@Zach_99 Sorry but you have no idea what you're talking about. People were (and are) up in arms because they loved TLOU and TLOU II seems, according to the leaks, to disrespect what made TLOU special in every possible way. This was the outrage. Not that people have a general problem with same-sex relationships or similar themes. If you enjoyed TLOU too, for the special bond between Ellie and Joel and the narrative as a whole, you might as well be disappointed about what's coming for you and it doesn't make you a bigot then. But if you enjoy it, fine, I'm glad for you. Honestly. But for me, treasuring the first game in my heart, it was such a disappointment seeing the simple story (violence begets violence), convoluted narrative (out-of-order-flashbacks), the torture-porn level of brutality (I get it, it's postapocalyptic, but in this game it's really over the top, yes maybe I'm squeamish), the lack of choice in how things play out and the utter gut-wrenching scenes I saw (luckily) in the spoilers made me avoid this, even though I waited for it, like everyone else, for years.
Sincerly hope it lives up to your expectations man.
Im curious to see how the "new direction" and over-the-top torture porn-style violence will go down with the "common audience". This will be grounds for discussion for months to come.
@Wavey84 Again, all you say is true. Personally I've changed a lot since I started videogames on HD consoles with the Xbox360 back in the day (Oh that sweet sweet Need for Speed Most Wanted, lol). I just don't get wowed by graphics anymore. Like. At all. I get wowed by concepts, like "wow I can enter that building" or "what really, 25 billion stars that can be travelled to? Wow" or "So the environment is fully destructible? Cool!" - all of what I just described would wow me in 1080p, 1440p and probably in 4K too, but only, if it RUNS smoothly. That's why I kind of have a thing for pixel-style-games on my switch. They run all in sweet 60 fps, sure they may look like "garbage" to most, but I really don't care if the concept is fun!
Take something like Mario Kart for example and let's assume it's a game you enjoy. Would you enjoy it more if the resolution was x2 but otherwise the same game? Probably not, you'd probably take more screenshots here and there, marvel over them for a few minutes, and that's that. But imagine you HAD to play it in lower FPS. Terrible. Still same game, but terrible. Now imagine, the same game, in 120 FPS. WOW.
AND NOW imagine a completely new racing experience in Mario Kart, with new concepts, a track builder, track sharing, etc... wouldn't ALL of that be more "wow" than an up in resolution?
And this is exactly my problem with the next console generation. I loved BLOODBORNE but it looked sub par and didn't run great. I'd love to have it run in smooth 60fps or even more. If there were a PC version of it, you could easily have it just by throwing enough hardware at it, but on a console, you're "trapped" by whatever concept of "next gen" the devs follow.
Sorry for long post. I already saw that we agree on this matter long ago, just couldn't hold my horses!
@Facelord I'm really not so much on the board with raytracing so far, considering what hit it takes on performance, the benefits - to my aging eyes - seem neglible. In the heat of battle - and most games are fast paced these days - I don't think you would notice raytracing much. Then again, in a game like Elder Scrolls for example, I guess it would look stunning, but there is no way they can deliver 4K, 60FPS AND raytracing and hdr - at least not at the beginning of this generation.
@Wavey84 Yeah I agree with you, but you know, you can can wow people with 4K resolution in screenshots, not so much with framerates... but as you said, we should move forward and use videos instead of images to convey an impression of a game - but that point is moot also, since most consumer devices can't display beyond 60 fps.
Then on the other hand, I just go outdoors, shoot my bows and enjoy life in whatever-K-and-FPS-my-eyes-deliver-to-my-brain!
Also, if you haven't leaped onto the 4K train yet (I haven't), to make the best from it you're at least looking at another 500 to get a reasonable, gaming-ready HDR 4K TV. Still, all combined, cheaper than a reasonable 4K PC.
Brings me right back to X-Wing VS Tie Fighter back in the day. Loved those. Also loved the space missions in the Battlefront Games. Hope this is some sort of blend, with plenty of missions and objectives, and not purely 5 vs 5 arenabattle, which most likely it is...
@Wavey84 This. While I personally prefer 120 fps (but it's a luxury, truly) a ROCK SOLID 60 fps with 1440p resolution is my personal goldstandard. Wish all gaming was adhering to it.
