🎮│game

[outer pollen]

So no Roms?

[pure bear]

nintendo is a lawsuit company first game second 😴

[drifting rose]

man they're going scorched earth now

[pure bear]

yea they rae

[drifting rose]

so this is about a custom firmware for the switch, but they threw in a couple emulator sites for good measure

[pure bear]

even vimms lair is looking kinda bleak

urgh

[feral drum]

good thing i got my hands on Yuzu before it was too late

[outer pollen]

Noooooo

One of my go to sites

[pure bear]

yeah

[bleak pike]

well ok then

[proper basin]

Huh

[vapid lintel]

Pleasant lanaposting forknife

[pure bear]

yeah waht am i looking at

[rancid hearth]

Forklift

[trim rock]

First person mode

[vapid lintel]

How innovative

[pure bear]

no way

truly revolutionizing the genre

[outer pollen]

And Halo is adding third person the future is now

[willow quiver]

w/l?

[vapid lintel]

A writer writing about writing, classic Rimworld

[still spire]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/778887485400154132/1292110200815222824/Screenshot_20241005-150126.jpg?ex=67028ae6&is=67013966&hm=a11f738b8dd399675e5528e0760024c74cecb03e54ac42572d5f75eb7788a0a4&

[pure bear]

👀

[orchid prism]

Yet another Chinese/Korean FMW dating game.

[nimble current]

lgbt themes, put it on the woke list

[still spire]

DEI Approved

[pure bear]

is lesbian stuff ok in poohs empire?

ig it frees up men to storm the beaches of taiwan

[orchid prism]

Probably Taiwan since they have a Discord.

[verbal nymph]

Isn't it Japanese?

[orchid prism]

Now that you mention it.

[nimble current]

trap steamers seem kinda popular in china

[orchid prism]

First one out of Japan I've seen. It's spreading.

[verbal nymph]

Gotta get more lonely men's money

[fringe salmon]

mansen clearly hasnt played any yakuza game and it shows

[orchid prism]

Indeed - Barely know what Shenmue is as well.

[fringe salmon]

does that have dating games inside? idk those games either

[proper basin]

Alan wake

[fringe salmon]

ohh almost forgot the dlc for aw2 is coming this month, gotta keep an eye on that

[drifting rose]

yesterday I googled Starfield and learned that a story DLC was released for it 4 days earlier, insane to think bethesda occupies such low relevance atm

[vapid lintel]

Apparently the DLC is crap

[proper basin]

Yeah it’s really badly rated

By even the starfield fans

[vapid lintel]

I have looked at it precisely 0 amount

Ostensibly because Bethesda has made themselves irrelevant to me

[proper basin]

Only thing bethesda touched ill care about will come from iD

[drifting rose]

so the majority of people who don't care about starfield won't play it, and the few people who like starfield don't like it

brilliant!

[proper basin]

Todd howard the genius

[drifting rose]

you can see he went to chess club

[vapid lintel]

Can trace the enshitification right back to the horse armor DLC

[nimble current]

that starfield dlc is such an insult

[vapid lintel]

To whom?

[nimble current]

30 bucks for what essentially should have been in the base game already

[proper basin]

Everyone, for just existing

[pure bear]

modern gaming

[vapid lintel]

Tak's fax

[quiet vault]

ye the missions arent great

[drifting rose]

I'm still holding my breath for TES 6. Fo4 was rightfully criticized but sold well. starfield is estimated to have sold about 3 million copies against a budget of 400 million, so they have neither critics nor sales numbers in their favor now. either way it puts pressure on them to make a good game next time around

[vapid lintel]

Have they stopped developing ESO yet?

[proper basin]

Didnt they say es6 just went into preproduction

[nimble current]

its gonna suck guaranteed

[proper basin]

After the starfield dlc

[drifting rose]

they have to work on tes 6, what else are they gonna do

[nimble current]

todd's ideas are stuck in the early 2010s and his lead writer is the hack of hacks

[proper basin]

The writing is so bad

[nimble current]

talentless narcissist who thinks making an rpg as dumbed down as possible is the way to go

you're not making call of dooty here fellas, you're making a game for nerds

or at least you were

[vapid lintel]

All I want is for choices to matter in the sense that there are different ways to experience the same game, and for those experiences to tug on my heart strings

[proper basin]

And also a good game

[vapid lintel]

Eh I can live with mediocre game mechanics if there's a compelling narrative

[proper basin]

Mmm I can agree with that

[still spire]

https://i.imgur.com/2OQTw1m.mp4 Alan Wake Flashlight

[drifting rose]

plane troller 3000

[vapid lintel]

Wow

I feel like you could use that to push a satellite

[still spire]

Battery lasts 12 hours, take that Mr Wake

[orchid prism]

Tell me you want to get tackled by police without saying

[fringe salmon]

rather the police than mr scratch

[still spire]

They'd have to be able to see you first.

Permanent retina damage

[orchid prism]

[still spire]

Need that flashlight in a horror game

"Oh no I can only see this limited cone of view with my flashlight"

[pure bear]

they are the only ones who get to blind people after all. 🔦 🐷

[still spire]

BOOM

[drifting rose]

just like that great game alone in the dark illumination

[still spire]

https://greatermarts.com/products/explosive-brightness-super-bright-tactical-flashlight-100w-gt60-long-range?variant=43227426324611 have your own

[vapid lintel]

Lighting distance of half a kilometer lol

[drifting rose]

this would be cool to have on a festival tbh

[verbal nymph]

ehh, good enough

[still spire]

https://greatermarts.com/cdn/shop/files/S73616b7fe3884b789421add0a894a399a_1024x.jpg?v=1685137399 ????

[drifting rose]

only needs a bajonet mount

[still spire]

Well hey, a laser sight too

[drifting rose]

so you can see where you aim the light cone, yeah

[vapid lintel]

If it's not banned in California then I don't want it

[still spire]

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/100855/ubisoft-director-blames-gamers-says-theyve-been-exposed-as-non-decent-humans/index.html

[drifting rose]

?????

[nimble current]

they're using the bethesda defence

[drifting rose]

what the fuck is he smoking? CIGARETTES?

[nimble current]

"your game sucks" "no u"

