Forspoken

goofing around a bit with the 'new powers'

Forspoken

Gothic Remake Demo from GOG

Well, i guess it is officially the now most demanding game ever played by my PC... and most likely it is top 5 of most demanding games all time, at highest settings, of course.

Pretty sure a lot of mid range PC´s can play it fine at average settings. Although my demand was to provide some "picture hunting" and trying to get the full graphical potential out of it, no matter the cost. At the highest 1080P settings "Alkimia Overdose" it is for a RPG still barely playable on my machine but surely not "smooth" anymore in most cases. Still... i was surprised how "nice" the games engine still was behaving at very low FPS... it does feel like "higher FPS" than what i actually got on my tracking tool. On top of that... in average it is still around 35 FPS i guess... but if i try to make a shot at the most crazy stuff... it may drop as low as 25 FPS for a moment.

In 4k i would say the only GPU able to still keep up over 30 FPS is a 5090, no other card i assume. The only issue is simply... this card may start to burn at full load... while my "old but good" 3090 TI will just draw a lot of juice but otherwise it will be as stable as "a rock from Gothic"... so nothing to worry here. Ah yeah, sure, it could run cooler but it would mean more noise, so i was limiting it to 81C at maximum load which is safe and not "to noisy".

Guess i will play it at second highest settings = Gothic Setting for extended period, which is way lesser demanding at 60 FPS and just half the GPU load... so actually 4 times less demanding... which is a huge difference. The graphic quality is still very good at the "Gothic Setting"... so i would recommend using the Gothic Setting for most mid range GPUs.

Surely some pretty impressive stuff to see... sometimes i feel it is very close to "photo realism" and almost unable to say "is it from a game or perhaps taken somewhere in the wilds or reality".

Guess we now have a "modernized Gothic" thats for sure... lets just see if the gameplay is doing just "as well".

Actually, i can play everything at almost 60 FPS in full settings, as long as I drop ONLY the Global Illumination Setting down to "Gothic-Settings", so near full quality at good performance is possible. Actually i see no visible difference between Gothic and Alkimia Overdose "on Global Illumination", although the performance hit is crazy with around 2-3 times more demand... which is insane if anyone would trade so many performance for a nearly "invisible" graphic boost... so i definitely recommend no to go above Gothic-Settings here and all will be fine.

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Not providing GOG links this time, it would suffer to much quality loss because the biggest PNG is over 3.5 MB, simply so much details.

Islands of insight

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I got my BD disc of Monster Hunter Wilds now. I already started playing it 1 day sooner than the huge load of Steam users tomorrow.

Is it really that good? Good question, there was surely lot of actions right from the start... i was barely able to breathe.

I would say it is the typical Monster Hunter with some touch of Demon Souls...

For some weird reason the game apparently is connection to a server... certainly owned by Capcom, as soon as i create a character. The first time the game was unable to connect, so the game was hanging without any changes. Because of the very restrictive design i had to restart the game and all the data i created was simply gone.

However, the second time i tried it finally worked and new characters can be added as well. The option for deleting a old character is working too but it is safe to say, as soon as a character is made the only way of "changing its appearance" is by buying some recreation-tickets at a salty "microtransaction-price" which is of course not tasty at all: Considering the fact this is a full price game and not a "free to play". Still, as long as nobody is providing something better Capcom can charge whatever they feel like. I worry... if for some reason the server is not working anymore... the character data might be lost and... even worse... the creation of a new character might become impossible. This is just a wild guess now, as i totally dunno how it might be solved in such a case.

Currently it is hard to say how it is exactly working. In my mind, the games save is stored on the Capcom server, so... it will need a internet connection in order to play, just in order to actually access this data, which is a DRM layer, no need to mince words. At least there is no account required, apart from PSN (or Steam...).

Anyway, here some screenshots from the beginning, made from my PS5 Pro.

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