Personally - in the PC gaming space, 1440p and 120 fps has been the sweetspot for me between resolution/fps/cost. FPS far outweigh resolution for me (except when you're working, d'uh). You know what matters even more: fun games. So I truly hope that all that new tech (SSD for example) enable the devs for new concepts, new games like Minecraft, Diablo, DotA and "that game that came before Fortnite, doing the same thing" - basically spawning more or less their own new genres. I'm not so easily wowed by "good" games with perfect graphics, I prefer "perfect games" with "ok graphics" any day!
@1_W1NG3D_4NG3L Same here but just replace the kids with being self-employed... guess that's what "grown up life" is like. Oh Peter Pan, you were so right...
@1_W1NG3D_4NG3L Bloodborne killed me plenty of times, but eventually, with the right playstyle and weapon (that spear thingy) I beat it together with a mate. But we're sweating blood and tears and had to redo certain sections plenty of times until we knew what worked.
I never beat Demon's Souls - your experience may vary, but I found it to be infuriatingly hard. But for the record, I played Demon's first, long before Bloodborne, so maybe I just got better in that type of games and it isn't that hard at all.
@Zeke68 Again you don't know the leaks so don't talk about "open minded" I'd love to hear your honest opinion about it once you get to play the game. Not because I want to prove any point, I'm genuinely more interested in your opinion than the game itself.
@Zeke68 You're free to enjoy the game, but you shouldn't insult anyone if you have no clue what the leaks are about. I highly recommend waiting for a few reviews first.
We've long reached a point where graphics alone can't impress anymore as it could a few years ago. Concepts can impress, gameplay mechanics, worldbuilding, etc. I think that the Switch in it's current state will be easily able to hold it's stance for a while longer, without going "PRO" or whatever. The only saving grace could be backwards compatibility, so that people can upgrade their hardware and continue playing what they already play. But if there is NO visible benefit - like 4K upscaling or solid 60/120 fps, why would you spend 400-600 bucks on a new console, that doesn't have to offer much innovation besides quicker loading times - at least at launch!
@Jay767 Ellie was gay in the first one too and I had absolutely no problem with that. There are far worse problems than the sexual orientation of someone.
It DOES look awesome. I wish I wasn't tainted by the actual content of the leaks. I hope for a continuation of the bonding between Joel and Ellie, my favorite Videogame pairing of all time. I'm curious how it will review.
Theres a simple solution to this. The internal, hell-fast SSD should act as a buffer of sorts. Just like back in the day when SSHDs came out. Where you had a huge storage part (external SSD in this case, 2 TB for example) and a very fast buffer part (internal custom SSD). The system could then keep the often-played data on the faster drive and move things around as needed.You won't be playing more than 3 or 5 titles at once anyways, so this should work perfectly well. Even on "slow" SSDs shoveling HUGE junks of data back- and forth is only a matter of a few short minutes and could happen perfectly fine in the background.
Well I don't want to talk to my tech so I'd disable it (if possible) instantly. Besides that doesn't trophy hunting then become a bit meaningless depending on how big of an advice/help you get for coughing up money? Anyways, people that cough up money for progress or finding your own way don't get the whole concept of gaming anyways...
1 and 2 are still the best imho. With a solid online experience I'll play the heck out of thouse, just as I did back then, in grimy arcades, when I was like 12!
It will be a user-fillable-cartridge. Once everything has moved to digital, players will be able to download their favorite games from the PS store and then write them onto a cartridge and print a sticker for it, for safekeeping in the physical world. It will use a certain mediaformat inside the cartridge that will only allow to be written ONCE. Of course it will be hacked even before it comes up.
@FullMetalWesker Well Overwatch was never meant to have a story, it's a competitive PVP teamplay game and most people are interested in it for exactly THIS reason. I enjoyed Overwatch for a while until I noticed it's matchmaking is even worse than that of HotS, but I couldn't care less for a "thrown together story". Now if they announced a proper Diablo MMO, that'd be something different. But I respect different opinions. I for my part think it IS incredibly lazy and a cashgrab out of the rulebook.
