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I wonder how Alan Wake would have turned out if Microsoft committed more to it.

Uncharted 1 didn't set the world on fire. Sometimes it's the sequel when a franchise really starts.
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KillerSlaw posted...

Didn't Microsoft claim Quantum Break did sell up to expectations?

I think one Microsoft guy in Twitter who has a history of stating bullshit on his account said it did but that's it.

IIRC even when talking about it he said not every game needs a sequel even though Quantum Break ends with a sequel hook lol

I think them dropping Remedy immediately afterwards speaks for itself. Even in Microsoft's big buying spree there hasn't been anything with Remedy.
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Max Payne 2 didn't sell up to expectations
Alan Wake didn't sell up to expectations
Quantum Break didn't sell up to expectations
Control hasn't popped up in any sales chart I a significant way. Looks like that flopped too.

Feels bad man.
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Yeah in interested in streaming games from the hardware at home to other places (if the internet is good enough I can do that with PC and PS4 already) but I don't see a scenario where I'd prefer to stream games at home.
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Cotton_Eye_Joe posted...

If you work a 9-5, are broke

Not broke. Guess I'm fine then.
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ZombiePelican posted...

Darmik posted...

The biggest issue is trying to work it out between the two companies who both make fighting games.

The Street Fighter X Tekken experiment didn't exactly work out and that was with two Japanese companies.

It worked out just fine, the game completely failed due to the greedy bullshit of Capcom locking a dozen characters already finished and playable behind a paywall

Capcom would just never allow their characters to be brutally dismembered, decapitations are censored in Japan if I'm not mistaken so that already nerfs what they could do fatality wise

You're forgetting that there was supposed to be Tekken X Street Fighter as well.

So I don't think it really worked out fine for the most part. They were more successful on their own.
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Heh some people were really adamant that the entire stream had to have more stuff.
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The biggest issue is trying to work it out between the two companies who both make fighting games.

The Street Fighter X Tekken experiment didn't exactly work out and that was with two Japanese companies.
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Loud_Pipes posted...

i dont benefit from being white. showing some disparities in rare cases doesnt mean im benefiting from anything.

You do even if you don't realise it.

By default you're not an outlier.

Gamerguymass posted...

This might be an argument in areas where white aren't a majority or only barely one, but in places where white people are overwhelmingly the majority then this doesn't really hold true. When 80% of the population is the same race then you can't argue 'privledge' when your biggest competition is your own race.

And what about the 20% who aren't?
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Smashingpmkns posted...

Stadia definitely won't be the one to effectively push streaming into the gaming industry but Project xCloud definitely has the potential to.

I don't think that'll be a 'new format of game's like Kojima seems to be talking about. That sounds more like what Stadia wants although they have yet to show any examples.
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Hexenherz posted...

I'm curious how much bandwidth streaming games requires.

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/google-stadia-data-usage-internet-streaming-requirements-2019-6?r=US&IR=T

At the best possible quality, Stadia will use 35 Mbps of data per second, or about 15.75GB per hour. At Googles recommended minimum quality, Stadia will use about 4.5GB per hour.

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My TV doesn't have PS Now because the service isn't available in Australia and there's no indication of when it will be.

I've tried GeForce Now and the latency was too much to deal with.

I do stream games over local networks to other devices and it'll be good when it hits that sort of standard.
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It'll be hilarious if his next game is published by Google as a Stadia exclusive.
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I don't think either franchise/company needs to bother tbh.
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https://www.gamesradar.com/kojima-productions-movie/

"I think within the next few years, gaming will move on to streaming," Kojima said. "Movies, dramas, and games will all be streamed, and you'll enjoy them on your iPad or iPhone or a screen anytime, anywhere. When that happens, games, films, and dramas will have to compete in the same space. I'm very interested in the new format of game that will appear on there, and that's what I want to take on."

Maybe in the Japan bubble he's not wrong but I think we're a long way from it going mainstream. Even now we're only hitting half splits for physical and digital.
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coh posted...

Doesnt affirmative action kinda disprove that white people are benefitting from systemic racism

Why do you think affirmative action was implemented in the first place
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So if Republicans elect a President called Mc they'd complete the clown trifecta.
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refmon posted...

kojima is about as far away from your typical Japanese game dev as you can get.

cmon you know that

He's a unique Japanese developer but his games are still very Japanese. Hell I've seen people point out that it's interesting watching famous Western actors basically talk off a script that's more like what you'd see in an anime in Death Stranding.
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Cartwheel_Kick posted...

I forgot to mention I'm looking less for party games which are a dime a dozen and more for co-op or adventure games, which are relatively rare. Especially 3p and over

Local coop adventure games for 3-4 players have never really been that common from what I can recall outside of beat em ups.

If you like platformers Runbow is good.
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Brie Larson being a Nintendo fan was something she said a long time ago.

Although I suppose people who blindly hate her since the lead up to Captain Marvel don't really see her as a person.
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Luckily there are like 79 other characters with simpler inputs.
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Rika_Furude posted...

