Yup, while keeping their mouth shut works for a lot things, it is awful for many others.

The point is, hardware is powerful enough for native 4K, but instead of that power being used properly, games are made quickly and then upscaling technology is slapped on at the end. DLSS has become a crutch and Nvidia are happy to keep pushing it and keeping a reason for you to buy their GPUs every generation, because otherwise we are at diminishing returns already.

It’s useful for use on older hardware, yes, I have no issue with that, I have issue with it being used on hardware that could otherwise easily run 4K 120FPS+ with standard rasterization and being marketed as a ‘must’.

Legitimate upscaling is fine, but this DLSS/FSR ML upscaling is dogshit and just introduces so many artifacts. It has become a crutch for developers, so they dont build their games properly anymore. Hardware is so strong and yet games perform worse than they did 10 years ago.

Yes, fuck all this frame generation and upscaling bs.

Well, yeah, you are right. They only sell at a loss initially until the hardware is old and therefore cheaper.

Oh yeah, they will still have “cheap” ones, but they will make these “Pro” versions more and more expensive.

PCs are a lot easier to use than they used to be, you don’t have to mess around like you used to, just the initial setup (which is done for you if you buy a prebuilt one anyway).

But yeah, the initial cost puts people off, even though the long term savings are incredible. Ignoring the cheaper cost of games, just from the console online subscriptions over 5 years, you are saving over $400 (and the last generation of consoles was 8 years, so that’s well over $600 of savings).

I’d highly recommend anyone tries PC, you have so much more freedom than you do on a console. There’s a reason the PC market share is growing so fast.

Consoles exist to grift, now they are realising they might not need to sell the actual hardware at a loss anymore.

I agree, but people wouldn’t willingly watch that :D

The game awards is just an advertising show. I don’t understand why anyone watches it.

Like any awards show, the awards are completely subjective anyway, so it’s completely pointless to even care about them, it’s not like an old gaming magazine’s recommendations.

To be fair, I don’t remember the last time I had mobile signal without any sort of internet. The coverage pretty much overlaps these days.

I know it’s easy to say, especially in your case when its a kid, but just dont buy or play games with kernel AC.

These companies only understand money.

Anti cheat should be server side.

And CP2077 was in development for 7+ years, what’s your point?

That they are using UE5 this time, so they can cut more corners in development and have us a nice blurry mess out by the end of next year?

I don’t buy triple A games anymore unless it is really far down the line, so don’t worry. They would have to really surprise me.

I will believe it when I see it because I don’t believe their words at all. CDPR have good PR, but it’s still all corpo bs underneath.

This is already an early trailer, so it seems they are following in CP2077’s footsteps so far.

Seems a bit early.

Chances are it’s going to release full of bugs and be missing half the content they market to us.

Don’t believe anything these companies say, judge the game by how it releases, assume the typical modern day AAA bullshit until proven otherwise.

I completely agree, I never buy them.

How is it insane? These games are made to take your money, so they quickly get cheaper until they no longer make meaningful sales. It’s why you should never buy AAA games for the first 6-12 months (if ever honestly), they will very quickly be a lot cheaper after the publishers scam from the initial hype purchases.

The Fallout 4: New Vegas mod is still going strong though, lots of great assets consistently released from it.

Correct, I have not purchased Farming Simulator 25 and probably won’t. I might play it on game pass like I did for FS22 in a couple years. I have nothing against the game at its core, I sunk countless hours in to FS17, I just expected there to be actual meaningful (to me) upgrades by now, so it feels like Giants is taking the piss.

Other than the yearly part (time flies, my bad), it was all subjective. If you consider fog a meaningful update, then sure, go have fun buddy.

I criticised your favourite game, so it must not be for me.

I have played 4 of the Farming Sim games, and the last 3 have had hardly any improvements to the sim, other than some graphics and gameplay taken from mods. There’s so much they could add to the simulation, but they don’t and 3 years is quite a long time to iterate.

A yearly release would be fine if they actually upgraded the simulation, proper interactable interiors, more realistic crop simulation, better weather, realistic animal simulation (its literally just a menu), etc, etc, etc.

The collectors edition even includes modding tutorials, because they want modders to do their work for them.

All they do every year is upgrade some graphics to bring it in line with games from 2009. It is, as you say, a cash grab.

Thats fine, but if that is their focus, they should rename it to Competitive Farming or something instead of Farming Simulator.

Its the same game as the last few. They have made no actual gameplay additions, its becoming a lazy scam every year. Adding a reskinned crop isnt new gameplay.

As with most games now, the players are the playtesters.

Gearbox is just going to keep milking RoR, it’s a real shame Hopoo sold it.

They haven’t really addressed the main concerns of the community though, it appears like not much has changed since the initial beta launch.

Mentions lack of mods on consoles in both posts, maybe a console player a bit angry their platform is locked down? Either way, yep, they clearly don’t participate in the mod space much, so should probably spare their opinion on the matter.

Yikes.

Creation Club goes against modding values, which is why people hate it. It’s Bethesda’s attempt at profiting from ‘mods’, they don’t actually give a shit about modders being paid. But honestly, CC shouldn’t even be compared to mods, it’s content Bethesda contracted people for and then they sell it on CC and keep the money.

Nobody is asking for free content from modders, most create mods out of passion and the players enjoy that, they can always open donation links that people can use (I have donated to many mod creators in the past, have you?). The best mods are created this way and without the player freedom, the quality of content would be a lot worse overall or simply not exist.

People will and are buying it anyway. It will go on sale very soon once sales slow down. They know it isn’t worth that much, but they know idiots will buy it anyway.

Then once it’s 10, 20, 30, 40, 50% off, people will think they are getting a deal, even though it still isn’t worth that much. Rockstar know exactly what they are doing.

Yeah, there’s so many games now, I can easily fill time before games are actually in a release state… a year after they actually released.

If they add denuvo they are clearly not very confident their game is worth the price they are asking, so why should we believe it’s worth that much?

Most games with denuvo are not even worth playing. If you are scared of piracy, then your game fucking sucked to begin with.

Happens a lot with streamers, they sit there rotting to an audience of yes men, if anyone doesn’t agree they can just remove their opinion, while making money. So it just reinforces the behaviour.

I have no interest in his content, but I hope he does change. But maybe you are right that he will just slip back again after fostering that toxic environment for another year.

Call of Duty is known for recycling as much as possible to pump out yearly games, I was actually surprised to hear they convinced management to give them time to rebuild the engine.

Besides, doesn’t Bethesda Game Studios have more employees than Infinity Ward?

The fuck do they mean they will try?

“Oh no there’s no way we could possibly break out of these invisible shackles we put on ourselves”

They just dont want to invest the time to overhaul the engine or start from scratch. Even Call of Duty managed to do this.

Generally makes it worse though. It’s an engine built with shortcuts for a ‘good’ looking game. Obviously developers can skip these shortcuts, but rarely do.

Yikes, that’s unfortunate… well for anything that is left of Halo.

Yeah, multiplayer is preferred in their data until the 45+ age ranges. Weird article.