Random Gaming Talk Thread

[Nintex]

Xbois twisting the knife in the soystation 5

 

[Don Rumata]

Prepping for the Game Awards trailer?

[bork]

Clockwork Aquario (the previously-unreleased Westone arcade platformer) is out in Europe and Japan- the U.S. release isn't for another two weeks for whatever reason.  The game is very 'early 90s arcade' and seems to be nothing really amazing so far, but very solid.

[Svejk]

Xbois twisting the knife in the soystation 5

 

Guy across from Todd; "Skyrim was out there with fantasy, Starfield will be more grounded"  ....  

Other than that, I'm gonna need a bigger PC for this.

[Raist]

Are they going to show the game at some point or keep going with the wankfest?

[Pissy F Benny]

spoiler alert: no, cos it looks just like fallout 4 but space themed

[Tuckers Law]

I predict the game will be so buggy on release that people’s computers will actually rock back and forth in agony as they attempt to handle the many execution errors happening simultaneously.

[Great Rumbler]

Are they going to show the game at some point or keep going with the wankfest?

They're making the bold move of not unveiling the game until after it's released.

[benjipwns]

Oh shit, Journey to the Savage Planet is one of the free Amazon Prime games this month. I wanted to check this out but never really directly pay for it in any sale so far.

Big Name Launchers:
Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered (Origin)
Football Manager 2021 (EGS)
Frostpunk: Full Game (GOG)
Journey to the Savage Planet (GOG)

The Amazon Launcher Games:
Morkredd
Spellcaster University
Youtubers Life
Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse
Tales of Monkey Island: Chapter 1-5

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/Ash_735/status/1465841888922058754

[Joe Molotov]

Mark Wahlberg bout to get sued.

[tiesto]

Mark Wahlberg bout to get sued.

Thought that was Rob Base and DJ EZ Rock?

[Don Rumata]

https://twitter.com/Ash_735/status/1465841888922058754

I can kinda see it...

"Wow, It Takes Two, this must be good"
*10 minutes into the game*
"Wait a minute, this game isn't about Strauss Zelnick at all!"

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/Nibellion/status/1466452688049250306
That was fast

https://twitter.com/Battlefield/status/1466451845086433283

"We intend to build a Battlefield universe, one with multiple projects that are interconnected with the player at the center," says Vince Zampella, to increase the franchise's prominence.

We're going to throw shit at the wall to see if it sticks. Anyway, this also puts a fork in any Titanfall 3 plans as EA is going ALL IN on Battlefield which they've just rebooted after another reboot following the reboot.

[Joe Molotov]

BF1 killed Titanfall, now EA has to beg Vince Zampella to come save Battlefield. Life comes at you fast.

[chronovore]

http://twitter.com/momiji_manjyuu/status/1465965244878970893

[Great Rumbler]

http://twitter.com/momiji_manjyuu/status/1465965244878970893

https://twitter.com/LittleMtMachine/status/1466232722175582208

[chronovore]

https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/r7phef/forza_horizon_5_player_banned_for_8000_years_for/

[MMaRsu]

https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/r7phef/forza_horizon_5_player_banned_for_8000_years_for/

http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=48289.0

 

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/geoffkeighley/status/1466829591004295177

[team filler]

that bitch looks old as fuck, grandma at the gamer award show 

[BIONIC]

Grannies 

[Kevtones]

I'm conflicted about Elex 2 because I'm not sure it's possible that it exists. It makes me believe I've stumbled back into the Berenstein timeline.

[Don Rumata]

that bitch looks old as fuck, grandma at the gamer award show 

They look about the same age in that pic.

[HardcoreRetro]

I'm conflicted about Elex 2 because I'm not sure it's possible that it exists. It makes me believe I've stumbled back into the Berenstein timeline.

I'm honestly just happy Piranha Bytes are still around. Gothic's the classic euro-jank series. We need more of these kinda devs.

Spiders actually managing a hit with Greedfall. I love it.

