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warm, 4 miesiące temu

A cutscene isn't the best representation. This shows off the 8-bit vs 16-bit better.

warm, 4 miesiące temu

Oh I don't care about leap comparisons, was just taking interest at how graphics have evolved over time. To be honest graphics have been going downhill for a few years now in big games thanks to lazy development chasing "good" graphics, fucking TAA...

warm, 4 miesiące temu

By that logic all games would need to be rated higher, as any game can be addictive for any one person.

warm, 5 miesięcy temu

Well, the illusion of choice mostly.

warm, 5 miesięcy temu

Yes, it is fine as long as they dont advertise "a huge branching story", when really there's only a handful of endings. If you dont count random game over screens.

BG3 has a lot of dialogue options, but they rarely change the outcome of the story.

warm, 5 miesięcy temu

While you don't technically own the DRM games you buy on Steam, it's a whole world different than putting games behind subscriptions.

warm, 6 miesięcy temu

Yes, fuck all this frame generation and upscaling bs.

warm, 6 miesięcy temu

Legitimate upscaling is fine, but this DLSS/FSR ML upscaling is dogshit and just introduces so many artifacts. It has become a crutch for developers, so they dont build their games properly anymore. Hardware is so strong and yet games perform worse than they did 10 years ago.

warm, 6 miesięcy temu

The point is, hardware is powerful enough for native 4K, but instead of that power being used properly, games are made quickly and then upscaling technology is slapped on at the end. DLSS has become a crutch and Nvidia are happy to keep pushing it and keeping a reason for you to buy their GPUs every generation, because otherwise we are at diminishing returns already.

It's useful for use on older hardware, yes, I have no issue with that, I have issue with it being used on hardware that could otherwise easily run 4K 120FPS+ with standard rasterization and being marketed as a 'must'.

warm, 6 miesięcy temu

Consoles exist to grift, now they are realising they might not need to sell the actual hardware at a loss anymore.

warm, 6 miesięcy temu

Oh yeah, they will still have "cheap" ones, but they will make these "Pro" versions more and more expensive.

PCs are a lot easier to use than they used to be, you don't have to mess around like you used to, just the initial setup (which is done for you if you buy a prebuilt one anyway).

But yeah, the initial cost puts people off, even though the long term savings are incredible. Ignoring the cheaper cost of games, just from the console online subscriptions over 5 years, you are saving over $400 (and the last generation of consoles was 8 years, so that's well over $600 of savings).

I'd highly recommend anyone tries PC, you have so much more freedom than you do on a console. There's a reason the PC market share is growing so fast.

warm, 6 miesięcy temu

Well, yeah, you are right. They only sell at a loss initially until the hardware is old and therefore cheaper.

warm, 6 miesięcy temu (edited 6 miesięcy temu)

The game awards is just an advertising show.

Like any awards show, the awards are completely subjective anyway, so it's completely pointless to even care about them, it's not like an old gaming magazine's recommendations.

warm, 6 miesięcy temu

I agree, but people wouldn't willingly watch that :D

warm, 7 miesięcy temu

I know it's easy to say, especially in your case when its a kid, but just dont buy or play games with kernel AC.

These companies only understand money.

Anti cheat should be server side.

warm, 7 miesięcy temu

Seems a bit early.

warm, 7 miesięcy temu

I will believe it when I see it because I don't believe their words at all. CDPR have good PR, but it's still all corpo bs underneath.

This is already an early trailer, so it seems they are following in CP2077's footsteps so far.

warm, 7 miesięcy temu (edited 7 miesięcy temu)

I don't buy triple A games anymore unless it is really far down the line, so don't worry. They would have to really surprise me.

warm, 7 miesięcy temu

And CP2077 was in development for 7+ years, what's your point?

That they are using UE5 this time, so they can cut more corners in development and have us a nice blurry mess out by the end of next year?

warm, 7 miesięcy temu

Chances are it's going to release full of bugs and be missing half the content they market to us.

