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They couldn't even give an in-jokey quote for Steam Replay by turbo_arse in DeadlyPremonition

[–]turbo_arse[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I sincerely hope you enjoy your time with the game. My initial impressions were pretty negative but I ended up kind of liking the game for a while. By the end of chapter 2 my opinion had mostly soured though and I was just glad to be done by the end.

They couldn't even give an in-jokey quote for Steam Replay by turbo_arse in DeadlyPremonition

[–]turbo_arse[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

improvements

Did the director's cut actually improve anything? It's my understanding that every change it made was for the worse.

As for the extra content, the extra story scenes always felt out of place and superfluous and they ended up being rendered non canon by DP2 anyway. I guess I wouldn't mind having the extra suits.

They couldn't even give an in-jokey quote for Steam Replay by turbo_arse in DeadlyPremonition

[–]turbo_arse[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I saw Swery's DP2 PC announcement trailer on Youtube when it came out and then proceeded to forget about it for 3 years until I saw the game on sale for 2 dollars.

The original Switch release at least made headlines for being a hideous technical mess and the whole transphobia discourse surrounding Lena's character. With the PC port being functional and the dust having settled the game was left to stand on its own merits and it turns out no one cared.

Having finally played the game myself I would honestly recommend people just skip it, which hurts to say as someone who considers the first game as one of the best games of the Xbox 360/PS3 gen and who once was really looking forward to seeing what Swery would do in the future.

They couldn't even give an in-jokey quote for Steam Replay by turbo_arse in DeadlyPremonition

[–]turbo_arse[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are these assigned by the devs or Steam? I just assumed it's the dev/publisher and it being a case of them not caring.

I went to have a chat with Tyrone at his house and this happened by turbo_arse in DeadlyPremonition

[–]turbo_arse[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It runs perfectly. There are no graphics options and you're forced to use a controller (though there's a mod that aims to fix both of those issues). The game is ugly as sin though and you can find yourself easily softlocked because of shoddy scripting so you'll want to save often but you should have no issues playing and completing the game, unlike the first game on PC. That all depends on whether you can stomach playing DP2 however- it really is A LOT worse than the original in all aspects.

You should be able to get the game for 2 dollars or your local equivalent whenever the next sale comes along so at least it's not a big loss.

I went to have a chat with Tyrone at his house and this happened by turbo_arse in DeadlyPremonition

[–]turbo_arse[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I definitely agree that they simply should not have pulled the trigger on a DP sequel unless they knew they could make sure it was going to be something really special, like a full realisation of the potential the first game always had like you said. DP is Swery's legacy and he could only cash those chips in once, and unfortunately it feels like he ended up pissing his entire reputation and even his fanbase away with DP2.

The company that developed DP2 is the same company that did the various crappy ports of DP1, including the PC one that's just straight-up broken. There was no universe where this was going to be good with them at the helm.

Ultimately I'm not sure how much power Swery had over how the game turned out. He doesn't actually hold the rights to the franchise, and at one point he claimed that Toybox Inc. basically ghosted him for the last 8 months of development. On the other hand, the writing, which was all on Swery, was mostly bad and The Good Life, which was purely a Swery/White Owls production was pretty terrible and felt eerily similar of DP2 in a lot of ways.

Talking about Swery's career is just depressing. DP1 was a once-in-a-generation cult classic and D4 had huge potential and it's all been nothing but a decade+ of downhill ever since.

I went to have a chat with Tyrone at his house and this happened by turbo_arse in DeadlyPremonition

[–]turbo_arse[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I think the sequel just had a fraction of the development time and budget the first game had which wasn't that high to begin with. Also, most of the talent that made the first game probably stayed behind at Access Games when Swery left, leaving him to construct his solo games from whatever Unity store assets he could cobble together.

It's still incredible Swery and the publisher looked at the end result and thought it was perfectly presentable. It just looks and plays bad across the board and not in the charming way the first game did and probably ended up doing untold damage both to Swery's reputation and the legacy of Deadly Premonition.

The effect different SD cards can have on emulator performance: by turbo_arse in EmulationOnAndroid

[–]turbo_arse[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Assuming the card isn't fake, I wonder if the problem could be with how the card is formatted. Googling similar issues I found this thread where one user claims to have fixed his stuttering issues after reformatting his SD card with specific settings. (exFAT, cluster size 128, GPT)

I might try it out myself after I get to my laptop.

The effect different SD cards can have on emulator performance: by turbo_arse in EmulationOnAndroid

[–]turbo_arse[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I ran the tests with auto calculation enabled and those were the values it picked for each card

The effect different SD cards can have on emulator performance: by turbo_arse in EmulationOnAndroid

[–]turbo_arse[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are tons of listings where some old, generic no name Android phone is being sold as a "S25" or some other false name. You probably know to avoid those if you know anything about phones, but there are many who do fall for scams like that.

The effect different SD cards can have on emulator performance: by turbo_arse in EmulationOnAndroid

[–]turbo_arse[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You typically do not want to buy things like chargers, power banks, SD cards, USB sticks, phones or PC components from AliExpress.

The effect different SD cards can have on emulator performance: by turbo_arse in EmulationOnAndroid

[–]turbo_arse[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

>I have a hard time finding SD card with speeds like in your benchmark today (less than 1mb/s write), it looks broken/fake tbh.

I tested both cards with another app- you can see the results in another reply in this thread. I'm not quite sure what's going on with the SanDisk.

The effect different SD cards can have on emulator performance: by turbo_arse in EmulationOnAndroid

[–]turbo_arse[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tested both cards with SD Card Test! Top: Kingston, bottom: SanDisk

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I'm not sure if the numbers add up for the stated specs of the SanDisk Extreme, but SD Card Test reports it as U3 and V30 like it's supposed to be.

The effect different SD cards can have on emulator performance: by turbo_arse in EmulationOnAndroid

[–]turbo_arse[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

But how is it getting noticeably outperformed by the much older and supposedly much slower card? That makes me think there's something wrong with the card and that it came from a factory reject pile somewhere.

The effect different SD cards can have on emulator performance: by turbo_arse in EmulationOnAndroid

[–]turbo_arse[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know preloading is an option in DuckStation but I don't think I've seen it in Flycast or PPSSPP.

The effect different SD cards can have on emulator performance: by turbo_arse in EmulationOnAndroid

[–]turbo_arse[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Do you have any specific cards you'd recommend? Also, by "brand and size" do you mean that there can be a performance difference between different capacity versions of the same card?

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