Haven't bought a new TRIPLE AYYY game in years :michael-laugh:
I buy freaking $70 video games. I guess that's what I do now.
So, let me get this straight. I’m somewhere that’s not what I would call r/chapotraphouse... I’m seeing freaking posters, and... oh yeah, I’m talking to an owl. Yeah, okay, that is something I do now. I do shitposts, report jacked-up raiders — I’ll probably lurk next.
edit: for those who haven't seen this beautiful trailer https://twitter.com/Forspoken/status/1556679378892898306
This game's dialogue sounds incredible judging from these bits :data-laughing:
I unironically can't wait for this game to hit the torrent sites, a zoomer protagonist constantly marvel quipping over an eight hour fantasy plot sounds like a blast
I don't know if the game will live up to the like five months of constant memes, or if it will run above 10 fps on my dated computer, but I'm looking forward to it
Looking at that footage... do all triple A games just look like Marvel movies now? I don't mean just the dialogue, but everything .
I hate cinematic blockbuster games :agony-minion:
the true connoisseur would curse the name of buffy the vampire slayer instead
I was specifically talking about the overall look and feel, and this doesn't look like a 90s TV show (that would be fun though)
Apparently there's a setting to adjust how much the main character and her bracelet snip at each other lol
I expected this to have like a Danny Devito New Jersey accent and I'm disappointed it didn't. We need more comedic working class accents in video games, like Skelly from Hades
HIRE ME FOR THIS! My voice talent is pretty much entirely surely working class guys.
Let's get you and Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't into a recording booth ASAP
I heard a very funny theory about the dialogue
people clowning on Square Enix for having goofy "too japanese" dialogue; then SE says fuck it, puts it in wumbo, and goes full "too american" dialogue.
I think they earnestly did try to make something that would appeal to Westerners, but didn't realise that constant Marvel-style Whedonisms are now seen as irritating and passé
In terms of Japanese devs trying to make experiences that are more palatable to Western tastes I guess they at least did a better job than Tecmo with Quantum Theory
Some Japanese dudes looking at a gameplay video of the first Gears of War for five minutes and going "This is what the gaijins like? Okay, I think I got it. Big ugly man wearing an entire scrapyard shooting at equally big monster dudes with huge guns from behind chest high walls in ruined cityscapes and also everything is dark and murky"
As bad as everything in the game looks the worst part might still be the name, just... what the fuck, guys :lenin-confused:
gears of war fuckin slaps, and they did a much better job than halo continuing the series past the original devs :comfy-cool:
at least 343 managed to release MCC on PC, only good thing they did :dumpster-fire:
yeah good point, without the MCC I couldn't have tricked my friends into playing The Library on legendary so there's that going for them
Provided you can actually get the incredibly patchy co-op working. Seriously, it's so bad for 1 and 2 :sadness-abysmal:
100% agree on all sequel complaints, the spooky hollow earth aesthetic was way fuckin better
that being said the cosmodrome section of 5 was pretty rad :stalin-approval:
wasn’t the UIR supposed to be even more callous towards human life than the already monstrous COG?
Pretty sure that's just in-universe propaganda. The COG were the ones who used the hammer of dawn to blow up the entire enemy civilization and then destroy the biosphere.
Makes sense. At the end of the day, the protagonists are all soldiers who were following orders. I don't think any of them were ever going to *rebuild society much, they'd just let the people in command build things and go along with it. Also obviously we need another 6 Gears games so there has to be more chainsawgun fights.
At this point it's part of the aesthetic of Gears though, isn't it? Like how Star Wars can't get away from lightsabers and x-wings (Andor notwithstanding). The franchise is so managed by corporate that there's no room for originality, we just have to keep doing the same thing over and over again with slightly shinier graphics.
No one here's allowed to pay $70 USD for a video game. Including retro games in this too. I'm sorry.
Nooooooo but I want to buy a copy of Rule of Rose for the PS2 for 400 bucks how else can I play it :NOOOOO:
I set up FMCB and streaming game ISOs to my PS2 from my computer and it's so nice.
No one here is allowed to pay > $0 for retro games so long as I and others here are ready to point people towards https://r-roms.github.io/
I buy re-releases and ports (on sale) if it's significantly more convenient than emulating them. But that's a disappointing (if not unsurprisingly) rarity given how most companies just wrap up old ROMs in a cheap-looking interface and call it a day.
There was an Atari collection last year that seemed pretty cool, it had interviews with the developers and aimed to be historical and explain the significance of the games at the time.
:geordi-no: Overpriced triple-a games you need an expensive console or video card to play
:geordi-yes: SNES games on your phone
The only times I buy something new is when an old console game gets brought to Steam (because it's usually at a lower price point and I want to see more Japanese devs not locking their games to proprietary boxes with a limited shelf life), but even then I end up waiting for a sale most times anyway
Either that of indie games
Yeah I wish more Japanese devs would bring their JP only releases to steam and translate them. That's about the only time I'd buy a game too or off GoG, they do good work too.