[drifting rose]

````Ubisoft's continuous downward spiral is seemingly only gaining speed, with the latest speed boost coming from the company Monetization Director for Ubisoft, who```

[nimble current]

gamers should be comfortable with getting gaslighted

[vapid lintel]

Ubisoft would never gaslight anyone, quit imagining things

[nimble current]

[hardy merlin]

omfg

[nimble current]

they really are desperate at this point aren't they

[vapid lintel]

I'll tell you how: by being objectively bad for the entire industry

[drifting rose]

the tears of these parasites are my lubrication

[nimble current]

https://tenor.com/view/starship-troopers-paul-verhoeven-robert-heinlein-only-good-bug-is-a-dead-bug-its-afraid-gif-23642454

[pure bear]

"monetization director"

[hardy merlin]

So how's that Players Should Get Comfortable with Not Owning Games going?
Still, I am amazed they have director of subscriptions and director of monetization

[pure bear]

hes the devil himself glad he hates me

[vapid lintel]

I am extremely comfortable with not owning Ubisoft games

[nimble current]

blowing up in their faces epically is how its going

[still spire]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GZDk7tLbYAAnyjh.jpg?name=orig

[nimble current]

I'll be opening a bottle of that fine vintage ubisoft tears when they finally collapse

[silver garden]

Tencent ready to purchase Ubisoft but they see another fuck up:

[still spire]

Haha

[pure bear]

man thats so not quadruple A of him

[vapid lintel]

My heart goes out to the people who work at Ubisoft. My advice to them is to jump ship before its too late.

[drifting rose]

thanks for posting this, made my day

[still spire]

Good good

[silver garden]

They shouldve jumped ship about 7 years ago.

[cursive dragon]

What next, Ubisoft removing all our games from our libraries?

Oh well, 🏴‍☠️

[vapid lintel]

Sure, but it's myopic to think that they've not been brainwashed into thinking that they can affect change from within

[hardy merlin]

True, but still, lots of passionate people will lose their job due to nothing more than mismanagement

[fringe salmon]

while there is a good chance something that stupid got posted, it is linkedin after all, why is there no link to the original message, it's not on linkedin at this time and nobody has an archive link or anything to it, all just the same screenshot?

[drifting rose]

we didn't set things up this way

[fading spade]

Yeah, its hekin bad :/

[rancid hearth]

you can only make so many mistakes before anybody is willing to accept an apology

[hardy merlin]

And it's not fault of consumers
Company tries to sell supply where there's no demand

[nimble current]

ubisoft thinks they deserve respect when they've done nothing but disrespect its fans for years and years

[hardy merlin]

Nothing more than fucked around and found out

[cursive dragon]

If they don't want to listen to the community, they are goners

R6 is a good example too

[silver garden]

I do find it funny how a company can make a shit product, tell their customers to "fuck off, you entitled brats" and just get away with it.

[cursive dragon]

Year 9, total shit show

[pure bear]

i hope ubi implodes

[vapid lintel]

Pretty sure they're well on their way to do just that

[pure bear]

yeah

[drifting rose]

the getting away with it part has just stopped working for them

[pure bear]

https://tenor.com/view/sad-upset-violin-sponge-bob-mr-crab-gif-3530280

[silver garden]

Don't worry, the person who said that will get away with it.

[drifting rose]

it's cathartic

[cursive dragon]

Their own decisions on each games are getting worsen

[drifting rose]

my rage is directed at the company at large, not individuals

[silver garden]

Fair.

Tencent acquiring Ubi will be the best outcome for them. I just hope they will purge those responsible for running the company into the ground in the first place.

Microsoft did not have the balls to do that when they bought Activision.

[nimble current]

we need another video game industry crash tbh

the fucking investor driven profit machine mentality needs to gtfo

[silver garden]

I am pretty sure it's already crashing but it just doesn't matter. Nobody cares and so nothing changes.

[nimble current]

its the same with movie/tv show studios really, its all about pushing out that cOnTeNt

[hardy merlin]

To be honest, it must be fun to be executive of public company
All you have to do is kiss ass and know how to breathe, and easy money

[nimble current]

grey personality-less sludge ment to be consumed once then never looked at again

[silver garden]

One game after another is selling poorly or flopping entirely. But apparently they do somehow make enough money back to keep this whole trend rolling.

[fading spade]

This applies to all industries these days :/

[nimble current]

its a gradual decline, they can't keep this up forever

[hardy merlin]

It won't happen
Some consumers will defend multi-billion corporations to their death

[fading spade]

even vital ones like healthcare .-.

[silver garden]

It's not even about the defenders. It's about the people that don't care.

50 year old dads that don't even know what "Ubisoft" is, see a Star Wars game for their PS5 at home and buy it without a second thought because they watched SW as a kid.

[nimble current]

there will always be the brainlets that just keeps buying trash because new and shiny like the cod or fifa fans

but these companies are all about that eTeRnAl GrOwTh

and that ain't happening anymore

[silver garden]

Then they lie about it still happening. And the cycle continues.

It's not like an average investor is gonna fact check all of that.

And that's how shit like this is getting made.

[drifting rose]

this must be what Olga the Saint felt like when she burned that town alive

[grizzled bramble]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2720950/Grunn/ This has released now

Steam

Grunn

You’ve been hired to do some maintenance work on a garden deep in the Dutch countryside. There’s plenty to do: trim the grass, water the flowers, pick up trash, and of course enjoy the lovely scenery. There’s also a small town nearby if you’d like a stroll. Except… Most of your tools are missing. The owner isn’t around. Going out after dark is ...

Price

$9.74

▶ Play video

[hardy merlin]

[proper basin]

Balatro maxing

[still spire]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7gRyaCxe-8

[maiden tulip]

My brother is hella stressed about how things are internally so are a lot of his colleagues

Mood is grim

[drifting rose]

interesting, I'll be waiting for the reviews. the interiors remind me of andrej zulawski's possession

[pure bear]

its always the lower ranks that suffer. plenty of honest coders and artist will feel the mistakes of the higherups

[maiden tulip]

Sadly

The higher ups won't feel it

[pure bear]

always been that way

[little cape]

me too and wishing for EA downfall as well

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1689620/BLEACH_Rebirth_of_Souls/

Steam

BLEACH Rebirth of Souls

Awaken the blade within you and reverse your fate in BLEACH Rebirth of Souls! Engage in thrilling battles with powerful sword abilities and characters from this legendary anime franchise.• Unleash Your SwordChoose your favorite character and unleash their unique sword abilities! Take advantage of each character's unique abilities and command the...

Release Date

Coming soon

▶ Play video

in honor of bleaching anime returning today

[pure bear]

oh part 3 comes today?

[silver garden]

I finally managed to convince my roommate to play DOOM. And today he is on the last level. I was surprised that he actually got this far on his own (he usually abandons new games after a day in the rare times he does try one out).
But well I found out why. He is playing it while in a group Discord call. I watched him play a level and he was asking me some mundane questions about the story and why he is where he is which are clearly explained in the game. Basically he is not paying attention whatsoever and effectivelly missed half of the experience.
The brainrot has fully consumed him and looks like there is no way back.

[little cape]

yeth tak

https://tenor.com/view/hallelujah-dance-anen-preach-happy-gif-21263340

[orchid prism]

Doom has a story?

[deft bloom]

half of the experience.. in doom.. ehhh

[drifting rose]

I was like that, gets better with age

[silver garden]

Honestly, Doom's story is pretty good.

[nimble current]

yeah and its trash 2016 had some good voicelines though

[silver garden]

But at least knowing the context for why you are doing what you are doing might be a good idea in general.

[nimble current]

to be fair nobody really plays it for the story

[drifting rose]

the best thing about 2016's story was the doomslayer's utter disregard for it

he slams an exposition panel into a wall 5 minutes in and interrupts voice calls by just getting the mcguffins out of the computers with violence

[nimble current]

dooms main premise of getting cheap electricity from hell is a pretty amusing one though I'll give it that

[maiden tulip]

Dude who complains about FF's story says doom has a good story... holy shit

[proper basin]

Ultrakill

[nimble current]

to be fair FF makes no fucking sense either

[proper basin]

But fuel

[maiden tulip]

But at least it has content doom is barely a pretext to get you to shoot shit

[nimble current]

yeah its like the game is self-aware enough to take the piss out of its ridiculousness and I like that

[drifting rose]

the sequel went right back to sucking itself off about its storyLORE

[nimble current]

yeah eternals approach wasn't nearly as good

[drifting rose]

I really hate lore now

or rather, when it's the be-all end-all of storytelling, lore is good as window dressing and wallpaper

