No.100291
>>100285I do not buy games easily. If it doesn't require online functionality, there's a good chance I won't.
No.100295
Very surprised how well Switch emulation works on my 8 year old computer with a 1050ti. Playing Fire Emblem Engage with no noticeable slow down.
No.100296
>>100295I managed to get breath of the wild running on a wiiu emulator, and I was pretty stoked but I didn't actually enjoy the game that much heh. If I had played it ten years ago I would have appreciated it more I think.
No.100303
>>100296I just don't have time for 100 hour games anymore, I can well and truly understand the appeal of such things but I'm so short on free time as it is it's hard to justify even getting started. I'm also just very burned out on the "Open World Action/Adventure Game with RPG Elements" pseudo-genre on top of that.
No.100304
>>100303I'm a neet so I do have time for these sorts of games, but that isn't what turned me off the game. Tbh I don't think I can really put my finger on why I didn't like it. Could be the nearly decade or so of trying to get it to work on emulator but not having a good enough computer to get above 15 fps. Game felt way too easy too, and the movement was kind of floaty compared to older zeldas.
No.100305
>>100302I don't know if this is true in general, but this was proven to be the case for Bethesda. It's a major reason for why they cut so much content out of Oblivion and FO3 apparently. Meanwhile New Vegas uses compressed audio and no one could tell the difference. If they were doing this 20 years ago, I can only imagine what the bloat is like now.
No.100307
>>100302>I can't remember where I heard it but I thought it was something like uncompressed audio specifically driving up the file sizes of modern games to comically inflated levels. I'm not sure if a study has ever been done but I'm pretty confident most people can't tell the difference between a higher bitrate .mp3 and a completely uncompressed .wav or whatever (and I wouldn't be surprised if many people who insisted they could do so were among them).>This has to be intentional collusion with storage hardware companies, nothing else explains this kind of negligence, does it?executives don't care
managers don't care and/or lack technical knowledge
devs are complacent, ignorant and/or lack curiosity
the workplace is also highly political. if some dev at, say, bethesda asks "hey why don't we try 96kbps OGG Opus for voice audio instead of uncompressed WAVs cutting their filesizes to less than 1/10 the original with no perceivable quality difference", the idea will either eventually get punted aside through the company's bureaucratic process or will just get outright rejected by a lead dev or manager with a "you don't know what you're talking about, and don't waste our company's time, focus on your current task" or an "i dunno, maybe later" (nicer way of saying "no i don't care") and never actually follow up
No.100311
>>100308>there is no post-gameLike every other zelda goom then
No.100315
>>100311Last Zelda game I played was 25 years ago on the 64
No.100318
>>100305I played a renpy visual novel once that was thirty gigs because of uncompressed flac audio. Audiophiles are diseased in the head.
The other brainworm that leads to games being hundreds of gigs is 4k textures (which look indistinguishable from 1080p). They're absolutely massive.
No.100351
>>100308I guess the direct sequel is the post-game lol.
No.100353
It has come to my attention that there are a lot of Three Houses fans that hate Engage for retard nigger-cattle reasons. The thing they whine about most is the story, even though more than half the games in the franchise have a basic good guys vs big evil guy plot. I haven't played Three Houses yet, but if the dog shit story in Fates is anything to go by, I doubt Three Houses is a literary masterpiece. That Three Houses was apparently the only Fire Emblem game to do well in the West is not an encouraging sign either. Really only the Jugdral games and the Tellius games have writing that stands out in a good way for this franchise in my experience. They are also butthurt that the game doesn't have a pairing system LMAO!
There's a lot this game does balance-wise that prevents you from cheesing, which I really like. It's much more difficult to create a situation where you can grind off an enemy that you've rendered helpless for example. In this game if you lose the weapon triangle your weapon gets knocked out of your hand, which prevents OP units from just slaughtering every enemy since they can render you unable to retaliate. Also bosses have revival stones, which makes them harder to rush down since they have multiple lives. I'm only about a 3rd of the way through the game, but I honestly think it's one of the best balanced games in the series, and I suspect the people who think otherwise in terms of the game being "too easy" on lunatic were probably trivializing the game with DLC or something. Despite the improvements this game added, it's sad that IS will probably feel the need to suck westycuck dick by not implementing these mechanics into future games just because it didn't sell as well as Three Houses.
No.100358
>>100355Save state is too broken and let's you accumulate infinite knowledge and practice.
No.100362
>>100358Plus it's functional immortality as long as you don't live too dangerous a life. It says you die if you're killed but you could heal any nonfatal injury just by laying down and going back in time.
