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I swear, this whole topic is a conspiracy.

You all actually did shadow tempel first and that is supposed to be the normal thing?

What? You are supposed to do shadow first?

Never did.

cost of these AAA games got crazy after all, and the marketing is crazy too.

R_Jackal posted...

Blame the eternal pursuit of photorealism in games for the insanely ballooning costs, while consumers eat shit like PalWorld up for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

What AAA devs need to remember is they're making games. If they want to award chase, Hollywood is probably more affordable in the current climate.

That's actually a bit of the issue. Some indy developer can shit out some half finished palworld and gets legit praise. What they did with their budget and ressources is pretty big after all, yet we forget the 1000 misses the other small teams too.

But if MS does some similar low budget project, you can assume that everyone will call it half assed bs, and how can they dare to demand money for such low effort product with last gen graphics.

CE_gonna_CE posted...

Sometimes, stuff gets overturned.

Sometimes, stuff is a joke.

CyricZ posted...

It's 30 bucks USD to buy the digital version and 60 bucks to buy the deluxe physical with the tchotchkes.

150 challenges across 13 old games is how they're marketing it.

Nintendo knows their customers.

At this point it's not a game collection they sell, but some merch package with some game inside.

It's crazy how they come up with the most silly ideas.

Accolon posted...

#158 Bomberman

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/3/3d30b057.jpg

Thanks!

For some reason he creeps me out more than expected.

Revelation34 posted...

Oh right. I forgot it only sold 5 consoles.

The N64 only sold half as many as the SNES.
The Gamecube sold only a third of the SNES.

The GameCube was the worst selling console of it's generation (not only behind the PS2, but also behind the XBox).

Nintendo lost a huge chunk of the market during this gen.

The only home consoles that sold less than the gamecube are the ones from SEGA, the Wii U or from the 8-Bit-Era

Could you do Bomber man?

I don't even want him in Smash, but for some reason I'm curious about the potential result.

Revelation34 posted...

In what weird reality was the GameCube unsuccessful?

In the reality where the GameCube gets compared to the peak era of the PS2.

It was also much less successful than the N64 before, and that one was already less successful than the SNES/PS1.

Mistere_Man posted...

I always wondered what antialiasing was too so thank you for explaining!

Your welcome.

Ofc, it's only the most simple case for simple stuff.

As soon as we are talking about the 3747 different techniques, in scenes with 2637 objects including transparancy, refraction and lightning into account, I also have no idea what happens on the GPU or screen anymore.

I just trust that they are sorted from "low quality" to "high quality" within the menu.

Beveren_Rabbit posted...

I still don't know what anti-aliasing does or what the other graphic settings do.

Anti-Aliasing is pretty simple.

Because we are working with pixels, EVERY object is generally with a terrible sharp edge.

Anti-Aliasing is now softening that edge.

The image left is simple: The a is black, the background white, nothing in between. That gives you a sharp edge, and allows you to identify single pixel.

The image right is now using anti-aliasing, softening the edge with some grey gradient. The result is much smoother, and you wont be able to identify the pixel as good anymore, even if the resolution stays the same.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/0/0b1d694c.png

If you zoom in even more, you see how some originally solid black pixels became light grey:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/0/01f37e36.jpg

Hell no.

Maybe in racing games, to get the feeling of speed a bit better across, but definitly not for some running.

I deactivate it as soon as I see the option for it.

There is a line between having a maybe bad, but still legit oppinion, and outright trolling.

"You know, I think you're being unfair about Ubisoft's decision" is fair game.

Stuff like "I wish they would go into it even harder, so I can watch even more of you crybabies complain" less so.

RetuenOfDevsman posted...

Oh wait is this a multiplayer game? If you play multiplayer, I can't help you. You clearly hate yourself.

Now you lost me because you don't make any sense at all.

Wtf are you even talking about now?

RetuenOfDevsman posted...

You're getting too caught up on today. The shitty shit that they released today that for some reason you want to play even though it's shitty shit.

