Riahderymnmaddog wrote on Mar 24, 2020, 19:33:
Now Uplay is going to bribe me too?

Muscular Beaver wrote on Mar 23, 2020, 10:28:

Slick wrote on Mar 23, 2020, 00:13:
I was just talking to a friend about how bad the "Prey" remake was. A bad Bioshock clone that had absolutely nothing to do with the original Prey.

Different universe
Different characters
Different theme
Different setting
Different mechanics
Different pacing
Different FUCKING GENRE.

The original Prey was a masterpiece, arguably the last great single-player FPS from the golden age of FPS games. Everything that made it cool, fun, unique and challenging was just swept under the rug like it never happened. It had functional portals before portal, you'd shrink down to the size of an ant, you could alter the axis of gravity, you could turn into a spirit ghost and walk across spirit bridges, you could walk on walls and ceilings, and my god every single weapon had such individuality. The puzzles were all intelligently designed, and used original never before mechanics. The death loop still stands as the most engaging, challenging, and unique I've ever seen. The storyline was genuinely heart-wrenching, and it's conclusion was the best ending to a FPS game I've ever played. It influenced games for the next decade. It was seminal.

Then the new game just ignored all of that heritage.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, it would be like if Valve made Half-Life 3, and there was no Gordon Freeman, no alien invasion, and no crowbar. Oh and they decided to switch the game genre, so HL3 is now an open-world survivor-horror RPG.

If anyone here has not played the original Prey, you owe it to yourself. It still stands up. I replay it every few years.

Yep, the original one was a classic. I often think it could have done much more for the FPS genre, if it had been more popular. To me it was as innovative as FEAR, if not more. And at least as much fun.
I played the 2017 one for 90 mins or so and then refunded it. Boring uninspired crap. Control reminded me of it. And I refunded that one as well.

Muscular Beaver wrote on Mar 23, 2020, 00:50:

saltedicecream wrote on Mar 22, 2020, 12:37:

Muscular Beaver wrote on Mar 22, 2020, 04:51:

ForgedReality wrote on Mar 22, 2020, 03:03:
My main issue with VR is that you are standing there and you have to teleport around. It removes a lot of the freedom you would have with a traditional game. Seems like it would be a lot of stop-and-go gameplay and it would be easy to overwhelm the player if they had enemies rushing at you. Not to mention the fact that it takes you out of the immersion because you're not actually walking.

Same.
There are 3D treadmills but they have other limitations, like you have to be in a ring, so you cant duck very well, not to mention jump.
Not really interested in VR before that is solved. I cant have a VR-room with padded walls so nothing and nobody gets damaged/hurt.

There are several misconceptions here.

Teleportation is not a requirement of VR and nor is it the dominant form of play anymore. I'm looking at the top 5 pure VR games (in terms of player count) right now--Pavlov VR, Boneworks, Blade & Sorcery, Walking Dead: S&S, and Beat Saber--and only one of them doesn't have smooth locomotion (Beat Saber) and none of them support teleportation. With the exception of a minority, most gamers can get their "VR legs" after some training and leave teleportation behind. It will absolutely be an issue for casual gamers but there's a very large untapped market of more hardcore gamers that will adapt.

The second misconception is that VR treadmills address the simulator sickness problem. Simulator sickness comes from the disconnect between your visual sense of motion and your vestibular sense of motion, but VR treadmills do nothing to solve that. Outside of maybe VR arcades, they are a dead end for many other reasons as well.

Lastly, you're partially correct on the point about space consumption (and I'll add energy intensiveness) being issues for the current VR market. However I don't think this is inherent to VR but rather just an unfortunate design decision by today's developers (much like the teleportation focus of early VR games). With a swiveling chair for minor rotations, snap turn for faster rotations (basically implemented by all VR games), and vertical movement on one of the joysticks (smooth transitioning between prone and standing), you basically have the full capacity of standing play without requiring very much space. The space required is basically what is encompassed by rotating 360 degrees in a chair and reaching your arms out. The unfortunate thing is that only a few games (e.g. Boneworks) support artificial vertical movement but I think this will change over time.

