Video Game News and Miscellany
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GasBandit
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Sorry, they only want Danes from Europe, these days. Denmark is, like, a villain factory apparently.
Give it a few years, Wallonia's the only hold out in all of Europe refusing to ratify CETA, so we'll be the villains soon enough.
Deal, but the script you have to read from is machine translated, and you cannot change any of it.
I can do a mean Gollum.
Also a nice Smeagol.
Also a nice Smeagol.
Welp.
...So, I know they're planning on doing multiplayer with it. I wonder if they'll try to acknowledge it in the story mode with a Magnificent Seven-inspired plot?
Planned for PS4 and XBONE only right now. So... no reason for me to care about this. At all.
GasBandit
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Ugh. WHY, Rockstar. You used to be cool. Remember when GTA was just a crappy 2.5d top down? On PC only? Those were good times. Now you think you're too good to dance with them what brung ya.
Yeah but the dam really broke with GTA 3, which was huge on consoles.
Rumor is that Nintendo will reveal the NX on Friday, and that it'll be priced at $299. I find both of those highly unlikely.
Nintendo tries to aim low, because they know it's hard to justify a Nintendo console when it's on equal footing with the competitors.
But for a console with processing power said to outdo the PS4 and Xbox One?
Seconded.
I'll care about this about 2 years when Rockstar wakes up and starts selling their game on the right gaming platform.
GasBandit
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The only inaccuracies I see in that picture are the 1080p/60+fps. That's like 5 years ago or more. Now, everything's talking about 4k/120+fps.
And yet we're STILL lucky if we get 30fps.
GasBandit
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In a port you mean?
Cause ever since I got my 1060, Overwatch has been pegged at 60 and stayed there
fade
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HD textures? Smooth gameplay? I don't even know what "smooth gameplay" even means. Ironically, I've had more hiccups and crashes from PC games than I've ever had with console games. I'm also not so sure I count "mouse accuracy" as a win. What's the challenge of aiming if all you've got to do is what every office employee with a spreadsheet does 1000x a day?
GasBandit
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Mouse accuracy is definitely a win. Console FPS games routinely have to incorporate aim assist because the thumbsticks are vastly inferior interfaces for quickly and smoothly aiming a targeting reticle. Compare trying to mouse through that spreadsheet with a mouse, to one of those little eraser nubs in the middle of the keyboard laptops used to use before touchpads became a thing.
HD Textures is also definitely a thing. A lot of games (like skyrim, for example) have high resolution texture packs you can download and install to replace the blurry shit textures they had to use on the default installation so that the consoles wouldn't gag to death.
As for what "smooth gameplay" means, and your PC crashing - well, I dunno how to explain the taste of fine steak to a guy who set fire to a barn and complained steak doesn't taste good
That nub is still my preferred laptop pointer device.
. . .and not just because it got me to learn all the keyboard shortcuts.
It's-a me, Mario! Hoo hoo, nice-a cans!
"Mamma mia! My mushroom is-a growing!"
GasBandit
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On one hand, keeping shit portable plays to Nintendo's strength in the handheld market.
On the other hand, no one is going to crowd around a tiny screen to play a game together on the go, no matter what the video implies, and I will miss a dual screen portable, since most of the games I enjoy use it.