What are you playing?

[benjipwns]

Doom 3's X-box port was crazy. A bunch of New Yorkers porting a Texas tech-demo engine to it and sizing areas down to where it didn't feel like a GIGANTIC downgrade.

Vicarious Visions.

Weird I can't seem to find their postmortem on that for Gamasutra/GameDeveloper

enjoy this instead i guess:
RE2 N64: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131556/postmortem_angel_studios_.php
THPS PS1 to DC: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131563/postmortem_treyarchs_tony_hawks_.php

[benjipwns]

found an old gaf thread asking for a gamecube port of Doom 3, half the thread is banned: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=41167

Such a great bullshit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

John Carmack is big Microsoft fanboy... !

Doom 3 went to Xbox not because it's the strongest console out there but because there's a market for this kind of game (FPS) on the green console. The majority of Xboxers (that's a neutral term, right?) love shooters and they'll love Doom 3.

Thats not true, the Majority of PC FPS players I know, including myself thought Doom3 was nothing more than a tech demo. We all got it for the hype and got bored of it after a few hours. I'm sorry but people won't love it just because it's an FPS.

[benjipwns]

The day Duke Nukem forever comes out is the day doom 3 goes on gamecube.

woah this dude totally lied...and he's not banned?

[Raist]

No Man's Sky

[Bulleta©™®]

Zelda 2 randomizer is so confusing (mostly the overworld). You really want to keep notes of where crap is or you'll spend 4+ hours on a seed.

[chronovore]

Beat SOTN and futzed around with Richter for a bit.

Started Beyond Good & Evil yesterday. The camera(not the mechanic, the game itself) bothers me for some reason and a lot of the gameplay mechanics are pretty rusty, specifically the combat. But man do I like the saturday morning cartoon vibe, the world they built, and while the mechanics might not have stood the test of time I do find the game itself pretty interesting.

I'm a little annoyed now at how BG&E2 is some Destiny like game instead of building upon this, would love to see how the main gameplay hooks translate into now that we're two generations of hardware apart.

The tech demo for BG&E2 looked fantastic, but it was the original game's heart that won me over. It had a fantastic attitude and consistent feeling despite its obvious roots in Euro-comic weirdo-nonsense. I know I'm coming off as intentionally belligerent, and I'm half-sorry; it's just that, despite their inarguable beauty and visual competence, I've never read a European comic that was even half coherent. Metal Hurlant or a kiddie Incal is what BG&E feels like, and it's better for its simpler storytelling.

[demi]

I beat Fire Emblem Echoes (Normal/Classic) and it was probably the most frustrating entry in the series yet.

This game SCREAMS RNG, from the horrible level ups to the whiffs on 90% hit. They even torture you by including the Turnwheel which gives you the ability to rewind turns (even so much as all the way to the beginning of the fight) if you fucked up and got a character killed.

Then they have Jedah, who can only be hurt every 4th hit. What the fuck.

The dungeon segments were neat. I liked how they let me use all my characters in fights (except the final fight) so I wasn't constantly having to switch things up so characters could get XP.

Next up: SMT4A

[Raist]

despite its obvious roots in Euro-comic weirdo-nonsense.

[chronovore]

despite its obvious roots in Euro-comic weirdo-nonsense.

If you want to point me at a Euro-comic that's both not oriented at juveniles and makes coherent sense to American sensibilities, I'll read it. My collections of Metal Hurlant, Jodorowsky scribed singles, Dylan Dog compendium, and —let's face it— the majority of Moebius' works, have shown me that Americans are just on a different wavelength.

[benjipwns]

Beat SOTN and futzed around with Richter for a bit.

Started Beyond Good & Evil yesterday. The camera(not the mechanic, the game itself) bothers me for some reason and a lot of the gameplay mechanics are pretty rusty, specifically the combat. But man do I like the saturday morning cartoon vibe, the world they built, and while the mechanics might not have stood the test of time I do find the game itself pretty interesting.

I'm a little annoyed now at how BG&E2 is some Destiny like game instead of building upon this, would love to see how the main gameplay hooks translate into now that we're two generations of hardware apart.

Which version? PS2?

I want to say I wound up preferring the Gamecube version just because the controller seemed to work better. Like the lack of buttons made them map things better.

[Bebpo]

I've been jokingly fighting back and forth with duckroll about Bravely Default's writing & localization. He thinks it sucks but I think is pretty damn great & charming!







I rest my case 

[Raist]

despite its obvious roots in Euro-comic weirdo-nonsense.

