What are you playing right now?

[spurraider21]

Really? God of War's combat seemed pretty heavily inspired by the Souls games.
i thought god of war's combat was more user-friendly with the runic attacks. kratos certainly felt more powerful than the hunter. but on the higher difficulty settings, you die way quicker on god of war than bloodborne. you also dont get 20 healing vials as kratos :lol

but even then, spartan rage is an instant bailout which you dont have in bb. i can see the comp, but they still felt very different. the lack of shield/block in bloodborne is such an insane dynamic, meanwhile the shield is huge in god of war

[baseline bum]

i thought god of war's combat was more user-friendly with the runic attacks. kratos certainly felt more powerful than the hunter. but on the higher difficulty settings, you die way quicker on god of war than bloodborne. you also dont get 20 healing vials as kratos :lol

but even then, spartan rage is an instant bailout which you dont have in bb. i can see the comp, but they still felt very different. the lack of shield/block in bloodborne is such an insane dynamic, meanwhile the shield is huge in god of war

The shield is a huge part of Souls games too though. Bloodborne is the only one in the series where you can't make effective use of shields. Though honestly I preferred Dark Souls 1 with an agile build, no armor, and no shield IIRC. Demon's Souls I definitely leaned on using shields.

[spurraider21]

The shield is a huge part of Souls games too though. Bloodborne is the only one in the series where you can't make effective use of shields. Though honestly I preferred Dark Souls 1 with an agile build, no armor, and no shield IIRC. Demon's Souls I definitely leaned on using shields.
interesting. but i definitely take your point that god of war tried to model its combat off of soulsborne, but definitely in a more friendly or accessible way.

[DJR210]

Still bought and plan to play Sekiro though because it looks unlike these aforementioned games despite having similar mechanics.

It's really not the same at all.. Sekiro is all about blocking and parries. The posture system is nice.

[baseline bum]

interesting. but i definitely take your point that god of war tried to model its combat off of soulsborne, but definitely in a more friendly or accessible way.

Yeah the Spartan Rage was a big bailout, though completely necessary for me when fighting Sigrun on Give Me a Challenge. The Souls games also have ranged combat like God of War, which is honestly something I'm glad they got rid of with Bloodborne. Demon's Souls has two optional bosses that look like they'd be such amazing fights but the only way to kill them is cheesing with arrows and/or magic. I really hope they fix that in the rumored Demons Souls remake for PS5. Though maybe you're not supposed to kill them? :lol

Demon's Souls especially I couldn't get the timing down for parries. It seemed much harder to parry than in Bloodborne. But the backstab was much easier to execute in Demon's Souls IMO, especially when you could use your shield to circle around enemies.

[Joseph Kony]

Playing Halo: Reach on PC. So happy the entire MCC will finally be playable by the master race

[Reck]

but even then, spartan rage is an instant bailout which you dont have in bb. i can see the comp, but they still felt very different. the lack of shield/block in bloodborne is such an insane dynamic, meanwhile the shield is huge in god of war

I honestly wish it wasn't. Part of it? Sure.

But dont make it such a vital tool that once you get the hand of it, the game becomes fairly easy.

I had to bump up the diffuculty midway becaus I became too powerful and enemies were a joke. Medium to hard.

The only instances where I felt the Shield were really needed was with the Valkyries.

[spurraider21]

I honestly wish it wasn't. Part of it? Sure.

But dont make it such a vital tool that once you get the hand of it, the game becomes fairly easy.

I had to bump up the diffuculty midway becaus I became too powerful and enemies were a joke. Medium to hard.

The only instances where I felt the Shield were really needed was with the Valkyries.
well, if you play on higher difficulties way more of the attacks become unblockable. it was mostly useful when you were getting overrun by random draugr. was usually pretty useless in the big encounters and boss fights. it was very critical against vaklyries, and a lot of their attacks were basically impossible to dodge and you had to block. some you had to parry. others you had to dodge. so i think those were actually very well designed fights and made using the shield feel more strategic

if you played on give me god of war, or even give me a challenge, a good amount of the enemies could break through your shield. on give me god of war, any enraged enemy could deliver unblockables

its weird to complain about the easiness of a game when you admittedly didnt play on the more challenging settings

[Reck]

well, if you play on higher difficulties way more of the attacks become unblockable. it was mostly useful when you were getting overrun by random draugr. was usually pretty useless in the big encounters and boss fights. it was very critical against vaklyries, and a lot of their attacks were basically impossible to dodge and you had to block. some you had to parry. others you had to dodge. so i think those were actually very well designed fights and made using the shield feel more strategic

if you played on give me god of war, or even give me a challenge, a good amount of the enemies could break through your shield. on give me god of war, any enraged enemy could deliver unblockables

its weird to complain about the easiness of a game when you admittedly didnt play on the more challenging settings

I played on medium than hard.

The roll dodge/quick attack works just as well, if not better. I made more use of that than the shield. It requires lots of good timing and I found the quick roll was more effective on most enemies, including the valkyries.

[ElNono]

Playing The Outer Worlds... what Fallout shoulda been after Fallout 3, tbh

[baseline bum]

Playing The Outer Worlds... what Fallout shoulda been after Fallout 3, tbh

Did you not play the brilliant Fallout New Vegas?

[baseline bum]

Resident Evil 3 remake drops on PC, PS4, XB1 on April 3rd.

[spurraider21]

Did you not play the brilliant Fallout New Vegas?
captial wasteland >>>>> boring ass mojave

the capital wasteland is the GOAT setting in a game that i can remember off the top of my head

[baseline bum]

captial wasteland >>>>> boring ass mojave

I thought the whole Caesar storyline was pretty funny, especially when you go into that town where he's crucified everyone. And New Vegas was a pretty cool place. I found New Vegas a way more fun game, especially the The Old World Blues DLC as well as the one at Zion NP. I thought the New Vegas soundtrack fit the setting much better too.



the capital wasteland is the GOAT setting in a game that i can remember off the top of my head

Gotta disagree there, GTA V has the GOAT setting IMO. God that place is such a blast to explore. First thing I did in the game is drive out to the Salton Sea and just start climbing mountains (only to get killed by a mountain lion the first time :lol). Harran in Dying Light is pretty cool to explore too. And then Skyrim and Cyrodiil (in Oblivion) were both amazing.

[spurraider21]

I thought the whole Caesar storyline was pretty funny, especially when you go into that town where he's crucified everyone. And New Vegas was a pretty cool place. I found New Vegas a way more fun game, especially the The Old World Blues DLC as well as the one at Zion NP. I thought the New Vegas soundtrack fit the setting much better too.
i know we've gone back and forth on this... i enjoyed new vegas, there were some moderate gameplay improvements from 3, but the atmosphere/setting in 3 was just way stronger imo.



Gotta disagree there, GTA V has the GOAT setting IMO. God that place is such a blast to explore. First thing I did in the game is drive out to the Salton Sea and just start climbing mountains (only to get killed by a mountain lion the first time :lol). Harran in Dying Light is pretty cool to explore too. And then Skyrim and Cyrodiil (in Oblivion) were both amazing.
:lol really? its just a lot of driving from place to place. and then you head to the mountains and god forbid your car breaks down because then you have to walk 20 minutes to the next road or just kill yourself with an explosve

GTA V is a truly remarkable game but the setting itself was just fine

i will also say the labs on portal 2... especially after the descent.

[baseline bum]

i know we've gone back and forth on this... i enjoyed new vegas, there were some moderate gameplay improvements from 3, but the atmosphere/setting in 3 was just way stronger imo.



:lol really? its just a lot of driving from place to place. and then you head to the mountains and god forbid your car breaks down because then you have to walk 20 minutes to the next road or just kill yourself with an explosve

GTA V is a truly remarkable game but the setting itself was just fine

i will also say the labs on portal 2... especially after the descent.

I don't want your damn lemons!

[spurraider21]

I don't want your damn lemons!
This potato only generates 1.1 volts of electricity. I literally do not have the energy to lie to you.

[spurraider21]

:lol the writing in that game is fucking remarkable

"This is the part where he kills us"

"Hello, this is the part where I kill you"

"Chapter x - The Part Where He Kills You"

:lmao

[baseline bum]

:lol the writing in that game is fucking remarkable

"This is the part where he kills us"

"Hello, this is the part where I kill you"

"Chapter x - The Part Where He Kills You"

:lmao

Fucking Valve getting fat off being vampires to other developers from Steam instead of making sequels to Half Life and Portal. Valve and Bethesda both turning to shit is the biggest tragedy of this console gen.

[Reck]

Resident Evil 3 remake drops on PC, PS4, XB1 on April 3rd.

Nice.

One of my favorite entry in the series. Definitely getting this.

I skipped the second game. Hopefully they work themselves up to the true GOAT RE4.

[baseline bum]

Nice.

One of my favorite entry in the series. Definitely getting this.

I skipped the second game. Hopefully they work themselves up to the true GOAT RE4.

Fuck man, the RE2 remake was incredible. And it was $15 for BF.

[apalisoc_9]

How are they remaking RE4?

[spurraider21]

anybody play hearthstone? got into it a bit during law school then got bored of it. the new battlegrounds mode is pretty fun though

[apalisoc_9]

:lol

You know its coming :lol

[ElNono]

Did you not play the brilliant Fallout New Vegas?

I don’t mean the expansions, New Vegas was great. I mean det other game that they made afterwards

[Joseph Kony]

Has anyone played the the new star wars game? It's basically Dark Souls with lightsabers

[Reck]

https://youtu.be/lOcdeaObyAU

Looking good. Not sold on Jill’s look and design though. Doesn’t look like OG Jill to me.

This comes with a second game which is all about multiplayer. Def don’t care about that.

[baseline bum]

Has anyone played the the new star wars game? It's basically Dark Souls with lightsabers

Shit looks great, can't believe it came out of EA. Probably won't be too long before those fuckers kill off Respawn just like they're doing to Bioware.

[baseline bum]

XBox Series X looks ugly as fuck. :lol


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tUqIHwHDEc

[baseline bum]

Nice, Bravely Default II coming 2020. I have been wanting this series on Switch for a while.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsjTKIt3z8A

[NASpurs]

XBox Series X looks ugly as fuck. :lol


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tUqIHwHDEc

Not knowing anything before hand while l looked at the thumbnail, I thought that was a redesigned Xbone...

That's the next gen Xbox? Looks hideous and for some reason, it feels like my room got 15 degrees warmer. It looks like it that thing throws massive amounts of heat.

[baseline bum]

Sekiro won GOTY

[apalisoc_9]

Sekiro won GOTY

No surprises.

The most innovative combat system of the year.
Its crazy how combat carried this game and how so good it was despite the naked rpg elements.

The story was actually good. not great but good.

well deserved. 9.5/10 game.

[spurraider21]

XBox Series X looks ugly as fuck. :lol


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tUqIHwHDEc
puts the box in xbox

[Reck]

XBox Series X looks ugly as fuck. :lol


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tUqIHwHDEc

Shit looks like someone double stacked 10 game cubes side by side together.

