Shagger

There is nothing wrong with expecting and even demanding the very best that can be reasonably expected from developers and publishers. Harrasing them is a different story.

First off, great thread. This could indeed be very helpful. Second, peripherals are simply external devices one attaches and/or connects to a PC (or even a console) to enable specific functions. A keyboard or a mouse are peripherals, a controller is a peripheral. A display, like a TV, monitor or whatever is a peripheral. The remote for your TV or cable box is a peripheral. When it comes to building PC's, some more specific advice is required. I'd do what I can for people, but to go though everything I know it would be inconveniently long for all off us. So, I'll offer instead a Q/A style thing on this thread. And not just me, I'm sure others will try thier best to help.. Ask, and I'm sure the community will do our best to answer. The only stupid question is one that's never asked.

I have merged your thread with this currently existing one.

I really don't understand why regular gamers even care about stuff like this. It doesn't affect me and my life in any real way. Seriously, what exactly am I supposed to do with this information? Feel sorry for a muli-billion doller company that wouldn't care if I died tomorrow? I really don't get it.

I'm going to have to disagree with you on a lot of this. First and foremost, I want to make perfectly clear I love PC gaming, I truly do, but it has drawbacks. It's expensive, complicated and not nearly easy or reliable as gaming on console. It is not for everyone, and being a PC gamer doesn't make one in any way superior. True, but it comes at a price. You can expect to pay around 2-3 times the cost of a console to run the same game at the same quality on PC. I'll touch more on this later. This is nonsense. The quality of controls come to individual games and game types. Yes, mouse and keyboard are great on FPS's and strategy games, but they're terrible on games that require precise control of movement pace, like stealth games. Have ever tried to play something like TLOU or Assassin's Creed with a mouse and keyboard? I know that some Bethesda RPG's like Fallout and TES have perks that allow you to sneak while moving at full pace without penalty. Well, I do play those games with a mouse and keyboard and let's just say I can see why they included those perks. As for the part I've highlighted, that's just a straight up lie. With a controller, you push a button, it does a thing, it's not more complicated than that. I don't know what fighting games or controllers you've been using, but they don't work like that. Actually there are emulators that can be used on console, but for most part you're right. The sheer choice of games on PC is staggering, but there is a problem. Now this just my opinion, so take how you want, but I feel consoles have had better exclusives over the years, especially Nintendo and PlayStation. Yes, a PC can emulate a lot of console games, but it's very sketchy in terms of legality. I know emulation itself is not illegal, but downloading the ROM's you need to run console exclusives on an emulator is. Not to mention it's a pain in the ass with reliability and compatibility problems throughout the process. It's one of the great fanboy contradictions that PC fanboys consider themselves "The Master Race" (FYI, you're referring to yourselves a Nazi every time you say that.) for being able to afford thier hyperigs, yet insist PC is cheaper all at the same time. Yes, I know that cost and value are not the same thing, but I'll get to that later. Consoles are so much cheaper to buy than PC's because a console serves as a revenue stream for the manufacturer, so those companies can afford to make no money, or even a loss, on the sale of the hardware. PC's are a very different story. Whether they're sold as a pre-built unit or as individual parts, PC manufactures need to make thier money on the hardware sale, that's why they're so expensive. You could buy a PS5 and a cheap laptop to serve as a utility computer and still not spend the same amount of money as you would do on a gaming PC that matches a PS5's gaming capabilities. However, if you think you can, then I challenge you to try. Go on PC Part Picker and make a mock build that matches a PS5 in terms of gaming performance. I'll even be generous and allow you a budget double the cost of a PS5, so I'll say $1000 (or the equivalent) if you include a UHD blu-ray drive in your build, $900 if you don't. However, you must include a mouse and keyboard because; That is the user interface and is every bit as essential as a motherboard. When you by a console, you will get at least one controller with it as part of the package. In other words, the user interface is included, so you have to include it as well. It's not like PC games are much cheaper than console games anymore either. 10 years ago that was a genuine advantage, but not so much now. And of course, let's not forget the problems with an all-digital set up and no used games like you can get on consoles. Even though console do some shady shit like charge to play online, you can game cheap on a console if you're smart about it, just like PC gamers can game cheap if they're smart about it. And I've highlighted yet another very misleading statement. Yes, you can keep a Gaming PC going for 20 years, but how many upgrades would one have to do in order to keep it playing new games over that time? It would basically consist of a complete rebuild at least once. Buying new consoles and peripherals over 20 years can easily cost a good $1500-$2000 (I'm obviously not including the cost of games, just the hardware), but if you think that the upkeep of a gaming PC wouldn't cost at least as much (but likely more) over the same period then you, with all due respect, are deluded. PC's can offer great value for money, but only for people who are very dedicated to it. One does have to invest a lot of money into PC gaming to get the best out of it, a lot more than one would on console. There is nothing wrong with somebody looking at the two options and deciding that PC gaming isn't worth it to them. It's great that you're happy with what you've got out of what you invested in PC gaming, but just because it's true for you, doesn't make it true for everybody else. In conclusion, I don't think you're ready to admit that console gaming has benefits over PC's in some ways because of some weird loyalty complex. It's just a PC, a load of wires, solder and silicone, you don't need to fight for it. In the end, what matters is games. I'm not a PC fan, I'm not a console fan, I'm a fan of good games. What I'm playing them on matters little.

