Crazycrab
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Like @Shagger and @The Blackangel anybody and their dog who had access to a computer could make a game for the Atari 2600 and sell it. Some of their competitors even had peripherals that would allow you to play 2600 games on thier systems. The reason for this is kind of amusing, although Atari did file a patent for the product which included the physical design of the console and controller, they cheaped out on the inside and used 3rd party tech that could be used by anyone. Even years later SEGA used the same controller connectors for the Genisis/Megadrive so those controllers work on the Atari as well as Commodore computer's and others. This would be insane today but like all of us the Video Game industry was once young and stuipid.
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7 hours ago, skyfire said:
For me the FPS and one specific angle with FPS game kind of got me. Be it in serious sam or the darksider or the DMC. The action and the FPS games have that angle. which you don't see in the RPG.
I'm confused... What Angle and of the 3 games you mentioned only Serious Sam is an FPS.
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I'm actually the opposite, I've always preferred to use the careful, indirect or stealthy approach. Doing as much as possible while expending as little energy and resources as possible even if it takes longer rather than charging in like Galahad and I've never really deviated from that. Even now on my dozenth or so playthrough of Skyrim the Bow is still my primary and I can't seem to break the habit even when I try. So naturally TLOU is a game that panders exactly to my playstyle.
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1 hour ago, AI_Impaired said:
AC, is also just a formula. They have basically abandoned its whole meta-story now.
I would argue these are impressively good formulas, but most original fans stopped caring awhile ago because of increasing redundancy.I'm one of those people that think that's a good thing, The whole Desmond/Animus storyline was baggage that I never really felt any reason to care about and it got in the way of the actual fun parts of the games . When they ended it along with putting less focus on the Animus material the games got better immediately. In my opinion Assassins Creed is one of those few series that (aside form Unity, with all it's technical issues) has gotten better over time.
With that being said when looking back at the past few years it has been a mixed bag when it comes to entrances in older franchises. The only ones that really stand out for me are those games that do significant refreshes on the original rather than doing the same thing. Things like the re-booted Tomb Raider, Capcom's recent Resident Evil games and the aforementioned God of War.
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Thanks @StaceyPowers and @Executor Akamia. I nominate @StaceyPowers, @kingpotato, @Executor Akamiaand @The Blackangel.
I would nominate @Shagger but as already explained he is not eligible, and also an idiot 🤣!
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5 hours ago, The Blackangel said:
Kratos in GoW. The only difference is that Kratos was a real man, whereas Jason is just a fictional video game character
Can you explain that? To the best of my knowledge Kratos wasn't a real man, or even a part of ancient Greek mythology for that matter.
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9 hours ago, The Blackangel said:
Remember I'm a classic gamer here people.
I would say the biggest advance would be Zelda OoT after Link To The Past. Link To The Past was so small and confined. Then OoT comes out, and it's enormous. Especially the dungeons. And there are so many tricks and hidden treats you can find through out the game. It was the first one with a horse you can ride, it introduced gold skulltulas, gorons, gerudos, friendly zoras, and a whole cast of new items. And above all else it introduced THAT MOTHERFUCKING OWL. Damn you Shigeru Miyamoto!
I'm with you there. Coming of a back of console genrastion that mostly produced side scrollers and overheard RPGs and the only 3D titles were moslty FPS's and a handful of flying games, Zelda OoT was a giant leap forward.
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Well it turns out this is a non issue since Cyberpunk 2077 had just been delayed to September.
I'm actually very relieved, I don't my wallet could take having these two coming out around the same time!
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Rumour's aside I don't know much about the Dark Web, I don't think I even want to. The surface web is full of enough a-moral assholes as it is.
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Well unless these are legitimately claiming to be clairvoyant I don't they know what the media of video games might do in 5, 10, 20 years in terms of new development and ideas.
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It's hard for me to pick just one, The whole soundtrack on DOOM (2016) is awesome and the menu music is no exception.
