prey? Bioshock? Bloodlines? Deus Ex? System Shock? Even amongst regular rpgs, you only have Gothic series, and Bethesda games after Morrowind.
Yo ... |
| Topic: Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 |
Kezmark
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Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Tue, 14th Oct 2025 16:38 Subject: Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 |
| I wouldn't put too much faith in the report of Codextroons. This particular one is later complaining that npc are all standing the same place. Just like in practically every other jpg, Fallout, BG 1-2 ... |
| Topic: Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 |
Kezmark
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Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Tue, 14th Oct 2025 11:52 Subject: Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 |
That's kind of what I expected. Ok-ish combat with weak writing and characters, and a lack of the atmosphere that made the original.
So I don't know what he expected, cause I can't see how you can ... |
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