No.100366
>>100355Camera so that i can spy on people
No.100368
>>100355The in-game economy superpower is literally just describing being a neet/homeless person. You can't get a loan or a credit card if you don't have a job/have bad credit. Seems so mundane compared to the rest.
No.100383
>>100368if you think about it- the player character in most RPGs is basically a violent drifter
No.100384
>>100383It's the life every man secretly craves.
No.100389
>>100384Too bad I can't just kill bandits IRL and take their stuff, because the guards are a lot more hostile about such things. It would probably be difficult to put a complex legal system in a game without making it boring and restrictive.
No.100391
>>100389You literally can. The irl bandits hang out at the sprawling homeless encampments and nobody gives a shit about them.
No.100393
>>100391I like sleeping in a heated room and washing my ass daily too much to be a hobo.
No.100395
>>100393RPG heroes sleep on bedrolls in the woods or break into random peoples houses and sleep in their heated rooms heh.
No.100417
>>100391You're lucky to have sprawling homeless encampments. There aren't any homeless camps in my state because the draconian police would destroy them and run them off within mere days. Here it's a highly regulated boomer hell
Here it's Lawful Evil. Sounds like you have Neutral Evil
No.100465
>>100464i hate the "cari" and "aesthetics wiki" discord troons so much
No.100466
>>100465>>100464I have no idea what you're talking about lol.
No.100469
>>100466there is a trend at the moment of treating any tech commodities (digital camcorders, cd players, mp3 players) & media (videogames, websites, ui design, music etc) from 2000-2006 as "vintage" and hip & cool among zoomers who didn't really get to experience using them. they like digital collages of those things.
but they want more of a social media molded picture-collage mood-board version of early 2000s than the real thing (e.g. in terms of software actually installing the obselete version of a program in a virtual machine and seeing how good or shit it was).
i posted screenshots from some old websites & forums and hacking shenanigans on /g/, i don't think they were impressed seeing cement commieblock gray gui of windows 98 and old ie & mozilla browser or that it correlated with their social-media-youtube digital-nostalgia-version of that time period
sites like "aestehtics wiki" and "cari" are like tv tropes about it that then get quoted by youtubers, but they are more of a creative-fiction of people obsessed with trying to give a label to everything than historical analysis
you can even sell fake camcorders to em for that "y2k" vibe, the ebay goons are hyping up ewaste like old digital cameras and cd players. even the "compact discs" are "physical" format of human fulfillment now.
No.100470
>>100469so imagine some kid who is all about that mystical aestheeetic y2k internet but then when you show it to him non-sanitized version of how was and what people considered edgy and funny at the time he recoils
No.100472
>>100470to be fair, speaking of old forums and sense of humor, even reading like 2005 4chan threads, lots of them would be considered very corny, low quality shitpost spam nowadays, but they will tell u how superintelligent everyone on internet was back then until the evil steve jobs started selling iphones in 2007
No.100473
>>100472people were so intelligent that you could hack a website typing
http://4chon.me/../../../../etc/passwd No.100507
>>100498This is a solid game with a nice peppy soundtrack and decent gameplay and graphics. I'm guessing despite it holding its own with regards to quality compared to the system's greats it must have been a huge flop for it to have never gotten any follow up.
No.100640
>>100607The recoil isn't as forgiving as it looks! Actually many of the automatic weapons are almost useless at even moderate distances because of it, (I've been messing with the Lever Action for this reason, hoping to have a good balance of potential engagement ranges heh) the real standout is the health-to-damage ratio which feels more like Halo than it does Counter-Strike
That said, yeah the Counter-Strike formula truly is the best there ever has been and ever will be, something about its arcade style movement with more "realistic" weaponry is unmatched in how it feels even today.
No.100644
Is it redundant to have a 360hz monitor if I'm getting 100~ fps in games on my 4060 RTX heh
No.100661
>>100644Which one do you have?
No.100677
>>100655I have heard people say that Avowed shouldn't be compared to TES, it should be compared to games like BioShock as that was more of the developers intention, thoughts?
No.100678
>>100661After a little sleuthing it turns out my best current monitor is a 100hz/5ms LG, I think I bought it nearly 8 years ago along with my dilapidated Sager laptop which, funnily enough, would drop signal constantly; that whole time I assumed it was the monitor, learning only more recently it wasn't, my laptop was just fucked up out of the box.
Anyway, in this instance I ended up going with a 240hz/1ms monitor rather than spend the extra hundred or two dollars more on a 360hz/.5ms. I mean it's gotta be diminishing returns at that point right? Especially with my less than stellar hardware. If I had a desktop 4090 instead of a notebook 4060 maybe I'd consider it. I've never bought an AlienWare anything before because I'm not a fan of over-the-top designs like that, but the price was reasonable (<$300) and the white shell matches up favorably with the rest of the stuff in my living room (all of my gaming consoles are white heh).
