What Game Are You Currently Playing?
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Laptops tend to have integrated chips rather than replacable boards as per the PC so I’d guess no. Even if you did replace it with a more powerful one, heat dissipation could become a big problem in the enclosed environment of the laptop. To be honest, for something like that, I wouldn't even consider a laptop in the first place.
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Yeah sadly laptops are very limited in how you can upgrade them and even when you can its typically not simple and doesn't have a huge range of options. VR is pretty top end of things and demanding on systems to run, so chances are you'd have to replace the whole laptop. You'd get more power for your money if you buy a PC; plus you can upgrade a PC with new components pretty easily these days (heck even building them at home is pretty simple).
Cydramech
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Modding with Skyrim (SSE & LE).
Figured since I've returned to FFXIV and play it on PS4 until my desktop is fixed, I'll get back to playing modded Skyrim on my laptop with two different setups (SLE for a non-serious playthrough and SSE for a serious playthrough).
Figured since I've returned to FFXIV and play it on PS4 until my desktop is fixed, I'll get back to playing modded Skyrim on my laptop with two different setups (SLE for a non-serious playthrough and SSE for a serious playthrough).
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Are there many mods for Skyrim? Back in the day I used to play a lot of heavily-modified Morrowind. Some of the mods were amazing.
I used to build my own machines but haven’t done so in more than ten years. However, I recently had to replace a faulty graphics card in an old PC of mine. I was able to buy a 2 Gigabyte Nvidia Gforce card for £40. It’s obviously not top of the line but I thought it was a pretty good price for a pretty decent graphics card. If this is an example of current prices, building one shouldn’t break the bank.
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Just going by Nexus results alone: +64,000 mods for SLE (Skyrim Limited Edition) and +24,000 mods for SSE (Skyrim Special Edition). That said, the mods for SSE are universally better than what you can find for SLE (thanks to SSE being Skyrim ported to a 64bit engine).
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I’ve recently been playing Conan Exiles, I have spent hours building a couple of small bases and was feeling quite pleased with myself until yesterday when I was wandering through the countryside and came across a massive roman style palace complete with arena. I couldn’t even begin to visualise such a structure let alone build it. Makes you realise that you are just a tier 1 player.
Cydramech
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Now I remember why I quit playing Skyrim LE even for the non-serious playthroughs. It keeps crashing like an avalanche (in no small part due to its 32-bit memory limits). Skyrim SE all the way now.
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I played and finished a short game called Firewatch. It's about a troubled man who becomes a lookout in the Rockies, and experiences a set of increasingly weird incidents while on his own. Throughout the game, you communicate with your boss by radio, leading to interesting conversations and a growing sense of paranoia and mistrust.
This is a very mature, and quite slow, game: there's no real violence, and the story is dominated by conversations between flawed people whose problems can't be solved by blowing stuff up. The dialogue and acting are very good, and I found it genuinely sinister at points. The conclusion might slightly disappoint some people, but I thought that it worked fine. It's odd, but well-executed and worth a look.
This is a very mature, and quite slow, game: there's no real violence, and the story is dominated by conversations between flawed people whose problems can't be solved by blowing stuff up. The dialogue and acting are very good, and I found it genuinely sinister at points. The conclusion might slightly disappoint some people, but I thought that it worked fine. It's odd, but well-executed and worth a look.
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Horizon Zero Dawn!
A game I've wanted for years, yet being on a console I could never justify the cost of a console just for that one game. Now its on PC and whilst the port has had some issues for some users including general slowdowns/memory leaks and such- its been FANTASTIC! Open world, roaming robot machine monsters; hunting etc... SO MUCH FUN!
But there's one thing that I really want to highlight - sidequests. In so many modern RPG games the sidequests tend to be rather droll. They are "please save my child/baby/wife/husband/stuffed toy" from the "insert name of cave/region/tree/". Typically go from from A to B and kill everything and then return to A for reward. Simple, innocent and whilst some might run alongside the same areas as the main quest, they mostly don't change the world; nor do they really change your character nor players, perspective on the world.
Horizon Zero Dawn feels different, very different. Several sidequests feel almost like they should be main-game based content. Whilst they don't change the game world, they do give you more insight and hints and visual experience and roleplay into the game setting and world.
