Yes. Cons are: weight, bulk, and power use. The screen usually has some convex curvature (though not always) and scan lines may not be perfectly straight. They need to be kept away from strong magnetic fields too. They're superior in every other important way: quality of motion, contrast, range of native resolutions, input lag. The best CRTs can even scan progressively at resolutions above 1440p, and at high refresh rates.
So did a lot of people who never lived the glory days of the tube.
Glad to find someone else who gets it. LCD is cheap tech for the masses. The truly good stuff has been abandoned. For CRTs, it makes practical sense. They're heavy, bulky, and eat a lot of power. Plasma, though . . . OK, so it eats power too. But otherwise, I thought it was a brilliant replacement for the old tube tech. Then it too got the axe.
No, the discussion is about how the CRT display technology perfected for the better part of a century was abandoned, and replaced with something that can't hope to come close to several of its important qualities, in particular blur-free fluid motion, black level/contrast, and the ability to display natively a wide range of resolutions (no scaling required, no scaling blur).
Plasma is much superior to LCD too; but that got abandoned as well. OLED is too new and too exp...
CRTs have subjectively perfect motion. No LCD has that, not even the most expensive. Watch the Digital Foundry video on this subject.
The Sony monitor Digital Foundry was testing went above 1440p. CRTs are capable of surprisingly high resolutions and frame rates, at least the better ones.
Yeah, it's a different animal. I went back to PC gaming after a 10-year hiatus at the end of 2016. I can see the advantages and disadvantages of both, PCs and consoles. Having said that, it's just naive and probably rude to tell someone to just abandon their platform of choice to solve a problem that shouldn't exist in the first place. These devs are making money off the base consoles. They should be required to create competent products for them.
A modern, stable PC doesn't have many issues at all. The tinkering is more often voluntary, to get better performance out of a game, or modding, or a different look. No doubt, for install and just play, a console is the way to go. I'm not disputing that.
Probably not. Developers should be held accountable for games that run poorly (on any system they sell the games for), but they won't be. Consoles are fixed targets, so they have no excuse. They knew from Day One what the limitations were. That won't change anything, though. They're developing for more powerful hardware, then making half-hearted attempts to scale down what they wrought. No one seems to have the power or inclination to put their feet to the fire over it.
1903 is reported to have several issues, though. Hope it goes well for you.
Some people had trouble navigating Sanctuary? Really? Stand in the middle. HQ straight ahead. Rotate right: Marcus, Earl and Moxxie, in that order. Rotate left: Claptrap, Dr Zed and Scooter. Honestly, how simple does it need to be?
So what would be better, a text menu? No thanks. I don't need to go back to 1995.
If I have to eat and drink, I should also have to pee and take a dump. Yes, this kind of realism never appealed to me, unlike good visual rendering.
Where does a Vespa fit in with Harley-Davidsons and Ducatis? It doesn't. It goes after a different crowd.
"This is a good decision for a story-heavy game like Death Stranding. As comedian Dara O’Briain pointed out in a live stand-up show, video games occupy a very odd place as a narrative form. They are, he says, the only medium that will 'deny you access' to the entire story if you’re bad at the game. It’s not just that you can be bad at a video game – most film buffs or music snobs will agree that its entirely possible to be bad at watching a movie or listening to an album – it’s t...
I hadn't heard anything about it until the last couple of days. You're not the first to say it fills the hole Bioware left. That's quite a recommendation. I'll be giving it a go soon.
You'll feel better after you're out from under the EU's jackboot.
If the currency used for them can in any way be obtained with real money, absolutely it's real gambling. Otherwise, it's simulated gambling. In that case, the game should get a PEGI 15 rating, rather than Adult (for real gambling). NBA 2K20, featuring casino games with real money involved, has a PEGI 3 rating. That's right--toddlers can gamble now.
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (PC, PS4, Xbox, Switch), by former Castlevania producer Koji Igarashi, will scratch that proper-Castlevania itch. Spiritual successor to SOTN, and very nicely done.
Yeah, Konami as we remember it doesn't exist anymore. Such a shame, on them.
You restored my faith in (a small part of) humanity. Thank you.