For a kick off, I understand how late this is, but at the Matthew died on October 28th 2023, the forum was problems and I was unable to post this topic. I post it now because I figured it's better late than never. There is another reason that I ill get to in a moment, but first, to the main point. So, as I assume most of you know, Matthew Perry passed away earlier this year. Most people will know Mathew Perry as Chandler in the famous 90's/2000's sit-com Friends, but he was also one of us. A geek and a gamer who even voiced Benny in Fallout New Vegas not for a pay check, but because he loved the franchise. We have lost one of our mainstream heroes, a gamer in the limelight who was dedicated to making the art we love be taken seriously. RIP, Matthew. My second reason for posting this now this is explained by this video: A new mod called For Matty - A Tribute to Matthew Perry has been created by modder tunnelsnakesfool. The mod adds Benny's Suit, a grave in the Goodsprings Cemetery, a Friends themed re-skin of Benny's pistol "Maria" named "My Friend" and a note featuring a quote from Mathew Perry himself. Very sweet mod and a great tribute.

It's free to play? OK, I'm not going to pretend I was in any way interested to begin with, but that has got to set alarm bells off, especially if the customisation is what they promise. It's nice that fans can have an alternative, but given how predatory the monetization is in Madden, a game that's full price, the bar of what Maximum Football can get away with is set worryingly high. I'm not saying that it will be that bad, I'm just pointing out that it could be that bad and nobody would be able to argue.

The last few years proved that the world just didn't need E3 anymore. Covid played a role in it, but it wasn't the direct cause of E3's downfall. Covid gave game publishers and console manufactures the opportunity to learn it was better to just do thier own announcements, and honestly I think that's better for us as well. Let these companies make announcements on thier own time and on thier own schedule rather than have those decisions dictated by external factors, that can help prevent games coming out before they're ready, something we've sadly got use to ion recent years.

Again, I don't understand why you keep making new threads to discuss the same games. We already have a thread on the The Day Before discussing the controversy, a thread you started BTW. I'm merging this with the thread we already have. I will rename that thread to something more generalised if want (Send me a DM is that is what you want), but please think whether or not a new thread is necessary before post it. Anyway, addressing the post itself, and The Day Before could end up being a blessing in disguise. Like you said, asset flips happen all the time, but I don't think we've seen a game with this much hype behind it being guilty of it before. Assets flips used to be landmines that one only had to be aware of whilst traversing the fields of Stream's low rent battlefields, filled with obviously low effort, small scale garbage that was never going to attract much attention nor have a profound impact if the games were caught doing it. Now, thanks to The Day Before, the asset flip is is mainstream news with more eyes on the practice than we've seen before, many pf which may not have been aware of the asset flip as a thing. As well as increasing awareness, and given how badly this turned out for Fntastic, this must surely serve a deterrent for other scum buckets with ambitions to try the same thing. I'll never describe what happened here as a good thing, but good can come out of it. Speaking of which, I've also just learned that publisher Mytona (Or "investor" as they describe themselves) are working with Steam and Fnstastic to offer refunds to everyone, regardless of playtime. Fntastic are still insisting they have made and will never make any money on this. Even if that's true it was clearly not what they had in mind. Here's the video I watched from LtBuzzLitebeer going through this in detail.

It's been four days since The Day Before, and the developer Fnstastic has just announced that they are shutting down: Clearly, these assholes never intended to support this game. The lied in thier marketing, used a tone of marketplace assts instead of developing them in-house like they said they would, didn't pay developers for thier work and now they're cutting thier losses and running. The release this into early access and now claim that they're using the money made to pay off depts, which FYI is against Steam's terms of service. Money made in early access is supposed to go into supporting the game, not paying off some dickhead's depts. This was a pure scam and not much more. Even if they have gone over the 2 hour playtime mark, people should be refunded for this because the game will never get any of the promised updates now.

@Kane99 We have this thread pinned here for reason. We can't have a new for every new insignificant update to Fortnite, so I've merged the two threads you posted recently into this thread.

I am also stoked for a new Golden Axe. I am little concerned since the last time they tried to reboot the franchise we got this; FYI, I have played this and it really is as bad as everyone says it is Still, I feel like keeping my hopes high for this new one.