Never said that only teleportation is the problem. Walking with a stick (pun intended) is almost as bad.

Me nor him talked about motion sickness. I dont have issues with it, even though I get it in cars if I look down for too long while being a passenger.

I want to act like in real life, or very close to it, in a VR game. Thats the point.
Sure, its not an issue if youre playing flight sims or racing games, but I actually dont play those anymore because I know how much it sucks to not have a butt-o-meter, AKA not feeling the acceleration/gravity when you turn or your car starts to lose traction in a curve. And I wont put some huge thing in front of my PC that costs thousands of dollars and is only good for specific games.
But normal FPS VR games are possible. I just dont like how they are done so far. Software and hardware-wise.

VaranDragon wrote on Mar 20, 2020, 15:30:
No DM, no sale.

Beamer wrote on Mar 17, 2020, 12:15:
Everything glowing - can't wait until Friday.

But, what is coming after this. What other fps games are in the works?

verybad1 wrote on Mar 16, 2020, 20:05:
That indeed. I do want this game, but a fricken' Pandemic that just smashed the world financial system and appears to kill about 3% of those it gets is worth taking the time to stay safe.

I personally have the next 3 weeks off because of this. It's serious.

Pr()ZaC wrote on Mar 10, 2020, 18:58:

ForgedReality wrote on Mar 10, 2020, 18:49:

Pr()ZaC wrote on Mar 10, 2020, 18:05:

ForgedReality wrote on Mar 10, 2020, 17:52:

Pr()ZaC wrote on Mar 10, 2020, 17:35:
Looks pretty.

Really? From the video, I thought it looked extremely dated, like it should have come out 8 years ago or something.

Well, the video shows me graphics prettier than BFV or PUBG. Perhaps it's the editing?
Since I'm on a 280x, I'll take anything that runs on this old supernova.

I love how the servers are completely overrun so now you can't even download it. I was willing to check it out for free. A huge map with 150 simultaneous players could explain the low-fidelity graphics, but what explains the low-fidelity servers when referencing a billion dollar company?

Just look at that lovely error page, as if they never expected anyone to ever see it. >_<

https://blog.activision.com/warzone/download

Try with https://www.blizzard.com/en-us/download/confirmation?platform=windows&locale=en_US&product=codwz

Beamer wrote on Mar 10, 2020, 17:55:
1080p, highish. Mostly what I expected.

Still think I'll go at least another year before building a new PC. This one is just over 4 years. Maybe cyberpunk makes me upgrade, maybe VR. Right now, nothing seems to really be pushing me on a 1080p monitor.

Pr()ZaC wrote on Mar 10, 2020, 18:05:

ForgedReality wrote on Mar 10, 2020, 17:52:

Pr()ZaC wrote on Mar 10, 2020, 17:35:
Looks pretty.

Really? From the video, I thought it looked extremely dated, like it should have come out 8 years ago or something.

Well, the video shows me graphics prettier than BFV or PUBG. Perhaps it's the editing?
Since I'm on a 280x, I'll take anything that runs on this old supernova.

Pr()ZaC wrote on Mar 10, 2020, 17:35:
Looks pretty.

Mr. Tact wrote on Feb 12, 2020, 15:32:

Verno wrote on Feb 12, 2020, 14:44:
The real estate market is just out of control on the west coast but I guess I can't say NY is particularly good in this regard either.

Yep. Fortunately the real estate market in my area is mostly stable. Possibly in part due to being a college town, there are always professors coming and going. I bought my house near the top of the national real estate bubble (2005) but wasn't significantly affected when the crash came. Purchased for $176k, Zillow estimates me at $202k now, which is probably a bit high -- I'd guess $190k-195k. Slow growth, but that's fine with me..