Slick wrote on Jan 15, 2019, 06:11:

Mordecai Walfish wrote on Jan 15, 2019, 04:03:
Slick giving us the bi-minutely (is that a real word?) twitter updates on how he digested this post to start off the comments

Fuck, I had just woke up from a nap. You got me. Stream-of-semi-consciousness garbled transmission.

MattyC wrote on Jan 14, 2019, 23:23:
Some SMG love (both bug fix and buff types) was much needed, so that is nice.

However, I see no mention of them fixing quit. The fact that it is far quicker for me to kill the task and relaunch the game than it is to get back to the main menu with the given quit option from the freaking post match screen (of all things) is just mind boggling.

CJ_Parker wrote on Jan 13, 2019, 14:19:
Yeah, and 29,678 of those are pieces of shit...

ItBurn wrote on Jan 8, 2019, 12:35:
Well if this is Win10 only, I guess I'm not playing it...

Kxmode wrote on Jan 7, 2019, 20:17:
That doesn't mean his company is investing wisely.

Let's ignore Battle.net, Origin, and Uplay since those are publisher-only and a requirement to play their games.

GOG Galaxy and Steam are the only big distribution platforms. So unless Epic's platform does something VERY attractive to pull consumers it won't be sustainable. It's like phone apps. Less people download them. Less use them. The same is going to happen with Epic's Store. No one wants to fragment their online game shopping between different platforms. At most, people are willing to put up with 1-2, and at the moment Steam and GOG are the go-to places for that.

This is the Japanese government is expanding regulations to protect game console content and includes adding new data and disturbing the services companies offer.

RedEye9 wrote on Jan 4, 2019, 20:43:
Anyone given this a go
https://store.steampowered.com/app/653530/Return_of_the_Obra_Dinn/
https://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/return-of-the-obra-dinn

Slick wrote on Jan 4, 2019, 18:04:
LG OLED rocking the world's first true HDMI 2.1 TELEVISIONS!!! WHAAAAT~!

All predictions said that they wouldn't come out in 2019, all the pro reviewers were saying this for the past 2 months, they were all wrong! (probably LG deciding to not leak it to clear out inventory), still HOW GREAT IT IS TO BE WRONG!!!

For ANYONE who's been putting off a TV upgrade for the last X years, this is going to be the time to strike. I'm sooo ohappy.

4k 120hz
13ms latency (!!!) I wonder if this is 120hz mode only, so 32 ms on 60hz?
VRR (Variable refresh rate) aka. the HDMI-spec open-source G-Sync/Freesync technology that all new consoles will have, and eventually all GPUs.
Aut0-low-latency mode, zero processing whenever it detects a gaming source
eARC for those ballers with nice amps and speaker setups.

OMG OM GOM GOMG OMGOM GOM GOMG OMG OMGOM G

So happy ^_^

The only caveat is that this will be the absolute first gen of this tech, and as we all know sometimes it's best to wait until the second gen iteration while they iron out the kinks.... but it's the same panel as the 2018 OLED, which is fuckign amazing, they don't need any upgrades there. If all these HDMI 2.1 features actually work as advertised, this TV will last you 10 years, literally. Next console gen will be 4k, and will last another 8 years easily, and won't be out for another 2 years. Plus 120hz for the mid-cycle console refresh. Anyways, all games will be designed for 4k models, LoD, textures etc for the next gen, and a good future GPU will be able to destroy 4k @ 120hz.

DAMN, IT'S ABOUT TIME.

*edit, only downside is no HDR10+, which is Samsung's open standard. As we don't know what HDR standard the next gen consoles will use. HRD10+ looks very promising (open source Dolby Vision-style metadata, and scene-by-scene adjustments), but there's no way to know what the game developers will decide on. DV is great, but has a fee associated with it.

HoSpanky wrote on Jan 3, 2019, 14:53:

Pigeon wrote on Jan 3, 2019, 13:35:

One of the changes in tastes Yee points to is that aging gamers tend to gravitate toward more casual and less competitive games. “Picking up a competitive shooter takes time to practice and a strong desire to compete, both of which older gamers have less of,” Yee says.

I would say this, and a lower tolerance for other people's BS during my downtime. It's certainly what killed Overwatch for me, not directly the competition.

I still fire up Overwatch here and there. The last time I played, I was repeatedly owned by a Roadhog, he was just godly with the hook drops. I fell to my death as much as I was shot, all because of him. I couldn’t even be mad. But it did make me think it’s not a game I’m able to be useful in.

But these days I’d rather play a co-op PvE game with my dwindling number of friends who still have time to play. It’s why I’m interested in Anthem, and Destiny 2 was even a bit of short-lived fun. We play HOTS prolly once a week. One of the guys bought us all copies of State of Decay 2, which is fun, even if it feels like they cheaped out on some animations.

The only game I’ve played recently that really made me WANT to be better at it is a single player SHMUP called Sky Force Reloaded.

jdreyer wrote on Jan 2, 2019, 15:36:

JAGUART wrote on Jan 2, 2019, 15:21:

SirKnight wrote on Jan 2, 2019, 12:07:

I've gotten pretty sick of the Win 10 update situation here lately.

I'm sick of the pork they install with each update, from all those nonsense apps (Xbox?, WTF?), to some crap version of Skype, to ridiculous notifications, junk running in the taskbar, etc.

Even when I set Skype not to start at startup, it starts consuming 164MB. Fuck Skype.