XxEvil AshxX

how can you put that much effort into animation and that little effort into naming.

I hated both of them lol

99

exactly how many problems i got.

I feel like the general consensus on it is that it's visually quirky and interesting, but also boring as shit. I'll wait for more impressions.

Well my thing is that I have such a gigantic backlog that I will buy a game when it's new but then it's old by the time I actually get around to it.

PS5's attach rate is still about 10% right now, iirc. Games like Spider-Man 2 and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth are "under-performing" compared to their prequels, but those prequels released on PS4, which had 100+ million units out there. PS5 has like, half that. 

Even if a game only has a 10% attach rate to a specific console, that's still 10% you wouldn't have access to. Xbox is somewhere around 25 to 30 million consoles (from what I hear) and that might not sound like a lot, but that's still 2 or 3 million potential copies sold of your game that you're choosing to ignore by not supporting it.

If the devs don't see the value in it though, that's their choice.

4 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said:

 

I wouldn't count on it. According to the video this sounds like a Dragon's Dogma to Dragon's Dogma 2 situation where he says, "This is the game we wanted to make the first time around" the first time was 11 people now the studio is 250 people. Then goes into the in depth mechanics of the game like how people will judge you by your actions and you can build a reputation and get yourself in trouble and at the same time you can play any way you want (combat, theif, sexy man) which is a red flag for people who don't like to think for themselves but want to do what they're told.

This is one of those games that sounds great to me on paper, but I will probably fall off of pretty quick if it feels like every small decision or action is being graded or judged. I like to fart around and do stupid shit. I don't want to be punished for having fun.

I would personally like to see Larian take Divinity back to a third person ARPG. I enjoyed Divinity II. I did not enjoy the flying dragon parts though. Maybe they could ditch that part.

How about making the Dark Alliance sequel that everyone wanted, instead of the Dark Alliance sequel we actually got? They literally have a winning template to work from. BGDA might have been great back in the day, but it's since been improved upon exponentially by all of the ARPG's since. All they have to do is take Path of Exile and drop it into the D&D setting and you have a winner. But alas, it's WotC. Leave it to them to fuck up a relationship with probably the most successful dev they've partnered with in recent memory.

No dev in their right mind is gonna touch a Baldur's Gate 4.

Man I hope I can get into people's garages and piss on their boxes.

No Singularity 

CoD4 was a great experience at the time, but after you play it through once and the new car smell wears off, you realize it's pretty much  just a series of scripted events in which you are merely participating.

I bought this not too long ago. I think when Valve was having its Half Life anniversary or something. Got it for about $5. 

My first realization was that controller support was awful. My second realization was that holy shit my GPU has a hard time with it. After settling for mouse and keyboard controls and tinkering with graphics settings to a point where the game didn't crash right when I got off an elevator at the beginning, it actually seemed kind of cool. But I was tired of restarting the game over and over testing it to see if it was going to crash before tinkering with the settings some more, I set it down and will come back to it... someday.

On 4/7/2024 at 12:47 PM, skillzdadirecta said:

 

10. Days Gone

9. Quantum Break

8. Warhammer 40k Space Marine

7. Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen

6. Ass. Creed Unity

5. Spider Man Web of Shadows

4. Deus Ex Mankind Divided

3. Divinty Original Sin 2

2. The Last Guardian

1. Alpha Protocol

 

Bonus games:

Spec Ops The Line

Watchdogs

 

I see this list of 10 games I should go back to, and raise it one list of 250 games I own but still haven't played yet.

This is one of those remasters that can actually justify its existence, since it was only on the Wii and probably looks and controls like ass by today's standards. I still have the Xbox 360 version of Epic Mickey 2, which I.... don't think I've ever played.

14 hours ago, AbsolutSurgen said:

Transgender Kyle Katarn?

It was more a point at what they were saying about the main character possibly getting force powers at some point. Scoundrel/smuggler turned Jedi is pretty much exactly what Kyle Katarn was in the Dark Forces - Jedi Knight series (although in kyle's case it was ex-empire turned smuggler turned spy turned jedi).

So if it did happen I would probably just call her Kylie Katarn.

Also... a weird side note. Did anyone else feel like the main character's animations and lip syncing were... "off?" in this video? I mean everyone else looked alright, but she didn't. Like the animations didn't match up. She definitely didn't look mo-capped.

4 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said:

 

You run into a force user who transfers their power to you and you become a force user.

Kylie Katarn

4 hours ago, Brick said:

 

I'm pretty sure @XxEvil AshxX was joking. 

I forgot I even made that comment lol.

59 minutes ago, LazyPiranha said:

I mean, it is technically true and people do care about collecting trophies/achievements.  It is a little odd for a game this popular and new to take essentially half of the content and remove it from the equation for an unknown amount of time.  
 

I could see removing it from the war effort or whatever but leaving the option to play private matches in some capacity.  It just strange to think that someone buying the game today is getting half the experience everyone else did a week ago.

Interesting. I was considering hopping in but this little bit of news just convinced me not to. Fuck that.

This is gonna need a demo.

Was never a sub when I was a kid but I'd hit up the local grocery store and grab a GamePro or an EGM whenever I had the chance. I had always wanted a Nintendo Power but never subscribed. My buddy on the bus had a sub though so I'd read his.

I seem to remember there was a merger at one point.. I think it was EGM that bought out some other mag but I can't remember what it was. I also remember in the mid-90's those magazines were pushing 200 pages each. You could roll one up and kill somebody with it.

Also, I'm old... so if any of this sounds weird to you, it's because it was before your time.

I love how the whole mid-life crisis thing is personified by buying some frivelous thing we really don't need.

To be fair though, it's usually that thing that we could never justify, and then we reach a point in our lives where we're like, "welp, I'm dying soon. Might as well start spending this shit or else the kids will get it."

I'm in my mid-40s as well. I guess I should be getting on this whole crisis thing myself... 

Phil could always just stop doing interviews. Easy to be the whipping boy when you're the only one willing to talk.

1 hour ago, Spork3245 said:

7700 is perfectly fine for a 4090. (If that’s what you have  )

Aaaand it is not lol. I over-estimated my machine. I have the 5700, which ranks pretty low on all those charts. 

To be fair though, those charts are still showing well over 120 FPS on all the games. I can't see myself aiming for much over 60-120 so I might be alright for a bit. But yeah, I'm already factoring in a future CPU upgrade now.

Looking at a 4070 TI Super with whatever AMD CPU is a good bang for the buck by the time I finally upgrade... which will probably be the end of the year.

I remember buying GW2 day-one because I really like the first GW, even though it wasn't really open world and kinda sucked. I played it for a hot minute but I'm pretty sure I fell off before the first expansion even released. I don't even think I would recognize it now.

I'd jump onto a GW3.

20 hours ago, Link200 said:

From what I understand Dragon's Dogma 2 is very CPU heavy. If you upgrade you may not see a huge performance boost in this specific game.

Yeah, it's not optimized very well, from what I understand. But I wasn't looking to increase performance, I was just kinda using it as a benchmark.

On 3/28/2024 at 4:55 AM, Spork3245 said:

CPU scaling with a 4090 at 1440p:

https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-ryzen-7-7800x3d/20.html

Since we have no idea which Ryzen 7 CPU he has, there’s certainly a point where he’ll be so CPU limited that the difference between even a 4070 Ti and a 4090 will be 0 at 1440p and lower.

 

Looking at that chart, I want to say I have a Ryzen 7700, but I keep forgetting to check whenever I'm actually sitting in front of the machine.