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Nov 18, 2021 13:11
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Quantum of Phallus posted:The Medium suuuucks idk man I think video games are pretty cool overall
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Nov 18, 2021 13:35
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The Medium is a game that gives you a constant feeling that something can happen any moment now but then instead nothing happens.
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Nov 18, 2021 14:15
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Lammasu posted:So I tried The Medium on cloud and it was...weird. Kind of hard to explain but I got like these blocky patches and when transitioning viewpoints the screen would just kind of scroll? Like I said it's hard to describe. Be sure to use the review functions for xcloud. I flagged good life when it wasn't working and they fixed it in like 3 days.
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Nov 18, 2021 14:19
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Lammasu posted:So I tried The Medium on cloud and it was...weird. Kind of hard to explain but I got like these blocky patches and when transitioning viewpoints the screen would just kind of scroll? Like I said it's hard to describe. Maybe it could artifacting from streaming. I played a couple of games on the Cloud and noticed artifacts in the quality of the stream, and I've got a wired connection for my Xbox.
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Nov 18, 2021 14:40
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I have never installed and uninstalled a game faster than The Medium.
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Nov 18, 2021 14:43
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Could just be artifacting yeah, I had a weird effect when playing Banjo Nuts and Bolts where it would just scroll refresh the screen every minute or so but then it stopped doing that after a while. It's the only cloud game I've played so far that's had that kind of issue, though I'm only playing Xbox and 360 stuff over the cloud so far.
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Nov 18, 2021 14:44
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Laserface posted:I have never installed and uninstalled a game faster than The Medium. You missed the ending with the theme of abuse victims being unstable monsters that need to die.
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Nov 18, 2021 14:58
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Quantum of Phallus posted:The Medium suuuucks It starts out amazing and continues amazing for a while and then it just loving does a 720 moonsault into a pit of poo poo and bad decisions. Can't remember the last time a game lost me that fast and that totally, but maybe if I'd played 12 Minutes I might?
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Nov 18, 2021 15:10
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Thinking about reinstalling Forgotten City just to hang out with my boys Galerius and Duli
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Nov 18, 2021 15:14
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didn’t median accomplish its Patented Two Worlds mechanic by just straight-up rendering the entire game twice, meaning it ran like garbage in basically any environment? lolAmerican McGay posted:https://twitter.com/stephentotilo/status/1461088476288401410?t=iABVbjGHCFGUZw9JYzhTLA&s=19 Phil please renew the license for JoJo HD thank you Augus fucked around with this message at 15:18 on Nov 18, 2021 |
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Nov 18, 2021 15:14
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Halo Infinite multiplayer is really good. The only annoying thing is that I have to exit out the app completely when I'm done because if I don't I get this "multiplayer not available" message and it won't connect me to a match again next time I turn the system on. Anyone else have that issue?
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Nov 18, 2021 15:18
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Detective No. 27 posted:Halo Infinite multiplayer is really good. The only annoying thing is that I have to exit out the app completely when I'm done because if I don't I get this "multiplayer not available" message and it won't connect me to a match again next time I turn the system on. Anyone else have that issue? Quick Resume doesn't really work for online games. You always have to manually quit them or they stop working.
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Nov 18, 2021 15:22
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Bf2042 works fine you just click reconnect
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Nov 18, 2021 15:30
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Ah, I figured that was the case. A minor annoyance. But overall it's been a smooth experience.
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Nov 18, 2021 15:30
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beggar posted:Thinking about reinstalling Forgotten City just to hang out with my boys Galerius and Duli  my dudes
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Nov 18, 2021 15:34
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enojy posted:Just make sure, if you're also upgrading a receiver, that it has HDMI 2.1 ports, or at the very least, supports HDMI passthrough up to your designation. I messed up and bought a receiver that had been on market for like 4 or 5 years, so it maxes out at 4k60 passthrough, while the TV supports 120Hz. I guess I could rewire things directly to the TV's HDMI 2.1 ports and rely on eARC, maybe? I don't feel like I'm missing anything at the moment, though. Very few games target 120FPS right now, and I don't play any of them. My plan for now is to connect my XSX (and PS5) directly into the HDMI 2.1 ports of the new TV and then use the ARC port to send audio through to my older receiver - I believe this will work? I want to avoid using the TV’s speakers. Next year I’ll look into getting a new receiver that does 4K and has HDMI 2.1, etc.
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Nov 18, 2021 16:15
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Yes, should work.
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Nov 18, 2021 16:41
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C-Bangin' it 
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Augus posted:didn’t median accomplish its Patented Two Worlds mechanic by just straight-up rendering the entire game twice, meaning it ran like garbage in basically any environment? lol Yes Also the games opening writes a whole bunch of silent hill checks it skips town on immediately
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Nov 18, 2021 17:02
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The most charitable thing I can say about The Medium is that it doesn't really utilize its core concept in any interesting way. Imagine what could potentially be unique or interesting under the conceit of "psychic woman freely traverses between parallel realities" and I guarantee you've already thought of something way cooler than anything in The Medium.
