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Blue Raider posted:Really all those cods with wall running were rear end. Trying to be titanfall and failing I dunno. I just finally played Infinite Warfare for the first time and thought it was fantastic. The game in general, not it's use of wall running which was super whatever and def a joke compared to Titanfall. I honestly think if you ripped the Call of Duty name off it and replaced it with some generic sci fi thing it would be one of those goon cult favorites lie Control, where it's a good game, but people act like it's the second coming of christ. Advanced Warfare was honestly pretty decent as well but I don't have anything particularly evangelical to say about it.
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AW was cool cos you get to throw Kevin Spacey off a building
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Laserface posted:I didnt play Quake but HL1/2 good grief I loving hate the 'plot' of Half Life. I guess you were right to not play Quake 1 because it's got the patented John Carmack Plot® of "shoot gun until win". 
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Jul 12, 2022 10:19
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loving hell, Prime Day and still no discount whatsoever on Xbox Storage cards. Meanwhile for the equivalent amount of storage they’re selling fast M.2 SSDs for a little over half the price of the storage card equivalent.
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So FarCry 5 is Ubisoft bad but otherwise good. Plus points: it opens with you climbing a tower to unlock your map, but the guy over the radio explicitly tells you he won't keep asking you to do this. There's a quest about the piss tape being real, including a joke about it ironically not being wetwork. Cons: Checkpoints in missions too far apart, progress too slow and requiring too many side nonsenses.
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Jul 12, 2022 11:23
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univbee posted:loving hell, Prime Day and still no discount whatsoever on Xbox Storage cards. Meanwhile for the equivalent amount of storage they’re selling fast M.2 SSDs for a little over half the price of the storage card equivalent. loving epic
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brb, penning a letter to my family to let them know. I'll share it with thread too (of course)
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univbee posted:loving hell, Prime Day and still no discount whatsoever on Xbox Storage cards. Meanwhile for the equivalent amount of storage they’re selling fast M.2 SSDs for a little over half the price of the storage card equivalent. Post which games you have installed and I'll tell you which to delete. I will provide this service for free.
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Jul 12, 2022 12:34
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Huh, in the UK the expansion SSD is 35% off. I'm still not buying one I'll delete games I'm not playing for free.
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univbee posted:loving hell, Prime Day and still no discount whatsoever on Xbox Storage cards. Meanwhile for the equivalent amount of storage they’re selling fast M.2 SSDs for a little over half the price of the storage card equivalent. Pro tip: Check your local game store in an area near a Wal Mart. I got a mad discount on a used* 1tb card at mine. *New (stolen)
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Just plug in a portable ssd, you can use it for other things too later
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When I got my XB1 I also picked up 500gb SSD and a 3TB external drive off of Amazon, and I still haven't filled up either of them after 6 years. When I got the XSX last month I just plugged those into it and everything worked fine. Only like 3 games so far told me they HAD to be installed on the internal XSX storage.
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Jul 12, 2022 13:17
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Jables88 posted:So FarCry 5 is Ubisoft bad but otherwise good. You haven’t seen the worst parts of the game yet when the story decides it’s time for the plot to move forward and your character gets gassed, abducted and shuttled across the map and you have to escape an extended base sequence while under the effects of the drugs or whatever. The moment to moment gameplay is fun for those of us who like those games (there are dozens of us!!), but there is a lot about Far Cry 5 that sucks. I enjoyed the expansion/standalone New Dawn for 5 though. And 6 was a flat improvement across the board in every respect.
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Soul Glo posted:You haven’t seen the worst parts of the game yet when the story decides it’s time for the plot to move forward and your character gets gassed, abducted and shuttled across the map and you have to escape an extended base sequence while under the effects of the drugs or whatever. I'll be honest I have done a few of those sequences already and they are firmly in the Cons column. I guess I can look forward to playing 6 on GamePass in what, early 2024?
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Alchenar posted:Huh, in the UK the expansion SSD is 35% off. Interesting. Given other ads I’ve seen for Amazon UK I suspect they have better deals in the UK for some reason (e.g. on TVs as well). Sywert of Thieves posted:When I got my XB1 I also picked up 500gb SSD and a 3TB external drive off of Amazon, and I still haven't filled up either of them after 6 years. When I got the XSX last month I just plugged those into it and everything worked fine. I’ve had a ton including games where this should be pointless like Yes Your Grace. The games you can play from a USB drive are basically XB1 games that can have some (but not all) Series benefits like VRR support, but the actual built for Series stuff that support ray tracing and better load times and poo poo like that is a mandatory internal storage install. It’s especially frustrating with the Series S because almost no Scarlett-build games actually reduce their install size on the Series S. I think Halo Infinite is the only game that properly has a separate build for all four Xboxes where they’re all different sizes.
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Can anyone link a solid guide (or just explain) how having two Xboxes in one household works in terms of simultaneous use? Like many I've got a Series X but looking to add a Series S for a second room.
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Lifespan posted:It is and yet so is Microsoft just rubber stamping everything? Wonder if there are any games out there that mega-break cert by bypassing parental controls somehow.
