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Escobarbarian posted:I don’t think I’m any good at the Hitman games because I just get impatient and annoyed when I get spotted randomly but I’ll definitely give them another try because of this That doesn't matter. When you get spotted, choose violence. Don't think you have to complete them as an unseen shadow who never got spotted. They're emergent chaos simulators where at least half the fun is desperately knocking people out with thrown cans of expired spaghetti sauce, while trying to switch disguises before the next batch of guards comes down on you.
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I bought Hitman 2 (on ps4) back when Hitman 1 was a ps+ game since you can load H1 maps into H2. Every 2-3 months I start a new level and play the poo poo out of it and then stop. I'm only 2 maps into Hitman 2 as a result. I like to play a few of the guided mission stories at the start to get a feel for the level and then start planning my own elaborate kills, usually using the challenge list as a guide. While it's fun to go loud and violent sometimes, I do think it's far more valuable as a slower, trial and error, plan-and-execute game. The type where you look at the challenge list and see "knock out both targets with a fish" and it's fun for you to try and figure that out.
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Jan 13, 2022 22:17
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Yeah Hitman for me is a game to poke at the elaborate clockwork motions everyone is going through and see how I can break it in the most funny and interesting ways. These Hitman games are fantastic and might be my favorite games of the last generation.
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Jan 13, 2022 22:33
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Barudak posted:I guess I'll finally try these games, get bored and then uninstall them months later when I remember their still taking up space. Just use xcloud, it's so good for games that don't need perfect inputs
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Jan 13, 2022 23:07
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The Anacrusis doesn't have achievements yet. Screw that.
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American McGay posted:HITMAN Trilogy coming to Game Pass on the 20th holy gently caress.
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Jan 14, 2022 00:19
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Also if any goons want to complain about Hitman and upload gameplay videos of themselves self-owning, you have my blessing.
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Jan 14, 2022 00:21
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Im surprised cheevos arent mandatory for certification
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Jan 14, 2022 00:22
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I think it’s in early access
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Soul Glo posted:I think Gears fell into the same problem as Halo where they’ve built, purposely or not, a lot of lore and backstory over the past two generations that a relative-to-most-xbox-owners small audience cares very much about that the rest of us sit and watch and are completely unaffected by and left disinterested. I played for another hour last night and this is a big part of why it’s bugging me. I’d honestly rather snow ride and creep dark buildings in silence than have all that background chatter. A visceral shooter like Gears is hampered by the narrative IMO.
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Jan 14, 2022 00:41
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I loved the gears 4 narrative. It would have been boring without the teen drama vibe.
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Jan 14, 2022 00:47
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Gears 4 had all these robot enemies that just made me wish i was playing the much much better binary domain
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Jan 14, 2022 01:39
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Gears is definitely in a worse spot atm than Halo, which is also not in a great spot but at least both of them seem to be coasting along on their strong multiplayer and fans loyal to them.
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Real hurthling! posted:Gears 4 had all these robot enemies that just made me wish i was playing the much much better binary domain That's why I bounced off it. I hated the intro. Once you get through that into the meat it's great. Having the super clean modern world where robots are the enemy and stuff is pretty chill is a good setup for the rest of the game and contextualised the new characters tho.
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Jan 14, 2022 01:49
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Soul Glo posted:I think Gears fell into the same problem as Halo where they’ve built, purposely or not, a lot of lore and backstory over the past two generations that a relative-to-most-xbox-owners small audience cares very much about that the rest of us sit and watch and are completely unaffected by and left disinterested. Are all the Gears games one storyline?
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Jan 14, 2022 04:33
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1glitch0 posted:Are all the Gears games one storyline? Yeah. Gears 4 introduces a new main cast while the original football team boys are now coaching staff.
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JBP posted:Yeah. Gears 4 introduces a new main cast while the original football team boys are now coaching staff. That's cool. I've never played them, but was thinking about it.
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Jan 14, 2022 04:36
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Hitman is a cool addition but I also really wanted to play it in VR when I got around to it... It's free though.hmm.
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Jan 14, 2022 04:56
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It's on Game Pass PC as well, unless you're talking about PSVR.
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I think the only VR version available is exclusive to playstation unless it was added to PC recently and I didn’t notice.
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Oh wait it gets PCVR support on the 20th. Woo!
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VR adds a cool dimension to Hitman, I really enjoyed going into those levels once I got the hang of them in 2D. PSVR was pretty low fidelity and hopefully PCVR lets it stretch it's legs a bit.
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I tried out my new Series X last night after using an S for the past few months. I wouldn't say I'm disappointed, but the jump isn't quite as drastic as I expected it to be. It really shows how good the S is, especially for the money. Had I got the X for full price I think I'd feel a bit more negative about it, but I can't complain. I would say if you're on the fence about getting the S or X, go for the S. It's a fantastic machine and for the price is a no brainer.
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Pitwar posted:I tried out my new Series X last night after using an S for the past few months. Sure, I believe it. But what about some years down the line? It's only 100 bucks more so if you can snag one, why not just go for the supreme version.
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Jan 14, 2022 09:51
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Help I ordered an Xbox supreme now all the vents are filled with sour cream
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John F Bennett posted:Sure, I believe it. But what about some years down the line? It's only 100 bucks more so if you can snag one, why not just go for the supreme version. MSRP for Series X is $200 more than the S. Which is a big difference for most people imo.
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Pitwar posted:I would say if you're on the fence about getting the S or X, go for the S. It's a fantastic machine and for the price is a no brainer. I would not say this, you’re gonna have massive buyer’s remorse in about two year’s time.
