Crazycrab

Apparently that's not been true for a while. In 2019 a VR game entitled "Ascent Free-Roaming VR Experience" was released and is still on sale for the price of $999. There are also individual items in CS:CO can sale for as much if not more than The Hidden and Unknown. I'd also just like to mention while on the subject of outrageous scams in gaming. Star Citizen's Legatus 2951 pack costs $40000... as of 2021... theirs probably something even more expensive now.

I think this is just some whining protest against Steam's refund policy... or their just being pretentious. I could see it being useful to some people though, like if they want to claim a means tested benefit and need to quickly hide some money!

I'm downloading the demo myself, but since my internet connection sucks the big one I probably won't be able to try it until tomorrow.

I don't think it's as big of an adjustment as most Americans in particular seem to think it is. People travailing to and from the UK and mainland Europe do this all the time. I admit I have pretty minimal experience myself but I know plenty of people in the UK that have had to adjust to driving on the right hand side of the road for holidays and/or business trips to America of mainland Europe and they've told me it's really not that hard. Physically the only difference (for an American) is that you operate the gears with your left hand instead of your right. Road signs, other traffic and the layout of the road itself are all constant reminders of what side is the correct one. The only significant issue is if your car is right hand drive (UK) but if you drive on the right (US, Europe) or vice versa. Then you can't see as well because the driving position in on the outside of the road.

Well there is a Demo available for the PC version now on Steam and EGS, so you are least able to figure if your PC actually can run this dam thing before you spend any money! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1680880/Forspoken/ https://launcher.store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/forspoken

Seriously, what the fuck is going on with this shit! The PS5 can play the game at 1440p 60fps in performance mode yet a PC almost twice as powerful can only apparently do 30fps at the same resolution. What in the miserable dick!

Ok, literally the first question and it's already a fail: THESE ARE TWO SEPERATE THINGS YOU KNOB JOCKEY!!!! What If I'm into one but not the other? Ok whatever I'll bite and see what it comes up with... ...and you are shitting me! How the fuck did I get the same result as @The Blackangel? I have zero aptitude for ANY of these things! I have no sense of style, I'm creatively bankrupt and I hate people, especially kids!

During WW2 the Soviets had entire Airborne squadrons, Armoured divisions and infantry units full of women. Including some of the highly decorated units and soldiers in history. Like the 588th Night Bombers 23 of which earned the highest "Hero of the Soviet Union" decorations. Then there's Lyudmila Pavlichenko aka "Lady Death", one of the deadliest Snipers in history with 309 confirmed kills. I remember getting so fucking irritated by the people that complained about woman in Battlefield V. All of them were: Ignoramus morons who didn't know anything about WW2 beyond Saving Private Ryan. Insecure, sexist man-babies that can't stomach anything that not overdosed on testosterone. Both. None of them cared about any of numerous historical inaccuracies with a game franchise that was never about telling history to begin with... until DICE had the apparent nerve to show a a fictional soldier in fictional game with a fictional vagina. There are times when I feel ashamed to call myself a gamer.

I just found out something interesting. Type "The Last of Us" into Google.

If he wasn't involved with the production of the show, then he shouldn't really have a credit in my opinion, at least not as a writer for the show. You could apply the same logic to anyone whenever any adaptation is made. Should the original authors of the Gospels in the New Testament get a mention in the credits Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ? Does the first guy that drew a Goomba deserve a "Character Design" credit in the new Super Mario Movie? I'm sorry, but with so many adaptations coming out these days for years, decades and even centuries old material you gotta draw a line in the sand somewhere. For me at least this line should be did this person contribute directly to this production? The answer to that question in this case is no, even if we were to assume that the show does use some of the lines that he wrote for the original game. The credits do mention Naughty Dog and PlayStation in credits: I think it would be fair to have his name here next to Neil Druckmann as a writer and/or Director for the game, but there's no way he should have a writers credit for the show. If he did then every single person at Naughty Dog and PlayStation who had a hand in creating or publicising the game deserves their name in there too right? Actually I just thought of something else, the game was developed using the Havok engine right? I guess everyone who works there deserves a spot as well! NO! It's ridiculous. I am all for unionisation in the games industry but for different reasons that I'm not going to bother to get into right now. I think Straley is just chasing money here.

I'm going to be honest, as far as concerned the Series S isn't really a "Next Gen" console at all. The GPU on the Series X is not only 3 times as powerful as the one on the series S, but the GPU on the Series S is actually even less capable that the on the old XBox One X! True the Series S has the same CPU and high speed storage, but it still should at least be match for the pervious generations mid-gen refresh and definitely shouldn't be worse! If want my advice, your better off spending $500 on a Series X, then wasting $300 on a Series S.

If a game (especially an online one) only gets "repetitive" after a playing for a month, I'd consider it a pretty huge success!

That's what I thought too. The song is Never Let Me Down Again by Depeche Mode released in 1987 which suggests that it is a distress signal from Bill. From what I have heard the "Bill" episode plays out very differently from the game but I'm not exactly sure how other than that it seems like Frank is alive in this version.