Darmik posted...

Don't you live in Australia

Yes

I need to go upstairs in my house to get a good mobile signal lol.

There are god damn dead zones in Sydney. Sydney!

Don't get me started on the NBN.
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Don't you live in Australia
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Financial Services Officer
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If she posted it on social media it must be true.
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So how did this pan out
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_CARLOX_ posted...

Most games can run on ultra even on a mid-range pc. Now that they run terrible, that's a different argument.

I think that's what makes people upset. The far majority of games you can just tick on Ultra and be fine.

But there's always the odd game that has some crazy Ultra setting that people will cry that it's not optimised well if it doesn't give them the framerate they want after they put it on Ultra and do nothing else. I don't know why people who don't want to mess with settings would even get a gaming PC.
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Lets say you want to play Spider-Man on your PS4 Pro after the servers are shut down.

You put in your disc. Despite owning a PS4 Pro you're stuck with the 1080p resolution because Pro Mode needs a day one patch. You also can't play any of the DLC.

Like is it really practical to think that'll be the best way to play the game in that hypothetical future scenario? Unless society is post-apocalyptic which in that case playing Spider-Man on your PS4 probably isn't a priority.
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008Zulu posted...

Darmik posted...

It's not a big budget game.

It's priced like one, at least here in Australia.

Video game prices aren't really decided by their budgets. Otherwise GTAV would be a $200 game.

Besides you can play Outer Wilds on Games Pass for cheap.
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I was attached to physical games for a while but like...what am I attached to?

I'm not playing my PS3 physical copy of Uncharted Drake's Fortune anymore and I doubt I ever will again. I've got my wife's Nintendo 64 in the house but none of my TV's can display that thing well at all and even if it did it's probably got some PAL fuckery going on.

Meanwhile I can play PC games I bought last generation with a simple click and bump up the settings to play at HD resolutions and smooth framerates.

The Xbox One X is rewarding me for keeping old Xbox games is neat but it only works for specific games. Unfortunately over the years I've given up a lot of those games thinking that I couldn't play them anymore anyway. Ultimately the best archival experience for me is PC. And that's completely digital. Those old PC physical games are basically worthless.
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Hop103 posted...

Sore losers, they don't deserve the money.

But Vic and his YouTube lawyers were the losers.

Unless you mean the money they're gonna lose.
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I knew people were expecting that but they've been pretty clear that the game was going to be this for a while. It's not a big budget game. Obsidian hasn't made one of those for a long time now.
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https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2019-11-05/funimation-files-motion-to-recover-attorney-fees-for-vic-mignogna-lawsuit/.152977

Funimation filed a motion with the Tarrant County District Court on Monday for reasonable attorney's fees, costs, and sanctions related to voice actor Vic Mignogna's lawsuit against voice actresses Monica Rial, Jamie Marchi, Rial's fiance Ron Toye, and Funimation. The company requested US$168,941 for reasonable attorney's fees and US$7,504 for costs and expenses. Funimation further requested conditional appellate feels of US$50,000 for appeal, $25,000 for filing a petition for review, and an additional $25,000 if the petition for review is granted but relief is denied. The motion also requested sanctions of at least US$25,000 "to deter [Mignogna] from filing similar lawsuits in the future."

Rial and Toye jointly filed a brief in support of sanctions and attorneys' fees on Monday. The brief requested US$259,713.04 in attorneys' fees already incurred, US$11,980.10 in expenses already incurred, and US$11,250.00 in anticipated attorneys' fees through the date of the hearing. Additionally, the brief listed conditional attorneys' fees to the Court of Appeals for US$55,000.00, at the petition for review for US$12,500.00, at the merits briefing stage before the Texas Supreme Court for $22,500.00, and at oral argument and completion of the proceedings before the Texas Supreme Court for US$15,000.00. The brief argued that a sanction in the case should range from US$100,000 to US$260,000. Source: Brief in Support of Sanctions and Attorneys' Fees

Similarly, Marchi filed a motion to determine sanctions and attorney's fees on Monday. The motion requested reasonable attorney's fees of $48,137.50 and costs of $354.01. The motion also asked for contingent attorney's fees of US$37,500 if there is an appeal to the Court of Appeals, plus an additional US$45,000.00 for a possible appeal to the Texas Supreme Court. The motion further argued that an appropriate sanction in this case is at least US$50,000 and would account for Mignogna's "GoFundMe war chest" crowdfunding campaign that has raised US$258,210 as of press time. Source: Motion to Determine Sanctions and Attorney's Fees

The total of Funimation, Rial, Toye, and Marchi's requested attorney's fees and costs listed above excluding conditional fees and contingent fees is US$507,879.55. The total sanctions the defendants requested account for at least an additional US$175,000.

lol
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For modern consoles it barely seems to matter tbh. Good luck trying to figure out which physical games on PS4/Xbox One are still good on your PlayStation or Xbox when they can no longer can connect to online services when you're old and retired.
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meralonne posted...