Also surprise Ghost of Tsushima is actually releasing for the PS4.

[Reck]

No surprises.

The most innovative combat system of the year.
Its crazy how combat carried this game and how so good it was despite the naked rpg elements.

The story was actually good. not great but good.

well deserved. 9.5/10 game.

Congrats. But let’s be honest this years GOTY candidates were weak af. Death Stranding? RE2?

[baseline bum]

Congrats. But let’s be honest this years GOTY candidates were weak af. Death Stranding? RE2?

Dude RE2 was fucking great.

[apalisoc_9]

Congrats. But let’s be honest this years GOTY candidates were weak af. Death Stranding? RE2?

DMC5 was actually great even though it wasnt nominated and so was RE2. RE2 is a legitimate 9/10 9.5/10 game.

[Reck]

Dude RE2 was fucking great.

Oh no I dont mean the games were "weak" themselves. More like weak competition.

I have no doubt RE2 is a great game but GOTY good? It's a re-release in a way and most of us played the original at some point. It's not an original IP like a Sekiro or that piece of shit sleep simulator Death Stranding.

[baseline bum]

LMAO, so the Japanese name of XBox Series X is シリーズX = shiriizuX = series X, which people there are already shortening to 尻X = shiriX = ass X. Man Microsoft is never going to sell their shit there. :lol

[Xevious]

LMAO, so the Japanese name of XBox Series X is シリーズX = shiriizuX = series X, which people there are already shortening to 尻X = shiriX = ass X. Man Microsoft is never going to sell their shit there. :lol
Maybe I'm wrong, but I wouldn't think Xbox had a big Asian market anyway. Seems like Sony and Nintendo would have that on lockdown.

[baseline bum]

Maybe I'm wrong, but I wouldn't think Xbox had a big Asian market anyway. Seems like Sony and Nintendo would have that on lockdown.

Yeah they couldn't even get a foothold in the market with the 360 which was so much better a console than the PS3 even when they had a ton of high quality Japanese shoot'em ups made exclusively for 360.

[baseline bum]

Phil Spencer is claiming the next XBox will have double the gpu power of the XBox One X. Since XBox One X gpu is around the power of an RX 590, if he isn't lying we're looking at a gpu a little more powerful than the RX 5700 XT. Which is a pretty fucking powerful gpu. We're talking around a 5x increase of the graphical power of the base PS4 (or a 6x increase vs the base XBox One). I wonder if this might really put 4k60 (eg 2160p60) on the table, especially with dynamic resolutions that could drop to say 1800p in busy sections of the game.

[DJR210]

Has anyone played the the new star wars game? It's basically Dark Souls with lightsabers

Yep.. it's really good. The environments have left me in awe many times

[DJR210]

Congrats. But let’s be honest this years GOTY candidates were weak af. Death Stranding? RE2?

Death Stranding I can't speak on, but RE2 is fucking amazing. For us with nostalgia factoring in it's even better :tu

[baseline bum]

Death Stranding I can't speak on, but RE2 is fucking amazing. For us with nostalgia factoring in it's even better :tu

Yeah. I mean I have no nostalgia whatsoever for RE2 (hated the PS1/N64 console gen for the most part), and still found that game incredible.

[DJR210]

Yeah. I mean I have no nostalgia whatsoever for RE2 (hated the PS1/N64 console gen for the most part), and still found that game incredible.

I loved Resident Evil.. so much that I played though the entire fucking game twice without a memory card only to die at the Tyrant.. But RE2 was just so much better in every category. One of my all time favs and the first game to make my heart pound getting chased around by Mr. X

[baseline bum]

ROFL, Yakuza 3 has a minigame where you're getting an asian massage and trying not to cum fast

[spurraider21]

Good god Nier Automata is frustrating :lol... are there no checkpoints?

playing on hard difficulty. Everything goes fine and then random swarm ambushes and i start from very beginning

[baseline bum]

Good god Nier Automata is frustrating :lol... are there no checkpoints?

playing on hard difficulty. Everything goes fine and then random swarm ambushes and i start from very beginning

Hard difficulty sucks on NieR Automata. Nothing like God of War where it feels like it really balances combat and makes the game a lot more fun, hard just turns everything into a bullet sponge and makes you die easily. Honestly, play that on regular. Also the intro sequence has no checkpoint until you beat the first boss if I remember right.

[apalisoc_9]

Good god Nier Automata is frustrating :lol... are there no checkpoints?

playing on hard difficulty. Everything goes fine and then random swarm ambushes and i start from very beginning

I played hard. The first few hours in nier sucks for hard mode. Enemies feel spongy. I suggest going down to normal. One of the best games of the generation

[baseline bum]

Wonder how Lord Trump's tariffs will impact prices? And I don't see Navi being anything special. Moore's Law has pretty much flatlined. We don't have the same kind of performance leaps from gen-to-gen anymore.

Looks like you were right to be skeptical of Navi. I hoped going to 7nm would give them a huge edge vs Nvidia, but they're pretty similar on performance to power consumption with Nvidia's 12nm cards. Even worse, they're pretty similar on price. 5700 XT is probably the best card for the money out there right now, but it's a Polaris replacement at almost twice the cost three years later (eg $400 for 5700 XT vs RX 480 8GB at $230). Reason I call it a Polaris replacement is because the die sizes are pretty similar. What a horseshit generation to be buying a gpu.

[spurraider21]

Hard difficulty sucks on NieR Automata. Nothing like God of War where it feels like it really balances combat and makes the game a lot more fun, hard just turns everything into a bullet sponge and makes you die easily. Honestly, play that on regular. Also the intro sequence has no checkpoint until you beat the first boss if I remember right.


I played hard. The first few hours in nier sucks for hard mode. Enemies feel spongy. I suggest going down to normal. One of the best games of the generation
i ended up going to bed without advancing. i would beat the first big dude with the whirling saw, progress some more, and then just die pretty quickly to some swarm.

theres easy/normal/hard/very hard... usually in games with those settings i'll just choose the hard difficulty. the long journey to the first checkpoint is a pretty frustrating game design, bloodborne was the same way. i mean at least dont make me keep replaying the first sequence as the ship :lol

[baseline bum]

i ended up going to bed without advancing. i would beat the first big dude with the whirling saw, progress some more, and then just die pretty quickly to some swarm.

theres easy/normal/hard/very hard... usually in games with those settings i'll just choose the hard difficulty. the long journey to the first checkpoint is a pretty frustrating game design, bloodborne was the same way. i mean at least dont make me keep replaying the first sequence as the ship :lol

Not only is the hard setting bad because it makes all enemies into bullet sponges while making you into into a weakling, it also has a Bloodborne like death system but much worse. Instead of just losing your currency (eg blood echoes) that you have to pick up off your body, you lose all your upgrades until you pick up the body. And if you die without picking up the body they're gone forever. It's going to make the game super frustrating I think if you play it on hard, especially if you craft really nice upgrade chips.

[spurraider21]

Not only is the hard setting bad because it makes all enemies into bullet sponges while making you into into a weakling, it also has a Bloodborne like death system but much worse. Instead of just losing your currency (eg blood echoes) that you have to pick up off your body, you lose all your upgrades until you pick up the body. And if you die without picking up the body they're gone forever. It's going to make the game super frustrating I think if you play it on hard, especially if you craft really nice upgrade chips.
yeah... i really like how the game mixes all the genres, the switching camera angles from birds eye to side scrolling is really interesting tbh... but if theres going to be that much of an emphasis on the side scrolling shootem-up stuff, i have no interest in killing myself by ramping the difficulty to that extreme.

right now it just feels like im playing metal slug at an arcade with only 1 quarter :lol... ill bring it down to normal but i dont want the game to just be be breeze with no stakes

[baseline bum]

yeah... i really like how the game mixes all the genres, the switching camera angles from birds eye to side scrolling is really interesting tbh... but if theres going to be that much of an emphasis on the side scrolling shootem-up stuff, i have no interest in killing myself by ramping the difficulty to that extreme.

right now it just feels like im playing metal slug at an arcade with only 1 quarter :lol... ill bring it down to normal but i dont want the game to just be be breeze with no stakes

Without going too much into spoilers, I'll just say the space shooter like sections are a pretty significant part of the game.

[Reck]

It's never a good idea to play on a hard difficulty on a japansse made game for the first time not knowing what is waiting for you. Japanese games are generally hard as shit so I test the waters on normal always.

Asura's Wrath, Ninja Gaiden, Strider, Dark Souls etc are no joke in the difficulty department.

[baseline bum]

Sounds like there will be a big PSN sale coming Friday. Hope it's good since I have some money just sitting in the account after buying the Yakuza 3-5 remasters.

[spurraider21]

untitled goose game is available on the PS store as well

[baseline bum]

untitled goose game is available on the PS store as well

But it's free on CFW Switch.

[spurraider21]

But it's free on CFW Switch.
i dont have a switch

[baseline bum]

i dont have a switch

Bend over. I'll give you a switch.

[apalisoc_9]

Sounds like there will be a big PSN sale coming Friday. Hope it's good since I have some money just sitting in the account after buying the Yakuza 3-5 remasters.

might get mw

[vander]

since the new processor came with 3 months Xbox game pass, I figured I'd give Metro Exodus a try.
It's definitely my type of game, I already knew I wouldn't hate it from the intro song, but...
everything about it seemed like the beginning, and I never got to the main event, let alone the end. but all of a sudden it was over

and you never get any closure on any of your good moral choices, fucking game would have been even shorter if I wasn't trying to be the good guy. but in the end, nothing I did even warranted a paragraph explaining the outcome. I'm still not even sure if I saved any slaves on that ship, maybe I screwed that mission up, how am I supposed to know?

[spurraider21]

Finally got access to fast travel in Nier Automata... side quests were just running simulator.

Also there’s no reason you should be able to access side content with level 50 machines at such early stages. Just becomes 20+ minutes of brain dead chipping away of their health

Very fun game. I think it’s on horizon level. Better and worse in some areas

[Leetonidas]

I decided to snag RDR2 on PC since I was able to get it for 37 bucks. I gotta say I was hesitant since I've seen so many negative reviews due to crashes and bugs and frame rate instability but I haven't had any issues at all yet. Looks glorious on ultra settings

[baseline bum]

I decided to snag RDR2 on PC since I was able to get it for 37 bucks. I gotta say I was hesitant since I've seen so many negative reviews due to crashes and bugs and frame rate instability but I haven't had any issues at all yet. Looks glorious on ultra settings

What cpu / gpu are you running? And ultra settings? Don't those just wreck even high-end cards like RTX 2070 Super even at 1080p? First benchmarks I saw said you needed RX 5700 to run 1080p60 on high.

[Leetonidas]

What cpu / gpu are you running? And ultra settings? Don't those just wreck even high-end cards like RTX 2070 Super even at 1080p? First benchmarks I saw said you needed RX 5700 to run 1080p60 on high.

