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The fact that not all games work on Linux is a deal breaker for me. I haven't check recently how the two OS's stack up in terms of how games run, but at best it offers similar performance. Not to mention Windows 11 is right around the corner and if it's as gaming centric as Microsoft is claiming it to be with the performance improvements it's boasting, Linux might find itself on the back foot again. If one owns a gaming PC or laptop with Windows 10 on it right now that's got the guts to work with Windows 11, this is not a good time to give Linux a try.

As you can see, We've had a thread discussing pretty much the exact same thing already, so I've merged the two threads together. On topic, emulation is not illegal. People will often use emulators to run physical game copies of old console games on PC's and other hardware, something that doesn't involve downloading ROM's. Even if it does involve downloading ROM's, there are ways of doing so that don't break the law, like Abandonware.com. Obviously, downloading, let's say, God of War for the PS4 onto your PC then using an emulator or some other method on your PC to crack it and make it run is clearly illegal and I don't think ignorance is an excuse. Anyone who does this, runs a website to host illegal ROM's and game copies or develops software to that facilitates this dose so that knowing what they're doing and knows it's against copyright law.

Tried to launch the game at 1080p, and it crashed immediately. I had to run the game at a higher resolution to then have the GeForce app override the in game setting to bring it back to 1080p. That's already ridiculous. Next, when I got into the game, one starts off in a cell as a prisoner. I quickly noticed the UI was displaying the console controls instead of M/K as I knocked down a wall into another cell (something you apparently have to do). So I opened the menu, into the setting to see if this could be changed, when I was attacked by a guard whilst doing so. My heart then sank as then I knew what kind of game this was. A "From Software" clone trying to be Dark Souls in every aspect including this ridiculous idea that game doesn't pause. I'm going to uninstall Nioh and never play it again. I'm not gonna turn this into a massively long rant about how god damb stupid it is to programme a game this way because it's obvious why. Pausing is a basic, quality of life feature that games need, end of story. Omitting the pause feature doesn't make a game more challenging, only more fussy and arrogant, like "How dare you go into the menu and expect me to stop for your convivence!". So f*** Nioh, f*** Dark Souls, f***Demon Souls, f*** Bloodborne and ever other game with this pointless, regressive and utterly stupid feature.

Welcome to VGR. Sorry to hear that about your mother, but I admire what you do for her. If there's anything you want to know about the forum, let me or @DC know.

Well, didn't expect to see Nioh, that kinda came out of nowhere.

I need to correct you on something, Action themed video games are not based on extreme violence, they're based on challenge. To be clear, I take no issue with a game being graphic, brutal or violent in it's portrayal of that action, that can be a real positive when done right, but that's still a choice made buy the people who made it, not one dictated by the genre itself.

I'd like to think that over the course of this thread that we have defined the difference between games based on IP's that include movies and movie licenced based games. So, now that's out of the way; Movie Licenced Games Suck!!! They are made like novelty shirts and hats themed around some movie. They are not an expression of the entertainment media that is video games, they're a happy meal toy. Thankfully, the amount of games sold as merchandise has decreased in the last few years. It's a sign to me that video games aren't being looked at AS merchandise, but as a means to SELL merchandise. You see, greed never changes, it adapts.

Well, of course publishers and developers are able to use the somebody else's intellectual property (IP) only because they have a licence and a contract with said owner, that's how these deals work. What the owner of that IP gets in exchange for allowing the publisher/developer to use said IP depends on the deal they agree to. It could be money, shares, a cut of the sales made or whatever it is, it's just like another business barter. As customers, like it or not, it's not our place to know or question what specifically that deal is. Rights to use an IP could be sold for could be for a $gazillion or recipe for turnip and carrot soup, it doesn't really matter, that's between the parties involved.

In a video game, you play through a fantasy without consequence. Looking at the responses, it's clear that "The Purge" wouldn't work. Not that I'm judging, I'd obviously do the same thing.

