Shagger

Thanks for the warning. I'll be sure to avoid this update until this is resolved.

I wanna make something clear, I would never abuse my moderator powers, and this perfect opportunity is the proof. I would love so much to edit this topic title so the word "Snap" would become the word "Strap". Anyway, this is undeniably cool and some cleaver engineering went into it, but I'm just not convinced it's really that useful outside very specific games. Still, I'm not at all sad they this guy did this. Kudos to him.

Video games have a control choice and player input element that other entertainment media's lack, but even so nobody sane would confuse real life with something they see through a screen and sense, as well as interact with, through a control interface. Movies and TV shows have been photorealistic for decades because they are literally filmed, and have not had that effect. The concerns you express are exactly what certain groups and governments want you to believe, so they can keep using entertainment media as a scapegoat. With all due respect, it's ridiculous to believe that games, no matter how real they look, have that much power to influence.

There's a couple of games offered free a week. They vary in quality, genre, scale, purchase price and personal appeal, but's it is definably something Epic are doing right and there is some really good games offered. Project Storm 2: Vietnam is also free right now. As for ABZU, I haven't tried it yet, but knowing the developer and their other work, this isn't a game themed around action, challenge or role-play, it's about relaxation, therapy and captivating visuals to suit.

IGN has an unfortunate, but somewhat earned reputation for not putting the interest of gamers first. Their weird scoring system that gives terrible games above average scores, a willingness to bow down to developer/publisher demands and even plagiarism (to be fair, IGN didn't know) has been noticed by many over time. However, I have seen a change in IGN over the past couple of years. A more rebellious, outspoken IGN talking more for the gamer, surmised by Simon Cardy and his review of FIFA 21 Legacy Edition on Nintendo Switch. You don't even have to read the whole article, it's perfectly summed up in the very opening paragraph, and it's a brilliant, clean version of saying "FUCK YOU EA!" that FIFA fans, and fans of other EA sports franchises need to pay attention too. The only thing he changed was the score. FIFA 20 on the Switch he gave 4/10, FIFA 21 gets a 2/10. The message is clear. EA, we've had enough of this copy and paste bullshit. There are people buying into EA's ridiculous excuse that they have to do this to Switch version because the console isn't powerful enough. Well, if that's you, I challenge you to explain to me why the recommended settings lists GPU's that are older than a PS4 or XBox One? The Witcher 3 asks more of hardware than this, and that game runs fine on the Switch. There is no excuse. We're at the point where have to starting blaming not just EA, but the FIFA fans. EA keeps doing this because you keep letting them. How do you keep letting them you ask? BECAUSE YOU BUY THE GAMES! AND YOU BUY THOSE STUPID CARD PACKS! EA TAKES THE PISS OUT OF YOU BECAUSE YOU BUY THEM! YEAR AFTER YEAR! YOU NEED TO STOP BUYING THEM! I have lost all sympathy for the EA Sports fans who get upset at EA for doing this to them because they're doing it to themselves. If they would just stop buying the games and card packs and hurt the bottom line, something would change. Either EA would step up their game or FIFA would take the licence away and give it to someone else. So if you are a fan of FIFA or any of the EA Spots franchises that dwell in this same empty, soulless pit completely devoid of any care from the people who make the games, stop buying them. Trust me, if all you did, it would be better in the end for everyone.

A little update. Sony has announced that following 10 PS4 games are the only PS4 games that will NOT be backwards compatible with the PS5. I'm still not entirely sure how BC will actually work with disk based games, but digital PS4 games in your library will be downloadable from the PS store onto your PS5 console. I'm still assuming that one will have to download the game then the disk is used by the system as a kind of authentication tool.

Welcome to VGR. Anything you wanna ask please feel free, but just try to enjoy yourself here.

