Xbob42

18 minutes ago, Paperclyp said:

Wonder if it was worth it for Grubb on this one. True or not it’s not like the most vital piece of info to throw out there and now he’s done gone and poked the bear. I guess he still pry has his source regardless so maybe he doesn’t care. 

It's a rumor about an unreleased video game, not a fucking war secret.

11 hours ago, Bacon said:

No, it's in general.

Across various games, discord is used to host guides, tutorials, and general information and it sucks.

Uh... Youtube??

I don't think I've ever used or even been made aware of Dicsord being used for guides or tutorials. "General information" is basically on any platform though.

Noah Caldwell-Gervais remains the GOAT.

7 hours ago, AbsolutSurgen said:

His problem is that everything MS has done since the X360 gen has largely failed. He needs to look in the mirror to see what their problem is. 

I dunno, Game Pass seems to have done alright, as has moving their games to more platforms. Dude's only been in charge for a single console launch.

Hard for me to look at their "main" competition in Sony and think any better. They've gutted their most creative teams and most of their AAA releases are third-person Sony sludge that all feel very samey.

Only big boy out there still trying new and interesting shit is Nintendo, and we all know neither company would dare copy Nintendo on any more than a superficial, corporate "I don't really understand why this is successful but it looks similar" level.

This is all from my personal perspective of what I want to play and actually care about. Don't give two shits about what is successful in terms of business, that ain't my problem. But yes, in general, our bizarre stock-market-centric world is very antithetical to creative endeavors, or doing anything but seeking growth for all eternity, at the cost of literally anything else.

I think FF16 looks like a PS5 game!

1 hour ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

Game devs praise Dragon's Dogma 2's insta-kill arrow, which saves the game when you use it: "Might be the funniest game design candy I've seen in a AAA video game in a long time" | GamesRadar+

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"The designer I'm not brave enough to be"

 

 

It's even more amazing that none of these people are aware that it's the same arrow as seen in the first game in all but name!

It's not that motion blur at 30 FPS is "good," it's that it's "necessary," or else the game appears juddery and shitty and there's no sense of movement over time, just weird interstitial frames (or... lack of interstitial frames, I guess?) that can become very difficult to follow during fast action. Rebirth without motion blur looked absolutely abysmal at 30 FPS.

But it's a little more complicated than "motion blur on or off," a "good" motion blur at 30 is something you're not even likely to notice, because it's very minor. It's something you only notice when it's missing. Not to be confused with exaggerated motion blur that is usually a toggle. The kind that makes you feel sick or like you can't see anything. Every movie you've ever watched has had motion blur in every single scene and no one complains because it's not a bad thing on its own.

Of course, it's even more complicated than that, since this still relies on consistent frames to give the perception of fluid motion, so with randomly fluctuating frame rates plus wild frame times, it ain't gonna be a huge help. It's when you've got a "smooth" and consistent 30 FPS that it can really serve its role of making up for dev's mistakes of making a 30 FPS game.

I still play and really enjoy GW2, it has the best open world content of any MMO and it's not even close. 

That said, I'd be very down for a Guild Wars 3. They were clearly trying to move on to something new as GW2 was dying down, it internally failed, and they sort of had to reinvigorate themselves to work on more expansions. They've been doing real good but I imagine you really need a new project to keep the passion up. 

Hey it looks like you can do a lot more than basic attacks in this! Very nice! Looking forward to it.

Trials of Mana, on the other hand... It had a bunch of active ability slots, but hours into the game I had like 2, and they were like weird conditional use things, I think? I just remember the vast majority of the game being this basic ass combo shit. Did that ever change? I really wanted to play more but the repetitive simplistic combat bummed me the hell out, and no one ever talks about that game.

Sure, I'll bite. There's something quaint about getting little gaming magazines like when I was a kid.

9 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said:

 

Well I noticed yesterday the modders are tackling the important things first like giving the sphinx nipples

My first mod. 

2 minutes ago, Mercury33 said:

The more I play the more I think this is just open world Monster Hunter w more exploration and somehow a worse story? I’m very much enjoying it don’t get me wrong. 

Yes that is exactly what it is. Just like the first game! Except this time the world and characters don't suck as much, and that's most of what I needed. 

The other thing I wanted was actual co-op, maybe mods. 

If it gets chunky, just shake it up until the chunks dissolve. If it starts to smell, add some baking soda.

