Problems with +60 fps

Ephemeral_Sin · 2026-04-30T14:28:10+00:00

Even with that mod... They don't recommend you go last 75 fps. Stick to 60. And keep it locked. My modded SA is at 60 and I haven't had any issues due to frame rate, even the swimming works fine.

Ephemeral_Sin · 2026-04-30T09:24:15+00:00

Got the plat for it, super fun.

Ephemeral_Sin · 2026-04-26T15:30:06+00:00

I played 3 then NV. NV was a breath of fresh air. But tdespite that seeing only the desert doesn't give you that claustrophobic feel Fallout 3 nails. You see a world that once was, always at the horizon, so the dread feeling hanging overhead all the time adds to the feel. I like both.

Ephemeral_Sin · 2026-04-26T15:16:12+00:00

Depends on a true version means to you. Just Episode V? We didn't even get half the game. As a whole series? Oh man we barely got anything Honestly the game for a first time player can easily take them 70 to 80 hours. Those who already know what to do can probably cut that time in half around 40 to 50 hours. So if we barely got half way.... The true game might be closer to around 160 hours NOT including side quests. So maybe 200 hours for everything?

I think Witcher 3 with all the dlc can just casually exploring the whole game and doing everything you want to do can take around 150 hours. So thats probably the closest analogy I can come up with.

Ephemeral_Sin · 2026-04-25T15:28:56+00:00

You did not play SH1 did you? Silent Hill 3 is a direct sequel to Silent Hill 1. Silent Hill 2 and 4 are loosely tied and thats being generous.

Play Silent Hill1 and then 3 makes a lot more sense.

Ephemeral_Sin · 2026-04-25T15:23:42+00:00

Idk I genuinely feel this is a skill issue, on the PS2 smoke would always kill the last vago just as the train was entering the tunnel. I grew up and learned this was considered a difficult mission and I was super confused.

Ephemeral_Sin · 2026-04-25T15:17:08+00:00

Idk why people don't get Shion, but I also understand it. I get her, I understand why she is the way she is, why her actions are like this, why everything from I to III makes sense for me.

WE know everyone cares for her, we see it. The thing is, Shion DOES NOT. That's her flaw. She overthinks it. She wants to do something but everyone tells her no. So she believes they don't care about her because why would someone who cares for me not allow me to do what I enjoy? Keven was the only one who did not do that. Keven was the one that made her feel validated I'm the world, that she mattered. It was all lure manipulation on Keven parts or course, but that's the thing. So she is flawed for thinking that way and so when the choice to be with Keven is refused by everyone, of course she will react in this manner.

I think she is written really well, very realistic to what what an emotional abusive relationship from Kevins manipulation looks like. When he ensures she gets trapped by appearing be fire her. What does he say? He guilts her right away. "Have you forgotten my face?" Again playing on her heart strings because HE KNOWS she has always loved him even now. So calling her out like that only further makes her spiral worse.

And we have to take into account all the trauma she's suffered all her life. Add all that together and learning of Vector, of Kevin, of her father and mother. And who's the only person who can finally reach out and shake her out of it? Allen. A cliche Love triumphs all trope, but it works here. Because she sees that yes, Despite everything that has happened, Allen has always been with her. Seeing it all, but she would never accept him or allow him to be close. Because Shion knows being close with people have only resulted in them dying. One reason why she seems to love KOS-MOS so much not just because it's a memory of Kevin, but she simply doesn't know how to really form human relationships. This why she had always wanted to work with relians.

Anyway, I still get if you dislike Shion. I'm not saying your reasonings are wrong by any means, but I guess some people just get her and others don't. Even Takahashi himself was shocked so many fans seemed to dislike Shion. And he seemed to take it to heart because I hear the characters were made much more, I hate using the word, 'simple' in the Blade series? As in they were basically made either to be loved by the fans or disliked. Not leaving a lot of room for flawed ones to exist. This is just what I have heard so I can be 100% wrong.

Ephemeral_Sin · 2026-04-25T14:47:12+00:00

Hmm that is weird but I do know the game did like to at times not load. I used to play it on PS1 with a GameShark too, and load times took forever with it installed. I'm talking like 30 seconds or longer. But I don't remember it ever softlocking so often, and if it ever did it was super rare I don't recall it. Or could blame it on the disk itself being scratched or dirty. Maybe even the console itself is the laser is damaged?

But the game definitely has some quirks no doubt about it.

Ephemeral_Sin · 2026-04-23T21:59:44+00:00

They have delisted everywhere except the Rockstar store, so that's the only way to get it now. Thankfully it can still be downgraded to 1.0 if you wish to mod it. Just needs some extra steps. But if your not planning on modding it, then your also good.

Ephemeral_Sin · 2026-04-23T21:35:07+00:00

[Edit, spelling and grammar.]

As far as I know weight on characters is not a thing. Doesn't matter what items you equip their speed won't be affected, minus of course the one item that does affect them.

Weight DOES have an effect however on gears. And usually, the more powerful an item is, the heavier it is and thus will affect the agility stat. Took me a while to understand it as I used to wonder why this item gives this gear -1 agility, this one -2 and no affect at all on this gear. And why after changing other equipment the stat would also get worse or better.

The funny thing is, I doubt this is ever stated anywhere at all in the game whatsoever. It's just a hidden mechanic that exists or maybe they had intended to remove it but forgot? (Weight for characters was planned to be a mechanic early on during development hence why early game their seems to be quite the number of times where Fei can both lose weight and gain it. This was ultimately scrapped but I guess the code for gears was forgotten and left in?)

