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I know rumors were swirling at e3 that PS5 had the power lead over the Xbox Two but who knows... If the Xbox Two isn’t stupidly cheaper it’ll wind up like this gen, with Xbox existing but in 3rd place in North America and the UK and a rounding error everywhere else. The main “new” thing they can do will be leveraging this SSD since quasi-instant access and not having to worry about your load times screwing up resources could expand options in an interesting way. I still maintain Hitman is the only current gen game actually doing something gameplay-wise that was impossible last gen.
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univbee posted:I still maintain Hitman is the only current gen game actually doing something gameplay-wise that was impossible last gen. Yes, New Hitman is one of the very few.
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univbee posted:
What does it do?
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univbee posted:I still maintain Hitman is the only current gen game actually doing something gameplay-wise that was impossible last gen. In what aspect, the crowd tech? Size of levels?
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Aug 13, 2019 14:41
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I’m still locked out of my Hitman 2 copy. Never got an answer from Microsoft or IO.
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Yeah New Hitman does a crazy amount of simulation throughout the whole level you're on, in order to support players getting very creative in how to complete the missions. Very CPU intensive, leans hard on the 8 core designs.
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Aug 13, 2019 14:56
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Imagine Hitman with good load speeds 
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TheScott2K posted:Very excited for the even-better-looking PS3/360 games with even-more-predatory business models coming next gen Ya
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TheScott2K posted:Yes, New Hitman is one of the very few. Mordor used the new memory space in an interesting gimmick. Sony did some particle effects that ps3 couldnt do but yeah mostly this gen has just been a higher resolution masquerading as a new gen
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Quantum of Phallus posted:In what aspect, the crowd tech? Size of levels? Size of levels, mainly, especially since everything outside your FOV remains "active" (at a lower framerate/fidelity). Like if you compare the level sizes of Blood Money to the newer games the difference is absurd, especially when you factor in crowd sizes and how much is actually going on at any given time. You extra-feel it with the 2nd mission of the first game, where the level comprises basically the whole downtown core of an Italian seaside village AND a church AND a giant mansion that has a loving underground secret lab. Pretty much every other game could have been done at like 720p30 without meaningful changes (just stuff lower draw distance and graphics fidelity) on a PS3 or 360 by a talented enough dev team that knew their way around those consoles. We know this from the higher-end games which were actually cross-gen like Destiny 1, both parts of Metal Gear Solid V, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Grand Theft Auto V (which wasn't even a current-gen game when originally released), Yakuza: Kiwami, Yakuza 0, Star Ocean and the like. Faster load time would open up some new possibilities, though, I know that Sony for example specifically tuned the fastest speed you could move at in Infamous: Second Son to how fast the PS4 was capable of loading in data as you moved, and I'm pretty sure other open world games did similar stuff too. univbee fucked around with this message at 15:42 on Aug 13, 2019 |
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I actually said "holy poo poo" out loud when it turned out there was a whole underground lab in that second Hitman mission.
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Is the Bard's Tale Trilogy the origonals, remakes of them or something completely new? I played so much of them back on my Apple IIGS.
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twistedmentat posted:Is the Bard's Tale Trilogy the origonals, remakes of them or something completely new? I played so much of them back on my Apple IIGS. Remasters of the first 3 games.
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Aug 14, 2019 05:32
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Maneki Neko posted:Remasters of the first 3 games. Nice. As I said, I spent so much time playing those as a kid.
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gently caress I wish next gen was PS2/Xbox graphics with bugfuck insane levels of other poo poo. Imagine a gunfight where instead of just looking cool there was actually a modicum of intelligence to the AI. Or you could do Warren Spector's "one block" concept justice.
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twistedmentat posted:Nice. As I said, I spent so much time playing those as a kid. Its totally worth it. Theyre really nice remasters and also on gamepass.
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Just realized Blazing Chrome was on PC Game Pass, so I downloaded it. Would be a great game except for constant quick freezes. Hopefully an update addresses it
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Games forum favourite Slay The Spire has now launched on Xbox Game Pass (after previously only being available on PC GP). 
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Disposable Scud posted:gently caress I wish next gen was PS2/Xbox graphics with bugfuck insane levels of other poo poo. Imagine a gunfight where instead of just looking cool there was actually a modicum of intelligence to the AI. Or you could do Warren Spector's "one block" concept justice. You’re high dude.
