Video Game Discussion Thread vol. 2

[Hecatom]

21 minutes ago, Hawkingbird said:

Forspeaken being a punching bag is likely more enjoyable than the game itself

 

 

 

The fact that the game runs at 720p at suboptimal 60fps (and even dipping low suboptimal 30fps at times) on performance mode on ps5 is hilariously sad.

How the fuck they fuck this game so badly?

 

[Hawkingbird]

13 minutes ago, Hecatom said:

The fact that the game runs at 720p at suboptimal 60fps (and even dipping low suboptimal 30fps at times) on performance mode on ps5 is hilariously sad.

How the fuck they fuck this game so badly?

Holy shit, I thought the PC version was badly optimize given it's hefty requirements. What were the delays for then?

[Hecatom]

Just now, Hawkingbird said:

Holy shit, I thought the PC version was badly optimize given it's hefty requirements. What were the delays for then?

Probably to add the slider of the banter 🤣

 

Edit

 

I think this is the 1st game running on the Luminous engine that is officially released, right?

Because originally FFXIII Versus was being developed on it prior the rebranding to FFXV and moving it to UE4.

 

I think that this game is like an experiment to see if they can salvage the work done on the engine and see if they can launch a game developed on it fully.

 

I assume that the engine being developed for old hardware has a hand into why it seems to be so unoptimized.

This is pure speculation from my part, but it seems that even now, they are still dabling with problems of both developing a game and the engine at the same time, which could explain the issues the game has.

Edited January 24, 2023 by Hecatom

[Wellman]

31 minutes ago, Hecatom said:

Probably to add the slider of the banter 🤣

 

Edit

 

I think this is the 1st game running on the Luminous engine that is officially released, right?

Because originally FFXIII Versus was being developed on it prior the rebranding to FFXV and moving it to UE4.

 

I think that this game is like an experiment to see if they can salvage the work done on the engine and see if they can launch a game developed on it fully.

 

I assume that the engine being developed for old hardware has a hand into why it seems to be so unoptimized.

This is pure speculation from my part, but it seems that even now, they are still dabling with problems of both developing a game and the engine at the same time, which could explain the issues the game has.

I believe the same. It frankly has some cool points from what I have seen but actually making it work as a game or even a engaging story seems to have not been the priority.

 

I don't think their CG animation attempts were successful with the Luminous tech so this might be the last project we see on it.

[Hecatom]

Can this man be more of a joke?

 

 

 

He is now on the same ballpark as retards like Brianna Wu

 

 

[Hecatom]

3 minutes ago, Wellman said:

I believe the same. It frankly has some cool points from what I have seen but actually making it work as a game or even a engaging story seems to have not been the priority.

 

I don't think their CG animation attempts were successful with the Luminous tech so this might be the last project we see on it.

 

Was the FFXV movie done on the Luminous engine?

 

 

[Chadouken]

5 minutes ago, Hecatom said:

Can this man be more of a joke?

Isn't he that retard who sucks at Metroid?

[BornWinner]

This topic has been discussed on Twitter for the past week.

 

Some pretty interesting stuff in the quotes. Glitches, old interviews, general trivia. Made me want to post my own useless trivia.

 

[Hecatom]

Just now, Chadouken said:

Isn't he that retard who sucks at Metroid?

 

Yup, the one that complained that the game was badly designed, and doubled down despite people pointing out all the design behind how the game leads you into how that area can be accessed by shooting at the floor there.

[BornWinner]

3 minutes ago, Chadouken said:

Isn't he that retard who sucks at Metroid?

I like how the creator of God of War and Twisted Metal is now just known as that idiot who couldn’t play Metroid. That’s him though.

[Faltimar the Dark]

 

 

Not sure if this is considered NSFW so I'll spoiler it.  She does some cool stuff and this one was street fighter related so I figured I'd post it here.

Spoiler

 

 

Edited January 24, 2023 by Faltimar the Dark

[Sonichuman]

59 minutes ago, Hecatom said:

Can this man be more of a joke?

 

 

 

He is now on the same ballpark as retards like Brianna Wu

 

 

I really wanted Forspoken to be good cause I want more varied representation to have great games under their belts so the industry will do more and not sales as a reason for why they've chosen to make generic bald headed lightskin dude #56 as the protagonist.  If the majority of people are saying this is bad then there's probably a good chance that the game is just bad.  If they want to try to pull that card that the game is being over scrutinized then they should look at their Deathloop review cause that game had really great scores when it came out nearly across the board and I bet those people they're accusing of being overly hard on this game because the protagonist is a woman or is black probably enjoyed that game.