For example one set of totally optional side quests is exploring Cauldrons. Totally optional, yet each one has you diving into the inner machine heart of the game. Huge areas, big display scenery. The kind of work that normally only ever gets spent on a main quest. Yet its to the side. There's this feeling on a good number of other quests as well. Content that feels like its a main quest, but its not.
Personally I really enjoy it, it makes the side quests fun and more engaging and the kind of things you want to do. Even if functionally they are still "go from A to B". etc... The functionality is still similar, but the overall work, approach, presentation etc.... is very different. It's a very neat attitude toward sidequests that makes them feel more than just throw-away events.
And sure its a crafting game off console so its got loads of "find random item in terrain" type quests. Though by the nature of the terrain (its a very beautiful game) and by the nature of roaming machines - even the fetch quests are entertaining.
Overall this is one of those "Masterpiece" games that's ever so much fun. PC port does need some work, there's been a few patches already and I really hope they can continue to work and polish it up. This game deserves to be a highlight of the year 0 even when we've got a massive giant that is Cyberpunk coming out later this year (by the same team that did Witcher 1, 2 and 3).
A game I've wanted for years, yet being on a console I could never justify the cost of a console just for that one game. Now its on PC and whilst the port has had some issues for some users including general slowdowns/memory leaks and such- its been FANTASTIC! Open world, roaming robot machine monsters; hunting etc... SO MUCH FUN!
But there's one thing that I really want to highlight - sidequests. In so many modern RPG games the sidequests tend to be rather droll. They are "please save my child/baby/wife/husband/stuffed toy" from the "insert name of cave/region/tree/". Typically go from from A to B and kill everything and then return to A for reward. Simple, innocent and whilst some might run alongside the same areas as the main quest, they mostly don't change the world; nor do they really change your character nor players, perspective on the world.
Horizon Zero Dawn feels different, very different. Several sidequests feel almost like they should be main-game based content. Whilst they don't change the game world, they do give you more insight and hints and visual experience and roleplay into the game setting and world.
For example one set of totally optional side quests is exploring Cauldrons. Totally optional, yet each one has you diving into the inner machine heart of the game. Huge areas, big display scenery. The kind of work that normally only ever gets spent on a main quest. Yet its to the side. There's this feeling on a good number of other quests as well. Content that feels like its a main quest, but its not.
Personally I really enjoy it, it makes the side quests fun and more engaging and the kind of things you want to do. Even if functionally they are still "go from A to B". etc... The functionality is still similar, but the overall work, approach, presentation etc.... is very different. It's a very neat attitude toward sidequests that makes them feel more than just throw-away events.
And sure its a crafting game off console so its got loads of "find random item in terrain" type quests. Though by the nature of the terrain (its a very beautiful game) and by the nature of roaming machines - even the fetch quests are entertaining.
Overall this is one of those "Masterpiece" games that's ever so much fun. PC port does need some work, there's been a few patches already and I really hope they can continue to work and polish it up. This game deserves to be a highlight of the year 0 even when we've got a massive giant that is Cyberpunk coming out later this year (by the same team that did Witcher 1, 2 and 3).
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Sadly the sequel is console locked and I'm mostly out of the console game. Just can't afford it alongside a gaming pc. If I had the hundreds to get a new gen console for the sequel I'd be more likely to ugprade my processor/motherboard.
If it came to PC it would be an absolute YES. Heck who knows perhaps if I wind up with more cash on day I'll get the console just for it.
If it came to PC it would be an absolute YES. Heck who knows perhaps if I wind up with more cash on day I'll get the console just for it.
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I'm playing Torment: Tides of Numenera, a Baldur's Gate - style RPG based on the Numenera game. While a lot of it involves talking to people (there's a lot of dialogue) and doing quests, the setting is extremely weird. So far, I'm enjoying it, but it's definitely at the intense end of its spectrum, if you see what I mean.
Playing Pathfinder Kingmaker (for the PS4). Some small technical gripes (had a few crashes and one enemy I couldn't loot, which was irksome as he had intriguing gear) but on the whole I'm enjoying the combat and world, and governing my new barony of Yorkshire.
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