Kane99

I think games like Skyrim and Fallout have done factions/groups quite well. When I played Skyrim for example, I remember joining some factions, but forget what. I wanted to be a vampire at one point, but stopped playing the game after a while. Anyway, I'd say those two games, but I'm sure there are a bunch of other games I am forgetting about.

I'm honestly not too into tabletop games. I've tried, but never had the patience for most complex board games and or tabletop games. If you want the best of the best for tabletop games, I suggest checking out Tabletop Simulator, which lets you play many different type of tabletop/board games. They even allow you to mod it and make your own games, or even make your own version of popular games.

Isn't this kinda old news? I thought Sony was already worried and annoyed by Microsoft's recent acquisition and attempts at acquisition. It's a fair thing to be worried about. MS is buying up these big studios that are known to be multiplatform, and now there is a chance that Sony may no longer get these games if Microsoft decide to make the future games Xbox/PC exclusive. I don't think that will happen, but it could happen years from now.

That's one thing I can't stand about cloud saves. I've had issues with them in the past, where they sometimes get over-written or my main saves are corrupted and somehow my cloud saves don't work either. That happened a while back, but I forget what game it was.

We're talking about GTA though, this game would break sales records even with minimal marketing. I'm willing to bet this leak made more people interested in the game. And it's still very early stages of development. I'm sure they'll have it figured out by release. The only things I'm aware that were released was video of the game, no actual code or anything like that was shared to my knowledge.

This right here. I agree 💯% I don't think paying more should give users the better support. Not everyone can afford to spend as much as others on their gaming hobbies. Some of us can barely afford the console, that purchase alone should be enough. We're supporting this company as well, so it feels like favoritism when they go and do this. Just promotes favoritism among their userbase.

I've downloaded my share of free to play games. I mostly play Fortnite, but I've also played warzone, apex legends, and a couple others. I tried rumbleverse and mutliversus. There are probably others I'm forgetting about.

Played a bit of Fortnite the other night. I didn't get the battlepass this season, as I'm not really finding anything I care about in that battle pass. The vbucks would be nice, but I don't know if even that is worth it. Might skip buying battlepass for this season and wait to see what they offer next season.

True, but the graphics aren't as painful on the eyes as N64/PS1 games are, or early 3D graphics of the time. I don't mind bad graphics, just as long as they don't hurt or bug my eyes. As for the person saying people who play games with old graphics aren't real gamers, that person is just dumb. I wouldn't take anything that person says seriously. 😄 Because, you can be a gamer from any generation. And for sure. For me, it's just how tough the graphics look. I get eye strain from looking at old 3D graphic games, because it all kinda blends together with the background. It's like looking at a static screen on old TVs. I wouldn't say it's about realism for me. It's just that my eyes can't take a lot of the older 3D games of the time. It may be that I'm used to HD graphics at this point, or maybe it was always bad for my eyes lol. I love graphics from retro consoles/games though, like NES, SNES, etc, but once we got into the 3D side of things, it was hit or miss for me. And I get nostalgia as well. I still play the games I enjoyed from back then, but I find that the graphics are tough on my eyes if I play for a while. Maybe it's due to age, idk. But they're more sensitive to early 3D games.

Yeah I mentioned them both in my first post. The first one was just Hitman, the second, though a reboot I believe, is just called Hitman: Agent 47 or something along those lines. The first film imo was mediocre, but the second film was awful imo. It was a chore to get through, and I never even finished it. Plus the villain was boring, a dude who's power was that he had skin that could protect him from guns and knives. Also, the dude they had playing Agent 47 didn't work for me. It just felt like a dude in cosplay pretending to be hitman lol.

It's gotten a ton of game of the year awards, even beating the likes of The Last of Us 2 I think. Didn't both games come out the same year? I forget. Anyway, I played a bit of Hades and from what I played, it was quite fun. But it can be very challenging. I didn't play it too long, but I could see why so many liked it. If I was better at it, I would have given it more of a chance.

It depends on what you're looking for. If you want to build a new PC or get a gaming PC, I wouldn't bother with most major retailers, including Best Buy. I know there are specialty shops just for PCs and such, and I would rather go there than say Best Buy. Though I'll say Best Buy is probably better than most major retailers. I wouldn't dare buy a PC from the likes of Walmart, Target or other big box stores. It's probably best to buy from the likes of Newegg, Fry's Electronics, Micro Center, and a few others I'm forgetting. Some of these stores don't have stores all over the US though. Newegg is online only. I think with Fry's and Micro center, they are limited to certain states and locations. But, they probably have the best bang for your buck.

