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[MrBrown]

https://www.pcgamer.com/ubisoft-ceo-defends-skull-and-bones-dollar60-price-tag-says-its-a-quadruple-a-game/

[Mamoulian War]

*inserts J. Jonah Jameson laughing gif*

[uuuhhii]

so people really trying to make 4a a thing

 

[Malcador]

Now I am curious as to why we have AAA ratings at all.  Finance? Beef?

[melkathi]

It's got something to do with battery sizes.

[melkathi]

Basically, by being quadruple A, Skull and Bones won't fit in any remote control.

Kinda pointless game then.

[Azdeus]

1 hour ago, Malcador said:

Now I am curious as to why we have AAA ratings at all.  Finance? Beef?

It's the amount of content they cut out of the game to sell back to you at a later date.

[Malcador]

https://www.gamesradar.com/diablo-4s-latest-microtransaction-controversy-is-a-dollar30-portal-recolor-you-can-get-palworld-for-this-price/

 

Daily Mail needs to get in on gaming news, easy rage baiting

Edited February 13 by Malcador

[LadyCrimson]

*snort* at "AAAA" game. I mean, if they were going to go there, why not just call it "S".

In other games, Tombraider 1-3 remake is almost here. Watching some footage I am undecided whether I like it. They seem to have respected it a lot and it does look better in some ways (there are small QoL improvements as well) but I like the brighter/less muddy lighting/colors/shadows of the original. EDIT: other videos show better lighting in some places, other places almost too dark etc). I wonder if you can turn the shadows low or off to mitigate that. EDITEDIT: you can flip between original/remake on the fly

I think it has a photomode too.    The biggest ? for me tho is whether I'd actually replay them.

Skip to 3:45 for gameplay. The (not in-game) story cutscenes don't look any better, just upscaled/smoothed a bit or something.

 

This YouTuber plays thru whole game plays highlights from all three I think, so you can look at different areas.

Edited February 13 by LadyCrimson

[Gorth]

Tomb Raider... that brings back memories

Fallout may have been the game that made me cave in a buy a PC (I bought the full game after trying the demo and it wouldn't run on my PC emulator). But Tomb Raider was the game that made me buy my first dedicated 3D graphics card/accelerator

https://www.pixelrefresh.com/3dfx-orchid-righteous-voodoo-1-where-3d-acceleration-truly-began/

Bye bye oversized chunky pixels (and Lara's giant chest triangles) and hello smooth flowing graphics. I still remember the rather loud click when the relay on the card enabled and disabled it

I spent an obscene amount of hours playing that game, exploring every nook and cranny, searching for the limits of the map and every secret I could find (the internet back then was not the internet of today)

[Wormerine]

18 hours ago, LadyCrimson said:

The biggest ? for me tho is whether I'd actually replay them.

Yeah, I very fond of first 4 TR games. I did play through through all 6 original TR (the last two horrible ones for the first time) and while I enjoyed it, I don’t feel the need to return to them. 

Once I found nothing that would satisfy my TR needs, but oddly enough Dark Souls filled that void - with its exploration, oversized environments, intimidating bigger than you enemies. And I would rather replay Dark Souls than go back to TRs at this point. 

[Mamoulian War]

Wrong thread

[Gfted1]

Lost Castle free on Epic: Lost Castle | Download and Buy Today - Epic Games Store

[BruceVC]

https://videogames.si.com/news/disco-elysium-dev-zaum-layoffs

Im not a big fan of Disco and its  one of the 4-5  games I have never completed but retrenchments  and  companies possibly going under  is never good news 

Apparently its  linked   to mismanagement?

[Mamoulian War]

1 hour ago, BruceVC said:

https://videogames.si.com/news/disco-elysium-dev-zaum-layoffs

Im not a big fan of Disco and its  one of the 4-5  games I have never completed but retrenchments  and  companies possibly going under  is never good news 

Apparently its  linked   to mismanagement?

Disco is in copyright dispute for a long time due to allegations of shay malpractices. Unfortunately no other outcome could be expected out of this

[LadyCrimson]

4 hours ago, BruceVC said:

Im not a big fan of Disco

Some disco songs were ok, but those pants back then were terrible. 

...sorry, I'll show myself out.

[HoonDing]

""Im not a big fan of Disco"

Since it's woke commie liberal propaganda, Im a big fan

[Lexx]

7 hours ago, BruceVC said:

https://videogames.si.com/news/disco-elysium-dev-zaum-layoffs

Company was f'd anyways, and it would have been impossible for them to follow up on Disco Elysium.

[kanisatha]

21 hours ago, LadyCrimson said:

Some disco songs were ok, but those pants back then were terrible. 

...sorry, I'll show myself out.

Hey I still have one of those pants!

[Wormerine]

23 hours ago, LadyCrimson said:

Some disco songs were ok, but those pants back then were terrible. 

...sorry, I'll show myself out.

 

[Wormerine]

On 2/16/2024 at 1:40 PM, BruceVC said:

Apparently its  linked   to mismanagement?

There has been a lot of drama at ZAUM for a while now, with key creators behind Disco getting fired from company and accusations being thrown back and forth between the fires three and the management. If you want to know more:

 

[HoonDing]

2h30' video

I really miss the old youtub days of max 10'

[Azdeus]

On 2/17/2024 at 8:51 PM, HoonDing said:

2h30' video

I really miss the old youtub days of max 10'

Yeah, it was so much more convenient to sit through 23 separate 10 minute videos to get the full picture. XD

[LadyCrimson]

On 2/17/2024 at 11:51 AM, HoonDing said:

2h30' video

I really miss the old youtub days of max 10'

Yeah...limits or not, a lot of uploaders now over-indulge themselves far too much re: video length/lack of editing. But I'd give that posted video slack since it appears to be documentary oriented/very specific-interest topic. eg, if one is really into that topic, maybe the longer the better.

On the flip side - generally speaking, I dislike "shorts" almost as much. I mean I get it, some silly/ent. content works fine with that but I wish TikTok hadn't made it such a dominant form so now YT keeps pushing it to compete. That's not what I go to YT for.

[Mamoulian War]

For me the perfect length for informational video is between 12 and 15 minutes. Longer videos I tend to skip more often than not. For LPs, I do not mind to watch two hours videos. And yes, there is a bigger chance, that I watch 10x 10 minutes series over a week, than a single 100 minute long  and yes, I ignore shorts as well. They are pest for shortening the attention span…