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Better AI is a complete nonsense statement because the limitation with AI is not "is it good at the game" as "does it lose convincingly, interestingly, and telegraph its intentions" which is not something processing power is really the bottleneck on nowadays.
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Barudak posted:Better AI is a complete nonsense statement because the limitation with AI is not "is it good at the game" as "does it lose convincingly, interestingly, and telegraph its intentions" which is not something processing power is really the bottleneck on nowadays.
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Exactly. People for instance say they like the AI in FEAR and Half-Life but the AI is extremely stupid, it just constantly shouts at you what its doing and the level design is such that it feels like theyre flanking you or other smart things when in fact they arent.
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Barudak posted:Its totally worth it. Theyre really nice remasters and also on gamepass. Yep, love the art style and QOL improvements. I'm too old to be using graph paper. Funny thing is they weren't originally assigned to do it. I'll be curious how they handle Wasteland.
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Games that are leaving Game Pass end of August:quote:Alien Hominid HD I enjoyed Hue. It's a neat little puzzle-platformer kinda like Thomas Was Alone. Can't speak for the other games, they seem like mostly filler.
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Garou: Mark of the Wolves is an excellent fighting game where a playable character is named Butt.
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Battleblock Theatre is the perfect game to play co-op and get angry with your buddy. Is a drat good platformer with great art style and both GDQ speedruns by PJ Dicesare and MechaRitcher (spelling?) are hilarious.
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Does this mean if I downloaded Alien Hominid HD to my Xbone, despite it being on the console, it won't boot after August?
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XtraSmiley posted:Does this mean if I downloaded Alien Hominid HD to my Xbone, despite it being on the console, it won't boot after August? If you own it via some other means (disc, digital purchase or xbl gold freebie) it will still be useable, however if you got it via Game Pass only it will no longer be bootable.
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So moving my xbox one x out of the completely open entertainment center to the top of it made all the controller connect problems go away for... approximately 4 or 5 days. Now they're back. It won't work again. Ugh what a piece of poo poo. Returning.
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In case anyone cares: You can get all the DLC for Forza Motorsport 6 (current GwG) for just $4.99 right now. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/forza-motorsport-6-complete-add-ons-collection/bs5crfz22rmt
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TheScott2K posted:Very excited for the even-better-looking PS3/360 games with even-more-predatory business models coming next gen Don't forget the even better plastic toy stuff to plug to my console in order to access a game feature, hmmm I love that poo poo.
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univbee posted:Faster load time would open up some new possibilities, though, I know that Sony for example specifically tuned the fastest speed you could move at in Infamous: Second Son to how fast the PS4 was capable of loading in data as you moved, and I'm pretty sure other open world games did similar stuff too. Spider-man devs used a lot of time tuning the amount of data loaded for some low hdd read speed because people can just put any cheap lovely hdd in there.
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People like Sony?  I did like how HZD got around the drive limitations, adding single prerendered scenes in the middle of real-time cutscenes to hide the fact they couldn't load all background scenery for the cut in time (before studios would just prerender the entire in-engine cutscene if they wanted to do poo poo like dissolve transitions - can't really render two viewpoints at once just for the effect). As long as it makes the experience seamless, it's fine!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ctVVGdHnqI
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https://twitter.com/XboxGamePass/status/1163468017432350726quote:Devil May Cry 5 - today Those are some solid additions. 
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Well poo poo now I don't gotta buy Blair Witch
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Oh and they also mentioned Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition comes straight to PC Game Pass when it releases on November 14.
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Apparently Dead Cells is early next month.
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Gamepass has been providing ridiculous value lately so im genuinely curious how its actually performing, i say, as I slam install DMCV which I held off buying because I assumed it would come to gamepass. Also play bards tale you jerks!!!
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Yea PC Gamepass has been doing me real good. I got it when it first came out for $1 for a month, then I let it lapse and was able to renew it for $1 again, then just now I got a key from Alienware for a free month and if I turned on Autorenew I got another month for free. So I'm good until November 19th and it's cost me dudeness fucked around with this message at 05:53 on Aug 20, 2019 |
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Cat Army