We in the wii on your phone age now, baby!
https://github.com/Bankaimaster999/Dolphin-MMJR/releases
(Only for Android lovers)
This sucks and all, but SNES-n64 era cartridges ran up to $80 sometimes and that was in 1990's money
Anyway digital scarcity isn't real, only buy hardware and steal the software
Some of those carts made sense at a higher price since they sometimes included computer chips in them because the SNES alone couldn't handle running the game, but back then I did almost all my gaming on rentals.
Those $80 games back then (like, $200 for the likes of Phantasy Stat) were also set within a framework where they’d take a year or so to get through individually, not including playing when friends were over or replays.
They were more bang for their buck.
So what I'm getting is that you'd be fine with 80 dollar games? :porky-happy:
It's that expensive and probably has DLC and a battlepass so that's just the baseline price. Gamers are the biggest suckers on the planet
Not to mention to even play the game you need to drop hundreds of dollars on a new console or even worse thousands on a video card. Gaming is no longer a hobby for average people.
Probably not thousands for the video card. You can get a midrange one for 300-500*. With that said, I've no clue what this game's requirements are
*You can also luck out by buying used. Only the most annoying sort of people get the 3000 dollar cards
With that said, I’ve no clue what this game’s requirements are
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT / Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5800X / Intel Core i7-12700 RAM: 32GB OS: Windows 10 64-bit / Windows 11 64-bit Storage: 150GB NVMe SSD(Admittedly this is the 4k60 requirements, but the "minimum" specs are for 720p30 with lowest possible settings and for reasonable settings they're demanding 24 gigs of ram, and a recent upper midrange GPU.)
32 gigs of ram seems like it's going to be the standard amount for DDR5 systems, but this is a bit ambitious for right now, coming out of a hardware shortage and in a massive recession.
But, even more insane, their like "normal" requirements to play at 1440p30 (yeah, I tooootally want to play at 30 fps) call for 24 gigs of ram, an amount of ram that would result in you not being in dual channel mode, so your system will run like shit.
Well okay then.
Guess I'll just play some more old games :shrug-outta-hecks:
Yeah, it seems like a shockingly unoptimized game, there are tons of games with as good or better looking graphics and much lower requirements to hit 4k60.
I thought video cards where a thousand dollars now for entry level cards thanks to the chip shortage or w/e
I googled an RTX 2060 and got a link to a Finnish computer store selling it for about 300 euros. That's not the newest and most powerful card, sure, but the vast majority of PC gamers aren't using cutting edge hardware anyway
An equivalent AMD card would probably be cheaper
Oh good, I actually want to build a new pc when I ever get a job and that's within a budget.
You're in decent luck then. MSRP on the latest card generation is insanely high but it's because the makers were chasing the crypto market, which ate shit so all the last gen cards that scalpers were holding are flooding the market, never mind all the hardware that's no longer crypto profitable.
I would assume American prices are cheaper too. The thing to remember here is that if you're targeting 1080p you don't really need a monster card anyway
I was actually thinking about doing the Ryzen cpu/gpu combo for what I do which is mostly emulation.
Depending on what you're emulating you might not need all that much grunt from your GPU anyway. Upscaling PS3 and 360 games is still apparently quite demanding though
The brand new ones are, but that is because typically because they launch the highest end cards first and then work their way down over the next year
Add in the paid multiplayer service if you're on a console too :joker-shopping:
Just getting nickled and dimed to hell but blame communism and blue haired women for ruining your video games you fucking rubes.
"um akshually games have been $60 for over 20 years, this increase is long overdue given inflation over that time scale!"
Okay so worker purchasing power has surely increased along the same lines, right? RIGHT??
don't worry Forspoken will absolutely be on like a 50% off sale in a month lol
It'll be a winter sale EGS freebie by the time it's patched up and playable.
Wowsers, no friggin way! Games are 80 dollars now? Heh, that just happened!
:walter-breakdown:
you're telling me its no longer 2010 and games aren't 60???
Game pricing is in a weird place. Big games have cost ~60$ for like 30 or 40 years now. So with inflation their real cost has dropped dramatically. This does not, of course, help most people because in real terms wages have also dropped dramatically.
A logical market would price games based on the size of the dev team and the length of development, but the way it works now you get 10-person games and 100-person games and 1000-person games all competing with each other at the same price point, it's ludicrous.
Aren't indie games and smaller games cheaper in general though :thinking-about-it:
I mean kinda, but it's completely vibes based. Larger companies have absolutely no problem releasing a "smaller game" at $60 because they can run an ad campaign to get people to buy in.
To be fair, I haven't bought games for 60 in a long time either. The absolute most I am willing to pay is 40
If you go by entertainment value (instead of art value) the capital G Gamers do have a point that it's fairly cheap, honestly. If you take your average AAA game at about a $60 dollar price point it's sort of insane that with all the work that goes into it it's only like 4 times as costly as, say, a new popular fiction book, written by one person
This is why the sticker price of a game going up has not really bothered me the way predatory monetization does. Especially when older games are often found in subscriptions services or in very deep sales
its 98 bucks in my local currency because interest rates are fucked
It IS a screenshot! I just used my image editing skills to add motion blur and a vignette effect 😎