but lore has no heart

[drifting rose]

I got into Space Marine 2 now but I wish the TAA/DLSS could be disabled, middle distance objects look myopic

[feral drum]

[orchid prism]

https://youtube.com/shorts/RmRzTMwPOjs

[feral drum]

imagine you're deciding to play some JC3 just for fun and suddenly you're encounterin that NPC...

[nimble current]

as much flaws as FO3 had and how little it resembled the older franchise titles it did offer you quite a lot of freedom to play as you wanted I'll give them that

[feral drum]

like holy crap... Took me 15 minutes to do the perfect zoom in

[drifting rose]

flat ass society

[little cape]

what game is this lmfao

[feral drum]

Just Cause 3

[little cape]

oh shit i forgot they made a third one

i played the second fun and had alot of fun with it

[feral drum]

They nailed it with the 3rd entry, but 4 was disappointing

the only part worth playing was the Agency DLC

[fading spade]

https://youtu.be/LfOcIcIYodY

[nimble current]

didn't know mudahar was a fellow star citizen masochist

[feral drum]

he was for quite some time, but never dropped some big money

and even then he still questioned a lot of things the devs did

[nimble current]

so do most people in the community that aren't still copers and chris roberts zealots

[gusty oar]

anyone here play fear and hunger

[fading spade]

I tried and failed miserably.... 😢

[outer pollen]

I love the clown show that is that community

[gusty oar]

awww
i adore it

i just beat 2

good game

[narrow cobalt]

Does anyone want to queue for Valorant right now? EU,Plat.

[outer pollen]

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/100855/ubisoft-director-blames-gamers-says-theyve-been-exposed-as-non-decent-humans/index.html

Idk how credible that site is with a name like that lol

[fringe salmon]

well the source is a twitter grifter who uses a screenshot of a supposed linkeding post that doesnt exist

could be deleted, could be made up idk,

[outer pollen]

I want to believe

[still spire]

https://fixupx.com/DmawDev/status/1842630765957255239

https://tenor.com/view/sushi-ben-sushiben-vr-game-playstation-vr-gif-13354971646949098176

[ionic trout]

lol

[still spire]

https://www.thegamer.com/ubisoft-is-reportedly-planning-to-release-10-assassins-creed-games-in-five-years/

[floral hazel]

First time texturing a model that is realistic opinions would be appreciated (yes i know the wood is screwed up)

[fallow bronze]

Too smooth, too clean

[willow quiver]

https://youtube.com/shorts/Ir9-XDNtqvA?si=p1D976TgO_K61VGO

[still spire]

So bad

Looks nothing like an AK

The machining is all wrong!

[verbal nymph]

An alien recreation of an AK

[pure bear]

https://youtu.be/CJ94gOzKqsM "1 schizo makes better minecraft" is one of my top genres of videos

[heavy gull]

lmao

[feral drum]

[nimble current]

ew forza horizon

[pure bear]

yuh

max0r energy

i especially like the 10 miles = 8km conversion

without comment xD

[heavy gull]

i was laughing the whole way through

[still spire]

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Final-Fantasy-XVI-review-Laptop-and-desktop-benchmarks.897863.0.html

[keen bane]

Hi does anyone have the best settings for fortnite with wooting 60he please

[fringe salmon]

https://tenor.com/view/preference-glarses-mx-brown-cherry-mx-brown-keyboard-gif-21044520

[sinful cobalt]

why is it soo hard to play the game and set the settings on your own

[trim rock]

Because if you copy the settings the pros use that'll boost your own gameplay

[keen bane]

I mean settings that I wouldn't know how to activate for example

[bleak pike]

He's new my dude

[sinful cobalt]

like what

[keen bane]

I don't know but I heard that certain things were not allowed on certain games

[fringe salmon]

Open wootility, look at the setting and try out

[sinful cobalt]

SOCD and Rappy snappy is only banned in cs

i think DKS only banned in OSU i dont know other games

[unkempt ocean]

osu too

[sinful cobalt]

ah true xd

[fringe salmon]

Doesn’t change that it’s not good? If it’s just the texture aka the model exists already it’s just some metal colored mush

Looks like it might be missing a height map and such but idk if it’s for a skin or engine or what the limitations are etc.

[charred falcon]

anything that does extra inputs per action or reverses inputs is not allowed by peppy

[light shuttle]

https://medal.tv/games/counter-strike-2/clips/iOXWUJ4I9FCmdFD2P?invite=cr-MSx2NWgsMTkxNjE1Nzg0LA

[fading spade]

OMFH I LOVE THIS XD

[still spire]

Yes, gives big Kafka vibes.

[fading spade]

https://youtu.be/2pFwQiwRbcg

[feral drum]

i fucking hate Forzas stupid physics...

[outer pollen]

Being able to link warframe to steam is insane

[trim rock]

Only took them 11 years

[outer pollen]

Better late than never lol

[trim rock]

Seems they also fixed achievement syncing so I suddenly unlocked a shitton of achievements

[outer pollen]

Yeah I just unlocked the deflect 10,000 rounds

Yeh been playing since like 2013 my regret was not getting the founders

[grizzled bramble]

GOW : Ragnarök ✅

Some difficult optional bosses in this game sheesh

Reminds me when i didn't know anything of Grandia and went for some optional boss very unprepared

Alan Wake II DLC should release soon™️

[hardy merlin]

Wake me up when it's on Steam

[sinful cobalt]

i still have to play the first game

[fringe salmon]

nah I never touched AW1 and AW2 is great even without knowing anything

[sinful cobalt]

[fringe salmon]

oh I mean if you have it might as well give it a shot

[fading spade]

I dont like the combat in AW1....

[outer pollen]

I love AW1

But then again I didn't even give 2 a chance

[fading spade]

I like the game overall just not the combat

[fallow bronze]

Ooh i should play Alan wake 1 again

[fading spade]

tbf, I only played AW1 to fully understand the shit going on in the Control DLC I played already

the AWE Expansion in Control is all about the events of Cauldron Lake

[grizzled bramble]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHfs75K-y4w Will probably play as Estevez here

[fallow bronze]

American nightmare was strange

[crystal juniper]

never doubt the t1 worlds buff @unkempt ocean

[south basalt]

If I put Fortnite on the list it would be unfair

I have more hours on Fortnite than any other game 😭🙏🙏

Haven’t finished playing it so I can’t rate yet 🙏

Nuh uh

[brazen cradle]

twinn

[hardy merlin]

Bro, you so old, that yo reflex so slow it took you 3 days to notice and respond

[south basalt]

My brother just another me

[south basalt]

wtf

[south basalt]

Thank you my goat

[brazen cradle]

anytime

[tranquil salmon]

I felt like the giant zoom in on every enemy kinda ruined some of the horror vibe

[gusty oar]

it’s worth it in my opinion, there’s so much you don’t see, i looked up vids up and down and still get my absolute ass handed to me

there’s also the maso mode in 2 and terror and starvation in 1 which are brutal as absolute fuck
it’s blisteringly hard even for people who are good at the game

but of course i respect your opinion and don’t want to force you into it, i just know myself since i was obsessed with it long before getting a pc

[vapid lintel]

I question the legality of this and if it is not legal then it is against Discord's ToS, which means posting it here is 0 tolerance

[astral dirge]

yo what was that

[vapid lintel]

I just said that it was against the Discord Terms of Service, it is not to be discussed here in any capacity.

[deft bloom]

GAME

[drifting rose]

noice. glad to be proven wrong about my assumption that the SH2 remake will be bad. I had less than zero trust in Konami not fumbling it

[hardy merlin]

[sinful cobalt]

i love the Cherry blossom trees

[buoyant osprey]

I dislike everything I have seen so far in terms of cutscenes and voice acting and partially character designs.
I hate that they went for the generic Sony™️ third person over the shoulder camera gameplay.
The soundtrack is a downgrade.
But at least the game is probably enjoyable because I like horror games.

[drifting rose]

eh, I don't want to be one of those people who nitpick everything

it's not one of those weird reinterpretations that change the whole heart of the story, like movie adaptations usually are

I'll make my final judgement when I play the thing but for now I'm glad it stands on its own at least

[deft bloom]

https://www.eurogamer.net/silent-hill-2-remake-wikipedia-page-locked-after-salty-fans-try-to-rewrite-its-critically-acclaimed-reception this you?

[drifting rose]

rofl

[buoyant osprey]

No.

[deft bloom]

No.

[silver garden]

3rd person horror games just don't work imo.

I never understood the point.

[proper basin]

Dead space

[deft bloom]

try some mushrooms, might expand your horizons

[buoyant osprey]

They went for the most generic option possible.

[silver garden]

Yeah. Sure gonna take a lot of drugs to enjoy that garbage.

[deft bloom]

I'm talking about fixing your mind

3rd person = garbage is one of the takes of all time for sure

[silver garden]

My mind is all good intact, thanks for your concern.

[deft bloom]

still seems to be in a negative swirl, can't convince me

[silver garden]

You may want to take reading classes again. Clearly reading is not your strongest skill.

[deft bloom]

I'll have you know I graduated the top of my class in readership of shit takes

[drifting rose]

ylilauta qualifies as such a place

how were the og SH games not third person btw

[hardy merlin]

[deft bloom]

fixed camera was popular at the time, easier to manage with limited resources

[hardy merlin]

Wat's happening here?

[drifting rose]

cämera was not fixed though, it followed you through large parts of the game and sometimes switched angles

[buoyant osprey]

Idk what to call the camera in original SH. It's not hard fixed like RE. You can move the camera in all the originals.