[iStu X]

in addition to this, and as someone who’s played through every kingdom hearts game, Forespoken’s dialogue is fine. 

Edited January 24, 2023 by iStu X

[Hawkingbird]

We have reached a point where people are simply burned out on snark and everything needing to be a quip. On top of dialogue being cringe

Edited January 24, 2023 by Hawkingbird

[Hecatom]

43 minutes ago, iStu X said:

in addition to this, and as someone who’s played through every kingdom hearts game, Forespoken’s dialogue is fine. 

I would say that what makes it more annoying for people is the frecuency tjey have to listen to the bad dialogue due the banter between Frey and the bracelet. 

 

 

Is the same problem in High on Life

[Sonichuman]

I'm pretty sure the dialogue is whatever...the main concern/real issue is the performance of the game.   I think Jaffe and the others need to direct their frustrations less on people criticizing the game and ask why Squeenix felt they didn't need to put the polish they needed to on this game to make it run better.  From the sounds of things they didn't even try to put their best foot forward on it.

Edited January 24, 2023 by Sonichuman

[purbeast]

Elden Ring sucked so bad when I played it as a black woman.

 

But holy shit it was amazing when I played it as a white male!

 

/s

 

Also, check this time stamp out.  I can see how this can taken as them being completely tone def to our current world climate.

 

 

[Darc_Requiem]

2 hours ago, Hecatom said:

 

Was the FFXV movie done on the Luminous engine?

 

 

Not sure about the movie but the game was on the Luminous engine.  Difficulties with it is why the opted for UE4 in their other major titles like FFVII:Remake.

[Sonichuman]

 

Edit:

 

Edited January 24, 2023 by Sonichuman

[iStu X]

1 hour ago, Hecatom said:

I would say that what makes it more annoying for people is the frecuency tjey have to listen to the bad dialogue due the banter between Frey and the bracelet. 

You can adjust how frequent the banter is in the options. 

Edited January 24, 2023 by iStu X

[RSG3]

I played the demo with the Banter maxed it was no more often or annoying then Donald and Goofy ever where. 

[Hecatom]

 

 

[RSG3]

You know what game that had banter that was God damn fucking awful and yoy u couldn't adjust it or turn it off or nothing!?!?!

 

Dragons Dogma. Good game, but those pawns need to shut the absolute fuck up, I know this road leads to Gran Soren you obnoxious fuck. 

Edited January 24, 2023 by RSG3

[Hecatom]

28 minutes ago, iStu X said:

You can adjust how frequent the banter is in the options. 

I know, i played the game. 

What i am saying is that it could be one of the reasons why people feel the writing/dialogue sucks, since you have to listen to the marvel lame ass quips/ sarcasm a lot and from what we are seeing people seem to be getting tired of this kind of dialogue. 

 

Is it the worst I have seen, no, not really. (even if I personally dislike this type of dialogue now days) but when you combine it with all the other issues that the game has, people will probably be less forgiving about it

[Hecatom]

5 minutes ago, RSG3 said:

You know what game that had banter that was God damn fucking awful and yoy u couldn't adjust it or turn it off or nothing!?!?!

 

Dragons Dogma. Good game, but those pawns need to shut the absolute fuck up, I know this road leads to Gran Soren you obnoxious fuck. 

I played Dark Arisen where suposedly it was less frequent. 

Plus in japanese it wasnt really annoying since by the time I didn't understand it so I just filtered it as noise 😅

[RSG3]

8 minutes ago, Hecatom said:

I played Dark Arisen where suposedly it was less frequent. 

Plus in japanese it wasnt really annoying since by the time I didn't understand it so I just filtered it as noise 😅

I played Dark Arisen to, they are annoying there as well lmao. Just shut the fuck up they almost never say anything useful anyway lol. 

Edited January 24, 2023 by RSG3

[Hecatom]

17 minutes ago, RSG3 said:

Just shut the fuck up they almost never say anything useful anyway lol. 

 

Mine actually said some useful stuff at many points since she faced enemies I haven't yet, so she usually let me know weak points or used strategies/spells that tje moster was weak to. 

 

I guess that she being cute motivated people to use her, lol. 

 

My best friend ended running his party with my pawn as a mainstay due the high level and how useful she ended being with the info and spells she used. 

Edited January 24, 2023 by Hecatom

[Sonichuman]

 

[Sonichuman]

Higher quality Dee Jay vs. Dhalsim

 

[Hecatom]

 

 

Blizzard is such garbage of a company/studio nowdays, lol

Edited January 25, 2023 by Hecatom

[Wellman]

Honestly I do hope the Activision Blizzard deal works out for MS, they could use a better pipeline then the current one for game development to actually keep games coming out on time plus they can hopefully gut out the current trash profit driven culture.