I'm running a Nvidia gtx 1070 16gb ram i7-7700k processor. I was surprised. I've only played for like 3 hours thus far but so far I've cranked most of the settings all the way up and am running the game pretty smoothly

[baseline bum]

I'm running a Nvidia gtx 1070 16gb ram i7-7700k processor. I was surprised. I've only played for like 3 hours thus far but so far I've cranked most of the settings all the way up and am running the game pretty smoothly

I wonder if they did like PS4 and silently released a graphics downgrade patch to improve performance? Because the 1070 is fucking eaten alive at 1080p ultra in this benchmark Gamegpu.ru did near launch.

https://gamegpu.com/action-/-fps-/-tps/red-dead-redemption-2-test-gpu-cpu

https://i.ibb.co/CQGtHCq/rdr2.png

[Leetonidas]

I should probably clarify that I didn't mess with most of the advanced graphics settings so yeah not every single setting is as high as it could be because there's so many i feel don't add much quality but are fairly taxing on the gpu. But I have like 90% of the settings at max and it's been running great for me.

Just for fun I put every setting I could to it's highest setting and yeah framerate is not stable at all :lol

[apalisoc_9]

Finally got access to fast travel in Nier Automata... side quests were just running simulator.

Also there’s no reason you should be able to access side content with level 50 machines at such early stages. Just becomes 20+ minutes of brain dead chipping away of their health

Very fun game. I think it’s on horizon level. Better and worse in some areas

yup. Id give horizon slight edge because i thimk aloy is a strong charactrr

[Joseph Kony]

RDR2 is probably the best game i've played since...maybe nier? idk, but this game is pretty fucking good. wish i had played it sooner but glad i decided to play in on PC vs console.

[Xevious]

RDR2 is probably the best game i've played since...maybe nier? idk, but this game is pretty fucking good. wish i had played it sooner but glad i decided to play in on PC vs console.
One of the greatest stories and playable characters of any game out there. And the fact that the world is so beautiful and immersive make it a huge time sink (in a good way). At the same time I couldn't wait, and didn't want to advance the main plot.

[FrostKing]

https://i.ibb.co/HKhPCJG/d772ae5-1.jpg

[baseline bum]

https://i.ibb.co/HKhPCJG/d772ae5-1.jpg

If hacked Switch wasn't so good for running emulators I'd be tempted to get one. Hopefully the next XBox is more like that one targeted at hardcore gamers vs XBox One trying to be the Wii seven years too late.

[baseline bum]

LMAO, I was playing Yakuza 3 and I got stuck on one of the hostess clubs when the hostess wouldn't show, so I googled her name Kana Momonogi. Turns out she's a Japanese pornstar appearing as herself in the Yakuza 3 remaster and apparently lots of the cabaret girls in this series are actual pornstars. :lol

[Reck]

LMAO, I was playing Yakuza 3 and I got stuck on one of the hostess clubs when the hostess wouldn't show, so I googled her name Kana Momonogi. Turns out she's a Japanese pornstar appearing as herself in the Yakuza 3 remaster and apparently lots of the cabaret girls in this series are actual pornstars. :lol

You into that jav shit, bro?

They do that swimsuit porn the best. A shame it’s all mosaic from there. :lol

[baseline bum]

You into that jav shit, bro?

They do that swimsuit porn the best. A shame it’s all mosaic from there. :lol

Not all. JAV + Uncensored are two useful words to dump into piratebay tbh

Apparently all the videos you watch in Yakuza 0 on the little TV next to the box of tissues are real pornstars too. :lmao

[spurraider21]

i got "ending" A in nier automata... seemed very anticlimactic for an ending, but now im getting a playthrough as 9S. should be interesting from his POV, though most of the story is going to be shared, if i had to guess. which is good because there were a couple of side quests i didnt finish because i didnt realize i would lose access to them near the end of the first playthrough

[baseline bum]

i got "ending" A in nier automata... seemed very anticlimactic for an ending, but now im getting a playthrough as 9S. should be interesting from his POV, though most of the story is going to be shared, if i had to guess. which is good because there were a couple of side quests i didnt finish because i didnt realize i would lose access to them near the end of the first playthrough

Did you get the ending from eating the mackerel?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb-B0Tj-mLo

[apalisoc_9]

i got "ending" A in nier automata... seemed very anticlimactic for an ending, but now im getting a playthrough as 9S. should be interesting from his POV, though most of the story is going to be shared, if i had to guess. which is good because there were a couple of side quests i didnt finish because i didnt realize i would lose access to them near the end of the first playthrough

Miss this game. might have to go to gamestop aka eb games to buy it in the recycle bin :lol

[spurraider21]

Did you get the ending from eating the mackerel?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb-B0Tj-mLo
:lol no

i didnt exactly go about looking for different ways to game over... i think they use the term "ending" too loosely tbh

[spurraider21]

i think the combat in this game, at least through the first playthrough, is kinda dull though. i find myself just hacking away at the same machine for 15-20 minutes while i slowly chip his life away and dodging. its not particularly fun. there is this big gold plated machine in the flooded area that was just an endurance test. another one in the valley area in one of the forest sidequests.

i had to put aside the father servo sidequest. one of his forms legit took me 30 minutes to cut through... and on his next form when i gave it a quick try he literally wasn't taking damage from my attacks (i was leveled somewhere in the 20's to be fair).

i think thats the one of my main criticisms so far. that and the invisible walls which are very frustrating. everything looks like a door i can get through or barrier i can hop over. some of them i can, others have invisible walls. poor design to have them virtually indistinguishable

[baseline bum]

i think the combat in this game, at least through the first playthrough, is kinda dull though. i find myself just hacking away at the same machine for 15-20 minutes while i slowly chip his life away and dodging. its not particularly fun. there is this big gold plated machine in the flooded area that was just an endurance test. another one in the valley area in one of the forest sidequests.

That was the game telling you not to fight those gold robots yet on the playthrough to Ending A. :lol

[spurraider21]

That was the game telling you not to fight those gold robots yet on the playthrough to Ending A. :lol
the gold robot was in my way on the main quest tho :lol.. fuck that

[baseline bum]

the gold robot was in my way on the main quest tho :lol.. fuck that

Well since you have already killed them oh well it's not much of a spoiler for me to tell you that you were supposed to kill them by hacking with 9S. :lol

[spurraider21]

Well since you have already killed them oh well it's not much of a spoiler for me to tell you that you were supposed to kill them by hacking with 9S. :lol
i still have to deal with level 60 master servo, so i'll see if that helps. taking out the level 50 version was an absurd drag... but at level 60 i dont even think i was registering damage :lol

does the game scale in subsequent playthroughs? or am i just gonna coast through at this point

[Cry Havoc]

PoE, New Vegas, Rocket League, Overwatch, and No Man's Sky are my biggest time sinks at the moment.

[baseline bum]

i still have to deal with level 60 master servo, so i'll see if that helps. taking out the level 50 version was an absurd drag... but at level 60 i dont even think i was registering damage :lol

does the game scale in subsequent playthroughs? or am i just gonna coast through at this point

It's not a hard game unless you play it on hard, and then it's an unfairly hard game IMO.

[Xevious]

Finally playing through Shenmue III. This game looks and plays almost identically to the prior two - with just some cleaned up graphics, but nowhere near current gen. There wasn't any effort at all to appeal to a new audience. If you didn't play (and enjoy) the others, no need to even bother with this. And with that in mind, I wonder how many people have even bought it. Anybody that's really familiar with the series are in their mid 30s to 40s.

[apalisoc_9]

cod 4....

just playing multiplyer with a bunch of 30 some year old who complain they have no time for SP

[Reck]

Finally playing through Shenmue III. This game looks and plays almost identically to the prior two - with just some cleaned up graphics, but nowhere near current gen. There wasn't any effort at all to appeal to a new audience. If you didn't play (and enjoy) the others, no need to even bother with this. And with that in mind, I wonder how many people have even bought it. Anybody that's really familiar with the series are in their mid 30s to 40s.

I’m a Shenmue hype man but I didn’t really enjoy this game almost at all. The story didn’t progressed at all. I’d say story progression was moved like...3-5%?

Ryo spent the whole game looking for thugs. How lame.

Personally don’t care whether this franchise dies or keeps going. It’s unlikely I will buy another Shenmue game again.

[Xevious]

I’m a Shenmue hype man but I didn’t really enjoy this game almost at all. The story didn’t progressed at all. I’d say story progression was moved like...3-5%?

Ryo spent the whole game looking for thugs. How lame.

Personally don’t care whether this franchise dies or keeps going. It’s unlikely I will buy another Shenmue game again.
That's unfortunate. I was hoping that this village was just an intro area and that we'd move on before too long. I mean, I'm several hours in and the only fighting that I've done is some sparring here and there to level up my skills. Hong Kong (and Yokosuka to a lesser degree in the first game) was a way better setting than rural China to play around in. I miss all the pawn shops, the different jobs/gambling opportunities, all the different underground fights, etc.

One new mechanic that's annoying as shit is being forced to eat. Seems like I'm spending a good portion of my days chopping wood for money just so I can buy more produce because Ryo has to eat twelve meals a day to function property.

[Reck]

That's unfortunate. I was hoping that this village was just an intro area and that we'd move on before too long. I mean, I'm several hours in and the only fighting that I've done is some sparring here and there to level up my skills. Hong Kong (and Yokosuka to a lesser degree in the first game) was a way better setting than rural China to play around in. I miss all the pawn shops, the different jobs/gambling opportunities, all the different underground fights, etc.

One new mechanic that's annoying as shit is being forced to eat. Seems like I'm spending a good portion of my days chopping wood for money just so I can buy more produce because Ryo has to eat twelve meals a day to function property.

Oops man. I thought you had finished the game. Didn’t mean to bring down your enjoyment or spoil anything. I was going to talk about the actual story but decided not to so there’s that upside for you.

I think I said to much here already but most of what you do in this game is sparring to level up your skills. To me, there are no actual legit fights though you might feel differently about that.

For a Kickstarter game its a passable one but man...

[apalisoc_9]

Replaying sekiro.

Have to say the 2nd playthrough is a breeze. Even easier than GOW second playthrough.

[Xevious]

Oops man. I thought you had finished the game. Didn’t mean to bring down your enjoyment or spoil anything. I was going to talk about the actual story but decided not to so there’s that upside for you.

I think I said to much here already but most of what you do in this game is sparring to level up your skills. To me, there are no actual legit fights though you might feel differently about that.

For a Kickstarter game its a passable one but man...
No worries. I'm going to finish it regardless. I just unlocked a new area in the village with a few more activities, so at least there's that.

I know they were working on a tight budget, but less investigation and more story advancement would be nice. Some combat here and there would be nice too.

[spurraider21]

Replaying sekiro.