If you want to point me at a Euro-comic that's both not oriented at juveniles and makes coherent sense to American sensibilities, I'll read it. My collections of Metal Hurlant, Jodorowsky scribed singles, Dylan Dog compendium, and —let's face it— the majority of Moebius' works, have shown me that Americans are just on a different wavelength.

American comics aren't oritented at juveniles?

Here's a few:

Blue is the warmest color
Torpedo
War of the trenches
Largo Winch and XIII
The dormant beast (and Enki Bilal's other works)
Elric of Melniboné comics
Thorgal
Lanfeust of Troy

And, of course, Corto Maltese.


Euro comics generally fall into 4 major categories
Sci-Fi / Fantasy
Thriller
Comedy
What I assume you qualify as the juvenile stuff? i.e Tintin, Asterix, Spirou and Fantasio etc. But honestly, these are great reads at any age


So there's something for everyone.

[Raist]

Elric of Melniboné comics

I just got those. Love the books so hoping the comic does them justice.

Which ones? There have been countless.

Arguably the best ones (even according to Moorcock himself) are fairly recent, by Julien Blondel.

[Raist]

Well you're in for a treat then.

[chronovore]

Elric of Melniboné comics

I just got those. Love the books so hoping the comic does them justice.

Which ones? There have been countless.

Arguably the best ones (even according to Moorcock himself) are fairly recent, by Julien Blondel.

Ooh, v1 of Elric by Blondel is like US$6; I'm all over that.

Thanks for those other suggestions, too! I've put them in my notes for future shopping. 

[Raist]

No worries. Hope you'll find something to your taste.

There's also some damn fine examples of humorous comic strips, especially from Gotlib, a french Bande Dessinée legend. I doubt his work was ever translated into english, though. And if it was, I'm not sure it translates well. I suppose you could learn french in your spare time.

You'd get to know our finest superhero figure. Superdupont.

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Yes, this is simultaneously taking the piss out of american superhero comics, and french folks

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[Rufus]

I 100%ed that game, with the exception of the endurance races.

I cannot bear the engine noise any more. I think they used the same square waves in the PS3 games.

[demi]

Got 1000 on RiME -- the "ICO" game by Tequila Works

I enjoyed it, though it pretty much told the same story as Deadlight

[Bebpo]

Finished Ys VIII PS4 took around ~45 hours to do everything and get the true ending.

My recommendation if you're gonna play it is to play the ugly Vita version. All the PS4 additions are just another 10-15 hours of busywork which make a slowly paced padded game even slower and more padded and checkbox clearing. Game is ok when it's just a normal Ys adventuring with Adol and slashing stuff & fighting bosses. Everything else (story, dialogue, NPCs, sidequests, tower defense) is very mediocre and that's about 50% of the gametime. Everyone seemed to really like the Vita version, so I kinda wish I'd played that one. I'd give the PS4 game about a 7/10 and a lot of it reminded me of doing Achievement/trophy clear up checking off boxes work which I didn't care for, maybe the Vita one would've been more like an 8/10 with its less padding.

[demi]

Can you play "Nightmare" difficulty (or whatever is the hardest) from the start? Thats how I played Celceta

[Bebpo]

Yes, but there's an Inferno difficulty that's locked until new game+

Easy/Normal/Hard/Nightmare/Inferno. Difficulty doesn't change the boss patterns/hit detection or at all, just damage taken increases and damage output decreases. I settled on Hard and it was challenging (or not with items). Nightmare was kinda 1 hit = dead on a lot of stuff which wasn't that fun for me. I find the hit detection kinda funky in the game so I needed some room for error.

[Fifstar]

Thanks to based Benji I started Stardew Valley. Game is really fun. Addicting as hell but also relaxing. At first I thought that it's just a souped up clicker game (the farming aspect) but the slow pace of the game and the writing mixes things up. Plus the game keeps bringing in new elements.

[tiesto]

Finished Ys VIII PS4 took around ~45 hours to do everything and get the true ending.

My recommendation if you're gonna play it is to play the ugly Vita version. All the PS4 additions are just another 10-15 hours of busywork which make a slowly paced padded game even slower and more padded and checkbox clearing. Game is ok when it's just a normal Ys adventuring with Adol and slashing stuff & fighting bosses. Everything else (story, dialogue, NPCs, sidequests, tower defense) is very mediocre and that's about 50% of the gametime. Everyone seemed to really like the Vita version, so I kinda wish I'd played that one. I'd give the PS4 game about a 7/10 and a lot of it reminded me of doing Achievement/trophy clear up checking off boxes work which I didn't care for, maybe the Vita one would've been more like an 8/10 with its less padding.