I didn't know he was Canadian. I honestly don't know if Canadians in general use American or British English. It seems they would take French over either of those and it's hard to blame them. So it's impossible to say weather his pronouncing of that word was his choice or that of a producer and/or director. All I can say for sure is that NO ONE born and raised in the British Isles speaking English natively would pronounce that word like that.

I know there is topics about this show already but this is in the proper section and as of 8 hours ago, this isn't speculation and is about the show how it's actually presented: The first episode was great! It detracted from the game in some places but never in a way was affected the story negatively. I expanded the story into areas that the game never did while still remaining faithful to the lore and characters. I'm my opinion as a massive fan of the game it's got the balance of being faithful to the source material while also giving me some suspires and unexpected moments. I do have a slight fear that the violence has been soften up a bit to much, but maybe that's just me being hardened up to what's in the game which was always going to be in more volume. I'd love to hear what you think and I am considering this a spoiler thread. I've kept it spoiler free in this OP but feel free to discus spoilers from this point forward. If you haven't seen the show or played the game consider this your spoiler warning from this point forward.

The definition of a single player game is by itself painfully obvious. It's a game that one plays by one's self! It's an attribute that is completely irrespective genre or gameplay design. So to have "MMO" as a describer to Kingdoms of Amalur is frankly, fucking absurd. There are also so many types of games that people can play alone or together on and offline. You know what though, I'm probably going to get some backlash for saying that Kingdoms of Amalur isn't a "single player MMO" because it's design is like that of an MMO with the whole "that's how it plays" excuse. So for anyone that's tempted... your wrong. There are so many games, single player and multiplayer, online and offline that share most of or at least some that game's design components. Final Fantasy XII, Dragons Dogma, World of Warcraft, Witcher 3, Horizon Zero Dawn/Forbibben West, Dark Souls, Final Fantasy XIV and most of the recent Assassins Creed games are all single player and multiplayer experiences that share similar levelling and/or gameplay mechanics. That is is just a handful of dozens if not hundreds more. I mean fuck, I just did an image search on "3rd person RPG" and this is one of the top results, like top 5: I legitimately knew nothing about this image upon my initial discovery of it but it looks very similar to Kingdoms of Amalur: The game is Dungeons of Edera if your curious but my point is that Kingdoms of Amour shares a lot in common with a lot of other games both single player and multiplayer. So to say it's an "single player MMO" is applying one of the few attributes that it unquestionably isn't and that's annoying. I realise it's a relatively minor complaint but I see it way to much and it often leads to confusion. Don't apply the term "multiplayer" or "MMO" as a describtor when the game isn't.

Technology isn't the issue, it's the "greed over gameplay" design of most of the games on mobile. it's almost entirely freemium games that are loaded with microtransactions, timers, loot boxes and a bunch of other crap. Their motivation is based on monetisation rather than making the games actually fun and until that changes mobile gaming isn't going to get better and I don't realistically see that happening.

5/10 It's not bad, but there is something about the "original" Street Fighter 2 soundtrack that hypes me up so mutch more, it's iconic. it might only be nostalgia but that's how I feel. Well, It's kind of hard to believe that nobody has posted this yet. It's possibly the most recognisable and iconic game soundtracks of all time. It's possibly the most famous game of all time.... On the 11th day of the 11th month on the 11th year of this millennium was released a game that changed everything! On that day the Dovahkiin rose to give gaming a permanent space in modern culture. So I present several versions of the call of the one they call Dovahkiin.. DRAGONBORN!!!!!

I'll be honest, even after reading the article.. I'm not exactly sure what he's talking about. Does he mean it's going to be more of a interactive narrative type expertise like a David Cage/Quantic Dream type project? Will it be Episodic presentation like Life is Strange or a Telltale game? Will it be (like the op @Kane99 mentioned) a mix of gameplay and live action cutscenes like Quantum Break or (the ill fated) The Quiet Man? Will it be an purely action type game with a TV show type presentation like Battlefield Hardline's campaign? I have no idea! The most confusing thing for me though is why? Naughty Dog seem to be doing fine with their current format of 3rd person, liner, story driven, big production action games so why change it? He must have something different in mind but I couldn't guess what.

From what I understand they didn't want the cast to be pulling from to many sources outside the script that Neil Druckman and Craig Mazin prepared for the show, which I think makes sense. Bella needs to do her interpretation of the character, not Ashley's.

Like @Shagger mentioned that's why I posted three reviews from very different sources. A commercial media outlet (IGN), a publicly funded Broadcast company (BBC) and an independent YouTube content creator (Cody Leach).

Reviews are in and it's it's pretty much universally being showered with massive praise. I'll post a couple of examples: https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20230109-the-last-of-us-review-the-best-video-game-adaptation-ever

This might not be a popular opinion but I'm actually quite encouraged by this casting choice. It doesn't seem like a serious or dramatic interpretation of the character so having the Cage man being all cookie and over the top could actually work here.

I was watching some interviews and, rather unexpectedly, Neil Druckman actually confirmed that Ashley Johnson IS playing the role of Ellie's Ellies mother Anna:

Does anyone else think that Russian officials wanting to start a game company with the ambition of becoming "The Russian EA" is a bit like them getting a new filmmaker to go to Hollywood with the ambition of becoming the "Russian M. Night Shyamalan"?. You think they'd aim to be a little better than that!