[deft bloom]

you can wiggle it a bit, but it's still fixed in the sense that it stays where the game wants it to stay in any given point

[buoyant osprey]

Well you can't control it with joysticks or anything but you can make it face forward. Otherwise it moves around dynamically. Pretty good camera. At times it fixes itself completely sometimes to highlight something.

[deft bloom]

so is that what you're really saying, they should've had the camera like that? oh please

the only logical upgrade to still make it feel sh2 is to move to 3rd person

[buoyant osprey]

And now they went for the boring RE remake one. Which sucks especially when a camera like the original would have been pretty unique today for a big release.

[buoyant osprey]

Yes.

[deft bloom]

and it would've been shit like it was back then

[buoyant osprey]

That's just like, your opinion d00d

[deft bloom]

indeed, but mine's actually better than yours so whatever

[buoyant osprey]

It's funny how angry some people seem to get over actually preferring things in older games.

[deft bloom]

angry, I guess, is your go-to word when you try to play down whoever you're talking to

[hardy merlin]

I'm just waiting to see who gets the timeout

[deft bloom]

it's just funny to me, I played sh2 on my old ps2 a few months back and the camera is one of the worst things about it honestly, even if it's fixed it doesn't focus on anything you're doing properly

[pastel bolt]

Was sh2 the game with tank controls or am i thinking about something else?

[proper basin]

Pass the popcorn

[buoyant osprey]

I would argue you're the one who started by saying your opinion is better.

[deft bloom]

it had them too, but you can switch luckily

[buoyant osprey]

SH1 has tank controls. Classic RE does too.

[harsh widget]

what's this sophisticated ass argument

stop typing properly

[deft bloom]

don't argue then, it's just objectively a bad camera. of course they could've made that better, but it's clearly a good decision to modernize the gameplay like that (moving to 3rd person)

[pastel bolt]

Oh yea I must've been thinking about RE

[hardy merlin]

And I will end this by saying if you continue, you'll both get a bit of time to cool off

[buoyant osprey]

I don't see how you can call it objectively bad. But if you're gonna act like that there's no point in talking with you.

[harsh widget]

all of this proper punctuation is pissing me off how do people argue like this

where's the ANGER

[deft bloom]

the anger is in the passive aggressive .

[drifting rose]

the accusations of being hitler are between the lines

[buoyant osprey]

I always use punctuation.

[deft bloom]

and I'll always judge you for it

[buoyant osprey]

I doubt you ever did until now.

[hardy merlin]

[harsh widget]

can we hug it out

stop the violence

[hardy merlin]

Hugs!

[pastel bolt]

Are there any modern games with static camera and tank controls?

[hardy merlin]

Let's talk about something else, like shitting on Ubisoft, that's always fun

[buoyant osprey]

Indie games yes.

[drifting rose]

not since RE4 no, so I wonder where the RE2 remake comparisons come from

those stopped after brexit unfortunately

[deft bloom]

30 years of typing on the internet has taught me that people who use punctuation and uppercase initials are stuck-up and not fun people, you're just the perfect of example of that with your negative rants

[hardy merlin]

Alright, that's enough, go to DMs if you want to bicker about it further.

[maiden tulip]

but my brother may lose his job 😦

[harsh widget]

https://tenor.com/view/splatoon-yippee-splatoon-yippee-yippee-splatoon-inkling-gif-27248967

[pastel bolt]

can we blame your brother for the shit ubi's been publishing lately?

[proper basin]

Woomi

[maiden tulip]

he's just a dev

[hardy merlin]

Blame executives and shareholders

[pastel bolt]

Tell him to make better games

[maiden tulip]

And like most of the others devs they don't like what's going on either

[maiden tulip]

They just do what they're told to do

Doesn't work like that

[harsh widget]

what is Hekki grace

[hardy merlin]

If the captain steers ship into rocks there's nothing much crew can do

[pastel bolt]

ik im just joking

[harsh widget]

4 key uwu when

[maiden tulip]

Its crazy the lack of communication at ubi

[buoyant osprey]

Idk

[maiden tulip]

Like... they are so disorganized

[harsh widget]

so why is it your bio

[pastel bolt]

Ubi is not the only big video game studio with that issue

[fringe salmon]

most people on the internet who complain like that are serious though, thats why any sort of public discourse is a shitshow about these topics

[maiden tulip]

Lower level employees have nothing to do with what's going on

[pastel bolt]

Real

[buoyant osprey]

It's something said in the game 1000xRESIST as an almost religious greeting. But I don't really know what it actually means.

[maiden tulip]

Sadly they'll be the ones who'll bear the consequences

Not the higher ups

[harsh widget]

what is it

nice which empress

is it your first glasspad

lol

what skates r u rocking

air or air pro

w

[sinful cobalt]

i could try out Super glides

yeah

As i have this

they were out of stock on the EU site so i bought it from korea

[pulsar prism]

Was available on ausmodshop and shipping from Korea was about $26 AUD

[sinful cobalt]

Why am i grinding R6 ranked xD

[pulsar prism]

Must have been real late they had stock like 4 months after it launched

[harsh widget]

w

x2h is best claw mouse

[harsh widget]

no

nononononononnononon stop

[sinful cobalt]

what can i loose

[pulsar prism]

All my superglides stay in the box where they belong

[sinful cobalt]

i mean i still love Roccat/TB feets

but the pulsar ones are nice

[pulsar prism]

V1 superglides will slow down to PTFE speed after a month and chew up your mousepad at the same time

[sinful cobalt]

[calm rune]

Good peripherals raise your skill ceiling, but what raises your skill floor?

[sinful cobalt]

yeah i have to stop on a win

i mean xD

[young hill]

For its 20th anniversary, Halo 2's infamous E3 2003 demo that never made it into the final game is coming to Halo: MCC

Source: Games Radar
https://search.app/?link=https://www.gamesradar.com/games/halo/for-its-20th-anniversary-halo-2s-infamous-e3-2003-demo-that-never-made-it-into-the-final-game-is-coming-to-halo-mcc/&utm_source=,sh/x/discover/m1/0

[quiet vault]

https://x.com/geoffkeighley/status/1843081255354810369?s=46

Geoff Keighley (@geoffkeighley) on X

Full 4K native resolution image of Master Chief in UE5.

Twitter · Oct 7, 2024, 12:09 AM

why does this look like fortnite

[smoky pewter]

i wanna assume there is little to no people here who play zzz or hsr or genshin but if there is hows your time going?

[still spire]

Genshi nis meh, ZZZ is btter but still too grindy. Honkai Star Rail is where it's at.

https://tenor.com/view/feixiao-hsr-honkai-star-rail-gif-7054801957826667690

https://x.com/GmanLives/status/1843114248958066831

GmanLives (@GmanLives) on X

So if you clip through the ranch at the start of the Silent Hill 2 remake you can find the comic sans font sign hidden away inside. GOTY.

Twitter · Oct 7, 2024, 2:20 AM

[smoky pewter]

BRUH XD

[smoky pewter]

pog

[smoky pewter]

i like all three been playing genshin for 4 years hsr 170days and zzz a month

i got hooked on hsr no plans on quiting ever and as for zzz not sure yet

[still spire]

They're not wrong

Anyways, yeah, ZZZ and Genshin do nothing for me, but HSR is great

We're also getting Fate as a crossover next year so that'll be awesome. Start saving now.

[smoky pewter]

bro i sweat too hard in hsr XD

i already max cleared all endgame i was slightly late tho

3 cycle moc 80k pf and 7400 on apoc

feixiao broken

[still spire]

No need to sweat it

She's not bad, yeah

[still spire]

Mine is decently geared up

[smoky pewter]

XD also in pf i tried lowering cycles it worked but wow

[smoky pewter]

mine is as well id say we are about equal in terms of dmg balancing

other then sig ofc

[still spire]

You got Signature, but yeah

[smoky pewter]

id honestly drop 20cd for 20cr

[still spire]

Nah

[smoky pewter]

the value of that cr will be more then the cd lost

[still spire]

You want 1:2

[smoky pewter]

i did the math before XD

1:2 is relative depending on how it works i suppose

[still spire]

My Acheron is also pretty good, but really sick of trying to make her better. It's just too grindy.

[smoky pewter]

dang i wish i had her

my other dps i plan to get e1 on a rerun just got lingsha on 5050

[still spire]

In combat she has closer to 95% CR with all her buffs in place

[smoky pewter]

and now sp is big issue

[still spire]

My Firefly ain't bad either.

[smoky pewter]

damn thats good

[smoky pewter]

my robin needs more work sadly

[smoky pewter]

damn nice build

[still spire]

Don't get my Robin on the stat thing right now but yeah

[smoky pewter]

i wanna push for 4k or above im on sig so having less then hurts ngl

[still spire]

Yeah you want to do that

[smoky pewter]

mine atm

still working on my teams and traces lol

winning to many 5050s hurt my mats supply XD

[still spire]

lol

[smoky pewter]

XD

i quit on release after not getting seele lost came back got ruan mei on 100%

quit came back on robin and dont plan to quit

[still spire]

I started last October

[smoky pewter]

oh dang so uh

i may have won too many 5050s jesus

[still spire]

It happens

I got luck with Acheron, insanely lucky.

[smoky pewter]

and whats funny is my lost 5050s went to himeko and bronya

which is legit the best case scenerio

[still spire]

Pretty good ones yes. Alright, gaming time.

[smoky pewter]

i wish you luck on future pulls.

[still spire]

Thanks, my streaks weren't that bad, but yeah

[smoky pewter]

if you saw my genshin XD