Oh shit... from what I read in the import impressions for the game, this was a bit of a return to form after the padded 7 and Celceta. That's a bit depressing to hear that this continues with the padding, and tower defense? 

[chronovore]

I started Deadly Tower of Monsters, which was free on PSN. I played for about two hours and determined that, despite a clever pulp sci-fi movie presentation gimmick, the game is utter garbage. DNF

Styx: Master of Shadows was also a free PSN game which I finally downloaded and tried. It's scratching an itch that I didn't know I was feeling: creeping around and killing low-polygon guards in a Warhammer-like grim fantasy setting. It's fun, but there are all kinds of quirks with its stealth model. It also did an auto-save right after I turned visible in front of a half dozen guards, so I will have to back up to my ONE manual save, and replay a fair bit. Still worth it for now. May end up just playing the Mordheim tactics game instead, but that's not a stealth action thing, it's turn based and has its own problematic euroquirks.

[FStop7]

I've been completely sucked in by PUBG.  Over 10 hours since Saturday plus another 5 or 6 spent watching Twitch streams.  The best finish I've had is 13th place with 4 kills. 

[Positive Touch]

decided to play thru sonic adventure for the first time since release, and god damn that game still sucks. i can't imagine they played the hub world maps and thought any of that shit was fun. and after playing sonic mania it's even clearer how much sa lost the biggest part of what made sonic levels fun: the constant alternate paths. old sonic gave you tons of options to explore, but it always made sure you kept moving forward. sa just keeps you moving forward while you deal with the shit camera and controls.

it's funny looking at the reviews section of its wiki. the original had everyone hyping it up saying it's one of the best games ever, changes everything, etc. then the Gamecube port comes along just four years later and it's a bunch of 4/10s, this game is trash, don't play this. fucking massive backlash.

[Raist]

Haven't played an RTS in fucking forever (I don't really count stuff like Anno etc). Played a bunch of Starcraft/BW and RA back when they came out... 20 years ago? Fuck me.

Anyway I got Starcraft 2.Played through a good chunk of WoL for now.

Who the fuck wrote the plot/dialogues and designed the campaign missions. What the fuck happened.

[Bebpo]

Finished Oxenfree. I liked it and though the dialogue and VA was very good and reminded me of Life is Strange except without Chloe getting all annoying half the time. Gameplay was really minimal, which is ok but it's closer to a walking sim than an adventure game (again, which is perfectly fine). The gameplay is mostly revolved around branching choices that give an illusion of choice sometimes and real choice other times. The ending is slightly different based on the choices as are some of the dialogues that play out, but was a little disappointed outside like 1-2 things you couldn't make any major choices that change how the game plays. But yeah, was a good well-written and acted short story and was worth the 4 hours-ish that it takes. Also has like 2 really great songs and the rest of the ost is ambient and ok but not too memorable.

[fistfulofmetal]

Haven't played an RTS in fucking forever (I don't really count stuff like Anno etc). Played a bunch of Starcraft/BW and RA back when they came out... 20 years ago? Fuck me.

Anyway I got Starcraft 2.Played through a good chunk of WoL for now.

Who the fuck wrote the plot/dialogues and designed the campaign missions. What the fuck happened.

If you want a play a good recent RTS, give the newest Homeworld a try. Deserts of Kharak I think it's called. It gets a little tedious bat times but I really loved it.

[Bebpo]

Dragon Quest XI is so great. Pretty much enjoy every minute with it and have a smile going the whole time. If you break it down to its core, DQXI is basically what FFXIII tried to do but DQXI actually does it right. It's a story-based fairly linear game (so far at least where I'm at) with a few sidequests, but otherwise you're just progressing from small map zones to dungeons/towns. But it works! And it works great. The story is paced real well and is a lot of fun, the characters are good, there's lots of towns and NPCs and they're all varied, the dungeons have fun gimmicks, the map zones are really pretty. It's a little annoying in that why can't FF pull off a game like this? And to top it off DQXI PS4 which looks incredible (UE4) and is apparently like a 70 hour full size game, was made from start to finish in a 2 year development period by ex-Cavia people.

The insane efficiency and accomplishment of the game is a sight to behold. Maybe UE4 helped a lot! I want to believe that was a big part of it. Because if it means jrpg developers can make full size great looking rpgs in 2 year dev periods that don't feel rushed or unfinished, that's going to be a huge step forward for Japan and console gaming.

