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The title says it all, if you were a super hero what would be your sad or dark back story? Quoting South Park the Fractured But Whole, "He was traumatized and become a hero because his dad fucked his mom" xD My back story as a small spud a rabid squirrell ate the other potatoes at my garden, therefore I became Super King Monarch Supreme Lord All Mighty Overpowered Brazzers actor Humble Warrior Beer Champion Potato and now every time I see a squirrel at the street I throw my loose change at them

I do have a argument as to why digital is better. It has actually been a massive help to the indie industry and I'd argue it's what even allowed for the indie scene to actually exist as digital distribution has been easier, cheaper, and less risky for developers to utilize. Meaning that the indie scene itself really is only possible for digital distribution. Mainly because indie developers rarely have the money to print out copies of a game.

I don't mean the "AI" we know now which is just a preset bot or CPU programmed with a set range of actions and responses. I mean AI that are able to think for themselves used for gaming purposes. AI being implemented in the future to enhance the gaming experience. By this I mean AI in place of preset NPCs, AI dialogue, AI cities, AI used to determine how NPCs fight you, AI being used to give games dozens of story paths which differ greatly depending on what you do. The possibilities are endless. I think this would really bring games to life and console makers and devs alike should invest in this.

Hello VGR, i recently decided to pick a PSP 2000 because it's one of the sick consoles that i wanted to try since my childhood, i completed Metal Slug XX on it recently and have GTA VCS, looking forward for your games recommendations!

The last three Assassin's Creed games: Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla each have a separate Discovery Tour gameplay option. The Discovery Tour is fact based history that helps guide you to learn about culture, religion, people, and places. On the main title screen instead of playing the main game, click on DT to learn more. What it is, is the same entire map but with icons you can fast travel to and have a guided tour explain history of that location. There is no fighting or anything, but you can still climb on everything and explore using all sorts of different characters you can play which unlocks. In the main game, when you arrive at a new location, check the Discovery Tour to see if there is some history you can learn about first before progressing more in the game. That way you can play region by region or city by city and learn what you can. For example, I've started a new game for AC Origins. I've come to the city of Alexandria and did a few quests and explored a bit. Then I exited the main game and checked the DT which had around 10 or so tours for the city of Alexandria learning about the pharos, battles, Gods, art, education and philosophy, etc. which is spread around the city. Then when I've completed those, I went back to the main game and traveled to another region where I checked again Discovery Tours there and found history on fauna, animals, agriculture, beer making, etc. And now I'm ready to move on to the pyramids where there are tons of history tours there. Playing this way has enriched my gameplay. I've learned a great deal and it's just amazing. Many people who play those games really don't appreciate the historical aspect of it. So that's why I've made this topic as the best way to play these games. This literally can be taught in schools if there was even more focus on history. Cause like I said, the tour allows you to traverse the same map as in regular gameplay and you can fly your eagle around and soak it all up and go into forts and absolutely everywhere w/o worrying about getting attacked.

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Humbe Bundle is at it again with a great bundle of games, this time being for the Resident Evil franchise. The bundle includes 11 games in total if you pay the base price of $30. But it gets you: So yeah, not a bad deal at all for $30. If I had the cash to spare at the moment, I'd for sure take advantage of this. You can find this deal below. https://www.humblebundle.com/games/resident-evil-decades-horror Moderator Edit: This bundle is available now and will remain on offer until August 24th.

That is a brilliant point. I don't like labelling the kind of developers you speak of as "indie" for reasons I've spoke of in the past (To summarise, an indie game can come from a one man team of a shed of a huge company employing thousands because "indie" liberally means it's independently published.), but I know what you mean by "indie" developers and digital distribution really has been a godsend for them. Social media has help as well because it's empowered "word of mouth" like never before and gives good games from talented, small indie dev's a real chance to get traction and get noticed. Again, a great point @Techno that I didn't think of.

I can't believe I hadn't thought of this one. It's the primary reason why one of my favourite games of all time Tombi! (AKA Tomba!) didn't sell all that well: it didn't have a distributor. This was a game by Tokuro Fujiwara of Capcom fame, creating his own studio named Whoopee Camp, so this wasn't some two-bit bootleg operation selling PS Value Series games. It wasn't until after traversing the red tape between Sony and other rights holders that it eventually got re-released on Playstation Network, finally receiving the justice it long deserved. Given how over 80% of games are now purchased digitally, it'd be even harder for an indie title to stand out with physical copies. Back in ye olden dayes of 1997 the Platinum/Essentials/Greatest Hits label was released: a game had to have sold 400,000 copies to have been redistributed with this label. Tombi! didn't get a Platinum label. In the present day however Starbound has sold over 1,000,000 copies. Guilty Gear Strive has sold over 1M copies. Spiritfarer sold over 1M copies. The Forest sold over 5.3M copies. I'm sure I needn't go on. Brick and mortar stores are getting shut down left, right and centre, and what few are still around are more multimedia merch stores. Like I love HMV as it is now, but the percentage of physical discs and the return of vinyls is still dwarfed by the number of shirts, plushies and posters you can buy. While this thread does focus on the consumer side of things, it's good to think on how the creators of those games reach us to play them.