As much as I love Dontnod, and I do, I'm not sure about the climbing mechanics from Breath of the Wild being made into an entire game. It's a very pretty game and knowing Dontnod it probably has a stronger story than this trailer hints, but it just doesn't look that fun to play. I'm sure some people will love it and good for them, but the rest of us are free to wonder why.

@Dismal_Bliss already started a topic regarding The Game Awards, so there's no need to have another one. Thread locked.

Welcome to VGR. I also love that combat simulator on Perfect Dark growing up.

Normally I'd agree with you and really not take this very seriously (And honestly, I still kind of don't), but because it's Alex Jones were talking about, it dose make wonder. Is this edgy entertainment, or propaganda? I've peaching in another thread recently about how entertainment media is not dangerous, but propaganda is. There is a difference between the two. Still, even though Alex Jones is undoubtably a dangerous, hate fuelled conspiracy theorist, I actually feel inclined to let this one pass. Whether he's aware of it or not, he's making fun of himself here as much anything else he's trying to do. However, it is interesting to see a man who claims books are corrupting the youth into being gay make a colourful, 2D video game whare the goal is to destroy gay or whatever the goal is. Unfortunatly, whilst I think he's a lot of things, I don't actually think he's as stupid as people say.

And you think that taking small snips of the points we bring up removing them from context is a valuable addition to this discission because?... Look, if you want to take part in this discussion then please do so, just have something to actually contribute first. Even if that contribution is nothing more than a light-hearted roast then I wouldn't mind, but it is genuinely a stretch to call what you posted a joke. It's just... butting in pointlessly. Now, THAT is a joke.

That caught my eye because I always thought that Soinc the Hedgehog was a 16-bit game for the Megadrive/Genesis, but it turns out you were right, and I was wrong. An 8-Bit version was released on the Master System and the Game Gear. You learn something new every day.

I still don't think you fully understand this. You're still talking about entertainment media like it's something to protect people from. Like it's dangerous because people WILL do something because it happened in video game or movie. True, this kind of media builds our culture as much as it reflects and represents it, but that's on a very general scale. It's storytelling, not hypnosis. Fantasizing is an advanced, but grounded function of the human mind and humans by default know how to distinct fantasy and reality. For somebody to not understand the difference in action and consequence between fantasy and realty, there would have to be phycological issues present before. It's a mind that is not working properly. An abnormality, not an inevitability. I don't know if you've seen the movie, but check out this line from "Scream" (Fair warning, the clip is from a horror movie, and whilst short, it is violent); It my be clichéd, but it's true. Kids are no different. Yes, they're impressionable, but they're not insane. The obviously doesn't mean should expose children should be exposed the media that clearly is meant for adults, but children are not stupid. Have many children have actually tied a bedsheet around thier neck then jumped out of a window because superman did it? I'm actually going guess a very small percentage, so I don't understand why people would assume a kind would shoot up the streets and run people over because they did in GTA. My son was about 6 when he was playing AC4 firing at enemy ships and hunting whales and sharks and he's never went out to sea and started shooting at galleons. Like I said, impressionable, but not insane. And that's what anyone, child or adult would have to be in order to be as easily influenced by entertainment media as you seem to think. Moves, books, TV shows, video games, tabletop fantasy/roleplay games, comics, music and whatever other aspects of entertainment media that I'm not thinking are all harmless. Any and every dark thing and tragedy that they've been blamed for the years happened because the person(s) who engaged with them were; Phycological not right. Took the message way too seriously and way too far. Or, most likely, both. It is that simple. It's not like it's anything new either. How many times have somebody done something evil and cited something like this as what was responsible? . I am so thankfully to see good sense prevail in the rest of you post at least. Yes, you got that right. The bottom line is education not only beasts out paranoia as a solution, but ends paranoia as a problem. Thanks for the input.

Anyone who has even been casually been following this game and it's bizarre development story probably saw this coming. It's not the MMO that was promised, its now an extraction shooter with 30 players per server. There no zombie hoards as promised, I don't think I've seen a clip with more than 3 or 4 zombies in the same place at the same time. And you know that's by design because of how many bullets it takes to kill a single zombie. There is no mele combat, which is unacceptable for a game of this type. And like you said, bugs galore. The developers shut down and locked out thier Discord as soon as the game launched and it's plain to see why. This is confirmed as a scam. I hope everybody refunded this and that the scumbags behind it get what they deserve.

I would actually have this over a Steam Deck. Better performance, better support for PC game platforms other than Steam and only slightly more expensive the most expensive version of the Steam Deck and can only compare this the most Expensive steam Deck given the features. The most expensive version of the Steam Deck does does have 1TB of storage, whereas one will to pay an extra $50 to get the same on the Lenovo Legion Go and is only available in the US and that is disappointing. Right now, I still think the ASUS ROG Ally is probably the best PC Gaming handled right now. It has the same APU as the Lenovo Legion Go, but is significantly cheaper.