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teagone posted:MSRP for Series X is $200 more than the S. Which is a big difference for most people imo. When you consider the price of the official storage solution it makes it almost a no brainer to get the X
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I guess. Use cases/gaming habits are obviously different, but I never went beyond ~200GB used on my 1TB One S and don't expect to exceed that on my Series S either. More so now that Cloud Gaming is a thing. And anyone purchasing a Series S is already budget conscious; they could just get a cheapo external SSD for storage instead of the official Seagate one if they ever need more. The performance tradeoff of not getting the Seagate expansion card likely doesn't matter to someone who purchased a Series S imo.
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teagone posted:I guess. Use cases/gaming habits are obviously different, but I never went beyond ~200GB used on my 1TB One S and don't expect to exceed that on my Series S either. More so now that Cloud Gaming is a thing. And anyone purchasing a Series S is already budget conscious; they could just get a cheapo external SSD for storage instead of the official Seagate one if they ever need more. The performance tradeoff of not getting the Seagate expansion card likely doesn't matter to someone who purchased a Series S imo. I tried cloud gaming and it was pretty bad in my opinion. Graphics quality was bad (also no HDR and such), loading times were bad (the initial load of cloud games take like 3 or 4 minutes), input delay / general lag was honestly better than I had expected but still hard to react to anything in injustice. I do not see cloud gaming as a viable way to play games. To try for 10 minutes as demo, perhaps, but in those 10 minutes I can just download the game instead. A cheap external SSD will not run series versions of games either, so you would be stuck with the xbox one versions, so that is not great either (and third parties will at some point stop making xbox one versions I guess). Not using more than 200GB is pretty rare these days I think, a single game is often 70~80GB already, add some multiplayer titles you like to keep around and 200GB is reached like that. Or just play call of duty and go over 200GB with 1 game. DaitoX fucked around with this message at 11:05 on Jan 14, 2022 |
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Every time I’ve tried cloud gaming I’ve found it to be a miserable experience. Maybe if you live in Google HQ and have a gigabit Ethernet connection it’s good, I guess, but I will never use it again unless forced.
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I've used it a few times for quick MS Rewards points and it's generally been fine. Image quality hasn't been great on my TV but the input lag was very decent. I don't have an amazing connection or anything.
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Maybe it’s only because it was ps exclusive, but i’m really surprised Hitman VR didn’t get an insanely huge/popular online following. Back when it was announced my only thought was “holy moley this has a ton of comedy potential. there’s gonna be hours of viral clips & Highlight Reel eps dedicated to it”.
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The PSVR version was DS4 only which limits the kinds of wacky stuff you can do compared to when you have full control over your hands.
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Laserface posted:When you consider the price of the official storage solution it makes it almost a no brainer to get the X I have first world internet storage is meaningless. If I had kids or no PC I'd get an s for game pass old games.
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My connections are by no means super great, but I've been rather impressed, all things considered, with Cloud gaming. Both on-console and mobile have worked near-flawlessly, with the only performance hit being a couple of instances where visual fidelity struggled momentarily in especially intensive games. It's actually surprised me how well it works. For me. So far.
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DaitoX posted:I tried cloud gaming and it was pretty bad in my opinion. Graphics quality was bad (also no HDR and such), loading times were bad (the initial load of cloud games take like 3 or 4 minutes), input delay / general lag was honestly better than I had expected but still hard to react to anything in injustice. I do not see cloud gaming as a viable way to play games. To try for 10 minutes as demo, perhaps, but in those 10 minutes I can just download the game instead. Anecdotal, but I have a 500/50 connection and Cloud Gaming has generally ranged from fine to great for me. Though again, my gaming habits/the games I play are certainly different than most others. quote:A cheap external SSD will not run series versions of games either, so you would be stuck with the xbox one versions, so that is not great either (and third parties will at some point stop making xbox one versions I guess). Oh, I didn't know that. Still, a quick search came up with this reddit thread that shows not all X|S optimized games are restricted to the internal SSD or Seagate card: https://www.reddit.com/r/XboxSeries...utm_name=iossmf But I'm guessing that restricted list is only going to get bigger. In that case, simple option for the budget conscious gamer would be waiting on a good deal for the 512GB expansion card I guess. [edit] Oh, I just read you can transfer optimized X|S games onto an external drive (but can't run them, obvs). It's an extra step, but you could just offload games you aren't actively playing onto an external SSD and transfer them back to the internal storage when you do play them. That's not too big of a deal imo, especially considering how fast the transfer speeds are likely to be, and for someone on a shoestring budget I don't think it's too much of a compromise. I'm unsure exactly how big the FFVII install is, but when I transferred over my One S save that I copied onto a $20 120GB SSD I threw into a $5 USB3 enclosure, it copied onto my Series S in like a few seconds. quote:Not using more than 200GB is pretty rare these days I think, a single game is often 70~80GB already, add some multiplayer titles you like to keep around and 200GB is reached like that. Or just play call of duty and go over 200GB with 1 game. Yeah, I don't play too many triple AAA type games that take up assloads of space. And I rarely keep things installed that I'm not actively playing. Like, right now on my Series S I only have FFVII, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Titanfall 2, and a couple smaller titles from Game Pass taking up roughly ~100GB atm (262GB free of 364GB). [edit] Once I play through Titanfall 2's campaign and beat Shadow of the Tomb Raider, those are getting uninstalled. teagone fucked around with this message at 11:46 on Jan 14, 2022 |
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