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I was never a completionist. I collect as much as it feels natural during the story. If a game requires more than that, then that game is bad imo (for example dragon age inquisition, far cry new dawn etc) As for collectibles that have no gameplay purpose, I collect the ones I accidentally bump into, but not go out of my way to find them. These are all features to make a game seem longer than it actually is. Firstly most games don'T need to be longer in the first place like DA:I. Secondly I'd prefer a shorter but more quality experience even if a game is less than 10 hours without fetchquests and collecting garbage.

As for games I'm curios about: God of War, Uncharted Series. But I'm not sold on either one yet. God of War might already be decidedly not for me. But I still might decide to play Uncharted. Are all the games avaialable on PS4? what's a good entry point? I didn't play any uncharted except for the lost legacy which is kind of stand alone.

Well, the only PS4 game on the list is ghosts of tsushima the rest are multiplatform. I haven't played Greedfall, but wanted to, but I lost interest somewhere along the line, it's too similar to fable from what I heard, and I absolutely detest fable. Watchdogs2, is in my backlog, but I haven't even finished watchdogs 1 yet either, it's a mediocre game and 2 is worse from what I gather, so nay? Alien Isolation, is the best horror game ever conceived, it's GOTY 2014 for me. The Outer Worlds is a decent title but somehow lacks soul. I found myself constantly drifting away while playing it. I mean loosing interest. Dragon Age Inquisition: is az MMO disguised as a single player game. It's full of grind, and pointless fetchquests, and mmo style crap like destroying rock formations, only the first few hours of it are good imo. It's graphics and some of the environments do look great, but it's not a great game. Ghost of Tsushima I have not played, I originally wanted to, but when the "hatedom" started using it to attack The Last of Us 2, that left a foul taste in my mouth. They ruined it for me. I linked my reviews of the games that I actually finished.

I think Sony will win this round too, despite being the weaker hardware on paper, and I suspect being more expensive. But consoles are not PCs, you can't sell them on hardware specs, you sell them on titles.

Pre-order only makes sense for physical games, where you can run into supply limits. For example I still buy every Playstation game physically because of Sony's outrageous local pricing in their online store. That said I still pre-order digital games as well when I'm 100% sure I want them. So l pre-ordered The Last of Us 2, and Cyberpunk 2077. And I could get both bellow normal retail price. So that's an advantage. What I can't get behind are pre-order bonuses. That scummy companies would lock certain content away from players, capitalizing on fomo.

Isn't that a bit excessive? Is the site editor obsessed with NBA or what? C'mon, can we get a little balance perhaps? I wouldn't mind 20 NBA articles (counting the ones about madden) as long as it is in proportion with regular reporting. Half of all articles is certainly not in proportion. I know it's clickbait, ad revenue is better if there are 20 articles to click on instead of one game guide. But c'mon when I see that as someone who has zero interest in NBA games, I'll stay away from the main page for weeks.

Hell no. Input lag will always be there. You can't beat the laws of physics. You'd need faster than light communications. Player input sent to server ~10-15ms -----> server processes it generates result but there are already buffered frames through transit ~ another 10-15ms --------> actual footage arirves that is affected by the lsat player input. You end up with 40-50ms input lag in a best case scenario. If you have any fluctuation in internet stability you get frameskips, as there is no room for buffering in game streaming. And mind you from what I saw in early stadia tests the actual input lag is not even 50ms but closer to 100-200ms.

I don't think it's underrated it deserves to be rated lower as it is worse than Rise of the Tomb Raider, and The first reboot Tomb Raider as well. If you enjoyed Shadow of the Tomb Raider, you should play those too.

There is a lot of nuance in the story that seems to elude people who judge it too harshly. And I mean no offence by that, some of it eluded me as well. When I first finished it I thought it was a 8/10, but as it sat for a few weeks I slowly came around and now I can easily see it as a 10/10, emotionally I'd give it a 10/10 now, realistically only a 9/10.

I quit playing all multiplayer games. I don't know when exactly around 2013-2014. I think the last multiplayer game I played was Defiance. Or maybe when I played in the TES:O beta. Why I quit? Because I became tired of idiots ruining my immersion. This was the era of MMOs, and it was ridicilous when an NPC Had twelve dozen players around it all getting the same quest. This plagued every game I played. I was never a big fan of competitive games, only with actual friends, but those people I lost contact with.

