Posts made by DIPSET

The finger wag from the Days Gone director about buying games at launch for full price kinda reminds me of a few years back when Capcom was making horrible decisions and greenlighting bad ideas for games. I recall some executive saying something about the spin off action-oriented Resident Evil games (Operation Racoon City / Umbrella Corps crap) being made because RE5 and RE6 were highly successful action games and they expected those to sell equally as well due to the genre.

They also made a quasi threat around the cheap Devil May Cry HD port to PS4/PC saying like, "the future of the franchise hangs in these sales."

That kind of guilting and handcuffing fans isn't what developers or publishers should be doing. Just let them buy it at their own merit and pace. Some people stop gaming for decades at a time, then come back to it. I'd hate to find out they cancelled a series I love because I was too busy with life to buy it right away.

Ultimately, if you want me to buy a game at launch you need to completely sell me on it. Days Gone should consider itself lucky launching in Q1 2019 among other single player games and before the Fall / Christmas rush.

Back in the day there were multiple games in the same genre launching at the same date head to head, vying for your dollar:

• NBA Live vs NBA2K vs NBA The Inside
• Guitar Hero vs Rock Band
• Call of Duty vs Battlefield vs Halo
• FIFA vs PES
• Gran Turismo vs Forza

I think if a game like Days Gone only has x-amount of fans, then why get pissy at them for the cancellation of the series cause they didn't buy it right away. So shortsighted.

Gonna skip the demo. I'm already sold on the game and I can wait until May 8th or whenever. I just don't like the idea of spoiling 30 whole minutes.

@el-shmiablo

A lot of the major staff who made COD2-COD MW2 left after MW2, went to Respawn then made classics at Respawn, then returned again to make COD MW 2019. I think NoClip covered some of the development of that game (could've been another company tbh), but a ton of the core IW staff returned to make Modern Warfare.

@bam541

I never understood the World at War love. That game was terrible. I don't understand how a series could step backwards so much from COD4 yet sell so many copies.

Treyarch is like the douche bag in college who is banging the smart hot chick AND stealing her notes yet and somehow gets better grades than her despite stealing her essay verbatim.

@bam541 @El-Shmiablo

It's a mix of both. Black Ops CW engine must be different than IW's tech cause it literally feels like dogshit compared to Modern Warfare. It actually feel like dog shit compared to Black Ops 4 from 2018 so I don't even know how that happens.

I've liked a few non-COD Treyarch games over the years but it seems like their main skillset is delivering a COD game in under 14 months like Activision keeps asking them to do when they cancel a game mid-cycle.

@Bigdude1

Call of Duty 3 is by far the worst COD I've played and was trying to copy Battlefield 2 unsuccessfully. I actually hated that game. Black Ops 1 was janky as all hell on PS3 and was a pretty bad follow up to MW2, and BO2 had appeal with it's speed and attachment system and is, in my opinion, the only great COD game by Treyarch. I didn't love it, but I'll accept it's praise.

EDIT:
I liked Call of Duty: Big Red One by Treyarch, but wouldn't call it great.

@bam541

COD Modern Warfare was my 2019 GOTY and a massive improvement in multiplayer, single player, and added a ton to the Battle Royale genre when Warzone released early 2020. It's still COD at it's core but it was varied by having really personalized custom classes so the meta-guns weren't the be-all-end-all if you wanted viable options for having a fun time in multiplayer. On top of the gameplay stuff, it just had some of the best animation in gaming that I've ever seen. It ran beautiful and it looked amazing graphically.

I re-joined the COD train back in Black Ops 4 which was fun for a bit, but not great. But Modern Warfare had me telling everybody to at least try it or get it on sale it was that good.

Black Ops CW was just such a MASSIVE step down that I'm like... okay I get why people are sick of this. I played a healthy amount then just stopped.

I'm back off the COD train until the next Infinity Ward title for next gen.

@bam541

COD BO Cold War at the top just feels dirty every single time. I bought it while it was discounted in January or something like that and it's just so absolutely mediocre in all avenues while looking worse and having way more glitches than the prior game. I hate knowing I contributed to its success because its so cash-in unambitious.

EP 5 is out on Patreon.

Jones made some good points about Life Is Strange, a game I love. It's funny though because he mentions the mindfulness from the POV of what the game is trying to show in its themes. Also mentions those sit and pause moments in every chapter. Personally, I didn't get too much thematic value from the plot and took it more as a sci-fi thriller with lots of sweet teen melodrama. I also didn't get a lot of of those moments where Max sits and basks in her own thoughts. Basically, the value Jones found in LiS was lost on me.

But what I really enjoyed was the photography mini-game. That is a prime example of just taking in a scene or a moment for what it is and just embracing where you are and what's happening around you. No judgement so to speak.

Personally, I know it was a little collectable side quest thingy, but I really got a lot of value from it in LiS. Helped me get to know Arcadia Bay better and just "take a knee" as Kyle would say. Definitely a lesson to take into the real world too. Photography can teach you a lot.

