Posts made by DIPSET

If it’s 2020 I might win Fantasy Critic (unless Fast & Furious kills me, which it won’t).

@b-cell

I’ve heard you say The Witcher 2 is the best RPG game ever made.

Halo Master Chief Collection will be getting cross play networking in 2020. I assume it’s between Xbox One and PC because you can link your Steam account but I hope they don’t mean XBO and XBSX. That would be annoying.

https://www.pcgamer.com/halo-the-master-chief-collection-crossplay-is-coming-in-2020/

This is a pretty massive deal to me. A few months ago when Halo 2 arrived on PC I finally organized with my best friend to play Halo 2 between XBO and PC. He can add me, he can send me a game invite, but I couldn’t join his party cause a screen pops up saying he’s on another system.

We just assumed you could! We were pretty upset because we haven’t played Halo in years and he’s never gonna buy a PC. We used to play hundreds of hours of Halo 3 at his house growing up and now we can finally play online together again.

Cross play is one of the best things to happen to gaming.

“The Last of Us: Part II: Part 2” DLC expansion incoming. Save the file.

Victor Lucas did a Spoilercast with Neil Druckmann.

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I think this is really great because they don't go beat for beat, but compare TLOU2 to Uncharted and TLOU1. Broad stroke future of gaming topics and some insight about taking risks.

@bam541

Omfg that flying dog! Hahaha.

It's actually a good question. I think something happened at some point where you link the game to your account and can re-download it.

VERY recently, I found Battlefield 3 on PC from 2011 at my parents house. I always assumed I bought it on EA Origin because I can download and uninstall the game at my will. I've done it a few times over the years. So I never even realized I had the physical copy of the game in the first place. I'd assume it's fine to throw those old games out, but don't quote me on it.

@el-shmiablo

Here's a contentious opinion, I think The Witcher 2 has better combat than TW3 (still not good), and I think TW2 is the better overall game.

Here's another contentious one: Assassin's Creed 1 is a great game.

Never even heard of it to be honest.

@el-shmiablo

But don't you consider the dynamic and diverse storytelling in The Witcher 3 (and The Witcher series as well as other similar cRPG games) to be gameplay in itself? I feel as though the storytelling is so greatly affected by player input that its hard to ignore the give and take between the player and the game in regards to plot, story outcomes, relationships, etc.

Like, where the modern AC games focus on mainly combat (correct me if I'm wrong), the Witcher games focus on storytelling gameplay AND combat as the staple.

I feel the same way about Horizon. It's like an action game with some dialogue options whereas The Witcher 3 feels like the full package.

Halo, Wreckfest, Friday The 13th, and RDR2 episodes were so fun to watch. This is the type of stuff that reminds me of just screwing around in video games with friends growing up. I just don’t get that anymore. It’s also something that you can’t get from a live stream.

I’d love a S02 for Hunting Huber. Renew it EZA!

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Unrelated but does anyone remember that group stream from a long while back where they did various competitions in Super Mario Odyssey?

I could see that working into a show: ”Mario Olympics” (or something). Making little games within the game.

Fall Guys needs the voice over from MXC:

“Here comes Ursula The Fist!!”

I gotta say, after 4 hours into my first foray with The Last of Us Part II In-Game Photo Mode, I am only satisfied with 3 shots. This is easily the best animation I've ever seen in a video game and it's unbelievable how expressive these characters are at all times. There are an infinite amount of combinations of movement, action, expression, weapons, locations, etc to get unlimited photos.

I want to try to portray what I love most in the game: the animation, the landscape, and the characters. I feel like black and white is the way to go. I want to try and play with the bow and get a good shot that represents Ellie with her bow, but it's a struggle to find the right lighting, blur or black out the BG. My inevitable second playthrough will be all about Photo Mode.

(Flickr link for higher resolution)

The 3 I like:

https://flic.kr/p/2jrfWBg

https://flic.kr/p/2jreBuQ

https://flic.kr/p/2jreBvr

Some dumb ones:

When Ellie has killed so much she becomes emotionless...

I couldn't see Ellie's leg is missing...

Just a word of advice. DO NOT TRUST YOUR TV. Everything here looked MUCH better on my TV than on my PC monitor. The exposure is darker than expected, the sharpness is waaaaaaay more sharp, and effects like film grain looks gross on my monitor.

@dmcmaster

It's still a bit vague and confusing. They list specific new songs at the end of the Noisey video, but then they have this official poster out which seems to have bands that weren't listed in the Noisey video. Kotaku previously confirmed with Activision that the following 5 songs from the original games won't be available:

• "Cyco Vision" - Suicidal Tendencies (THPS1)
• "Committed" – Unsane (THPS1)
• "Bring the Noise" - Anthrax and Chuck D (THPS2)
• "B-Boy Document ’99" - The High & Mighty featuring Yasiin Bey & Mad Skillz (THPS2)
• "Out With The Old" - Alley Life featuring Black Planet (THPS2)

But on the contrary, as of this promo material from yesterday, seems like either a different song by Anthrax and Suicidal Tendencies will be in the soundtrack, or these specific ones WILL in fact be in there. Still sad to see B-Boy Document missing, I love that tune.

Here is the poster and below it, I'll post screen caps from the Noisey video:

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I can't post screen shots cause the Noisey video is suddenly unavailable. My god music licensing...

There is a Spotify playlist but even some of the songs are unavailable on there haha.