@OmegaStriver All the cool doods that made Blizzard great are long gone. This is just another Activision puppet trying to make as much profit as possible. If they sold the DLC pack with story and pve content as a one-time-ingame purchase for those, that are interested, it would be fair.
Also, about the graphical overhaul, you can also do this in the existing game, give players the option to play with "classic graphics engine" or "enhanced". If the rest of the game is shared between OW1 and OW2 anyways, what difference does it make? Similar things have been done in games like EverQuest and their own World of Warcraft.
Everyone's going open world, like Ubisoft. Then we'll get a map that a junkload of icons have been puked over. Yay. Sorry, I might just be tired of this all.
Riot Games' announcements were way more exciting. Let's see how that turns out.
It looks like D3 with D2 textures. Fair enough. But if there is nothing new, tactical and enticing in the endgame it will just be the same game I've been playing the past 6 years. Let's wait and see about those ingame purchases...
WHY? Just make an addon containing coop, new chars and the story mode. Why call it Overwatch 2? Will Overwatch 2 contain all content of Overwatch 1? This is just confusing and stupid imho.
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Re: The Last of Us 2: Full Story Recap
@Neolit This. Was hoping to get more of it in the sequel...
Re: The Last of Us 2 - Essential Sequel Is Naughty Dog's Best Effort
@Zach_99 Sorry but you have no idea what you're talking about. People were (and are) up in arms because they loved TLOU and TLOU II seems, according to the leaks, to disrespect what made TLOU special in every possible way. This was the outrage. Not that people have a general problem with same-sex relationships or similar themes. If you enjoyed TLOU too, for the special bond between Ellie and Joel and the narrative as a whole, you might as well be disappointed about what's coming for you and it doesn't make you a bigot then. But if you enjoy it, fine, I'm glad for you. Honestly. But for me, treasuring the first game in my heart, it was such a disappointment seeing the simple story (violence begets violence), convoluted narrative (out-of-order-flashbacks), the torture-porn level of brutality (I get it, it's postapocalyptic, but in this game it's really over the top, yes maybe I'm squeamish), the lack of choice in how things play out and the utter gut-wrenching scenes I saw (luckily) in the spoilers made me avoid this, even though I waited for it, like everyone else, for years.
Sincerly hope it lives up to your expectations man.
Re: The Last of Us 2 - Essential Sequel Is Naughty Dog's Best Effort
Im curious to see how the "new direction" and over-the-top torture porn-style violence will go down with the "common audience". This will be grounds for discussion for months to come.
Re: PS5's First Batch of Titles Appear to Deliver the Native 4K Dream
@Wavey84 Again, all you say is true. Personally I've changed a lot since I started videogames on HD consoles with the Xbox360 back in the day (Oh that sweet sweet Need for Speed Most Wanted, lol). I just don't get wowed by graphics anymore. Like. At all. I get wowed by concepts, like "wow I can enter that building" or "what really, 25 billion stars that can be travelled to? Wow" or "So the environment is fully destructible? Cool!" - all of what I just described would wow me in 1080p, 1440p and probably in 4K too, but only, if it RUNS smoothly. That's why I kind of have a thing for pixel-style-games on my switch. They run all in sweet 60 fps, sure they may look like "garbage" to most, but I really don't care if the concept is fun!
Take something like Mario Kart for example and let's assume it's a game you enjoy. Would you enjoy it more if the resolution was x2 but otherwise the same game? Probably not, you'd probably take more screenshots here and there, marvel over them for a few minutes, and that's that. But imagine you HAD to play it in lower FPS. Terrible. Still same game, but terrible. Now imagine, the same game, in 120 FPS. WOW.
AND NOW imagine a completely new racing experience in Mario Kart, with new concepts, a track builder, track sharing, etc... wouldn't ALL of that be more "wow" than an up in resolution?
And this is exactly my problem with the next console generation. I loved BLOODBORNE but it looked sub par and didn't run great. I'd love to have it run in smooth 60fps or even more. If there were a PC version of it, you could easily have it just by throwing enough hardware at it, but on a console, you're "trapped" by whatever concept of "next gen" the devs follow.
Sorry for long post.
I already saw that we agree on this matter long ago, just couldn't hold my horses!
