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What are your feelings on fast travel in games? Sometimes they work really well, but other times it's a chore to figure out and a chore to do. For example, RDR2 is annoying, in that to fast travel, you have to be at an outpost. So, you have to sometimes travel for minutes to get to the nearest outpost and then fast travel to the next location, which can take nearly a minute in itself. Just give us an option to fast travel to locations from our menu. I understand maybe having to open up an area first before it can be traveled to, but at least make it a quick option in the menu once its been opened. I know I'm just ranting at this point. But I've become a lazy gamer lol. I just want to get to the gameplay as fast as possible and not be stuck going from one place to another just to get to another location. What are your feelings on this?

Game Informer made a list of the best games of the current console generation. Did any of your favorite games make the list? You can view the article here: Game Informer There's the usual RDR2, The last of us 2, God of War, Spider-Man, etc. But there are a slew of other categories to look at. What do you think of the list overall?

I have my PC on 24/7 for the most part. When not in use I just put it into sleep mode, which is perfectly fine to do. It's probably better than turning your PC off and on often. Plus I work a lot on my PC so I just figure it'd save me time when I need it.

There are a lot of options for browser based games. One that immediately comes to mind is Krunker. It's a first person shooter in a blocky style, similar to Minecraft, but runs like CS GO. It's pretty fun if you can get a full lobby of people. The site is krunker.io There are many pictionary clones I like to, as well as a clone of Cards against humanity. 😄

Nice, I'll have to look into that. 🙂 Oh yeah, phones are becoming more and more powerful and can play some decent games. Right now I'm considering Pubg and COD mobile. Of course, with each new phone release, better games are going to be coming out. I'm just waiting for the day when I can play stuff like GTA V on a phone without having to use something like xcloud. Oh and I think a lot of those games work on the newer iphone/android phones. It's just that they're not always 100% perfect for them.

I got another Humble Bundle to share with you all, this time it's for a slew of games from CI Games. Pay just $1, and you can grab: Alien Rage - Unlimited, Chronicles of Mystery: The Scorpio Ritual, Dogfight 1942, Art of Murder - Cards of Destiny, and Chronicles of Mystery - The Tree of Life. Pay $17.17, and you can get additional games like; Sniper Ghost Warrior 3, Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 - All-Terrain Vehicle, Locked contentSniper Ghost Warrior 3 - Sniper Rifle McMillan TAC-338A, and Lords of the Fallen - Game of the Year Edition. But that's not all. If you pay $15 or more, it gets you all of the games I mentioned above, plus; Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts, Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts - STURM BODYGUARD 9, Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 - The Sabotage, and Locked contentSniper Ghost Warrior 3 - Multiplayer Map Pack. To grab this deal, jump to the link below. Humble Bundle CI Games 2020.

EA is releasing something quite cool this October 30th. It's going to be a remake of the classic NHL '94 called NHL '94 Rewind. It will be the same classic game with updated rosters. And EA will be including it for free when you pre-order NHL 21. I was mostly into the Ice Hockey game back on the NES, but this is pretty cool too. Is anyone going to pre-order NHL 21 to get this game? Do you think EA will release it at any point? I sure hope so. Read more about this story here: ESPN

With League of Legends, it's just not really the type of game I get into. MOBA's sound nice and all, but I never was too into them. Halloween is coming though, so I'm for sure going to have to do some horror games at some point. I might try some emulators to play older games, that could work. Yeah, that's why I'm thinking I might do streams of other games. I might try to complete games on stream, so I might get that new Mafia 1 remake and stream that in full. Should be interesting. But I also was a part of a Battlefield 2 stream, and I could see myself doing streams of older games.