If I were good, Quake Champions. Though I'm not =D

They spent a lot in manufacturing the portability function of the console and making the portable tablet as powerful as possible which drives the price up. They could spend even more to make the dock bump up its power to rival the current playstation and xbox but the price would be like $700 or so which is way too expensive, especially for nintendos standards since they like to keep their prices down.

Oof finally got around and beated The council played through late in the night yesterday, only to begin today with the same thing some puzzles were brutal and for one i had to look up a guide online, others toke me a few hours to figure out, you get plenty of hints here and there, only problem in my case was you have to understand the hints the game throws at you, toke me a while to figure the hints out. I got a pretty decent ending altough couldn't save everybody but all in all well worth the 20+hours i putted into the game eventough the story is sometimes hard to follow early on, but it all falls into place into the last 2 episodes. Had to mop up a few achievements i've missed but with these type of games it's fairly easy since there is a chapter select and you can skip all the dialogue. I'd say a job well done and the perfect way to conlude my 3 week vacation, off to work we go tommorow.

I do. Much like Skylanders and co. they were played through a devices connected via USB, and they'd have mini-games and some overarching story. Each Funkey came with their own world and minigames I believe. I bought a load (all sealed) for £15, but it wasn't really worth it as the software to play it requires some reverse engineering to get going. Correct. I struggle to find any earlier examples of Toys to Life as we know them quite like U.B Funkeys. Until proven otherwise I say they're the first, and the Toys to Life genre enjoyed a nice holiday before Skylanders came along.

Who remembered U.B Funkeys? It's supposedly seen as the first Toy to Life game that dated all back to 2007 if got that right. Mattel and Radica are the two toy manufacturing companies in collaboration for creating the game.

Given nurses in the UK make on average ~£34k a year for a significantly more stressful job, requires greater physical activity, and is - let's be honest - significantly more important... no, esports players are not underpaid by any stretch of the imagination. But what can really be done about it, if anything needs to be done about it? A lot of esports money will be generated from sponserships and advertising deals; the amount of teams kitted out in jerseys with Monster logos ironed on is innumerable, so it's got to go somewhere. Viewership and ticket prices will also generate their salary, with people paying to fill up seats at stadiums or with virtual/digital tickets. Merch in games being sold based on the teams playing the game from Overwatch to SplitGate will, again, get them a healthy cut and go towards hiring the venue to play. The only way I could see esports players being underpaid was if they couldn't afford to do their jobs, but if they can't afford to play video games on $75k per annum, what are they doing wrong?

This is an amiibo of KK Slider. These went with the Animal Crossing New Leaf game on the 3DS. You would open the menu at the prompt and place your Amiibo on the spot. It would then invite these characters to your campsite to so you could purchase things from them. Now they are just nick nacks.

I think COVID-19 decrease made it that way. Lots of people who stayed indoors have gone back to their respective working place, and wouldn't have that chance again to steam all the time. You can imagine when you're totally exhausted, what you'll imagine that time is sleeping in order to rest your body.

I have no Idea if I ever played with a big name game celebrity in any of the games I played, because I just play the game. I wouldn't know the top 50 players of any given big game if I tried. 🤣 that would be similar to work, or I'm a video game journalist, and it's my job to know these things. 😝 but if that ever happened to me in the future, I'd brag about it lol. I also just watch clips from people that have defeated a big name, and that's GG worthy.

To the OP: I used to buy nothing but physical games. I have embraced digital purchasing and I only have one physical game in my possession and that's Animal Crossing New Horizons. I also have the digital version of that game. One can never be too careful with a favorite game. *Grins* It's just handier to buy online instead of having to traipse to the store only to discover it's out of stock. I can order games in my jammies, download and play them. LOL! The only thing I don't like is that I can't play them offline. No wifi...no games.

Yeah but most pro gamers run smurf accounts or alts when they just want to enjoy the game / not be targeted. In my playing days it was best to run multiple accounts to avoid harassment.

