The N64 rumble pak released in Japan on April 14th, 1997, followed by North America on July 10th and Europe on October 20th. The dualshock released in Japan on November 20th, 1997, then in North America in May 1998 and Europe in July 1998, roughly seven months after the rumble pak’s release. Sony had previously released a japanese only dual analog controller with built in rumble on April 25, 1997 making it the first "built in rumble" controller, but it had a very short shelf life. T...
Literal nothing burger compared to PSN that went down for an almost entire month, and thieves 'actually' making off with millions of user personal data.
"we could get an Max Payne 4"
Personally I hope not, Max got closure at the end of 3. He's finally at peace. Not every story needs to keep going.
Dramatics aside. You know you aren't required to have the highest end thing every time to keep up with modern gaming right? Especially in an age with upscaling technology. It's why I went with a 4070ti super, it'll get me through the next five years or more, and after credit and selling my previous GPU I only spent $430 on it. Handles every game I throw at it with ease. As for Windows, Linux has become a viable option in many cases even better for titles older than I am. The hobby...
I tend to stick with upgrading every 5-6 years. Pretty much each gen, tho I tend to wait a year or two between upgrading my cpu after upgrading my gpu as depending on the model of gpu the bottleneck can be insignificant for what I need. Went from a 970 / i7-3820 to a 2080ti / i9-9900k in 2019, switched to a 4070ti super in october of this year. Sold the 2080ti, and with store credit an $800 gpu ended up only being $430.
anast
"Or you could pay $700 for a PC that will barely run Skyrim"
Are you being dumb on purpose, is this all just a really bad attempt to troll?
Perhaps. The second invasion did occur in Kyushu, Japan. They've already covered Iki in the DLC for the first game. Hopefully this means this game could be a 'break' of sorts to build upon, and learn from both narratively and game design wise with trying new things, much like some of their standalone sequels in the Infamous series, and they're saving "Ghost of Kyushu" for later when they feel comfortable enough to approach it taking what they've learned from this...
Not gonna lie. I'm pretty bummed about no Jin, seems like a missed opportunity to expand on the cliffhanger ending from the first game with the shogunate now hunting Jin, which would have been an interesting perspective to cover for his character trying to rationalize protecting not only his people, but fighting them as well, all while the second mongol invasion occurring only seven years later from the setting of the first game.
Hopefully they come back to him again.
This has probably been explained multiple times before, but most of the anger comes down to region blocking. While juggling multiple launchers/sign-ins isn't ideal for anyone, it's mostly been begrudgingly tolerated, or outright solved through user optional removal methods. PSN isn't available everywhere, so you've got a lot of countries (say you've got friends in these countries, Helldivers II as an example of something you all want to play together) missing out on games...
@Master_Rid
Interesting way to rationalize being ripped off long term. But I suppose sunk cost will do that.
@fr0sty
How is it 'more bang for your buck' if you ignore the hidden costs long term, like paying more for games on average, paying for internet access you're already covering through another company, and buying refresh models with diminishing returns just to barely keep up? If you're going to end up paying a premium long-term, making it a sunk cost anyway, why limit yourself to the hardware value of something lesser at base? If you have the option to spend ...
@PRIMORDUS If I could guess why it's probably because most major releases these days just aren't worth the effort, I'm willing to bet there's some correlation between questionable AAA quality as of late and scene interest plateauing. Unless it's a sports title to get around the ridiculous microtransactions there's not a lot of motivation. Can't say I blame any scene group if that's the case, I find myself purchasing indie games now more than anything. They'...
@anast
Most people inevitably will, hardware improves with each iteration and the price only goes down. What you consider demanding today will be budget capable within a decade if not less due to new technology, and that version, on PC, will always be the best due to that. You don't need to rebuy it just to play it on new hardware.
As for "renting", I can download a game, copy the files to another drive, crack the purposefully thin steam DR...
Well, yeah, we're getting the definitive and most preservable version of a game that will always be playable at the highest optional quality available, no matter the hardware going forward. No having to periodically purchase pseudo-"upgrades", or repurchase port after port to play what we already bought once before on limited shelf life hardware restricted decimal. Any sane person would be thrilled by that pro-consumer convenience.
I wonder what philosophy Mr. Hollywood was pondering when he stood awkwardly by himself at a Golden Globes photo shoot while not a single camera flash was sent his way. Pivotal moment of introspection if there ever was one.
@bunt-custardly
I wouldn't take AI as gospel, especially a corporate one that ends most every answer with meaningless neutral ambiguity. You're better off actually talking to humans that use either and have something to lose, be it time, energy or financial investment. Personal experiences AI can't relate to.
When Steam is one of the very few actually trying with it's feature set it's a hard sell to get people to want something on a storefront that could care less about improving it's service. GoG is another exception, but Epic, which is still missing many features that have been on Steam for years like every other publisher just half-ass it, so they've earned and continue to maintain their poor reception and presumably act confused come every quarterly report for failure to unders...
@VersusDMC
At the end of the movie the soldiers bow out of respect for Ken Watanabe's character who committed seppuku with the assistance of Cruise's character, he was a rebel in their eyes and a relic of the old ways but they still respected him as a military leader much in the same way Watanabe's character respected Cruise for his abilities and military background. That's not an acknowledgement of Cruise being a samurai. His last interaction with the emperor was to ...
I think the problem with The Last Samurai was the audience and to some extent the marketing. Cruise's character is not meant to be "The Last Samurai", that was Ken Watanabe's character based on Saigo Takamori, whom many consider to be the last true-blue samurai. Cruise's character was a cynical destructive drunk that had lost his way but found peace through (Hansei)self-reflection.
@Scissorman The japanese dual analog and later dualshock are two distinct released controllers, you said the dualshock assumingly confusing the two. As noted earlier, Nintendo publicly demonstrated this technology before Sony. Commercial products don’t appear fully formed at launch; they undergo extensive R&D, which often means companies can be influenced by competitors at trade shows. In any case I never originally mentioned anything about copying, only analyzing the dates when you compa...