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I've used the system before. It's actually been a thing for quite a while. It works, but I'm unsure what the limits are of the system without looking it up.

That is a slightly ironic post given that the AC series are both published and developed by Ubisoft, as in there not separate companies doing both things. In other words, the AC series is independently published, so technically they are indie games. I know what you mean by indie games though, don't get me wrong, but I just find it interesting how people through that term around without really understanding what it means

A gentle reminder that under the the guidelines for this subforum, all posted deals must include end dates (and start dates if known). It's OK, I'll edit your post for you, but please be mindful of that in future.

Given that Rockstar doesn't seem keen on the world remembering that Red Dead Revolver even existed, I'd say no. Think about it, why else would they name the third game in the series Red Dead Redemption 2? Maybe @The Blackangel or somebody else who has played RDR2 more extensively can help me out with this, but it seems to me that if Rockstar wanted to acknowledge and honour Red Dead Revolver, they would have named the third game "Red Dead Revelation" or whatever word fits with the theme and the story, but no. They named it Red Dead Redemption 2, like they were trying to brush the first game under the carpet and pretend it was never there. I know Read Dead Revolver was more obscure and didn't sell nearly as well as the sequel, but I hardly think that meant it deserved to ignored. To few people even know about Red Dead Revolver that they can't announce a remake or remaster without confusing everyone and exposing the poor choice they made with naming Red Dead Redemption 2, so this will never happen.

I made the post quoted below on this thread quite a while ago that sums up a lot of my feelings on this: To take it further, those people do have a point. Face it, playing video game's isn't productive. You'll never cure cancer or solve world hunger by sitting on your couch with a controller in your hand, but the same is also true of playing golf, watching TV or sitting by a riverbank with a stick getting piss ass drunk (Apparently, it's called "fishing", but as far as I know that's all you do). These things, like gaming, are called past times for a reason. The clue is in the name, they are literally ways to pass the time and nothing more. They are nothing practical, profitable nor helpful to anyone, it's just leisure. So the next person who talks down to you for being a gamer as an adult, ask them what thier hobbies are and if they answer with literally anything, they're hypocrites. If they answer with nothing, feel desperately sorry for them, but feel vindicated as you are the one with a soul.

I use a cooling pad for my laptop and whilst I never felt it made much of a difference in terms of cooling performance for the laptop itself, it does make a gaming laptop running hot much more comfortable to have on your lap, and that's the real benefit.

Breaking Bad is a great TV show, but it is not the sort of thing that would translate into a video game very well. Even as a GTA clone I wouldn't see it working. This also just isn't something the world needs anyway, especially it if were to be a GTA clone.

I'm not sure this would actually work to a game's benefit. Putting the practical problems with this aside like having to hire an army of voice actors, having characters voiced also limits what dialogue they can actually have. Look at Fallout 4 for example. Yes, it was kind of cool to have the protagonist fully voiced for the first time in the series, but the dialogue itself was not nearly as diverse and, creative and fun as it had been in pervious games in the series and that had a detrimental effect on the role play experience. I don't think I'm being just some old nerd by suggesting that reading your role-plying character's dialogue my even be better than having it voiced as you can let yourself hear whatever voice you want as you read it, you can feel more connected to the character that way.

Ultra hard on Horizon Zero Dawn did this very well. Yes, on that difficulty mode the health of the enemies increased, but it also changed their bahaviour. They could see you from a far greater distance than before and they were way more aggressive. One has to stick and move and fight more tactically than on other difficulty settings.

Maybe it's because I've spent so much more time gaming on PC this last year than I have done in the past, but I'm starting like this whole distribution thing. It's convenient and practical so long as your internet is decent, and you can find games cheep enough that it kind of makes up for the lack of used games. Rights to play games owned by friends and family are also improving and refunds are pretty much standard across the board now. There is also no risk of damaging or loosing your games either, something that has always been a problem with games in the past. Don't get me wrong, we still NEED games to be available on physical media in a big way. We need to have the buyers rights they offer maintained and I will always be concerned about games going offline from a digital service and the other drawbacks with regards to game preservation. However, and I never thought I would believe this, but I'm coming round to digital distribution and I find myself considering it as an option that's at least as valid as buying games on disk. 80% of video games now are bought digitally, and I'm not surprised. Maybe this was simply the next step in game's evolution. Are you still loyal to physical media, or are you embracing digital distribution instead. Tell me what and why below.

Now that I think about it, time travel isn't something that comes up very often as a theme in games, but it can have a real impact when it's done well. Zelda OOT and the first Life is Strange come to mind, and they were both fantastic. The both also handled the time travel concept in a very different way.

It's not just the chocobo race, all the mini games that you need to play to get those items to fully unlock the celestial weapons are a nightmare. If they aren't hard to do to the point where it's barely possible, they're cryptic, if the aren't cryptic, there's an insane grind or possibly a combination. They can break even the most patient gamers.

I also found this thread that should answer a lot of the questions surrounding Bethesda game's exclusivity to the Xbox brand. There is no need to keep dancing around the same questions over and over when the answers are right there.

I'm locking this thread because I don't see the point in it now that Microsoft's purchase of Bethesda has long been a done deal. There are at least two other threads on the subject of Microsoft's acquisition of Bethesda already and we didn't need all of them from the start. Not to mention that happened almost two years ago, so bringing these threads back just feels like bumping. I'll leave open what was, as far as I can tell, the very first thread of this subject posted on VGR (find that thread here) and lock this thread and the other one I found.

