Shagger

Weather is mostly decorative thing in video games, and I'd honestly like to see that change. There has been a few games come where the weather has gameplay effects and I'd like to see more of that.

Welcome to VGR, but please note there's an entire sub-forum dedicated to general discussion, including a section to discuss music specifically. This General Gaming sub-form is for gaming related topics only. Locking thread.

It is possible to edit posts, but only within 10 minutes of originally posting them. You should have access to an edit tool by clicking on this icon at top-right of your posts; As a mod, my tools may be different, but the edit icon should appear in a drop down menu.; As aforementioned, regular members can only edit their own posts within 10 minutes of posting them. If there's good reason that you need to edit a post after this period, please let me know.

Having discussed this with @Reality vs Adventure, I have re-opened this thread with offending posts either edited or removed to discard unwanted content and to make the intended points more clear. Happy posting.

It was quite warm here, but it's all about the luck of the draw. I am exhausted, though.

I'm worried about this. If ES6 turns into and Xbox Brand Exclusive, people are going to be pissed. I hope for their sake Microsoft knows what they're doing.

I didn't finish The Witcher 3 because I just couldn't get I to it for some reason. Nothing majorly wrong the game, it just didn't click with like it did with others. This move from CDPR is something they decided to do based on the data they have, so it's fair enough and doesn't really bother me. If the story is well paced and interesting but just doesn't fill as many hours, leave it that way. Adding filler to make it longer will only make it worse. I know it's the same developer for both games, but Cyberpunk 2077 doesn't have to be The Witcher 3 to be good, so I don't understand why CDPR feel compelled to make these comparisons all the time.

Another thing that didn't happen to me was the cooling fan for the CPU coming loose then the CPU dying. It obviously didn't explode... this other person's computer, but it was still annoying as hell... for this person...that wasn't me. The point is a computer won't explode if it's pushed to hard, it'll just shut down. There's too many failsafes in things these days for something electrical blowing up to be realistically possible.

2K wrestling games are sub-par slot machines. Battlegrounds is the game 2K shat out this year because they didn't have time to make 2K21. That's everything you need to know.

Pretty much everything made by From Software. Thier approach to difficulty basically revolves around crippling the player and cryptic trial and error. It's not a test of skill, it's not a test of strategy, it's just a test of patience against an unending barrage of frustration. Thier stories are also rubbishand. The community around these games is even worse, just pure toxicity and arrogance.

This laptop I have came with an 512GB NVMe SSD that I use as a boot and OS drive in the way that @Crazycrab described, but that was actually all the computer had, so I added a a 2TB SSD for game files and other content.

I'm quite ambivalent. Part of me agrees, whilst the other part doesn't. One of the things about alcohol and why it's more accepted is its place in our culture and history. Man has been creating wines, beers, ciders and sprits for thousands of years. Like it or not, it's as much a part of our cultural heritage as music or art. Marijuana just isn't as embedded in our culture and more practical industry and trade. Marijuana also came much later and presented itself to a more cautious and consequence aware society. When abused, alcohol potentially causes greater detriment to one's health, that much is true, but it's not like Marijuana can't do the same when it's abused. For a start, it's usually taken with tobacco, possibly the worst thing mankind has invented (OK, I say invented, but the Tobacco plant is actually a product of nature, but you know what I mean) and, like alcohol, its use became engrained in our culture and society before people were aware of the consequences and nobody would dare try to outlaw it now. Comparing it to alcohol, it's far more detrimental to one's health and WAY more addictive. Even pure marijuana isn't exactly good for you, especially when smoked in, let's say "recreational" quantities. And sorry, but recreational marijuana is a gateway drug, but that is a very odd argument for you to make because that says nothing about the drug itself, more the tactics of the people who sell it and other narcotics. And buy your logic, that problem only gets worse if anything under legalization because of how you describe the perfectly legal alcohol as "the real gateway" drug. So that argument makes no sense and is actually detrimental to your point. Marijuana depresses the senses, just like alcohol, and it's also a hallucinogenic. It is just as, if not more dangerous to drive or operate machinery while under its influence than alcohol, so the drink-driving thing is another very odd, nonsensical argument to make that doesn't help you. People who are high are also more likely to get behind the wheel than someone who's had a drink. I've been around long term smokers of marijuana and lifelong drinkers, and whilst neither one is good, I would say on my experience marijuana definitely affects the mind in a way that is more potent than alcohol. The long term effects of marijuana need more research before it can be legalized IMO. The big ace Marijuana has up its sleeve is, of course, it's medicinal properties, and I don't see what anyone would have against Marijuana on prescription. Drugs on prescription are dosage controlled to limit the ricks of addiction and side effects and are only offered to people that need them, so that's all good. I'm not fully versed on what those medicinal properties are, but I do know doctors want medicinal marijuana as an alternative to morphine, another medicinal drug that uses the same active ingredient as a narcotic (in this case heroin) and is actually quite nasty. So, I'm 150% on board with that. What I find interesting here is the fact you don't bring marijuana's medicinal properties up, and when others have said that it should be available through regulated, medicinal procedure, you call them "hypocrites" then go on about alcohol, something that isn't a medicine. The people were obviously refering to marijuana being regulated and and controlled as a medicine, so why ignore then call them hypocrites for not demanding regulations to alcohol? Well, I'll tell you why, because your selfish and twisting what people have said to fit your own self-centred argument. You're not interested in having marijuana legalized AND regulated so it can be used as a medicine, you don't care about the people who could benefit from that. You just want marijuana legalized as a recreational drug for your own sake, and that's why you keep brining up alcohol because alcohol plays the role in society that you want marijuana to play. Let me make it clear, I have no problem with you smoking marijuana and getting high, that's perfectly fine. Face facts though, legalization is not going to happen for that reason and it shouldn't happen according to your own logic. According to you, and I'm not saying you're wrong, alcohol is bad and a detriment to society, but what you're proposing here is a society with another "alcohol" in it, and yet try to claim that's better? Think about that then ask yourself who's the hypocrite here. If everyone who drank excessively started smoking marijuana instead, they may indeed be better for it, but that as a case to legalize marijuana only makes sense if marijuana were to replace alcohol, and that's not going to happen. And trust me, the powers that be would never listen to the case at all if it comes from a place as self-centred as you're presenting it from. There's a case for legalization that I'm totally on board with that gets held back when people say stuff like this, and that's why I find it so annoying.