I say we let their shitty shit crash and burn so they do better next time. But as it is, they all launch as shitty shit because they know they can get away with it because as soon as they patch it, poof all the criticism just dissolves into nothingness.

I mean, that's the point, isn't it?

Throw a fit, so that they remove that shitty shit and fuck off.

It's not like we are headpatting Sony and call it a good boy because it only barked and didn't bite our limbs off.

People are still angry at Sony for sure anyways, but that doesn't mean that we have to burn more bridges than necessary, especially with the primary goal being to enjoy Helldivers 2, and not to tear it down to teach Sony a lesson.

I mean, us not playing a game we paid for and still have fun with, isn't exactly a good way to hurt Sony.

It was simply too much for me.

They threw more movies and shows and other stuff all around than I was able to watch.

This was already bad before infinity war/endgame, but after that it got so much worse that I simply disconnected from the Marvel movie and don't watch them at all anymore.

To keep up with their current "phase whatever" progress and the current big story it feels like I would have to catch up a dozen of movies and who knows what else.

What was originally the big strength of the MCU became their weakness for me because they overdid it.

And that's not even touching the quality issue anyways.

RetuenOfDevsman posted...

This is kind of a pet peeve of mine tbh.

It's one thing if it's something that feels like a legit mistake but when the publisher clearly just wants to screw everyone over just to be an evil son of a bitch, those reviews should stay as a permanent blemish.

See it from the other side:

If the reviews stay as a permanent blemish, there would be

1. no reason for Sony to back off.
2. no leverage for the community as a threat if they should fuck up again.

No, the worst part about horny scenes is that they are usually not worth it anyways.

If I'm horny I consume other content, if I'm not horny, they are usually bad.

The more horny, the worse it is, and the worst hornyscenes I have ever seen are the H-scenes from big and famous Visual novels.

I'm not sure if there is any console game I played more than Mario Kart 64.

And that with 4 player splittscreen are just peak memories.

Accolon posted...

I was mad

Everyone was mad.

Except CERO. And probably fandom

Nobe, ofc nod.

They still did the very terrible move of proofing everyone how good Helldivers 2 works without linking at all for months, but then demanding it.

Like, if EA does Battlefield 9001, and the game needs an EA Account from day 1 (as usual), because they never implemented any kind of Steam account management / API at all, then it still sucks that I need an EA account after buying the game on Steam, but I can still easily say "nope", and the developers can still say "well, you need an EA account, because we don't want to handle two different kind of accounts".

For Helldivers 2, we know that their handling of Steam accounts worked perfectly. Linking accounts was never needed at all, and I was still able to add friends and play with everyone, even cross-play to Ps5 players.

Their argument of "but we would have to ask Valve to ban people" sounds fishy too, when they have all my account and login data and can just block me within the login screen.

If they actually care about these 100+ countries, they could simply go forward with supporting them within the PSN.

This topic needs more (reboot) Holo:

https://imgur.com/a/uAX5L4Z

Duh, obviously.

Always these vague "leakers" with their safe bets.

Can you also tell us from which direction it will rise? Or the exact time?

Hitting a 24 hour window isn't that hard and can be easily done by some guesswork.

voldothegr8 posted...

They simply won't make this mistake again and require it for all future PC titles from the get go.

Yeah, that for sure, but probably slower than originally planned.

If they now announce a game with "PSN necessary" they will just heat up the community again, even if everything is clear from the beginning.

LeCh0nk posted...

Just wait till next quarter.

I think they will have to wait a bit longer.

Even if they now go on with some PSN linking on some game from day 1, so without all the bullshit that caused the HD2 situation to explode, the community got their win against Sony, and they will try to repeat it again if they can.

But I'm not even aware of some upcoming multiplayer game from Sony where this would be relevant right now.

WingsOfGood posted...

So turns out so called "review bombing" works huh?

Who would have thought.