its soso

[earnest schooner]

that's right, the remake, time to install 😄

[floral hazel]

Opinions on how i could improve my animations would be appreciated :)

[novel umbra]

1: why is he so short
2: with the AK the gun doesn't seem to recoil, yet his head does

also why does he remove the mag, tilt it to the side where he can't see it and reinserts

[floral hazel]

He smol because the hdri was taken by a dwarf ig and i rushed the ak animation ngl only spent less than 1 hour on it

[novel umbra]

overall they kinda feel weightless

[fading spade]

I'm surprised it took this long for someone to make a detachable version of the Xperia Play controller !

Connects to phone with magsafe

[hardy merlin]

[fading spade]

Why doesn't Minecraft let you use your own XP to repair items enchanted with Mending???!!!!?????

Why must you go collect XP?
Why not let us use the XP we already have in our XP bar

[sinful cobalt]

bc it would be a smart ?

[fading spade]

Xd

[warped badge]

You can maybe do that with a datapack

[fading spade]

Oooooo yes we need this too

[orchid prism]

https://tenor.com/view/witchcraft-hunchback-of-notre-dame-frollo-animated-gif-19403567

[fading spade]

I remember when old PvP resource packs used to have connected textures like that which overflowed slightly to the blocks beside them

They had it on grass and sand and some other blocks

I miss it ..

[warped badge]

https://crkd.gg/products/neo-s-phone-mount

[outer pollen]

I had that psp phone for like a day

[fading spade]

I really wanted one back in the day xd

[still spire]

Ok so this Halo video made me laugh

[outer pollen]

what's that case called?

[still spire]

The one Microsoft talking about the switch to Unreal

The developers in it complain that when they were using their own engine, they had to be "Tech people, as well as video game people"

[fading spade]

M-con

It's only a prototype RN
https://youtu.be/J3969hkkFSE

[still spire]

And that unreal engine will allow them to focus on just video games

[outer pollen]

tyty

[still spire]

Bruh...being a video game dev IS being a tech person lol

[fading spade]

Xd

[still spire]

Future is bleak

[hardy merlin]

Not necessarily
You don't need to know how computer works to be a dev
Some people know only browser, IDE and that's it

But yeah, with all studios moving to Unreal, the future is bleak

[still spire]

It's just kind of a wild complaint to have as a video game developer

That you had to work with technology lol.

[outer pollen]

I was thinking of getting one of these https://eloesports.com/products/elo-vagabond-mobile-gaming-controller?Connector+Type=USBC

[fringe salmon]

What they mean are things like an artist who does only 3d models and textures needs to learn how to make that work in their custom engine vs using blueprints like their 3d software already does etc.

[hardy merlin]

Unreal is heavily unoptimized, they reinvented some rendering processes solely because they look "better", despite the fact all that has to be hidden behind a thick layer of forced TAA
And then people wonder why games look better with DLSS enabled - because of TAA

[fringe salmon]

It’s a common issue with custom engines to different degrees. Unreal even has direct links for autodesk3D and such so you directly see in engine what you change etc.

[buoyant osprey]

I know someone on Discord who worked Avalanche Studios and he said this about this:

Something I asked when I worked at avalanche studios group since they use their own engine for all games, Just Cause, call of the wild etc etc. the artists dislike the engine because unreal is easier to use and has all the graphical bells and whistles but there’s decent reasons the company uses it’s own engine;

• we couldn’t use epic launcher or unreal engine on our computers because of the data collection from tencent, a competing company.

• efficiency of the engine, avalanche has a specific kind of game, open world. The game engine we used was tailored to that and it was really good at it

• investors and stock. Apparently owning your own game engine is excellent for that. Something to do with being in full control and not having to give royalty fees to external engine companies makes it enticing for investors and shareholders.

• switching engines after decades of building up your own engine would be like burning all the time and money you invested and the company stocks would also plummet

Obviously the downside is you have to hire engineers to keep the engine up to date and iron out bugs over time. That and the onboarding process was more lengthy for every new game dev since we had to learn a completely unique set of tools but if you’re a big enough, well established company with a well built engine it makes sense to keep maintaining it instead of switching to unreal

Also unreal 5 right now has a really gross visual artefact when stuff is in motion. Static scenes look amazing but in motion right now is a no from me tbh. There’s a lot of debate about it right now from tech artists

(end of quote)

[small comet]

https://www.vintagestory.at/

holy

[orchid prism]

Hmm?

[small comet]

its minecraft but more realism and super hard mode

basically better than wolves but turned up to 20

[orchid prism]

Oh yeah it's great. How do you not know about it?

[small comet]

i only remember the mod

not the fullgame they made of it

[orchid prism]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5r5inx5j6A&list=PLpqg8xX2BI8VSBHAkH46oRBOlf1kJJNNs&index=1

It's imo even better if you disable all of the cthulhu shit and play it like a Stoneage to Iron Age simulator. Privatelime, a guy I follow who dives deep into sim games made an excellent story playthrough of it.

He also did a "naked in the arctic" playthrough, which is a lot more tense 😄

[fringe salmon]

we couldn’t use epic launcher or unreal engine on our computers because of the data collection from tencent, a competing company.
sorry what? what sort of data collection do they think happens there

[orchid prism]

Dev scaremongering. Wheeee

[fringe salmon]

the imo only valid point is 2, if you have a engine tailored for your usecase it can be much better than a generic catch it all, see RE engine doing well in RE games or doom

and then you have the classic Frostbite issue that EA had where it was hell to use that on everything because management decided thats a smart thing because "but it worked so well in BF3"

which is clearly the same sort of game as FIFA so just use it there too /s

[orchid prism]

Sure - But you're still spending a year or two making a custom fit engine. That's an investment you need to take into account.

[buoyant osprey]

Idk. I can ask him.

[fringe salmon]

please do

[fringe salmon]

yeah but example RE if you have more than one game you need to tweak any engine, custom or not for the same work and this way you have more options, not saying its always the best choice but it is a valid argument

3 and 4 is just points that might make the investors happy but will just hurt in the long run if it doesnt benefit from 2

[orchid prism]

Sure. It's a longterm investment.
If you hit a success with the first game, you have an engine that needs tweaks, not necessarily a complete rewrite. 🙂

[fringe salmon]

well it depends, in the example of RE2:R it was clear they would already remake RE3 for example so it was known beforehand

and sometimes if you already know your specific usecase it can be less work using a new/custom engine than replacing what you dont want in an existing one

hence it depends on what is going on but only point 2 is an actual good argument for a custom engine imo, with 3 and 4 depending on 2 working out

[silver garden]

https://wccftech.com/halo-has-multiple-projects-on-the-way-made-with-unreal-engine-5/

Halo is more dead than before.

[orchid prism]

Uh huh...

[pastel bolt]

my expectations are set so low there's no way they'll disappoint me again

[silver garden]

You heavily underestimate them

[proper basin]

Better than using modified bungie engine

Ill hold my breath til they release something

[silver garden]

Honestly at this point I believe Slipspace may be better than UE5

[pastel bolt]

Why'd they spend ages making their own engine if they're just gonna abandon it after one game

[silver garden]

Because big corporation

[fringe salmon]

because sometimes its better to cut losses and dont fall into sunken cost fallacy

[silver garden]

Make something, don't finish it, throw it away.
That's how they operate now.

[hardy merlin]

Because lots of people who can into UE5
You can hire people for short period of time to underpay them and avoid paying them benefits

[nimble current]

I feel like 95% of all games released will be using UE in a decade at this rate

[silver garden]

Also remember guys, it's Microsoft. They have access to the best game engine in the world.

And they still chose to go with UE5.

[proper basin]

That is also the industry way

[pastel bolt]

Why is it so hard to just make a fucking HALO, no matter what engine it has

[proper basin]

[fringe salmon]

or maybe its also just because internal devs said it's not nice to work with the engine and they dared to listen to their people

[silver garden]

There's gotta be some inside trading between Epic and all these studios. I do not believe that everyone just out of nowhere, before that engine even released to the public, unanimously agreed that UE5 is the best thing ever made and that everyone should abandon everything they had and use that thing from now on.

[pastel bolt]

Not call of duty: halo 4, not Arena gimmick shooter halo5, not f2p live service open world bs halo 6

[silver garden]

Hell, EA, who previously would publicly execute every company that dared to even think about not using Frostbite, has since then publicly stated that they will allow studios to use different engines. And of course they immediately paid the price for that.