Don't believe anything these companies say, judge the game by how it releases, assume the typical modern day AAA bullshit until proven otherwise.

warm, 7 miesięcy temu

How is it insane? These games are made to take your money, so they quickly get cheaper until they no longer make meaningful sales. It's why you should never buy AAA games for the first 6-12 months, they will very quickly be a lot cheaper after the publishers scam from the initial hype purchases.

warm, 7 miesięcy temu

I completely agree, I never buy them.

warm, 8 miesięcy temu

It's co-op, that's been confirmed for a while. Unfortunately the rest of the details so far only exist in a Discord chat. Woo...

warm, 8 miesięcy temu

Devs should be recording the questions they answer and then put it all in a blog post.

warm, 8 miesięcy temu

Happens a lot with streamers, they sit there rotting to an audience of yes men, if anyone doesn't agree they can just remove their opinion, while making money. So it just reinforces the behaviour.

I have no interest in his content, but I hope he does change. But maybe you are right that he will just slip back again after fostering that toxic environment for another year.

warm, 9 miesięcy temu

Yes, can vote to either end the game immediately and ban them or turn them into a frog for the rest of the match.

warm, 9 miesięcy temu

Darkest Dungeon was just one of them titles that isn't that suited for a sequel.

warm, 9 miesięcy temu

It's an attempt at piggybacking off the success of the first game, but they don't take the time to understand why it was successful and if a sequel is needed. I'd love to see devs try something new when they find success instead of just pumping out a number 2.

warm, 10 miesięcy temu

Why spend time optimizing when you cant just slap some dogshit upscaling technology in and call it a day? Cant blame a lot of developers though, with the shitty time restraints imposed by management.

warm, 10 miesięcy temu

Yeah, I'm never using either of them, if the game doesnt run well without, I'll just refund.

warm, 10 miesięcy temu

Not even close. Your GPU decimates it.

warm, 10 miesięcy temu (edited 10 miesięcy temu)

Consoles are a dying breed, especially Xbox and Playstation. Almost every exclusive ends up on PC anyway now, even then I personally don't think there's any game worth spending this much on hardware to play. There's literally no point in buying an Xbox or Playstation unless you really really don't want to bother with a PC setup.

I bet the market will end up as just PC and mobile. I mean the PC market share has already overtaken consoles.

warm, 10 miesięcy temu

No game should be running down at 60fps these days, especially with any sort of upscaling. Native performance should be the only measured metric, no need for shortcuts when hardware is as good as it is.

warm, 10 miesięcy temu

We will see when Playstation 6 releases, its unlikely to sell as much as PS5 did, let alone PS4. Microsoft already realised the decline and are jumping into games as a service for the Xbox brand, ideally they would want you to just stream their games, as shitty as that is. With Xbox gone, there's no competition and with Sony being Sony, they are going to abuse that to squeeze any extra money they can from people still willing.

PC became a lot more affordable and accessible in the last decade and it doesn't lock you into a closed ecosystem, you can upgrade when you want, you don't have to pay subscriptions to play online games.

Kids are more exposed to PC gaming than ever before, with all the popular 'content creators' primarily playing on PC, so they are naturally swayed to it more than consoles.

I hear so many stories of people switching to PC, friends asking me for advice for what to buy for themselves or their children.

Circana's May 2024 U.S. video game market highlights, the analytics company reported that video game hardware spending is down 40% compared to 2023. Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony have all shown "double-digit percentage declines," with the Nintendo Switch seeing the "most significant drop."

The writing is on the wall, it would take a big change to swing back the other way. There's a reason they are dying for GTA 6 to release.

warm, 10 miesięcy temu

That's just not true. You can make an entire PC for the price of the PS5 Pro. You can get a GPU that is a bit more powerful than a PS5 Pro GPU for ~$300. People normally spend more on PCs though because of the longevity it provides and you can use it for a lot more than just games. Just looking at Steam data, there's a yearly increase of MAUs (their concurrent count just peaked 3 days ago at 37.6M) where Playstation has plateaued.