I'm glad the new songs are in-line with the punk rock, underground hip hop vibe of the original games. Good to see Less Than Jake, Sublime, Billy Talent, FIDLAR, Merkules, Skepta, and a few others on there.

The new Machine Gun Kelly song sounds like The Killers meets Taking Back Sunday meets Bloc Party, but each with some sort of horrible deformation. I might have to mute that one when I get the game.

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Uhhhh so OpenCritic of all places seems to be the only place that lists the full damn soundtrack:

A Tribe Called Quest – Can I Kick It?
A. Swayze & the Ghosts – Connect to Consume
Alex Lahey – Misery Guts
All Talk – Let's Do It
American Nightmare – Life Support
Anthrax ft Public Enemy – Bring The Noise
Backchat – Step It Up
Bad Religion – You
Black Prez ft Kid Something – The Struggle
Baker Boy – In Control
Billy Talent – Afraid of Heights
Chaii – South
Charlie Brown Jr – Confisco
Cherry cola – Something To Say
Chick Norris – Made Me Do It
Craig Craig ft Icey Black – Stomp
Crush Effect ft Karra
Consumed – Heavy Metal Winner
Dead Kennedys – Police Truck
Destroy Boys – Duck Eat Duck World
DZ Deathrays – In To It
Dub Pistols – Cyclone
Even Rude – Vilified
Fidlar – West Coast
Fu Manchu – Evil Eye
Goldfinger – Superman
Junkbunny – Sedona
Lagwagon – May 16
Less Than Jake – Bomb Drop
MXPX – Let's Ride
Merkules – Bass
Machine Gun Kelly – Bloody Valentine
Millencolin – No Cigar
Naughty By Nature – Pin The Tail On The Donkey
Pkew Pkew Pkew – Mid 20's Skateboarder
Powerman 5000 – When Worlds Collide
Papa Roach – Blood Brothers
Primus – Jerry Was A Race Car Driver
Rough Francis – Deathwire
Rage Against The Machine – Guerrilla Radio
Reel Big Fish – She's Famous Now
Screaming Females – Let Me In
Skepta – Shutdown
Spilt Milk – Run It Up Pt 2
Strung Out – Firecracker
Styles of Beyond – Subculture
Strung Out – Firecracker
Sublime – Same In The End
Suicidal Tendencies – Cyco Vision
Swingin Utters – Five Lessons Learned
The Ataris – All Souls Day
The Super Best Frens Club – Like This
The Ernies – Here & Now
The Suicide Machines – New Girl
Token – Flamingo
Tyrone Briggs – Lose Control
Vandals – Euro Barge
Viagra Boys – Low Learner
Zebrahead – All My Friends Are Nobodies

@bard91

Yeah like the art direction and having a coherent aesthetic is so much more important than beautiful baked-in gun textures or dynamic lighting vs "fake" baked-in lighting. That aspect of the game is of the utmost important for me. Basically, the bells and whistles should come after that strong aesthetic vision. Then on top of that, making sure everything runs smoothly.

I also think resolution is overrated in 2020. Sure, back when I wished games like GTA IV on PS3 weren't sub-HD resolution, but now that we're past that, I can almost assure you I won't notice 1440p vs 2160p whereas I will notice graphical errors, low quality audio, or bad art design.

For example, I'm finally playing Horizon Zero Dawn. That game runs in a checkerboard 2160p resolution and I couldn't care less because I struggle with the visual design of the game. I can't see or tell where anything is because all the colours blend in together. What sense is there in having all of these fancy FX when Aloy is talking about an object out loud and I have to sit so close to my TV and squint to even find what she's referring to?

Def liked Kyle's take on the game. I agree with him that the game tries to make you feel things you don't want to feel but it finally got me near the end.

@bard91

Fair but I think there are some missing pieces of game development that we might not understand about the pipeline. Like, I somehow doubt that having your asset builds or FX department focusing on design elements will take away time or resources from other departments. At least not on a game of this budget.

Like, it's impossible to say without seeing the pipeline and budget, but I think spending the time to get the assets looking good is important and won't take away from the other departments. As Digital Foundry explained, it's more about their technique. Other Halo games used a different technique whereas Infinite is doing something else.

To each their own though. Every studio has different people who have different techniques to get the best presentation possible. They showed examples of how Naughty Dog did their lighting and how 4A Games' Metro Exodus does their lighting the same way as Halo Infinite. I personally think it's worth the investment to have these things looking great.

I feel as though it’s only a service model because MS is dead set on releasing this at launch. I have a feeling this isn’t even close to being ready and they’re probably gonna work like madmen for 3 months before launching it close enough to finished.

It’s all speculation but it’s weird how little we know and how this far into development, the FX and graphics look questionable. I think it’s gonna be a year of essential patches then maybe a year or two of support. Halo 4 & 5 had issues of the community abandoning ship very quickly so they’ll have to retain players ASAP.

I’m starting to get skeptical.

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I guess we don't have a Halo Infinite thread so I'm just gonna post here.

Halo Infinite Gameplay Trailer Analysis: Are The Graphics Really 'Flat'...?
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New Digital Foundry video from the other day. I feel like I'm less concerned about the lighting in Halo Infinite and more with the landscape looking like Minecraft.

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I also want to add that around 13 minutes, they explain Ray Tracing in practice in a way that I finally understand as something more than next gen 'bells and whistles'.

Seems like where a game like TLOU2 has workarounds for common lighting problems, a game like Halo Infinite will probably look better and benefit more from next gen lighting.