[demi]

I just finished Clock Tower 3 on PS2, jesus was that so bad. LMAO

Got some survival horrors lined up for some October gaming

[Freyj]

FF can't pull off a DQXI because of the obsession with redefining the series with each new entry.

[Positive Touch]

I just finished Clock Tower 3 on PS2, jesus was that so bad. LMAO

Got some survival horrors lined up for some October gaming

ugh that game is a disgrace. pretty amazing how shit it is on every level. i do kinda regret passing on haunting grounds, but i could imagine it being just as terrible. what else you got lined up tho?

[demi]

Well I dont have Haunting Grounds or Rule of Rose for obvious reasons, so I've been getting smaller titles that I may have never played (or briefly).

Started playing Extermination (PS2)

[Positive Touch]

rule of rose makes clock tower 3 look like a masterpiece. it's a stretch to even call it a finished game. just pure unadulterated shit and honestly one of the worst games i've ever played. please never pay money for it unless it's to resell it for profit.

[Rufus]

Extermination is decent. The last boss sucks though. Conserve your health items as much as possible.

[demi]

Finished extermination, you were right on the last boss, idk how you even do that correctly.

Put in X-Files: Resist or Serve (PS2). They made one xfiles game for ps1 and pc in the vein of myst (i own it, will probably play it soon). They also made this game on ps2, it plays like a resident evil.

[Raist]

Finished SC2's Heart of the Swarm. MUCH better than Wings of Liberty. Although whoever thought that Primal Zerg bosses mission was a good idea can kiss my ass.
Time for some Protoss shenanigans.

[Fifstar]

Checked out Euro Truck Simulator 2 and now I'm finding myself looking for Youtube Vids and blogs how to maneuver a truck backwards into a discharge spot 

[MMaRsu]

Bought homefront revolution for ps4.. 10 bucks.. seems allright tho?

[Raist]

Finished Legacy of the Void. Except the epilogue. Not sure I can be arsed. Was way too spammy overall.

I think I need some SC/BW to cleanse my palate. Is the remaster really worth it or just getting the OG for free good enough?

[tiesto]

Nearing the end of Sanic and Splatoon 2 single player. Gonna hold off on sinking my teeth into a big RPG afterwards and just hold out for Ys 8.

[benjipwns]

Bought homefront revolution for ps4.. 10 bucks.. seems allright tho?

was highly recommended by tom chick, as despite some real imported euro jank parts had some unique concepts that other similar games haven't been doing as smartly with their similar open worlds (ala the division, etc.), and counter to what i saw from a lot of professional video game analysts who seemed to focus on that jank like stuff randomly popping in or having to retrigger missions over what the game actually did or didn't do gameplay wise

i also picked it up a while back for $8 for the complete whatever that adds

also i was hoping i could stop by paddy's pub and other famous landmarks like the italian market to haggle with gypsies

[demi]

I gave up on XFiles. Shit got distinguished mentally-challenged difficult. Even the guide on gamefaqs pretty much said "yeah this shit is distinguished mentally-challenged, just use cheats"

By the way this game has cheats. Thats wild.

Resident Evil: Dead Aim next

[chronovore]

I'm always curious about F2P games; it's stupid, I have a massive backlog of fantastic shit, but I always want to try F2P stuff, and it is always disappointing. Today's example: Blacklight Retribution on PS4. This game has several different currencies, play modes, customization and progression ladders… ALL of it, completely opaque. Like a 7GB download and then another several GBs in added data to download; none of it is a tutorial, no in-game cues about menu usage, etc.

:aint_nobody_got_time_for_that.gif

DELETED.

[benjipwns]

There was a time when Blacklight: Retribution was actually a pretty good game. (Hence the surprisingly good metacritic/gamerankings scores.) Then as other F2P stuff took over and its player base dwindled (steamspy say it's at 100 players...from a year where it was over 5000 which is CoD numbers), it really fell into a hole of a million currency types, god awful menus, etc. Plus it swapped publishers, lost the publisher and then Zombie got shutdown and the whole game is now run by an offshoot band of the developers who I think are mainly focused on...um, I dunno, banning cheaters from time to time I guess.

When it was announced for PS4 around launch it was a fairly decent "get" based on how the Steam version was at the time. It was basically Call of Duty with a Batman Vision pulse and better maps with one currency that was mostly focused on cosmetics. (And you could buy the airdrop stuff, but anyone on your team could pick them up so it balanced out.) Everything else was in an unlock tree. (Which you could obviously pay to advance in quicker.) I remember lots of the guns felt great to use, unlike CoD half the time. And smart use of the pulse did a lot, especially as the maps had lots of shortcuts and sideroutes before those were common in the modern MP FPS.