Re: Random: The Last of Us 2's Dina Is Playing Through the Original Game
Well, that's the best you can do now, play the first game! ;P
Re: PS5's First Batch of Titles Appear to Deliver the Native 4K Dream
@Facelord I'm really not so much on the board with raytracing so far, considering what hit it takes on performance, the benefits - to my aging eyes - seem neglible. In the heat of battle - and most games are fast paced these days - I don't think you would notice raytracing much. Then again, in a game like Elder Scrolls for example, I guess it would look stunning, but there is no way they can deliver 4K, 60FPS AND raytracing and hdr - at least not at the beginning of this generation.
Re: PS5's First Batch of Titles Appear to Deliver the Native 4K Dream
@Wavey84 Yeah I agree with you, but you know, you can can wow people with 4K resolution in screenshots, not so much with framerates... but as you said, we should move forward and use videos instead of images to convey an impression of a game - but that point is moot also, since most consumer devices can't display beyond 60 fps.
Then on the other hand, I just go outdoors, shoot my bows and enjoy life in whatever-K-and-FPS-my-eyes-deliver-to-my-brain!
Re: Poll: How Much Do You Think the PS5 Will Cost?
Also, if you haven't leaped onto the 4K train yet (I haven't), to make the best from it you're at least looking at another 500 to get a reasonable, gaming-ready HDR 4K TV. Still, all combined, cheaper than a reasonable 4K PC.
Re: Poll: How Much Do You Think the PS5 Will Cost?
Given the power of this thing and the cost of a comparable PC, 599 seems legit and justified to me, when the Switch is 329 in most areas.
Re: Star Wars: Squadrons Brings Space Battles to PS4 This October
Brings me right back to X-Wing VS Tie Fighter back in the day. Loved those. Also loved the space missions in the Battlefront Games. Hope this is some sort of blend, with plenty of missions and objectives, and not purely 5 vs 5 arenabattle, which most likely it is...
Re: PS5's First Batch of Titles Appear to Deliver the Native 4K Dream
@Wavey84 This. While I personally prefer 120 fps (but it's a luxury, truly) a ROCK SOLID 60 fps with 1440p resolution is my personal goldstandard. Wish all gaming was adhering to it.
Re: PS5's First Batch of Titles Appear to Deliver the Native 4K Dream
Personally - in the PC gaming space, 1440p and 120 fps has been the sweetspot for me between resolution/fps/cost. FPS far outweigh resolution for me (except when you're working, d'uh). You know what matters even more: fun games. So I truly hope that all that new tech (SSD for example) enable the devs for new concepts, new games like Minecraft, Diablo, DotA and "that game that came before Fortnite, doing the same thing" - basically spawning more or less their own new genres. I'm not so easily wowed by "good" games with perfect graphics, I prefer "perfect games" with "ok graphics" any day!
Re: Gallery: Demon's Souls PS5 Screenshots Are Mind-Blowing
@1_W1NG3D_4NG3L Same here but just replace the kids with being self-employed... guess that's what "grown up life" is like. Oh Peter Pan, you were so right...
Re: GTA 5 PS5 Will Be More Beautiful and Responsive Than Ever Before
LOVE it how successful it is, it literally spans THREE console generations! LOL!
Re: Gallery: Demon's Souls PS5 Screenshots Are Mind-Blowing
@1_W1NG3D_4NG3L Bloodborne killed me plenty of times, but eventually, with the right playstyle and weapon (that spear thingy) I beat it together with a mate. But we're sweating blood and tears and had to redo certain sections plenty of times until we knew what worked.
I never beat Demon's Souls - your experience may vary, but I found it to be infuriatingly hard. But for the record, I played Demon's first, long before Bloodborne, so maybe I just got better in that type of games and it isn't that hard at all.
Sorry for not being helpful.
Re: Gallery: Demon's Souls PS5 Screenshots Are Mind-Blowing
Now remaster Bloodborne to tide us over until Bloodborne 2 in 2021! Thanks!
Re: New The Last of Us 2 Video Is All About the Story
@Zeke68 Again you don't know the leaks so don't talk about "open minded" I'd love to hear your honest opinion about it once you get to play the game. Not because I want to prove any point, I'm genuinely more interested in your opinion than the game itself.