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Nov 18, 2021 17:11
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Boar It posted:For anyone curious about what my controller sounds like I uploaded a recording. (Spoke about it yesterday, how I might have a defective controller due to weird rumble noises that I am not sure about) So I got the second (series) controller now, and it is just as loud, if not even louder. So either this is the norm or I keep manging to buy defective ones. The second one is from a different retailer too but alas it seems to be defective. At least everyone I ask who has Xbox One controllers say theirs are quiet. Like I said before if I wear headphones it is possible to ignore it but if I were to play with speakers it would be nigh impossible with all the rattling and screeching emanating from the controller. Real bummer too since the addition of trigger rumble is fantastic and I love it in Forza, makes braking so much easier. But I guess I'll just return these and hold off for now. 
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Nov 18, 2021 17:34
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Can you not purchase a new series controller?
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Nov 18, 2021 17:43
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kri kri posted:Can you not purchase a new series controller? They are both brand new series controllers. (I don't know anyone with a series controller as far as I know) Boar It fucked around with this message at 18:02 on Nov 18, 2021 |
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Nov 18, 2021 17:46
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I see Death's Door is coming to PS4/Switch so I hope that means it's also making its way to gamepass. More importantly, I hope the entire concept of timed xbox timed exclusives that are NOT on gamepass goes away completely.
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Nov 18, 2021 17:49
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wasn't the medium the game that tried to make you empathise with a pedophile
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Nov 18, 2021 18:32
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DEEP STATE PLOT posted:wasn't the medium the game that tried to make you empathise with a pedophile I think it was a pedophile holocaust survivor but I uninstalled fairly quickly
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Nov 18, 2021 19:36
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My memory is that the game wants you to empathize with a traumatized person who lost someone in the holocaust and then kill them because it turns out they are a pedophile. I'd have to play it again, which, lol, but my memory is that the game is largely and very clumsily saying that people can both be victims of trauma and also monsters and the former does not excuse the latter. IMO when actually playing the game, rather than reading 3rd hand accounts, the weight of the play experience is pretty tilted towards "gently caress this guy" and when you find out the back story it's a big "whatever, this guy can eat poo poo". There are a lot better reasons to dislike the game.
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Nov 18, 2021 20:21
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Zachack posted:My memory is that the game wants you to empathize with a traumatized person who lost someone in the holocaust and then kill them because it turns out they are a pedophile. I'd have to play it again, which, lol, but my memory is that the game is largely and very clumsily saying that people can both be victims of trauma and also monsters and the former does not excuse the latter. Clumsy is the way to describe it, I think. I really appreciated that game's aesthetic (cribbed hard as it may have been) and general feel, and I said as much a whiiile ago in this thread. But when rubber meets road and they start filling in what's going on, they handle a lot of extremely delicate poo poo with basically no grace and the whole thing suffers for it. I'd want those folks to handle the next Silent Hill, but I'd want someone else to write it for them.
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Nov 18, 2021 20:41
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I wouldn't want them near a silent hill, I think their tech is absolutely poo poo as well tbh
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Nov 18, 2021 20:44
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John F Bennett posted:Quick Resume doesn't really work for online games. You always have to manually quit them or they stop working. Halo seems to be the only game that can recover from hibernation for me. Any other game with an online component needs me to force quit and restart the game but halo can reestablish the online component fine. It really should be a toggle in the games settings (or system settings for a system wide change) whether you want to enable quick resume or not.
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Nov 18, 2021 20:54
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Hitman works well enough with quick resume but that's a different kind of "constant online" connection.
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Nov 18, 2021 21:04
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My fairly old HDMI receiver can't support 2.1 so I am connecting each console's HDMI to TV and then routing optical back out of the TV. Is there any downside to this as opposed to using HDMI? Other than obviously losing the ability of the receiver to serve as a HDMI hub.
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Nov 18, 2021 21:06
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Been playing do muck Oblivion, good god. A console that can play Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim at 60fps… I must be dreaming.
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Nov 18, 2021 21:07
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Escape Goat posted:My fairly old HDMI receiver can't support 2.1 so I am connecting each console's HDMI to TV and then routing optical back out of the TV. I don’t think you can do certain higher-end uncompressed 5.1 audio formats over optical.
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Nov 18, 2021 21:08
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The future is now
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Nov 18, 2021 21:08
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I didn't know anyone other than my in-laws that can't seem to figure out what hdmi-arc is used optical audio on a tv. you are limited to old dolby digital 5.1 with it, not even dd+
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Nov 18, 2021 21:20
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MGS 2 & 3 HD pack is $4.99 https://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/store/metal-gear-solid-hd-edition-2-3/bwx1kn6k55q1 It wasn’t even ever delisted.
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Nov 18, 2021 21:24
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lol
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Nov 18, 2021 21:26
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Escape Goat posted:My fairly old HDMI receiver can't support 2.1 so I am connecting each console's HDMI to TV and then routing optical back out of the TV. Do your receiver and TV support ARC? It's also a fairly old standard at this point, so you may be able to use that to get audio to your receiver over HDMI (if supported.) Edit: I read more into ARC and it too has bandwidth limitations to the point of splitting hairs between that or optical, so I'd just stick with the optical! enojy fucked around with this message at 21:49 on Nov 18, 2021 |
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Nov 18, 2021 21:29
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Yeah I think ARC has similar limitations as optical, what stopped me from using it is it can't handle uncompressed 5.1 channel audio. eARC is what you want for that, and I really wish I had known that when I bought my current AVR.
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Nov 18, 2021 22:01
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