No.100680
>>100677I'm not sure how you could make that argument. They aren't even the same genre of game. Bioshock is a linear corridor shooter fps, and Avowed is an open world fantasy RPG (the sequel to Obsidian's crpg game Pillars of Eternity).
It sounds like cope from seething Obsidian fanboys who don't like the unflattering comparisons between their game and literally every other open world rpg released. The daggerfall comparison is an april fools joke (and disingenuously uses a bunch of daggerfall unity mods that add content not found in Todds original vision) but it's still pretty funny that a game from 1996 has shit like npcs that walk around and have schedules while Avowed doesn't.
I'm looking forward to the final nail in the coffin. Arena vs Avowed.
No.100693
>>100690Ehrm...it's like, marginally better than the Steam Deck (I think) bigot!
No.100696
>>100693We actually don't know that yet, RAM and GPU wise. Resolution-wise, no.
No.100717
>>100693>>100696Games made for Switch are better optimized than PC games and that trend will most likely continue with Switch 2. So it doesn't matter that Switch 2 will have 12GB of RAM and Steam Deck has 16GB of RAM. AFAIK Hogwarts Legacy didn't crash all the time on Switch like it did for PC. Companies see that PC gamers are more willing to tolerate bugs, crashing and lag than console gamers and wait longer for patches (even after the refund policy expires) than console gamers, where "day one patches" are the standard since the Wii U generation. They've figured out they could increase profits by substantially cutting labor costs intended for quality control for PC games, because customers are mindless retards who don't understand they reward bad behavior with their spending decisions. It's easy to gaslight PC gamers because customer service (if they have any, usually it's one dude they hired from India who calls himself "David" on a forum that posts once a month that vaguely addresses any of the complaints, or no humans at all, just an automated "AI" system) can just say "oh it's a problem with your end on Windows, please run a virus scan, please reinstall Windows, please ensure you have a genuine copy of Windows, please reinstall your graphics card driver, try upgrading to the recommended spec of RTX 4090 if problems persist", dragging it out until refund policy expires and just going in circles or ghosting the customer with a final message of "I will inform our engineers." This is how TPTB want customer service to be like for every business and government service.
No.100718
>>100717Deranged nintendie ravings.
No.100730
>>100710Given the limitations of my PC (which I don't plan on upgrading any time soon), a 1080p monitor is fine and it's more about the mechanical performance (the higher refresh rate/response time) that's important. Is it odd that this monitor came out in 2022? I thought 4k has been the modern standard for longer than that so it seems strange a display intended for gaming has such a dated resolution. I guess perhaps back then gaming in 4k still wasn't as common-maybe it's not that common even now.
Anyway, it seems to work well. My "Gamer Mid-Life Crisis" is mostly sated for the time being.
...heh
No.100734
>>100733This. Unless your screen is absolutely massive you can't tell a difference between 4k and 1080p. And even if you could, it would be so marginal that it isn't worth anything.
No.100735
>>100733I dont see the point in going over 1080p. For most of the things you do, you use 1080p. Upscaling just doesnt look good. And 4k movies usually look worse (bad transfers)
No.100736
>>100733For computer monitors, yes.
For televisions, it's 8k that's the meme.
I honestly don't think the human retina can resolve higher than 8k on a standard TV screen.
No.100737
1080p is fine. I grew up watching 480i on a standard CRT, 240p online videos with tons of graphical artifacts, and to this day 720p is good enough for me, frankly. These days you don't really even have the choice to use lower resolutions. Hell, even trying to play games on the PS3, released 20 years ago with VGA cables made the text in most games nearly unreadable. Stuff like that is noticeable. Even if the human eye can technically see the difference between 1080 and 4K, it's information your brain is just going to gloss over. It's not like people are casually pausing on frames, so they can meticulously analyze it like some museum curator.
No.100739
>>100737I have a 720p tv and it's perfectly fine. I think resolution is something people get hung up on for no reason. What's more important is the content you are watching, not the machine you are using to watch it.
No.100757
https://www.pcmag.com/news/nintendo-switch-2-price-cheaper-cost-in-japan-but-theres-a-catch
>US gamers will pay $449.99 for Nintendo’s Switch 2, a significant price bump from the $299 first-generation console. But in Japan, the console will be more affordable. In Japan, gamers can get a Switch 2 for about $343, but it only supports the Japanese language and won't work outside the country.https://www.ign.com/articles/nintendo-made-a-much-cheaper-japanese-language-only-nintendo-switch-2-and-even-duolingo-is-poking-fun
>As Japan is the only country in the world offering a mono-language console option for a cheaper price, this means players content to play in Japanese can save over $100 compared to the system the rest of the world has to buy, which is selling for $449.99 in the U.S.
