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Re: GTA Trilogy's Inevitable Backlash Is Already Brewing

TheDudeElDuderino

@Loftimus yeah, dude, do that. But it's the "video killed the radio star" that I would miss the most not MJ. Honestly tho, I'm just having a piss, my backlog of modern games is so huge that I have very little interest in revisiting old games I already played, unless their new form is truly superior and not kinda, well, if I ignore this or that.

Re: GTA Trilogy's Inevitable Backlash Is Already Brewing

TheDudeElDuderino

@Rob_230 @Gamer83 my dudes, it's enough to make a grown-up man cry. Haha, ok, ok, I am kidding, but seriously, I haven't listed missing songs from GTA3, because, honestly I didn't relate that gaming experience with songs therein.
GTA vice city, and San Andreas though? Get outta here, man, those games are 80% music in terms of atmosphere.
After I played vice city, I found somewhere online mp3s of vice city radio stations, and played them in my ancient car via mp3player to audio cassette adapter LOL... had to constantly remind myself to drive like a decent human being during those rides 😂😂😂

Re: GTA Trilogy's Inevitable Backlash Is Already Brewing

TheDudeElDuderino

@Loftimus here you go again. Dude, I told you these remasters are anything but... and while your myopic take can be a personal preference, taking out songs which are a huge part of these games can't be ignored, so please, go on, tell me how the remasters are great when they are missing:

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

Ozzy Osbourne – ‘Bark At The Moon’
Kate Bush – ‘Wow’
Michael Jackson – ‘Billie Jean’
Lionel Richie – ‘Running With The Night’
Herbie Hancock – ‘Rockit’
Afrika Bambaataa + The Soulsonic Force – ‘Looking For the Perfect Beat’
Michael Jackson – ‘Wanna Be Starting Something’
Sigue Sigue Sputnik – ‘Love Missile F1-11’
Gary Numan – ‘Cars’
ABC – ‘Poison Arrow’
Aneka – ‘Japanese Boy’
The Buggles – ‘Video Killed The Radio Star’
Joe Jackson – ‘Steppin’ Out’
The Fixx – ‘One Thing Leads To Another

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas:

Tom Petty – ‘Runnin’ Down A Dream’
Joe Cocker – ‘Woman to Woman’
Fatback Band – Yum Yum (Gimme Some)’
The Gap Band – ‘You Dropped A Bomb On Me’
George Clinton – ‘Loopzilla’
Roy Ayers – ‘Running Away’
2 Pac – ‘I Don’t Give a *****’
NWA – ‘Express Yourself’
Ozzy Osbourne – ‘Hellraiser’
Rage Against The Machine – ‘Killing In The Name’
Black Harmony – ‘Don’t let It Go To Your Head’
Blood Sisters – ‘Ring My Bell’
Augustus Pablo – ‘King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown’
Charles Wright – ‘Express Yourself’
The Blackbyrds – ‘Rock Creek Park’
Bobby Byrd – ‘Hot Pants’
Bobby Byrd – ‘I Know You Got Soul’
James Brown – ‘Funky President’
James Brown – ’The Payback’
Lyn Collins – ‘Rock Me Again And Again’
The J.B.’s – ‘Grunt’"

In the words of the great Mr. T: I pity the fools who paid for this trash.

Re: PlayStation Direct Online Store Finally Coming to Europe

TheDudeElDuderino

Dudes, Sony is so freakin behind times. I was lucky to grab a ps5 on amazon during preorder. Pure luck, waking up at 2:30 AM, and preordering with no fuss. Amazon. If not for that stroke of luck, I wouldn't have had it still. I looked ever since. Not a single chance.
You know how I got my xbsx? I went to the hardware section on the ms store on my xb1x, click, click and two days later there it was at my doorstep.

Re: 8 New GTA Trilogy PS5, PS4 Screenshots Show Off Improvements

TheDudeElDuderino

@Loftimus no, you're not being savage on that corpo lollypop because you don't agree with me, it's because you think a billion dollar company didn't have to do better in order to get your money. Have you seen any of the mods for these games? That's on a shoestring budget. I expect more from those who are going to reap millions off of these remasters.
My favorite GTA is vice city which I already purchased multiple times. I've owned every GTA since GTA, so it's not like I am not nibbling on that lollipop, but it's 2021, almost 2022 and what they showed us so far is unacceptable for this day and age, and is just lazy money-grabbing crap.

