I always need the dev console in Max Payne because I like setting the bullet time speed to half of what it normally is so it’s more Matrix-like.

And of course I have to have the plaza shootout level and kung fu construct (for the kung fu mod) from the film, too.

Sidenote: Altering the bullet time affects cutscenes. So, like, the part where the door blows off in the subway can actually kill you cuz the cutscene ends before the door is actually moving. But it also makes catching one of the bosses that you have to chase around the rooftops so much easier because he’ll still be monologuing when you get control after the cutscene.

That’s exactly what we keep yelling at the companies that keep trying, but some of them don’t listen, fire their staff for AI, and then regret it a few months later.

Just because it is incredibly awful does not mean stupid fucks in charge of companies won’t do it.

No HEAT.net?

The ratio between likes/dislikes would also be taken into account the same way star ratings are averaged.

You take the number of “recommendeds” of one game and compare it to the total “recommendeds” of another. One would likely have more than the other. Thereby making one rated higher than the other.

It’s already common to see rating systems primarily only get the lowest or the highest rating, effectively working out to be the same as a “like/dislike” system, similar to Steam’s “recommended/not recommended” system.

That’s what I ended up doing because I did wanna see the end, I just was done with the journey to get there lol

I get bored of the combat by the time I get to the Red Baron. Love the story; but the gameplay gets super repititve super quick.

Not to speak of this particular series one way or the other but… Popular things can also be poorly written. Case and point: Harry Potter.

I only just started Silent Hill F and the coolest visual I have seen was the very first “everything dissolves into the hellish world” scene.

It’s always been a staple of the series, but this time is looks so fucking cool with how it dissolves everything, not just the surface textures.

Kinda wonder if having a newer RTX GPU would make it look better; the settings for Lumen don’t really change how it looks, it just massively drops my framerate 🤷‍♂️

I remember that was the case for PS3 and BluRay, but not so much DVD and the PS2. PS3 was, what, $300? $400? Where as the cheapest BluRay player that just played BluRay movies was almost a grand.

I may just not remember it being similar for PS2. I was a sophmore in high school when it came out.

Switch being #2 behind PS2 is impressive given it has had a shorter lifespan. PS2 was on the market for 13 years. Switch has only been 9.

That’s one complaint I tend to ignore when seen mentioned, since the problem for me isn’t that the stealth is forced. It’s fine to have a stealth mission if the stealth mechanics work. The problem tends to be that it’s not just forced upon you, but also sucks shit making it more frustrating than it would be if the stealth mechanics were good. When shitty stealth is optional, nobody complains. When good stealth is forced, nobody complains.

The irony of putting corporate enshittification in a game that has a story loosely about the evils of capitalism (and the illuminati i guess) and the fans of that kind of story reacting appropriately to it is pretty fucking funny tho.

If it’s Outlaws imma laugh my ass off…

Edit: Racer Revenge. Never even heard of this one.

“Almost like” and “behaving like an independent studio” is vastly different from being one.

The only thing in this list I have even heard of is GTA6.

Elden Ring being 3rd and Baldur’s Gate 3 being tied for last is quite a surprise.

They are hooking the Raspberry Pi (or other) rig to the PC playing the game directly on the bus through a $20 PCI-E device, bypassing the RAM to get and manipulate info in the game for ESP and wallhacks.

Imma have to go through my YT history and try to find that video again.

I keep expecting to find some gnarly shit like was in the previous game and I haven’t found it. IDK if it’s just not there to find, or if the shit is even more esoteric than before.

I’m also quite confused by the fan tributes and favorites. Not against it, or anything, I just don’t understand things like why Mr. Tenna is so popular. 🤷‍♂️

The video I am talking about showed that people are just using Rasberry Pis these days to make effective undetectable aimbots, ESP, wallhacks, etc.

We probably won’t see a GTA doing it anyway because Watch Dogs, Crackdown and Cyberpunk are already basically that.

Saw a video about all kinds of modern cheats and once it got to cheap, easy to make hardware cheats that essentially could never be detected, I figured it was time to quit playing competitive online games. Paid for or not, the shit is super easy to do and super common to encounter even if you might not notice it because of how easy they can be to hide.

In order of most played recently to least played recently:

GTAV

Dark Souls Remastered

WWE 2k25

Is it 600+ players on a single server, or is it like WoW/UO/EQ where the game world is spread across multiple servers, so it’s not ever actually that many people on a single server? It was kind of important for PvP to know where the server lines were because crossing them caused a spike of lag as it switched the server you were on.

If it was a single server that would be impressive. Otherwise, it’s pretty laughable.

So if I log in to the game, I’ll have hella money for skins? 🤔

Edit: Dont even need the money cuz they also gave every player every skin, even dev only ones 🤣

Is it just more Ghost of Tsushima or does it add any new mechanics?

I actually liked Dying Light a lot more before the multiplayer update rebalanced everything. God damn single player game is now balanced for two people, even when you’re solo.

Why can’t we have boats and parrots? 😕

It’s a rare breed of game that gets me pre-ordering these days. It has to be something I know I will want, from a dev/publisher with a proven track record of making good shit and not being exploitative to customers, and be more about multiplayer than single.

I haven’t pre-ordered for any other reason since they stopped giving you physical swag for doing so (and it only was $5 down and could be cancelled for a refund while still keeping the swag and digital distribution wasn’t even a thing, so they actually could run out of copies).

That was the OG way of piracy. Except the hardware was, like, rum, sugar, and cannons. 🤷‍♂️

Just save what you would spend on subscribing to tbis dumb shit for a few months and build your own machine so you don’t have to throw money away on a subscription service.

The writing wastes a LOT of time.

The writing is the reason for playing the game. If that’s wasted time, maybe this kind of RPG isn’t your thing.

It’s also paraded as pro-communist media, and it really isn’t at all.

100% dependant on your play style. If you go down Socialist Cop route, it’s pro communism. If you go down the Crypto Fascist route, the game is pro-racism.

That’s why it is one of the best RPGs of all time; You have so much choice and agency that you get like 16 different versions of the same story, based entirely on what you choose to do, and those stories are written as well as any book.

Oooo… I would really like to own WWE2K25. I have it on PS+ but that will end in February and I am not gonna renew.

That’s different than what he had said about how he got started in the industry from years past and just seems like he’s trying to retroactively make himself look cooler; as if he needed to.

I’ve been using a controller more than M&KB for a few years now since I had an RSI. So much more comfortable; but absolutely shit for my aim without a really aggressive aim assist. 😮‍💨

But I’m more into soulslikes than shooters now anyway. Partly because of the above mentiomed RSI, but mostly because all the current shooters are not my jam. I don’t really like BR or extraction/survival shooters. I just want CS or straight up DM type games.

From what I saw of this whole debacle was that the CEO himself uses GenAI for mocking up things for presentations he gives to the rest of the staff, and not something they do in general at the studio.

I bet it’ll run a tad smoother now, too.

That would be glorious. Everyone does the dumb light cycles. Richochet is the better, cooler, Tron inspired game.

They have repeated that line in more recent interviews, also. The last big news that had any official statements about it was that the writer had some ideas, but the way Valve operates he can’t get enough interested team members together to actually do anything. Nobody else really wants to work on it; they have other interesting projects they would prefer to work on.