>In some experts' opinions, the inflated international price may well be a result of U.S. president Donald Trump's recently announced international tariffs. "Nintendo probably factored in possible tariffs, the current inflationary climate in the world and the $700 Sony dared to charge for the PlayStation 5 Pro last year," said Dr. Serkan Toto, CEO of Kantan Games.https://www.forbes.com/sites/olliebarder/2025/04/05/multi-language-switch-2-in-japan-feels-like-an-anti-scalper-strategy/
>Nintendo’s move to lock out the cheaper Japanese version from international sales by making it region-locked to Japanese games feels like a way of countering the scalpers who are currently making a fortune on the current Switch. No.100760
>>100757There are places it's more expensive than the US, then. They will still probably manufacture and sell original Switch consoles for $300-350 (and they will out sell the Switch 2, same as they continue to outsell every other video game console ever made)
No.100765
>>100757The price difference doesn't mean anything. The real problem is the region lock bullshit. Right now the Switch is very comfy and a lot of games just have language options you can change at your leisure instead of having separate versions for separate regions. It looks like there might be a situation now where we won't even be able to play JP only games, because they're only on the Japan E.shop, which doesn't work outside of the country. That's pretty kiked. If the international versions are region free though, then I don't give a shit. Frankly, if 450 dollars is a big deal to you then 350 dollars should be too much for you also. Can't brokies just stop CONSOOMING for 5 minutes?
No.100820
>>100814Tbh the way Nintendo is going I can genuinely see some sperg on GitHub get so furious at them that be codes a Switch 2 emulator and distributes it by Telegram or some shit, out of abject hatred for anti-consumer practices.
No.100824
>>100820Ryujinx is over 500k lines of code and Yuzu is almost 800k lines of code.
It's not something one guy can do in a relatively short amount of time for a complex project, as in the commit statistics you'll see it's teams of people, who've collaborated on Discord, worked on both emulators to make them playable. Both had Patreons to fund their labor.
One could use gitee.com (Chinese) and gitflic.ru (Russian) to evade DMCA and Japanese lawsuits.
https://gitee.com/L1024201879/yuzuhttps://gitflic.ru/project/mattscreative/ryujinx-mirrorInstead of Discord, who not only have instantly shut down their Discord channels, but would also gladly hand over personal info to Nintendo lawyers, they should've self-host Matrix chat on a Russian server.
Ironically Andrew Anglin knows how to evade website takedowns and handle online financial transactions better than these naive nerds.
No.100826
>>100824What about uhhhh....Revolt is it called? I think it's a decentralized Discord clone
No.100841
>>100831A damn shame geraldina of my shelikal bromance
, trooned out.
No.100845
>>100841This is the first time hearing about this. I just thought the dude became fat and talentless.
No.100847
>>100845The pictures will hurt your eyes. I can't even look it up and save a pic and repost it. It's that bad. Worse than gore.
No.100854
>>100851I'M OKAY NOW
BUT YOU REALLY NEED TO LISTEN TO ME
I'M TELLING YOU THE TRUTH
I MEAN IT, I'M OKAY
TRUST ME
I'M NOT OKAY
I'M NOT OOOKAAAAAAAY
No.100856
>>100854Oh him. Not sure how I didn't realize that lol.
He looks better than I expected considering he's a nearly 50 year old man. Seen far worse, unless anon is referring to a pic I'm not seeing.
No.100857
>>100854I am not surprised.
No.100942
This mechanical keyboard is so goddamn loud even with extremely gentle operation I feel like I'm terrorizing my neighbors what the fuck heh
>t. never had one before
No.100946
>>100943I'm not usually up until/past 4 like this but I woke up early and have been on a tear since yesterday helping an internet friend with "defrauding" their employer. They recently landed a job similar to my own but told the whitest of white lies (imho) and fibbed on their resume about their work experience. I have worked in the field for 12 years and have been writing down every minute detail about what I do and how to do it for their benefit.
It's a simple retail job but there's actually a lot of nuance to it and I'm kind of enjoying speaking about it to someone who's genuinely invested/dependent lmoa
No.100947
>>100946>Hello I would like to scrub toilets an arrange dino nuggies in the freezer room in total humiliation for minimum wage from 6pm to am, please give me a job so I don't have to be homeless>Okay everything seems to be in order with you applicat->OY VEY >What's this? You said you had a year's unpaid experience in mop handling working at Avid's Anal Enterprises but it was actually only 364 days and 23 hours and 59 minutes and 59 seconds?! I'm calling my lawyer/mohel cousin Shmule immediately you fucking criminal fraudster!!!I would wish only the most painful death upon email-senders and toilbergs, inshallah.