And didnt at least one of the Lord of the Rings movies come out in that time frame?

All three did lol
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Zithers posted...

You can't tell directors apart in the Marvel movies. The movies all look the same and hit the same notes.

Taiki Waititi, James Gunn and Ryan Coogler all have a very distinct feel in each of their movies that I think will carry over to any of their sequels too.
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Minmay23 posted...

literally who

https://i.imgur.com/BVbv7ZY.gif
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https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1191837259399651328

Break the walls down?
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Sad_Face posted...

Think about you're saying. A story about a person who orchestrates a pedo-ring that services the elite of this world isn't a good enough story to run because the person who orchestrates the ring isn't known enough. The whole point about investigative journalism is to make these kinds of persons known. And you literally posted a quote saying Royal Palace threatened them a "million different ways". What do you think the appropriate response is to holding a story that the Queen of bloody England is demanding you shelf or she ****s you up good and proper?

You guys need to be able to separate the words from the speaker. The content from the creator. Scrutinize each and every one of them individually. It's more difficult but you'll come out on top that way.

Robach isn't an investigative journalist. She's an anchor who had an interview segment ready to go.

This segment was denied by her bosses. Because people don't know who Epstein was. Then the legal team for the Royal Palace found out that this person is making accusations against Prince Andrew and also made threats to the network. Like a typical rich person legal team would.

Which I'm betting is a thing for basically any network that interviews rape or sexual assault accusers against famous people. That network has to decide if it's worth the legal or financial risk.
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She said as much in the leaked video why it didn't air.

We would not put it on the air. Um, first of all, I was told, whos Jeffrey Epstein? No one knows who that is. This is a stupid story," Robach said on the video recording. "Then, the Palace found out that we had her whole allegations about Prince Andrew and threatened us a million different ways. We were so afraid we wouldnt be able to interview Kate and Will that we, that also quashed the story.

There's nothing else to explain. The network didn't think Epstein was known enough and didn't want to piss off the Royal Family over it. This doesn't mean the Queen runs ABC from the shadows.
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PopOutAtYoParty posted...

Darmik posted...

She probably did rant about having this story on camera and it leaked.

But that doesn't mean the rest of the implications the video makes are valid. The Clinton sentence specifically is extremely suspicious with how they frame it in the video.

So because Clinton the Queen never tried to get this story buried

Can we add Hillary Clinton to the definition of TDS?

The Queen is not the Palace's lawyers.

What is said by the anchor is pretty self-explanatory.
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She probably did rant about having this story on camera and it leaked.

But that doesn't mean the rest of the implications the video makes are valid. The Clinton sentence specifically is extremely suspicious with how they frame it in the video.
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M_Live posted...

What is Project Veritas?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Veritas

Project Veritas is an American right-wing activist group. The group uses "disguises and hidden cameras to uncover supposed liberal bias and corruption." The group is known for producing deceptively edited videos about media organizations and left-leaning groups. In a 2018 book on propaganda and disinformation in U.S. politics, three Harvard University scholars refer to Project Veritas as a "right-wing disinformation outfit."

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marthsheretoo posted...

CableZL posted...

Funbazooka posted...

Wait, are people trying to argue this whole thing is fake and orchestrated by Project Veritas? rofl. The ABC news anchor is caught on video.

Ive had the story for three years we would not put it on the air, Robach said on the hot mic. It was unbelievable what we had, Clinton, we had everything.

Must be one of them Deep Fakes right

Project Veritas has a long documented history of putting out videos that are edited so much that the meaning of the conversation is entirely misrepresented to push a narrative.

I wouldn't put it past Project Veritas to literally splice the word "Clinton" from somewhere else into the middle of that sentence.

Clinton could be the name of the guy she's talking to.
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Zeeak4444 posted...

Was this her first time or something?

You can def tell when theres no condom unless this is like your second time having sex.

How many penises have you had in your vagina?
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KillerSlaw posted...

Well I'd be pretty pissed too if I spent 2000 dollars and can't run shit on Ultra

Ultra isn't always designed for modern hardware though.

It really should mean that everything in the game is pushed to its max but it rarely means that.
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I remember we used to have posters here defending this shit and saying it wasn't a big deal.
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Turn some god damn settings down. Medium to High doesn't mean the game will look like ass.
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Titanfall 2's campaign was great.

EA hasn't done one for a long time but their dedicated single player games last gen were overall great too.

EA often misses the forest for the trees but I don't see any obvious warning flags with this game personally. Hell if you aren't sure and you have a good enough PC you can just sub to Origin Premiere for a month.
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Pretty sure Larson would love for Luigi to watch her movies. But she doesn't care what he thinks about A Wrinkle in Time.

KillerSlaw posted...

Is she going to play Peach in the Mario Movie now?

Pretty sure her dream role is Samus. This might have been before she got Captain Marvel though. Maybe it's a bit samey if she did both?
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