Time will tell, but I think consoles will fade away, either through lack of appeal or turning into stream boxes as you say. Thanks for the conversation!

warm, 10 miesięcy temu

You can adjust settings on PC, so you can trade off some useless post processing and other settings to push the frame rates way higher than console games, which are generally 60fps (or 120fps in some cases, if you run "performance mode").

warm, 10 miesięcy temu

Nah, they took the fun out of it to sell skins.

warm, 10 miesięcy temu

What's the point of consoles getting more powerful? Shouldn't affordability be the main target at this point?

Their main target audience is couch gaming on TVs, which are usually only 60Hz, something the PS5 and XSX can do comfortably.

warm, 10 miesięcy temu

Also Nintendo: They are $70. Want an old game? Also $70. Sales? What are those?

Consoles are such a scam when you think about it, but their low barrier to entry carries them (along with the marketing of course).

warm, 10 miesięcy temu

I have no idea what you just said.

Most games you just click play and they work. You don't need to install drivers or programs or whatever you think everytime at all.

If they release a dodgy patch or one you don't like, you can just revert it. On console you are stuck with whatever they give you.

Don't like a game after a couple hours? Doesn't work correctly? Refund it.

Mainly its linux that will have issues you have to navigate and that is probably where most of the technical questions you come across root from. If you have Windows then 99% of games will just work as you expect.

warm, 10 miesięcy temu

They sell tens of millions.

warm, 10 miesięcy temu

I've only played two of them and they worked just the same as any other game. You are putting words into my mouth now, I refuted every 'hoop' you listed, I never said 'just deal with it'.

I could build a pc, give it to anyone and it would work in the same vein as a console. What is the point you are trying to make? That PCs have loads of issues? The consoles are flawless? Make sense.

warm, 10 miesięcy temu

There are a lot of 'fake' 120Hz+ TVs you have to watch out for though. The real ones are expensive.

The point being really, most people dont upgrade their TVs at all, for as long as the picture is good. Consoles have the hardware todo 120Hz right now.

Thats another good point, when you are sat so far away from the screen, the resolution becomes less important.

warm, 10 miesięcy temu

People buy it. People then buy the skins. I play the free to play one sometimes and nearly every single person I kill has a $30+ skin and weapons. It's saddening.

One of the funniest things with cod too now, is that people always used to say it was the same game every year, but it is actually the same game every year now, with progress and weapons carrying over.

Gone are the days of a one time purchase and a solid game. (Well in the AAA space anyway)

warm, 10 miesięcy temu

Just to clarify, they bought the Risk of Rain IP, not Hopoo Games.

warm, 10 miesięcy temu

They worked on Risk of Rain Returns since Gearbox, but I am not sure if that is being updated anymore.

It's a shame they sold out, but the offer was probably too good to turn a nose at, so I can't blame them.

warm, 11 miesięcy temu

I hope this system works well, right now I only really read like 5 positive actual reviews and then read mostly negative ones, as that's where you find a real grasp of what a game is or isn't.

warm, 11 miesięcy temu (edited 11 miesięcy temu)

The article says nothing of the sort. They didn't phase it out. The article was released before the game officially was. It does actually say this though:

The danger for any game is simply that people stop playing, so the team focused on retention and on listening to feedback from the community to make Splitgate a “forever game” that can go years, with “seasons,” new features and maps, and so on.

Splitgate became a 2-3 month game, not a forever game. The game only had 1,600 players on Steam when it officially released, there wasn't even a spike in players on that day. It had one spike on 8th August 2021 of 67,000. The developers fumbled with their "lightning in a bottle" as they say in that article.

They are making a new one because it failed to retain the interest of the audience and the $100M from investors has to be made back, are they just gonna keep making new Splitgate's and pray on hype to sell as many skins as they can in such short amounts of time?