Kane99

I'll admit, I've been playing a lot more of Fortnite as of late. I have a few work friends who are into it so I've jumped into the fray. With that, I noticed this game has a ton of character skins released. They are like the funko pop of video games. They license a ton of DC and Marvel characters. So you could see Batman running up against Venom if you wanted to. They license pretty much everything like funko does with their figures is what I am saying. With that being said, there are a lot of characters I like, and there are a lot that I'd like to see added to fortnite. Now, there is a chance that some characters I mention are already in game, because they always re-list characters for sale. And there are a lot of skins in Fortnite with new ones coming out often. My wants are: More Wrestling skins (I wouldn't mind me an Undertaker skin) - I know they have a male and female luchador skin, but that's all to my knowledge. Characters from What We Do in the Shadows - I'd love this honestly, doubt it would happen though Characters from Shaun of the Dead - yis please Darth Vader & other Star Wars characters - I always thought they had Star Wars characters in Fortnite, but I don't think they do. Daft Punk - Why not right? I don't see them in there after breaking up though What skins would you like to see?

Oh man, movie tie-in games were often awful and a waste of time. Most tie-in games were rushed to release so they could make the movie release date. They often came out the day or, or the week of the movie release. But these days it hasn't happened a whole lot. If anything, I think most movie tie-in games, are kids movies and cartoon films. Why do you think they stopped releasing games side by side movie releases? Could it have been the quality of these games? The fact that they were often failures? Or could it be that fan outcry would catch up with it too fast and it would hurt the movie premiere? I'm sure there's a lot of reasons as to why movie tie-ins don't happen as often anymore. I'm glad it's slowed down though. Back in the PS2 and earlier eras, they were so often. I think the 360/ps3 era is when they mostly slowed down.

Is there any realistic surgeon simulators out there? I don't count the current Surgeon Simulator series as realistic in anyway. I view that series more as a puzzle game anyway. I'm sure there are some games out there that offer a more realistic approach to surgery. If not, are there any games that focus on being a doctor in a sim style?

It's weird to say that there has been video games released by fast food joints, food companies, and even popular beverage brands. Pepsi has Pepsiman, 7-up has cool spot, McDonalds had a game called McKids or something, and so on. And remember those Burger King games that came out for the Xbox/Xbox 360 back in 2005-2006 or so? It's so weird that these companies have made or commissioned games to be made about their brand. Are there any other food brands, beverages, or fast food joints that had their own video games? Do you know of any? I feel like there's a lot more that I am forgetting, but the ones I mentioned above are the only ones I can remember off the top of my head. Are there any good games? I heard McKids was pretty good, same with Cool Spot and the Burger King games like Sneak King, and their kart racer has a somewhat cult fanbase. Also, i remember some cereal and other food products would give you interactive CDs and DVDs. Some that I think even had full length games. They weren't anything too impressive, but it was fun to get. Reminded me a lot like when I got CDs with gaming magazines.

True. 2K took off a year to focus on production, so maybe 2K22 will end up being a vast improvement over 2K20. But, who knows at this point. I'm hopeful AEW's game turns out to be the next best wrestling game, because I miss playing good wrestling games. I feel like the last good WWE one at least, was 2K12 maybe. And other than that, I think Retromania Wrestling is fun, but I want my simulation style wrestling more than the arcade wrestling games. Maybe I should just get into fire pro wrestling and see if I can get used to those controls lol.

Exactly, there's literally no worth to it. Unless maybe with games like Counter-Strike where you can buy/sell skins/weapons. etc. But most games don't have a system where you can resell your items, so they are technically useless. I mean more in regards to actual gambling games being released on consoles and PC. Not as a mechanic in an video game, but the whole idea of the game. So think of a slots game, but instead of being on mobile, it released on major hardware instead. And that is a good point. The ESRB rating would probably be adult rated for games that are just about gambling. I can see some publishers not selling games like that if that is the case too.

For the most part yeah. But I also use it for chatting with work buddies and running events. They are more text based game bots, but I count them as gaming bots. I know you can get trivia, and the pokemon game I mentioned allows people to catch pokemon as they show up in the server, and then you can also do battles and such. I'm just curious about other discord bots that have game like features. Of course we can't play actual games, but anything text based should work.

