Kane99

More games are allowing for certain settings to be turned off or down, especially accessibility features. So maybe they will add more options for those dealing with such things as seizures. Back in the day all games did was warn you that it could cause issues for those dealing with such conditions. But maybe now we can simply turn those settings off, or certain lighting affects.

Only first person is supported. I hear that they do have a character model for the person you play as, but you're essentially just two floating hands when playing in first person. So if in third person, you'd just see disembodied hands. Found this topic on steam discussing it: https://steamcommunity.com/app/205100/discussions/0/451848855001711165/

I think a randomly generated world is cool. A lot of games already do this, with Minecraft as an example. Procedurally generated worlds. But yeah, I agree it would be tough for AI to do the whole game itself. I imagine we'd have to do the story, characters, acting, and all the other important coding etc. While the AI could generate the world you play in, and maybe even the weapons, items etc. It could also generate random location drops and so on. Yeah there's a lot it still can't do. I think one day it will progress to a point where we can create stories and ideas from AI, but I don't think we'll see a point anytime soon with an AI program coding a full length game including the story, characters, setting, plot, etc.

True. I have a few DVD drives sitting in my closet for a PC and I haven't installed them in years. I have a PC I could install one in, but haven't bothered to do it, as I don't ever use physical media on my PC anyway. We'll still see physical media the next gen or two, but I think we're going to see more digital only consoles coming, which will spell the end of physical media. Plus, I think the digital consoles sell better overall, especially since majority of the time they're cheaper.

Been playing the usual Madden NFL 22 and Fortnite. But I also picked Hitman back up recently since they released the new Freelancer mode. Honestly really enjoy it, makes playing Hitman all that more scary and enjoyable. The way they make it, is that you have complete a whole campaign of missions without dying once. If you're caught in a previous mission, the next mission is easier for enemies to witness you. I played two missions so far, beat them and haven't touched it since. But I will revisit it sometime this week. I want to see if I can get through a whole campaign. I haven't played RDR2 in quite a while either. I think it's been a couple months now. I'm almost done with the game. I plan to come back to it, and complete all the side stuff and then finish the game again. But, that won't be for a while yet.

Sega was too ambitious, and wanted to stay ahead of everyone I think. The Dreamcast was a great console for the time, but after the Saturn, I think people had soured on Sega because of it. The Dreamcast could have sold well, but I think it came out too late. Especially since the PS2 was just two years away, and had better hardware and graphics. So Sega either had to get started on yet another console, or just move on. I think they made the right choice, because if they went up against the PS2, I don't think we'd be hearing Sega in talks as much these days.

Yeah that's really what matters. I will say, that I have played some games longer than I should've, because I was trying to collect every achievement, even the mundane and boring ones. I don't tend to do that anymore for games. If it's something that's tedious and takes too long, and isn't worth much, I probably won't even bother attempting to get it. These days I play games to have fun, not to collect every achievement. I used to try doing that, but life is short and I ain't got time to try and find everything, and do everything in a game. If I finish the base game, than that's all I need to do.

Not sure, but I am aware of party games that utilize smartphones to play along. So not everyone needs to have a console or PC in order to play, just a compatible smartphone. I think there are phone games where you can challenge people for prizes. There was a game show I saw on mobile a couple years ago, where you could join a gameshow live and if you're smart enough and answer all the questions you might land in the game and could win prizes. I only played once, but gave up pretty fast.

Same. I want to try it out, because I think you can connect it with some apps, and I'm curious to see what crazy things you can do with it. I doubt it's a lot, but maybe there's some fun graphical work you can use it for, or creating fun things out of it at least. Also I think you can use it as a webcam. If I ever see a Kinect in the wild for cheap, I'll pick one up and see about finding some PC apps and software to mess around with.

That's fair. I figured it was due to them not being nearly as popular as Mario & Luigi, or their other IPs. But still, I think they could easily utilize these two for more games. There's probably a lot they could do, and they could even experiment with ideas to see what works and doesn't. Yeah true. But I think if they got their own adventure game, similar to most Mario games today, it could sell. Especially with Nintendo's name backing it, I think it could do alright. It's not like we ever really got a dedicated game focusing on just those two. And it could be a completely different thing to Mario. Maybe they could use Wario and Waluigi as more adult versions and make the games more serious in nature, or something haha. Idk. I just want to see Wario involved more. :D

I always saw the animus as a tool for the bad guys to find the apple of Eden and other artifacts with special abilities. I played the second, Brotherhood, and Black Flag, and from all of those games, the Animus is utilized, but in different capacities. Well, the first three games focus a lot on the animus, including the past and present settings, but I think by AC3 and Black Flag, they kinda drop the animus storyline and just focus all the time on the past. I think in Black Flag you could walk around some gaming company you work for, that utilizes the Animus (I forgot their name, I think it's to do with the Templars), and so on. I don't even remember if the Animus was a part of AC Syndicate, and that was the last one I officially played. I do remember the story branching off to this whole crazy thing about some gods or something. I forget, but to be fair I couldn't get into that story so much, so I kind of forgotten most of it.