It can be a contender. But it has it's work cut out if it wants to dethrone TLOU2 for me. I do think it is overhyped, especially by fans of the Witcher 3. But I have a suspicion that there will be a lot of angry fanboys who don't get what they expect. This won't be Witcher3 with a cyberpunk skin, but a completely different and better game. And all my suspicions and hopes about The Last of Us 2 came true, so I'm feeling lucky. I hope it will be more similar to DeusEx and Alpha Protocol

I'm always baffled by the cult of Nintendo. It's completely outside my frame of reference. I've never even seen a nintendo gaming system let alone own one. Gaming consoles were not a thing here before the early nineties, and even then unattainable. The first generation of consoles that actually had significant following here were the PS2/Dreamcast/N64. So I kind of feel the same way, when people talk about the NES, Genesis, and a number of other older systems. For us the best gaming system we could get is the Commodore 64 through grey market import from Austria. So to me Mario, Sonic, Zelda, all of these names are completely meaningless. So does that mean I'm not a real gamer either?

And add the fact that raycon sells them at about 800% of cost as well.

Of course they removed it, they had no choice. EPIC deliberately broke the terms of service. I'm baffled why some people think of epic as some mighty white crusader. They are just as greedy as the next corporation. They aren't doing this for anyone else but themselves. I hate Apple, but the crap epic has been doing in the past 18 months puts them well ahead of apple as worst corporation. EA isn't even playing on the same pitch as these. It's very ironic that Epic attacks Apple for making the appstore a monopoly on iphones, while they are themselves actively working to make the epic game store the same kind of monopoly on PC. Legally epic has no legs to stand here. Their case should be thrown out, it's a farce and not genuine at all. I mean they had an ad campaign prepared well ahead of time anticipating their ban. So it's impossible to argue that they had good faith. This should be a slam dunk for apple lawyers. And believe me I'm not happy about apple taking a win. But if you beat evil by being even more evil that's not a win in my book.

Thanks, now I feel like a stool-pigeon. 🤐

I can't tell. I'm getting older every second. Strangely time seems to go faster and faster. The events of the past 10 years all seem like yesterday.

That makes sense, but I didn't notice that being enforced much. I've seen topics not related to a specific game in the video games section as well. That's why I asked.

I prefer hosting parties to going to parties. When I'm the host it's my rules, and when it's over I Can just fall into my own bed, instead of having the ardous job of getting home in the middle of the night. That said, the first party I hosted ended up being quite messy. There were more people than I anticipated, as everyone invited their cousin and second cousin and friends along. I don't remember how many were there (it was a long ass fcking time ago in a town called kickapoo). About 25-30, in a house no bigger than 70 square meters. (That's about 750 square feet for those challenged in units of measurement) So there were people stowed away in the bathtub and the closet. Someone accidentally turned on the stove almost creating a fire, another one burned a hole in the mosquito net with a cigarette, someone put their cigarette stub in the cupboard (which I didn't even realize so I failed to clean it up before my parents came home) and one guy got in an argument with his girlfriend so he broke a window (he paid for it later), then he spent the entire rest of the night trying to prostitute her out. So all I can say is. Actually I let someone else say it:

I don't understand how these two sections of the forum are different. They are both about games in general. So how do you decide which one a specific thread belongs to? I'd assume general gaming could include gaming outside of video games, but the threads there are also exclusively about video games.

I'm not doing business with the Epic store, period. They are using bully tactics, and they are trampling over consumer interests in order to challenge steam. I'm all for challenging steam, Fair market competition is good. But epic is not using the free market to offer a better service. Instead of paying for exclusivity deals they should actually finance game developers, if they are a force for good as they say. But of course it's all bs, they don't care about developers or gamers, just want a seat at the table. But instead of earning that seat they are trying to get it by brute force. It gained them some market share. But at the same time it creates division, it restricts the reach of some games. So it is clearly not good for gaming in general.

Of course I Do. It's very 1984 ish. "Are you worthy of buying our product?"

I just played the game as I'm not a fan of epic exclusivity. But unfortunately as it turns out of the game either. It's just a 6/10 for me. Here is my review: http://madblog.shacknet.us/control-ultimate-edition/

Still better than the deserts of Origins.

Consoles? CONSOLES? We don't need no stinking consoles! I thought I had to choose one specific game, not an entire device? That's thousands of games, not that much of a dilemma.

There was no such game yet. Eventually I get bored of everything. The closest thing is XCOM2, which I played for years. Probably starting hundreds of new campaigns. But I haven't played it since May, so more than 3 months now.