Have to say the 2nd playthrough is a breeze. Even easier than GOW second playthrough.
i cant comment on sekiro... but i imagine if i replayed bloodborne it would be significantly easier the second time around.

god of war was different because you could choose difficulty levels. i've already played GOW 3 times :lol...

first time on give me a challenge... that was tough but not absurd

second time i played NG+ give me god of war, which took a little adjustment, but ultimately was generally easier than first playthrough. valkyries were significantly harder though

third time i played plain give me god of war. and even after having beaten the game twice, this gave me a LOT of trouble. only exception was that valkyries were not as hard as NG+ version. they get different moveset in NG+

[spurraider21]

going through by 9S playthrough on neir automata. its nice having (just about) all the sidequests done. plowing through the main quest. cool to see the same events from different perspective. though the combat is even worse lol... i was already complaining about the combat while playing as 2B, but now its just the stupid hacking games

[DJR210]

Ho Lee Shit @ the first time you encounter Mr. X in RE2.. Was completely unexpected because I'm in playthrough A. Hearing this dude's footsteps and dodging lickers w/o any ammo is scary as fuck for a game

[baseline bum]

Ho Lee Shit @ the first time you encounter Mr. X in RE2.. Was completely unexpected because I'm in playthrough A. Hearing this dude's footsteps and dodging lickers w/o any ammo is scary as fuck for a game

Damn I thought you already played that shit. Fucking amazing game, last one I got in before my fucking 970 decided to off itself. That shit has me hyped as fuck for RE3.

[baseline bum]

Damn I wish my Japanese was good enough to play this next week. Oh well, at least it's got a confirmed 2020 release in the west from Sega.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSzL04e7vP0

[DJR210]

Damn I thought you already played that shit. Fucking amazing game, last one I got in before my fucking 970 decided to off itself. That shit has me hyped as fuck for RE3.

Played yes, but didn't get very far. I'm trying to finish it so I can delete that shit off my HDD

[NASpurs]

I've been f'ing around emulators like rpcs3, cemu, yuzu, dolphin etc. Playing Fight Night Round 4 (audio sucks but whatever) on the PC while having Twitch on the second monitor is pretty fucking nuts to me. :lol

Gonna try out Persona 5 and transfer my save file from my PS3 to see how it works.

[baseline bum]

I've been f'ing around emulators like rpcs3, cemu, yuzu, dolphin etc. Playing Fight Night Round 4 (audio sucks but whatever) on the PC while having Twitch on the second monitor is pretty fucking nuts to me. :lol

Gonna try out Persona 5 and transfer my save file from my PS3 to see how it works.

Persona 5 isn't a better experience on RPCS3 vs PS3 IMO. When RPCS3 runs it at 60 fps it ends up speeding up the NPCs in the game for example, which looks ridiculous IMO.

[resistanze]

Damn I thought you already played that shit. Fucking amazing game, last one I got in before my fucking 970 decided to off itself. That shit has me hyped as fuck for RE3.

Damn brah, 970 died? What you using now?

[baseline bum]

Damn brah, 970 died? What you using now?

My old GeForce 8400 GS. What a pos, not sure if it can even play Minecraft. :lol

I can't stomach the thought of buying one of these overpriced cards right now at the end of the Turing generation knowing anything less than 2070 Super will age like complete shit with a new console gen coming. Especially when PS5 is rumored to have a 5700 XT level gpu and those fuckers cost $400 right now. $400 just for console parity sounds horrible. Maybe if PS5 turns out to be shit and the Ampere RTX 3070 looks awesome for ~$500 or less in June I'll go back to PC gaming, but I'm too stubborn to drop $250 on a 1660 Super that'll probably be outdated in ten months and the driver problems make me leery of the 5700 and 5700 XT right now. Not to mention their lack of hardware RT that's supposed to be in both of the consoles coming in November.

[apalisoc_9]

Might give DOS2 another shot after replaying sekiro

I enjoyed Dragon Age Inquisition. No way i wont enjoy this game. Just need to give it time i guess

[apalisoc_9]

i cant comment on sekiro... but i imagine if i replayed bloodborne it would be significantly easier the second time around.

god of war was different because you could choose difficulty levels. i've already played GOW 3 times :lol...

first time on give me a challenge... that was tough but not absurd

second time i played NG+ give me god of war, which took a little adjustment, but ultimately was generally easier than first playthrough. valkyries were significantly harder though

third time i played plain give me god of war. and even after having beaten the game twice, this gave me a LOT of trouble. only exception was that valkyries were not as hard as NG+ version. they get different moveset in NG+

whats next for you?

since you went nier instead of sekiro..I recommend going for RE2 next. Gotta take a break from combat based games

[spurraider21]

whats next for you?

since you went nier instead of sekiro..I recommend going for RE2 next. Gotta take a break from combat based games
Dno yet. I might start the bioshock collection.

but honestly i dont even consider neir combat based. the combat is almost entirely just mashing the light attack button with very simple combos and spamming the dodge button. its very braindead hack and slash type combat. and currently the 9S playthrough just has me playing Asteroids the whole time. ive said before i think the combat is the biggest flaw in neir automata

[ElNono]

I heard good things about the new Jedi game. I'll try to borrow a copy and see what the hype is all about.

[Xevious]

Yeah will probably pick up Jedi Fallen Order after I finish Shenmue 3... assuming LoU2 isn't out by then. I'm dragging ass through games lately.

[Joseph Kony]

I heard good things about the new Jedi game. I'll try to borrow a copy and see what the hype is all about.

if you like star wars and dark souls its great

[baseline bum]

Dno yet. I might start the bioshock collection.

but honestly i dont even consider neir combat based. the combat is almost entirely just mashing the light attack button with very simple combos and spamming the dodge button. its very braindead hack and slash type combat. and currently the 9S playthrough just has me playing Asteroids the whole time. ive said before i think the combat is the biggest flaw in neir automata

All three Bioshocks are really good IMO. It's amazing how well Bioshock 1 holds up today despite being a game from 2007 and they just fucking nailed the setting and atmosphere. Though Infinite is my favorite in the series. The story is great and the skyhook is a blast to use in the game. They're both right up there with COD 4 Modern Warfare for my favorite FPS campaign of last gen. Bioshock 2 is really good too but is in the shadow of 1 & 3 since 1 is the one that introduced the world of 2 and 3 (eg Infinite) introduced a whole other world.

[baseline bum]

I heard good things about the new Jedi game. I'll try to borrow a copy and see what the hype is all about.

You finished up your coyote work down in the valley and back on the west coast?

[ElNono]

You finished up your coyote work down in the valley and back on the west coast?

yep

[baseline bum]

Supposedly Sony is skipping E3 again this year. If so, might as well just end E3.

[spurraider21]

finished 2nd playthrough (9S) of nier automata. admittedly, the method of storytelling in the game is quite good. the scene near the end when 9S and Eve are messaging each other was really good. i started laughing when Eve was saying "you know you want to **** 2B" :lol

[baseline bum]

i started laughing when Eve was saying "you know you want to **** 2B" :lol

Yoko Taro is such a fucking troll :lol

[RD2191]

yep

Thanks for the ride

[baseline bum]

Thanks for the ride

So you gonna apply at the other end of the maquiladora now?

[baseline bum]

Damn, Sony officially telling E3 to go home and fuck their mother some more.

[spurraider21]

Thanks for the ride
:lmao

[ElNono]

Thanks for the ride

:sombrero:

[DJR210]

Thanks for the ride

:lol

[spurraider21]

pascal... :cry

[baseline bum]

pascal... :cry

So which way did you go?

[spurraider21]

So which way did you go?
i wiped his memory.

i havent finished yet. after finishing the 2A portion i just switched over to 9S. theres still that big weird tower i have to investigate

[RandomGuy]

Damn I thought you already played that shit. Fucking amazing game, last one I got in before my fucking 970 decided to off itself. That shit has me hyped as fuck for RE3.

Never played the RE games. Why are they good?

[RandomGuy]

Played a fun quickie called Subnautica at the urging of one of my kids friends. Been playing a fair amount of a game called Empyrion.

Playing a couple of games that my oldest likes, Oxygen not Included and Factorio, both heavy on math and science if you get into either, as they are resource management/build games that use a lot of physics approximations for things like temperature and resource processing.

Replaying Witcher 3 after having watched the series. Felt like a boss explaining shit to my wife while we were watching, heh.

[baseline bum]

Never played the RE games. Why are they good?

I never played the old ones, as I hated 3D games of the PS1/Nintendo 64 era. The Resident Evil 2 remake is pretty great though. It's a survival game where ammo is precious and can't be wasted and where you have to sneak around a lot and often just run from combat. The gunplay is good, the controls feel right, and it's impressive graphically. Especially on the system you have man, that game will really look great with the lighting and global illumination settings maxed out. Lots of interesting exploration and some fights that will get your adrenaline going. I'd call it a very strong 9/10, basically a must play if you have the time. It's fun sometimes to play a game where you're not superman and you always feel in danger, never comfortable.

[baseline bum]

Replaying Witcher 3 after having watched the series. Felt like a boss explaining shit to my wife while we were watching, heh.

How did you explain all the trips to the brothel?

[Chris]

Plague Tale is only $24.99 on PS4 store

Man of Medan $17.99

Kingdom Hearts 3 $19.79

Doom $5.00

Layers of Fear + Observer bunduru $9.99

Pillars of Eternity:Complete $10.99

Deadlight: Director's Cut $6.99


lots of games 75% off until the 17th

[RandomGuy]

How did you explain all the trips to the brothel?

:lol

Actually showed that mechanic to my wife once. She rolled her eyes. One of the more silly things in the game, card sub-mechanic aside, IMO. Sexy-time cut-scenes are all well and good if it relates to the plot, but a game mechanic for it? Jeez.

[baseline bum]

Kingdom Hearts 3 $19.79

Damnit I bought Kingdom Hearts 3 the other day off Amazon and didn't notice until after unwrapping and installing the game that it was a European version with a PEGI13 mark instead of an ESRB rating on the box. It works great since PS4 is region free, but it means I can't buy the DLC now since it only works on the US version of the game and I could get console banned for making a European account to buy the matching DLC. :lol :pctoss

[spurraider21]

i got ending C in Nier Automata, then quickly did chapter select and got ending D

:lol the credits had a shooting segment that was absurd... i had to go to sleep

[baseline bum]

i got ending C in Nier Automata, then quickly did chapter select and got ending D

:lol the credits had a shooting segment that was absurd... i had to go to sleep

Were you connected online? The credit sequence takes about 2 hours to beat solo if you're a bullet hell shooter god. But if you're connected online (don't need PS Plus) you can get rescued by other players to get a bottomless pit of helper ships to allow you to beat it in a few minutes. The "SQUARE ENIX" credit is a bastard to kill. :lmao

Also whether you beat the credit sequence solo or with help doesn't effect the ending at all.

Also now that you know the storyline I can finally post this hilarious review of the game:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM1xQAjGvis

One more thing, I don't think 9S necessarily wants to fuck 2B in the "you know you want to **** 2B" part, I think it could be kill, as in 9S has maybe figured out 2B was 2E already.

[spurraider21]

Were you connected online? The credit sequence takes about 2 hours to beat solo if you're a bullet hell shooter god. But if you're connected online (don't need PS Plus) you can get rescued by other players to get a bottomless pit of helper ships to allow you to beat it in a few minutes. The "SQUARE ENIX" credit is a bastard to kill. :lmao

Also whether you beat the credit sequence solo or with help doesn't effect the ending at all.

