Video game thread

Just a note from past discussion:
 
For those that might be interested, No Man’s Sky is currently 50% off on both Steam and GOG (per Officer Hotpants). Also for those interested, yes, it has crossplay between Steam, GOG, Xbone, and PS4.

Yesterday I played Apex Legends outside of training on my Lenovo Ideapad 320, equipped with an AMD A12 CPU and 20GB of RAM and an integrated Radeon graphics chipset (likely an r7-type) via Origin. It was quite laggy in a number of areas and the connection cut off a couple of times. I was playing Duos, and even though I got no kills, my and the other play I was with did manage to outlast many others before getting killed by another duo, one of whom played as Wraith. I am certain its more than just my internet connection. Things such as drivers, game settings for video, and the type of drive can have an impact on performance. Luckily, I plan on tinkering with the settings next time I want to play, as well as getting a SATA SSD of at least 512 GB, if not 750 GB in total capacity, to replace my current IDE HDD by sometime this Spring.

Decided to play Fable 3 since I got it from GWG years ago and never touched it (thankfully GWG on the 360 gives you the game permanently rather than only if your gold membership is still valid). I’m not sure if the input lag and choppy framerate is my Xbox or the game.
 
Also realized I got Mafia 2 from GWG as well.

@EverfreeEmergencies  
The game. Fable (and the rest of Lionhead’s games) are shiiiiitcode.

@Barhandar  
That’s a shame. From what I’ve played so far it’s pretty fun, if a little disorienting at times.

@EverfreeEmergencies  
Fun fact: they can’t run properly on XP x64.

@Barhandar  
Has anything that utilized GFWL ever run properly, whether through the fault of GFWL or not?

@EverfreeEmergencies  
I’ll bite. For the sake of it I can say the following worked well while GFWL was still, well, live:  
Halo 2  
Gears of War  
Lost Planet: Colonies Edition  
Viva Pinata (I would KILL for a rerelease of this or Trouble in Paradise)  
Bioshock 2 (I’m probably one of the three people in the world that actually liked BS2’s multiplayer)  
Resident Evil 5

@EverfreeEmergencies  
Dark Souls did, technically - its problems weren’t caused by GFWL. Ditto Batmans, Bulletstorm, Red Faction Guerilla.  
And no other game I’ve seen couldn’t handle non-x86 XP.

@EverfreeEmergencies  
Fallout 3 works after whatever GOG did to it, if you want to count that.

Going to Aurora was a much stronger atmosphere shift than I expected. Jeez.  
@Officer Hotpants  
Does it? I might have to get it on there then. 3 was my favorite simply for the hopeless, “everything is fucked” feel it had (and I preferred splitting guns into two skills rather than NV’s approach), but none of the mods supposed to fix the CTD issues work for me anymore, nor can I set the affinity to one core since it crashes when unfocused too.

@EverfreeEmergencies  
I enjoyed it well enough but it was a bit too empty. Not to mention they had a runny shit filter on everything that was worse than Deus Ex’s piss filter could ever be. I need to get back to it, though. I never had any of the expansions back in the day; I bought it mostly to play them but got sidetracked.

@Officer Hotpants  
That’s what mods are for.

@Barhandar  
Didn’t have mods on the PS3. But yeah. If I get into the way I did NV, it’ll get modded.
 
In other news, Ssethth has done his job well:
 

@Officer Hotpants  
>playing shooters on consoles

I bought a poni :3  

@Humble Oriathan  
Eat it

@Acres  
That’s it, you’re banned from my guild.

@Humble Oriathan  
I keep wanting to get back into Path, but I think I’m just done with the league-cycle system; Syndicate burned me out, really bad.

@Humble Oriathan  
But…but..

@Humble Oriathan  
“look at ma horse, ma horse is amazing”

@TeamBlueplant  
Wow, that was a quite the nostalgic whiplash

@Barhandar  
>Having an old computer 13 years ago.
 
@Humble Oriathan  
What game?

@Officer Hotpants  
>playing shooters on consoles instead of selling the console and buying better PC
 
Rather obviously to anyone who’d played it, Path of Tencent Exile.

I also hope the legendary weapons are tied to user and not the game itself. Replaying the game on a separate account I can do, but even if someone still plays the game online I’m not buying Gold just for completionist’s sake. I am considering buying some of the DLC however. Not like I have much else to do with this gift card.