All Things Videogame Related: EXTREME VS!!

[Tking22]

Black Myth Wukong looks pretty good, but I don't have a gaming PC and never will so until they iron out the really, really, really, really rough PS5 version I'll be waiting. 

 

[Black Valkyrie]

 

 

 

[mikeszekely]

55 minutes ago, Black Valkyrie said:

 

 

 

Grabbed it on Steam this evening.😉

Too bad SOTN and Rondo of Blood are still stuck on PlayStation...

[no3Ljm]

 

[Old_Nash_II]

Game for macho

 

 

[mikeszekely]

I decided to pick up Gundam Breaker 4.  Only a few missions in, but here's my early impressions:

Good: Way better than New Gundam Breaker...

Bad: ...but not as good as Gundam Breaker 3.

Ugly: I bought it on Steam, and my main display is a 32:9 5120x1440 ultra-wide OLED.  And, what with Bandai's proclivity to develop primarily for console, the game really wants you to have a 16:9 display, but unless you play in a window (where it drops to 720p) it also insists that you play in desktop resolution.  In my case, the game decided that the best way to get from 16:9 to 32:9 is to drawn the full width of the monitor and simply cut the top and bottom of the screen off.  Not only could I not see half of what was going on, I actually couldn't see basic HUD elements.  I was eventually able to get the game into a more playable state by first going to the Nvidia Control Panel and, under "adjust desktop size and position," change the scaling from "aspect ratio" to "no scaling" and checking the box where it says "override the scaling mode set by games and programs."  Then I went into the game's config file and manually edited the resolution settings to 2560x1440.  Now when I launch the game I have a 16:9 image that fills the vertical height of my display and simply leaves the sides black.

[Scyla]

So I was really looking forward to the PS5 Pro announcement both replacing my old PS4 Pro and my ancient gaming PC (the phone I‘m typing this post with is probably magnitudes better than my PC)

But damn, what a letdown. $700/€800, no disc drive, same old ginormous, ugly box.

I would have been ok with the price if it came with a disc drive and had a slimmer design (similar to the PS4 to PS4 Pro).

I think I would rather buy a new gaming PC instead of this.

Disappointing:  https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/console-gaming/ps5-pro-confirmed-new-playstation-will-cost-dollar69999-on-november-5-with-larger-gpu-and-pssr-upscaling

Edited September 10 by Scyla

[Valkyrie Hunter D]

On 9/4/2024 at 12:54 PM, Old_Nash_II said:

Game for macho

 

 

TOO macho.

[Tking22]

Wow, $700, no disc drive, that's an $80 upgrade, no vertical stand? Really? That's a paid upgrade. frakk right off Sony, I highly doubt we'll see this scalped like the PS5, a moderate hardware improvement, at an absurd price, with bad caveats....

[no3Ljm]

I'm old. I think my gaming console day will end with PS5.

I even told my 15 year old son that by the moment PS6 comes out, he's probably working part time or something. Then he can sponsor it.

[mikeszekely]

My friend was really hyped for the announcement but I fell asleep and missed it. No regrets. My PC is still good enough.

[azrael]

1 hour ago, no3Ljm said:

I'm old. I think my gaming console day will end with PS5.

I even told my 15 year old son that by the moment PS6 comes out, he's probably working part time or something. Then he can sponsor it.

Consoles have somewhat started becoming more of HTPCs so some folks have opted to use them as more of "entertainment" console. That being said...

I heard this PS5 Pro was coming. 67% price increase for what looks to be a minor spec bump or the equivalent of a higher spec SKU. Yikes. It probably makes no sense to upgrade if you already have a earlier-gen PS5. But even as a new-purchase, you could probably build a equal or better HTPC.

[Chronocidal]

The last console generation I bought into was the PS3/360/Wii, and I think it's just going to stay that way.  I might get a Switch II, just because Nintendo is still a rather unique perspective in the market.

Playstation and XBox consoles at this point though are just glorified PCs with custom UIs, and very few games for either don't wind up being on PC later anyhow.  I'm generally in no rush to play any game, so sticking to one platform to play everything makes much more sense, especially when my primary genre (flight simulation, with or without VR) is something that only exists on PCs to begin with.

[mikeszekely]

36 minutes ago, Chronocidal said:

The last console generation I bought into was the PS3/360/Wii, and I think it's just going to stay that way.  I might get a Switch II, just because Nintendo is still a rather unique perspective in the market.

Playstation and XBox consoles at this point though are just glorified PCs with custom UIs, and very few games for either don't wind up being on PC later anyhow.  I'm generally in no rush to play any game, so sticking to one platform to play everything makes much more sense, especially when my primary genre (flight simulation, with or without VR) is something that only exists on PCs to begin with.

I like Nintendo consoles for Nintendo games. And I keep buying Xboxes, but it's because I have Game Pass. That says, I do like when I can play a game on my PC then pick it up where I left off on the Xbox in the living room.