Also now that you know the storyline I can finally post this hilarious review of the game:

One more thing, I don't think 9S necessarily wants to fuck 2B in the "you know you want to **** 2B" part, I think it could be kill, as in 9S has maybe figured out 2B was 2E already.
:lol honest trailers is always the shit.

yeah im connected online, but i lost a few times and it kept telling me to give up or somethin, after 3 tries i had to call it a night. i dont remember being offered help. maybe after enough losses? i dno. the first time i went for what felt like at least 10 minutes. 2nd and 3rd time i barely scratched a minuter or two, i was exhausted and needed sleep.

ill check it out tonight

[baseline bum]

:lol honest trailers is always the shit.

yeah im connected online, but i lost a few times and it kept telling me to give up or somethin, after 3 tries i had to call it a night. i dont remember being offered help. maybe after enough losses? i dno. the first time i went for what felt like at least 10 minutes. 2nd and 3rd time i barely scratched a minuter or two, i was exhausted and needed sleep.

ill check it out tonight

Did you get the achievement for looking up 2B's skirt?

[spurraider21]

Did you get the achievement for looking up 2B's skirt?
i dno lol, i dont keep track of that. i do remember being curious as to how much they'd show :lol... but dno if i did it long or well enough to get an achievement.

also, :lol i think this is better than the honest trailer


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y4_Fc2R5tQ

[baseline bum]

i dno lol, i dont keep track of that. i do remember being curious as to how much they'd show :lol... but dno if i did it long or well enough to get an achievement.

also, :lol i think this is better than the honest trailer


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y4_Fc2R5tQ

You have to get caught by 2B ten times to get the achievement. Eg when you get under her and look at her ass from below and she turns around and swats the camera away. :lol

[spurraider21]

You have to get caught by 2B ten times to get the achievement. Eg when you get under her and look at her ass from below and she turns around and swats the camera away. :lol
:lol wtf, i didnt even know thats a thing

so no, i didnt get the achievement

[baseline bum]

:lol wtf, i didnt even know thats a thing

so no, i didnt get the achievement

Bullshit :lol

LOL that Girlfriend Reviews video. Too bad Persona 3 is so old, I'd love to see her video on that since it has a really dark plot like NieR Automata. Though I see she did do a PS2 video so maybe there's hope.

[baseline bum]

:lol wtf, i didnt even know thats a thing

so no, i didnt get the achievement

LMAO, I forgot there was a trophy for playing with 9S for an hour in his underwear. It has been a while since I played it, but I think you can lose his shorts by exploding yourself.

[spurraider21]

LMAO, I forgot there was a trophy for playing with 9S for an hour in his underwear. It has been a while since I played it, but I think you can lose his shorts by exploding yourself.
apparently i just didnt die enough times for help to be offered. got through it and donated my save file

great game tbh

[baseline bum]

Shit, Final Fantasy VII remake got delayed until April 10th a couple of days ago, and now Cyberpunk 2077 is delayed until September 17th.

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[NASpurs]

Wow, Sony is going to port Horizon Zero Dawn to the PC. That’s nuts.

[baseline bum]

Wow, Sony is going to port Horizon Zero Dawn to the PC. That’s nuts.

It's a good idea. It's always on sale for $10 now on PS4 and everyone who has wanted it for PS4 probably already has it. But if they can sell it for $60 a pop and PC and whet PC gamers' appetites for Horizon Zero Dawn 2 to convince some of them to buy a PS5 it's a big win-win. Wonder if this means HZD2 is coming in the next couple of years. Sony will probably do a PS5 reveal next month.

[NASpurs]

It's a good idea. It's always on sale for $10 now on PS4 and everyone who has wanted it for PS4 probably already has it. But if they can sell it for $60 a pop and PC and whet PC gamers' appetites for Horizon Zero Dawn 2 to convince some of them to buy a PS5 it's a big win-win. Wonder if this means HZD2 is coming in the next couple of years. Sony will probably do a PS5 reveal next month.

Has Sony ever ported any other first party developed game? I'm not sure but I think this might be the first. Kind of like when Nintendo started doing mobile stuff.

[baseline bum]

Has Sony ever ported any other first party developed game? I'm not sure but I think this might be the first. Kind of like when Nintendo started doing mobile stuff.

Pretty fucking weird, but there have been rumblings about it coming to PC for months. Then again, the guy who published it (Jason something from Kotaku) also claimed both consoles will have a gpu better than an RTX 2080, which is really fucking hard to see happening.

[baseline bum]

apparently i just didnt die enough times for help to be offered. got through it and donated my save file

great game tbh

I kind of like the erase the save file ending too. What's the point of having a full save file with nothing left to do in the game? I donated mine each time I beat the game and got Ending E. Did you ever go to Emil's place underground? There is a really cool backstory to it in the first Nier. Also if you ever get the urge to play Automata again, Ending Y is really cool. Or maybe just look up Ending Y on youtube since it's a bitch to get to if I remember right.

[spurraider21]

I kind of like the erase the save file ending too. What's the point of having a full save file with nothing left to do in the game? I donated mine each time I beat the game and got Ending E. Did you ever go to Emil's place underground? There is a really cool backstory to it in the first Nier. Also if you ever get the urge to play Automata again, Ending Y is really cool. Or maybe just look up Ending Y on youtube since it's a bitch to get to if I remember right.
if i wanted to platinum or get all 26 endings having the chapter select and all my progress/currency/weapons would help

but i dont really care to go platinum hunting for games unless they happen somewhat organically. i know for spiderman i checked and the only specific thing i had left for plat was the secret photo ops so i spend some time getting that done. for god of war i still have to get all the ravens and artifacts, for instance. havent bothered

i think ima play shadow of the colossus next since that one seems to be a pretty short game

[baseline bum]

if i wanted to platinum or get all 26 endings having the chapter select and all my progress/currency/weapons would help

but i dont really care to go platinum hunting for games unless they happen somewhat organically. i know for spiderman i checked and the only specific thing i had left for plat was the secret photo ops so i spend some time getting that done. for god of war i still have to get all the ravens and artifacts, for instance. havent bothered

i think ima play shadow of the colossus next since that one seems to be a pretty short game

Just curious... you think you'll be getting PS5? Because if so, leaks suggest the PS5 gpu will have two modes for PS4 compatibility: one for base PS4, one for PS4 Pro. And the PS4 Pro version of SOTC runs at 60 fps. It's still brilliant at 30 fps though, that's how I played it on my PS4 Slim.

Supposedly we'll be getting the official reveal of PS5 in the next 4 weeks or so. I was going to buy a new gpu until I saw a credible leak claiming PS5 will have the gpu power of a graphics card that costs $400 right now on PC. I would normally write that shit off but a pretty respected youtube channel seems to think its real from checking with their sources (Digital Foundry -- they're the guys who Microsoft had officially reveal the specs and do performance analysis of the XBox One X before it came out). So now why pay $400 just for a fucking gpu if I can pay $500, get that gpu, an SSD, and a pretty killer cpu while also getting access to all the next gen PS5 exclusives. LOL PC gaming it looks like. :lol

[spurraider21]

Just curious... you think you'll be getting PS5? Because if so, leaks suggest the PS5 gpu will have two modes for PS4 compatibility: one for base PS4, one for PS4 Pro. And the PS4 Pro version of SOTC runs at 60 fps. It's still brilliant at 30 fps though, that's how I played it on my PS4 Slim.

Supposedly we'll be getting the official reveal of PS5 in the next 4 weeks or so. I was going to buy a new gpu until I saw a credible leak claiming PS5 will have the gpu power of a graphics card that costs $400 right now on PC. I would normally write that shit off but a pretty respected youtube channel seems to think its real from checking with their sources (Digital Foundry -- they're the guys who Microsoft had officially reveal the specs and do performance analysis of the XBox One X before it came out). So now why pay $400 just for a fucking gpu if I can pay $500, get that gpu, an SSD, and a pretty killer cpu while also getting access to all the next gen PS5 exclusives. LOL PC gaming it looks like. :lol
I’ll probably pick it up at some point, maybe at/around launch maybe not

depends on some factors like

a) launch releases looking worthwhile

b) what my backlog looks like

c) if it’s fully backwards compatible with ps2/3 I’d probably get it at launch. Right now my ps2/PS3 are being stored in LA. Even when i get around to shipping it over, i don’t want to have 3-4 consoles hooked up in my living room at all times, and it’s an annoying hassle connecting and disconnecting a console every time i feel like playing an old game. If i can just get one console that plays all those games i still have it’s worth

[baseline bum]

I’ll probably pick it up at some point, maybe at/around launch maybe not

depends on some factors like

a) launch releases looking worthwhile

b) what my backlog looks like

c) if it’s fully backwards compatible with ps2/3 I’d probably get it at launch. Right now my ps2/PS3 are being stored in LA. Even when i get around to shipping it over, i don’t want to have 3-4 consoles hooked up in my living room at all times, and it’s an annoying hassle connecting and disconnecting a console every time i feel like playing an old game. If i can just get one console that plays all those games i still have it’s worth

I wouldn't hold my breath on PS2/PS3 BC, no money to be made there for Sony. Nor would I for good launch titles other than hopefully the long rumored Demon's Souls remake. Only Nintendo ever seems to have must play launch titles. The PS4's launch title exclusives were weak as fuck: inFAMOUS Second Son and Killzone Shadow Fall. First really good exclusive was Bloodborne a year and a half after launch (well, if you don't count the TLOU remaster since it was a PS3 game).

[apalisoc_9]

It's a good idea. It's always on sale for $10 now on PS4 and everyone who has wanted it for PS4 probably already has it. But if they can sell it for $60 a pop and PC and whet PC gamers' appetites for Horizon Zero Dawn 2 to convince some of them to buy a PS5 it's a big win-win. Wonder if this means HZD2 is coming in the next couple of years. Sony will probably do a PS5 reveal next month.

HZD2 is going to be announced next year...Its an amazing game thats going to create fanbases.

I suspect sony will keep their exclusives on a two year time exclusive

[baseline bum]

HZD2 is going to be announced next year...Its an amazing game thats going to create fanbases.

I suspect sony will keep their exclusives on a two year time exclusive

No way two years, gotta be longer than that if they want people to buy PS5s.

[vander]

apparently i just didnt die enough times for help to be offered. got through it and donated my save file

great game tbh

you beat the credits solo? holy shit :dizzy

[spurraider21]

you beat the credits solo? holy shit :dizzy
oh, no :lol

the first night i tried i gave up before being offered help

the next day i realized that i just hadnt lost enough times to trigger it. i definitely got help to beat it :lol

[Reck]

Shit, Final Fantasy VII remake got delayed until April 10th a couple of days ago, and now Cyberpunk 2077 is delayed until September 17th.

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:lol Any FF game getting delayed. It’s a meme at this point.