[proper basin]

Thats why i will happily wait to see what they cook, ue5 might be a good step in the right direction for 343

Time will only tell

[outer pollen]

I got cat blankie

[proper basin]

[hardy merlin]

If only UE5 wasn't so much shite technologically...

[fringe salmon]

how can you even mention the EA frostbite mess and still think that it's a bad idea to allow other engines

[silver garden]

Yeah now watch them release a game that is somehow even more buggy and lacking in content than Infinite. It will happen.

[pastel bolt]

A fucking halo, with co-op campaign, multiplayer with actual content, custom games with forge and a theatre

with file share

[fringe salmon]

basically every single dev on any EA game that had frostbite forced onto them hated it and you act like the issues EA has come from them allowing other engines???

[silver garden]

https://gameworldobserver.com/2024/02/13/immortals-of-aveum-budget-125-million-poor-sales

[fringe salmon]

you seriously think that this is because they didnt use frostbite

[silver garden]

Of course. That was actually the only reason.

[fringe salmon]

what crack are you smoking

[proper basin]

Was a mediocre game to begin with, even without UE5

[silver garden]

The game is unrunnable and it looks like shit. That was pretty much the only complaint about it and so everyone did not even bother trying it out.

[fringe salmon]

yes because the “bloated, repetitive campaign that was far too long.” as quoted by the article is a consequence of the engine being used and not something that could happen in any engine

[pastel bolt]

Frostbite should be left for battlefields since only dice has enough experience with it

[silver garden]

And before the game release, you could see blog after blog of the devs jerking off to UE5. I was following the game's prelaunch it was bad. Very bad.

[fringe salmon]

That was pretty much the only complaint
so you didnt even read the article you post as argument

you just make up stuff and link to vaguely related things in the hope it fits your made up narrative without even reading what it says

[silver garden]

The article states what some of the developer thought about this situation. And what they think is entirely irrelevant.
Yes there were complaints about the game being too much like a cliche marvel movie. But it wasn't that big of a deal. You can watch reviews yourself if you don't believe me.

[fringe salmon]

And what they think is entirely irrelevant.
So the gamers who like it are irrelevant (87% of reviews on steam are positive), the devs who make the game are irrelevant just your god given insight is the truth?

[orchid prism]

[fringe salmon]

if their opinion is irrelevant why link it in the first place

[novel umbra]

the game looked like major slop and got bad marketing

[silver garden]

So the gamers who like it are irrelevant (87% of reviews on steam are positive)
When did I say that?

[orchid prism]

Well you called it unrunnable - Which a score of 87% positive doesn't appear to agree with.

[fringe salmon]

you said

The game is unrunnable and it looks like shit
which I think people would not like then?

[novel umbra]

+EA is not exactly looking to sell singleplayer beat and be done kinda things

[silver garden]

mhm, read again how many units the game actually sold.

[orchid prism]

No relevance to what you just replied to.

[novel umbra]

there is more to sales than just a good game

[silver garden]

And honestly, I do believe that the game is at least good. I had interest in it myself and would've bought it had it not been for the performance issues.

[novel umbra]

also the steam version doesn't suffer from the issues that certain console releases had

[silver garden]

But you can see that if you do everything in your power to make the game as technically poor as you can, it can backfire. Not always, but it can happen.

[bleak pike]

Are we on about ue because of halo?

[novel umbra]

• game was in gamepass day one iirc, which hindred direct sales

[bleak pike]

Because ngl it's ugly af

[fringe salmon]

no we are on about ary having shit takes

[proper basin]

It did start from halo though

[fringe salmon]

It appears that Immortals of Aveum was “massively overscoped” for a debut project from a relatively small studio.
Same article still, and a tiny team would supposedly have done better working in a custom engine that would take time to get used to? Where if you needed new people they would have 0 experience so they need to learn first before being able to help?

[bleak pike]

Literally turning Halo into a generic unreal engine game

[silver garden]

Halo on UE5 is the absolute worste route they could've taken and I am somehow not surprised that that is exactly what happened.

[bleak pike]

I've lost all hope

[fringe salmon]

If anything UE5 stopped aveum from being even worse

[silver garden]

Assumptions.

[fringe salmon]

sorry, I forgot the devs saying its overscoped has no relevancy because they are only the devs and dont know what they are talking about unlike you

[novel umbra]

I don't see how frostbite would have helped

[silver garden]

Yes devs have been caught saying total nonsense very often. They are not always 100% right.

[novel umbra]

cause UE5 prob has the best dev tools out there atm

[silver garden]

Remember not too long ago Bioware devs saying you can't add flying in Frostbite? Very funny.

[novel umbra]

if you don't go fully custom with a MASSIVE budget and close to unlimited time

[novel umbra]

is this some random quote taken entirely out of context?

"you can't" often means "it's not implemented yet and a proper implementation would be more effort than the hacky one"

proper implementations in proprietary engines often take a lot of time

that is why you see so many hacky solutions in bethesda games

(I am looking at you tram-hat)

[fringe salmon]

clearly every single EA dev on non battlefield games, who pretty much all said being forced to work with frostbite is not a good idea, all have no clue and it would have fixed all the issues in aveum

[novel umbra]

I mean look at the jank that the frostbite need for speed games were

[silver garden]

Yes, obviously. What I means is that Bioware complained about it not being like a default feature of the engine and they would have to code the entire process from scratch. It is from Jason's report on Anthem's development.

[novel umbra]

don't see how that is in favor of using frostbite for more games

when UE5 is just a lot more flexible

[silver garden]

mhm and you see how that worked out.

[novel umbra]

I think anthem flopped even more

[silver garden]

Sure Frostbite is a very unstable mess especially in it's newer iterations (tho nothing is stopping them from going back to the 2016 version). But they chose maybe the only directly worse option that they had available.

Hell even going with Respawn's Source 2 would've been a better move at that point.

[novel umbra]

respawn didn't have source 2

also again, VERY customized

if they wanted that variation of source to do something else they would have required a lot of custom stuff again

[silver garden]

Respawn switched to UE4 for Jedi Fallen Order which was barely acceptable performance wise. Ok sure. Then after that they made Jedi Survivor which somehow ended up being worse than Immortals of Aveum.
Yeah, good move.

[fringe salmon]

so customized they still had RCE that got fixed in source just never in their version until muuuch later

[silver garden]

This is why I say Respawn's Source 2. Not just Source 2.

[novel umbra]

respawn had a customized source 1

[hardy merlin]

Respawn for all games used Source 1 that's very heavily mutated nowadays

[fringe salmon]

have you ever considered thats not on the engine but time/skill/management issue that would happen in any engine? and the "worse" engine like ue5 could have the issues fixed if they would spent more time on that, but still a ton less time compared to making it their own engine?

[silver garden]

Then we got BF2042 which is probably the worst of them all. Because you see, DICE got a very good idea to completely rework Frostbite when almost everyone who knows how that that thing works left the company. So they sat there breaking it for 2 years and then tried to hack the game together at the last moment.
Yeah, good move.
Just leave the fucking thing alone.

[fringe salmon]

wow so almost like you are saying not using frostbite would have been better there

[novel umbra]

you are aware that jedi fallen order might have had some features that they would have to backport into their essentially custom engine that basically was already on deaths door

[silver garden]

No, using BF5's version of Frostbite would've been better.

[fringe salmon]

when almost everyone who knows how that that thing works left the company
so you genuinely think its better to use a engine that nobody knows how it works, not upgrade it, do nothing new and use that over UE5

[silver garden]

That thing is nearly flawless and is so far ahead of UE that it will take Epic 3 more iterations to get on that level. It's only drawback is the forced TAA that they for some reason added on after BF1. But I am sure that can be reverted without much trouble.

[novel umbra]

sure buddy

I am sure if you throw that engine to a random dev team that never worked with it that will turn out flawless and won't cause any delay whatsoever

[novel umbra]

especially if they have to start fiddling around with it to make it at least somewhat fit their creative vision

nice render scale

[silver garden]

CPU bottleneck test

[hardy merlin]

I'm pretty sure that's Battlefield

[fringe salmon]

so using a 8 year old engine build = perfect and realistic