Been getting into Oblivion again on PC, modded, obviously. The mods can add new stuff, change the look of the game and so on, but what I'm struggling with is just how odd this game now feels to control compared to even other more recent, but similar games. It's not just the fact that this game doesn't officially have controller support, although that is a big part of the problem. Even Skyrim and the Fallout games feel very different. There's there's the levelling System in Oblivious and may the lord have mercy on souls behind the creation of it as it has to do down in history as one of mankind's the greatest crimes. Despite this, I like it. and will like likely be playing constantly for a while. I'm not exactly sure why...

Welcome to VGR. I hope this community can be a helpful and enjoyable place to be for you in these difficult times. If there's anything you want to ask, please let me know.

You should definitely check out Gravity Rush Remastered and Gravity Rush 2. A game unique in style and setting where you control the gravity with a compelling story to boot.

It's never a good thing to know people are about to lose their jobs. I know what it's like to not know how I'm going to be able to feed myself or pay my bills, and it's a horrible feeling. So that's why I'm very much in disagreement with @Kane99's attitude here. This is never something to celebrate no matter how you feel about the cooperation in question. There's nothing to celebrate with this. I do agree that there is a certain inevitably about this given the way the games industry is going, I still feel sorry for the people who will lose their jobs over this.

I've got a modest collection of retro game stuff and a couple if limited run albums, but I'm no collector. I think I prefer having the few, cool things over the larger collection of other things I don't really need.

At long last, the launch cost of the PS5 has finally been revealed. It's pretty much about what most people were expecting. I'd say high enough to assure quality, but not so high as to rip people off. But, what to you think?

Another thing, you want to know what the one of the rarest games on PS2 is? And I promise, I swear to you, I'm not kidding. Back in the holiday period 2013, EA made the strange decision to release this game on... well, everything, and do mean every platform, including the already redundant PS2 and even PSP. That's how little effort goes into these games, BTW, they can release on three generations of home console and two generations of handheld at the exact same time. Anyway, because this was the same holiday period as the PS4 and XBox One launched, obviously with their versions of this game, nobody bought this, so you can see where this is going. It's becoming collectible. This is my tip. If see the PSP or PS2 version of this game, especially the legacy version sealed and in decent shape, buy it.

The thing about rare, collectable video games is they're rare because they didn't sell very well, and there's usually a very good reason why nobody bought them. Because they're terrible. There're exceptions, obviously, like the aforementioned Ducktales 2 on the NES @The Blackangel brought up, that didn't sell because that NES game had the terrible bad luck to come out too late (1993, the SNES had been out two years by that point) to a world that just didn't expose games the way it does now. If you are lucky enough to come across a rare, valuable, collectable video game, you may be swimming in a pool of gold coins like our man Scrooge McDuck... But the odds are to actually play, it'd be like those coins are chocolate coins, except that's not chocolate...

That's not about completion, that's about power and control, but I'm not going to go on and you try to detail yet another thread towards politics. You're trying to blur some very clear lines here. If I tried hard enough I could define cooking at a sport or even an act of political aggression, but it's not. You're a smart enough person to know what the clear differences are. Political motivations for conflict have to do with the subject at hand. Please stick to that.

War is not competition, it's conflict. There's a big difference. And as I pointed out earlier, being a physical challenge does not make something a sport on it own (like pro-wrestling, for example) it's about completion. I've pushes examples Golf, Snooker, Darts and I suppose you can count professional chess in that as well. It these sports, and they are sports, the challenge is not physical, it's a mixture of wits, strategy, skill, experience, teamwork, things that's matter in other more physical sports as well. So one can't discount them with discounting Boxing, Football, Soccer. Esports is, once again, no different.

Gross...

I wouldn't say so. That was actually really funny and worked on several levels. I get why you feel that was pushing the limits, but this is a gaming forum mostly inhabited buy adults. Relax.

This franchise has lost all spirit and only sells through it's name. There was a time COD was revolutionary, but then they added jetpacks to answer to Titanfall, made Black Ops 4 a multiplayer only title with BR because of the success of PUBG and Fortnight and added aggressive microtransactions because it's Activation and in their mind that was becoming acceptable. To summarize, Call of Duty, what was once the gold standard and trend setter in multiplayer and FPS gameplay is now a trend follower. A cash cow that has no value beyond its own name, and even that name has limited credibility now. So in answer to the question, we can only hope it dies. Call of Duty itself can't even live up to Call of Duty any more.