Random Gaming Talk Thread

[larrydavid]

it's really weird to me how the angry manchild from 1up is now the director of Bungie's latest blockbuster game

[Kara]

Something like a story mode would've been interesting. Starting as someone that races in city streets, moving onto racing at tracks where you can independently register or sign up, onto professional racing outright.

Or even a owner mode where you manage a racing team. Decide what vehicles to get for your team, which drivers to hire, pit crew/mechanics, competing for sponserships.

Honestly, it really didn't help TOCA. I mean it was nice, but when a racer is stale (even if the core driving isn't), it's stale.

[Kara]

Beat Shadowrun: Returns. What a delightfully Shadowrun ending.

As a fan of unintentional humor, very little beats Shadowrun imo. Even after seeing ork police officers a bunch of times they still cracked me up. And the Tir Tairngire special forces guys were

Maybe I'll start Dragonfall next. It was pretty hilarious talking with a German chap about dragons.

[larrydavid]

Beat Shadowrun: Returns. What a delightfully Shadowrun ending.

As a fan of unintentional humor, very little beats Shadowrun imo. Even after seeing ork police officers a bunch of times they still cracked me up. And the Tir Tairngire special forces guys were

Maybe I'll start Dragonfall next. It was pretty hilarious talking with a German chap about dragons.

really oughtta get back to that one. probably spent more time reading that lorebook PDF they gave out during the initial kickstarter than actually playing the game.

[demi]

it's really weird to me how the angry manchild from 1up is now the director of Bungie's latest blockbuster game

Luke has been part of the best parts of Destiny. From the amazing VOG raid to the game-saving Taken King expansion.

[Take My Breh Away]

What the fuck happened?

Guess they're not starting you off with a used clunker in this one. Also, this may as well be called Forza.

Yeah it has 130 cars and 30 tracks, or so they said (please correct me) ? Honestly it was perhaps the best thing to do to get rid of all the terrible baggage the series was carrying in GT5 and 6 (though it is a spin off title, who knows what they'll do with GT7). I loved the feeling of GT5 but honestly couldn't be arsed to grind a garage, as a potential future PS4 owner, I'm way more interested by a more pick up and play semi sim. If the final release date is not delayed, trimming all that fat managed to get Sony biggest franchise only three years in the cycle of their current console, and with a livery editor at last. 

They ran a live stream of it and it was an absolute trainwreck. They were running a game over LAN and cars still had lag and warping. Even the live stream had massive slowdown and screen tear and the game doesn't look all that hot in the first place. Also the vacuum car sounds are back, somehow.

I guess at least they are getting the beta out in November.   

[Rufus]

What the fuck happened?

Guess they're not starting you off with a used clunker in this one. Also, this may as well be called Forza.

Yeah it has 130 cars and 30 tracks, or so they said (please correct me) ? Honestly it was perhaps the best thing to do to get rid of all the terrible baggage the series was carrying in GT5 and 6 (though it is a spin off title, who knows what they'll do with GT7). I loved the feeling of GT5 but honestly couldn't be arsed to grind a garage, as a potential future PS4 owner, I'm way more interested by a more pick up and play semi sim. If the final release date is not delayed, trimming all that fat managed to get Sony biggest franchise only three years in the cycle of their current console, and with a livery editor at last. 

They ran a live stream of it and it was an absolute trainwreck. They were running a game over LAN and cars still had lag and warping. Even the live stream had massive slowdown and screen tear and the game doesn't look all that hot in the first place. Also the vacuum car sounds are back, somehow.

I guess at least they are getting the beta out in November.

I remember people critizising this in GT3. Last one I played was GT4, and it's still like this?

[Take My Breh Away]

What the fuck happened?

Guess they're not starting you off with a used clunker in this one. Also, this may as well be called Forza.

Yeah it has 130 cars and 30 tracks, or so they said (please correct me) ? Honestly it was perhaps the best thing to do to get rid of all the terrible baggage the series was carrying in GT5 and 6 (though it is a spin off title, who knows what they'll do with GT7). I loved the feeling of GT5 but honestly couldn't be arsed to grind a garage, as a potential future PS4 owner, I'm way more interested by a more pick up and play semi sim. If the final release date is not delayed, trimming all that fat managed to get Sony biggest franchise only three years in the cycle of their current console, and with a livery editor at last. 

