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A cracking good game that a lot of people overlooked is now going on sale for the equivalent of $4 on Steam until august 7nth. That being Sunset Overdrive. Link to the Steam Page here https://store.steampowered.com/app/847370/Sunset_Overdrive/ To reiterate, this deal is a 75% discount on Stream for the PC version of Sunset Overdrive and is available now at that price until August 7nth.

@The Blackangel Amranthe actually have a lot of one word title songs, to the point that I could call them somewhat of an oddity for it. I'll post few just for the sake on it. I'll cap this off with a couple of other bands

This is my first venture into bullet hell games. They seem relatively easy to control and the gameplay is self explanatory, but I do suspect they'll be very hard to master. I don't think I'll find a better way to get better rather than to just play the games themselves.

@Yaramaki I finally cave in and bought Bullet Soul as you suggest it would be good for beginners. Unfortunatly, I cocked up and bought the standard version of the games instead of Infinite Burst (They both cost the same), so I'll wait for Steam to sort out the refund, buy Infinite Burst they share my thoughts on it. I did play a little before requesting the refund and I like what I see so far.

I trained a lot of monkeys shouting The Elder Scrolls V: memes

Congratulations to VGR and especially to @Withywarlock. This forum is on the move and on the up and it i an honour to have @Withywarlock take his place the team.

I must ask that in future you do not use the term "boomer" at all. I assumed you understood the term when you clearly don't have any understanding of it at all. I cannot be bothered to explain to you why your understanding of the term is misplaced, nor why it describes a different person than you think it does, but when I tell you are misusing it. So please, just don't use it until you actually understand it,

I have worked for multimillion dollar defence contractors that still use XP. It's not about the OS, it's about internal networks, the external hardware and software they do, indeed, buy as well as internal security procedures that keep thier shit safe. It's of little consequence what OS they actually use. What you say may be true with some companies run by morons, but companies who have any data worth protecting pay to protect it, they don't rely on an OS's standard protection. I'm 37, so as a gamer that age I actually quite resent the term "boomer" anyway, but it doesn't actually make sense within your argument because a "boomer" is a person, but then immediately justify your stance on this from the perspective of a business, not some retro tech nerd having a midlife crisis. Why would you do that? Not to mention you're actually wrong. People when they get to a certain age gain an affinity for thier old furniture, but not thier fucking laptop. If you are a "boomer" with money, you will the latest shit whether you need it or not. It's for the same reason men with money my age buy spots cars. I don't know who you work for or what credentials you have, but you do not know the real world like you think you do. EDIT: Just to clear, even as a "boomer", I'm quite good with modern tech. Just saying.

Why would a hacker with tools even remotely up to date enough to called a hacker want to steal the credit card info of somebody who in 2022 can only afford to own a device that runs Windows 7 anyway? It would be like a King stealing everything owed by a beggar. I'm willing to bet that Windows 7 is too old for most modern malware programmes to even be compatible.

Resident Evil from the very beginning wasn't exactly a documentary. Given that, why would there be a line between Resident Evil and "fantasy nonsense"?

I'm actually getting a little fed up with people doing "Remake" trailers in commercially available graphics engines (In this case, Unreal Engine 5) with no association with the games in question. And this post pretty much explains why. It's false hope. It just gets the masses exited for something that is, quite literally, nothing. It's a video and not much more. People have been able to do amazing things with digital animation and set plays within limited digital environments for decades, all that Unreal Engine does is provide a tool to do so for the masses. The person who made this "trailer" obviously declared that it was fan made, but that doesn't change the fact it's gonna fool someone into thinking this is a real thing. Or, at the very least, drum up excitement to lead to inevitable heartbreak for fans for a game that was never going to happen in the first price. I guarantee you Rockstar know, and have known for ages, how badly people want a remake of Bully (and why not, it's beloved game), so what practical purpose does creating this trailer actually serve other than give somebody a wholly self-cantered chance to show off and make some ad revenue? Exactly, none. In a lot of ways, this no better than the people who that made a fortune making up and hoaxing GTA VI "leeks" on YouTube and on social media. To give this individual some credit, they do at least have talent and this does look amazing, but that doesn't change the fact doing such a thing is ego-centric, unnecessary and in the end helps nobody. This would be okay if it really was just received as a bit of entertainment, but we all know that's not what really happens.