34 minutes ago, Greatoneshere said:

I mean, it seems leering at or ogling women, fan service, and pushing the male gaze is strong with this one, regardless of game quality, it should be amusing to see the online discourse on this when it drops. The best part is when he says: "this is entertainment for adults" to justify the teenage boy fantasies. Just be honest my dude. 

 

Stellar Blade dev, also known for butt-jiggling game Nikke, says he "put special attention" into the female lead's back because that's what players see most of the time | GamesRadar+

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"This is entertainment for adults"

 

I've never in my entire life understood the "I'm gonna be looking at my character's ass this entire game" arguments. When the fuck are you looking at your character's ass in any game??

I mean besides when it's made front-and-center and you're "supposed" to look at it, like here.

Skyrim. I really loved it for the first few hours. I remember laughing my ass off thinking the giants killing you and sending you a thousand feet in the air was a glitch, then realizing it was actually intended. How fucking cool the fire stream spell was, and how double cool it was using it in both hands (even though the damage sucked.) That kind of thing.

But man, I don't think I've ever soured on a single player game quite as hard as Skyrim, it was so bad it actually greatly damaged my opinion of Bethesda as a whole, whom I had previously liked. While a lot of issues in Skyrim I could've attributed to that single game and accepted for "pushing boundaries," (when it was actually reigning boundaries in, in hindsight) -- the fact that their later games showed absolutely ZERO ambition completely floored me, and that has culminated in Starfield being this complete gaming black hole in my memory, just the vague blur of the passage of time while lots of nothing happened. Ugh.

Another would be World of Warcraft. I adored it when it first came out, but I've never been big into playing one game for extreme periods of time. So I'm always a fairweather MMO player. I enjoy the content, and happily leave when I get bored, coming back when I hear something interesting. But with Wrath of the Lich King, we were raiding on a schedule (I can't fucking stand gaming on a schedule, quickest way to make it feel like a job and suck the entertainment out of it. I don't mean "hey let's go do this Destiny 2 raid on Monday," I mean "hey let's do this WoW raid for 4 hours a night twice a week for 8 months") and dealing with the drama (not nearly as bad as others I've seen) and the complaints and people dropping out and whatnot over and over and over, casting the same spells and using the same abilities week in, week out was absolutely destructive to my enjoyment of the game.

Then came Cataclysm, which I was initially excited for, and enjoyed right up until we started raiding again. In the very first month I realized the game was now actively miserable to me. My head started to feel a little funny any time I even looked at the UI. Like a pulled muscle, but for my brain. I honestly have no idea how to describe it besides maybe base revulsion? It was a stronger negative reaction to a game than I've had before or since. It wasn't until years later, near the middle of Legion that I'd give it another shot, and found that whatever damage was done had finally worn off, and I could appreciate the game on its own terms again. And I've been very happy to go back to being a fairweather player. BFA and Shadowlands sucked? No problem ducking out. Dragonflight is fun? Hey great time to roll a new class!

Can't think of anything else off the top of my head, those were the standouts for me, though I'm sure I've got one or two more if I keep thinking about it.

No idea if it was just someone joking or not, but I saw someone mention that he's "making a Bioshock about cancel culture" and that sounds fucking hilarious to me.

Yes, it's correct. I've never been attacked once while camping (and only once on the ox cart) so I'm overloaded on camping kits.

1 hour ago, Kal-El814 said:

 

Rich Californians and Texans love bouncing to Idaho for tax and "other" reasons.

(potatoes)

Looking at any amount of footage for this, my brain just goes "Yup, that's Bioshock" and I immediately move on to something else. I thought Bioshock was kind of dated and unfun when it was new. To "build" a new company (gut and replace, same thing right?) and then just spend 10 years to rebuild the same exact thing is super lame to me. Was there like... really nothing else they wanted to do? Was Bioshock the best he could ever envision?

Sweet!

Keep the potatoes, get rid of the people! 

We quite literally cannot have nice things.

8 hours ago, Biggie said:

It’s not the greatest and yeah I’d like 60 a lot better but every Nintendo game that comes out @Xbob42 acts so goddamn surprised and disappointed. Bro it’s like this with every Nintendo game lol

Did you miss the part where the original ran at 60? lol

Remake downgrade for no reason. That's the Nintendo way!

Also wait, "here we go again?" When was the last time I cared about a console game being 30?

I need my class to either be turbo-speedy or the slowest fucker in the game, no inbetween!

Is it seriously gonna be running at 30 FPS? After the original 20 years ago was running at 60? The trailers have a 60 FPS option, but that footage ain't 60!