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[redneckdevil]

Killing floor 2 comes out on PS4 tomorrow, I know I'm gonna be binge playing that when I get off.

[Keyrock]

Firewatch had great dialogue, but I thought the story was nothing worth writing home about.

[Mamoulian War]

 

 

Games protected by Denuvo require an online re-activation for every hardware upgrade.

 

You want to change your GPU? That's one activation lost. Wanna change something else? There's another activation.

Denuvo activations aren't lost.

They are still activations. Something which does not belong to gaming.

[Labadal]

But I'm actually impressed with how many independent titles are on there - Firewatch, Inside and Oxenfree as contenders for best story? That's pulling above their marketing weight.

Oxenfree? I got it for free, courtesy of ShadySands but I didn't think it was anything special. I can appreciate what they were going for with their attempt on natural dialog, but it fell flat. The actual story isn't anything overly thought provoking, either.

[Rosbjerg]

Oh, I didn't mean to say that either Oxenfree, Inside or Firewatch are good stories - it's just interesting that such 'small' titles are so prominent on the list.

[Malcador]

https://m.soundcloud.com/scott-johnson-27/the-chris-metzen-interview

 

Interview with Metzen, talks of why he left Blizz

[Zoraptor]

 

 

 

Games protected by Denuvo require an online re-activation for every hardware upgrade.

You want to change your GPU? That's one activation lost. Wanna change something else? There's another activation.

Denuvo activations aren't lost.

They are still activations. Something which does not belong to gaming.

 

 

They also definitively make denuvo not just an 'anti-tamper' measure as claimed, unless they mean that it stops you 'tampering' with your computer hardware. Verifying and tying software to hardware is a definite DRM measure as you cannot use protected software until it's been reverified.

 

(Which kind of illustrates why those Eurogamer articles are trash, since they didn't even bother to challenge denuvo on that. Having said that, DRM discussion #32543 in a series of 100000 is a bit pointless, as everyone's positions are pretty set)

Edited November 17, 2016 by Zoraptor

[Fenixp]

Planet Coaster review

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYcJGlf6gFU

 

So basically 2016 was DOOM, longass gap, Everything Else.

[Nonek]

Apparently this is entering beta, and is being made by the devs behind "Eye: Divine Cybermancy" which is very...ambitious, broken, weird and definitely 40k ish.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCO0nWkKKsU

[Fenixp]

EYE contained some rather fun combat and co-op, altho I'm pretty sure WH40k doesn't contain cyberbrain hacking and doors that can hack you back which is a definite loss all things considered.

[Nonek]

It contains both, especially if one chooses to go beyond Imperial Servitor technology and explore Necron Necrodermis and Eldar Wraithstone controlled tech. As well as of course the perils of the Warp and their manifestations within the Materiums technology.

[Chilloutman]

EYE?

[Fenixp]

It contains both, especially if one chooses to go beyond Imperial Servitor technology and explore Necron Necrodermis and Eldar Wraithstone controlled tech. As well as of course the perils of the Warp and their manifestations within the Materiums technology.

True.

 

Don't think we'll get to see it in a Space Hulk setting, but I'm prepared to be pleasantly surprised.

[Nonek]

EYE?

Aye.

 

Edit: Sorry.

[sorophx]

EYE?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWoI9oCqPfM

[Deadly_Nightshade]

Killing floor 2 comes out on PS4 tomorrow, I know I'm gonna be binge playing that when I get off.

Do you know if they ever got cross-platform pay working? If so I'll gladly join you for a game or three (otherwise I'll not be able to given that I only have it on the PC and don't intend to get a PS4).

[Fenixp]

youtube.com/watch?v=oWoI9oCqPfM

I can feel the jank overtaking me! It is a good pain. Edited November 18, 2016 by Fenixp

[Deadly_Nightshade]

 

I would have bought pirated it if not for DENUVO.

 

 

Fixed that for you.

I see you're still accusing people of being pirates without any provocation or evidence. Some things never change...

[sorophx]

I can feel the jank overtaking me! It is a good pain.

there are two FPS-RPG games that I liked so much I wanted to play them non-stop, but that ultimately disappointed me: E. Y. E. and Hellgate: London. very similar games, they were trying to do what Borderlands eventually succeeded at: make a first-person Diablo game. 

 

I like this formula a lot more than I do sandbox games TBH. but there aren't many such games, unfortunately

[redneckdevil]

 

Killing floor 2 comes out on PS4 tomorrow, I know I'm gonna be binge playing that when I get off.

Do you know if they ever got cross-platform pay working? If so I'll gladly join you for a game or three (otherwise I'll not be able to given that I only have it on the PC and don't intend to get a PS4).

I don't think they have yet. I have it for PC as well, so if ya ever need someone to help slaughter, hit me up. I play a round or 2 at least every day lol

[Fenixp]

I like this formula a lot more than I do sandbox games TBH. but there aren't many such games, unfortunately

I would like it, if there was a game that did it well. Borderlands is nice, but bullet spongy enemies ensure that the shooting feels massively meh. Shadow Warrior 2 gives absolutely fantastic feedback from its guns and shooting is great, but progression and lack of level design leaves a lot to be desired. I'm not entirely sure I'd throw EYE in that bunch tho - it felt a lot more like Deus Ex than Borderlands, altho it was altogether its own thing. In which you could totally camp in the corner of the map and spend an hour hacking turrets and possessing enemy cyberbrains, because why the hell not.

 

I think a rogue-lite could work rather well with the model, but I don't think there's a good one which would offer randomized gun statistics.

Edited November 19, 2016 by Fenixp

[SadExchange]

Any update on how Killing Floor 2 is on the PS4? Wondering how it turned out.

[redneckdevil]

It's ****ing awesome. Very smooth, haven't noticed any dips in frame rate even when it's getting chaotic on the screen. The controls work great except one thing.

With Kb/m u can press a number key to go to a weapon. I'll go ahead and say it maybe me but I can't figure out how to go to weapons slots without just cycling through the weapons til I get to the one I want

[Oerwinde]

 

 

Well was referencing Mallory's quote more than defending Bioware's choice. Andromeda is the closest one, so makes some degree of sense. Can't blame them for wanting to not be handcuffed by the previous games.

Oh yes I think thats exactly why they're using Andromeda to wash their hands of any player choice in the last games. However in terms of closest viable colonisation they still have the 99% of the Milky Way to explore beyond the relay network, which would have worked just as well at insulating the game from its forebears, and make a lick of sense. Space being big they'd still even at near C velocities be effectively beyond communication with the previous worlds.

 

Look at what 40k can fit in the Milky Way, a near infinity of species and mysteries, yet the idiots at Bioware think that a hundred billion worlds is not enough, as i've said before moronic.

I was under the impression that the Andromeda initiative was a private enterprise set up by people who took Shepherd's warnings about the reapers seriously. So if the reapers routinely harvest the Milky Way, going to another galaxy makes sense.

[Keyrock]

Commandos-esque tactical stealth game Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun now has a free demo (on both Steam and GOG).  The demo is currently Windows only, but Mac and Linux versions should come before the game's release on December 6th.