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
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
I’m sure financial viability plays a big part here too, probably bigger than the difficulty issues. You don’t want your big budget next gen game to arrive too early, because you’ll end up selling to a much smaller potential market, bound to be better to wait until the new platform is properly established. “Writing for new consoles is hard” is often just the excuse that gets rolled out for this, I think.
Especially this time round, current console architectures are very similar to each other and as I understand it aren’t set to change fundamentally through this changeover.
― JimD, Sunday, 2 June 2019 09:02 (four years ago) link
Some* people liked the launch Zelda this time.
*all and then eventually Josh
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 2 June 2019 12:37 (four years ago) link
I’m taking about third party devs. Obviously priorities are different for first parties.
― JimD, Sunday, 2 June 2019 13:19 (four years ago) link
the launch zelda was a crossgen game though. the new consoles will be launching with games like that, just not big exclusives
― ciderpress, Sunday, 2 June 2019 15:04 (four years ago) link
PS4 has at least 3 more years on it especially if you like japanese games. remember that persona 5 and yakuza 0 were ps3 games, the ps3 gen only ended 2 years ago
― ciderpress, Sunday, 2 June 2019 15:08 (four years ago) link
Again, from a position of complete ignorance (what else is new?), assuming the PS5 comes out in 2020, I don't see the incentive as of yet for someone who has a PS4 - Pro or otherwise - to upgrade to a PS5, at least not any time soon. There are still awesome games coming out on the PS4, they seem to run super-well on the PS4, there are awesome games being readied for the PS4 for the next year (at least), and the most appealing reported feature of the PS5 is ... that it's backward compatible. When Nintendo puts out a new system it seems to be totally new, even radically so. But the PS5, as much as I/we know about it, seems to be a slight upgrade to the PS4 that doesn't necessarily do anything new or needed. Or is the idea that whatever it can do that the PS4 can't do is being held close to the vest, and when it comes out people will see the potential? Yeah, I don't know, current graphics and processors and whatever seem pretty cool to me. Will it just be ... faster load times? Is that what bugs people?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 2 June 2019 15:33 (four years ago) link