They ran a live stream of it and it was an absolute trainwreck. They were running a game over LAN and cars still had lag and warping. Even the live stream had massive slowdown and screen tear and the game doesn't look all that hot in the first place. Also the vacuum car sounds are back, somehow.

I guess at least they are getting the beta out in November.

I remember people critizising this in GT3. Last one I played was GT4, and it's still like this?

It was still like that in 5 and 6. And then they hired someone who used to be on Forza's sound team and it's still like that for GT Sport.

The stans at gaf are howling mad and trying to convince people it doesn't look and sound awful. Even though Project CARS easily eats it for breakfast in visuals. Even if it's a youtube cap, this is the difference in builds. What a mess.

[Rufus]

First party power.

[VomKriege]

Its weird how Gran Turismo used to be THE prolific racing game on consoles. And now its just another sim racer thrown onto the pile. The franchise needed a huge overhaul or direction change after Gran Turismo 5.

Something like a story mode would've been interesting. Starting as someone that races in city streets, moving onto racing at tracks where you can independently register or sign up, onto professional racing outright.

Or even a owner mode where you manage a racing team. Decide what vehicles to get for your team, which drivers to hire, pit crew/mechanics, competing for sponserships.

They kinda tried that with the B-Spec mode, but in the end it felt shallow and gimmicky, like pretty much all of the extraneous stuff in GT5. The problem with a "manager mode" is that GT was never a robust enough sim of actual motor competitions (licenced or imaginary) to really support it, IMHO.

For all the shit we gave GT, I'm not certain the core tenets of the franchise are so outdated. It has gotten a bit stale and tired, but there was no helping that once GT wasn't the only game in town anymore. I'm sure the franchise will continue to sell decently no matter what, if only by virtue of the PS4 leading the market...

Ultimately the loss of good will lies completely with Polyphony and just how warped its dev process seems to be : The car sounds still being a laughing stock after a decade of fan demands is one of the major examples and you'll find similar complaints about IA, damage model & collision physics, no livery editor, the absence of line starts & real qualifying or a solid online (though GT6 online mode apparently tried to adress those latter issues)... despite PD promises and the standard set by competition. Plus the scandalous asset disparity and planning management. But heh INSANE PHOTO MODE !

[Joe Molotov]

What the fuck happened?

Guess they're not starting you off with a used clunker in this one. Also, this may as well be called Forza.

Yeah it has 130 cars and 30 tracks, or so they said (please correct me) ? Honestly it was perhaps the best thing to do to get rid of all the terrible baggage the series was carrying in GT5 and 6 (though it is a spin off title, who knows what they'll do with GT7). I loved the feeling of GT5 but honestly couldn't be arsed to grind a garage, as a potential future PS4 owner, I'm way more interested by a more pick up and play semi sim. If the final release date is not delayed, trimming all that fat managed to get Sony biggest franchise only three years in the cycle of their current console, and with a livery editor at last. 

They ran a live stream of it and it was an absolute trainwreck. They were running a game over LAN and cars still had lag and warping. Even the live stream had massive slowdown and screen tear and the game doesn't look all that hot in the first place. Also the vacuum car sounds are back, somehow.

I guess at least they are getting the beta out in November.

I remember people critizising this in GT3. Last one I played was GT4, and it's still like this?

It was still like that in 5 and 6. And then they hired someone who used to be on Forza's sound team and it's still like that for GT Sport.

The stans at gaf are howling mad and trying to convince people it doesn't look and sound awful. Even though Project CARS easily eats it for breakfast in visuals. Even if it's a youtube cap, this is the difference in builds. What a mess.

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dem trees doe

[VomKriege]

The people speaking of "placehoder" sounds and older builds are a bit on the delusion side. It supposedly launches in 6 months, game has to be pretty much done at that point ?

[Kara]

really oughtta get back to that one. probably spent more time reading that lorebook PDF they gave out during the initial kickstarter than actually playing the game.

The new UI is jarring (I actually liked the UI in Returns, it reminded me of the isometric Fallouts) but the world is a lot more vibrant and really embraces the whole anarchic flavor of Shadowrun's Berlin. I think I played until 4 this morning?