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It's not that I'm being a pussy and running away from them. In general, though. You have to say to yourself, "They're not interested in hearing this. Why continue?" Sometimes it felt good to lay out the truth. Then they just spout more crap about how it's not true, and this is just my opinions. But of course, if you provide evidence to the contrary and they're still not convinced despite what you just provided in front of their faces, they're just not going to listen to logic, no matter what you say. They even say smart alleck things like, "Alone in the Dark inspired RE, so Capcom copied that long before the recent games you mentioned!" Yeah. As if that's any excuse to blatantly copy all the games I told them they obviously had copied (with proof offered). You know? They seem to like to have an answer for every counter-productive post you leave. So that's why it's pointless to tell them what they will ignorantly continue to overlook. It's like you're standing there shouting at a brick wall, to be honest. Petulant school children.

You also don't want to waste too much time in one division because competitive play for games outside of fighting games can often have several limitations. Several years ago, most of the COD tournaments in the Advanced Warfare era really just focused on one type of gameplay mode. Fighting games generally let you pick whoever you want, with whatever tools you want, and you're aloud to play any way you want. Some newer people might think that they can just cheese their way through an elite tournament with spamming but that doesn't work because fighting games are based on math and frame data. There's math involved in throwing out a fireball or projectile, for example, and all a pro has to do is know how to counter that math with better math and touch you one time with a full combo punish that could result in 40% damage or more each time they touch you just single time (depending on the fighting game). That means that someone could just open you up 2 or 3 times clean and your entire bar is gone, whether you try to spam or not. So in that sense spamming is generally welcomed in tournaments, but frowned down upon in certain circumstances as people are looking for a showcase of skill and its quite frankly easier to beat people with combos.

Nope. You can pop into a tournament with a $15 thousand dollar jackpot entirely unannounced (aside from registration) and after having started training 2 weeks prior to the tournament and take the entire prize home right on the spot. E-sports experience can build up skill and experience, or it could quite frankly create negative characteristics in a person such as boredom, exhaustion, depression, etc.

$75 thousand dollars per year is more than an aircraft mechanic makes on average, and mid tier competitors are pretty easy to beat in some competitions. So if mid tier video game players are earning $75 grand a year for basically being in average territory, then they are over paid.

The new WWE 2K games don't even come close to here comes the pain and some of the other games to follow. It's like night and day compared to hctp. Hctp has some of the best game modes, gameplay and more. I'm pretty sure they have GM mode that has more options than 2k22 does. If you've never played it, I highly recommend it. It's one of the best around. That and the smackdown vs raw series.

Sometimes when I look at the way some of these big AAA games have taken us for a long ride without any regard, it would feel like let's bring back our old days with the early gen consoles. Only if we can go back in the past and relive it all over again.

I used to play this game a lot. It reminds me a lot of peggle in a way, which is another fun game where you shoot a ball to delete other balls on the screen. I really need to check both games out again.

Saw a video of the beginning of the game and not sure I'm feeling it. The characters are kinda cringe and they say some cringey shit. I'm still interested in getting it eventually, just for the gameplay mostly, but I'm not really sure what to expect from this story. https://youtu.be/DSvX0KOdBWQ

The thing with the switch and why it works so well, is because of Nintendo and their exclusives. Their first party titles. And of course their hybrid console that makes it easier to play all of your games on the go. I think if Nintendo just made another console with no gimmicks, it probably would have failed like the wii u did. But being hybrid helped a ton. Having a handheld and console in one was a game changer. But future consoles will obviously need to upgrade the hardware to at least come close to current or new gen consoles.

Unfortunately I don't think those kinks could be worked out. You're eyes are facing a screen for hours on end, it's most likely going to cause eye strain at some point. I know looking at a TV screen or computer screen for a long time can be bad for your eyes, especially if it's blue light. If they made it possible to add options to protect your eyes, that would help, like with the night light option on windows to tint your screen a bit yellow to help stop blue light from bothering you. Some people can probably last longer in VR than others, but there will probably always be some eye strain due to playing long enough.

I played the remastered version. It was quite fun although the gameplay design had visibly aged.

Those old video games are so classic that you still have a good sense of connection to it even after so many years of playing it when a discussion on it is brought up. If I lay my hands on PS1, and it's available, I'm playing it again.

The simple truth is that people will always believe what they want to believe and there is nothing you can do that is going to make them have their mind changed. The best thing you can do for yourself is to try as much as possible to focus on what really makes sense for you and ignore every other noise that comes with it. It is not only Capcom that have their fans fooled and blinded, I believe EA also have been perfect on that note with their fans.

hmmm, lot's of people like the Black shark or the ROG phone, I recently bought a "gaming" phone according to the marketing, but I just needed a replacement for my old phone, so I bought a budget gaming phone for around $200~ USD, the infinix note 12 G96. but hey, it's AMOLED. 😁 basically the company who owns tecno also owns infinix, among a few others. 😀 Infinix Note 12 G96 Specs https://www.infinixmobility.com/smartphone/note-12-g96 https://www.gsmarena.com/infinix_note_12_g96-11526.php

If not that @Yaramaki is ineligible I would have nominated him again, his contributions here are top notch. @kingpotato should have it.