I'm sorry to break this to you, but this is not them helping each other out, it's just business. What happened was the patented high-definition disk format made to replace DVD that Microsoft backed up, the HD-DVD, failed. When it failed, Microsoft had to make a contract with Sony to provide a Blu-Ray licence for future consoles because there was no other choice. And why wouldn't Sony agree? Getting a cut of a rival's profits from a product certain to sell well into tens of millions for all the effort of signing a piece of paper? We wish we could make money that easily. Another interesting thing about this, even though I doubt it factored into Sony's decision in all this, is that Sony actually know Microsoft's pain in this situation first hand. Thier rival to the VHS, Betamax, even though it remained in production until 2002, never saw even close to the kind of popularity and widespread use that VHS did. It's almost certain that Sony had to make VCR's to play VHS tapes with a licence agreement on the technology patent held by thier rival JVC, exactly how Microsoft had to for Sony's Blu-Ray.

Spot on. I would never call Elden Ring overrated or overhyped, least of all because I haven't played and likely never will. I've had enough experience with From Software games to know that this developer just doesn't make games for me. I reserve the right to criticise them for the methods, signatures and tropes they employ as I think some of them f**king stupid (no being able to pause, lack of difficulty options, the sluggish and un-empowering combat to name a few), but I would never suggest they need to change and make games for me. If they did, it wouldn't be From Software anymore. As much as I hate thier games, I respect them as a developer enough to want them to keep making for thier fans, not me. That's the right way to do it, actually the only way to do it. So they'll keep making games the way they do, I'll keep avoiding them because I already know I'm going to hate them, the sun will still rise in the morning, set in the evening and the tax man will harvest everything I earn in between, the way world should be.

I'm locking this thread as there has already been several ne threads recently about the player transfer market as well as the pinned Sports Bar thread , so we don't need this.

First off, thank you for the suggestions, but I'd apricate it if you included links in these types of please.

I don't think Atreus will "take over". Just like how Tomb Raider wouldn't be Tomb Raider without Lara Croft as the lead, God of War wouldn't be God of War without Kratos. Yes, the character and indeed the game can evolve and change, but it wouldn't make sense for the lead of the game to change completely.

I'll offer up my nomination for @Yaramaki. This has been a major few weeks for him with the promotion to moderator, but he has really taken it in his stride and is still putting out some of the best content that he has done to date. Well worthy.

Those are some amazing suggestions, thank you so much. I'll have to do my own research before I decide what games or games to start with, but I'm spoiled for choice now thanks to you. I'll probably not bother with Darius Burst for now as that game is little bit expensive and more for bullet hell enthusiast, but the Cave games look cool (Especially Deathsmiles) and they all look fun to play. Once again, thank you. Great suggestions.

I want a recommendation. For some reason, I want to play a good 2D Shooter, so I'm looking for recommendations. I'm sorry to say I can't really offer any point of reference nor narrow it down apart from I'd prefer it to be a PC game. An old school graphical look (16 bit era) would be cool, but not essential. I did find a game on Steam called Ikaruga that matches what I'm looking for pretty close, but I'm open to other ideas. So if there is something you know of or have played, please let me know.

Do we class an FMV video game as one played only on FMV like Night Trap of Zombie Killer, or do games with FMV cut scenes make the cut? If they do, the Wing Commander Series and C&C absolutely NEED to be mentioned here. Wing commander especially is an important one because those games had huge stars like Mark Hamill involved long before famous actors in video games were common. In fact, they still might not be common, but the point is that Wing Commander games may be the first attempt to have performances and acting in video games to be taken seriously, 20 years before The Last of Us. Think about that.

He called you sexist because you said woman in professional football aren't paid as much men because they lack talent, the exact same reason I called you sexist. You're spinning it different now because you that is sexist. But both of get back on topic, and if want you want to keep arguing, take it to PM's.

Just because something was tolerated in the past, doesn't mean it was ever right. Most of us are probably aware of how racist some of Disney's early films were, like the crows from Dumbo for example. It's the same with this. Nobody speaking up about it is not a sign that something is morally sound.

I must admit I haven't played the first two Bioshock games, but if that's the pattern and overall theme, then Bioshock Infinite fits the pattern pretty well as far as I can see.

Given that this topic was started almost six months agon and we're 12 pages in, even if you're right (and it's a big "if"), don't you think that comment is a little bit late? Now that I think about it though, there really isn't much point to keeping this thread open anymore. This new version of PS+ is out now and the PS+ Games Update Thread has been updated to included the necessary information. Thank you for the topic @kingpotato, but it's time now we retire it. Locked.