Quinn wrote on Jul 12, 2020, 03:14:
DOOM Eternal is too much like Serious Sam I'm afraid: just mindless arcade like pew pew against waves of enemies, no real story to speak of nor too much effort put in atmosphere.

Wish I kept my money for the brand that actually knows what it is. Wish I kept it for Serious Sam 4.

Wait, what? Previous Doom games had a story besides "Shoot them monsters!"?

This looks just like the last Serious Sam game. Which is not a bad thing. Just wished more people played it in coop.

Watched it without sound. Looked ok to me.

But then again I watched a 20 minute gameplay video of Shadow Warrior 2 and thought that looked boring. That's because the guy playing it did a terrible job. Once I got my hands on the game I had A LOT of fun so I'll probably be buying this, too, since I cannot really trust other people playing first person shooters since most of the time they don't know how to go fast.

I really loved that about Test Drive Unlimited 2. It really felt like a world that you take part in, being able to walk around, buy your own place etc. and also drive around in a semi-free world. Exactly what I was looking for. Unfortunately the driving was garbage. Test Drive Unlimited 2 with the driving physics from something like Project Cars would be awesome. Doesn't have to be as realistic as iRacing or something like that. Project Cars would be enough.

Yes! I am looking forward to that!

I liked both games. I loved the first one and was pretty underwhelmed when I saw gameplay trailers for the second one but after actually playing it I loved it. Yes, the enemies were bullet spongy. Yes, the loot aspect was poor.
But the movement and the shooting in that game was superb. A proper, fast shooter. I still cannot understand why people favoured Doom 4 over this, since that game was super slow, especially with that idiotic melee feature that you couldn't turn off. Hmm. Maybe the fact that it was slower is what people liked.

I liked the new Star Wars movies. Only seen them once, though. Still, had a lot of fun watching them.

I'd be fine with a reboot since I'm not quite happy with the direction they took, basically redoing the whole plot again. I like the Jedi Knight series a lot more in that it actually tries to rebuild the Jedi order and also had some fun characters like Kyle Katarn.
It's just a shame that Ford is sick of Star Wars and both Ford and Hamill are probably too old, not to mention that Fisher is dead. :/
I liked the characters from the latest trilogy, though.

And like others said, there are some great games like the Jedi Knight games and KOTOR that also add to the lore. Maybe they could do a sith origin story, like when Revan and Meetra Surik went to fight that Sith emperor Vitiate.
Or a Jedi origin story, sort of like a prequel to the prequels where they go in depth about the prophecy concerning the one who would bring balance to the force.

A big galaxy, a lot of ideas.

Burrito of Peace wrote on Jun 16, 2020, 16:59:
This is a really pale imitation of Nite Team 4. Hell, even the Hacker series had better gameplay.

Have you played HEX? I wonder how it is.

What's Nite Team 4? I looked at the steam page and was surprised that a hacking game doesn't have a Linux port haha
Maybe it'll run with proton though.

El Pit wrote on Jun 18, 2020, 11:26:
Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?

We'll meet again.

Some sunny day.

eRe4s3r wrote on Jun 12, 2020, 04:38:

Flo wrote on Jun 12, 2020, 04:29:

jacobvandy wrote on Jun 12, 2020, 03:47:

Simon Says wrote on Jun 12, 2020, 02:46:
Just watched the whole 1hour+ long video on Youtube and my first thought was: "That's it?"

Well... after Unreal Engine 5's demo, that was underwhelming.

And I didn't see anything there that can't be done right now on a PC.

*shrugs*

Watch the Ratchet & Clank stuff again, with the rift portal mechanic. They're doing exactly what I recall someone on here said they wanted to see, where you can teleport between two enormous and completely different levels with a transition time of literally 1-2 seconds. It happens 5 times in a row in the reveal trailer, which I assume is a pretty early part of the game where they really show it off.

But is that really a hardware thing or just clever software engineering?

Loading that much data that quickly is a (custom PS5) hardware thing. So expect to see that outside of the PS5 exclusives realm exactly never. Or well, on a very fast PC you might do it in 10-15 seconds per load.

What I wonder though, can you even port a game using this to any other platform?

Are you positive? Unless you can just go off the rails and explore the level this really looks just like a bit of decent programming.
Also nothing that couldn't be done on a PC.

I'm confused. Is this going to be the last Hitman like in 2012 or the last, last Hitman? Like the really last one? Or are they going to reboot it in a few years again?

It's a fun little game but it looks like most of the players online are just bots, which is a shame.

Slick wrote on Jun 4, 2020, 03:19:
I know that e-gearheads get hard off this stuff, but it's such a turnoff for me. I want the advanced physics, the great cars and amazing tracks, but I have zero patience for the infinite customization that ends up being required to do well, or to even be able to place in some tracks. If they shipped with like 3 profiles for each car that I could easily pick to find a driving profile that "just works" then i'd be sold. As is my choices are racing games where tuning, modding, customizing, and labouring over car builds is the bulk of the game, or something like Trackmania on the other side.

I want all the cool stuff the sim games have, but have no patience nor free time to sink into doing all of that.

I know what you mean but your're probably in the minority. I know because I want a game with the most advanced driving physics there is that focuses not on super cars or modern race cars but on regular, normal cars that anyone can buy in a store. So far I know no one else who wants that. :/

Well EVERY well-informed console user KNOWS that Moore's law only applies to the inferior PC masses duh :p

It is quite a fun game. :>

Read the RockPaperShotgun review. They really should've remade the second game.

Hmm I'm not sure whether it's worth replaying the game. I played and finished it ages ago and it was pretty good but from what I remember it was also rather linear, it was a story. Even with the addition of new characters and what not...

jacobvandy wrote on May 6, 2020, 03:11:

yuastnav wrote on May 6, 2020, 01:59:
It's also strange that they would transfer Risen from Koch Media to THQ Nordic. Somehow that implies that if there was going to be a new Risen game it would not be developed by Piranha Bytes.

It's a super short article to read, man... But still, all you need to see is what Blue quoted here to know that THQ owns Pirahna Bytes as of last year.

Which just raises the question why Piranha Bytes is owned by THQ and not Koch Media.

Yeah, I would gladly welcome the next Piranha Bytes game though I believe they are working on ELEX 2 right now.

Do they actually have the rights to the Gothic series? Were they acquired from JoWood? I doubt that they are going to release a new Gothic game what with the Gothic remake being developed by that Spanish studio.

It's also strange that they would transfer Risen from Koch Media to THQ Nordic. Somehow that implies that if there was going to be a new Risen game it would not be developed by Piranha Bytes.

Was reading some comments from the article about the dead SSD and someone writes that he would've just ordered a new machine.

Uh, is this common practise in the apple world? "Well, my drive died. Guess it's time to order a new machine."

Jonjonz wrote on Apr 26, 2020, 06:47:
Blue -
Please label video links as such. Thankfully most of your news links are to text articles, my preferred way of getting news.

I hate video news especially from Youtubers, Twitchers, etc. They always take 5 to 10 times longer to deliver the information than a well written text article does and often are presented by highly obnoxious loud in your face presenters. Really how hard is it to put [Video] next to the link or group in a media category, so those of us who prefer text don't waste our time and patience with them.

Heh, and I thought I was the only one. Most of the time I hover over the link before clicking on it. That way I can see when it leads to youtube or something like that so I know not to click on it but sometimes it leads to articles that just consist of a video.

I really liked 2 and 3. I would've liked to see a remake of 2 where it doesn't run like crap on PC.