Kane99

I enjoy some sports games. I know most people kinda ignore them, but you can have a lot of fun playing with friends. I always come back back to the likes of ESPN NFL 2K5, because it stands as a much better game than most recent Madden Games. A $20 game from 2004, has better presentation, control, modes and more that a $60 game from 2021 doesn't even have. They don't even have refs in Madden anymore, old games had refs and they made it work just fine. It's because Madden doesn't innovate every year. It's the same game with some polish and just updated rosters. But I still sometimes check out Madden, even with the laundry list of problems it has, because it's the only football game on the market. Other than that, give me more games like SSX Tricky, NBA & NFL Street and more. I'll take those again. I miss those series. 😞

I don't think the pirates where the ones to kill it. Though I imagine it didn't help any either. It kinda came out at a bad time, with the PS1 and soon to be N64 on the market. Those kinda took over. Then they kinda dropped the Saturn altogether to focus on the dreamcast, which kinda came out too late for Sega to really compete. My dad got me a couple Sega Saturn used back in the early 2000s. One without the box and one with the box. Only paid $36 for all of it. I regret selling it off later though, but i still have the loose Saturn somewhere. The games on it were pretty decent. Played a ton of virtua cop with the light gun. Also had virtua fighter 2, which I thought was pretty cool at the time. Wish it lasted longer, because there was something good there. It survived in Japan a lot longer than it did in the states. So it wasn't a complete failure for Sega.

This may be a dumb question, but aren't these Dbrand plates similar to what those nyko fan attachments were to the 360 back in the day? Or any other third party attachment? Or is it that they didn't change the design enough to be their own? I was under the impression that you can make third party peripherals and other things as long as they aren't exactly the same as the original product. So why is Sony so hard pressed to stop these? I can understand if Sony wants to make their own plates, but why can't Dbrand make their own as well? I think when they started, it was too similar to Sonys design. But they changed it and Sony is still on them about it. Or am I completely missing something here?

Dudes never going to leave. Even with his name being thrown through the mud, he's still CEO as we speak. But it's good seeing actual investors and others who work for Blizzard and Activision starting to speak out against him. It's sad that he's still in there, when he knew about the problems and did pretty much nothing. If he does drop down, or gets fired, I'm sure he'd land some job elsewhere with his name not being announced. Dudes scum, and has to go. I wish more people voted with their wallets and didn't support either Activision or blizzard, because people will still support these companies either way.

None that I can think of off the top of my head. At least in regard to games I have played this year. The only game I can think of being bad this year is the new GTA remastered trilogy. I haven't played through it yet, but have watched more than enough videos showcasing the problems a plenty. As for any others, I honestly didn't play too many horrible games this year so I can't judge personally on what other games this year turned out bad.

Saw these chairs previously while searching for a computer chair. Had then bookmarked for quite a while. I really dig the Spiderman chair as well as the Captain America one. But that Spiderman design is awesome. Wouldn't mind owning one of these chairs for sure. Not a huge fan of leather or pvc leather, but still would totally use.

Well I did not see this coming at all. Roblox seems to be crazy popular these days. They have officially gone public and have already amassed over $30 billion +. Last I heard it was over $45 billion. It's crazy! I never expected to see Roblox become a billion dollar company, not in a million years. You can read all about it here - CNBC

Most shovelware games are just cheap, poorly produced games released either on a disc with a bunch of other bad shovelware games, or it's released as a standalone game. The Wii suffered with a ton of shovelware games, and I imagine most consoles and PC have a fair share of really awful shovelware games out there. But are there any that are actually good and worth the time to check out? I mostly assume not, but there's got to be some fun shovelware games out there.

I have an envelope full of demo discs from the PS1/PS2. I don't know why I keep them, as I don't think they're really worth anything yet. Most of them are PlayStation magazine demo discs. I remember getting them from a local grocery store and remember them costing a lot. Does anyone here still have a collection of demo discs? Maybe from the ps1, ps2, xbox, gamecube, etc. Pretty much any disc based demo. I think the last demos came out for the PS3 and 360, at least physically.

2020 was a good year for gaming, in fact it drew the gaming industry some of its biggest profits in years. With more people at home and out of a job, more people were gaming than usual. But, with the pandemic hopefully winding down here soon, do you think profits in the gaming industry will stay steady, go down, or even maybe go up? I think it'll stay steady and it'll be another great year for the gaming industry, but with the talk about $70 games, and new gen consoles still being hard to come by, it could be a lower year. What do you guys think?

Hell yeah, a new TMNT beat-em-up. I will for sure be buying this when it releases. I'm so happy they went with the original art style. This is going to bring me back to the NES days of playing TMNT 2 the Arcade game.