Maybe a little bit of cheating here since you hear it in game as well but I also love the Skyrim theme.
I think the top slot has to go to Dragon's Dogma, It rocks and it's not at all what you would expect from a fantasy RPG.
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In a linear game it is (or at least should be) balanced so that you should able to beat it. There should be no need for a warning. In open world games it's different of course, they give a level or some other indicator as to whether you can complete it or not.
In TLOU even if you miss all of the optional parts it's still possible to beat the game, it's just more difficult.
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9 hours ago, skyfire said:
Actually if you see it from the streamers perspective. I am not miles away from truth. There is a reason the streamers make use of PC...
Yes, there a plenty of reasons. Custom overlays on Twitch, access to better audio and visual equipment, customisable software, better facilities for monitoring chat, (like multi-screen setups) and capture cards for streaming Console content but none of this cheaper! Like I was saying before I would expect some who streams professionally to have this kind of equipment because it's the "tools of the trade". It's about producing the best quality content for their Twitch and/or YouTube channels, their not saving money!
10 hours ago, skyfire said:...also save a lot on the device maintenance and expenses in lifetime ownership.
Once again this is not the case. We have already established an appropriate PC setup for a streamer is more expensive to buy but it's also more expensive to maintain and upgrade. Putting the possibility of stuff breaking down aside (which is possible either way) Let do some add ups for 2 scenarios in this generation. One with a PC and the other with PlayStation Consoles and I'm going to make it a little more detailed this time so I can hopefully get through to you.
PC:
Let's start again with our initial upfront budget of around $1000, at the time of the PS4 release in November 2013 on that budget you'd have been able to rock a Haswell Quad Core i5 and a GTX 760, maybe GTX 770. Would this still be enough horsepower for a streamer today? Absolutely not, they would have to upgrade at least once. Not only would the 700 series cards be struggling with games after 4 or 5 years, but the non-hyperthreaded Core i5 would be an especially big headache for a streamer because over the last several years games which use 4 threads have become commonplace. That means the streaming software would have no threads of it's own to do it's work, I know of this issue because I remember Jim Sterling attempting to stream a few years ago (I think it was Black Ops 4) but couldn't because the game was hogging all 4 cores of his i5.
So lets say this streamer decides to upgrade for the same budget of $1000 in the summer of 2017 (half way through this gen), this time we need to make sure to have more than 4 CPU threads available. So this time assuming that they re-used some parts from their old system to save some money they could maybe stretch to a GTX 1070 and a Kaby Lake i7. So over the course of the latest console generation this has in PC hardware alone cost $2000. Don't forget that's not even considering the cost of monitor(s), desk, chair, streaming/editing software, headset, microphones and a bunch of other things.
PS4:
We start with the initial cost of $400 for the console, $250 for the laptop and $200 for the additional equipment like a capture device, camera, microphone and so on. That comes to $850 that's all you'd ever really need aside from a TV. let's assume, however they do a mid gen refresh when the PS4 Pro comes out. That's another $400 for the console, another $150 for a 4K compatible capture device, so $550. That comes to a total of $1400, even if we put on the cost of another new laptop which be optional at this stage it's STILL significantly less.
I don't know where this delusion that PC gaming is cheaper comes from, whether is confirmation bias causing you be selective in your use of the facts, they feel the need to downplay consoles to makes them feel better about their own PC builds or they don't know any better. I've been on other threads where PC fanboys have tried to convince people that PC's save money and it drives me nuts because a gamer on both PC and Console and tech fan I know it's an outright lie! One guy on this forum even posted that a $500 novatech PC that had no dedicated GPU in it claiming it could do 4K at 120fps... yeah, maybe on Microsoft Paint! I'm sorry to go on a tangent but I'm so sick of these damn lies, especially now that I know it's about to get even worse when assholes start posting all over that place that you could build a "PS5" equivalent PC for $400 or whatever and some people will actually believe it and waste their money on crap build.
