Then that particular reader is a chump(do I dare ask whether it was you?).
Most PC games reviews will tell or at least hinted at readers on what kind PC setup they are reviewing the game on. Looking at the title of the article alone tells me they are building an expensive PC and reading further will alert any discerning reader of the cost involved.
In fact the article listed all the components and their prices. How can any reader miss that part and go out rus...
It's a big TV and the bars made the whole viewing experience unnecessarily smaller. There's a reason why TVs have morphed from the old square(4:3) aspect ratio into wide screen ones so adding more bars to a content is weird to say the least.
I wonder if the bars are also present when playing in ultra-wide screen TVs/monitors.
I started playing The Evil Within with the fps raised to 60fps and the black bar reduced. I didn't noticed any strange glitches and honestly thought the weird, extremely close fov was the director's vision of the gameplay.
Then, I moved my PC to the living room, hooked it up to the big 1080P HDTV and played the game without adjusting anything(I didn't connect the keyboard that would give me access to the console debug mode)...the black bars were atrocious!
Yes, it does make sense. What doesn't make sense is the proprietary connector that will limit one product to one brand.
I did...it was a waste of a click.
It barely talk about the title it bears. It has a whole paragraph about the villain and merely a sentence about endangered animals.
It's just another piece talking about what to expect of the game. Almost like a summary of all the promo material we've seen for FC4.
Feels like...an ad, actually.
I use an Asus sound bar and it perform as expected. I react properly to the sounds around me in games just as much as when I used my older 5.1 speaker setup. It does feel weird when hearing sounds behind me because I know there're no satellites there.
My preload for my copy finished a couple of hours ago. Now I'm just waiting for it to be unlocked. I thought it will take far longer but apparently it's file size is smaller than advertized.
I've only played it for a couple of hours and the whole game feels like Resident Evil.
Western characters that feel like Japanese characters. Over the top cutscenes. Breaking stuff into dust.
No need to look for Easter Eggs when the game is pretty much a mix of Resident Evil games but with added new mechanics and better graphics.
It's a good thing but let's not forget how everyone treated Shadow of Mordor even before it launched. Everyone called it a Batman and AC clone ever since the first reveal while doubting the Nemesis system.
It may be a trivial thing to ponder now that Shadow of Mordor has redeemed itself with Nemesis but thoughts like that can and have kill countless games before. I'm just not comfortable with these early assumptions because it might drive off potential fans.
I wouldn't be surprised to see Shadow of Mordor's Nemesis system 'inspiring' it's way into Ubisoft's future open-world, parkour games.
Because they were the first to use "cinematic" in their excuse for 30fps so people tend give them a pass. There might be some truth to their claim so people just let get away with it. Then the word started to be used by other developers and people started to catch on the meaning.
"Cinematic" is fast becoming a dirty word since it is associated with devs/games that can't achieve the promised potential of their
platforms.
It'...
What is this G2A? It keep appearing on my Facebook page promoting some sort of game discounts. I always ignore it because the ads looks like one of those flashy Chinese F2P games and the badly photoshoped images don't help. One in particular was the head of racoon spliced on top of a medieval suit of armor(coincidentally Guardian of the Galaxy was showing in theaters at the time).
You make games not movies! Stop it with the 'cinematic' bull you're trying to shove our throats. Console games were 30fps during the previous gen and no one bothered to call them cinematic.
It's almost like the time when Ubisoft used the phrase 'social elements' to justify enforcing the always online DRM on it's PC titles not too ling ago.
Go ahead. Call PC gamers as port beggars. I don't mind.
The fact still remains: with every port the consoles are losing their exclusivity. Insult us, look down on us, call us beggars but we still get your games that we get to play on our PCs with extra bells and whistles.
Consoles fans see us beggars but publishers see us as a new market.
When Shadow of Mordor was first shown everyone accused it as another shameless Batman+Assassin rip off(it's weird that those two games weren't accused of ripping off each other).
Now that the game is out and everyone wants the Nemesis system to be put in every game in existence.
Would anyone dare call the next Elder Scroll/Batman/AC ripping off Shadow of Mordor if they implement their own version of Nemesis? Or would they pick up the thesaurus and lo...
I'm still fooling around the early part of the game since Friday. I'm just loving the combat system. Some would call it a rip-off of Batman but for me it's an evolution of that mechanic simply because Talion can cancel his ground takedown at ANY point of the process/animation to counter incoming enemies-Batman couldn't even do that even after 3 games!
Yes, smart business move. So smart that one little game company took over the void that MS left in PC gaming and made billions of profit with their little digital store. Valve and Steam set the standard that console makers are copying now.
A console market that depended heavily on the number of consoles sold every month and a PC market that can maintain continuous software sales for years. MS could've conquered both the X Box and PC market all to itself but it didn't....
Yes, PC gamers do want something that push the limit of their hardware but it also must be within the realm feasibility. The standard for current graphic cards is 2GB of vram with 4GB appearing to replacing it.
Then suddenly we have a game that requires 6GB. Out for the blue, with no warning for any PC users. It feels like the dev is just dumping the textures they were experimenting with their multi-Titan cards onto the mainstream PC gaming crowd.
Did I just go back in time and read a comment made back when Windows XP is king? I haven't ran into driver problems in a very long time. Most of my gaming related use od the internet nowadays are mostly reviews and sometimes walkthroughs/guides. I couldn't do any defragmentations anymore because I'm using SSDs for gaming while regular hard disks don't really demand it so.
Personally, playing on a couch isn't as enticing as many console fans said it would. ...
"One of the selling points of a PC is that you can pirate the current games"
NO! You should just stop gaming at all if that is your sole reason for having a gaming PC.
I'm going to take the automobile analogy that others have used in PC vs console debates, with a twist: even if you can spend $1 million on a Lambo or Ferrari you still have to pay for fuel!