No.100952
>>100942Mechanical keyboards are the best, tho. The noise is very soothing.
No.100990
>>100946This is actually quaint to read because the person that lied assumes that the HR corporate managerial class that enforces the state's gayops doesn't fib on their resume. Constantly.
No.100992
I would just like to make a general statement:
photorealistic graphics is in the top 3 worst things to ever happen to video games.
Vidga going from niche to mainstream is also in the top 3.
I'll leave you to guess what the 3rd and last one is.
No.101000
>>100935I heard jimmy fallon made this image using AI
No.101023
>>100992>I'll leave you to guess what the 3rd and last one is.DEI slop?
No.101027
>>101023DEI is what happens when the hobby goes from niche to mainstream
No.101034
>>100992Microtransactions and "live service" are both contenders for number 3. In fact I'd place either of those higher than realistic graphics. They turn video games into casinos for children. You can't even call it a mainstream normie thing because they're targeting a very specific demographic of superwhales who really buy into this shit.
No.101044
>>101043It's all just ESG and DEI. There's nothing organic about hiring w*men to program video games.
No.101067
>>101062>based women that stay in their lane can make some cool stuffyou don't say?
No.101546
who /erenshor/ here?
No.101717
>>101713If the mid 2000s to 2010s had the piss filter, modern video games much have the doody filter.
No.101823
>>101674This game rocks, though I did think there were a few silly things in the mission I played earlier:
>"infiltration" style mission where you start with a special character and a small group of supporting units, pretty standard fare>come across multiple instances where you "rescue" more units but, they're just standing around in direct proximity to enemy forces with neither of them doing anything>often the units needing rescue outnumber the enemies lolI think they're meant to be fighting when you happen upon them, but because you're using a sniper character with a large pov and you're not a monkey with a 300ms reaction time you end up being able to see the units before you activate their proximity triggers.
>it's also possible this was just a one time error or potentially caused by me being on my Linux machine Other than that it's pretty good. While it looks like it's exclusively Command and Conquer it actually takes one specific element from Starcraft in the form of buildings producing units individually rather than in some weird aggregate that increases speed depending on how many buildings you have. I always thought the former made a lot more sense anyway so I'm not complaining.
No.101824
>>101823(that isn't a Starcraft exclusive feature actually-DUH-but that's just the first title that came to mind)
No.102047
>>102040Been loving this so far but its struggling graphically on some open world parts..like ffs Bethesda glitching is like a feature at this point.
No.102052
>>102040It's going to he shit because it has no mod support.
No.102053
>>102052Recent Bethesda games have never launched with official mod support, always adding it some time later.
Modding is still possible and Nexus already has a page for Oblivion Remastered with a growing collection of them
https://www.nexusmods.com/games/oblivionremastered No.102054
>>102053It uses UE5. It will have 0 mod support.
No.102055
>>102053Modding is still possible, but that is not the same as mods being supported. Mods are going to be extremely limited and the scene isn't going to be anywhere near as big.
No.102057
>>102040>horseback riding is now 3rd person only, no option for 1st person with the horse head bobbing up and down in front of you Wonder how many other shitty little limitations like this are peppered throughout
No.102086
>>102054>>102055I take it back, it seems UE5 is only used for graphics and the game is built on top of the creation engine. Sounds like some unholy shit, but the old construction set still works apparently.
No.102090
I just want to be able to remove the dot crosshair that is permanently in the centre of the screen.
No.102114
>>102086>unholy shitNot unheard of, though. Similar to the Halo CE and Halo 2 anniversary remasters which run the new graphics engine and the old one simultaneously.
Except with Oblivion here you can't switch to the old graphics with a button press, but maybe that could be modded in relatively easily
No.102145
>>101546samefag here
holy fuck I've been playing this at least 10-12 hours a day since last Tuesday, my dream game
No.102147
>>102146look up erenshor on steam
a completely intentional intended singleplayer MMO
No.102148
>>102147Novel idea, it's kind of visually unappealing but it's interesting conceptually.
I remember reading a book around my highschool years that featured a virtual medieval fantasy world in which the character across from you being human or not was completely indiscernible. Kind of seems like a primitive progenitor to that sort of thing. I have my reservations about AI but it seems inevitable that it will make some of those fantasies mused about in young adult fiction of the early 2000s a reality for better or worse