If it’s not delayed at least 10 times than it’s not an FF game. Cyberpunk, meh for some reason I’m not that hyped about this game since it’s first delayed after we were told everything was on schedule. I understand games need tweaks here and there but to me a delay with this much time in between says something.

[LaMarcus Bryant]

That FF7 and Cyberpunk delays tho :cry :cry :cry :cry :cry :cry:cry :cry

[ElNono]

Has Sony ever ported any other first party developed game? I'm not sure but I think this might be the first. Kind of like when Nintendo started doing mobile stuff.

MLB the show was the first announced, IIRC.

[baseline bum]

MLB the show was the first announced, IIRC.

Don't get the rationale for that one at all considering it's the only beisbol game out there so you'd think it would be a big system seller for Sony.

[apalisoc_9]

Don't get the rationale for that one at all considering it's the only beisbol game out there so you'd think it would be a big system seller for Sony.

no one watches hotdog ball

[baseline bum]

no one watches hotdog ball

Hope there's a cheat code for whistling and trashcan banging in The Show 20.

[Reck]

Don't get the rationale for that one at all considering it's the only beisbol game out there so you'd think it would be a big system seller for Sony.

What about RBI? It's like the NBA live version of MLB.

[Chris]

Damnit I bought Kingdom Hearts 3 the other day off Amazon and didn't notice until after unwrapping and installing the game that it was a European version with a PEGI13 mark instead of an ESRB rating on the box. It works great since PS4 is region free, but it means I can't buy the DLC now since it only works on the US version of the game and I could get console banned for making a European account to buy the matching DLC. :lol :pctoss

Doom (2016) is pretty fun, especially for $5. Looking forward to some old school RPG with Pillars of Eternity, but I don't have room for it. KH3 will have to wait as well.

[baseline bum]

God damnit, Dying Light 2 just got delayed now.

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[baseline bum]

Damn there was still a part of me that wanted to buy a 2060 Super or 2070 Super last week, because of Cyberpunk 2077 and Dying Light 2. Now with Cyberpunk being a mid September release and Dying Light 2 getting an indefinite delay, and thus sounding like it'll be a late 2020 release, man there is no reason to even think about that shit and I'll just a PS5 in October or November.

1H 2020 went from looking amazing on PC to fucking bare in a week. :lol

[spurraider21]

God damnit, Dying Light 2 just got delayed now.
i went through shadow of the colossus... thats a pretty awesome game, kinda mad that i missed out during the PS2 era. i played through on hard, but i dont feel the incentive to go back and do "time attack" modes.

considering Dying Light or Fallout 4 as far as what to play next

[spurraider21]

the visuals on this game look fantastic, and its probably the most ambitious DBZ game made as far as being somewhat open world/RPG-ish. the retelling of the whole story is a strong sell from a nostalgia perspective, but the "open world" is really shitty from everything i've seen online, and the combat is that stupid over the shoulder arena style combat which is just button mashing the "attack" button followed by the "special" button.

if this game had good 2D fighting like in the recent FighterZ game, or the old PS2 budokai games, i'd buy it in a heartbeat. but as of now it looks ovepriced as fuck for the actual gameplay


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

[baseline bum]

the visuals on this game look fantastic, and its probably the most ambitious DBZ game made as far as being somewhat open world/RPG-ish. the retelling of the whole story is a strong sell from a nostalgia perspective, but the "open world" is really shitty from everything i've seen online, and the combat is that stupid over the shoulder arena style combat which is just button mashing the "attack" button followed by the "special" button.

if this game had good 2D fighting like in the recent FighterZ game, or the old PS2 budokai games, i'd buy it in a heartbeat. but as of now it looks ovepriced as fuck for the actual gameplay


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

Bet that'll be $20 not too long from now. If you're ever interested in stocking up on Japanese games, PSN does a Golden Week sale every year (it's a week with a bunch of holidays for kids in Japan). It's in late April or early May. Some years the Golden Week sale is really good, last year's was pretty shit though.

[spurraider21]

Bet that'll be $20 not too long from now. If you're ever interested in stocking up on Japanese games, PSN does a Golden Week sale every year (it's a week with a bunch of holidays for kids in Japan). It's in late April or early May. Some years the Golden Week sale is really good, last year's was pretty shit though.
eh, im not really into jap games all that much. i was just a big dbz fan growing up, and the budokai series on ps2 was outstanding. i know they did an HD remaster on PS3 (but they changed the epic soundtrack because most of the tracks were straight up plagiarizing classic hits :lol

i doubt it's gonna be $20 anytime soon though. their most recent big entry was Fighter Z which came out in January 2018 and is still going for a full 60 on the PS store. and that one is also a ripoff considering they have 2 different "season passes" still being sold for $35 and $25 respectively

[DMC]

CoD MW 2019 campaign. It's movie quality graphics and storyline, nothing shocking or unexpected but certainly some welcomed names from the past and absent the distracting HUD coupled with the 32:9 aspect ratio on the 49" curved monitor at max resolution, it's a beauty. The gameplay is point and shoot but very smooth. Nice black ops element that doesn't throw you into a super unrealistic battle between 60 soldiers and yourself, at least not in the night ops. Although the fire for effect control is cool a couple times, I eventually wanted to just mix in with the team and take out bad guys instead of having a role, especially since they strapped a .338 Lapua to me.

Better story and acting than the last movie I watched tbh.

[ElNono]

CoD MW 2019 campaign. It's movie quality graphics and storyline, nothing shocking or unexpected but certainly some welcomed names from the past and absent the distracting HUD coupled with the 32:9 aspect ratio on the 49" curved monitor at max resolution, it's a beauty. The gameplay is point and shoot but very smooth. Nice black ops element that doesn't throw you into a super unrealistic battle between 60 soldiers and yourself, at least not in the night ops. Although the fire for effect control is cool a couple times, I eventually wanted to just mix in with the team and take out bad guys instead of having a role, especially since they strapped a .338 Lapua to me.

Better story and acting than the last movie I watched tbh.

Yep, last year's CoD campaign was great... wanted more missions, tbh

[DJR210]

CoD MW 2019 campaign. It's movie quality graphics and storyline, nothing shocking or unexpected but certainly some welcomed names from the past and absent the distracting HUD coupled with the 32:9 aspect ratio on the 49" curved monitor at max resolution, it's a beauty. The gameplay is point and shoot but very smooth. Nice black ops element that doesn't throw you into a super unrealistic battle between 60 soldiers and yourself, at least not in the night ops. Although the fire for effect control is cool a couple times, I eventually wanted to just mix in with the team and take out bad guys instead of having a role, especially since they strapped a .338 Lapua to me.

Better story and acting than the last movie I watched tbh.

The night vision mission clearing that house of terrorists was really well done IMO

[baseline bum]

CoD MW 2019 campaign. It's movie quality graphics and storyline, nothing shocking or unexpected but certainly some welcomed names from the past and absent the distracting HUD coupled with the 32:9 aspect ratio on the 49" curved monitor at max resolution, it's a beauty. The gameplay is point and shoot but very smooth. Nice black ops element that doesn't throw you into a super unrealistic battle between 60 soldiers and yourself, at least not in the night ops. Although the fire for effect control is cool a couple times, I eventually wanted to just mix in with the team and take out bad guys instead of having a role, especially since they strapped a .338 Lapua to me.

Better story and acting than the last movie I watched tbh.

Damn I stopped playing the COD campaigns after Ghosts since they went with stupid futuristic crap in Advance Warfare, and I never went back. So is the new Modern Warfare's campaign as awesome as the campaigns used to be in the original Modern Warfare series? That ghillie suit mission in MW1 might still be my single favorite mission ever in a FPS campaign.

[baseline bum]

eh, im not really into jap games all that much. i was just a big dbz fan growing up, and the budokai series on ps2 was outstanding. i know they did an HD remaster on PS3 (but they changed the epic soundtrack because most of the tracks were straight up plagiarizing classic hits :lol

i doubt it's gonna be $20 anytime soon though. their most recent big entry was Fighter Z which came out in January 2018 and is still going for a full 60 on the PS store. and that one is also a ripoff considering they have 2 different "season passes" still being sold for $35 and $25 respectively

Was Budokai an RPG series on PS2? Or more action games?

[spurraider21]

Was Budokai an RPG series on PS2? Or more action games?
budokai was almost a pure 2D fighting game... they had a "story mode" which was basically some light filler between fights. budokai 2 literally had you taking turns moving pieces on a board

https://pm1.narvii.com/6517/e387167ad1fd78f6e014a7bd2a25fcda97596f2f_hq.jpg

budokai 3 had a different system, which again, was just a segue between fights. fly to the red dot on your map. if you look around you can find random items, though

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qnngxysBZ0Y/maxresdefault.jpg


the new game just looks like budokai 3 with a marginally more interactive environment, but the fighting/combat is so watered down... the combat is always what made these games, and you're trading off a deeper combat system for much nicer cutscenes

[baseline bum]

budokai was almost a pure 2D fighting game... they had a "story mode" which was basically some light filler between fights. budokai 2 literally had you taking turns moving pieces on a board

budokai 3 had a different system, which again, was just a segue between fights. fly to the red dot on your map. if you look around you can find random items, though

the new game just looks like budokai 3 with a marginally more interactive environment, but the fighting/combat is so watered down... the combat is always what made these games, and you're trading off a deeper combat system for much nicer cutscenes

So poor man's Street Fighter with Dragonball characters and a world map? Guess I'll pass on this series.

[spurraider21]

So poor man's Street Fighter with Dragonball characters and a world map? Guess I'll pass on this series.
yeah, it was definitely in the street fighter/mortal kombat mold. world map was trash, never the real appeal. and they didnt even have cutscenes. were just still shots of characters with voiceovers.

FighterZ from 2018 has a lot more of the marvel vs capcom look to it, and has been generally reviewed well. i've never played it though.

its really for fans of the series... but imo budokai 2/3 had very good combat. this recent one at first glance looked like it had potential to be an actual game, but the actual gameplay footage i've seen look like trash. the only nice thing about it is the cutscenes that have much better animation than the anime

[Chris]

Playstation Now Free Trial for 7 days

[spurraider21]

ign gave Kakarot a 7/10... with basically the same complaints. beautiful cutscene animations for a great retelling of the story with underwhelming gameplay and polish. i dont think ima spend money on that just for nice cutscenes :lol

[baseline bum]

ign gave Kakarot a 7/10... with basically the same complaints. beautiful cutscene animations for a great retelling of the story with underwhelming gameplay and polish. i dont think ima spend money on that just for nice cutscenes :lol

IGN gave shitty GTA IV a 10/10 so fuck them.

[DJR210]

IGN gave shitty GTA IV a 10/10 so fuck them.

:lol your hatred for GTA IV is unmatched

[baseline bum]

:lol your hatred for GTA IV is unmatched

Nope, IronMexican hates it just as much.

[Reck]

GTA 4 aged so badly. Mario Bros from SNES plays better. :lol

[baseline bum]

GTA 4 aged so badly. Mario Bros from SNES plays better. :lol

I thought GTA IV was shit back in 2008.