Re: PS5 RPG Shooter Outriders Gets Brand New Gameplay
Destiny. Lol. Such a resemblance!
Re: New The Last of Us 2 Video Is All About the Story
@Zeke68 You're free to enjoy the game, but you shouldn't insult anyone if you have no clue what the leaks are about. I highly recommend waiting for a few reviews first.
Re: Don't Expect Assassin's Creed Valhalla to Run at 60 Frames-Per-Second on PS5
I was hoping for 120 fps for next gen. I don't care for 4K. Now I get 30 fps. Well well well.
Re: Reaction: Sony Needs to Show Us a True, Next-Gen PS5 Exclusive After Lukewarm Inside Xbox
We've long reached a point where graphics alone can't impress anymore as it could a few years ago. Concepts can impress, gameplay mechanics, worldbuilding, etc. I think that the Switch in it's current state will be easily able to hold it's stance for a while longer, without going "PRO" or whatever. The only saving grace could be backwards compatibility, so that people can upgrade their hardware and continue playing what they already play. But if there is NO visible benefit - like 4K upscaling or solid 60/120 fps, why would you spend 400-600 bucks on a new console, that doesn't have to offer much innovation besides quicker loading times - at least at launch!
Re: The Last of Us 2 Trailer Showcases Incredible Gameplay and Visuals
@Jay767 Ellie was gay in the first one too and I had absolutely no problem with that. There are far worse problems than the sexual orientation of someone.
Re: The Last of Us 2 Trailer Showcases Incredible Gameplay and Visuals
@MsJubilee N'ah they're avoiding the "big" surprise ...
Re: The Last of Us 2 Trailer Showcases Incredible Gameplay and Visuals
@koaeinferno I feel the same. But it's supposed to be an awful experience full of hatred. What a shock coming from Animal Crossing... :/
Re: The Last of Us 2 Trailer Showcases Incredible Gameplay and Visuals
It DOES look awesome. I wish I wasn't tainted by the actual content of the leaks. I hope for a continuation of the bonding between Joel and Ellie, my favorite Videogame pairing of all time. I'm curious how it will review.
Re: You Can Customise Your Genitals in Cyberpunk 2077
@Oscarjpc lol
Re: You Can Customise Your Genitals in Cyberpunk 2077
This will be Mandingo vs. Meatcurtain Bonanza! Guess I should preorder now!
Re: You Can Customise Your Genitals in Cyberpunk 2077
@Icey664 Japanese Tentacle Hermaphrodite READY GO!
Re: You Can Customise Your Genitals in Cyberpunk 2077
@Oscarjpc It's overhyped. I know.
Re: You Can Customise Your Genitals in Cyberpunk 2077
NO less I want from GTA 6. Thank you.
Re: Here's How PS5 Handles Expanded Storage
Theres a simple solution to this. The internal, hell-fast SSD should act as a buffer of sorts. Just like back in the day when SSHDs came out. Where you had a huge storage part (external SSD in this case, 2 TB for example) and a very fast buffer part (internal custom SSD). The system could then keep the often-played data on the faster drive and move things around as needed.You won't be playing more than 3 or 5 titles at once anyways, so this should work perfectly well. Even on "slow" SSDs shoveling HUGE junks of data back- and forth is only a matter of a few short minutes and could happen perfectly fine in the background.
Re: PS5 Patent Has Some Fans Panicking Sony's Going to Push Microtransactions on Players
Well I don't want to talk to my tech so I'd disable it (if possible) instantly. Besides that doesn't trophy hunting then become a bit meaningless depending on how big of an advice/help you get for coughing up money? Anyways, people that cough up money for progress or finding your own way don't get the whole concept of gaming anyways...
Re: The Last of Us 2 Is Set to Be Naughty Dog's Most Mature Game to Date
I'll wait for the inevitable cuscene-bonanza on youtube!
Re: Is Mortal Kombat Kollection Online Bringing Retro Remasters to PS4?
1 and 2 are still the best imho. With a solid online experience I'll play the heck out of thouse, just as I did back then, in grimy arcades, when I was like 12!