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If it's leveled quests (Horizon Zero Dawn, Witcher 3) I tend to start with the lowest leveled quests and work my way up. If there is multiple questlines with different factions (Skyrim, Oblivion) I will focus on one faction at a time breaking into the main quest every once in a while.
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22 minutes ago, Shagger said:
Why don't dolls/action figures have nipples?
If they had nipples they would also have genitals. That would mean they could breed and use those nipples to feed their young on Vaseline-milk. Before long they would use their power of overpopulation to overthrow humanity.
The League of Crustaceans would have been happy to help but theirs obviously no way you would do it for us so... Enjoy your ludicrously emmbarasing apocalypse!
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58 minutes ago, DC said:
@Crazycrab Who do you wish you could get back into contact with?
Nobody comes to mind...
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27 minutes ago, kingpotato said:
Anybody here remember Motor Kombat ? xD man that was actually a good kart racing game.
I remember Carmageddon, come to think if it that pretty much was Mortal Kombat on wheels!
We're really getting off topic here!
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7 minutes ago, SaucyPastaTho said:
MK? I didn't know Mortal Kombat had cars in it now. :p.
You know what, Mortal Kombat SHOULD have cars in it! I wanna cut off Raiden's head and use it car battery! Or have an exhaust made out of Scorpions spine! This opens up so many cool possibilities!
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Doki Doki Literature Club, I didn't think I'd ever play this because... look at it:
Suffice to say... it didn't appeal to me, but I heard some people on a discord chat talking about and because the game was free I tried it out and.........
Well that's the thing, outside it being one of those interactive visual novels (another thing I usually can't stand) I can't really explain anything about without major spoilers so let's just say it NOT what you think and it's definitely worth checking out. Especially since it's free!
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2 hours ago, kingpotato said:
Are crabs immortal?
No that's jellyfish, it's just my madness that's immortal.
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3 hours ago, skyfire said:
Actualy no. PCs are lot cheaper for multiple usage.
1. Routine work (browsing, email etc)
2. Gaming as primary work
3. Streaming.
You can't do all of this with the console and it tends to add just dead weight with console. Piracy is hardly an issue these days with the microtransaction sucking the money of people.
Let's do a rough add up:
A Gaming PC for gaming and work with all the hardware and software necessary for a streaming set up, about $1000 minimum.
A Console and a reasonable (but not gaming) laptop, $350 + $250 = $600. If you want to stream using the desktop app or web browser istead of the console app you'll need a capture device, $600 + $100 = $700.
Your still MILES away from the truth.
None of that is really relevant anyway, your talking about someone who games professionally as a full time job. Whether it be a Twitch Streamer, YouTuber, Reviewer, Journalist or whatever. I would expect someone in the position to by default to have a decent PC and most if not all the consoles to maximise the range of their content and support their income. The rest of us are talking about the other 99% percent of the world that game and maybe stream a little as a hobby. Most people who's job doesn't directy involve gaming don't need a PC for browsing the web, checking their email of producing documents. A reasonably priced laptop or tablet and a smartphone are more than sufficient.
Gaming on a PC is more expensive than a console and I don't even mean that in a derogatory way. There are advantages to a PC, I'm simply stating that cost is not one of them.
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1 hour ago, skyfire said:
PC games tend to save more money to be honest. I think console is too much investment.
I'm sorry but that is simply not true. PC's are FAR more expensive than consoles to buy and upgrade and you save next to nothing in the cost of buying games.
New releases are maybe £5 to £10 cheaper but useually not even that. The deals you get Steam sales or whatever aren't any better than XBox Live or PSN either, not to mention used games and services like XBox Game Pass. Even if the games were legitimately and consistently cheaper on PC in the current climate of publishers relaying more on recurrent user spending models like DLC and Microtransactions the upfront cost barely matters anyway.
In this day and age the only way that PC gaming is cheaper that consoles is if your pirating.
Whatever happened to Skull and Bones ?
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I'm looking to this one too, last I heard it was delayed to sometime after April this year but it's been quiet for a while.