[Sonichuman]

Speaking of Yuzo...He put up 3 videos over the past week. 2 based on Etrian Odyssey's music and the other is Streets of Rage 2 related.

 

[MillionX]

I wonder--- can you change the language-audio options in Forespoken?  I imagine it would be less annoying and may even be an improvement when you don't know what they're saying....and simply because certain languages just sound cool to me... like just to change things up in Diablo I have my Switch version of the game set to German language because it sounds more interesting (*there's a Japanese language option in D3 as well so I may try that some day) than hearing the same lines I've heard a million times already. 

 

The mention of Dragon's Dogma brought back some memories... that was another one of my favorite games of that time, though I never finished it; I was playing as a Sorcerer.  One of my friends made one of the absolute worst pawns that looked like Zangief from Street Fighter 2 (though I don't think that resemblence was on purpose).... that dude was hilariously awful...in every battle he was always the first one in critical trouble.  He was just dead weight every time so I quickly gave that pawn the boot in favor of a real one from a random person.  I made a pawn that was designed to look like Nina Dobrev (Elena/Katherine from Vampire Diaries).... some good times were had with that game.  I should get back to it; I have the Switch version now as well.

Edited January 25, 2023 by MillionX

[Sonichuman]

Extra

Edit:  if you ever need any more proof that Sakurai is just a good person in general then this is it. 

Edited January 25, 2023 by Sonichuman

[iStu X]

 

[MillionX]

Early first impressions of Hogwarts Legacy

Ok yeah I'm even more sold on this now.  

 

Edited January 25, 2023 by MillionX

[Sonichuman]

 

[Sonichuman]

Wonder if any of the slow down got fixed in the Goldeneye port...looks like it may have gotten better but its hard to tell.  I'm sure we'll find out in the coming days.

[Abbachio]

47 minutes ago, Sonichuman said:

Wonder if any of the slow down got fixed in the Goldeneye port...looks like it may have gotten better but its hard to tell.  I'm sure we'll find out in the coming days.

Having played Goldeneye 64 recently, it doesn't look like there's any slowdown in the video especially when it shows multiplayer with all the explosions. 

 

I very much recommend playing the emu version with mouse and keyboard mod, it plays so fucking well. Saying that though with a non-N64 controller and a "modern" control scheme it plays really well.

[Sonichuman]

Edit:....I thought they were going to do a wweeeeeee bit more work on Goldeneye for the Xbox buuut apparently I was mistaken.

Edited January 25, 2023 by Sonichuman

[Sonichuman]

Extra

When Joel does not have time

 

[Chadouken]

6 minutes ago, Sonichuman said:

Extra

When Joel does not have time

Man, I hope there's a scene in the show that's shot from behind Joel like that, showing him go all HAM. Seems like a wasted opportunity if not.

[Sonichuman]

 

[Hecatom]

[Hecatom]

The time of reckoning is here boys.

 

https://www.ign.com/articles/washington-post-is-closing-launcher-its-highly-regarded-video-game-website

 

More and more gaming sites will be closing this year.

 

BTW

 

 

Never heard of Launcher, perhaps that is why they are closing, lol.

[Darc_Requiem]

@HecatomI've never heard of them either. Anyone of the forum heard of Launcher before now?

[Sonichuman]

vids...Xbox dev direct is inside

Spoiler

  

Xbox Developer Direct

 

 

Edit:  Hi Fi Rush looks interesting.  Oh...It's a game made by Tango Gameworks too.

Edited January 25, 2023 by Sonichuman

[Hecatom]

14 minutes ago, Darc_Requiem said:

@HecatomI've never heard of them either. Anyone of the forum heard of Launcher before now?

 

I only know that it was the gaming site from Washington Post (who is owned by Jeff Bezos), and only know this, because the article.

[Sonichuman]

 

[MillionX]

Oh yeah, Redfall is a definite must for me... now if only it were easy to just walk into a store and casually buy a Series X though... instead of that Series S nonsense; nah I'm not settling for less...I refuse.  I miss those good ol' days when the only time of year where it might be a "problem" getting a system would be around Christmas shopping time.  ...anyway, I'm definitely playing the sniper with the invisibility power and ghostly raven companion.

 

Dragon's Crown---  was thinking about this one again lately; it hit me that I've actually never been able to cast the Wizard's meteor spell in combat.  It seems nearly impossible if you're playing solo, because of how dreadfully long the casting time is for that....in fact I can't recall any rpg I've played/liked that had any spell that takes that long to cast, with you being wide open to attack/interruption the whole time.  It's clearly intended as a move you can only get away with in multiplayer.