It did always have that problem of making you think it was installed and then it was all hey, guess what here's another 10GB we need to download. And server issues. And patches that made performance worse.

From checking on Steam, I guess a few years ago they canned the PC branch and brought the PS4 branch over as the main one, which made dramatic changes to the gameplay, eliminated whole tiers of items people had accumulated and basically killed the playerbase on top of the server issues and now even more performance issues since it was for PS4 spec.

I too have that F2P fascination and even when something that looks decent like Gigantic comes along I'm more drawn to this other generic shooter with a terrible name, no clear "hook" and god awful designs everywhere, especially menus.

[chronovore]

Yeah, what is it with shit-tastic front-ends on F2P games? They're always needlessly opaque and/or complex. I love World of Tanks, but it's a fucking shitshow to navigate as a n00b.

[Bebpo]

Hot Shots Golf/Everybody's Golf/Minna no Golf - It has some issues (takes too long to unlock courses, graphics still kinda suck & art direction looks like Miis-imitation, PS3 control method is missing, online is kind of janky), but the golfing is still good ole HSG and the online is pretty fun and smooth. It's definitely a step down from the PS3 one in single player, but the MP is better (PS3 MP was incredibly jank).

It's the only golfing game I've ever cared about, so last night I had a bunch of fun golfing again for the first time in like 6+ years and couldn't put it down. It's a pretty easy game to review. Do you like HSG a lot? Then yeah, pick it up and join in. It's also pretty cheap, got mine for $30 so no complaints there.

[benjipwns]

Speaking of F2P games...

Bethesda/Splash Damage randomly made BRINK F2P on Steam, it has 800-1200 player counts now after being dead* for six years: http://store.steampowered.com/app/22350/BRINK/

This happened a week ago and SirSwag has yet to address it.

*okay, so it had two servers when i last tried to play it randomly a couple years ago, and one of them had a full match worth of people

[Joe Molotov]

They actually dropped the Hot Shots name in NA and just went with Everyone's Golf for the first time.

[toku]

Speaking of F2P games...

Bethesda/Splash Damage randomly made BRINK F2P on Steam, it has 800-1200 player counts now after being dead* for six years: http://store.steampowered.com/app/22350/BRINK/

This happened a week ago and SirSwag has yet to address it.

*okay, so it had two servers when i last tried to play it randomly a couple years ago, and one of them had a full match worth of people

 

i had this one on pre-order

 

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially.

 

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i love how the first video result for brink on yt rn is "DO NOT play this, play dirty bomb instead"

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[Raist]

Hot Shots Golf/Everybody's Golf/Minna no Golf - It has some issues (takes too long to unlock courses, graphics still kinda suck & art direction looks like Miis-imitation, PS3 control method is missing, online is kind of janky), but the golfing is still good ole HSG and the online is pretty fun and smooth. It's definitely a step down from the PS3 one in single player, but the MP is better (PS3 MP was incredibly jank).

It's the only golfing game I've ever cared about, so last night I had a bunch of fun golfing again for the first time in like 6+ years and couldn't put it down. It's a pretty easy game to review. Do you like HSG a lot? Then yeah, pick it up and join in. It's also pretty cheap, got mine for $30 so no complaints there.

Never played a HSG game. Played the shit out of Pangya though. Are they even remotely similar?

[archie4208]

Very much so.

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Timing based swing meter golf games 
Analog swing simulator garbage golf games 

Totally getting Everybody's Golf

[Raist]

StarCraft remastered. Halfway through the Terran campaign. So much better than SC2 .

The UI etc is a bit rough after SC2 though

Also thought they'd have remade the CG cutscenes. That was a bit of a shock. Looked amazing back then.

[Joe Molotov]

I played some No Man's Sky while I was waiting for Everybody's Golf updates to download (6.2GB Day 1 patch for a fucking golf game, lick my taint Sony ).

I had to run 10 minutes across a toxic, radioactive hellscape to get the resources I needed to repair my ship and I died right before I got there and had to do it again.

Fuck this game. Fuck Sean Murray. Fuck Sony. Fuck videogames. Selling my PS4 and buying an Xbox One XS to watch 4K BD's.