You're both right, if your faith in this world is well-placed, but I'm just a long way from convinced that it is. Even if the majority do see it for what it is, it's the much louder, easily offended minority and the equally loud and obnoxious opposite extreme that get heard whilst common sense gets drowned out. I'd personally not be that interested in a new Duke Nukem game, but I wouldn't object to it and wouldn't take it as a social/political statement, it would just be a laugh, but people these days are too entitled to simply accept something can exist for itself and those who want it. Everything has to be taken seriously, everything has to be regarded as a statement and everyone needs their view to be heeded above all others. That's really why a new Duke Nukem game wouldn't work in this world. It would either be just as "offensive" as it would have to be to still be Duke or ruined buy a political correctness filter but causing an outrage either way because both sides take this shit way too seriously.

The thing about those other characters you brought up is there were much easier to modernise. The very essence of Duke Nukem is rooted in everything that would need to change to make him fit into this world. He's not even a character, more a charachur of an 80's action action star. A muscle bound, misogynistic, emotionless brute, so even in his hayday he was dated deliberately to make him funny. He has to be that way, otherwise he's not Duke, no halfway and no compromise with this character. The sad truth is this world doesn't have enough good spirit and a sense of humour to take Duke for what he is and not take him too seriously.

I'm going to move this topic to Video Games as this is basically a thread to compile reviews from the community, and the "Video Games" sub-forum is more appropriate for such content, but I'm going to ask @DC and the community for their view on this as think this could make a great sticky topic.

I'm with you on everything else, but I have to disagree with you there. For a start, the entertainment industry still have physical employees, so that's put those companies in the same situation as other industries, so they simply can't produce as efficiently as they normally would. That applies to the entertainment industry as a whole, but there are more specific things as well. The music industry struggles because whilst they can produce new material quickly even i these circumstances like this, artists still can't perform and tour, so there's less promotion, and they have to help their artist cope with the loss of revenue. Bands have even been inspired by this, check this out for example (This band actually did get stuck in a foreign country when recording this album because of lockdown, leaving them with more time to work on it than they had planned, and that's kind of how this song happened.); The point is that whilst it's true these's noting to stop the musicians being inspired and creative through this, it's the practical aspects that cause problems. Stage and show business is struggling for the same reason. I feel properly sorry for people in the live entertainment world right now. The gaming industry struggles because whilst digital distribution is very popular and very accessible in times like this, even in the best circumstances developers simply can't capitalize on temporary, sudden evens quickly enough. Games just take too long to make. The new consoles have managed to remain on schedule, but not with struggle and not without cost. The only part of the entertainment that could have made much better of this is the film industry. The main reason that they're struggling is because of that stubborn, archaic refusal to release new movies anywhere but in movie theatres. So few have taken the simple compromise to rent new films out digitally during this crisis and that's not only cost them revenue, but made them look stupid in the process.

IP stands for "Intellectual Property". It's something that can owned with all the relevant rights that isn't a tangible, physical thing, such as a character, a name, an idea or creative concept. For example, Lara Croft and Tomb Raider are intellectual properties. They're not a physical entity like a car, but somebody owns them and using them without permission is a crime in exactly the same way as if somebody took your car without permission.

I think you've pretty much summed it up. Like it or not, Duke Nukem was made by a world, for a world that just doesn't exist any more. Duke Nuke Forever was underwhelming mostly because of the development hell that brought forth a painfully average game at best, but I don't that game is to blame for fact it's highly unlikely Duke Nukem will be brought back. Duke in gaming today would be like the re-make of Dumbo with the crows included. Even if most people had a sense of humour and understanding of the character, somebody would take exception to it.

As @Crazycrab and myself both said, we need to know about your PC specs before we're able to offer much advice. Can you please tell us what kind of GPU, CPU and how much RAM you are using? How exactly is the monitor connected to the computer (Your HDMI would have to connect to your GPU and not the motherboard. A USB connection may also be needed for the Freesync feature to work)?. Thanks for sharing your monitor spec's, but it's unlikely that's whare the issue is.