using UE5 and removing TAA renderpath if thats the issue = completely impossible and the only reason new games flop

[silver garden]

Yep. So far not a single UE5 game that did it well.

With only the Finals being kinda there... by using a custom version of UE5 made by Nvidia.

[novel umbra]

that HAS to be the relation

[fringe salmon]

if only, idk they had people that if that was the issue could moved from frostbite to unreal engine code and change that.. could call the role.. engine developer.. but I dont think EA has any of those, that could never happen so any bad happening now HAS to be from UE5

[silver garden]

We actually have Delta Force launching this year which is a direct Battlefield competitor that is using UE5. I have played the beta and yeah it's not even close to BF5.

[proper basin]

Isnt it currently using ue4 for the mp

[silver garden]

Of course gonna wait till launch but as decent as that game is, it still looks worse and runs worse.

[novel umbra]

and surely the issue is only the engine

not anything else

[proper basin]

[silver garden]

At this point nobody knows. Very late UE4 versions were very close to UE5. And it seems to use a lot of custom stuff too.

Funnily enough, the game applies AA to only some models I guess?
Basically you now have a game that is both blurry AND aliased. Truly incredible.

[novel umbra]

PURELY the fault of UE obv

[silver garden]

It's a good start no? Hard to build a house when the foundation is already broken.

[fringe salmon]

I remember my first UE4 project at uni, we wanted to make the story better but Tim Sweeney jumped out of a helicopter and broke our artists arms so we couldn't write a better story

[hardy merlin]

And not the fact that game publishers are selling unfinished houses, fix them haphazardly after selling and for access to certain rooms you have to pay extra?

[novel umbra]

should have asked for a frostbite sdk

[fringe salmon]

noo never, couldnt be that they spend 2x the dev costs in marketing instead of fixing glaring issues, that cant ever be the problem

[proper basin]

I hate shareholders

[still spire]

https://preview.redd.it/8outcvjss7td1.png?auto=webp&s=66e4fe961dce1bc2190fe4ab62b9e39f61e95f3e

[deft bloom]

this level of ue5 hate is unreal

[novel umbra]

I can't get over the name "hulkenberg"

[deft bloom]

this guy?

[orchid prism]

https://youtube.com/shorts/HbnVrBQzzXE

[deft bloom]

jrpg naming conventions are something that I need to actively work to get past if I want to get into anything

[still spire]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9mTwNMJydM

[dreamy rain]

[earnest schooner]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL2aReGmcuk

[quiet vault]

not bad

[digital dawn]

can’t wait for ary to pass by and say this looks horrible

[drifting rose]

yeah I'll uuh borrow it for sure when it comes out

[little cape]

this is tomorrow right early access?

[orchid prism]

Meh.

[deft bloom]

you don't like an insanely realistic tropical forest biome?

honestly it doesn't look very good aside from the foliage I guess

[orchid prism]

Doesn't blow me away, no. I've seen plenty of "life like" enough in recent years. The curve is flattening.

It's obviously not photorealistic.

[deft bloom]

the song is appropriate in the way how the insides of buildings actually look like skyrim

[orchid prism]

Much more impressed and intrigued by the "textures casting light and shadows" tech they showed off in their TedTalk show thing.

Who needs antialising in the first place.

[drifting rose]

SGSSAA SGSSAA I will never stop beating the SGSSAA drum

(but for what it's worth DLAA looks the least bad of the post-processing AAs)

yeah but it somehow looks nicer

only works on dx9 titles tho, on nvidia hardware

and you have to mess around with the profile inspector on windows

except this year, the dude who made DSfix ported some weeb game to PC and gave it official SGSSAA, first title ever to officially support it, more than a decade after it stopped being supported. fuckin insane

don't believe me? ||put ur finger in ur anus||

[deft bloom]

tried it, still don't believe you

[drifting rose]

even Ary likes it and Ary normally hates everything

[bleak pike]

Very doom like @proper basin https://youtu.be/Vm_UeYVOWFI?si=FHDQdrqYsUhCi2jo

[proper basin]

They cant keep pulling me back like this

[pastel bolt]

how many euro do i need to pay now to have all content open for that game

[silver garden]

Yep, they somehow made it look worse than in Infinite.

At this point i refuse to believe it's not intentional.

[deft bloom]

the ue5 is ABS, the latter PBT

[proper basin]

Obviously without doubleshot

[silver garden]

Ah finally someone who gets it.

When i saw Infinite cover art my first question was "why is he wearing a cosplay suit?"

That I see Halo UE5 my firs question is

"Why is this figure so low quality?".

https://youtu.be/kjN1eWhzPeA

Back then I thought that in 10 years games would look like this.
Oh how wrong I was.

But yes, please do buy the RTX 5090 for 2000$ to get an upscaled 60 FPS experience.

[fair gulch]

I know adjusting actuation points is a thing. but I cant help but do this anyways lol

[quiet vault]

What da

[deft bloom]

average apex player

[cold anvil]

I think its supposed to look like master chief from the Og Xbox game

[silver garden]

You can keep the design and make it more detailed than the base Xbox ye know..

[cold anvil]

For sure, I was just pointing out what it was supposed to be

[silver garden]

Meanwhile back in 2016

[velvet onyx]

@sinful cobalt #💬│general message oh really what drew you to 16?

[sinful cobalt]

I tried the demo

And i got hooked on it lul

[velvet onyx]

@drifting rose #💬│general message playing them all on console and yeah my grinding habits cry out for a fast forward button. looking forward to starting 6

[fringe salmon]

only played 14 and 16, love them

[drifting rose]

6 starts off slow but imo has the best story out of all of them

[velvet onyx]

Mm

[drifting rose]

far less grindy than 5 too

[velvet onyx]

I made the mistake of getting 1, 2, and 4 on PS1

those are kinda slowwww

[drifting rose]

Origins? yeah I played those versions

it was horrific, but I didn't mind

[velvet onyx]

For 5 I had to switch to advance about 3 hours in lol

[drifting rose]

I actually finished the PS1 versions of 5 and 6 in addition to the super nintendo ones, along with chrono trigger on PS1. I had way too much time on my hands, no wonder I got old so quickly

[velvet onyx]

chrono trigger is my #1 favorite game ever <3

Almost 10 years since I beat it for the first time. We never got it in EU until the DS version I believe, which I managed to scoop up

[drifting rose]

my ps1 save is probably still on a memory card somewhere, I had most of the endings. absolutely fantastic game

heh, I found it in the early 2000s, played on a 200mhz computer using ZSNES

then had to convert the PS1 isos into PAL format so my TV would play them

those were the times!

[velvet onyx]

heh I spent my youth emulating pokemon games mainly

Ugh I hate that I just can't bring myself to collect PAL games

[drifting rose]

the slowdown is insane

[velvet onyx]

I speedrun, tell me about it

[drifting rose]

and then it was vertically squished well into the first wave of PS2 games, see ff10

horrible!

[velvet onyx]

never noticed it as a kid but once you see it, Urgh

[drifting rose]

same as with flat panel input latency

if you notice it it will bother you forever lol

thankfully later PS2 games supported PAL60 mode in some cases, that was wayyy better

[deft bloom]

6 is by far my favorite too, nothing so far has come close imo

[drifting rose]

it's genuinely sad and mature stuff

[velvet onyx]

sometimes, lol

[deft bloom]

yeah it's insane how much emotion they were able to convey with just the sprites and some text

[drifting rose]

Rareware games had pretty good pal versions, with them being a european studio at least

so goldeneye wasn't fucked at least

[velvet onyx]

yeah sometimes you can count on european studios to get it right

pretty sure rockstar north didnt get the memo though, correct me if im wrong

[drifting rose]

it's weird that they never reached those heights again with better technology, I don't count the cheesy love story in 10 as anything but forced

much less 8, GOD

[drifting rose]

I do have the PS1 version for the first GTA somewhere, but that ran horribly in any region

later games, I genuinely don't remember

[deft bloom]

always hated 10, had to force myself to play through it

[drifting rose]

10 had some stuff that redeemed it, 8 was just so what the fuck I can't even fuck the what

they tried to make the main character an anti-heroic type but he just came off an unlikeable git, and that's the least of that game's problems

music was pretty good though

[proper basin]

Ff music is pretty good

[drifting rose]

oh fuck I just remembered the ff10 temples, that sucked

[deft bloom]

haha I enjoyed 8 when it released, but after a few years I couldn't play it again. still prefer it over 10

[drifting rose]

I haven't played any FF after 10 so I dunno if they ever got worse but I can't really imagine it

6 is the goat anyway

Chrono Trigger ranks about as high. mid-90s Square was unstoppable

[deft bloom]

skipped the online ones, 12 was really enjoyable for me though a lot of people seem to hate it. granted you could put everything on autopilot and go through the game without providing a single input yourself so that was kind of weird. 13 was not good, but still better than 10. 15 I skipped, 16 I liked quite a bit

I'd rate 12&16 higher than 8, but not as good as 9

[drifting rose]

hm. I wish I could still spend the time on a JRPG that swipes me off my feet, but I just don't have it anymore

[deft bloom]