YES! This is one reason why I have never touched these games. RE7 looks like a pain to control. The controls look sluggish and slow. As well, your character looks like he doesn't move fast enough. Maybe I just am a lazy gamer and want games to be easy, idk lol.

I just think with pre-orders, there's nothing really worth pre-ordering for. Because I can buy the game day one no problem. But, I think when they make an incentive to pre-order, like a physical item. That's the only time I would ever pre-order, and even than I don't usually pre-order lol. Also, I would never pre-order to get some extra DLC or DLC items. It has to be a physical item at least.

Oh, another thing I can't stand, is when a developer doesn't make it easy to get past an NPC. For example, I don't know how many times an NPC character has blocked me from leaving a room through the doorway and often times I get stuck on geometry because of NPCs. Also when you have partner AI that is stupid and can't provide cover fire in games. Fun times. 😄

I think it's the fact that it looks too real. Like these zombies look like corpses and it creeps me out even more. And yeah, that other zombie throwing the brick was great. Reminds me of RE4 and the newer RE games.

Do you know how to develop games? I can't imagine it's rocket science, but I also can't imagine it's something super easy to do either. Look back at the days where doors didn't even work, and just progressed to a loading screen. Like how it is in older Resident Evil games and some of the Silent Hill games.

I had to share this, because if this is what horror games could look like in the future, we're going to have some good horror games on the way. Clout_games has made this concept trailer for a game they're hoping to make. It's not much, as this is all that has been done so far. They're hoping to produce a demo soon, and seems to be looking for publishers/developers to help out. But seriously, I was genuinely freaked out by the look of the zombies. Just creppy dude!

Well I never saw that coming, but I guess doors are notoriously tough to code in games. I guess it makes sense, considering it also has to move, and be intractable, etc. I think that's why games like the newer RE games, have doors that just push open when you run into them. Maybe that's a work around? IGN did an article about devs working on doors, and you can read that here - IGN

Well, it's been finalized and Bethesda is now property of Xbox/Microsoft. Never did I see this day coming originally, but we are here. Anyway, with this news, it is said that Bethesda's game catalog will be added to Game Pass. This is awesome news, but so far the only games selected are; The Evil Within The Evil Within 2 DOOM 3 BFG Edition Dishonored: Definitive Edition Dishonored: Death of the Outsider The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind No mention of Skyrim, but I believe that's already been on gamepass. What are some Bethesda games not on gamepass that you want to see added soon? You can read more on this news here - Twisted Voxel

I just read an article from DSOGaming that mentions an update to a San Andreas mod on PC, where it combines maps from GTA III, Vice City, San Andreas, Manhunt, Manhunt 2, and Bully. I think I'm going to have to pick up San Andreas and try this mod out. Anyway, from the article above, I thought it was a new mod, but it's been around since 2015. Noice! I think I'm going to get SA on PC now. 😄

So you thought the PS5 alone was a massive beast, well the development kit alone looks like this. 😮👇 The thing is massive. More images of it can be viewed at Push Square.

That's kind of how I feel. Like with the MGS games back then, I think getting the controls down was always an issue. It's kind of the same way I won't play old horror games with tank controls, because I feel anxiety because of it. And I know that's the intended purpose, but it's not just with horror games. It's with any games where I probably don't want to relearn all the stuff I already did. It's often that I do want to play the games, it's just that something stops me from jumping back into it. I don't know if it'd be burn out for me. I want to play the games, it's just that for some reason I can't push myself to do it. m76 brought up a good point, I think it has to do with the controls or certain aspect of the game that I don't want to revisit maybe. Some of the games I just get bored of, but I rarely bother coming back to those. There are games I want to play, but I usually push it off because of mechanics in the game, or maybe even a challenging aspect that I could never get used to. Maybe it's based off of how tough a game is too.

Ever since EA bought them up, they have slowly gotten worse and worse. It sucks to see a once reputable company, dying out. I really hope the next Mass Effect game is what brings this studio back up. But, only time will tell. They can't have another Andromeda or Anthem situation on their hands, otherwise I can see EA shutting their doors on them.

oooh I want those smart lighting towers. Those look sexy! 😍 But hell, who am I kidding. I want pretty much everything on this list. 😄

One thing I want to mention, is that I feel private servers are ideal in some regards. Like for example, I hear Rust is pretty rough on public servers, like there's very small chance of you surviving. I know that's kind of what comes with the territory with Rust, but it's a bit too chaotic to start. Yeah I need to start up my own server. I want to figure out how to use mods and such, and want to stay away from any public servers. I hope I can do that stuff in private ones though.