Also I named my runner Mother Courage and the dialog is unintentionally cracking me up almost as much as having a Troll who was once a member of the KSK on my team.

[toku]

Love Dragonfalls setting and characters. <3 tsundere german troll

[Kara]

There's a character named Absinthe.

And she "bedazzles" you if you don't have a high enough stat.

[VomKriege]

No dynamic weather in GTSport.

Much cutting edge 

[Take My Breh Away]

No dynamic weather in GTSport.

Much cutting edge 

Watching the gaf and gtplanet circlejerk trying to convince themselves it looks "Amazing" because the trackside assets are slightly different than Project CARS despite that game having full dynamic weather, time of day, atmospheric simulation etc is insane. Or even Assetto Corsa or Forza 6 Apex on PC (Especially now the arch enemy is a PC game). We've already gone from "Sony closed down Evolution for this" to "No wait it's the best looking racer on the planet and it will look better cuz it's only a 50% build get mad pc gamers and xbots". Six months off and the game performs like a dog and looks nothing special in game and has less content than the prequels. Granted, Polyphony dug their own grave on having to remake everything since they didn't bother with GT5 and 6. But there's no way they are going to get within sniffing distance of PCARS looks and feature set wise. Apparently car damage is in but the physics are probably going to be ass going off the stream. Still, game looks bad and shouldn't have been shown in this state. I'll probably skip this despite owning the first six GT games.

But then it's a reminder that GT fanboys are the fucking worst, only just behind Souls and Naughty Dog stans in being irritating wankers.

[brob]

another motorstorm would be way more interesting than this flaccid shit

[VomKriege]

GT5
"Well, we're gonna dump PS2 assets for a few hundred cars into the game, because we can't be modeling everything considering how complex it is. Our current models are so good they're future proof and will provide a base into the next generation."

GTSport
"Well, we made all the models from scratch, because our GT5 ones didn't have tessellation. Please understand."

[tiesto]

FM-Towns rearranged version of Galaxy Force II:

[demi]

Sleeping Dogs XB1 $7.50 download code

http://amzn.to/1TzFEKx

[archie4208]

[Kara]

So S2 Games sold Heroes of Newerth recently and now they've decided to remake a game set in the same universe (Savage). What a disaster, lol.

[archie4208]

You're late yo.  S2 sold HoN about a year ago to Garena who created an American development studio (Frostburn Studios) that works on the game.  They hired the former S2 staff who were still working on HoN. 

Pretty sure HoN is dead everywhere but Thailand where, iirc, it's the most popular MOBA in that country. 

[toku]

euro jank mass effect?

[Rufus]

More or less. Strangely not on Steam yet?

Follow-up to this:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/232750/

[Great Rumbler]

I've really liked both of Spiders' previous games, despite them having some pretty strong jank, and Technomancer looks like it's going to be their best so far.

[fistfulofmetal]

Thinking about getting a mechanical keyboard. Any recommendations?

[Great Rumbler]

Rosewill makes some really good, no-frills mechanical keyboards. I've been using one for several years now and I love it.

[CajoleJuice]

Yeah, I'm looking at Rosewill, too. I'd probably get one, but a buddy just offered to sell me his barely-used Das Keyboard for ~$70. 2 USB pass-through ports oh yeah

[Kara]

Peak Battleborn player count is already down to ~5,000 on Steam. (For reference, Borderlands 2 can still pull in close to 10,000 despite being over 3 years old.)

[Positive Touch]

i honestly feel bad for gearbox at this point. it looked like a game they put their heart into

[archnemesis]

Mechanical keyboards are loud. They can be difficult to work with in an open office environment or if you live together with someone else.

[fistfulofmetal]

I've seen some models that advertise quiet keys, like the Razor stuff or Corsair. Anyone have any experience with them?

I don't need it to be silent really, but I know that if I get one, red switches are the quiet ones.

[Rufus]

Mechanical keyboards are loud. They can be difficult to work with in an open office environment or if you live together with someone else.

The machine gun clatter of Cherry blues is cute at first, but soon enough you'll want to beat the person to death with their keyboard. Cost is only one reason Model M and other spring switch keyboards sank into obscurity.

That said, there are things you can do to quiet them down, main thing being rubber O-rings. I think Cherry is now offering a silent switch as well.

