Jivaro wrote on Jun 18, 2021, 12:31:
wait wait wait

Where are you from Quinn? Your cops don't even have guns and you are....


LOL

C'mon man. You have zero first hand experience with the policing here in the US? Really? I...I guess from your posts I you always sound so self-certain I somehow missed all of this. I literally though...well, nvm. It doesn't matter. I guess I am just too "emotional".

Anyway, I got nothing against the game, I really would like to see a Police Quest though.

Do proper research. Our cops carry guns. Unlike the US, though, not every civilian carries a gun or could easily potentially carry one There's a difference there, and it's an important one. In fact, our cops can easily and safely assume we the civilians don't carry a gun. Now once that detonated in your brain, you can quite easily understand why resisting arrest in the US is so much deadlier than resisting arrest in The Netherlands. To resist arrest in the US, is to deserve the award or dumbest fucking idiot of the day. Or you're just suicidal.

You guys can buy your guns at WalMart for a few hundred bucks or less. We need criminal connections and a few thousand bucks or more.

VaranDragon wrote on Jun 18, 2021, 07:52:

Quinn wrote on Jun 18, 2021, 03:59:

ForgedReality wrote on Jun 18, 2021, 01:42:
Yeesh! Talk about bad timing and tone-deaf.

It's ok. The majority of gamers really don't give a shit about what mainstream media tries to make us believe.

Came into this thread to check how much the anti-cop narrative has festered in Blue's community. Suspicions confirmed once again. So much emotion. So little reason.

Well to be fair all of the comments up until your own were "tongue-in-cheek" at least that's how I understood them to be. So yeah, I know that's sometimes a little hard to comprehend, but I think you're overreacting just a little bit.

I hope you're right about the tongue-in-cheek part. I highly doubt the "all" part.

SlimRam wrote on Jun 18, 2021, 04:59:

Quinn wrote on Jun 18, 2021, 03:59:
Came into this thread to check how much the anti-cop narrative has festered in Blue's community. Suspicions confirmed once again. So much emotion. So little reason.

Right? Like what are these fuckin' pussies screaming about?

That article says very little because it doesn't compare it with other stats, like white casualties and crime rates by race just to name two. Or a comparison to the total arrests and millions of police interactions a year.

Like I said. So much emotion. So little reason.

ForgedReality wrote on Jun 18, 2021, 01:42:
Yeesh! Talk about bad timing and tone-deaf.

It's ok. The majority of gamers really don't give a shit about what mainstream media tries to make us believe.

Came into this thread to check how much the anti-cop narrative has festered in Blue's community. Suspicions confirmed once again. So much emotion. So little reason.

Cutter wrote on Jun 17, 2021, 12:10:

SlimRam wrote on Jun 17, 2021, 02:36:
This title always reminds me of this song by Night Club (love them😍)

Really? First thing that came to me was Backstreet Boys, I Want It That Way.

Omg how did that not come to my mind lol. Now I cannot unsee/-hear it. At first I was like SlimRam.

Beamer wrote on Jun 17, 2021, 10:36:

Quinn wrote on Jun 17, 2021, 09:47:
Annnnnd we're off fighting grandma's and ghosts again. You guys still not done convincing yourself how uniquely virtuous you are? If not, then keep up the fight fist raised high. Just let the rest of us degenerates live our lives peacefully.

Not a single person asked you to download this game, play this game, or comment here.
You chose to come into here, chose to read the comments, chose to get involved.

I'm sorry you're so offended.

You're the offended one, apparently, since you can't seem to think straight. Just a few comments earlier I defended this game and how it handled the subject of transgenderism. What I didn't do was pretend western society suddenly has a transgender outbreak and a transphobic pandemic as its result. It's the new trend to believe that there is. I say chill the fuck down, Ghostbusters.

Annnnnd we're off fighting grandma's and ghosts again. You guys still not done convincing yourself how uniquely virtuous you are? If not, then keep up the fight fist raised high. Just let the rest of us degenerates live our lives peacefully.

WaltSee wrote on Jun 16, 2021, 23:23:
The last free game I've stumbled on is Control--man, I really, really like Control so far. Thanks, Blue, for the blurb you carried about that because I'd likely have missed it otherwise (There's definitely a reason Blue is my home page and has been since it was called "Voodoo"(?)--er, run by 'Billy', I dimly recall...;)) Anyway, if I had known what a sweet, sweet game Control is I would have bought it long before I snagged it for free! They did a fairly poor job of advertising, as I thought it was just another brainless, reflex-oriented shooter with a boring story, lots of loud bangs and bright, flashing lights, etc., from the ads I saw. But what a game! Control is really, really special when you can snag it legally and free to boot! (It's just as special when you buy it!) To think I would have missed this if not for Blues News brings to mind my appreciation for the finer things in life...yes, indeed.

