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Community MetaSteam | February 2026 - Romeo and Rogue: Dead Citadel Requiem
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We're in the bad timeline anyway
Resident Evil 9 is incredible, it's like if Resident Evil 1 and 6 loved each other very much and had a lot of passionate sex and RE1 ended up accidentally pregnant, but RE6 didn't wanted to have kids so he left and RE1 divorced and now Resident Evil 9 lives with RE1 but occasionally spends time with RE6 on the weekends.
Also, it continues to be incredibly embarassing for the rest of the videogame industry just how obscenely well the Resi games always perform while looking like they do. Fluid, Stable 60FPS on high details exclusing RayTracing, not a single drop all throughout.
Also, it continues to be incredibly embarassing for the rest of the videogame industry just how obscenely well the Resi games always perform while looking like they do. Fluid, Stable 60FPS on high details exclusing RayTracing, not a single drop all throughout.
But but but... Steam users don't buy "cinematic™" 3rd person games!
The pixel art here looks amazing, like this would fit perfectly with Capcom at their pinnacle of CPS2. As great as the pixel art on modern games can sometimes be, they rarely get remotely up to the tier of all the true legends.
What the actual fuck
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Hahaha I just tested it myself and I can confirm that it's true: - Latest NVIDIA Game Ready Driver (595.59): 79 FPS - GRD 576.88 from July 2025: 133 FPS Exact same scene, 1440p path tracing with DLSS SR Quality + FG 2X + RR. What. A. Mess!
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I have the same issue with this as I do the casting of He Man in Masters of the Universe. No one is going To be good enough to fill the role.
On the one hand, I'm happy that RE is doing well for Capcom since it's apparently a good game, and runs pretty well on PC.
On the other hand, the PC gaming wiki tells me that they still haven't put a FoV slider into their 3D game, and that's a bit sad. Especially since this is not "just" a matter of preference for some people -- though that should be enough -- but also a matter of accessibility for those prone to motion sickness with mismatched FoVs.
That said, I feel like many of the other points are not new, specific to our current situation, or surprising. Political nationalism is actually a thin veneer over elite state-capital coordination? Capital is happy to align with authoritarianism? I think a brief look at history shows that AI is not needed for these to be true. I still don't see how weakening government oversight of corporations, or its ability to limit their influence, helps anyone, but obviously if a government is fundamentally corrupt then having more of the same isn't going to improve things. However, the only viable long-term strategy in that case, if you want to build a healthy society, is to improve the government, not to give up on the idea of governing and let corporations/capital do whatever they want.
On the other hand, the PC gaming wiki tells me that they still haven't put a FoV slider into their 3D game, and that's a bit sad. Especially since this is not "just" a matter of preference for some people -- though that should be enough -- but also a matter of accessibility for those prone to motion sickness with mismatched FoVs.
Thanks, an interesting read and I agree with many of the points it makes. One thing I hadn't actively thought about before is how much more geographically bounded the operations of big tech become when they are dependent on gigawatt-scale AI datacenters.
That said, I feel like many of the other points are not new, specific to our current situation, or surprising. Political nationalism is actually a thin veneer over elite state-capital coordination? Capital is happy to align with authoritarianism? I think a brief look at history shows that AI is not needed for these to be true. I still don't see how weakening government oversight of corporations, or its ability to limit their influence, helps anyone, but obviously if a government is fundamentally corrupt then having more of the same isn't going to improve things. However, the only viable long-term strategy in that case, if you want to build a healthy society, is to improve the government, not to give up on the idea of governing and let corporations/capital do whatever they want.
You get examples like this where having out of date drivers will cause massive issues. Other examples include almost every UE5 game using lumen GI where it straight up does not load on Z1 Extreme.
So...
Resident Evil Requiem is....good I guess but it not a game that dares move beyond what's expected of it. The formula is getting rather stale and while I love the mood and general atmosphere (and the tech, my 5080 is very happy) I can't shake the feeling that I will forget this game once I'm done with it.
Modern big budget gaming is not as memorable as it once was.
Resident Evil Requiem is....good I guess but it not a game that dares move beyond what's expected of it. The formula is getting rather stale and while I love the mood and general atmosphere (and the tech, my 5080 is very happy) I can't shake the feeling that I will forget this game once I'm done with it.
Modern big budget gaming is not as memorable as it once was.
I wish I could be hanging out with the cool RE9 kids, but I'm actually going through RE4R and still have to play RE7 and 8 (and the less liked RE6 and Rev2) so I don't feel I can skip straight to 9. Which is not bad because Capcom are actually good at putting their games on sale. So perhaps I'll grab RE9 once it's 50% off.
Resi seems to run ok in 30fps on my ancient PC, surprisingly. But not feeling in the mood for a Resi atm so putting it off. Probably after new PC build. Performance might still go to shit in the later/Leon bits anyway, though I imagine the initial intro scene with the pedestrians is a decent benchmark.