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Looks like you are one helluva lucky dude. I haven't touched it since 2017, about 5 patches in, but given that @MrGRiMv25 still has same issues, and people still complain in reviews, I'd say not everything got fixed.
Though, recent reviews are more or less positive, so they did something useful in the last patch... I guess(except bring back old water, reflections, non-buggy shaders etc.).

The only issue I can recall is the few random crash I had in Bioshock 2 at certain parts of the game but it wasn't a constant issue and only happened in 1-2 zones of the game.
I can't compare the graphical differences since I only played the Remastered versions but I'm sure I had no buggy purple shaders.

I think it was sometime late 2017 or early 2018 when I played them,not exactly sure.
 

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Yeah it's really annoying, I've kept a copy of the user.ini and bioshock.ini outside of the folder in appdata/roaming so if it crashes I can just copy them back and continue. I don't see how they could've messed it up so badly. I was going to install the regular version from Steam since I have both in there but wanted to check the museum and directors commentary out. I've managed to get to Arcadia and mostly done that level so slowly getting there.
Somehow I played the whole remastered version without any bugginess. Are you possibly playing the initial release of the remaster?
 
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The only issue I can recall is the few random crash I had in Bioshock 2 at certain parts of the game but it wasn't a constant issue and only happened in 1-2 zones of the game.
I can't compare the graphical differences since I only played the Remastered versions but I'm sure I had no buggy purple shaders.

I think it was sometime late 2017 or early 2018 when I played them,not exactly sure.
played bioshock2 remastered last year,no crashes whatsoever.
 
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Started Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order last week and just finished it tonight. A lot of good moments mixed with lots of tedious tracking through the maps. I'm glad it's over but I enjoyed the ride.
 

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I tested Bioshock Remastered some time ago and neither did I have any problems.

Probably you guys have also the bugs remastered as well? :laugh:
 

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Probably you guys have also the bugs remastered as well? :laugh:
I'm starting to think that you, guys, are confusing remastered with normal version (wink, @rtwjunkie).
I'll give it another try with the latest 2017 patch, maybe the miracle happened and I can get that last achievement after all.
 

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I'm starting to think that you, guys, are confusing remastered with normal version (wink, @rtwjunkie).
I'll give it another try with the latest 2017 patch, maybe the miracle happened and I can get that last achievement after all.
The remastered was a bugfest when released. But it got patched ip and plays really well now (for most people ;) ). Please let us know if your play wxperience improves.
 
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Somehow I played the whole remastered version without any bugginess. Are you possibly playing the initial release of the remaster?

I've updated it now and it's been much better, I was offline for a few days so I grabbed the iso of it then once my net was fixed I got Steam to update etc and that seemed to sort most of the issues out.
 

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The Blind Prophet





 
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I'm still playing Skyrim SE's Dawnguard DLC per @robot zombie suggesting to give a try even though it is a grind in some areas.

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OMG! Some of the minigames in The Blind Prophet are frustratingly hard! Very satisfying when you complete them, since you have to in order to advance the story. Very comic-book like, and enjoyable.















 

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I think I got my favorite Skyrim screenshot tonight. Just a stereotypical landscape... but everything was just magically perfect.

There are basically only a couple of rules for good screenshots with this setup. One, look at the sun. And two: pray to godrays for favorable LODs and the peace in the world around you to gawk at the sky like a turkey for a few minutes.
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The Rift is gawwjuss in the mornings with all of those red/orange/yellow aspens and leaves blowing around.
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Some really nice screens above, both the cel-shaded ones and Skyrim scenes look great (especially the first Skyrim shot of the mountains)
 
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Some really nice screens above, both the cel-shaded ones and Skyrim scenes look great (especially the first Skyrim shot of the mountains)
Mwahaha no cel shading or fancy FX. Just normal ENB, a good weather mod, and the right textures make the stars align that way randomly. It just looks like that on its own :pimp:

It's kinda derailing my playthrough lately. I meta Skyrim pretty aggressively... like, I have an itenerary of stuff to get done. So I'll be like "Okay, got this going. Now I just need to go there and do that so I can..." *looks around* "Awwwwwwhaw... WTF even with this?! Hold on. HOLD. ON.*pops into console for hiding UI and making constant FOV adjustments* *Takes 5 screenshots, moves 100 feet, and repeats*

*15-20 minutes of screenshots later* "Alright it's gone... man that was cool! Wow!"