I'm kinda in the same boat about GTA IV. The games before it, were campy fun, and it was clear they didn't take it super serious, but GTA IV and V on the other hand, started to get too realistic/serious. Gone is the campiness of past games. On top of that, the series didn't really innovate all that much to be honest. It was a lazy effort, that's for sure. But I think if they do happen to remaster GTA IV, which is looking more and more like a possibility with recent rumors of RDR1 possibly getting one (they better not break that one) as well. They can't afford to mess up next time. Yes and no. I believe the studio is under Rockstar and Take-Two's umbrella. The studio is called Grove Street Games, they worked on the mobile ports of GTA games in the past, and also seem to do other mobile ports for Rockstar and other studios. I was hoping they wouldn't use the mobile versions and port those. It's just lazy work, simple as that. And I feel like they will do the same with GTA IV. But this time around, they don't have a mobile game to go back off of, unless they first make a mobile version of GTA IV. Oh you mean GTA IV. I thought you were referring to the remastered trilogy. 😄 There's still a lot of fixes that game needs unfortunately. But in regards to GTA IV, it should be fairly easy to remaster it, at least I hope so.

Oh man, I forgot about that trailer for Gears of War. I wasn't even a fan of the game, but that trailer was hype as ever. Especially with the depressing music overlayed with the game. And then I remember seeing tv-spots of a shortened trailer. Loved seeing that trailer. And I think they re-used the song in future teasers and trailers, but not 100% sure. Still though, thanks for reminding me of it.

Are there any games you guys play during the holidays? Maybe it's become a holiday tradition to play certain games with your family on the holidays, or maybe it's a game that released during the holiday season and you always see, to come back to it. I've thought of having tournaments when family come up for the holidays, to start a new tradition. Haven't done it yet, and maybe will sometime in the future. Had to put it off due to covid these past couple years now. Anyway, what games do you have going on during the holidays? Any that you only play during the holidays?

The NES for me. My parents and sister had a NES when I was growing up, and many of the first games I played were Super Mario Brothers 1 and 3, TMNT, Gyromite and more. Oh Rad Racer is another that comes to mind. I sucked at as a kid, but my sister was a pro at rad racer when I was growing up. That would actually be my first console ever as well.

It's not much of an upgrade to be honest. All the OLED screen offers is a bigger screen that looks nicer. I don't think it provides a better image quality or anything else. I'm still waiting for them to release a 4K switch. I'm starting to think that's not going to end up happening.

Wasn't the last official release back in 2014 with Tropical Freeze? I know that was re-released for the Switch in 2018, but I don't think we've since had a new Donkey Kong Country game on the switch. Maybe it's time we get a new Donkey Kong Country game. What would you hope to see in a new game?

I mean, think about it, with the architecture of the new xbox consoles they should be able to support VR headsets like the Oculus, Vive and others. And I could have sworn that Microsoft was teaming up with Oculus going forward for their virtual reality needs. What ever happened to that? I just think it'd be easy considering the consoles are pretty much built like a PC anyway.

Has anyone here ever achieved first place on a speedrun leaderboard? I was going to make another topic in regards to this, but figured I'd post this question here instead. I myself have never made 1st in a speedrun, but I have never tried to do one either. I don't know if I'd even try, my patience just wouldn't be in it. Same with speedruns that require you to break the game to finish it faster. I don't have the patience for learning all of this tricks. I think https://www.speedrun.com/ is where you can track your scores and be put on the leaderboards.

I know right? It'd be so cool to see PS home back on the PS4 and 5 as well. But I doubt Sony would bother with doing that. It was, it felt like a real hub the brief times I messed with it. I think it would do well if it was brought back honestly. I think people would like a hub world like that again.

With the San Andreas remasters on the 360, (not sure if it released for the PS3) was actually the mobile version of the game, just modified to work on the newer consoles at the time. The newer trilogy is still the mobile versions, with updated stuff. They even had the mobile game controls still in the code for San Andreas and I guess you could even select them through settings. You can read about that here - https://exputer.com/news/playstation/rockstar-games-mobile-gta-trilogy/

That's partly why I stopped playing in the past. A lot of the past games I've played got hacked to oblivion, like Modern Warfare 2. I got so fed up with the hackers breaking the game, that I stopped playing that game. I was surprised Modern Warfare 3 was mostly free of hackers, at least when I played. But I can see most of the games dealing with annoying hackers yet. And I heard Warzone was bad with hackers. Didn't they like ban well over a millions players for suspected hacking and cheating?

