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[dwwaino]

RIP Udo Kier

 

[Art Vandelay_]

Had a good day out at EB Games. Did a decade long cleanse.

Traded in 1 x Nintendo Switch, 1 x Xbox One S. Switch, PS4, PS5, PS3 and Xbox One games. Got well over $700 for stuff I'm not going to use again.

 

[Cyber_punk]

Anthology Far Cry live actions series greenlit by FX.

Alien Earth producers are gonna be behind it.

Hopefully they get Michael Mando to return as Vaas and Greg Bryk as the Father.

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

NVIDIA brought back PhysX support for a bunch of 32-bit games for the 50-series today

The supported games are:

• Alice: Madness Returns
• Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag
• Batman: Arkham City
• Batman: Arkham Origins
• Borderlands 2
• Mafia II
• Metro 2033
• Metro: Last Light
• Mirror’s Edge
  
  Batman: Arkham Asylum is slated to be supported in 2026.

 

[Cyber_punk]

A big Star Wars game announcement is said to be coming very soon, and it's not Zero Company or Eclipse.

Battlefront 3 would be my dream, but Jedi 3 would be my bet.

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

A big Star Wars game announcement is said to be coming very soon, and it's not Zero Company or Eclipse.

Battlefront 3 would be my dream, but Jedi 3 would be my bet.

Star Wars: Total War is a perennial rumour too, and:

Creative Assembly confirms that a new Total War game will be revealed at The Game Awards 2025

Could this be the rumored Star Wars game?

www.gamesradar.com

 

[dwwaino]

Star Wars: Total War is a perennial rumour too, and:

Creative Assembly confirms that a new Total War game will be revealed at The Game Awards 2025

Could this be the rumored Star Wars game?

www.gamesradar.com

Turns out the next TW game will return to a historical setting. I love these games but don't like the Warhammer etc ones. Rome 2 with the DEI mod is the last great TW game IMO so I welcome a return with Medieval 3. Deus Vult.

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

Turns out the next TW game will return to a historical setting. I love these games but don't like the Warhammer etc ones. Rome 2 with the DEI mod is the last great TW game IMO so I welcome a return with Medieval 3. Deus Vult.

Yep and there's also another announcement coming next week for another Total War game.

I love the Warhammer ones. So much cheaper and requires zero painting skills compared to the tabletop game

Would love Star Wars or 40k (or Horus Heresy era)

 

[dwwaino]

Yep and there's also another announcement coming next week for another Total War game.

I love the Warhammer ones. So much cheaper and requires zero painting skills compared to the tabletop game

Would love Star Wars or 40k (or Horus Heresy era)

Apparently they have different teams for the fantasy TW games and the historical ones. If that's true then I'd like to know WTF the historical team have been doing since Rome 2 lol. And no Three Kingdoms and Pharoah don't count.

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

I had the OG Medieval Total War back in the day, but it ran like arse on my PC at the time and I never really went back to it. It was the disc version too which they never updated to run on Windows 10 anyway (unlike the Steam version). Not sure what happened to it, I think I just gave it away,

I have Empire Total War and the three Warhammers.

In other news, Borderlands 2 runs so much better now that they've enabled PhysX. I thought I was just shit at it and that it was a poorly optimised mess (look, both are probably still true...) but I dunno, I cranked PhysX up to maximum and as I hoped and expected, my 5080 just smashes it. Runs beautifully and my skill has improved with the smoother running game. I don't want to call NVIDIA good guys but they listened here and opened up my back catalogue again. Been on my pile of shame since forever, getting right into it again. Loved the original back in the day. Hopefully by the time I get to 4 that will run as well as it ever will too

EDIT: I also seem to have Shogun 2 but I don't remember buying it? Must have nabbed it up for free at some point!

 

[dwwaino]

I could probably make a TW Medieval 3 thread to keep posting stuff, but CA have posted their vision for the game. The game sounds very early into production so it will be telling if all of this makes it to the final game but it's sounding like some lite CK3 elements mixed with traditional TW. That will really tickle my pickle.

Our Vision for Medieval III - Total War: MEDIEVAL III

Hey everyone, Leif here, Creative Director on MEDIEVAL III.I’m sure we all have our ‘origin story’ of how we became fans of this franchise. For me, it was writing and reading “After Action Reports” on TWCenter back in the day. I always felt like Total War shines the most when it works as

community.creative-assembly.com

 

[omgfridge]

Star Wars Fate of the Old Republic announced at Game Awards. Hell yeah.

 

[RPCB]

I don’t think any game developer is capable of not spoiling big moments or the majority of the game in trailers anymore.

 

[dwwaino]

I won't be able to catch up until tonight but I see there is a new trailer for Exodus

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

Star Wars Fate of the Old Republic announced at Game Awards. Hell yeah.

Alright Burnside, you've been burned by DoW3, Bioware cutting and running from their last what, three releases? And every single AFL game ever released. Don't get excited for anything announced today.

KotOR spiritual successor headed up by Casey Hudson

Goddamn it.

 

[omgfridge]

Love the Warhammer TW games so very excited for this.

 

[UnitedWarrior93]

2 new tomb raider games, yes please!!

 

[RPCB]

2 new tomb raider games, yes please!!

Yeah, I can’t wait for those two games.

 

[TazD]

Love the Warhammer TW games so very excited for this.

Coming to PS5/Xbox is bleak news.

 

[omgfridge]

Coming to PS5/Xbox is bleak news.

why?

 

[TazD]

why?

Dumbing down.

 

[Ed_Gein]

Frictional announced a new game Ontos (did Amnesia games, SOMA), which is the game I'm excited to see more of.

 

[Cyber_punk]

I won't be able to catch up until tonight but I see there is a new trailer for Exodus

Looks quite promising. I like the variety of the aliens and creatures and their designs.

 

[Cyber_punk]

Star Wars Fate of the Old Republic announced at Game Awards. Hell yeah.

Wonder if Eclipse releases before this

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

Dumbing down.

I think the nature of the IP will lead to 'dumbing down' just cos that's the way things work in that universe.

Stuff like diplomacy for example.

I'm interested to see where it goes.