This FPS looks dope, especially with the destruction you can cause. It's like Battlefield destruction, set to 11. It's a new FPS game from the team of Embark Studios. It will also be free to play from what it states in the article below. It is said to have 12 player lobbies, with 4 teams of 3. More details - https://www.pcgamer.com/i-almost-dont-believe-the-destructibility-in-this-fps-is-real/ It also reminds me of a game called Teardown, which allows you to destroy buildings, but more in blocky graphics. I wonder if they took some inspiration from that game too.

Source - https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/playstation-is-giving-top-stars-members-priority-in-customer-support/ It looks like a new service called PlayStation Sars is coming to the US soon, but it may be coming with some displeasure. According to the article above, some people in the Stars program get better support than people who aren't on it. People in Japan aren't too happy that the highest tier users in this program get better support. The players in a tier 4 for example, can get past the support queue. Which many are also annoyed with. For those wondering what the service is, it's essentially a reward program for gamers that complete campaigns and activities. My view on this is simple. I think if you're a paying customer you deserve to get the same support no matter what. Even if someone pays more towards a service or does more. If you pay money, you deserve support just as much as the one who pays the most. What do you think about this? I'm all for reward programs, but support needs to be equal among all paying customers imo.

Well I'm sure we all predicted it, but Google's Stadia will be "Winding" down their services and closing up shop. They have decided to close Stadia. But the kicker, if you've purchased a Stadia device and games/add-ons, you will get a refund for everything. They plan to close the service down in January of 2023. They said that users can still play their games until this time, but once Jan 18th rolls around is when the service will end. They also expect to have refunds sent out near end of January 2023. RIP Stadia, we hardly knew ya. Oh and welcome to the Google product graveyard. Source - https://blog.google/products/stadia/message-on-stadia-streaming-strategy/

They're realizing that NFTs are a dying fad that isn't going to get better. I believe it was for research, but I also believe they wanted it to be a success so that they could utilzie NFTs in their digital space. And I'm not surprised. It makes sense that it failed. Gamers don't want NFTs in their games and developers don't seem to get that.

Oh god I don't know. I imagine there are a lot of side missions I'd like to see as part of the main game. For RDR2 for example, some of the strangers have multiple missions, and I kinda wish they included the stranges in more of the main missions. But it's still cool either way. With Skyrim, I remember there being a lot of fun side quests, and I could see many of which being a part of the main story. I couldn't tell you what missions as I haven't played Skyrim in like 5 years now, or probably longer.

Sad to see a game fail like this. That's why I always suggest games add a single player campaign, otherwise all these live service games on disc are going to become obsolete pretty fast. Reminds me of the few online only games that came out in the past, that have since become coasters now that they are rendered useless. That's the problem with games that only have online modes, because once there's no one left to play, that game is pretty much done for. Especially if they decide to close the servers.

Most games tend to download pretty fast, whether it be on my Xbox one or PC. I'd say most games these days may take a few hours to download and then install. For games like Call of Duty, it could take even longer. Especially when they have you download so much content.

No I never really bothered to check a game out again before it closed its online servers. I know there's been a few games that I wanted to do that with, like Halo 1 & 2, maybe the earlier Call of Duty games if the online servers are no longer active for it. Other than that, I never really bothered to go back to old games that were closing down.

The article below gives more detail. Supposedly he worked for EA at one point and helped with live service games for both Zynga and EA. So he has some history, but I'm not seeing much to be honest.

I forgot about it too, as I remember other games coming out that looked similar, so that also didn't help. I called other games Scorn thinking it was scorn haha. But I'm glad it's close to finally releasing.

At this point though, do we really need sim cards? I'm sure Apple has figured out a way to easier register phones and not have to worry about needing something like a sim card in the first place. The downside of this though, is that it'll probably be tougher to upgrade from a previous phone with a sim card to a new iPhone 14. Wasn't the sim card on its way out anyway?

I sadly don't backup my date very often, but I probably should change that soon in the hopes of protecting my PC better. I'd rather be able to backup my files instead of losing everything. I've dealt with PCs losing data before, so it's not fun when it happens, that's for sure.

I've heard the arguments before. Are video games art? Some will say no, others will say yes. I'm with the latter, as I think video games are for sure art. Much like movies, tv, music, poetry etc can be considered art, than video games definitely are art too. Games like Okami, Journey, Stray, Metal Gear Solid 3, Red Dead Redemption 2 , and so much more. I consider many movies and TV shows art as well. So video games definitely deserve to fit into that too. What do you think? And what games do you consider a work of art?