February 2025 PCG Article Discussion

[ZedClampet]

Baldur's Gate 3 Patch 8 testers are whispering that a previously mediocre subclass is now an S-tier war god of infinite thunder smites, but there's no way it can last

Mr. Market says sell your Eldritch Knight stock.

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Sony bullies Bloodborne 60fps mod off the internet with DMCA takedown as it continues to let the FromSoft classic gather dust on PS4

You can still reach 60fps on Bloodborne through emulation, and some users have already reuploaded the mod.

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[DXCHASE]

Beyond Citadel is a horny, ultra-violent retro FPS that I want to recommend to everybody and nobody

Smart, tactical shooting hidden under a veneer of unparalleled anime body-dismantling.

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This was the game i was talking about here and tbh, i had no idea about the character and enemies being anime girls, but this is a good review! I recommend it to boomer shooter players of all. Its a good FPS albeit some anime thirst trap art.

 

[ZedClampet]

Beyond Citadel is a horny, ultra-violent retro FPS that I want to recommend to everybody and nobody

Smart, tactical shooting hidden under a veneer of unparalleled anime body-dismantling.

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This was the game i was talking about here and tbh, i had no idea about the character and enemies being anime girls, but this is a good review! I recommend it to boomer shooter players of all. Its a good FPS albeit some anime thirst trap art.

Thanks to my state's "save our kids from boobs" campaign, I'd probably have to enter my drivers license and register with the state to play this game.

 

[ZedClampet]

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden slams Nvidia RTX 5080 as 'a monopolistic crime against the consumer'

"F-tier value for S-tier prices."

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As long as AMD fails to provide sufficient competition (not counting the opinions of AMD fanboys), we're probably stuck with embarrassingly low VRAM coming from Nvidia.

To put this into perspective, to properly use an AI art generator, you are supposed to have enough VRAM to put the entire model into it. Some of the better AI models are 24 GB, so to properly use those you need a $2000 5090. It's ridiculous. AMD needs to start figuring out how to run this stuff and stop being the Intel of GPUs. It would take me all of a second to decide to dump Nvidia if only AMD would catch up in AI. Right now, most AI programs won't even run at all on AMD chips.

 

[Colif]

Some of the better AI models are 24 GB, so to properly use those you need a $2000 5090

$2000 5090 don't exist. The ones on the Nvidia site were listed as 3k by the end of the time they were available
The entire stock of them for Germany were bought by bots in 15 minutes.

Nvidia need to stop announcing hardware without the stock needed to actually sell them. They also need to let people pre order them and not in bulk.

AMD took this gen off, I don't know if they just doing the pattern they used in past, to take one off and come back swinging next.

Its not just vram, the performance offered by the 50 series over 40 isn't massive. Lower you get down the tree, the less you get. 5060 might just be a 4060 with a new badge and maybe more vram.

 

[ZedClampet]

Its not just vram, the performance offered by the 50 series over 40 isn't massive. Lower you get down the tree, the less you get. 5060 might just be a 4060 with a new badge and maybe more vram.

Yes, but I think this part was inevitable. I think we need an entirely new architecture, not an iterative improvement, and smaller dies before we can get an improvement in traditional rendering, and those things are going to be very hard to accomplish. I doubt AMD can do it either at this point, which is probably why they are slow in introducing something new.

 

[Colif]

The new architecture needs to use less power. That is the thing stopping ever increasing performance. The new power cables max out at 600watts. So unless they start releasing cards that have multiple connections, and PSU that have more than one (some have two) 600watt cables on them, you not going to see much more than what a 5090 can do now.

 

[ZedClampet]

Palworld developer 'blown away' by the response to its new publishing arm, which has received 150 game pitches just one week after opening

"We're determined to help as many great games get made as possible."

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Pocket Pair are genuinely the good guys.

 

[Pifanjr]

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 review

KCD2 is just as bizarre and ambitious as its inspirations. Thank god.

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This kind of makes me want to play Kingdom Come: Deliverance again. It makes it sound so fun, but it'll have to wait until I actually have time to play it.

 

[ZedClampet]

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 review

KCD2 is just as bizarre and ambitious as its inspirations. Thank god.

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This kind of makes me want to play Kingdom Come: Deliverance again. It makes it sound so fun, but it'll have to wait until I actually have time to play it.

I actually downloaded that yesterday. It's one of those games I got on sale, but never played. All this talk of the sequel has me interested, though.

 

[ZedClampet]

Gaming's largest lobbying group says Trump's tariffs 'would negatively impact hundreds of millions of Americans' and do serious damage to the videogame industry

The ESA doesn't seem to sure what to do about it, though.

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Well, on the bright side, Europeans and others won't have any problems finding graphics cards.