[benjipwns]

DF posted a sorta neat video about it, they rebuilt the original game from scratch, flaws and all just with better support for modern hardware:


though it does use all old videos and even animation cycles as part of that keeping it in line with the original game's timings

according to the comments the N64 version of the game doesn't have the 12 unit selection limit he mentions so clearly that's the best version to get now

[benjipwns]

also the comments in general are great:

Faiyez
1 week ago (edited)
Here's some consolation Starcraft 1 to hold you over cause you sure as hell know Star Citizen is vaporware.

Jay F
1 week ago
wow a pc game that's not a console port, but instead a remake of a 1998 game lmao

PS4 PRO
1 week ago
This is a remaster lmfao I thought pc has no limits but this is what we get

Arseni Plotnikov
1 week ago
7,5fps and 15fps? Do you pc players think this is acceptable for a remaster considering you make fun of 30fps console games?

VLAD URBAN
1 week ago
PC just isn't a platform for AAA-gaming.
This is the place for classic and indie games.
Even online games are better on consoles due to abscence of cheaters.

CastleWhisper
1 week ago
PC exclusive games are boring. Their only appeal is the big online userbase focused on e-sports. That´s what drives PC gaming nowadays. If you look up on steamstats you can only find 1 or 2 games (GTA V one of them) that are multiplatform and have a big userbase on PC. Everyone is on LoL, Dota 2, CS GO, Pubg, Overwatch, heartstone, Diablo, WoW, WoT. That´s all. Games using old engines and old mechanics and games that you run on any 3 year old laptop, wich everyone has. This is pc gaming. PC gaming is not driven by desktop PCs with powerful graphics cards. That´s a niche, according to steamstats. Why? Because there isn´t a single PC exclusive that pushes the available hardware to its max. A game built from scratch exclusively for PC taking advantage of a GTX1080ti, taking advantage of advanced volumetric lightning or advanced tesselation like Crytek did with Crysis 1 10 years ago. A real PC exclusive. Those games are gone. PC = esports RTS MOBA CardGames f2p

[MMaRsu]

also the comments in general are great:

Faiyez
1 week ago (edited)
Here's some consolation Starcraft 1 to hold you over cause you sure as hell know Star Citizen is vaporware.

Jay F
1 week ago
wow a pc game that's not a console port, but instead a remake of a 1998 game lmao

PS4 PRO
1 week ago
This is a remaster lmfao I thought pc has no limits but this is what we get

Arseni Plotnikov
1 week ago
7,5fps and 15fps? Do you pc players think this is acceptable for a remaster considering you make fun of 30fps console games?

VLAD URBAN
1 week ago
PC just isn't a platform for AAA-gaming.
This is the place for classic and indie games.
Even online games are better on consoles due to abscence of cheaters.

CastleWhisper
1 week ago
PC exclusive games are boring. Their only appeal is the big online userbase focused on e-sports. That´s what drives PC gaming nowadays. If you look up on steamstats you can only find 1 or 2 games (GTA V one of them) that are multiplatform and have a big userbase on PC. Everyone is on LoL, Dota 2, CS GO, Pubg, Overwatch, heartstone, Diablo, WoW, WoT. That´s all. Games using old engines and old mechanics and games that you run on any 3 year old laptop, wich everyone has. This is pc gaming. PC gaming is not driven by desktop PCs with powerful graphics cards. That´s a niche, according to steamstats. Why? Because there isn´t a single PC exclusive that pushes the available hardware to its max. A game built from scratch exclusively for PC taking advantage of a GTX1080ti, taking advantage of advanced volumetric lightning or advanced tesselation like Crytek did with Crysis 1 10 years ago. A real PC exclusive. Those games are gone. PC = esports RTS MOBA CardGames f2p

[Raist]

I played some No Man's Sky while I was waiting for Everybody's Golf updates to download (6.2GB Day 1 patch for a fucking golf game, lick my taint Sony ).

I had to run 10 minutes across a toxic, radioactive hellscape to get the resources I needed to repair my ship and I died right before I got there and had to do it again.

Fuck this game. Fuck Sean Murray. Fuck Sony. Fuck videogames. Selling my PS4 and buying an Xbox One XS to watch 4K BD's.

There's the creative mode for people who aren't very gud at vidyas 

DF posted a sorta neat video about it, they rebuilt the original game from scratch, flaws and all just with better support for modern hardware:


though it does use all old videos and even animation cycles as part of that keeping it in line with the original game's timings

according to the comments the N64 version of the game doesn't have the 12 unit selection limit he mentions so clearly that's the best version to get now

I have no issue with the ingame graphics. They hold up pretty well. The CG cutscenes though...?