Speaking of free games...I don't even know what "Tell Me Why" is--or is supposed to be. Even though it is free it will never sit in my library, ever, except and unless DONOTNOD nods off and gives me $40 for taking a free copy off their hands. I will then place the funds into my wallet and then delete the game from my space...Were I not in supreme control of my sagging but nearly flawless body *cough* (I apologize for any unsavory mental pictures I may have inadvertently conjured--Charles Atlas with a walker, for instance!--and no, I don't use a walker!), I might have lost my dinner after watching that trailer. Oh, brother...more preachy "social" fluff designed for 14 year olds--wait, belay that to read "designed for 10-year-olds for whom puberty is but an interesting, abstract concept they've read about here and there but have never experienced outside of visiting their local neighborhood zoos and ogling the random porno", etc.

I think game designers who think I want to be lectured by pre and sometimes even actually pubescent teenyboppers about why I must be, and should be, lectured about why my personal likes are acceptable but my dislikes are not, or vice-versa, all in the computer games that I buy for fun--then I wish them all the luck in the world luck because they are going to need it.

Here's what I'd like to see--well, not really, because I do not think these kinds of themes are entertaining games material *cough* But stretching the ol' imagination a tad...

How about games that push tolerance and acceptance from all sides of a controversial issue? How about showing the people who may disagree with you as much consideration, sympathy, and tolerance you ask them to show to you? To my way of thinking, that is the only way to fly and people who expect to trash other people simply because they disagree on various issues should expect to be treated just like that by people who disagree with their principles, and so on. It's the way the world turns because it spins on the axis of human nature (how profound, eh?) Ah, what a wonderful world it would be if everyone did to other people only those things they would have those people do to them! If a game has to be made on human relationships, then the first steps in such a game would be the realization that everyone needs to have respect and tolerance for the other guy's opinions and beliefs--if that is, he expects anyone to have respect for his principles and beliefs.

I'm such a blabbermouth--but, OK, sometimes I get more motivated than at other times, I'll admit...;) Didn't intend to go on like this, but it's something I do believe myself. Nobody is right about everything, just as no one is wrong about everything. Fighting racism, bigotry, intolerance, disdain with racism, bigotry, intolerance, and disdain is guaranteed to never work, imo. Our own government has trouble with this very elementary lesson, imo. But the bottom line here for me is that I do not expect anyone to have respect for my beliefs and principles unless I show respect for theirs.

I've played for about 3 hours and the game wasn't in my face about the transgender brother. The brother simply is transgender. An old neighbor tries to understand but fails, and while you (playing as he trans brother) can choose to react like a woke, disrespectful piece of shit and go on a tantrum about how disrespectful the old neighbor is, you can instead also chose to be understanding. If you, as the player, think the topic of transgenderism is complicated, the game allows you to act like that.

I hate -- HATE! -- woke cultists. The way it's their way or the highway -- how you are a monster if you don't think exactly the way they think -- is fascism. But what you want, WaltSee, is what this game gives: a chance to be respectful to both sides of the aisle. At least that's what I experienced during my first 3 hours into the game.

GinRummy wrote on Jun 16, 2021, 08:52:
I played (and finished) Elex back when it came out, had fun, but like most of the developer's previous games it starts hard and slow, and you are VERY squishy until you learn to master the fighting and upgrade your weapons and armor. You can easily run into monsters that can stomp you flat, and it gets frustrating trying to avoid everything but the bits you CAN do until you grow your stats. Once you do that though, with some patience and persistence, it is a fun game with some depth and story and lots of options on how to choose who to align with, which changes your play options quite a bit. I'll almost certainly give the sequel a shot when it comes out.

You describe your first part as if that's a bad thing, but that's exactly the USP of PB's games. When Gothic first came out, the fact that a chicken-like creature could one-shot you until you at least trained a bit of fighting and go back to that first area to teach said chicken-like creature a lesson... that was revolutionary. What was even better was that NPCs could beat you (not kill you) and gloat... and you could beat them (not kill them) and gloat right back at them once you got strong enough. The sense of character progression was a 10 out of 10, and something only PB to this day gets right.

saluk wrote on Jun 15, 2021, 13:12:
What a terrible trailer. I heard good things about Elex - after a slow start. But I dunno my piranha bytes love never made it past Risen 2.

Argh such a shame! Risen 2 was bad, although I did manage to force myself to love it. They had the pirate vibe right, but the pace and story were so very off. The shame though is that Risen 3 was very, very solid stuff. One of their best games, imo. The thing with PB is that after every so many games, they fall hard and get up stronger. Same with Gothic 3.