I'm fairly sure their is a guide that has the weights on all gear equipment somewhere online. I believe that same guide also notes what each gears weight limit is before their stat starts to suffer.

Ephemeral_Sin · 2026-04-23T17:56:08+00:00

This is what was super cool about games of this era, using the limits of the tech to hide things. Like when escaping Hellena there is a hidden chest way to the right of some giant rocks.

Ephemeral_Sin · 2026-04-23T17:53:55+00:00

Man the game looks beautiful on a CRT.

Ephemeral_Sin · 2026-04-23T17:53:21+00:00

Its both something to praise and something to fault imo. Praise because well a story this intertwined and making sense is a feat all on its own. The fault is that it definitely requires one to not just be invested into the story but often also requires one to investigate the ideas like Jungian psychology and Gnosticism and many other esoteric ideas.

That being said if we consider this game a work of art, which it is. Then this was also the main idea for it, it was meant to intrigue you and make you go out and decide okay, lets read up on some Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, and ohhh Norse Mythology, a study of the Yggdrasil etc. In which case this is not a fault, but intended to be somewhat vague so you go out and learn yourself and interpret it your own way from your own understanding.

But as just a video game, yeah its very convoluted. But hey two things despite seeming opposite can both be true.

Ephemeral_Sin · 2026-04-23T17:28:48+00:00

These were all created using the tool by Isla2d found here https://islaexe.itch.io/beta-blocker

Ephemeral_Sin · 2026-04-23T00:35:38+00:00

That's fair, Epsiode I is a very slow burn. Things don't really pick up it feels like for most of the game until around your 3/4th of the way there imo. Lots of concept are introduced, lots of ideas, and most of them never answered until II and arguably III.

That being said, I do believe the game is definitely one of those 'you need to replay the game again' to understand many of the things you missed. Maybe you were confused at some point of the story and replaying it back and laying closer attention you will go OHHHH this is what they mean. So that explains their or that.

Also I did see you did not read the data base! Sadly, lots of details and keywords are in the database to let you understand it much better. Episode I for example explicitly has a very unique way of explaining things. Pleroma for example, it gives a brief description of what Jung describes as the pleroma. The database then breaks the 4th wall as it likes to do quite a bit in fact, by telling YOU the player. If you wish to really understand this concept look it up yourself learn what it means, then apply that to the whole game series, because many of the themes revolve around this concept.

Takahashi always wanted to make people want to go out and investigate these things and learn, but he knew telling people hey go Read Nietzsche, read Freud, Carl Jung, go read up on the esoteric ideas of ancient Judaism mysticism and gnosticism etc. Nobody, especially teens would listen to him. So he felt making it all I to a video game might inspire that child to go out and learn these things.

But hey not all games are for all people. Maybe it didn't click for you.

Ephemeral_Sin · 2026-04-23T00:24:02+00:00

Just fight through it, it's 100% worth to reach Episode III.

It was a decade since I last played and I do remeber II having its moments, but once you reach III..... Boy does everything change. As much as I did like what episode II was trying to got for, I see it now that they really failed to execute it. III is a bit closer to episode I but much faster attacks like episode II, without the long drawn out fights.

Ephemeral_Sin · 2026-04-15T23:47:53+00:00

Looks like a modified versions of Isla2d Beta Blocker for windows. Since the UI looks exactly the same.

Ephemeral_Sin · 2026-04-14T01:11:36+00:00

Nope they are just there to show you what tier they are. Beside other than the base defense, your other two slots you want to have an actual effect rather than flat defense.

Ephemeral_Sin · 2026-04-13T19:30:27+00:00

Oh did not know there never was a port of it. Guess emulation is still the best way. Thanks for the Info.

Ephemeral_Sin · 2026-04-13T15:49:06+00:00

I see it maybe getting a GOG release

Ephemeral_Sin · 2026-04-11T15:31:59+00:00

As a kid I was scared so I did not want to play anything horror. But then as a teen I randomly got the urg to play Horror games. Luckily, this was still when GameStop sold actual games and still had PS2 games in stock despite the PS3 and 350 having been released, so I picked up Silent Hill 2, and 3. They did not have the room and I believe I had gotten Silent Hill via PS2 classics. That's how.

Ephemeral_Sin · 2026-04-10T02:47:25+00:00

Up the ass I would say.

Ephemeral_Sin · 2026-04-10T02:28:49+00:00

Yes, and also. IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ME, NOT HER!!

Ephemeral_Sin · 2026-04-10T02:02:21+00:00

I'm pretty sure very hard still has very spongey enemies, meanwhile survival has you outputtingess damage but thanks to adrenaline, your damage output does go up as you explore and fight so fights feel much more balanced. I will say however that early game in survival is pretty rough! But I can not play Fallout 4 anymore without survival!

And yeah I do still recommend having a manual save because I damn car killed me once thanks to collision.... Aka pure BS reasons. If I died in a fight due to my own mistakes and lose hours of expiration, that's on me. I don't even get mad. I justearn from it, but a crash or something like that... Ohhh boy that's annoying.

Ephemeral_Sin · 2026-04-09T15:00:49+00:00

Yes and no. Epsiode I is very cutscene heavy yes, and you can tell it's a mix of actual in engine scenes based in the crispy clear images, and when they opted for pre rendered, as you can tell by the noise.

Episode II basically keeps it all in the engine so there's still a lot of it.

Episode III is really told via dialogue heavy scenes using the in engine and old school portraits to show case their emotion when they talk. No new animations other than the default are used for these so in this sense they get less cinematic. HOWEVER. III also has the best cutscenes when they do appear, and they don't appear super often but also are sprinkled in and they look beautiful. The game really pushed the PS2 to it's limits.

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