Posts made by Ezekiel

More interested in eventually upgrading my TV and speaker system, which I won't do for a long time either. TVs have better picture quality and I mostly play third person games anyway.

@scotty said in The PS5 News and Info Thread:

@ezekiel

What is your favourite exclusive from PS4 lineup?

From the approximately eighteen games I played, Shadow of the Colossus and Gravity Rush Remastered.

@scotty One of my biggest complaints was that you spend most of the combat aiming a bow with a device that's crap for aiming. I thought how much better it would be on a PC. Still don't think I'd ever play it again, though. It was okay.

@hazz3r said in The PS5 News and Info Thread:

@ezekiel Nope. Huge rework. Digital Foundry wrote a short article about the Collections as a whole.

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2015-uncharted-nathan-drake-collection-is-more-than-just-a-remaster

Waited until I got home to click on this, because I expected a video and didn't wanna use mobile data. Very little mentioned in the article is actually revisionism. Replacing textures with improved ones, for example, isn't revisionism, as long as those textures are faithful to what was originally intended. Boletaria had recently deceased soldiers and horses that were still rotting. I never got the impression it had been so long since it was still civilized, but here the city looks almost like something from The Last of Us. Most of the haze is gone too.

@hazz3r said in The PS5 News and Info Thread:

@ezekiel said in The PS5 News and Info Thread:

because Bluepoint Games isn't known for revisionism

Only if you treat SotC as your only example. Bluepoint did a huge rework to Uncharted 1 in the Nathan Drake collection.

Huh? I remember playing the exact same Uncharted 1 on my PS4 as I played on my 3, except with higher resolution and better framerate.

I'm surprised Boletaria is all overgrown and stuff, because Bluepoint Games isn't known for revisionism. Shadow of the Colossus was almost a 1:1 remake. I never had the impression that's what they were going for with Boletaria. I thought it had been recently overrun by demons.

Oh well, probably won't get a PS5 anyway. Never thought I'd have to pay extra to play Demon's Souls online.

Would rather watch movies and TV shows endlessly than play games for their stories. I play games foremost to interact. Few exceptions.

My pictures are outdated. I've removed the rug, moved the lamp and put that box containing my headphones on the other side of the table, so that I can use them also while watching the TV. The headphones are boxed (with the wires coming out of the bottom of the box) because I don't want the foamies getting encrusted with dust like my old ones while not using them. I also have a slightly bigger bed now, a twin XL instead of that twin.

Sony 64 inch 900e
All Sony speakers in front
Pioneer speakers as surrounds
Onkyo TX-NR575 receiver on the cabinet (I had to remove the doors from that closet to actually get the cabinet in there)
LG 4K player under the center speaker
PC has a Ryzen 5 2600X, GTX 1070, 16 GB RAM, 18 terabytes of storage. Ducky One 2 mechanical red keyboard, G403 wired mouse (G703 wireless on the coffee table). ASUS MX27AQ (horizontal) and Dell U2717D IPS 27 (vertical).
Headphones are Massdrop (amp/DAC) x Sennheiser HD 6XX

I finished ME four times but never could get through Catalyst once. Why does everything western have to be some pseudo-RPG open world crap? The upgrade systems usually just make it more tedious.

Same thing with Evil Within 2, actually. Played the original four times, once on Akumu, over 110 hours total, but never could get through the semi-open world sequel.

A couple of nights ago, I watched Mylene Farmer Live 2019. It was my first concert in 4K and Dolby Atmos, hopefully not my last. I wish I could show how impressive all these cell phones looked at that res with high dynamic range.

It seemed expensive. At one point, the stage becomes a group of hanging platforms.

Pretty good show.

@capnbobamous said in That's News!:

If it looked good who cares.

More like, "It looked good, but who cares?" Don't know why everybody still gets so excited about graphics. It's usually the prettiest games that are boring. I wonder why...

@axel said in What Are You Listening To?:

@ezekiel Dude she is legendary!! She's been on top of her game for at least 20 years, and her concerts are apparently amazing, but super secretive which adds to her mystique. She also shares pretty much nothing about her private life.

So many of her songs are classics now, the lyrics are full of puns and double-entendres, she's awesome. I've been listening to her stuff since I was a kid, she's a pillar of French culture for my generation haha.

Then I really wish this movie had English subtitles.

Still looking forward to it. At 40 dollars, it's the most that I've spent on a movie, but I knew I would regret not ever getting to see it if it went out of print, like most of her older concerts. Nowhere to download it either.

Discovered the French singer Mylène Farmer. Wish I could find some way to watch that 2019 concert movie.

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@phbz said in The Last of Us Part II (PS4):

@ezekiel What's ironic is that people like you don't realize that by acting the way you think your "adversaries" would you become exactly what you despise. It's not wrong to be a pos if you're a feminist, it's just wrong to be a pos.

"Druckmann's overly feminist version of the apocalypse feels unrealistic." Really, you think a zombie apocalypse feels unrealistic? Are you serious?

Let me ask you, are you offended by the hyper masculine universe of Conan the Barbarian?

Does a body that only could exist with steroids that happens to exist in a world 10000bc, offend you? Is that enough to completely make your suspension of disbelief crumble? Are you revolted by its agenda?

Conan was fantasy, "high adventure," (while Last of Us is going for gritty realism) and didn't feel vile in its representation of masculinity. I don't see how this game's despicable representations of masculine women and transgenders is supposed to help their position.

@phbz said in The Last of Us Part II (PS4):

@ezekiel Look dude to me this is very simple. I find the idea that "everything has to be for everyone" vomit inducing. If you don't like something that's fine, you don't buy it. But creators should have absolute freedom to have their personal views reflected on their works.

I expect that when I listen an album, read a book, watch a movie and I fucking want that for videogames too! I don't want entertainment and art to be reduced to just whatever the masses find bland enough to be unchallenged by it. There's space for that too, but I want more. Is traumatizing enough to have people saying that whatever Marvel movie is the best movie they've ever seen. Let's not now start a fascistic anti intelectual movement - so dear to both extremes of the political spectrum - to cancel people's work and job because someone expresses the wrong freedom of thought.

Anyone can dislike something. But going out of your way to persecute someone because he dared to express his own views on his own work? Character assassination because someone is associated with a person you don't agree with? Punishing other fellow gamers because they support this game? Going out of your way to hurt sales and putting people's jobs at risk because you feel challenged?

Is gaming now supposed to be a safe space for reactionary snowflakes?

I'm not a fan of Naughty Dog. I find them overall good but overrated. And their crunch practices are obnoxious. But I'll defend the right for anyone to express it self. And in my opinion, I have difficulty looking at the people trying to hurt Naughty Dog and TLoU2 and see what exactly is their point, since they're behaving like absolute gutter trash humans.

The kind of agenda Anita and her fans are pushing is toxic. I can think of so many works of art that these people would come down on if they were made today. The one that immediately comes to mind is Aeon Flux, because I'm rewatching it. Peter Chung would never be able to produce something like that on a major network today. I find it so ironic that you're complaining about safe spaces when these people offer none. Druckmann's overly feminist version of the apocalypse feels unrealistic. I would elaborate, but I'd be getting close to spoiler territory.