I got over my mechanical keyboard obsession without actually buying one myself. +1 for poverty aided maturity, I suppose. Now I'm looking for a compact scissor switch keyboard with the right array of media keys. I hope this white whale will elude me, because I know I will feel foolish if I actually buy one.

[Rufus]

Reds have the lightest activation point, so they're kind of the opposite of a keyboard smashers switch. It's why they're the go-to gaming switch.

[Rufus]

Remember that Valve community translator drama a while back?

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/273458/Former_Valve_employee_alleges_unfair_treatment_and_unethical_practices_seeks_31_million_damages.php

[toku]

http://www.pcgamer.com/paradox-pulls-stellaris-mod-that-makes-all-humans-european/?utm_content=buffer88082&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=buffer_pcgamer

that comment section

[Rufus]

Not even gonna bother. It will be full of censorship whining, pointless hypotheticals and misguided handwringing over how to actually 'end racism'(tm) properly.

[VomKriege]

 

[Shrew]

[VomKriege]

No Man's Sky to be delayed according to Kotaku, which would make sense since we haven't seen much anything recently despite a planned release mid-June. Don't care either way, but I will echo some gaffers that the timing of the marketing around that game is a bit weird and may have peaked in summer 2015 for some reason...

[toku]

[Atramental]

I'm trying to decide between getting Doom or Overwatch since my budget only allows for one $40 to $60 video game every month or two.

I guess I'll go with Doom because I'm in a time in my life where I can't really dedicate hours upon hours towards getting gud at a multiplayer only shooter.

[Kara]

I'm going to miss the final day of DUST 514. Be in relationships brehs.

[Joe Molotov]

I'm going to miss the final day of DUST 514. Be in relationships brehs.

Tell her that a loved one is dying and you need to be there.

[Kara]

[Positive Touch]

I'm trying to decide between getting Doom or Overwatch since my budget only allows for one $40 to $60 video game every month or two.

I guess I'll go with Doom because I'm in a time in my life where I can't really dedicate hours upon hours towards getting gud at a multiplayer only shooter.

you made the right choice son

[benjipwns]

by Giant Bomb, Brad along with Naughty Dog programmer John "Cowboy" Bellomy

[archie4208]

Seems like a big upgrade from the 900 series, but I only play in 1080p so all that extra power is wasted. 

I might get one if PS4 Neo and Xbox Scorpio bump things up though.

[archnemesis]

I'm either getting a GTX 1070 OC for my old 24" monitor, or a GTX 1080 OC together with a 27" G-sync monitor. The high-end card might be good for VR as well.

[demi]

A bunch of those PS2 on PS4 games are on sale for half off.

https://store.playstation.com/#!/en-us/playstation-plus-specials/cid=STORE-MSF77008-PSPLUSSPECIALS

[Positive Touch]

dark clouds 2 always looked really kiddie to me but I've heard so many great things about it. is it worth getting in 2016?

[brob]

[tiesto]

dark clouds 2 always looked really kiddie to me but I've heard so many great things about it. is it worth getting in 2016?

Dungeon traversal gets pretty repetitive and the 3D combat is a bit janky but I'd say go for it. The town building is very fun, upgrading your weapons are addicting, and the item creation system (where you take pictures of items to make new recipes) is innovative. Plus there's a whole host of minigames, some stupid, others addicting (like a take on Golf). You'll probably know if you like it after the first few hours.

[Positive Touch]

i need an adventure game in my life with something to do in it besides combat, so I'll give it a shot. thx!

[Great Rumbler]

The dungeons were always the worst part of the Dark Cloud games. They were always really simply designed and then repeated over and over with little variation, made me want to blast through them as quickly as possible to get to more town building.

[toku]

http://beta.deadbydaylight.com/

[larrydavid]

A bunch of those PS2 on PS4 games are on sale for half off.

https://store.playstation.com/#!/en-us/playstation-plus-specials/cid=STORE-MSF77008-PSPLUSSPECIALS

i want like five of these so now i've got analysis paralysis and will probably buy zero, they need to space this shit out

thinking hard about parappa since i never played and could probably knock that out quick

[The Legend of Sunblade]

Dark Cloud 2 suffers from the Level-5 school of game design of wanting to cram their games with shit without thinking about wether or no said shit is actually fun, but it's at least better than the first game.