Maaan, being a “FPS only with mouse and keyboard” dude is some olde tyme shit. Been pretty well optimized since (I guess?) Halo. I honestly prefer it now, but I am not a hardcore competitive shooter bro.
― circa1916, Saturday, 4 May 2019 00:23 (five years ago) link
Doom for 10 bucks on PS4 is absolutely worth it. A lot was compromised to get that working on the Switch. Kinda of a VHS to Blu-Ray jump. I imagine it would be tricky adjusting to the non-gyro aim tho if that’s all you’re used to.
― circa1916, Saturday, 4 May 2019 00:27 (five years ago) link
I have Wolfenstein 1, will try that.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 4 May 2019 01:10 (five years ago) link
i'm annoyed that ps4 shooters don't have gyro fine tune as an option, it's such an improvement over twin stick once you learn how to use it
― ciderpress, Saturday, 4 May 2019 01:19 (five years ago) link
Oh, it was great for Nintendo Doom. The trade off is at the graphics and performance of Nintendo Doom is not on par with the PS4.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 4 May 2019 01:55 (five years ago) link
I've also been thinking about Wolfenstein II, which makes the choice a bit more stark: get it on Switch and get gyro controls but compromised graphics and performance (which were still pretty good on Switch Doom), or get it on PS4, which is bundled with Doom at a price slightly lower than Wolfenstein II alone on Switch, with better graphics and performance but no gyro aim. Clearly most people playing these games on PS4 are using the controllers/twin sticks, right? Or does everyone have some sort of mouse and keyboard adapter? Pretty soon I'll dive into those Uncharted games, and Last of Us - I assume there's twin sticks aiming and shooting in those as well?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 5 May 2019 13:29 (five years ago) link
stick isn't really that bad in 3rd person shooters. i haven't played the naughty dog ones but i assume they have generous aim assist since they're made for the masses
― ciderpress, Sunday, 5 May 2019 14:45 (five years ago) link
i played the last one with lock-on because I'm a basic bitch but also because aiming with a stick sucks
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 5 May 2019 17:20 (five years ago) link
lock on is just the most generous aim assist
― ciderpress, Sunday, 5 May 2019 17:39 (five years ago) link
i feel like it's more realistic for me to drop these fools like a cold-blooded badass than to be drunkenly waving my hi-tech weaponry around like a senile gorilla
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 5 May 2019 17:41 (five years ago) link
so you see, it's for the good of the game
Playing The Last of Us as a shooter is going to lead to bad times.
― Lars Ulriac Quintet (Leee), Sunday, 5 May 2019 19:11 (five years ago) link
You all are talking about lock-on/auto-aim (are they the same thing?) on ... Last of Us? Iirc there is some sort of aim-assist in Doom but tbh after the time I've spent with it on Switch using gyro it's just so fast and chaotic I can't imagine any sort of "assist" helping, short of lowering the difficulty level. Even with gyro - which is a huge help - I never thought it was particularly easy, unless set as such.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 5 May 2019 19:28 (five years ago) link
yeah the naughty dog games arent really shooters like doom is hence lock on
― ciderpress, Sunday, 5 May 2019 19:35 (five years ago) link
I'm talking about the last Uncharted game fwiw, the one with the ladies in India
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 5 May 2019 20:09 (five years ago) link
Uncharted: The Ladies in India
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Saturday, 11 May 2019 07:41 (five years ago) link
Anybody heard or know anything about A Plague Tale?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 19 May 2019 01:18 (five years ago) link
it's got rats aplenty
― ciderpress, Sunday, 19 May 2019 05:31 (five years ago) link
This guy likes it a lot: https://youtu.be/A_Ycx1qsJiA
The gameplay looks a bit sparse, graphics aren't smooth, but I've heard that the story is good, which has me modestly interested too.
― Tormund Giantsbabe (Leee), Sunday, 19 May 2019 06:21 (five years ago) link
I don't like the brown on brown on brown on brown colour palette.
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Sunday, 19 May 2019 11:30 (five years ago) link
Looks pretty intense! Seems like a future cult classic, and since so many on PS4 at least are still talking about Days Gone, I can totally see the price dropping on this (or it going on sale) quickly.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 19 May 2019 12:58 (five years ago) link
no one is talking about days gone
― ciderpress, Sunday, 19 May 2019 14:37 (five years ago) link
They are on forums, afaict. One of the big complaints about it is that a lot of the reviews were fair to middling, but players have been enjoying it more than promised. That has sort of been the same reaction to fair to middling reviews of Rage 2: if writers said Days Gone wasn't great but players really enjoyed it, and now writers are saying the same thing about Rage 2, does that mean players will actually enjoy Rage 2? It's as if the AAA games get all the attention, but standards are so high that they get perhaps unfairly weighted criticism. Meanwhile, games like Plague maybe go more under the radar.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 19 May 2019 15:53 (five years ago) link
death stranding releasing this november
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 18:39 (four years ago) link
So much for TLOU2 this year.