Goldeneye was revolutionary for it's time. Mostly down to the aiming mechanics with analogue control and enemy AI that mimicked human behaviour in ways that hadn't been seen before. Using cover, communicating with each other, reacting to your actions, opening door and so on. Now, obviously, that all sounds perfectly everyday now, but back then it was radical. But what really set Goldeneye apart, and again something revolutionary and would set a trend, was the multiplayer. Frantic, 4 player matches that really stretched the lifespan of the game. It was all local multiplayer of course, not online, but the concept started with this game and became the template for multiplayer FPS as we know it. To be honest, though, the game has not aged well and it would suck today, the FPS genre has blown way past by now, but it's hard to believe that the FPS genre would be what it is today without it.

The Batman Arkham and 2018' Spiderman games are based on their respective IPs, and IP those include Comic Books, TV shows, Movies, Artwork, Toys and Games. Those games are a part of a larger franchise that includes movies, but they are not movie licenced games and do not directly tie into any specific film. Calling them "Franchise Games" would be accurate and franchise games tend to be very good.

Appreciate that, thank you.

Just gentle reminder to yourself and everyone else to to please keep discussions about mods to the Gaming Mod thread. The purpose of this thread is compile discussions, recommendations and tips and questions together to make finding them easier in the event someone else has a similar query rather than have that information scattered elsewhere on the site. Please don't make new threads, just post the query here instead. No biggie, I've merged the threads together now. Anyway, in answer to your question, whether one has to load an old save or not depends on the nature of the mod itself. Mods to improve textures, graphics, the UI or sound, usually not because that's just changing something that's already there in the base game. However, if the mod adds characters, animations, questlines, items or environments, then removing the mod will will remove those and may may cause problems as those characters, items, animations, questlines or environments will no longer exist. So if you remove a mod that adds a certain weapon, that weapon will disappear, but is unlikely to cause a crash or warrant a re-load of an older save, but if your mod adds a player home and you remove that mod, a save from inside that player home will not load properly.

Unlike a movie or TV that is simply observing a character and the decisions and dilemmas they experience, a video game puts you right into the situation and in control. Sometimes you have control of the character's morality and choices (Mass Effect, Life is Strange) and sometimes you don't (The Last of Us, Spec' Ops The Line) and it's often the later that provokes a bigger reaction because even though the player controls the character, they don't get the chance to decide what kind of person they are. That's why I think video games can generate controversy's over simply the story direction or nature of the characters that you just do see in movies and TV, or at least not as often or more extreme. I think the vast majority of these complaints are bullshit because they mostly come from hypocrites who claim to be voice speaking for "creative freedom", but pick and choose when to acknowledge a developer's right to that creative freedom only when it suits them. It's creative freedom when the developer in question decides to have Sargent-Straight-White-Man-Penis as the protagonist, but it's suddenly "political" if a developer want's to have anyone that deviates from that. It's ridiculous.

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Given that the launch is now only a couple of weeks away, I thought I'd post this here. I'm really considering the pre-order here as the game does look like it's hitting my buttons.

I like that sort of thing. It's useful to distinguish items that you can collect or use from things that are just part of the background. I don't know about anyone else, but without that I'd end up trying to pick up/interact with everything that looks even remotely useful wasting hours of my life.

In short, yes, it's really annoying, but it gets worse if the AI does not react in a natural way. Bethesda, for instance have been deeply bad at this. AI that flees or "yields" in Bethesda games have been a thing for quite some time, but what they really do is run so far, hide for a moment then come at you again, so there's no point to it, you have to finish them off even if they are "surrendering". This issue is in Skyrim as well, but for some reason there are spells and a destruction magic perk that will actually make enemies flee. Why would anyone want to use them?