Anyway if you have the time, maybe give Risen 3 a shot.

My replays the coming months: A Plague Tale Innocence and now that I talked about it, Risen 3.

All the hype had me believe this big woman vampire together with her sisters was the antagonist. Turns out I mowed them all down in the first quarter of the game. I was disappointed and pleasantly surprised at the same time, somehow. The end of Village left me wanting more of the same, so happy to read about the DLC news.

jacobvandy wrote on Jun 14, 2021, 22:22:
First thing I do on any live stream, is close/hide that cancerous stream of filth.

Yeah? First thing I do is type "BLM is the best thing since cotton candy", while corn is popping in the background. ;D

BEST NEWS EVER! Innocence was my GOTY. That game had a great pace, fun gameplay, good puzzles and the story was weird and good. The best of the game was the atmosphere. 10/10

Friend of mine had BSOD and no signal afterwards after installing this driver. RTX 3070 FE. Be careful.

Ok this looks good. I wonder if this can finally come close to Alyx and Asgard's Wrath (the latter maybe even better than the former). My worst fear is the actual iron sight mechanic, which all VR games I've played so far that make Iron sight necessary suck at hard. I keep bashing my controllers against my headset, and to prevent that I had to hold my controllers unnaturally far in front of my headset, exhausting my arms like a motherfucker withing seconds. I also heard Medal of Honor fails miserably at it. So I won't touch this unless I can try it first. I have zero faith in Iron sight in VR yet.

MrBone wrote on Jun 1, 2021, 15:35:
Good luck, because no gamer really gives a fuck about anything but shooting clowns with a custom weapon. No one plays to be preached to by java-sipping choads.

This is something the other side somehow won't ever understand, MrBone. If you don't shout the shit they shout and want you to shout, you're a racist and to add irony to the mix: they'll call you a fascist as well. In the meantime they'll continue to fight the ghosts of the people who hate anything LGBTQ+, black people, etc. Wherever the fuck their corporeal forms are, probably somewhere on some forgotten hill in Texas.

bigspender wrote on Jun 2, 2021, 03:49:
I really can't tell the difference in Doom Eternal between RTX on and off in most of the comparisons. There's a few more reflections?

I couldn't spot anything other than reflections either. I think that's all they added, tbh. To add RTX lighting is to demand a lot of lighting editing from the designers, I think. Everything would just be way too bright, I imagine, due to all the "fake lighting" you need to add without RTX for spots to be lit that shouldn't be dark but cannot be reached by "natural" light-sources otherwise. The fake lighting need to be removed, I think, because RTX lighting reaches those spaces because of the natural, multiple bounces of the light. But what do I know. Anyway, RTX is really a great invention for lighting editors. A room that previously needed 20 times the extra "fake lights" apart from, say, the 6 lanterns in the room, now just need the light from said 6 lanterns. RTX does the rest. It's pretty awesome.

Faikius wrote on May 27, 2021, 13:24:

Quinn wrote on May 27, 2021, 12:41:
Days Gone gets my Bang for Your Buck award of 2021 so far. Perfect port. Amazing game. So fucking good.

Days Gone is on my list. Just finished Horizon: Zero Dawn. Really well-done port; beautiful game. Best single-player experience I've had in years.

I never really got into Horizon, but I am 90% certain this is because of bad performance. I was still on my 1080 and ancient CPU when I played that game and it was the most demanding game I ever played. There's also a small percent chance I just never got into it due to its setting. I find that I don't really like the medieval fantasy world mixed with futuristic shit. Same reason I never got into Elex and I'm concerned with my first hours of Biomutant.

Xero wrote on May 27, 2021, 12:44:

Quinn wrote on May 27, 2021, 12:41:
Days Gone gets my Bang for Your Buck award of 2021 so far. Perfect port. Amazing game. So fucking good.

I've heard a lot of good things about it. I want to get it eventually but I'm also sceptical about how well it'll run on my ageing PC. 1070ti, 16gb ram, and an i7 that I can't remember the generation or model. It's around 6 years old though. I think it equals 3.2ghz... I only play at 1080p though so I'm thinking it might run fine with these specs. It's when you get into 4k territory where my card would probably blow up. Since I don't have a 4K monitor, I don't know what I'm missing! lol.

I'm on an average of 130fps with everything maxed out. I have a 3070 though, and an i7 I keep forgetting the make of as well 😂 it runs on 8 cores at 5100mhz per core is what I do know though. If you are fine with 60fps I think you'll be safe, just not on max settings but maybe medium?

Days Gone gets my Bang for Your Buck award of 2021 so far. Perfect port. Amazing game. So fucking good.