I game on a laptop that has a GTX 2060 6GB. Because this is a laptop it's not got the maximum performance the full fat, desktop version of the GXT 2060 has the potential to reach, but even this semi-skimmed version has taken every game I've thrown at it at max settings at 1080p with little to no comprise thus far.

What's the spec's of your PC and what settings are you trying to run the game on?

Fast travel is a simple convenience in an open world game and nothing more. I hate it when games try to make it feel like a privilege to earn or not privileged at all. It's right to have limitations and unlocks, but until you've played an open world RPG that lacks the feature, you have not Idea what it's like to live without it and how much worse it makes a game. I played Dragon's Dogma in its original design, and trust me, it's a nightmare. In Horizon Zero Dawn, there was a material cost to making Fast Travel Packs and a more expensive permanent pack you could buy and it worked in that game because there it helped balance exploration. There were benefits to going on foot or "machine" back by making it potentially better to go in real time to places rather fast travel, but didn't crucify you for choosing convenience. There we obviously the limitations of only fast travel applying to found locations and stuff, and that's also OK. That's about as far is fast travel limitations should ever get. No open work should disclude fast travel. Limit it, like only at certain locations or only previously visited places, have it cost in-game time, whatever, but don't disclude it.

Yes, five pages of this, and nobody thought to ask. I have to admit I wonder why nobody else has asked, until now. It was an old high school nickname that a friend randomly gave to me that sort of... stuck. I've used as an online tag, and that's been going on for years. There was a reputation that went along with the name that may or may not be true, but that's basically it.

Like I said earlier;

That not really the case. Ever since the NES, launch dates between the release of new consoles has sat quite consistently at 6-7 years (give or take a year).

Both the The Witcher games and TV show were based on a book series. The TV definitely takes some inspiration for it's visual style from the game and would almost certainly have never been made without the game's success, but they are both based primarily on the books, not each other. EDIT: And yes, the Batman Arkham series and Spiderman are both really good open world, action adventure games.

Movie lived games have that unfortunate, but still earned reputation for poor quality and it's a very simple. These aren't games, there's merchandise. Quickly cobbled together, pationless bread and butter and very little else. Now that I think about it though, these types of games haven't felt as commonplace as they used to be, and I think I know why. ModernAAA games, even rushed licensed garbage, cost to much time and money to make to rich out like action figure or a soft foam Thor hammer, mot to mention the problems with releasing said game with the related movie. Instead, to cash in on the video craze, but avoid the modern impracticalities of licencing videos to promote a specific movie, owners of IPs seem to prefer licencing what I call Franchise Games instead. Such games have been around for years, but I feel the more recent trend I'm thinking off kind of stated with Batman Arkham and Marvel Vs Capcom, but then we saw games like Injustice, Spiderman PS4 and the upcoming Hogwarts Legacy. These games are made with the passion, creative liberty and resources that the typical movie license game just aren't blessed with. These games are better and they sell more, its a win for everyone! Obviously, it's not like these games can't be crap, just look at the recent but already forgotten Marvel's Avengers title from Square Enix, but this still a welcome change to the typical movie licenced game.

It's always great to see these efforts being made to help people recover from strokes, disabilities and other debilitating ailments. I hope they choose the games carefully, though. The last thing any stroke victem needs is Dark Souls or Ghosts and Goblins.

Good points. Maybe I just only value character creation in certain types of games. I see how it does have a way more broad appeal than I first thought.

I should explain. Only @StaceyPowers can confirm this, but I think what she was doing was playing off a bit of an in-joke within "The Last of Us" community. In the first game, you could use bricks or bottles (and only bricks or bottles) as throwing items to distract or stun enemies, but everyone prefers bricks. That's partly because they do offer a slight gameplay advantage as you can use them as one-shot melee weapons (you're still far better off with an actual melee weapon, so the advantage is barely there), but it's mostly because of the well known "Brick Fucking Master" line from the Left Behind from the DLC (that's the GIF I posted).