[Reck]

I thought GTA IV was shit back in 2008.

Why exactly? Other than the driving what didn’t you like about it?

[Joseph Kony]

Gonna play Nino Kuni II after i finish RDR2. anyone play it before?

[baseline bum]

Why exactly? Other than the driving what didn’t you like about it?

Niko was a fucking pussy. Roman was annoying. The story was shit. The missions were repetitive. The city was boring. Not even Lazlow was funny. The only good things in the game were the Ricky Gervais standup acts and those variety shows at the Russian club. Otherwise fuck that game.

[spurraider21]

I hated GTA IV as well.

Im gonna start RE2 next then jump into Skyrim

[apalisoc_9]

I hated GTA IV as well.

Im gonna start RE2 next then jump into Skyrim

you gonna play cod soon or what

[apalisoc_9]

the new cod is really good.

[spurraider21]

you gonna play cod soon or what
not a chance man... my backlog is absurd right now. dont have time for a multiplayer timesink

[140]

I played the shit out of cod mw back in the day, the mp was really fun. good times tbh. Might check this new one out when I get a new gpu

[baseline bum]

Damn, Cyberpunk 2077 got delayed from April until September because they couldn't make it run well on ShitBox One.

:pctoss

[Xevious]

Damn, Cyberpunk 2077 got delayed from April until September because they couldn't make it run well on ShitBox One.

:pctoss
That's one game console players might as well wait for next gen. It'll be as bad as trying to play Dragon Age: Inquisition on XBox 360 was.

[baseline bum]

That's one game console players might as well wait for next gen. It'll be as bad as trying to play Dragon Age: Inquisition on XBox 360 was.

I hope these fuckers don't double dip, and give a patch to upgrade the PS4 release for people who have PS5. Now that PS4 to PS5 ports should be pretty trivial double dipping is going to look really bad.

[DJR210]

I hated GTA IV as well.

Im gonna start RE2 next then jump into Skyrim

RE2 is the shit, be prepared for multiple playthroughs. I watched some playthroughs of RE3 on Youtube, and I'm pretty excited to bootleg that once it's out as well. Skyrim I couldn't recommend at this point even though I have about 400 total hours over multiple characters and platforms. I had more fun with ragdoll physics and modding than actually playing through the game tbh.

[Xevious]

I hope these fuckers don't double dip, and give a patch to upgrade the PS4 release for people who have PS5. Now that PS4 to PS5 ports should be pretty trivial double dipping is going to look really bad.
Oh I'm sure they'll double dip. They'll find some bogus reason to justify it, like omitting parts of the game for current gen versions or something and putting it back in for next gen.

[baseline bum]

Oh I'm sure they'll double dip. They'll find some bogus reason to justify it, like omitting parts of the game for current gen versions or something and putting it back in for next gen.

I don't know, I don't think it's a given. The game could easily be released with VSync to 60 fps and PC settings and textures for PS5. It's not like all the PS3 to PS4 double dipping or 360 to XBox One where they had to rewrite the game for a wholly different processor and gpu. Supposedly the reason we never got RDR1 on PC nor the current gen consoles is because the codebase was so completely fucked by optimizing for 360 and PS3, for example. Which is about the only reason that makes any sense for why Rockstar wouldn't have tried to print money with an RDR1 remaster in the leadup to RDR2.

But if PS5 can only play the newest PS4 games at PS4 Pro quality I think it's really going to hurt enthusiasm for the system, and when you piss gamers off initially it's hard to come back from that (see XBox One with the always on DRM that never even got implemented).

[Reck]

Do any of you guys watch Games Done Quick? Started watching it last year out of sheer boredom and got hooked.

apalisoc_9 (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=11260) Some dude wrecked your game Sekiro in under 2 hours.

[spurraider21]

started RE2 last night... goddam research management is a bitch. i had a drop a health item and then immediately proceeded to get hurt :lol

considering how spongy the zombies are, ammo seems much more scarce than TLOU

i havent figured out the safe combinations yet... i know i'm missing something. and ive been opening the other little locks just by brute force, manually trying all the combinations. the exception being leon's desk because it was based on the names of the people occupying cubicles next to you

i also got that weird rod thing with the jewel, but no use for it yet.

[baseline bum]

i know i'm missing something. and ive been opening the other little locks just by brute force, manually trying all the combinations.

LOL I did that shit too instead of investigating to find the combinations. Kind of dumb of them to put locks in you can bruteforce in five minutes. :lol

[Joseph Kony]

Nino Kuni II is so good. Nice change of pace from i've been playing lately, gameplay is super fun and the story is actually pretty solid for being cartoonish

[baseline bum]

Nino Kuni II is so good. Nice change of pace from i've been playing lately, gameplay is super fun and the story is actually pretty solid for being cartoonish

You played the first yet?

[Joseph Kony]

You played the first yet?

nope, but i probably will now. i was looking for a JRPG to play and this was on sale for 20, i noticed a lot of the reviews said they 2nd is not related at all to the 1st story wise so i said fuck it. but i'm enjoying this so much im definitely going to check it out

[baseline bum]

nope, but i probably will now. i was looking for a JRPG to play and this was on sale for 20, i noticed a lot of the reviews said they 2nd is not related at all to the 1st story wise so i said fuck it. but i'm enjoying this so much im definitely going to check it out

The first is generally considered one of the all-time great JRPG and it's out on pretty much everything now: PC, PS4, XBox One, Switch, and PS3. Though Switch and PS3 you'd be running at 30 fps, while the others can do 60 fps I think. It was originally a PS3 exclusive and a lot of people consider it the best game on the PS3. And yet I still haven't fucking played it even though I bought it 3 years ago. :lol Fucking backlogs

[Reck]

What is this game about? BB has mentioned this game before. Drakengard type?

[baseline bum]

What is this game about? BB has mentioned this game before. Drakengard type?

Nothing whatsoever like Drakengard. Drakengard is more like Musuo games than JRPG.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5BE1Vw5B3M

[apalisoc_9]

ni nu kuni one is a 9/10. Super fun

[Joseph Kony]

What is this game about? BB has mentioned this game before. Drakengard type?

not sure about the first but ni no kuni ii is about a president who randomly gets transported to another realm as a coup is taking place against a child king whose father recently died, and you must flee the kingdom and rebuild. gameplay wise it's like a mix of final fantasy / dark souls / nier / devil may cry.

[baseline bum]

not sure about the first but ni no kuni ii is about a president who randomly gets transported to another realm as a coup is taking place against a child king whose father recently died, and you must flee the kingdom and rebuild. gameplay wise it's like a mix of final fantasy / dark souls / nier / devil may cry.

Really, wow, guess I was way off thinking it was nothing like Nier. I'll have to check it out at some point.

[DMC]

Damn I stopped playing the COD campaigns after Ghosts since they went with stupid futuristic crap in Advance Warfare, and I never went back. So is the new Modern Warfare's campaign as awesome as the campaigns used to be in the original Modern Warfare series? That ghillie suit mission in MW1 might still be my single favorite mission ever in a FPS campaign.

This is the best campaign by far of all the franchise. I've re-run the night missions "going dark" a dozen times and I still find new ways to do it. The only bitch I have about CoD MW (like others in the franchise) is that they go back to the well too many times with being knocked down and having someone help you up as scene transitions. I get the limitations presented but my character seems to be the most needy fuck on the planet at times.

[DMC]

Yep, last year's CoD campaign was great... wanted more missions, tbh

Have you tried the Co-op?

[Joseph Kony]

Really, wow, guess I was way off thinking it was nothing like Nier. I'll have to check it out at some point.

well, i've only played the 2nd one of that too :lol and i just meant they are similar in that they're both hack and slash jrpg games

[spurraider21]

i think im close to the end of my leon playthrough, i've reached the NEST lab... RE2 is a very well-made game. though at one point in the sewers i had to kill 3 consecutive weird swamp monster things which drained just about all my ammo. i wonder if i could run past those things, but i dno, they do a lot of damage and your character doesnt really run in this game

[baseline bum]

i think im close to the end of my leon playthrough, i've reached the NEST lab... RE2 is a very well-made game. though at one point in the sewers i had to kill 3 consecutive weird swamp monster things which drained just about all my ammo. i wonder if i could run past those things, but i dno, they do a lot of damage and your character doesnt really run in this game

God damn you blast through games fast. :lol

Next week I half expect to read a post saying you platinumed Persona 5.

[spurraider21]

God damn you blast through games fast. :lol

Next week I half expect to read a post saying you platinumed Persona 5.
its easy when my wife is a student who knocks out around midnight and my work schedule is on PST so i dont sleep till around 4-4:30 :lol

but leon is still my first run. apparently claire gets her own as well. i think i'll do better on the ammo conservation side second time around.

[ElNono]

I just finished the Spyro remaster trilogy, and started re-playing the Uncharted Collection (1, 2, 3). Such good games. Thinking of replaying GoW in Give me God of War mode.

[baseline bum]

I just finished the Spyro remaster trilogy, and started re-playing the Uncharted Collection (1, 2, 3). Such good games. Thinking of replaying GoW in Give me God of War mode.

Spyro better than Ratchet & Clank? Fuck off with your replaying talk, I know your ass has the sequel. Throw a burrito with a michelada in one of the previews for the PS5 reveal so I'll know it was your ass tbh. Also, will PS5 have PS6 forward compatibility?

[Reck]

I just finished the Spyro remaster trilogy, and started re-playing the Uncharted Collection (1, 2, 3). Such good games. Thinking of replaying GoW in Give me God of War mode.

:lol One of the greatest, most satisfying collect-a-thon games I've played.

I remember getting stuck on Spyro because I didn't know what the fuck to do back in the day but it was still fun. Now that I know what the fuck I'm doing, it's just that much more fun and rewarding.

[ElNono]

Spyro better than Ratchet & Clank? Fuck off with your replaying talk, I know your ass has the sequel. Throw a burrito with a michelada in one of the previews for the PS5 reveal so I'll know it was your ass tbh. Also, will PS5 have PS6 forward compatibility?

Not better, but pretty great anyways. I didn't play the originals on PSX, so this was a great way to see what it was all about. Just good old fun games, reminded me a lot of Jak and Daxter.

[baseline bum]

Not better, but pretty great anyways. I didn't play the originals on PSX, so this was a great way to see what it was all about. Just good old fun games, reminded me a lot of Jak and Daxter.

So what are your thoughts on the 2060 Super after having it a while? Tried anything with RT on it? As bad as the current values are on gpus I'm still kind of itching to pull the trigger on a 2070 Super. Despite playing on 1080p. :lol

I'll probably still wait for PS5 official specs and to see if Nvidia has anything on 7nm at Computex. Still sucks not being able to play Control though which looks really cool but I don't want to play on weak ass PoorStation 4 hardware.

If Cyberpunk and Dying Light 2 hadn't gotten delayed I would have probably bought a 2070 Super or 2060 Super by now, despite all my bitching about Turing being such shit for the money.