Ahh too bad, but definitely expected considering only 6M of 35M Canadians are inoculated. My step dad and I rolled the dice by booking a hotel but I think we can get a refund. Here's to 2022 with the new generation of F1!

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/canadian-grand-prix-f1-montreal-cancelled-1.5988769

@jdincinerator

Watch the Game Informer video.

Youtube Video

Fuck hunting chickens. All bout that ammo and dying an ignorant death setting me back an hour.

@dmcmaster

All I know is that they better pipe up about their plans soon so I can avoid spending like $150 on PS1 games for PS3 by June.

@bam541

I wouldn't play them if I was torturing myself. Life is too short to play games just because they reviewed well. I'm actually pretty intrigued by them all, even Days Gone to an extent.

I just wish Sony 1st party didn't go all in on AAA open worlds. Even God of War had a semi-open world and weapon XP grind.

Spidey = side missions for upgrade tokens to make combat better
Horizon = side missions to upgrade skill tree to make combat better
GoW = XP to upgrade weapons so the pace of the game picks up and combat becomes better
Days Gone = money to upgrade motorcycle

I understand that starting weak and improving is a common tried and true video game design choice, but I just don't appreciate how the open world of Spider-Man or the combat in God of War only become bearable once I'm very upgraded.

I feel like I only warmed up to both of those games about half way through when I was upgraded and the game felt more fully fleshed at that point.

Anyways, I don't have much more to add about Days Gone until I play it so I'll keep on topic after this.

@bam541

I'm still kinda lukewarm on Horizon but I have to go back and finish it once and for all. My partner watched me play the first four hours-ish of the game and she was off put by some of the things I didn't like which was kinda assuring because she doesn't know much about games. Mainly the stiff face animation and Aloy's kinda spacey delivery.

I felt like her presence in missions was just to serve the fetch quest and her constant babbling to herself in-game was just to remind me that something is happening. Definitely didn't think the writing, acting, or facial animation was anything to write home about.

I've been hot and cold with Horizon and I'll probably get back to it before I try Days Gone.

I gotta go through all the PS4 open worlds to finally say I've played them all.

I'll report back when I finally try Days Gone. I just remember being extremely turned off by the GameInformer alpha build preview of a mission in 2018. There was this Rockstar-like motorcycle interlude with Deacon and his buddy driving around and talking and quite literally every other line of dialogue was, "fucking motherfucker, sunnovabitch fucking fucker!"

I immediately thought it was typical video game nonsense writing and never gave it the time of day.

Time has passed and a lot of people swear by Days Gone being a good time so I'll definitely try it but I'm not holding my breath that I'll like the characters here.

@jdincinerator

Canadian Eh

@el-shmiablo

I had only heard of Ben Shaprio but never actually seen or watched any of his video ever in my life until Facebook started autoplaying them for me relatively recently. I don't even know these other talking heads you mention. I'm completely not interested in it whatsoever and have never watched any of it, yet, Facebook assumes I like it.

On my Photography Instagram account I follow a few virtual photographers like Petri Levalahti who works for DICE (https://www.instagram.com/p/CNVJdAVnxna/), ya know, really artistic stuff. And the algorithm says, "Oh you like video games, huh?" and proceeds to feed me clips of people streaming Warzone on Twitch in the Explore page.

Idk what about the virtual photo accounts I follow has made Instagram think I give a flying fuck about some dude getting no scopes.

@dmcmaster said in That's News!:

@dipset
On the youtube thing are you using it on a smart TV with multiple people?

Used to share it with a roommate but he'd just watch sports stuff. Now I share it with my partner but she has a different account.

Generally speaking YT algorithm has improved for me but a few years ago (2018-2019), I'd have to constantly remind YT that I do not like outrage channels just because I'm into gaming. It just assumes I'm toxic I guess.

@e_zed_eh_intern

I hate you lol!

Let us know what you think of Ori, but I'm almost positive you or anyone else will love it.

@phbz

I think we’re saying the same thing here. Jason did his report, people got fixated on Days Gone 2.

Jeff did a live stream and people got fixated on his words and twist them to dismiss Jason.

Either way, people are taking what each person is saying and stretching it out to extremes. Nowhere is Jason’s report did he say Sony is going to hell in a hand basket like people are making it out to be.

@el-shmiablo

Yeah like I don’t think Schreier is blowing things out of proportion at all, I think he’s doing a detailed report. It’s just people acting irrational online.

Like so Jeff Ross confirmed he was working on Days Gone 2 but signed and NDA and couldn’t say anything about whether it exists or not. Somehow people take that as bad journalism.

On the YongYea note—YouTube used to keep making that goof’s videos pop up alllll the time. It took a Herculean amount of “not interested” clicks for YouTube to finally catch on.

Literally ALL of my Facebook videos auto play into Ben Shapiro or Daily Wire and idk what impression I’ve given Facebook that I care for his shit, but I constantly need to click “not interested” on a near daily basis.

It gets exhausting. I need that Intel AI ASAP haha