You can get this legendary cRPG for the price of a pizza, or add a little extra and get the whole franchise

Every time I open up Steam, I cursorily peruse the store and check out if there’s anything worth spending my hard-earned cash on, only to wind up not buying anything because prices above $10 are daunting and scary. And then I go and order a $9 pizza with a $2 delivery fee on top of the service fees they love to charge.

Instead, I could have dished out the dosh on Divinity: Original Sin 2, currently on sale for around $12, and that’s for the Definitive Edition that includes everything. Not only that, but I could have also given out a couple of extra bucks to buy the entire series, starting from Larian’s first Divinity title, which would wind up spawning a host of iconic video games, of which Original Sin 2 is certainly the best.

The franchise is currently on sale on Steam, with some of the titles going for less than $1. It is a series that started Larian off as a video game development company, helping them gain the necessary experience to start reshaping the industry as a whole. Divinity: Original Sin 2 is their finest work if I do say so myself, rivaling the quality of Baldur’s Gate 3 but offering mechanics, gameplay, and depth that the DnD-based title couldn’t pull off.

That isn’t to say Baldur’s Gate 3 isn’t a modern masterpiece because it is. We’re just comparing a shiny diamond to one with a teeny-tiny bit of clouding.

The sale is set to last over the upcoming weekend, ending on Feb. 9. So, you might as well skip pizza tonight and grab this while it’s still hot, because no cheese pull or sauce will give you as lasting a satisfaction as Larian Studios’ crown jewel.

Oh, and Larian’s making a new Divinity game, so now’s a good time to get started with the series.

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Nioh 3 is a truly visual masterpiece that’s better played in high graphics, but the performance in the early hours hasn’t been smooth. If you’re on a PC, you can easily tweak certain settings to get more out of your hardware.

We already got an early taste of PC gameplay, all thanks to the demo that’s available for free. While a massive benefit is continuing the main story on the full version, it also gave us an idea about what the best set of visual settings might look like.

Best Nioh 3 graphics settings

Before I dive deeper into the settings, here’s how my setup looks.

AMD Ryzen 5600G
NVIDIA RTX 3060 12 GB
16 GB of DDR5 RAM

Here are the settings I rolled with on my PC.

Display Mode: Borderless
VSync: Off
Resolution: 1920×1080 (depends on your setup)
Frame Rate Cap: 60 FPS
Graphics Presets: Custom
Upscaling: DLSS
Sharpening: 1.0
Rendering Resolution: 65%
Dynamic Resolution: 60
Minimum Rendering Resolution: 50%
Maximum Rendering Resolution: 65%
Frame Generation: Off
FPS Dynamic Adjustment: On
HDR: Off
Post-Effects Resolution: Standard
Motion Blur: Off
Chromatic Aberration: Off
Len Vignette: Off
Noise Filter: Off
Mach Band Noise: Off
Color Precision: Standard
Depth of Field: Off
Lens Flare: Off
Bloom: Off
Subsurface Scattering: Off
Shadow Quality: Standard
Ambient Occlusion: Very Low
Model Quality: Standard
Model Texture Quality: Standard
Number of Models Displayed: Few
Wind Sway: Off
Anisotropic Filtering: Off
Effects: Standard
Motion Quality: Low
Screen Space Reflection: Very Low
Background Mesh Quality: Standard
Terrain: Low
Grass Density: Low
Volumetric Cloud Quality: Low
FPS (Cutscenes): 30
Cutscene Quality: Standard
Global Illumination: Standard

There are two pointers to note.

I kept Vsync off because you reduce the load on your system but sacrifices very little in return. Hence, it’s best to keep it off.
Keeping the FPS capped to 60 gave me the best results. There were no lags, no stutters, and the performance held steady at 60 FPS. However, you can choose to go for uncapped if you have a better system.

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