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Jables88 posted:Can anyone link a solid guide (or just explain) how having two Xboxes in one household works in terms of simultaneous use? You can’t be signed on to the same account on both Xboxes at once, so you’ll need a secondary account setup for whoever isn’t you. You can set one of the consoles as your primary console, which will make all digital games and normal DLC for them accessible to any user on that console. You can also play these same games on a 2nd console signed in as you with an active XBL connection, so you can 2-for-1 digital games and normal DLC (but not DLC that’s account specific by design like microtransaction currency) as long as your internet and XBL are functional. So if I’m understanding you in the Series S being the secondary system, set it as your “home” console.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:found the smooth brained PS5 owners yeah yeah yeah pipe down. i bet you don't even own a series x lmfao pwned priznat posted:Aw man that gives me nostalgia, Soldier of Fortune 2 was the last time I really felt like I was good at a multiplayer shooter i miss when gibs were the hot new thing in the FPS game world. the last time i actually managed to find a server with people playing was SoF: Payback for the 360 barnold fucked around with this message at 16:56 on Jul 12, 2022 |
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Multiplayer shooters have been all downhill since Action Quake imo. That was the poo poo
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I multiplay enough in real life, video games are to get away from all the social stuff.
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univbee posted:so is Microsoft just rubber stamping everything? Wonder if there are any games out there that mega-break cert by bypassing parental controls somehow. I never worked in cert, but that is not the case. It is possible to get exceptions to specific items and usually that comes from specific business needs and timing and all that, but not sure how things like that make it through. I don't believe there are any exceptions on the parental stuff though because that could potentially have legal implications. If I were a betting man, cert reported the violation to the dev and the dev provided evidence they fixed the issue but actually did not. By the time it is published, it becomes a question of "do you want to delist it just because they are using the wrong icons?" For parental stuff, it would absolutely be delisted. Lifespan fucked around with this message at 18:57 on Jul 12, 2022 |
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Quantum of Phallus posted:found the smooth brained PS5 owners I don't even have a PS4. Sony has shown they hate their customers so why would I hop into that? I grew up on hexen and heretic, Half-Life is slow and boring comparatively. Also, it's pretty much the same story as Doom, so I don't get the whole grand storytelling thing, when it's so familiar already.
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hexen is like the definition of slow and boring
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It's just a frame of reference, I'm not going to go from playing games like that and descent and even loving Castle Wolfenstein, to Half-Life and be blown away.
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Just need to play doom.. within doom https://www.pcgamer.com/doom-hacker-gets-doom-running-in-doom/
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You can see HL1's influence really clearly in series that released both before and after it. Like subtract Doom 1 from Doom 3 or Wolfenstein from Return to Castle Wolfenstein and you pretty much get Half-Life. It was the first FPS I played where narrative was front and center and presented cinematically without taking the camera from you. When it first released I stayed at a friend's house for a few days straight over holiday break so I could binge the campaign on his family's PC, it kicked rear end.
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Half life owns. Played it on my series x recently. Still goated
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acksplode posted:You can see HL1's influence really clearly in series that released both before and after it. Like subtract Doom 1 from Doom 3 or Wolfenstein from Return to Castle Wolfenstein and you pretty much get Half-Life. It was the first FPS I played where narrative was front and center and presented cinematically without taking the camera from you. When it first released I stayed at a friend's house for a few days straight over holiday break so I could binge the campaign on his family's PC, it kicked rear end. in the past this was actually why i saw a lot of people hating on it bc people prefered the old abstract fast-action shooter stuff like Doom/Quake to the early-00s scripted-sequence shooters in realistic settings but i think that's less common of a complaint now especially bc old school shooters have had an indie revival
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In a weird way HL: Alyx kinda killed VR gaming for me, because it's so good and everything else is straight up garbage in comparison.
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priznat posted:In a weird way HL: Alyx kinda killed VR gaming for me, because it's so good and everything else is straight up garbage in comparison. it’s ridiculous how good it is
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Feels Villeneuve posted:in the past this was actually why i saw a lot of people hating on it bc people prefered the old abstract fast-action shooter stuff like Doom/Quake to the early-00s scripted-sequence shooters in realistic settings but i think that's less common of a complaint now especially bc old school shooters have had an indie revival Yeah I get how it's easy to look down on it because what it introduced has been so thoroughly adopted and even overused to the detriment of gameplay, but in the late 90s that poo poo was pretty incredible.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:it’s ridiculous how good it is Going from that to something like Arizona Sunshine is just guhhhhhh. I kind of hate how they just did that and went back to raking in the gobs of cash from Steam but more power to them I suppose.
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John F Bennett posted:I multiplay enough in real life, video games are to get away from all the social stuff. I like ESO the best because as someone from Seattle I like being in crowded areas where absolutely no one will interact or acknowledge anyone else around them unless explicitly required to do so.
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The first COD took scripting and set pieces to the next level. That poo poo was bananas back in 03
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Quantum of Phallus posted:I dunno it was a pretty clear successor to MoH: Allied Assault which did loads of that stuff MoHAA is the goat. CoD1-3 felt like reruns, though 2 had some moments. Still no better multiplayer map than v2 rocket.
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