For me - The first season of The Walking Dead by Telltale. That ending nearly got me. As well, the first Last of Us had that devastating beginning, and the story overall made me feel for these characters. I didn't much care for TLOU2's story though. It didn't have the same weight and impact the first game had imo, and some characters motivations were a little messed up imo. NakeyJakey made a good YouTube video about it that I'd recommend watching. I'd include, is RDR1 and 2 in some regards. RDR1 because of the ending, and RDR2 because of Arthur's overall story. He was a great character. Also, Life is Strange is another game that nearly got me. I think the only other game that was close to bringing me to tears, was Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. But there are probably other games. I found that as I get older, some game endings are becoming a lot more emotional for me. Even the happy endings sometimes.

It's funny you say that, because I haven't been spammed with those notifications in years. Actually, I might have blocked people from requesting I download the game. I think you can do that on facebook. 😄 So if you ever want to block out those candycrush notifications, block away. 👍

I guess I wouldn't say it was a feature, but it seems a lot of modern games have to find ways of slowing the player down. Like missions where you have to follow an NPC and walk super slow. Or like the camp in RDR2 where you can't run around, so you have to walk to and from sections of camp. It just slows things down when it really isn't needed. Assassin's Creed is a big culprit, as there are far too many trailing missions. I want to be able to move fast no matter what. I guess we can go with trailing missions, as that makes more sense in terms of features. I just hate anything that forces you to slow down in game.

Games based off movies usually never do good. There are some exceptions, but I don't know any lol. You got stuff like The Godfather, Scarface, Sopranos, Bad Boys, super hero movies and so on. Most of the time, games based off of movies don't do so hot. Most of the time they're awful. The big reason why, is because these games were pushed out to release at the same time as the movies. Usually this means we get some really crappy games. But, I'm glad to see that there aren't many games based off movies anymore. If anything, I think more movies based on games are coming out now. How do you feel about these types of games? Do you remember playing any good ones?

If you're getting a game used, bear in mind you may not like the results. Gamestop and some other companies like to put their annoying stickers on everything. Why not put stickers that can easily be pealed off? On top of that, Gamestop had a habit of putting stickers on the cover art. Yes, the cover art sleeve itself. Which you all know, probably is not going to come off without pealing the cover art itself. How do you guys get these stickers off without damaging the case and cover art? Don't get me started on cart based games where people put the sticker on the label. Ah I hate that so much.

Source - Bloody Disgusting This game looks pretty interesting. Kind of reminds me of platform games from the early 2000s. I get a Luigi's Mansion vibe from it as well. It's shaping up to be a good horror game. Check the trailer out below.

A feature I wish was in all games, is the ability to run in an area that forces you to walk. I hate any missions where you're forced to move slow, or areas where you can't run. For example, RDR2 when you're in your camp, why can't you run through? I hate when games force you to slow down in areas like this, because it then means it slows the game down to a crawl at times. Just make it fast, I'm too lazy otherwise lol.

Yeah I agree. With RDRO, I don't think they intended it to stick around as long as GTA V's online. I suspect RDRO will start to dwindle in numbers, if it hasn't already. I can see GTA V Online sticking around for many years. Hell, I bet they're going to wait even longer to release GTA 6.

Oh for sure. I remember fishing with a storm coming, and just seeing the lighting strike land in the distance was quite a site. It's almost as realistic as they come. Even the first game had a great weather system. I love when games go into such details.

I am so glad that there are communities out there that are preserving old games. What people are doing is making digitized versions of retro and really old games. Anything from NES, SNES, Genesis or any cart game for that matter. As well as many dos games and other PC games of the 80s/90s/2000s. Eventually all of our games will become useless, as disc based games eventually suffer through disc rot. I don't know when carts degrade. There are many games under the abandoned ware games, where you can legally download old games that are no longer supported. Many of these games are preserved and even brought back to life with custom servers and even new mods and updates. Eventually all games will need to be preserved just in case, as some games of the past are gone. One day I may want to replay that old game that came out like 30 years ago. Anyway, do you guys know of any sites that preserve games? I know of a couple abandonware sites and also dos sites. But are there any others worth checking out? Some sites: https://www.myabandonware.com/ https://abandonwaregames.net/ https://www.dosgames.com/ Archive also has their options: https://archive.org/details/internetarcade

I have always wanted to own an arcade cabinet, maybe something like Donkey Kong, Pac-Man, or Space Invaders. Does anyone here own an arcade cabinet? I'm referring to the original arcades from back in the 80s/90s. But we can count the ones you can get at walmart as well. But yeah, it'd be so cool to have an arcade cabinet. I am interested in those new ones that are made. Just not sure what I'd go for. The TMNT cabinet would be nice.

