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Everything I had to say without spoilers is my review, but I enjoyed the game. It has its issues, but it did not deserve the ridicule it got, In no small part because most of the ridicule came from the version of a "gamer" that I despise.

With that out of the way. I much prefer the real thing. Video games can very creative in ways that real pinball tables can't, but are also limited buy the the fact that it's, well, just pinball. A higher ambition for games like this can't really be achieved without drowning out the original point if them drowning the original idea. I'd say the same thing about pool sims' and Bowling sims. They usually appear as mini games in other games these days.

Your OP did not make it clear you were talking about pinball video games specifically, so that's on you. And you do often start spurious new threads on topics that have already been discussed. There's threads on sports games and simulations, this could belong in either on of those. For example a sports game thread that you yourself started! I'm not saying you don't contribute to others topics because you do. It's also true that you post alot of new threads on subjects that either the same or very similar to what is already here, or new threads like this that could easily just be a response to another thread. I'm not being an ass, I'm just trying to inform you of unwritten laws in common forum courtesy. Just think to yourself before you post "Does this REALLY need a new thread, or is on already here?" That's all I ask.

Can't say I'm shocked. A hand built desktop with similar specks and screen would probably be around $2,000-$2,500. The thing about laptops is how the value alters the more powerful they are, you have to spend a lot more to get a bit more. Mine, for example is not much more expensive than a desktop equivalent, but the more powerful a laptop gets the more expensive it becomes compared to a desktop counterpart because they need higher speck cooling systems to stop them overheating in the much smaller frame a laptop has. It's still a good buy. Congratulations.

I understand completely if you don't want to answer, it's your own business and your own choice, but how much?

That's a beast of a laptop @The Blackangel. Well picked out.

It's a difficult comparison to really give any kind of intelligent analysis for me because they both suck donkey tits. It's like Glass Joe Vs another Glass Joe.

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Well, it's been a couple of days and the news isn't good. Whilst some users are having the game run just fine, others are having real trouble, as evident on the Metacritic page; And the Steam page; Now, especially after what happened to games like TLOU2, I would be last person to recommending trusting user reviews, but there is an undeniable level of consistency in the complaints. Crashes, dips and general performance issues, especially those on higher end rigs. This is interesting to me because this only the second time that the Decima Engine has been used on a PC game, the first being Death Stranding. Decima was developed by Guerilla Games in conjunction with Horizon Zero Dawn. Death Stranding on PC didn't have these issues as far as I know, but there is a critical difference between the two. Death Stranding was always coming to PC, HZD wasn't. I know that HZD did employ a bit of digital hocus-pocus to run its astonishing graphics like it did on the PS4, the kind of stuff that wouldn't necessarily be reliable on multiple hardware set-ups. So, it's only a theory, but was the way that HZD was originally coded and developed going to make this PC version way more difficult than normal to develop, or this is just another lazy, undercooked port? And what does this mean for other games originally developed just for a specific console coming to PC? What do you think? One thing for sure though. Guerilla needs to fix this. The PC fans deserve better, especially considering this is a more expensive version of the game right now.

Never believe anything said about GTA6 unless it's straight from Rockstar. The sentence "I have inside information on GTA6" translates as "I'm a bored nerd, desperate for attention and with nothing better to do than mess with the desperate fans Rockstar has, but doesn't deserve, on the internet." Besides, the game is not worth getting that existed about anyway because this isn't the glorious, PS2 era, self controlled Rockstar, this is the GTA5 milking, microtransaction loving, Take-Two fuck you version of Rockstar.

Given that they are rolling out XB Game Pass for Mobile Phones and Tablets, I really doubt there will ever be a dedicated XBox Handheld.

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I know you said money is no issue, but I would still avoid any laptop that claims to be capable of 4K gaming. On a screen the size of a laptop's, 4K resolution is pointless and will only serve to make the laptop more expensive, torture its battery and be louder and heavier than it needs to be.I've told @skyfirethe same thing, I would recommend the laptop I bought near the end of last year, the ASUS TUF Gaming FX505DV, at least as a minimum, a place to start. I would say you will have to by another storage drive though, so consider that when it comes to pricing.

This sounds lie something more easily done through being cleaver with software rather than hardware, but I would admire one for trying this full on old school. If you go tough with it, I wish you the very best of luck.

Nonsense! I have a Facebook and Twitter I use often enough and it hasn't affected my mental health at all.

Spoiler tags have been discussed before, and I agree, they should be added. I haven't got round to creating the spoiler thread yet, but I should get back on that.

OK, seriously, this is a video game forum, you can't just start topics about pinball, at least not on the video games section. I have a lot to say about my new lawnmower, but I don't say it because this is not the lawnmower forum. Please take a minute to think about what you want to say. Stop spamming the board with irrelevant stuff. Check for topics before posting new ones

Correction Apparently there will be a multiplayer mode added at some point. I'll add to the review when it comes out, but because this was a review of the game in its launch state, I will not change the score.

Just because the dev's are up front about, doesn't mean this wasn't created with the same lack of imagination. There's a million games like this. Like @skyfire said, even DOOM itself evolved to improve, so I just don't understand why dev's still think that doing this formula again and again is gonna help them stand out. Even the title, Hellbound, sounds like the first thing they wrote down. Sorry to shit on this so much, but I am getting a little sick of these FPS's that feel they have to be DOOM to feel old skool. Keep the basic environmental interactions and more floaty, fast-paced gameplay, but do something different with theme and design.

Crafted with all the imagination of DOOM cloners cloning DOOM, because this is clearly a DOOM clone.

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I used to do the same thing with some of my old PC CD-ROM games as a kid. Dungeon Keeper, Screamer (A shitty old racing game, but it had a cool soundtrack) and, best of all, Carmageddon. Of course, I didn't realize until years later that Carmageddon's soundtrack was actually an instrumental version of Fear Factory's Demanufacture album. So I could have, you know, listened to the album.

"I wanna build a snowman, to kick its balls made of coal."