Paid mods didn't work before and they're not going to work now. And I disagree with you @Kane99, it's not a good thing. Paying modders for thier content looks fine of paper, but dig a little deeper and it's mess. So many many mods use code that made for other mods are so often versions of each other that legal trouble when somebody starts to charge for it could cause all sorts of trouble. I remember fairly recently a modder charged a subscription, not even a one time payment, a subscription, for a DLSS mod for Starfield. He even implemented DRM. Suffice to say, it didn't go well: This is the future if paid mods become a thing. This modder even threatened people who pirated the mod (His DRM was cracked in a day and the shared everywhare pretty much out of protest) and then threatened the people who downloaded a pirated version with sabotaging thier games (read about that from Kotaku) . He backtracked, but the point is this is what the modding community will be by default if paid mods become the norm. Modding as we know and love it would not exist anymore. You want to support modders? Good for you, but do so through donations or by buying a premium account on mod platforms like Nexus, not through paid mods.

There are only two reasons to pre-order a game: If it's a collectors edition made in actual limited numbers and with actual physical things. No digital copy applies here. If the game is coming out around the same time as other games you're interested in, then fine, it makes sense to segregate your purchases by buying some games early. Otherwise, don't do it. Ever.

This existing and recent topic I felt was similar enough that your new thread wasn't necessary, so I've merged them.

I couldn't agree with you less. In fact, with all due respect, I don't feel that you understand the level of sheer nonsense that post was. Entertainment media, wether it be video games, movies, TV, books or music does NOT pose a threat, that is ridiculous. Scapegoating and the blaming of entertainment media for socital problems, now that IS dangerous because the powers that be who do this sort of thing never address the real issue and causes behind those social issues. They take the easy way out. They don't want to address the real issues because they don't know how to, don't want to because it politically polarising (Gun violence is great example if that. I've actually got a prime example if that coming up in a moment.) or they simply don't want to solve the problem at all. It's lazy propaganda and it's deeply stupid. Scapegoating is such a bad thing that it even costs lives I've talked about this horrifying incident before on VGR, but I feel it's appropriate to bring it up here to help you understand why what you're saying is nonsense. About 9 1/2 years ago an 8 year accidently shot and killed his Grandmother after playing GTA IV. Can't say I blame the kid, after being asked by Roman to play pool or go bowling for the 800th time, I'd kill the first living thing I find as well. All joking aside, many people tried to blame the game. Well, at least one neighbour had common sense. From the article; Neighbour Johnnie Scott said: "Where did she have the gun? Where did he see the gun, was it in his eyesight? That's the thought that goes through my head." Exactly! Imagine if this situation had exactly the same, expect instead of the boy shooting his grandmother, he had accidentally shot himself. That woman would been beyond ridiculed, criticised even demonised for leaving that gun in a position, locked, loaded and ready to go, where an 8 year old was able to get his hands on it. Whare was the gun lock? Why was is left low down and in plain sight? It even defeats the purpose of owning the gun if it's for self defence. If the kid could get his hands on it so easily, why wouldn't a robber get thier hands on it just as easly? Back to the story. For some reason I doubt the safety catch (assuming the gun even had one) was on when he picked up the gun, otherwise he'd have to know how to disengage it. So l believe found the gun in that condition, just lying out in the open ready to fire. Both morally and legally it's difficult to blame the child and people don't want to blame the grandmother because she died in the incident, so take the easy way out and blame the game. I'm not going to deny the possibility the game was factor, kids are impressionable (although not as impressionable and certainly not as stupid as I feel you're implying.) as I've admitted already, but it's an M rated/18+ rated game, so why was he playing it in the first place? People who expose themselves or thier dependants to media that is clearly labled as being potentially inappropriate have to take responceibily for it. It is NOT the responceibily of the people who created that media, simple as that. Like I said in my earlier post, the ratings system is there for a reason and there is no way that could innocent works of fiction as a "threat" and understand that purpose. Now you tell me @Kennysplash, which of the following three options do you think would have had the best chance of success in preventing this incident? GTA IV being banned beforehand or never being allowed to be sold. The parents and/or grandmother not allowing this 8 year old to play a game so clearly ment for adults. Better scrutiny and training for firearms owners on keeping thier guns safe. I'm going to give you a hint, one of these options wouldn't work, one would definitely work and another wouldn't garuntee success, but is still a sensible course of action. God help you if you can't tell which is which. There's nothing wrong with having moral objections to certain expressions of entertainment media, the best art usually is provocative at least to some extent, but do you understand just how ludicrous it is to call it a "threat"? Who told you that? Who or what are you listening to? Whoever or whatever it is, for your sake I'd highly suggest you stop now.