Both on PC's and consoles, a storage drive is never actually able to hold the same amount of data as it's maximum capacity because the drive has to store it's firmware and, if it's a boot drive and would be on a console, the operating system as well. There is only two reasons why your PS4 would have such a large capacity in the first place.; Your PS4 is a PS4 Pro with a 1TB HDD as standard, or if... Your console had been modified with a larger 1TB drive installed instead of the standard 500GB. It's quite possible the operating system on a PS5 takes up more space than it did on a PS4, that will be why the PS5 has less space available. That would make sense as a PS5 is built to display the user interface at a higher resolution, so the actual graphics for the operating system will be a lot larger and take up more space than on a PS4, not to mention the additional code to accommodate the PS5's additional features. To summarize, I don't think this is anything to be concerned about, it's just the nature of the console.

Every moment of everyday, there is always something missing in my life. Right now it's one of my earbuds. By the time I find it, I'll probably have lost my keys.

It truly is a testament to how sorry a state the game's industry is in when I can watch the trailer, read your post detailing the game and think "I'm liking this" to then feel a wave of foreboding dread wash over me when I see the words "free-to-play". We are at a point now where a game being free makes it less appealing. I did check out the IGN review and to the game's credit the monetisation doesn't seen too predatory and exploitative... for now. I'll maybe give it a go.

If there was one thing, just one thing, one thing on earth that didn't need a commercial, it was Kanye West. Why not have a smaller rapper with a message have an opportunity and purpose above himself? This is why I don't listen to hip hop. Unless the subject of the conversation is already in wealth and fame, nobody cares about your talent. Talented people (and do appreciate rap) get ignored by not being rich enough. EDIT: I've decided to add this as a test to people who say "it has to be about thier upbringing around gangs and guns..."

I'm more excited for this than I would be for yet another clichéd ganger guy. Not because it's a woman, but because it's not clichéd. To give GTA5 credit, the main characters... well, some of them, weren't the seteriotypical type. So it just feels like a natural progression to me. One of America's most infamous drug barron's was a woman, but even if that wasnt true crime knows no gender. Anyone upset over this is pathetic.

Gladly, because you clearly haven't understood the lesson. It is you that should be expected to link information as the the person offering the recommendations and information because it's not fair to expect me as the recipient to have to look up everything everyone posts. That is common forum etiquette and it's for a reason. Granted, VGR isn't as hectic and busy as some other forums, but imagine what it would be like on a forum where I would have to go through dozens of replies. Now imagine if all those replies were like yours where I would have research everything on my own. It's takes you a few additional moments to add links to you own post, but it could add hours of hassle for me if I was to be expected to look up everything from everyone without links to help me out. And that applies to not just me, but everyone who reads the thread who shares an interest in those same recommendations. That is, like I said, basic forum etiquette. It's an unwritten law that has basis in simple courtesy and common sense. Just like @Yaramaki, I would ALWAYS link to the games I recommend on the thread because it's just a few moments off additional time for me that could save everyone who reads that post a combination hours. It's a basic courtesy that is, apparently, beneath you. I don't know who you think you are, but what I do know is what you did was selfish, ignorant and lazy, simple as that. Let me put it another way. If it were a gaming news topic, you would not get away with putting up the story without a source. It's not against any rule if you don't put up a source, but it's expected as a part of forum etiquette to do so rather than have everybody who reads the thread look it up themselves. That's just how it's supposed to be done. It's the same with this. What your saying is that everyone, not just me, has to look up the games you mentioned just because you couldn't bothered? No, that is not how this works. The only time I DON'T link information for others to see when I don't feel the source deserves the traffic. For example, if I felt a journalism website was spreading false information, I wouldn't leave a link to thier article. I'd just tell the story and if possible try to find other, more neutral and better informed sources. Other than that, I feel it is my responsibly as the person putting that information out there to make it verifiable and easy to work with for the reader every time. You are just lazy and self-centred.

There somebody who I think owns this concept. Poopy.

I'm still a little weary of the technology. It's getting there, but I don't think most people have the kind of internet that would make this work. I'm also concerned about what it means for game ownership, preservation and buyer's rights. Digital distribution has already taken so much away and a "cloud" (a term I've always hated btw. It's just the internet, it's not new.) based gaming service sounds even less sustainable. Just like with Sadia, you paid full price to rent a game, effectively, you didn't own anything. That really puts me off. At least there is some stability with digital distribution in that you can still play a game that's no longer online so long as it's installed, with cloud gaming it's just gone.

Why was that effort I suggested so beneath you, but it wasn't beneath @Yaramaki? What makes you too important to take a few moments to add links to a post? It's not much to ask when you recommend a game to someone on a thread like this to put up a link so they can see what you're on about. If you can't be bothered to put that low level effort of adding a video or a store page link into what you put into a recommendation, why bother post at all? Consider this, if I (as it the person you're trying to suggest games too) is not worth that bare minimum effort to up sources and information, why should I take what you recommend seriously? And then you have the balls to come back to thread and say "Fuck you, look it up yourself." I did not put this thread up for you to put in a bare bones effort just to add to the tally. I was actually being polite before when I said; Because honestly, your suggestions were rubbish. Most of the games you suggested aren't even in the right genre. Alien Hominid, Cuphead, Hollow Knight and Broforce are sides rollers, not 2D Shooters and (with the exception of Alien Hominid) are popular enough that I obviously would of heard of them already, so it's pointless suggestions anyway. The only game you got right was a game that isn't even on PC, and what's worse, you'll suggest that a mod on VGR emulate an NES game, something that almost certainly require using pirate links to download the ROM? Where is your common sense? I thought before I made my reply to you "Is this guy trying to waste my time?", but I let it go and decided to be nice, and this is how you repay me in kind? You what @Kane99, you attitude stinks. Do not reply to a thread like this of mine again. And for your sake, I hope you show the next person on VGR you recommend games to more courtesy than you've shown me.