[chronovore]

https://www.siliconera.com/sony-to-merge-playstation-plus-and-now-into-a-tiered-subscription-service/

Looks interesting:
Basic version of Plus is as-is
Next tier up has PS Now PS4/PS5 titles
Next tier up has classic games from PS1/PS2 and some streaming stuff

[MMaRsu]

Eh PS Now is kinda garbo tho

[archnemesis]

I'm already paying for both Plus and Now. Combining them to a single service makes sense.

I agree that Now is a poor service.

[paprikastaude]

Just unlock an official PS1/2 emulator for discs. Hell, I'd even pay for it.

[naff]

any old thing can emu PSX/2 well now. it's often not perfect but neither will sony's emulation. piracy is the true steward of our digital heritage

[benjipwns]

If you had told me like a decade or more ago that Sony would just seemingly give up on backwards compatibility while Microsoft would be trying to get original Xbox games playable and in higher resolutions in 2021 (while teasing about PC emulators even), I would have called you crazy.

[paprikastaude]

Ultimately the MS way sucks anyway, because they only got a fraction of their libraries. It's nice that some classics get 4k or whatever, but I'd rather just play the discs normally vs. having only a few percent of titles remastered.

[HardcoreRetro]

Yeah, having some games is of course worse than having none at all.

[paprikastaude]

These consoles have disc drives, they could play (almost) everything. Prior generations already had decent emulators that read them. If you insist on giving every game a special treatment or not enabling them at all, you end up with FPS-boosted Spongebob shovelware but still no way of playing Silent Hill 2 or Burnout 3. 

It's nice that there is Ninja Gaiden Black in higher resolution or Nier Gestalt in 60 FPS. But if the price for that is having only like 12% of the games instead of 99%, then it was a subpar choice.

e: Also wasn't even the original Xbox HD-ready? These games would still look fine even without being boosted.

[Raist]

https://twitter.com/dark1x/status/1467800104476291072

[D3RANG3D]

[paprikastaude]

Just terrible.

[bork]

Just terrible.

Agreed- too much of this was just spent showing old footage.  At least there's two more parts to it.

[bork]

https://twitter.com/GarrettoType/status/1468205467503669250

[benjipwns]

e: Also wasn't even the original Xbox HD-ready? These games would still look fine even without being boosted.

I don't disagree with your criticism of Microsoft's priorities and agree they should get games working and put em up before worrying about 4K and framerates but the original Xbox was "HD" ready. It only supported 720p, and it's only really a handful of games. Most of the library tops out at 480p. A lot of them don't support 16:9 either.

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/Nibellion/status/1468261936336969731

[Svejk]

https://twitter.com/Nibellion/status/1468261936336969731

[Don Rumata]

https://twitter.com/Nibellion/status/1468261936336969731

Finally.
Definitely what was missing.
At Ubisoft there's some real PR experts at work.

[Don Rumata]

Nice Ratio, no wonder they unlisted it. 

[Nintex]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-08/how-microsoft-s-halo-infinite-went-from-disaster-to-triumph?srnd=premium

The engine used to build Halo was one that 343 had based largely on old code from Bungie. Parts of the engine, a set of tools called Faber, became infamous at the studio for being buggy and difficult to use. Within engineering, there’s a concept known as “tech debt,” which refers to problems one puts up with because the previous programmers of a system chose quick, easy solutions over more sustainable ones. Faber’s code, some of which dated to the early 2000s, had so much debt that some 343 engineers mockingly referred to its “tech bankruptcy.”

The staffing at 343 was also unstable, partially because of its heavy reliance on contract workers, who made up almost half the staff by some estimates. Microsoft restricts contractors from staying in their jobs for more than 18 months, which meant steady attrition at 343.

Halo Infinite’s creative direction was also in flux until unusually late in its development. Several developers described 343 as a company split into fiefdoms, with every team jockeying for resources and making conflicting decisions. One developer describes the process as “four to five games being developed simultaneously.”

By the summer of 2019, Halo Infinite was in crisis mode. The studio decided to cut almost two-thirds of the entire planned game, leaving managers to instruct some designers to come to the office and do nothing while the studio figured out the next move.