Haha I agree, there were some points in the game where it was almost impossible to get all the points or hop offer specific obstacles >.< Omg it just made me remember those old snowboard/biking extreme sports games where you could do like 20 backflips xD Yep it was the one from ESPN where you could rollerblade, snowboard, bike etc. Ahhh good memories those games were as well. Almost forgot about Gallop Racer! The horse game where you could bread and your horses aged after every season.. Oh wow that game was ahead of its time honestly.

The OLED version is a nice touch and all, but I can't see myself spending extra for it. If I am to pay extra, I would prefer they made a new version with better hardware altogether. Then I could see it being worth the price.

i'm kinda torn wheter i should get saints row right away or just hold off until it goes on sale. To me it looks like just another open world game that adds nothing new to the table and from what i have gathered from previews on various sites, the side content is just your standard uninspired open world affair. I know i'll have fun with the game no doubt but is it really worth paying full price for. Currently i'm not really feeling it maybe that will change over time but as it stands now especially after violition's previous game agents of mayhem which flopped hard, i don't have a lot of faith in violition anymore to save their flagship franchise.

I just woke up sleeping off a lot of whiskey, but now after seeing that trailer, I think I'm drunker than before. That or I'm stoned as hell. Or maybe I'm thinking that the guys that made that game were the ones drunk and high.

I don't know much about streaming, but I do know how quickly the novelty of lockdowns wore off, and now people are desperate for physical interaction. For example, no longer is D&D something just done over Roll20 and Discord and Twitch; people are buying physical box sets. Board games boomed in about 2017 and naturally would've halted unless they could be delivered to the house or played through Tabletop Simulator, but just today while out with my partner I've seen so many board games in stores that don't normally stock them like they do now (namely HMV, GAME, and Waterstones). So I definitely think it's mostly down to Covid restrictions being reduced. They've played their games, they've watched people play games and now they perhaps crave interaction in some form or another, physical or digital. It's all just guesses on my end, but I'm not surprised streaming has come down from its high. Thanks for sharing the article, it's an interesting read.

Yeah some of those dudes in the shooters are military guys just using basic law enforcement tactics at some of the higher profile games. "Camping" isn't really a thing in the sense of it being bad; it's more or less "taking control of a strategically important area", and it can take patience and skill to get people off of some of those areas because the maps are just designed that way. But I do it all the time, you just need map knowledge. A video game is the same as real life in terms of something like a high point that militaries would use as an advantage. If you are on a high point, you have observation of a large swath of the battlefield and people occupying those positions can kind of pick shots at you at will -- and if they are teamed up with people, you are better off not even trying to take certain positions from them. Skills in those areas cover a large swath of areas such as pure patience, recognizing the skill level of opponents online, strategic isolation of your opponents in some cases, guerilla warfare tactics, knowing which spots to try and take, and knowing who to trade with and when. Another thing you need is a headset, so you can hear subtleties online. If you are going to try an exchange, perhaps at a critical section of the map which could change the direction of the game, with an elite opponent, it's good to know if he's got a spotter near him in an overt or stealth position. Sometimes if a person, or two people, are controlling a power weapon spawn area: You can catch one of the occupants getting bored with controlling that area and then going back out into the field -- so you can then challenge the solo guy for the area and power weapon, changing the game. But that comes with actual patience, and almost a very stealthy ability to surveil your opponents before making a move. Think about the opposite of "camping", which is endlessly free roaming the map and leaving yourself wide open to fire from a whole range of different firing angles.

I just looked up the trailer, it makes Borderlands look sober! I don't what the hell to think of this. Edit: It seems like @StaceyPowers just beat to the trailer.

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Last month my dog farted at least 231 times within a single frickin' week.

It's not a wrong thought, but Nintendo switch is built for its own purpose and it's style and mode of operation is not going to be compatible with the kind of games that could be on PC. Let's see if there could something like that in the future.

i just wish the switch lite was more capable of handling shooter games. it is very difficult to be competitive in a shooter game with a switch. for example pitting someone in fortnite with a switch lite with only 30 fps against someone on a pc with 300 fps.

Blur, I've never played it but I can tell that it's a fun game. A combat filled racing game is something I've been wanting and Blur looks like it's exactly what I wanted.

It's not asking for much to actually go and read the original post, or do like @kingpotato suggested and do a little research. Stop being so lazy.

did many times, was a smooth feeling for couple of secs, worth bragging about xD