This is a pessimistic view, I know, but I don't think games can teach people to be more tolerant in most cases and video games shouldn't try. That's not because I have a problem with such messages in games, that could not be further from the truth, It's because I sadly just don't believe that people who really need taught are that receptive to the lesson. If someone is receptive to learning to be more tolerant and less prejudiced, then odds are they will already be fairly tolerant and non-prejudiced to begin with. When I played Hellblade and Tell me Why, I was happy to learn more about people who struggle with mental illness and trans people respectively, but they didn't really make me more tolerant of them because I'm a not prejudiced person to being with. The people who need those lessons far more tend to be not only prejudiced, but also ignorant, arrogant and entitled. They would look at game with a positive message with regard to minorities or marginalised groups like they only include such messages to preach to them, aggravate them and otherwise annoy them. These people too so self-centred to see the real point to such things. They'll accuse such games of "pandering" , "including groups to make quota's for inclusion of X-group" or even claiming that inclusion itself is prejudiced in some twisted way. The truth is simply they don't like being reminded of thier own prejudices by seen them reflected in a video game, a medium of entertainment that obviously should only exists for thier own, selfish ass. If that is you reading this, you need to read this next part very carefully. These companies do not employ inclusivity, that being inclusivity of non-whites, people with varied religious beliefs, the LGBTQ+ community, woman who actually who actually look like real woman and not your wet dreams or any other form of inclusivity for your benefit. They don't give a damb about you. The ones they are thinking of when they make these decisions are the people in those groups. And yes, as well as thier bottom line and thier PR image, and even if I'm wrong and that's all they're thinking about, that still doesn't mean they give squirt of piss for what you think. They don't care what it means to you, but try and step outside of the box you live in where only what you think matters for one moment and think what it means to someone who lives there life in a marginalised group like that. Someone who has grown up in a world that's tried constantly to convince them that who they are or they way the live is in some way wrong. A world that insists they are less of person or worth less because of how and/or where they were born and to what parents, something that nobody has any control over. Just try to imagine what it would mean to someone like that who see's somebody who reflects them, is like them, that understands them being portrayed in something as mass marketed and that connects the one there to enjoy the offered experience as directly as a video game does. Well, here's an example of what it can mean to someone. For a bit of background, this woman was already out of the closet at the time she recoded this, but grew up in a deeply Christian family, pretty much a cult, that didn't, and as far as I know has never fully accept her. This is her blind reaction to seeing that moment in The Last of Us Left Behind DLC. @The Blackangel, I think this clip will be okay for you as the important part (around 3-4 minutes from the point it will start playing) only includes runners and maybe one clicker toward the end and is quite pixelated, but maybe have someone check it for you. That is an example of somebody on the LGBTQ+ spectrum seeing homosexuality being included in a mainstream game, but the point also applies to race, gender, ethnicity, religious beliefs or whatever. The point being they don't do it for you. It's not there to aggravate you, annoy you, or even teach you anything. It's there for the people out thier who have been made to feel uncomfortable in thier own skin by the world around them. So stop being selfish, try to open your mind to receive what lesson you may learn from the experience and generally just grow the fuck up.

You don't need to quit posting here, you just can't promote your gaming project right now. Ultimately, the rule was put in place because the community got fed up with developers, promoters and such like making one time promotional posts without making any sort of contribution to the forum, as if we only existed as a free billboard to advertise on. So if you were to stay, get to know other other members, share you option on the topics we discuss and just generally contribute to the forum, there will probably be a point where we would welcome you to discuss what you're working on.

Welcome to the VGR forums. As for your question, the short answer is you can't, not here. We don't allow posts that only exist for promotional purposes on the VGR, as is detailed in our Forum rules and Guidelines. There has been promotions run through VGR, but this a matter that has to be agreed though the appropriate channels, people can't just sign up and start promoting things. For this reason, I'm afraid I'm going to have to remove the links and references to your project from your posts.

@Heatman, @Empire, @killamch89 I'd request that discussions about mods please be done on the Gaming Mod Thread. It's there as a place to compile recommended mods and discussion about modding games to make such references easier for people to find.

PlayStation and Guerrilla have done a 180 on the bullshit policy they were going to do for upgrading to the PS5 version as detailed on PlayStation Blog. Good, they needed to.

700TB of space used? Is your PC the host server for YouTube or something? That's complete madness!

My e-mail account is the same Hotmail address I've had for got to be close to 18 years. I've never felt the need to change to something else. In the modern times I use that email to log into Microsoft's more modern Outlook service, but it's still the same address and the same account after almost two decades. It's amazing to think I've moved house at least three times in same timespan.