"...DAMNIT! What was I doing again?"

This happens 1 in 4 times I pop into a new location and I can't stop. :laugh:
 
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Mwahaha no cell shading or fancy FX. Just normal ENB, a good weather mod, and the right textures make the stars align that way randomly. It just looks like that on its own :pimp:

It's kinda derailing my playthrough lately. I meta Skyrim pretty aggressively... like, I have an itenerary of stuff to get done. So I'll be like "Okay, got this going. Now I just need to go there and do that so I can..." *looks around* "Awwwwwwhaw... WTF even with this?! Hold on. HOLD. ON.*pops into console for hiding UI and making constant FOV adjustments* *Takes 5 screenshots, moves 100 feet, and repeats*

*15-20 minutes of screenshots later* "Alright it's gone... man that was cool! Wow!"

"...DAMNIT! What was I doing again?"

This happens 1 in 4 times I pop into a new location and I can't stop. :laugh:
I have that in the last three Beth games lol. "Ok, let's knock out this quest. Headed to the mount- wow, look at that patch of flowers!! that's amazing... oooh!! a cave!!! what's in there?? oh damn, bandits! kill em kill em!!! " 2 hours later "..... where was I going?"
 

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Ah, just like me when I played the hell out of Fallout 3. So many times when I went to side tracks doing a quest. :)
 

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Ah, just like me when I played the hell out of Fallout 3. So many times when I went to side tracks doing a quest. :)
Anything with side quests I get distracted. LOL.
 

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Anything with side quests I get distracted. LOL.
Just like my first playthrough with Final Fantasy XV I'm currently playing. Over 60 hours and still haven't completed the main game. :rolleyes:
 

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But now I feel pretty burned out playing games, (blasphemy!!!) but it happens every now and then for me. Gotta pick up more books to read.

I manage not to get totally burned out on gaming by having a rule that I never force myself to game just to finish up a game. It has served me well for decades. I doubt I will ever get totally burnt out on gaming but sometimes it does take me two weeks to complete a 10 hour playthrough but that is fine with me.
 

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I manage not to get totally burned out on gaming by having a rule that I never force myself to game just to finish up a game. It has served me well for decades. I doubt I will ever get totally burnt out on gaming but sometimes it does take me two weeks to complete a 10 hour playthrough but that is fine with me.
I’m the same. I don’t play just to finish a grind. I’ve just finished a 4 week break from gaming and now that I started a new game it all feels fresh!
 
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I manage not to get totally burned out on gaming by having a rule that I never force myself to game just to finish up a game. It has served me well for decades. I doubt I will ever get totally burnt out on gaming but sometimes it does take me two weeks to complete a 10 hour playthrough but that is fine with me.
amen to this.
so many good games I never finished.
didn't feel like it.that's all.

shadow warrior 2 - 60 hrs and I never got past 60% or 70% frankly.
I went 30 hrs in and discovered that one can start a ng+ at any given time of the game so I did.went another 30 hrs.
and most curious of all - it's one of the best fps games I played.I just got what I wanted by playing up to 70% twice.

same for alien isolation.I got pretty far,to what I think is late stages of the game.but it's is so damn good I never actually wanted to finish it for the sake of suspense.weird.I wanna finish then have my alien isolation memory erased.
 