[ElNono]

So what are your thoughts on the 2060 Super after having it a while? Tried anything with RT on it? As bad as the current values are on gpus I'm still kind of itching to pull the trigger on a 2070 Super. Despite playing on 1080p. :lol

I'll probably still wait for PS5 official specs and to see if Nvidia has anything on 7nm at Computex. Still sucks not being able to play Control though which looks really cool but I don't want to play on weak ass PoorStation 4 hardware.

If Cyberpunk and Dying Light 2 hadn't gotten delayed I would have probably bought a 2070 Super or 2060 Super by now, despite all my bitching about Turing being such shit for the money.

Haven't really pushed it much yet. I started to play with some RT here at home, and the idea was to get going on it at the start of the year, but as soon as I came back from the break I had to jump into a plane and head out to a Studio to assist them get a game wrapped up, and it's just been taking all of my time.

I do really want to play Control on it, I've seen it on the RTX 2080Ti I have it at the office and the difference is quite noticeable.

What's more interesting after doing a lot of reading is that you can probably get some RT done on Pascal too (RT shadows, maybe even reflections), and I wouldn't be surprised to see support for that soonerish if that's not already out there.

[spurraider21]

I just finished the Spyro remaster trilogy, and started re-playing the Uncharted Collection (1, 2, 3). Such good games. Thinking of replaying GoW in Give me God of War mode.
i only played the original spyro the dragon on ps1... i remember it being quite good. remasters feel worth a pickup to you?

i played UC 1-3 remasters too. they were solid, but imo UC 4 was substantially better

[ElNono]

i only played the original spyro the dragon on ps1... i remember it being quite good. remasters feel worth a pickup to you?

i played UC 1-3 remasters too. they were solid, but imo UC 4 was substantially better

They're well done, and since it contains all 3 games, they're a decent deal ($30 in Amazon right now, you can probably pick it up for same or cheaper on a PSN deal).

Nathan Drake collection is free for + members this month, and even though I played it before, it's been a while, and they're such good games.

[baseline bum]

Haven't really pushed it much yet. I started to play with some RT here at home, and the idea was to get going on it at the start of the year, but as soon as I came back from the break I had to jump into a plane and head out to a Studio to assist them get a game wrapped up, and it's just been taking all of my time.

I do really want to play Control on it, I've seen it on the RTX 2080Ti I have it at the office and the difference is quite noticeable.

What's more interesting after doing a lot of reading is that you can probably get some RT done on Pascal too (RT shadows, maybe even reflections), and I wouldn't be surprised to see support for that soonerish if that's not already out there.

Man I think looking up benchmarks for Control with RTX last night after this post really cured me right then of the desire to buy a 2070 Super. Even with a $500 gpu you're looking at running DLSS from 720p to get 1080p 60 fps with RTX on high in that game.

[baseline bum]

They're well done, and since it contains all 3 games, they're a decent deal ($30 in Amazon right now, you can probably pick it up for same or cheaper on a PSN deal).

Nathan Drake collection is free for + members this month, and even though I played it before, it's been a while, and they're such good games.

I didn't like the first much. I probably would have loved it if I played it in 2009, but the controls felt so bad on the remaster (never played the PS3 original). But 2 & 3 were fucking brilliant. I heard 3 played like shit on PS3 but it was rock solid on PS4. I always wonder if Lost Legacy is worth picking up though. I see it for $10 all the time but wonder if I'd even play it if I bought it since I have a backlog that's going to be really hard to retire. :lol

[baseline bum]

Ugh that wait until March 31st is going to be brutal.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHVbI9wjM4U

I'll probably end up getting the game in Japanese too at some point, but my 日本語 isn't 上手 enough to really play the game enjoyably yet in its native language.

[spurraider21]

I just finished the Spyro remaster trilogy, and started re-playing the Uncharted Collection (1, 2, 3). Such good games. Thinking of replaying GoW in Give me God of War mode.
didnt comment on this earlier, but yaaaas.

playing a regular new game on GMGOW is pretty brutal, and particularly so in the early stages. before reaching the lake its a really high/frustrating learning curve. and then for the most part it becomes manageable-ish with some notable exceptions:

- basically all the side quests seemed much more difficult
- first 2 dragons
- brok's side quests with the ring. the first one has a pretty big arena/battle before facing the soul devourer. the second one has the section with multiple dark elves
- sindri's first side quest with the different rooms
- helheim and niflheim were more of a pain
- aside from side content, the dark elf boss and the magni/modi battle were much harder

i didnt think valkyries were significantly harder, with the main exception being that you could no longer rely on boy's arrows to disrupt the aerial attacks. you have to manually throw your axe

overall, i think playing GMGOW on NG+ was an easier experience, except the valkyries were significantly harder, since i they get different attacks on NG+

[apalisoc_9]

didnt comment on this earlier, but yaaaas.

playing a regular new game on GMGOW is pretty brutal, and particularly so in the early stages. before reaching the lake its a really high/frustrating learning curve. and then for the most part it becomes manageable-ish with some notable exceptions:

- basically all the side quests seemed much more difficult
- first 2 dragons
- brok's side quests with the ring. the first one has a pretty big arena/battle before facing the soul devourer. the second one has the section with multiple dark elves
- sindri's first side quest with the different rooms
- helheim and niflheim were more of a pain
- aside from side content, the dark elf boss and the magni/modi battle were much harder

i didnt think valkyries were significantly harder, with the main exception being that you could no longer rely on boy's arrows to disrupt the aerial attacks. you have to manually throw your axe

overall, i think playing GMGOW on NG+ was an easier experience, except the valkyries were significantly harder, since i they get different attacks on NG+

scrah its sekiro time. da hell

[ElNono]

didnt comment on this earlier, but yaaaas.

playing a regular new game on GMGOW is pretty brutal, and particularly so in the early stages. before reaching the lake its a really high/frustrating learning curve. and then for the most part it becomes manageable-ish with some notable exceptions:

- basically all the side quests seemed much more difficult
- first 2 dragons
- brok's side quests with the ring. the first one has a pretty big arena/battle before facing the soul devourer. the second one has the section with multiple dark elves
- sindri's first side quest with the different rooms
- helheim and niflheim were more of a pain
- aside from side content, the dark elf boss and the magni/modi battle were much harder

i didnt think valkyries were significantly harder, with the main exception being that you could no longer rely on boy's arrows to disrupt the aerial attacks. you have to manually throw your axe

overall, i think playing GMGOW on NG+ was an easier experience, except the valkyries were significantly harder, since i they get different attacks on NG+

I haven’t played it again since release, so it’s gonna take me a while to warm up again, which I have no problem with considering it’s such a great game

[spurraider21]

scrah its sekiro time. da hell
theres no way ima play sekiro and then go back to the older darksouls game. its gonna be tough to play an older, less refined game after playing a newer one.

gonna plow through older games i have like skyrim and dark souls trilogy before touching sekiro

[Reck]

Ugh that wait until March 31st is going to be brutal.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHVbI9wjM4U

I'll probably end up getting the game in Japanese too at some point, but my 日本語 isn't 上手 enough to really play the game enjoyably yet in its native language.

It's two months, son. :lol

Delay not withstanding I can wait this out standing on my head.

[baseline bum]

theres no way ima play sekiro and then go back to the older darksouls game. its gonna be tough to play an older, less refined game after playing a newer one.

gonna plow through older games i have like skyrim and dark souls trilogy before touching sekiro

Dark Souls I & III still hold up pretty well after playing Bloodborne. They're slower games since they're more defensive but if you liked one there's little doubt you'll like the others too. I can't vouch for Dark Souls II though, as I never played it. Demon's Souls is the game that feels ancient in the series.

[baseline bum]

It's two months, son. :lol

Delay not withstanding I can wait this out standing on my head.

Game has been out in Japan for months. Pretty sure they can bang out a bad translation on time here. :lol

[apalisoc_9]

Ugh that wait until March 31st is going to be brutal.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHVbI9wjM4U

I'll probably end up getting the game in Japanese too at some point, but my 日本語 isn't 上手 enough to really play the game enjoyably yet in its native language.

time for sekiro

[baseline bum]

time for sekiro

In the backlog until I can either play it on PS5 at 60 fps or PC at 60 fps. So prob June at the earliest, as I'm not a big fan of the PC gpu market right now, especially after Cyberpunk and Dying Light 2 already got delayed until late in the year and with rumors of much better Nvida cards at Computex this year (early June).

[baseline bum]

Also I'll be playing P5S on February 20th. Not gonna wait for localization on this one since I can play it free on Switch.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH6bjQhpjrk

[Reck]

time for sekiro

Sekiro is a summer game, bro.

The mood has to be right.

[Reck]

Oh wait, we're getting Ghost of Tsushima this June/July.

[Reck]

Here's the best P5 castle theme song to get in the mood baseline bum


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

[baseline bum]

Oh wait, we're getting Ghost of Tsushima this June/July.

Man 2020 is so fucking crowded with new games. Kind of sucks that Sony is not going to reveal their hand for how the 2020 PS4 games will play on PS5 (eg PS5 performance patches for 60 fps or just run in PS4 Pro compatibility mode?) since obviously it would kill PS4 game sales in 2020 if they said you can run PC level versions of the game on PS5.

[spurraider21]

Sekiro is a summer game, bro.

The mood has to be right.
i dont know what that means unless you are still in school and have summer vacations :lol

[baseline bum]

i dont know what that means unless you are still in school and have summer vacations :lol

Probably means he wants to play it when there is the typical summer lull in game releases so that there is nothing new he's missing. I kind of agree, that's when I'll be most likely to play Sekiro too.

[spurraider21]

Probably means he wants to play it when there is the typical summer lull in game releases so that there is nothing new he's missing. I kind of agree, that's when I'll be most likely to play Sekiro too.
ah i see. its been a while since i've been out of games to play and waiting for a new release. ive had a backlog since the day i picked up my ps4

[baseline bum]

ah i see. its been a while since i've been out of games to play and waiting for a new release. ive had a backlog since the day i picked up my ps4

Yeah my backlog has gotten pretty ridiculous ever since I found Persona 5. That got me back into JRPG for the first time since the early to mid 1990s where I was really into Final Fantasy IV & VI, Crono Trigger, Shadowrun, Super Mario RPG, Earthbound, etc back on SNES. That one game got me to buy a fucking Playstation TV, a Vita, a New 3DS XL, a PS2, and a Switch, I kid you not. And the fact that the PS TV, Vita, 3DS, PS2, and Switch are all hacked makes it even worse. :lol

And just to head off the inevitable question about WTF is a Playstation TV:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KGzaz4y8Jg

[FrostKing]

Picked up a used copy of the new COD

This game ranks near the top of the series. No flaws that come to mind. The maps are well rounded, the weapons and perks are also. No glitches or really cheesy shit either. The sound effects beats out BF1. If I were 10 years younger I would be entirely engrossed in this game. Well done.

[spurraider21]

i finished Leon's playthrough... now I unlocked Claire's "second run" or I can go back and play Claire's regular run.

is there some specific order im supposed to do these? seems weird to have a claire "second run" before playing her first one