What are some games like Teardown? Teardown is a voxel style game with destruction mechanics, and you use those mechanics to pull off heists. The destruction is fairly realistic, and takes physics in mind, at least as best as a voxel game can. There's also a sandbox mode where you can just mess around on maps, with even custom maps and mods added in for the fun. Trailer is below if interested. My nephew wanted me to get it so I did, I didn't expect to also get into it though, but it's a lot of fun. It does run a bit slow on my PC if too much stuff goes on, but it's fun to just mess around in the sandbox mode. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1167630/Teardown/ Do you guys know of games similar to this, where you can destroy stuff in this way? I'm open to suggestions for games like it. 👍

Oh yeah, especially with WWE, as November alone they got rid of a ton of wrestlers. So 2K's work on all those wrestlers is all for nothing, as they will likely be removed from the game completely, unless WWE hires any of them back. But yeah, I hope each of their upcoming games are good. AEW needs to prove themselves more than anything, but they do have Yukes working on it so I have some hope. WWE with 2K is a bit more scary, because I worry they will ruin it with microtransactions and I won't be able to make the created wrestlers I want to make.

Oh of course. There's no chance of this happening, but my hopes no lie with the possibility of new games being made with the Aki engine. if that happens, I could see fans clamoring for a new wrestling game. It doesn't have to be a WWE game either, could be an independent thing with just the controls. I heard the AEW game may be utilizing the aki engine, if that's the case, I'm sold.

This is mostly just for curiosity. I know that some people use virtual machines to surf the web more safely, and to also have more privacy. Of course I think a VPN would do a better job at the privacy part, but a VM. Anyway, would gaming on a virtual machine work as long as the PC you're using has enough allocated for the VM? Plus to my knowledge, a new VM can be made if any viruses break through, but I don't see that happening. I have no plans to do scam baiting or anything like that. Anyway, is it worth it to game on a virtual machine?

I've heard that the recent Far Cry is much of the same, with a similar style story with a villain that doesn't show up that often. I haven't played a whole lot of Far Cry, mainly because I just can't seem to get into it. I loved Blood Dragon a ton, because the music, atmosphere and controls were great. I tried to play some of the other games after, but I couldn't get invested. I've heard some people complain that the game doesn't do anything new, and even takes away things from the last game. I can't judge myself, because I have yet to play the new game, but to me, it sounds much like the past few games with some minor changes here and there. But, this is for the fans who play to answer. Is Far Cry still worth playing? Or do you think it's time they change the series up a bit and go into a different direction?

VR gaming is growing in popularity with each new advancement in VR head tech. We have the likes of Oculus, PS VR, and other VR headsets on the market, with more trying to jump into the fray every year. I think Microsoft still has their headset in the works, but who knows if that will ever release. PS VR is a great budget option if you own a PS4 or PS5, and PC has a slew of options available to them. And mobile has their options as well if that's your thing. Could Nintendo be next to join VR? I know they tried doing the VR headset thing with the switch, but I don't count that. I want real VR with the switch. Or maybe they could do it with a future release. What other companies could jump in you think?

The recent GTA Trilogy remastered set was a mess at release, and it's still somewhat broken after the recent fixes it got. It's clear the team behind the remaster, didn't have enough time to make the best remaster they could. Rockstar needs to let their side studios work for as long as needed, because when a game gets released in this state, it looks even worse on Rockstar, who prides themselves on making quality. Anyway, it's not just that. Remember the first attempt Activision made remastering Tony Hawk's Pro Skater? Yeah, it was so bad that they eventually tried it again with the recent THPS1+2 Remastered, which was leaps above the first remaster they did. I think the problem lies with the big studios dropping these remasters in the laps of unknown devs, or studios that have limited work. I believe the people behind the trilogy set for GTA were also responsible for the mobile remasters, which is why I think they just remastered the mobile games and made fixes here and there. I think we need to afford developers the time needed to make these remasters as best they can. They will likely be doing GTA IV remastered next, and they need to make sure that one goes well.