Any Gamers Here?

[thecatumbrella]

Found this tonight. Made me laugh. I've played 3 Kingdom Hearts games, and I still got half of them wrong!

 

[jnicholes]

I have to admit, I’m excited.

This concerns card games, not PC games or video games.

I’ve had a deck revolving around the Toon archetype for a long time. They’re finally releasing new support for toons! I’m really excited. I just wonder when it’s gonna make it to the US.

 

[jnicholes]

I had to go to the hospital for mental health reasons. I’m OK now, I’m just a little shaken from what happened. In an attempted distract, I am going to pose a riddle that revolves around a PC game I played today.

What did I sacrifice to beat the 2nd to last boss in Majestic chess?

A: a pawn
B: a Knight
C: a Queen
D: a Bishop

 

[Florida Bullfrog]

Cyberpunk 2077 got a dedicated PS5 Pro patch today. It jacks up the detail and ray tracing. Looks great.

Now I’ve learned something about my TV. I was getting terrible motion blur on Cyberpunk after the update. No one else was reporting it so I wondered if it was a TV issue. As it was related to motion, I wondered if it was my TV’s VRR. So I turned off the VRR and when I did, I saw that the VRR was effectively blurring the picture and lessening the sharpening effects of the newest system update that added the PSSR 2.0 upscaling. Some on-line research indicated that its a quirk of my specific TV model (TCL QM7).

So I went back and tried a bunch of games with VRR turned off and they all look much sharper.

So if you’re on the market for a gaming TV, make sure its known to have good VRR implementation. I would say that prior to the PSSR 2.0 update, I couldn’t see a sharpness difference with or without the VRR and I got the benefit of the added smoothness. Now with the PSSR 2.0, I’m missing out more by running VRR than what I gain by running it. For whatever reason, the games seem just as smooth with VRR turned off. The TV did have a firmware update several weeks ago so between the TV update and the PS system update, maybe the VRR had been rendered unnecessary? Or perhaps my early experience with VRR was a placebo effect? I cannot say. All I can say is my games all look much better with VRR turned off and yet they still run smooth.

 

[Florida Bullfrog]

How times have changed. The above is the allosaurus from Jurassic Park Operation Genesis. The below is an allosaurus from Jurassic World Evolution 3.

23 years difference between those sets of graphics.

Did you think 23 years we’d be where we are now in video game graphics in either direction?

As an aside, in my mind, Operation Genesis looked like Evolution 3 back in the day. The brain filled in a lot of detail.