A new controller made for stroke patients is going to start testing soon. It's expected to help patient regain movement in their hands. The device is called The NeuroBall. The creators and the university behind it was funded £60,000 and are in the process of continuing development. Read more about this here - Medical Express

For me, I like all kinds of weather in games. From a good old downpour, to a snow filled location. I think the best weather system is in RDR2. The constant weather changes to the snowy mountain peaks are great. Especially when you watch a thunder storm in game and see lightning off in the distance. It's nice! 🙂 I agree. I was so mesmerized with the snow mechanics in Assassin's Creed 3, but RDR2 really blew me out of the water with their snow.

Oh for sure, Amazon and other retailers are reporting similar issues. It's happening for pretty much all retailers from what I can see. Yeah, I didn't consider the pandemic into the equation. But it's certainly not helping things, that's for sure.

Supposedly the PS5 will still get some of the games, like Deathloop and Ghostwire: Tokyo, as those two games have exclusivity on the PS5 first. But other games will go by a case by case basis. You can read more on that at this article here - Gamer Revolution When I first heard of this, I thought all of the announced games would be coming to PS5 as well, but reading the article above, it sounds like it was for the two games I mentioned above. So a new Doom, Elder Scrolls, etc might only come out for Xbox and PC now. We shall see what comes of it down the road though.

Maybe the new console gen will give us some new Driver, but I doubt it. I would love to see Driver make a comeback at some point. I grew up with the Driver games. Even though Driver 1 is notorious for having one of the worst beginning tutorials, I still had a blast playing it as a kid. The graphics, the driving, the car breaking apart, was so awesome to me as a kid. Today though, the first two games are awful to look at lol. But, it was the PS1, and it was to be expected. And hey, Driver 2 I think was the first 3D driving game that allowed you to exit your vehicle and enter another. People seem to always claim GTA III did it first. Sure, they did it better though, I'll give them that lol. I played Driver 2 a lot more than the first game, but oddly enough, I never beat it. I still actually have that save file on a memory card somewhere. No joke. I could probably load it up and be on that last mission where you're chasing a helicopter. I hate that mission and I don't think I ever bothered with it again. Anyway, I even enjoyed Driver 3, or shall I say Driv3r. Back then, I thought the graphics were actually not that bad, and the physics of the game was pretty decent too. Of course it was known to be a glitched out mess and clearly wasn't 100% completed, I don't recall having a ton of issues with it though. I remember having a blast shooting the grenade launcher thing, and destroying stuff in houses. If I remember, the physics of the game were pretty decent for a PS2/Xbox game. I never really got to play any of the other games. I played a demo for San Francisco one, where you can morph into the bodies of people in other vehicles. I've been looking to get that one for a while to finally play it, as I hear it's a really good game. Hell, why not remaster that? I don't even know who owns the series at this point. Last I remember it was Atari, and we all know where they're at now. Pretty sure they sold the series off to another studio. Maybe it was Ubisoft, I forget.

Anyone here remember this Metal Gear Solid game? It came out after Metal Gear Solid and was just made up of virtual reality training missions. You'd have to do like hundreds of VR missions. I remember getting it when I was a kid because I thought it was going to be this new awesome MGS game. I was wrong when I booted the game on my PS1. It was still a good game, don't get me wrong. But my initial response was that I got the wrong game or it wasn't what I expected. Anyway, I continued playing it, and I had fun with it. I thought I got rid of it a while back, but just noticed it in my collection still. What did you guys think of this game?