I don't play first-person shooters.

Why is RedDed doing that now? Have they gone Sith?

I prefer a nice game of Checkers with Brute Monsters on the Millenium Falcon...

Sega and Namco aside...

So great and so ahead of its time. The peak of the series. You couldn't capture how MGS2 played out in a book, it wouldn't work nearly as well.

I had zero knowledge about the flags (I knew there was 9/11 censorship but I assumed it was just destruction at the end game), though I actually there is something more tragic about reaching out for something that he wants to see but in fact isn't there.

For that google remote gaming thing, how in the hell can an internet connection operate faster than the graphics card bus?

(03-21-2019 03:47 AM)BortimusPrime Wrote:  For that google remote gaming thing, how in the hell can an internet connection operate faster than the graphics card bus?

Assassins Creed is one of those couch popcorn type games that is forgiving in how snappy everything needs to be so they get away with higher delay in exchange for prettier graphics.

Console FPS games are quicker and something like Counter Strike:GO for PC can get as low as 10ms on optimized setups. Street fighter 5 players almost took to the streets over 8 frames (~130ms) of input delay after the previous game only had 4 frames delay (~65ms)

If this takes off, it'll be because it's a combination of 'good enough' for non-competitive games, relatively low barrier to entry (Just need very good internet and you can play on anything) and a presumably wide variety of games for a low price.

Halo MCC is coming to Steam, oh shit. Halo Reach is first. Includes multiplayer.

(03-21-2019 06:39 AM)dasher Wrote:  

(03-21-2019 03:47 AM)BortimusPrime Wrote:  For that google remote gaming thing, how in the hell can an internet connection operate faster than the graphics card bus?

Assassins Creed is one of those couch popcorn type games that is forgiving in how snappy everything needs to be so they get away with higher delay in exchange for prettier graphics.

Console FPS games are quicker and something like Counter Strike:GO for PC can get as low as 10ms on optimized setups. Street fighter 5 players almost took to the streets over 8 frames (~130ms) of input delay after the previous game only had 4 frames delay (~65ms)

If this takes off, it'll be because it's a combination of 'good enough' for non-competitive games, relatively low barrier to entry (Just need very good internet and you can play on anything) and a presumably wide variety of games for a low price.

   
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digit...m-gdc-2019

The Digital Foundry test suggests it will only add around 20-30 ms, which might be a lot to a competitive PC gamer on high end equipment, but the numbers showed there are not actually much higher than what's common for 30 fps console games, including the competitive ones (whether it's 60 or 180 ms doesn't really matter much for competitiveness if it's the same for everyone - not factoring in differences in display lag and internet).

However that's under best circumstances. It's still very hard to believe this will work well for everyone under real world conditions.

Guess I'm stuck in the past thinking about Diablo 2 lag spike deaths.

The Witcher was brutally painful to get started on. The combat system is sort of bizarre and clunky. Anyone that's played it will know what I'm talking about. The opening scene does a really good job of making you want to flush the game into the recycling bin.

But having pushed through that, the rest of the game is actually shaping up really well despite its age.

Kickin' butts and dickin' sluts. This is the kind of toxic masculinity I can approve of. Shame more game aren't like this.

(03-21-2019 08:09 PM)Batman_ Wrote:  Halo MCC is coming to Steam, oh shit. Halo Reach is first. Includes multiplayer.

Wouldn't those games be played by more PC users than Xbox because of servers not tied to Xbox service?

(03-22-2019 12:40 PM)Foolsgo1d Wrote:  

(03-21-2019 08:09 PM)Batman_ Wrote:  Halo MCC is coming to Steam, oh shit. Halo Reach is first. Includes multiplayer.

Wouldn't those games be played by more PC users than Xbox because of servers not tied to Xbox service?

I would think so, plus you don't need to pay for XBL gold. I think the main appeal will be playing Halo with a mouse and keyword. It might revive the halo competitive scene...

Well I should be buying it and playing online. Not played a decent shooter in a while.

^Haha, I loved Fallout 3. Such a great post-apoc vibe, I have sunk about 150 hours into it and I still pop it in every now and then to roam the wasteland and fuck shit up. I played through the story as an absolute saint and then once I beat the game, I killed every single NPC in the game except for a few merchants. Haven't played 4 yet but it looks cool.

I don't know if anyone here ever played Portal or Portal 2 but they were both great next-level games IMO.

New Borderlands teaser trailer

Anyone playing this? Its very highly reviewed in the Xbox store and this trailer kind of reminds me of the good old days of gaming

My getting back into The Long Dark led to an amusing interaction the next day when I went to my board game group:

"How's it going?"
"Ugh, I didn't get much sleep, I stayed up too late last night because I got worms and was stuck inside drinking tea."