that's the special something 16 had, the story gripped me and I enjoyed it, though honestly it fell a bit flat after midpoint but still fun to play

but yeah 6 still goat

hoping that Metaphor provides me that little extra something, guess we'll see on friday

[drifting rose]

also yes, 9 gets a honorable mention for being very decent

[fringe salmon]

16 is odd to describe because it has really high points but it's like you can only give it a 10/10 not 12/10 so the meh parts drag it more down than they should

[deft bloom]

the high points are really really high honestly, some of those pieces carry the whole game

[fringe salmon]

like the entire OST

and to think most of that must've been done when soken was still in the hospital given the timelines

[deft bloom]

I think he confirmed that
edit: and I thinkered wrong, he was talking about shadowbringers but yeah the timelines do add up so maybe he still did

[crimson basin]

If anyone plays the finals don't use snappy tappy they will ban you

[fringe salmon]

well it wasnt shadowbringers but the 5.3 patch specifically

[drifting rose]

FF music has some workmanship quality that's just a cut above the rest. sometimes melodies spring to mind out of nowhere, and I can imagine quite well what they'd sound like with different instrumentation. great stuff, grew up on it

[deft bloom]

truth

[fringe salmon]

thats also why I was extra mad one of the few TGA awards that got changed to not have any awards speech was OST, soken definitely deserved having 2 minutes of fame talking about that but alas it was just mentioned as winner

[proper basin]

Mother Crystal theme is magical

[drifting rose]

glad to know the tradition continued after I stopped playing them

[fringe salmon]

https://ffdistantworlds.com/concert/ always worth to keep an eye out if you ever want to indulde in the music again live

[little cape]

what game is this?

doom?

[silver garden]

Yes

[little cape]

hell yeah brother

ima be playing sparking zero while i wait for 343 to fumble halo 1 remastered

https://tenor.com/view/vegito-goku-vegeta-dragon-ball-dragon-ball-sparking-zero-gif-10241648057356877976

[proper basin]

https://tenor.com/view/beerus-gif-4803215263241364694

[velvet onyx]

ff5 bridge theme enters my mind regularly

[drifting rose]

you mention it and it pops into my head instantly

that bass line alone

[proper basin]

https://tenor.com/view/golden-sigma-mario-sonic-sonic-exe-sigma-blast-gif-8601329936421229796

wait i forgot i had this gif lmao

[drifting rose]

the organ part from Dancing Mad in FF6 for me a lot, you'll know what I mean when you get there

[deft bloom]

kefka <3

[drifting rose]

yeeees

[velvet onyx]

haha unfortunately i'm already spoiled on that song

[little cape]

https://tenor.com/view/bisous-gif-27702851

[sinful cobalt]

[proper basin]

https://tenor.com/view/gogeta-dbz-dragon-ball-gif-1735586848368892213

[little cape]

https://tenor.com/view/mui-goku-dbs-blast-gif-19922303

[outer pollen]

So cool

[outer pollen]

https://youtu.be/NdZVse2WKns?si=q_UV5PSq-_AuxpGw

[fringe salmon]

oblivion, classic

I do prefer return to oblivion though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfgfFKNlRKk

[outer pollen]

I remember getting thrown in here and no one knew wtf to do

Besides 1 of the tanks

[fringe salmon]

I'm so excited to hear this again in a few weeks when the new ultimate is coming haha

[outer pollen]

I haven’t played in a while, didn’t even beat post game shadowbringers and I own endwalker needa buy dawntrail

[fringe salmon]

oof, post game shb is sooo good

but hey, thats how the game is made, take a break when you want and it'll still be there

[outer pollen]

gotta get all my crafters back to level cap though

[fringe salmon]

eh, get msq and then you get more cafter quests from the expansions that makes crafter/gatherer leveling much better and has good stories

[outer pollen]

Their weight of the world prelude was god tier in ffxiv https://youtu.be/gPSOaSwdEaE?si=TuLO9oNf3H6D-92y

And nier is canon in ffxiv as well right?

[fringe salmon]

mhm it's very nice combination of two great osts

anything that has nier is canon

[outer pollen]

Gonna have to pick D2 back up

[proper basin]

Raid night

[outer pollen]

[still spire]

https://fixupx.com/zfg111/status/1843149709256577387?t=Fl3eLDewYTB7QU6BEraM3A&s=19

[proper basin]

Zfg my GOAT! 🗣️

[still spire]

Next, they're gonna find Mew under the truck.

Alien Isolation sequel is nice

[calm rune]

YoonJoon is a dope ass name

[little cape]

just saw the halo 1 remastered little teaser

man 343 changing their name to "halo studios" is hilarous, they got so much hate they needed to change their name💀

[pure bear]

https://youtu.be/c-OsGC025V8

[still spire]

DB Sparking is absolutely incredible as a Dragonball game

So much love and heart put into it. A lot of attention to detail. However...technically speaking, it is quite bad. 60FPS cap, no UW, shader compilation stutter, lack of AA.

60FPS cap can be modded out, but then you lose out on online if that matters. No UW mod yet, probably will be, Unreal Engine after all.

But there's 180+ characters and dozens of stages...each new character, attack, stage, ect, shader compilation. Stutterfest.

[hardy merlin]

Are we talking about this game?

[still spire]

Yep

We got Lip Sync in English, been awhile

Best Dragonball game since the PS2 era realy

[hardy merlin]

Iunno, that animations kinda reminds me of Sonic Adventures...

[still spire]

A good DB game, wil ltake what we can get.

FighterZ is a great fighter, but just a ok DB game.

[scarlet marlin]

i wanna play it

[fringe salmon]

That’s has to be paid actors, 93% positive on an UE5 game? I thought that engine automatically makes games bad

[still spire]

TO BE FAIR

It does run poorly and has constant traversal stutter.

[novel umbra]

you bet it would be 100% positive if it was in frostbite 3.0

[still spire]

But besides that it's supposed to be good 😛

Shader precompilation and traversal stutter are the words of the 2020s no doubt

[fringe salmon]

Watched almost a complete playthrough on twitch and it didn’t really stutter there ever

[still spire]

Maybe PS5 version?

[fringe salmon]

Nope

[buoyant osprey]

More importantly does it support 4:3?

[still spire]

Dunno ,perhaps the stream smoothed things out.

[novel umbra]

[fringe salmon]

I mean it obviously is only 60fps so it doesn’t show issues when it drops from 120 to 70 or something

[novel umbra]

they used the obs sdk to ignore bad frame pacing

[novel umbra]

still could show

[fringe salmon]

But usually you can still clearly see stutters

[novel umbra]

you typically don't drop from 120 to 70 without horrible pacing

[silver garden]

I have seen Silent HIll 2 getting made fun off online. What happened?

[still spire]

I'm sure DF will have a video on it at some point

[compact oriole]

which streamer with a starforge pc including a 4090 did you watch?

[fringe salmon]

You know I expected someone to say it had to be a 4090 but saying it’s from starforge is oddly specific

[compact oriole]

feel like when you go through the big streamers almost all of em have the "!starforge" shit in their title

thats why i brought it up

[still spire]

Man, Starforge looked like it was gonna be so cool

What a shame

[silver garden]

Yeah because that's a company founded by big streamers.

[still spire]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iENkY5P0GtQ

Minecraft...in space! With FPS Combat!

[compact oriole]

anyone who played recent d4 seasons or is gonna play the xpac?

[fringe salmon]

anyway I think he has a 3080? its not listed anywhere but I don remember him getting an upgrade

[still spire]

A 3080? He must be playing at 720p

With DLSS.

[fringe salmon]

but also a 4090 might make higher fps but it wouldnt fix shader compile stutter if it happens

[still spire]

The game is very heavy

[hardy merlin]

You mean unoptimized?

[still spire]

That too

But it's also a heavy game because pretty.

[fringe salmon]

also watched distortion2 try some things for strats he does have a 4090 but also keep in mind nobody does dual pc setup anymore so any stream hits games a bit still

[compact oriole]

thats news to me.. as far as im aware many big streamers do 2 pc setups still

[still spire]

Not me, I am a gigantic streamer and one PC.

[compact oriole]

i meant in many viewers.. not in being overweight

[fringe salmon]

I mean I guess im not watching certain sections of streams so maybe some areas still do but it's been much less overall

[hardy merlin]

I'm not a streamer, and... uh... some PCs

[still spire]

lol

[fringe salmon]

but yeah the game looks very pretty

[compact oriole]

i wouldnt go 2 pc setup unless its my actual job/livelyhood

[still spire]

CPU seems to not really matter in it

[fringe salmon]

wonder if DF can do a breakdown of how much fog and similar hurts if they find the tools to disable it, would be interesting to see

[still spire]

https://en.gamegpu.com/action-/-fps-/-tps/silent-hill-2-test-gpu-cpu

[buoyant osprey]

Disable the fog and release a HD collection 2.0.

[still spire]

This one is weird, the random VRAM usage being way higher

Significant uptik

[deft bloom]

hhuh

[hardy merlin]

Aaaaand 70€, fuck no

[still spire]

Platinum? Really? It can't do a stable 30 no matter what you do

[scarlet marlin]

what does plat mean? (not in the ps trophy kind of way?)

[hardy merlin]

That it runs on Linux without any other configuration
Just press Play on Steam and it works

[scarlet marlin]

I see, thank you!

[still spire]

I think Platinum should be reserved for games that can hit a min of 30FPS stable

[fringe salmon]

wine shouldnt set arbitrary performance targets when its about how it runs vs on windows

its not a rating of the game itself in that sense

[sinful cobalt]

Without a PHD in nuclear science