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I have that in the last three Beth games lol. "Ok, let's knock out this quest. Headed to the mount- wow, look at that patch of flowers!! that's amazing... oooh!! a cave!!! what's in there?? oh damn, bandits! kill em kill em!!! " 2 hours later "..... where was I going?"
It blows my mind when people say they never fast-travel... because for me that one time that I don't completely derails me for like 6 hours, and now there are 15 more quests on my quest list, so I can't even find the quest I originally set out for.

And yes that "Oooo! CAVE!" moment is pretty much the quintessential ES experience imo. It is basically that, the game. And half the time there's nothing special in them... some bandits and some loot. Maybe an interesting story. Every now and then it is one of those 45-minute sprawling falmer nightmare dens. But you keep going back every time you spot one. I always tell myself I'll discover it and come back. But then I'm like "Nah, if I do that I'll never come back." and go in anyway :laugh: Bandits, I've trained myself to run from. Why are they so willing to die? You'd figure after seeing the badass in full ebony armor pummel 3 of his buddies' faces in with dual maces before resurrecting them to add to his growing undead army, now trained on THEM, they'd... I dunno... like, take their fur armor and iron battleaxe and RUN IN SHEER TERROR at what the hell they just saw. Like, just get out of there man! There aint even anything left to protect. I've already taken everything. Most of your friends are dead. Don't wait until you're clinging to life to beg. By then I'm halfway through the death swing. Couldn't stop if I wanted to.

But no, they talk smack like you're nobody, literally as the same mace is about to end them. I don't have time. They can end themselves on their own time. I just wanna know how they see someone all decked out like that in the first place and think "...look at all of that swag! I think we can rob him." It's like thinking you're gonna take the AK off of some guy's back swinging your butterfly knife around threateningly. Dude's just gonna pull that AK out and fill you with rounds. How do they survive with no sense of self-preservation?
I’m the same. I don’t play just to finish a grind. I’ve just finished a 4 week break from gaming and now that I started a new game it all feels fresh!
Same. Sometimes I will just sit and play a game religiously for a while, but just because that's what I've been doing doesn't mean it's gonna be what I do next time I'm bored. If I really want to, I won't have to think about it. If I have to do that, there's something else I want to do... or maybe something else I know I actually SHOULD do. It's way better to come back fresh, when you're so down for a game that it's the only thing on your mind. Otherwise the illusion breaks and everything you do in the game feels depressingly meaningless. I dunno, I have too many hobbies. I expect that one day I'm gonna wake up and be tired of one. But I'm all set to switch gears. So many other things you can do with your time. I don't mean this in a bad way, but if all you do is play video games, that's probably not a very interesting life. Being interested in many things, and being able to value them all equally makes for a better rounded person. And you never totally burn out. You're just in the mood for something else.
 
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open a shell, find a pearl ... pretty much my experience with Bright Memory ( https://store.steampowered.com/app/955050/Bright_MemoryEarly_Access/ )

i bought the early access on STEAM for 7.25chf to see it's from a "one man studio" using UE

bloody hell that's one gorgeous game and the gameplay is neat tutorial is straightforward and it's not even the full game
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after being warped to another world/planet, awestruck for a moment ...
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hard wake up call by the first monster encounter (after 2 more standard wolf ) a... lion with a turtle back and a Dilophosaurus (those who saw the original Jurassic Parc will understand although i should say : "like a frilled neck lizard" instead ... JP was not accurate on that point :laugh: the Dilo was more a mashup than a true to the fossil model ) "collerette"
and then weird "zombies" soldiers? oh boy...
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semi "RPG like" elements good good ...
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voice acting is amazing (Eng CN or JP)

best thing ever i saw on STEAM : part 2 Bright Memory : Infinite will be free for anyone who bought the early access ... damn! that dev deserve a lot of credit and praises

oh! and it use, not that i care about, freaking RTX...
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now i am baffled :laugh:

it's actually also a mobile game on playstore (and Applestore also )

luckily the PC version look graphically better and the controls are well polished, not "just a port" by all means
 
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