― In a station of the metro / My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard (Leee), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 19:18 (four years ago) link
I and I think just about everybody knows nothing about Death Stranding. However, I do not want to look at that actor's face for the entire game.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 19:21 (four years ago) link
I and I think just about everybody knows nothing about Death Stranding. However, I do not want to look at that actor's face for the entire game.― Rasta in Chicago
― Rasta in Chicago
― In a station of the metro / My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard (Leee), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 19:23 (four years ago) link
Jah know what I mean.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 19:26 (four years ago) link
I think you'll mostly be looking at the back of his head
Kojima still remarkably bad at naming women characters
lol @ HEARTMANNicolas Winding-Refn
― mh, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 19:43 (four years ago) link
and DIE-HARDMAN is all-time top tier, obviously
― mh, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 19:44 (four years ago) link
yup, i'm in for this nonsense.
― Nhex, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 19:50 (four years ago) link
guilty gear tier name
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 19:50 (four years ago) link
INTERNET HEARTMAN is up for grabs.
― In a station of the metro / My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard (Leee), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 22:14 (four years ago) link
It's kinda amazing, given that the PS5 is right around the corner, how many heavy hitters are, well, hitting in the next year or so. Death Stranding, Doom Eternal, Last of Us 2, Ghost of Tsushima, Cyberpunk 2077, the (other) new From Software game (Norse mythology? Great Rune?) ...
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 1 June 2019 20:55 (four years ago) link
End of a systems life tends to be its most fertile time, historically.
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 1 June 2019 21:33 (four years ago) link
I always assumed a new system arrives with a bunch of must-buy exclusives.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 1 June 2019 21:53 (four years ago) link
If by a bunch you meet two or three, sure
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 1 June 2019 21:54 (four years ago) link
I wonder what surprises they have in store, then. The PS5 is being predicted for 2020, right? I wonder what the initial anchor will be. Grand Theft Auto?
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 1 June 2019 21:59 (four years ago) link
the PS4's big launch exclusives were Knack and Killzone Shadow Fall, to give you an idea of what to expect
― ciderpress, Saturday, 1 June 2019 22:26 (four years ago) link
if only there were a thread title to remind us of the feebleness of most launch lineups
― i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Saturday, 1 June 2019 22:27 (four years ago) link
no console gen is truly over until atlus decides it is, anyway
― ciderpress, Saturday, 1 June 2019 22:44 (four years ago) link
The new one is apparently backwards compatible right? I don't know enough about this stuff, what are the features that usually differentiate one generation from the next, as opposed to,say, the PlayStation versus the PlayStation Pro?
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 1 June 2019 23:01 (four years ago) link
(lol knack)
just much improved specs for fancier looking games, plus it sounds like they're going with a SSD this time around and using 'no loading times' as their big marketing angle. which to be honest is a stronger sell than graphics at this point.
― ciderpress, Saturday, 1 June 2019 23:11 (four years ago) link
don't buy a new console at launch though if you have the previous one, it's never work it until like 2 years in when the third parties finally stop releasing cross-gen
― ciderpress, Saturday, 1 June 2019 23:16 (four years ago) link
worth*
Don’t forget the inevitable really pretty puzzle game that comes out with a console launch!
But yes, launch titles are almost inevitably graphical and audio showcases and maybe a title or two where they get them to release a tweaked version that’s also on the last gen.
― mh, Sunday, 2 June 2019 00:17 (four years ago) link
probably ghost of tsushima will be crossgen as the eye candy game
― ciderpress, Sunday, 2 June 2019 00:25 (four years ago) link
I always love the new puzzle game :)
― i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Sunday, 2 June 2019 01:22 (four years ago) link
I think Nintendo is the only console that ever has decent launch titles, and that's 100% because of Mario. What I've read is that the transition to new hardware is pretty challenging, though you'd think that bigger developers have the resources to wrangle those challenges (of course they also have much different financial concerns than smaller developers, like they can't dick around trying to figure out how to work with a new architecture when they have to hit quarterly milestones).
According to the Wired article, it's supposed to be backwards compatible, yes. One big difference between the intergenerational vs intragenerational is that new-gen consoles run on different hardware architectures, which, without getting into systems weeds, is kind of like a difference in spoken languages and the things that such languages facilitate (Romance languages are a lot easier to rhyme in, fr'instance).
― In a station of the metro / My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard (Leee), Sunday, 2 June 2019 06:14 (four years ago) link