Re: 8 New GTA Trilogy PS5, PS4 Screenshots Show Off Improvements

TheDudeElDuderino

@Loftimus @WallyWest which part of "false" did you two geniuses interpret as "less false", "not false", "false but tomato". C'mon dudes, keep up.
The point of my post was not to say that the original looks good at all or that the remasters don't look better. The point was this (don't @ me, re-read until god rays apear and angel hymn starts playing in your ears):

There are studios which surpass the best rose tainted memory of the originals by making remasters which are true to original but somehow look way better than anyone remembers them looking and there are studios that make remasters that you have to revisit the old version to go, oh yeah, the remaster looks better.
One is stellar work, the other can be done by algorithms and machine learning.
These remasters look like latter (yes, they look better than originals, but what doesn't at this point?).

Re: 8 New GTA Trilogy PS5, PS4 Screenshots Show Off Improvements

TheDudeElDuderino

@Texan_Survivor it's a joke. They are pissing on our rug, man.
Any remaster has no business coming out if it doesn't look at least the same as our false memories of the original. These look worse than I remember them looking. I know it's a false memory but let me give you examples of remastered games that were done so that they look better than our false memory of the originals:

Shadow of the Colossus
Yakuza Kiwami
Wipeout
Another World (20th anniversary)
Grim Fandango remastered
The Secret of Monkey Island, remastered

Re: Greg Miller Demands Bugsnax DLC Trophies, Gets Them

TheDudeElDuderino

@Splat not only that, but Colin was the one to bring this site into the light for many a non UK based gamer, back in the day when he was a host of Beyond. An army of people outside UK got here because of Colin.
Pushsquare sure is returning the favor, like covering the stellar success of his "Sacred Symbols" playstation podcast... oh, wait, not a peep.

Re: Video: 5 Ways PS Vita Was Ahead of Its Time

TheDudeElDuderino

It was ahead in so many was and stupidly backwards in one thing that killed it on arrival. Prohibitively expensive proprietary storage cards. That was a stellar k**k-up by Sony.
Yeah, back touch insted of l2 r2 triggers was also myopic.
Bought three oled ones and they are still rock solid.
Unlike some dudes in the comments, I enjoyed remote play on it within my wifi (actually, when at home I utilised its direct to ps4 wifi capability) and on foreign networks.

Re: PS5 Update 2.0 Can Improve Game Performance in Specific Situations

TheDudeElDuderino

@WallyWest @themightyant you already have an option to boost ps4 games. There's a setting that you can turn on. The big caveat though is that you won't benefit much from it if the game in question is fps locked. Sure, it will hit that 30 fps with almost 100% reliability but it will never go beyond. In games with unlocked fps, obviously, the game will benefit greatly. There was an article here on push square that went into which games benefit the most from this boost option.
PS5 is way behind XBsX and S in utilising raw power to benefit old "unpatched" games (quotations because they are actually changed to allow for the raw power use - MS just streamlined the process way better than Sony).

Re: Horizon Forbidden West Will Now Offer Free PS4 to PS5 Upgrade, Sony Confirms

TheDudeElDuderino

@sonicmeerkat the games are coming, no worries, and once they come xb players will not have to calculate and recalculate. It's: you buy a game, you can play it on any of the SKUs the game is supporting. I am so glad I went into XB at the tail end of previous gen and continued to do the same in this gen.
XBSX has become my main console (not by some conscious choice, it's just where I game more often than anywhere else) with PS5 sitting idle until there's a Sony exclusive I care about.
Smart Delivery is for the players. Sony's utter mess of which version you should get, director's cut pay wall rubbish and all the rest is for the payers.

Re: Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut Solves PS5 Save Transfer Woes

TheDudeElDuderino

To think I was one of the dudes laughing at Microsoft calling their solution "smart delivery". I mean c'mon, pretentious much?
Well, guess what, 18 months in as a 1st time xbox gamer (xb1x and then xbsx) and maaaan how PlayStation looks archaic in regards to how it manages both save files and different platforms game files. I just never ever have to think about these things, it just works on XB.
Bringing in Spiderman ps4 save game to ps5 was just the worst. Sony has not thought these things through. But then, they know we'll accept the suffering for the unique and great games they have on offer, so...

Re: UK Sales Charts: GTA 5 Just Keeps on Selling, Hades Makes Top 10

TheDudeElDuderino

@Fiendish-Beaver "$21 for 12 months is one bargain I found today"... please share, I have not been able to find anything that spectacular in the last 18 months.
I love the service, but I like and use ps now as well. They are quite different beasts though and the MS promise of having 1st party day one on the service made me into a huge xb fan. From "xbox never" to "xbox forever" in 5 seconds. 😁 Well, actually not - it took them 19 years to get me but I went from xb1x to xbsx within the same year 😂 and gamepass is great for anyone who has missed all previous xb games. That is to say, I am well in the "this is an outstanding service" camp.