yakuza 0 For just over £10 on steam

There's one I want and don't have!

Yeah. I now own one more game I'm never going to get around to playing.

That's kinda why I have so many games I don't want; I've lost count of how many bundles I've bought just to chuck a dollar to a charity.

That is good, eg minit is a fine game
Hotline Miami 2 is shit though

Black Friday next month so guess there will be deals around then

Alex Evans said that the game would basically run at fast as it could, and that Dreams on the Pro would be at 60FPS more of the time.

It does seem like it might be somewhat limited by the CPU power of the current consoles sadly, would be wonderful if it or a successor could be on the PC one day.

I think that’s pretty much a given, but then it’s also a given that within a year or two of the consoles being out, PC processors will advance beyond them and we’ll be in the same boat.

My understanding was that the major leap in chip tech came about with the switch from Jaguar to Ryzen chips, which was just starting to happen at the start of this console gen, but both PS4 and Bone went with Jaguar chips rather than the brand spanking new tech which would have cost a great deal more, understandably. So they weren’t exactly behind, they just weren’t on the cutting edge.

I do stand to be corrected on that.

The current consoles (not the X or Pro updates) came out at the end of 2013, the Ryzen architechture launched at the start of 2017. So there wasn't the choice there really. Jaguar was designed as a low power mobile process IIRC, the other desktop architectures were pretty crap though, too power hungry and low performing compared to Intel at that time. AMD are really starting to kick the shit out of the competition in that regard now though, 7nm will be a big one..

When the update to new silicon comes to the consoles it will be a massive leap forward in capability, and allow much greater complexity and frame rates. Assuming Dreams has forward compatility I think that will probably be a really good demonstration of the difference, they've worked miracles getting as far as they have with the PS4 as far as I can tell.

I vaguely remember Heretic being in the works for the Jaguar but that might've been hearsay.

Paul the sparky wrote:

I'm definitely a console guy, love the distinct lack of faffing about, but even I'd think twice about calling someone who built their own PC a heretic.

Ha. Autocorrect from hearsay.

Noting wrong with building a PC, it's configuring each game that's too much hassle.

I didn’t think there was a 60FPS option in RDR?

Yoss, just saying the Bone X is a good deal everyday.

Paul the sparky wrote:

AJ wrote:

Paul the sparky wrote:

I'm definitely a console guy, love the distinct lack of faffing about, but even I'd think twice about calling someone who built their own PC a heretic.

Ha. Autocorrect from hearsay. Noting wrong with building a PC, it's configuring each game that's too much hassle.

Yeah, the actual selecting of parts and building of the PC definitely has its appeal, but the rest of it gives me the shits. Driver updates fucking things up? No ta.

i think the 'hassle' of PC gaming is over-egged, windows and steam will pretty much take care of themselves in much the same way the consoles do. The only hassle is if you get caught up in fiddling with graphics settings, though most (big) games will do a decent auto-setting.
Still, console gaming is a bit simpler, just because you know someone has already picked the best settings for you and you don't have to worry about it....plus for me, the pc still doesn't fit in the living room/big tv set up, so console games on the couch is much more comfortable.