Re: Call of Duty Dominates Top 10 List of the Decade's Best Selling Games in the US
Wow that really is sad (COD) BUT GTA V really is and was a behemoth!
Re: Persona 5 Scramble Looks More and More Like a Full Sequel in 2 Hours of PS4 Gameplay
Ok well... this looks like it has way more "beef" to it than I thought. Loved P5, will get this for Switch. But when will it be out?
Re: Random: Trophy Hunter Creates Mural Dedicated to His Past 200 Platinums
@CmShepard True that!
Re: Random: Trophy Hunter Creates Mural Dedicated to His Past 200 Platinums
I don't want to offend anyone, but thinking about the time "wasted" so he can show off 200 little png icons is staggering and mind boggling to me!
Re: Sony Files Patent for Curious New Cartridge
It will be a user-fillable-cartridge. Once everything has moved to digital, players will be able to download their favorite games from the PS store and then write them onto a cartridge and print a sticker for it, for safekeeping in the physical world. It will use a certain mediaformat inside the cartridge that will only allow to be written ONCE. Of course it will be hacked even before it comes up.
Obviously this is all made up.
Re: Gallery: Diablo 4 Concept Art Is Beautifully Grim, Shows Characters, Environments, and More
@AhmadSumadi If you want the best cosmetic stuff, you've got to pay.
Re: Overwatch 2 Shares Multiplayer With the Original Game, Cosmetics Not Left Behind
@FullMetalWesker Well Overwatch was never meant to have a story, it's a competitive PVP teamplay game and most people are interested in it for exactly THIS reason. I enjoyed Overwatch for a while until I noticed it's matchmaking is even worse than that of HotS, but I couldn't care less for a "thrown together story". Now if they announced a proper Diablo MMO, that'd be something different. But I respect different opinions. I for my part think it IS incredibly lazy and a cashgrab out of the rulebook.
Re: Overwatch 2 Shares Multiplayer With the Original Game, Cosmetics Not Left Behind
@DanM Exactly.
Re: Overwatch 2 Shares Multiplayer With the Original Game, Cosmetics Not Left Behind
@OmegaStriver All the cool doods that made Blizzard great are long gone. This is just another Activision puppet trying to make as much profit as possible. If they sold the DLC pack with story and pve content as a one-time-ingame purchase for those, that are interested, it would be fair.
Also, about the graphical overhaul, you can also do this in the existing game, give players the option to play with "classic graphics engine" or "enhanced". If the rest of the game is shared between OW1 and OW2 anyways, what difference does it make? Similar things have been done in games like EverQuest and their own World of Warcraft.
Re: Diablo 4 Set to Have Cosmetic Microtransactions and Paid Expansions
This is ridiculous. Also you could see that the gameplay trailers were slapped together for Blizzcon. It's essentially just a reskinned D3. Wow.
Re: Diablo 4 Has a 'Shared Open World', Campaign Is Non-Linear
Everyone's going open world, like Ubisoft. Then we'll get a map that a junkload of icons have been puked over. Yay.
Sorry, I might just be tired of this all.
Riot Games' announcements were way more exciting. Let's see how that turns out.
Re: Overwatch 2 Announced for PS4, Adds Story Missions and Co-Op
this seems so stupid and unneccesary... why not call it a "mission pack" why call it OW2?! Confusing.
Re: Diablo 4 Finally Announced, Will Bring Hell to PS4
It looks like D3 with D2 textures. Fair enough. But if there is nothing new, tactical and enticing in the endgame it will just be the same game I've been playing the past 6 years. Let's wait and see about those ingame purchases...
Re: Overwatch 2 Shares Multiplayer With the Original Game, Cosmetics Not Left Behind
WHY?
Just make an addon containing coop, new chars and the story mode. Why call it Overwatch 2? Will Overwatch 2 contain all content of Overwatch 1? This is just confusing and stupid imho.
Re: Diablo 4 Has a 'Shared Open World', Campaign Is Non-Linear
So basically it's a storefront for ingame purchases like anything else out these days...
Re: PS5's Price Considering Market Penetration and Acceptability
@sabaki08 Yeah, the userbase is split into people with good looking games and bad looking games!
I know what you mean, I still don't think it's a good idea.