[Joe Molotov]

Of course it would be Ubisoft

[bork]

[Potato]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-08/how-microsoft-s-halo-infinite-went-from-disaster-to-triumph?srnd=premium

The engine used to build Halo was one that 343 had based largely on old code from Bungie. Parts of the engine, a set of tools called Faber, became infamous at the studio for being buggy and difficult to use. Within engineering, there’s a concept known as “tech debt,” which refers to problems one puts up with because the previous programmers of a system chose quick, easy solutions over more sustainable ones. Faber’s code, some of which dated to the early 2000s, had so much debt that some 343 engineers mockingly referred to its “tech bankruptcy.”

The staffing at 343 was also unstable, partially because of its heavy reliance on contract workers, who made up almost half the staff by some estimates. Microsoft restricts contractors from staying in their jobs for more than 18 months, which meant steady attrition at 343.

Halo Infinite’s creative direction was also in flux until unusually late in its development. Several developers described 343 as a company split into fiefdoms, with every team jockeying for resources and making conflicting decisions. One developer describes the process as “four to five games being developed simultaneously.”

By the summer of 2019, Halo Infinite was in crisis mode. The studio decided to cut almost two-thirds of the entire planned game, leaving managers to instruct some designers to come to the office and do nothing while the studio figured out the next move.

(Image removed from quote.)

Once again JShrieker gets fed some PR line that's designed to reassure consumers that new product™ is actually good and publishes it as if it's some investigative masterpiece.

This whole article was basically written by Microsoft PR.

[Potato]

Of course it would be Ubisoft

The morons who buy into this shit deserve all that they get.

[benjipwns]

HOW CAN THEY NOT USE THE THEME

YOU HAD ONE JOB

[benjipwns]

Nice Ratio, no wonder they unlisted it. 

(Image removed from quote.)

Apparently it was not listed from the start, they knew how it would go.

[Bebpo]

Game awards were pretty mehhhhhhhh outside the Alan Wake thing. Suicide Squad looked more fun than Avengers.

Where was Chrono Cross remake/remaster wtf.
Still no FF16...

Forspoken being May is still making FF16 2022 a mayyyyybe. SE Fiscal rpg releases - Q1 - FF Chaos / Babylon Fall, Q2 - Forspoken, Q3/Q4 -
We will see.

[Bebpo]

And zero Nintendo stuff.

Xenoblade 3 is just about ready to reveal and BoTW2 could use some more info. I guess in a direct soon.

[paprikastaude]

When was it ever more than that?

www.reddit.com/r/GamingLeaksAndRumours/comments/r6w7vc/every_major_announcement_made_at_the_game_awards/

Don't forget, the biggest announcements were usually logo reveals.

[Potato]

I still don't understand why any company would use an awards show to reveal a new game. Conversely, I still don't understand why any viewers would want new game announcements during the awards show they're watching.

It wouldn't happen at the Oscars or the Emmys.

[Bebpo]

Because E3 died and TGS died and in the last few years the game awards has been the main trade show where announcements are made.

[benjipwns]

I still don't understand why any company would use an awards show to reveal a new game. Conversely, I still don't understand why any viewers would want new game announcements during the awards show they're watching.

It wouldn't happen at the Oscars or the Emmys.

The Game Awards had 84 million viewers last year.

The Oscars had less than 10 million.

Also, the Game Awards have never pretended to be some kind of elite thing all about the art and only the art like the Oscars pretends to be. Nobody actually cares about the awards at the Game Awards. (Most Oscar viewers don't care about the awards either, they want to see celebrities.)

[paprikastaude]

Only the Dorrito's pope thinks people care about the awards. In reality it's mini E3 where you hope to find one or two good announcements between 5 hours of Keighley cringe and latestage-capitalism (aka Accessibility award sponsored by Chevrolet®) that this infantine industry is stuck in.

[D3RANG3D]

The only good news from the show is Spess Muhreen 2. 

[HardcoreRetro]

My favourite reveal was that terrible Annapurna game about beating up your ex partners. Hope it comes to gamepass for me to laugh at it.