I wonder how things would have been like if Apple, not Microsoft, bought Bungie for exclusive rights to Halo. 🤔

The irony is that they actually have some pretty unique and creative ideas spread out in most of their open-world games despite the jokes about how they’re all the same. If they cared about making good shit and not just money, they could have a game that rivals or surpasses Grand Theft Auto.

Marathon being brought back as a live servive extraction shooter/battle royale was an immediate turn off for me, personally.

Everyone:

I’m just more committed to the bit.

I’ve been under the impression that it is very likely to be a sequel to Alyx. Possibly a launch title for the Frame.

But I don’t think any of the rumors expected a new Steam Machine. We thought it was gonna be a new Deck.

I was thinking about this in another thread where someone made this joke: With how much stuff Valve does outside of gaming, are we sure they have never done a 3rd iteration of something before? Like, they do business stuff too and are into a ton of random tech related things like BCIs. We only ever really hear about the game related stuff, tho. Or possibly when Gabe gets a new boat since they interview him on it.

I could have had one and didn’t get it because I never really go anywhere other than work. But boy did I regret it when I was at BLFC recently. My hotel roommates all had one and were playing Helldivers and Rocket League every night 😩

I could have brought my Quest… But I don’t have anything for the stand alone system; all my VR games are on Steam.

I hope the Frame is as cheap or cheaper than a Meta Quest 3. It’s almost identical in the specs, but goes back to monochrome external cameras instead of full color. But also has eye tracking which the Q3 does not. I want eye tracking so fucking bad… I set up cameras for it before I was like “Hold up… They can’t see my eyes with the headset on 😬” lol

Okay what the hell is up with the Frame?

It says it is a stand alone headset and doesn’t need a PC… Right before it goes on to say it’s meant to be used with a PC but wirelessly. Is it stand alone or not? If I have Beat Saber in my library, do I have to stream it from an actual dedicated PC or can it run straight off the headset like I can with a Quest?

Gimme this and the zipline tool.

I was kinda wondering if this whole thing is even real or just PR to hype up GTA6.

They have done some pretty questionable advertising by manufacturing controversies in the past for previous GTA games.

Maybe take a day or two off, Todd. The game might actually not suck if you aren’t involved.

Xcom 2 and other good games made for PC/console that have gotten Android ports.

But if you have a SteamDeck you’d be better off just getting the PC versions.

The only game specifically made for mobile I’ve ever found to be good is Pixel Dungeon and specifically the Shattered fork.

Friend of mine in high school was super into Star Wars Galaxy. Was pretty much all he did after school at the time. One day he got into an argument with his guild leader or some other member with thw power to remove him, and they kicked him from the guild. This pissed him off enough that he recruited another friend of ours to infiltrate the guild and then spent the next month or so getting to a position of power within it so they could re-add the original friend and kick everyone else out while also draining the guild coffers. Effectively destroying the entire guild.

I’m curious what you mean by this.

Netflix only went the way it did because they were liscensing shows and movies from other publishers/studios who could have, and finally did, take their shit back and start their own subscription service.

It’s not just Netflix that sucks now; it’s the whole of legit streaming video services becoming what cable was that got Netflix popular to begin with.

This is unlikely to happen with Steam, given that competitors are already trying to do what they can similarly and it has yet to actually do anything.

So I basically started using it the year it was made. I am 40 now, and I was about 10 when I originally found it. Cool.

I remember spending hours printing an entire walkthrough for Secret of Mana on my dot matrix printer back in the day. Got me all the way through to the final boss; but then the SNES itself died mid battle. 😩

The new Silent Hill 2.

The use of DLSS makes it look like a fugly, smudged mess unless you’re totally motionless. The combat is inconsistent; hit a monster, it gets stunned but then jankily cancels the stun animation to grab you or attack through your attack so it hits you but you don’t hit it.

Not sure what is better than the original other than the graphics when standing still. Even the voice acting is the same not good delivery as the OG, despite having been re-done.

Compared to Dishonored, Prey lacks all the movement. But I wouldn’t have compared it to Dishonored anyway; It’s more like System Shock 2 and is pretty good compared to that.

Unless they’re talking about the older Prey… 🤔

Hardcode mode

So if my PC crashes, I have to get a whole new one and start at the beginning?

You can import them from outside the country off the internet. You can’t go to the local Best Buy or phone seller in the mall and pick one up in person.

Elder Scrolls 6 has been in development 1 year less than GTA6. They originally planned to start in 2013, but didn’t actually start until 2015.

Understandable. It was a huge step down from SA in terms of world activities. 5 only managed to rise to levels above it in the online portion (and only through hella years of additions).

Why would anyone be excited for a series that now peaked 21 years ago, and has only had 1 other release in that time?

Did you forget about GTA 4?

They have 2 years left before GTA6 becomes DNF 2.0.

Another Crab’s Treasure is good.

No More Heroes is weird as fuck. But in a good way.

ARMA 3’s Altis map is too big.

Unless you’re flying a jet. Then it’s still too small!

Wolfenstein 3D (and the newer ones, too) with “Can I play, daddy?” with BJ in a baby bonnet and pacifier as the easiest option.

Does raytracing even make the game look noticeably cooler, anyway?

They used Poets of the Fall way the hell back then?! I had MP1 and 2 at launch; never got into the band. But got into them because Control has that one sound booth you can listen to Dark Disquiet in and they have been in my playlist ever since. 🤣

Quit messages in old shooters like Doom, Heretic, Quake, and Duke3d.

“Are you sure you wanna quit? Press N to continue kicking-ass and chewing gum. Press Y if you’re a little pussy bitch.”

So your reasoning for saying it isnt good is because you actually have to work to see it instead of it being spoonfed to you? Is that right?

It’s set inside the First House of the Bureau and you play as generic agents taking care of problems (which is still 90% the Hiss but there are, like, boss fights against “SCPs” like a traffic light and shit).

Were they expecting FBC to do numbers? 🤨

I dunno if it’s improved much, but at launch it felt like some kid’s janky-ass mod more than a AA game from Remedy.

And it was even dumber to set that kind of game in such a dope world when the game itself doesn’t have much exploration or even a plot.

That phenomenon is really just up to latency and The Finals, like most modern games, does not show you pings to help adjust to each opponent’s difference.

But if you had tried TF like 3 or 4 months ago, when it was literally bugged to the point that the entire game was desynchronized and what you saw was vastly different than what was actually happening I’d suggest giving it a try now. They finally fixed it. That bug was why I hadn’t been playing for a bit.

Elden Ring.

Or any of Mitazaki’s games for that matter.

They write so much shit down in making the games, but the player barely gets to scratch the surface with what they actually present in-game. This is actually really awesome because it lets you piece it all together without straight up telling you every detail.

Utility never goes outta fashion. 😤

Cargo pants usually have big enough pockets 🤷‍♂️

If you already have a BT controller (like any modern console’s controllers) you could just get a thing that lets you attach the phone to that controller. That’s what I did. They can be purchased for cheap, or printed yourself if you have a 3D printer.

1. HD2 is not an extraction shooter.

2. It does have MTX in the form of SUPER CREDITS and the stuff you can only buy with SC… You just can also earn SC for free if you grind hard enough.