Reality vs Adventure

I've decided I want to get Mafia Definitive Ed. I've never played the original and I don't see myself jumping into a ps2 game. I've watched videos of this newer release and the scenery looks like I can have some fun with. Is there that much negativity towards it if I don't have the ps2 version to compare to? I actually want to get the trilogy, but the gb for ps4 would be 150gb to download. Screw that. So I decided to get one game in the series at a time.

That’s actually the very definition or synonym of unpopular opinion

They should have a game kind of like Mister Mosquito where you can see the virus flying around trying to infect people and you have to stay away from it. Then those anti vaxers and anti maskers are the evil villains and when you encounter one, both of you know they are a psychotic serial killer and you try hard to not let the person infect you. And the villain tries to get in your face to talk, tries to trick you into taking your mask off, tries to infect your food etc. Your goal is to survive long enough to get your shot as the evil villain does everything to try and stop you. Part 2 will be a sitting president trying to kill you by weaponizing Covid. lol.. Almost seems real...

The Yellowstone volcano is going to erupt and destroy all the stupid humans, especially the dumbest of them all---- the Americans.

It doesn’t make a company enticing to work for if they refuse long term employment with benefits and just hire contract workers especially when teams need to work together to make games. Contract workers or outsourced workers from a different company aren’t going to be as team oriented, especially when they don’t care about the profit sharing from the company’s success. You can outsource someone or a group to do a certain project, but the employer won’t be able to choose the talent of every individual, which will decrease the quality of game development. That’s why you need full time employment status with benefits, equal pay, and worker’s rights so that the whole company and employees function as a machine working together under the same principles/agendas/mission. And you can’t have a properly functioning machine when there is discrimination or less enthusiastic outsourced workers when creativity and talent is desired.

That is interesting. I didn't know games were actually utilizing real life scenes. That reminds me of The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker. Although the scenes only take place on the sofa, I think at least. I never played it. Now if only we can get a remake of the ps2 game Playboy:The Mansion, then the FMV will really take off lol.

Wouldn't FMV be like augmented reality?

With VR allowing gamers to interact on another level and Mark Zuckerberg designing plans to create a body suit to wear that has magnetized points to see movement and to feel pressure applied when gaming to help feel actions in the environment, could allow an exploitation of assault. Even without the suit, there has been an abundance of assault from players groping and all kinds of gestures which makes the gaming pretty offensive especially if you don't know if it's a child on the other end. Meta has the ability to ban members for virtual groping, and I don't know if its just a temporary ban or what. But is that really gonna fix the problem? As the VR grows, this really is going to be a larger issue especially if people are saying offensive comments, racist rhetoric, and acting out offensive movements ganging up on someone or abusing a female, virtually of course, but it's still offensive. I've used multiplayer VR before and I can see it easily getting out of hand as friends go in there and you can hear their conversations and see their avatar moving. Technology is definitely going to make the meta verse an ugly world. https://www.yahoo.com/news/metaverses-dark-side-come-harassment-193600018.html https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/01/mark-zuckerberg-says-a-new-material-could-support-metaverse-ambitions.html

That is generous! I've already received my free copy of COD Vanguard so I'm a happy camper. Thanks again!!!

La Nina and El Nino weather derives from the temperatures of the pacific ocean. This year it's La Nina which means the southern USA will be warmer and drier, and the north will get wetter and colder. It has been full blown summer outside for a week now and all the wildlife is confused. I've got to go cut grass and might as well get a damn garden growing. Last I checked I was still alive and not taking a stroll though hell's inferno. Maybe that's why Texans are the way they are; it's because we're all dead and don't even realize were already in hell. Need to splash cold water on my face. Wake up, wake up; it's all a nightmare.

That is interesting. I can see doing a quick play through won't be as immersive, but helps save time. But for those that want to experience a game, there needs perception of time or else the moment gets thrown. Ironically, Days Gone even has a calendar of the number of days passed, hence 'days gone'. But to try and give a sense of time, while completely disregarding it in the story is just plain idiocre or mediocre.

I see this being a very poor and lazy issue with games when timeframes are immediate and not allowing a sense of passing of time. Days Gone gives the perfect example of this. I've kept silent about it, but now it's worth a post because it keeps happening. I just finished a mission and head back to camp to officially complete it by talking with someone. At this point I know that it should have taken days or at least the better part of the day to do the task to move the story along. So at that point there are no missions to do so I head out and as soon as I pass the camp's gates to go outside, I get a new mission saying that the last task is complete and head back to camp. I just opened the freakin gates to go outside!!! You kidding me? Lazy lazy lazy....Things like that takes the essence out of immersion. Games have no excuse in being that bad at losing the sense of time. I would say half the gams I play have poor time management

Haven't played, but maybe Biomutant?

Grand Theft Auto with Red Dead Redemption using Assassin's Creed's animus to go back and forth in history.

Gaming in general helps with reaction time. There is a study showing that gamers have increased reaction without a decrease in accuracy. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2871325/ To sum up, gamers would make better cops than many of those we see in the news that displayed poor reaction and accuracy in decisions.

I think the trend in new games is to make it look realistic instead of cartoony to show off graphics especially in the newer systems that came out. People are excited to see the what new consoles have to offer. Once the craze dies down, then there will be more cartoony games again. And I don't know of any new cartoons that are out. Maybe that is lacking as well.

Yes it was; I'm predicting 2022 will be even worse because they are gonna hold off the release of games because not many people will have newer systems to play them. Gives developers more time to fix games anyways. There's gonna be a crisis when the industry realizes the transition from old generation to new generation was botched by scalpers and insufficient chips.

I'm sure it's part of art history that could be taught in art class. I don't see it making regular history unless video games were born from military invention or helped shape an important event in some way.

I don't think there is much of a market for westerns unless it's something like the show Westworld. And who would play the role as Arthur? I don't think some celebrity who brushes teeth with diamond dust and wipes ass with handmaiden silk will fill the boots of Arthur.

Not many games left to make it on this last generation list. I'm wondering what has been the overall best? So far we got: 1) TLOU2 2) Bloodborne 3) Witcher 3 4) Horizon Zero Dawn 5) God of War 6) GTA 5 I'll add even though it came out on the previous generation, but one of those 'cross generation' games 7) FIFA 8) Motor GP (Cyberpunk 2077 didn't make it) Will Elden Ring and Horizen Forbidden West make the list?

Wow, Japan really is embracing the gaming industry. That's pretty damn awesome. All high schools need to embrace some kind of niche to help prepare students for careers. I'll say it a billion times, high school needs to do away with junk and start becoming more internship oriented. And the esports program is probably one of the more interesting ones. Seriously, the senior level should do away with all courses and only work towards a career. "We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control. No dark sarcasm in the classroom. Teacher, leave them kids alone." Pink Floyd Another Brick in the Wall Pt 2

I haven't come across much fist fighting encounters in GTA 5 except for the occasional mugging lol. In GTA4 I can't imagine having to fight 5 others. I swear that when I hit the button to swing, he starts pushing air. And the kick button, he doesn't kick, he jumps.

The trilogy is GTA3, San Andreas, and Vice city, and left off 1 and 2. I've also been debating Vice city and some of the older titles whether to get the ps2-ps3 version or the trilogy. After watching youtube videos, I think to play the old games, you are only in it for the story. Because to settle for anything less than GTA 5 with it's fantastic gameplay and amazing graphics, just doesn't seem justified to me. Everything seems the same except one is modern and another is old.

I am really liking GTA 4 as I've just started playing it, but for such a cool game the fist fighting is completely awful!!! Does it get better? Or is it gonna be a dirty snot rag the whole way through?