(03-27-2019 04:19 PM)BlastbeatCasanova Wrote:  ^Haha, I loved Fallout 3. Such a great post-apoc vibe, I have sunk about 150 hours into it and I still pop it in every now and then to roam the wasteland and fuck shit up. I played through the story as an absolute saint and then once I beat the game, I killed every single NPC in the game except for a few merchants. Haven't played 4 yet but it looks cool.

I don't know if anyone here ever played Portal or Portal 2 but they were both great next-level games IMO.

Fallout 4 catches a lot of flak but I really enjoyed it.... if you have the chance you should give it a go.

An the Portal games are both masterpieces for what they are

Well this was a totally new video gaming experience for me. I attached the review I tried to write for the Xbox market place at the bottom (for some reason I couldn't get the review to post on there)

I feel like I should have smoked a joint before this experiencing this game, however it was a amazing experience none the less.



My regular evening of FPS games with my friends was interrupted by a connection error. An somehow I ended up playing this Edith Finch game I acquired during some random Xbox sale to pass the time... an it was amazing. This game made me feel nostalgia for a place I have never been, a place that doesn't even exist. The atmosphere and score are top notch. The story grips a hold of you an keeps your attention. Certain aspects of the story really hit home for me as a older man who has lost some family and loved ones, yet it does it in a beautiful manner that left me more in awe than sad. I rarely leave reviews on here but I felt compelled to write this in hopes that maybe I can sway a few people who are on the fence to indulge in this experience masqueraded as a video game.

Struggling like hell with The Witcher (1) simply because it's running like absolute shit. Areas like the swamp are OK but the towns are borderline unplayable and prone to crashes which is causing me to spend more time restarting my PC than playing the game.

According to big brain persons on the interwebs the game runs on a "single string" which I'm attempting to interpret as a single core of a multi-core processor. I guess back in the day when it was released the tendency for gaming PCs was to to have high performance standalone chips and the game was coded with that in mind.

Feels stupid though. I have a machine that can basically run current gen AAA console titles but The Witcher fucking One lags it into the Boeing zone. Does anyone have a high end gaming PC from 2008 they want to lend me?

(03-28-2019 05:19 AM)Leonard D Neubache Wrote:  Struggling like hell with The Witcher (1) simply because it's running like absolute shit. Areas like the swamp are OK but the towns are borderline unplayable and prone to crashes which is causing me to spend more time restarting my PC than playing the game.

According to big brain persons on the interwebs the game runs on a "single string" which I'm attempting to interpret as a single core of a multi-core processor. I guess back in the day when it was released the tendency for gaming PCs was to to have high performance standalone chips and the game was coded with that in mind.

Feels stupid though. I have a machine that can basically run current gen AAA console titles but The Witcher fucking One lags it into the Boeing zone. Does anyone have a high end gaming PC from 2008 they want to lend me?

There must be some other issue. The newer multicore CPUs also have better performance per core.

Yeah, I'm not sure. It's a common problem and there are varied explanations. It might make sense if it's running off the same single core as windows and everything else. Dropping the settings to potato mode seems to have helped but only a bit. I'm resigned to simply slogging through it at this point.

Worth it in one sense. It's given me a far greater appreciation for TW3 and I'm really looking forward to starting a new play-through of that once I get finished with 1 and 2.

Does anyone have an opinion on the books?

It's not always the hardware that causes crashes and slowdowns.

I have a relatively powerful PC, but it's a few years old now. It started crashing regularly on things like star citizen, then after a while it crashed on pretty much all games.

I opened it up, disconnected all the fans and the water cooling radiator and the gpu, thoroughly cleaned them and now it runs everything at the highest settings without a stutter, and is whisper quiet.

All it cost was a bag of cotton wool balls and some alcohol, both for cleaning and drinking.

Give it a try.

(03-28-2019 06:12 AM)Leonard D Neubache Wrote:  Yeah, I'm not sure. It's a common problem and there are varied explanations. It might make sense if it's running off the same single core as windows and everything else. Dropping the settings to potato mode seems to have helped but only a bit. I'm resigned to simply slogging through it at this point.

Worth it in one sense. It's given me a far greater appreciation for TW3 and I'm really looking forward to starting a new play-through of that once I get finished with 1 and 2.

Does anyone have an opinion on the books?

I've read the first two, which are collection of short stories involving Gerald and his companions. From the third one it begins to have a greater plot which is then build upon in the later books.

I can recommend the first two ones. After reading them it's a whole new world for appreciation when you realize little references to the stories in for example Witcher 3.
Many fans think Witcher games are fanfic compared to the original books.