• Review bombing
• Refunds
• Potential legal issues for some countries
• and the official discord set on fire for 4 days straight.

The talks between Sony and Arrowhead were probably also not so chill anymore, and I would not be surprised if even Valve got involved with a "wtf are you doing?!?"

This wasn't just a can of worms they opened, it was a full shipping container.

But I'm still surprised that they caved in. That will slow down their ambitions about linking PSN accounts for quite some time, since they wont want to repeat this shitstorm.

I honestly expected Sony to throw Helldiver 2 under the bus.

Rika_Furude posted...

how many people already signed up for PSN accounts though?

Probably not so many. The ingame pop up was supposed to come with May 30th.

I don't even know how I'm currently supposed to link my helldivers 2 steam account to a PSN account.

Got 103. I SURVIVE.

Probably would get up to ~115, if I were able to know some english spellings for these countries.

I'm mostly annoyed not getting Lithuania (damn that H) and Morocco wrong (damn that first O, it's an A in german).

Software companies taking notes how they can sell a freaking software update for 2,000$.

Hell, I'm working in a small software company, and our software isn't cheap either, but that?

Utterly insane, and it would still find buyers.

I regulary crave violance in rage against my pillows and rarely plushs.

punkfanalways posted...

I thought I spelled it out but guess not. I get the feeling some people are acting outraged purely because they hate Sony and this is a good stick to hit them with.

Is it shitty to require PSN to play a game on steam? Sure. But where was the outrage when you needed an Ubi account to play Ubi games or similar. Again Im not saying its not shitty. It definitely is. But the so called outrage seems a bit much to me personally.

Problem is it isn't only shitty, it's shitty^3.

• The account linking bullshit is always annoying, but if the game is primary sold over the ubistore or EA Store or whatever, and Steam is just the secondary retail plattform... well, then I can still decide if I want it on Steam or not. If it were mandatory and a big issue, people could still simply decide not to buy it, or refund it within Steam as soon as the pop up would come up.
• It now went on for 3 months. Everything is working fine, I have no issues with cheaters or hackers, even the scumbags are pretty rare and there is not a single issue with crossplay either. The game works fine with Steam accounts. Crossplay, ingame store, everything works, so suddenly there is a need for the PSN account when they proved for months that their servers are able to handle steam 100% fine. They showed us how good the steam account works, and now tell us that we have to link a PSN account, for reasons.
• The whole region issue. That's just baffling, and a huge fuckup. Something like that should not be possible for such a big international company at all.

SocialistGamer posted...

http://tiny.cc/xj3yxz

Yet it got currently region locked on steam, after that article was published, and no one knows why because everyone is silent.

So, yeah, people don't have that much trust in words right now.

Notti posted...

.... I need a map.

Best I have found is this:

https://insider-gaming.com/which-countries-have-psn/

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/f/f2a09f30.jpg

Be aware that I can't guarantee that this is correct, and that I also heard about some less nice technicalities here and there.

Like, in UK you have provide a passport / image to age verify yourself, and in Ukraine I heard that you need a PlayStation to create the PSN account.

So, not only is it nearly all of Africa, there are also issues for some parts of Europe, Asia, the caribean, and the pacific region.

Hell, for some reason even Liechtenstein, Monaco and Andora are simply ignored because they seem to be too small for Sony to care about

You truly have a new "cute girl in japan" story every few days.

I have to admit that I don't care about NBA nor WNBA at all, but even here, in middle europe, I got aware about Caitlin Clark because she got an article full of praise and hype in the newspaper I read some time ago.

Add some postgame/endgame challenge where you have to timely dodge a lightning strike 100 times in a row.

) Heavy rain and thunder from random directions, so you can see and hear even less.

) Silly half-broken fences that are still unpassable, forcing you to take a 500 meter detour to get something 10 meter away.

) That stuff that is 10 meter away (but took what felt like a week to get there), turns out to be a dead end, with a single chest with a common potion in it.

Kaldrenthebold posted...