Despite their dominance in the last couple generations, it's PlayStation that I've gone cool on. Most of the games I want are already on PC. The last time I turned my PlayStation on was a year ago, for Spider-Man 2... a game that's likely to wind up on PC eventually.

[Big s]

17 hours ago, Scyla said:

So I was really looking forward to the PS5 Pro announcement both replacing my old PS4 Pro and my ancient gaming PC (the phone I‘m typing this post with is probably magnitudes better than my PC)

But damn, what a letdown. $700/€800, no disc drive, same old ginormous, ugly box.

I would have been ok with the price if it came with a disc drive and had a slimmer design (similar to the PS4 to PS4 Pro).

I think I would rather buy a new gaming PC instead of this.

Disappointing:  https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/console-gaming/ps5-pro-confirmed-new-playstation-will-cost-dollar69999-on-november-5-with-larger-gpu-and-pssr-upscaling

First time I can think of where an older console getting towards the end of its lifecycle cycle getting a higher price release rather than a lower discount price 

[Old_Nash_II]

In Brazil, we guess around R$ 7000 digital version XD

Edited September 11 by Old_Nash_II

[davidwhangchoi]

 

[Black Valkyrie]

 

I am also getting old, I`ll be only staying with classic gaming. 

 

[Old_Nash_II]

Honestly, I thought it was some kind of MUGEN or something.

[Old_Nash_II]

Good revival

 

[Old_Nash_II]

RPG with a touch of nostalgia.
I used to play a lot with a friend at a rental store, on a PS1. Since it was in Japanese (and we didn't know any Japanese), we based ourselves on the rule of "always select the 1st option" when there were options.
Of course, that's why there were some annoying but also hilarious situations (Jessica's bath...).
Good times of my youth.

[mikeszekely]

Ghost of Yotei, a sequel to Ghost of Tsushima, was announced today. On the one hand, yay, GoT was one of my favorite PlayStation games and I'm excited for it to get a sequel. In the other hand, I wish Sony did simultaneous PC releases instead of making me wait two or more years after. I haven't touched my PS5 in probably a year, and I don't know that I'll dust it off for one game.

[JB0]

1 hour ago, Old_Nash_II said:

RPG with a touch of nostalgia.
I used to play a lot with a friend at a rental store, on a PS1. Since it was in Japanese (and we didn't know any Japanese), we based ourselves on the rule of "always select the 1st option" when there were options.
Of course, that's why there were some annoying but also hilarious situations (Jessica's bath...).
Good times of my youth.

I wish they'd quit remaking the remake. There were some huge narrative changes in Silver Star Story that make it significantly less interesting than The Silver Star was. I miss my badass triple-crossing Nash.

[Old_Nash_II]

Double Dragon Revive Gameplay.

Looks good since Neon

 

[Old_Nash_II]

Unexpected

 

[TangledThorns]

BIG NEWS TODAY! Hard to believe its been 10 years as the first game still looks good today. I just hope the sequel looks and plays as good as the first!!

Alien: Isolation 2 Confirmed

https://www.ign.com/articles/alien-isolation-2-confirmed

[Old_Nash_II]

Another mobile game for console

Wait for the Reactive

[mikeszekely]

1 hour ago, Old_Nash_II said:

Wait for the Reactive

Gonna be a looooong wait. No one has made a definite statement, but the unofficial word is that Reactivate is dead.  

[Old_Nash_II]

As TF Galactic Trials came out, I went after the gameplay to see what the game was like, since the trailers didn't please me that much.
It's not that it's bad, it has a very basic lore, even a little childish, apart from the feeling of a cell phone game. I define the gameplay as a mix of Mario Kart and F-Zero from 64. Anyway, it's not a game for me, maybe when it becomes cheaper, I'll buy it (paying R$ 108 for a game like this is bullshit, I didn't even pay the Macross).
Wait now for the late (or not) Reactivate (it's been a while without any update on it)

[mikeszekely]

18 minutes ago, Old_Nash_II said:

maybe when it becomes cheaper, I'll buy it

This is kind of where I'm at.  I want to play it, what with me being a huge Transformers nerd, even I don't think it's a $40 game.  When it goes down to $20, maybe.

[Tking22]

Got to play Monster Hunter Wilds beta last night, and yeah, GOTY 2025 for sure.

It's just so good, bits of World, bits or Rise, tons of QOL improvements all around, it's an absolute banger for sure! I only got two play about three hours last night, but I'm off all weekend and the beta runs until Monday, definitely looking to put a few dozen hours in this weekend trying other weapons and building better combos. Gotta say, this and Space Marine 2 are getting it right, full crossplay between all consoles and PC is absolutely the way to go.

[Valkyrie Hunter D]

 

[sh9000]

Tetris Forever.

 

[no3Ljm]

 

[davidwhangchoi]

@mikeszekely is Gundam breaker 4 for switch a good game?