Alternative covers are one thing, but to go in this direction is weird to me haha. It's cool to have alternative covers, but I don't think most want what this ebay seller is offering lol. But there seems to be a clear target audience for them and if it's working, more power to them I guess. Not hurting anyone, as long as they're not stealing any copyrighted artwork/assets.

Yeah that is a reason. Especially if it's a timed thing, where you have to get something done in a time limit. So with that, and the possibility of poor gameplay added on top, it just makes it worse. But yeah, it can be used well, or done badly. Just depends on how good the developer is with water levels.

Nick Offerman recently starred as Bill in the Last of Us show, and when asked about his gaming habits, he mentioned that he doesn't game these days. In fact, his worry is that he would get too sucked into the game and would find himself focusing too much time on that. The last game he said he played, was actually Banjo-Kazooie. He mentioned that he played the game for around two weeks, and didn't know what to do with himself after he was done. Even mentioning that he thought it was a waste of time. :( But yeah, interesting to hear someone decided to call it quits on gaming because they felt it was too addicting. I think he has a point with addiction, because there has been times where I am stuck in one game for weeks on end. But he views them differently in that they waste time, but the same could be said about his movies and tv shows. I know, I watched Parks and Rec through a couple times, and watching tv and movies are kinda the same as playing a video game for hours on end. Anyway, thought it was interesting. Wonder if he'll ever attempt to play The Last of Us game now. Source - https://www.gamespot.com/articles/why-the-last-of-us-star-nick-offerman-will-never-play-video-games-again/1100-6511098/]/

Damn, I had no idea. Doesn't show a whole lot, so I'm assuming it's still being worked on as we speak. Still though, good to know we're actually getting a sequel.

I imagined so. But with AI training it self over the next few years, I could see the idea of them producing a game with AI being more possible. But it'll take more time while AI learns to code that aspect. I'm doubtful it'll even be 3-4 years. It might take a lot longer if it wants to be as good as possible.

The only issue with those older games, was that I never mastered the controls. When I was a kid all I ever did was play the Royal Rumble mode lol. So I never really put time into learning it's crazy controls. I just remember it being hard to figure out how to do certain things, and having to do button combos bugged me at the time. But, I'm willing to learn this time around. :D

It still has split screen options, so couch gaming is still possible with friends. It's just that online MP doesn't work. I do agree with you though, it doesn't make sense not to include online mp when the Switch has it. And sure, we got the upscaled version, but I'm sure they could have still added online mp to the game. Unless there's some deal with Nintendo that doesn't allow them to have online. I don't know if Goldeneye the franchise is owned by Nintendo or not, if it is, then I can see that being a cause.

And of course Microsoft makes yet another dumb move, this time in Japan by raising the prices of the Xbox Series X|S. Everyone knows that Xbox hasn't been able to get anywhere in Japan when it comes to sales. I believe sales have increased somewhat thanks to their service like Game Pass, but I still don't think that Japan cares much about the Xbox. They've never been able to sell good over there. Could this mean we'll see an increase in the US and other countries to follow? Source - https://news-microsoft-com.translate.goog/ja-jp/2023/01/31/230131-xbox-series-xs-price-revision-of-the-main-unit-in-japan/?_x_tr_sl=ja&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

AI will only improve as they keep going. It's already in a state where I think it's improving. From writing dialog to answering questions and even using it to talk with people. Eventually it will learn enough to understand. Or at least understand enough.

If anything I feel like they're going to attempt to recapture that feeling you had with the WWF No Mercy and WCW vs nWo Revenge games by thq. They're using similar gameplay to those two and any others thq did for the N64.

Oh yeah, if it's original art by the artist, I see no issue. It's just when these sellers decide to use copyrighted material. I'm sure there are some nsfw art work being used on these cover arts. With the way people are on eBay, I'm willing to bet a few of them are going to use art from around the web for the covers. They might edit to look different.

I've never actually played any of the roller coaster tycoons. Don't they still make the series today? Or is it that it's not nearly the same as it used to? It's still crazy to me that Sony hasn't done anything with SOCOM in forever now. You'd think they'd reboot the franchise by now.

I'm with Shagger on this. I too don't see how the two connect, considering they're both different mediums. TLOU is already owned by Sony. How does that then translate to Xbox should be able to aquire another company? Doesn't make sense to me.

To be fair though, it is still in progress and will be releasing in early access. So things can change from here until the final release. But yeah, there is much work to be done, but I like where they're going so far. And at $29.99, it's not that bad. I'd rather pay that than $60+ for most new games. :D