I've heard that there was a pop up to link your PSN account but it seems unsure if it was constant or you just skipped once and never saw it again. As I said I am on PS5 so I was required to have it regardless.

According to the announcment:

• From May 6th onwards, new players have to link it the moment they start.
• Existing players will get some pop up feom May 30th onwards.
• From June 4th it will be mandatory, or you can't play it at all anymore.

My full history should be 5 moderations, all with NKL.

Last should be half a year ago, because I didn't put something in spoilers when discussing some ending (I think like half my posting was already spoiler tagged, but seems like I should have tagged some more).

UnholyMudcrab posted...

You don't need to ignore the dialogue. You can have your conversation with Viconia and then just spend the first turn retreating into the hallway behind you to get the enemies to cluster and funnel toward you. It's what I've done every single time I've done the fight.

And funneling the enemies into the hallway isn't a cheese strategy any more than, say, pushing enemies into the lava during the fight with Nere in the Grymforge is cheese. It's just using the terrain to your advantage.

It's cheesy because this would not work against a real DM, and only works because the enemy is so stupid.

If someone drops a huge ass aoe hazard in a narrow point, people usually don't run straight into it.

It's one thing outsmarting someone. It's also a good thing to make use of the terrain of course.
But when it's about abusing braindead enemy behavior, it feels much less rewarding.

If the enemy would do the same tactic, people would not even be able to complain, because the answer is obviously "duh, don't run into it".

Some smoked salmon on bread is also nice.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/adc8651b.jpg

Xatrion posted...

Is this real? Thought it was satire. Europeans really have to pay for public bathrooms, are you freaking kidding me? What ass-backward fuckwit thought that was a good idea?

Gainerama posted...

Really sad that they monetize public washrooms. In Japan, there's public washrooms everywhere in the country and yes, most of them are spotless.

It's not real monetization. You can't expect profits with 50 cent per person, it's mostly to keep vandalism down.

In shopping malls it's free, and they are usually clean.
In restaurant / cafes it's free (for consumers), and they are a roll of the dice, because it obviously depends on them.

Public ones can be everything, Depends on the place. The "bigger" the place (popular shopping street, big train stations) the more likely it has the 50 cent barrier and is spotless. If it's some public bathroom at some small park, it's probably free but probably not as nice.

McDonalds sometimes has asks 50 cent here too, and they are still terrible.

Also, be aware that Europe is not a monolith. Every country and even the cities differ a lot there. Ask 5 europeans from 5 countries about such stuff, and you usually get many different answers.

Every time I think "oh f yes, I love Twilight Princess" and sometimes I would place it even above OoT, only behind ALttP.

Every time I replay it I'm like "Damn, I'm at the part that sucks", but for some reason it feels like there is a dozen of these parts, and that's why I still have to put OoT above.

Still great game.

The genre would not be the issue, but every single Isekai seems to get more and more lazy.

FFS, they don't even pretend to care about story or world or characterbuilding, it's just "look at this strange gameificated world, where everything is full of numbers and skills and levels, and MC gets this broken cheat ability!"

Take the script of ep1 from 10 of these animes next to each other, maybe redract the character names, and you will have a hard assigning them correctly because they are all the same.

1) You can't just replace crouching with toptoeing in most games. In how many pvp games are people crouching to lower the sound their movement does?

2) I have honestly never heard of people getting banned for teabagging. I also think it's childish, annoying and disrespectful, but I don't think it's something that people should get a ban for.

WingsOfGood posted...

Does Europe waive the fee for those with intestinal disorders?

Can only talk about my place, but:

There isn't always a fee, especially not at shopping malls.

It's usually 50cent for the cleaning lady at the place, and I think people with intestinal disorders need it especially clean, so... Yeah, just pay it.

_____Cait posted...

Wait until you live there and see their politics, their apathy towards anything, their fear of change, subtle racism, and lack of efficiency

Now we only need a place where this description would not fit.