Funny how my laptop seems to be more powerful than your rigs. Sure it cost $2,000 and is outdated now and I'm not rocking a RTX2080 just a GTX 1070 but it's still more powerful than an Xbox One X.
Honestly didn't think I'd be in the upper echelon of hardware specs amongst this crowd of gamers. Of course I use my PC for renders not for gaming. And honestly I haven't turned it on in a while. Part of me is thinking I should clear hundreds of gigs of space a...
Remember when the PC guys kept saying all you needed was a GTX 750Ti to get you through the generation?
I sure do and now those guys might not be able to play Horizon Zero Dawn!
@Smclaren1985
PCs as a platform were past their prime before Half-Life 2 released.
Online activations heavy DRM and stringent hardware requirements never really seemed to go away. The best time to buy a PC game you like now is a few years after it releases when you'll have hardware that can run it well.
Consoles have a lot of perks focused on gaming that the masses want and PC elitists with high end riga constantly trading out parts in their desktops t...
@Sunny12345
Don't want to edit my original post...
Why didn't Naughty Dog do something really stunning and brave by creating brand new stupid inept individuals lacking critical thinking skills that they could cram into The Last of Us' universe so this story could make some sense?
@Sunny12345
Why didn't Ellie have that flashback sooner?
Because plot of course!
This is pathetic storytelling and we all know it. Why is this fine. Naughty Dog is better than that.
Additionally wasn't the whole point of getting away from Uncharted to make the violence the characters partook in make sense? And yet at every critical story point the writers made the violence senseless and thinly veiled attempts to hold th...
Hakuoro
So you couldn't find anything decent about the story of The Last of Us Part II?
I rest my case.
@TheKingKratos
"Ahh this Bullcrap again ... you act like Joel don't trust any one in the first game
But he did .. he trust Henry and sam and went with them and they could have been bad people too and kill and loot him when they had the chance... this is a sh1t world after all"
Uh... Did you forget Joel's first interaction with Henry was literally trying to kill him (which Joel openly admits in-game)?
Henry abandons Joel during a ...
What about this games story was great, new to games as a medium, done better than any similar game stories if any? And since we're leaving the politics at the door, the use of LGBT+ characters is totally irrelevant mentioning them gives you nothing in the way of credibility unless you can prove that including their sexuality was critical to the story and couldn't be done with non-LGBT+ characters.
I'll wait.
@Lexreborn2
So the message is "self-flagellation for the win"?
Again what!? Kahlina is 110,000,000,000,000% right nothing Ellie did will break the cycle and if we learned anything by the very existence of Part II is that Ellie is in for the beat-down of her life soon because of all the people she terminated there's probably one brother, sister, mother, father, son, daughter, distant relative or close friend she p•••ed who's now pinning for a chance to put E...
If you don't like her friends how can you like her? I mean it's one thing to have characters like Tess who die early on and a totally different thing entirely to have these characters around you the whole time that you feel like you know next to nothing about. That's yet another hallmark of poor storytelling.
Hmmm, well let's try this. How far off the mark was I in understanding what you meant?
Please explain.
@ziggurcat
"Also, her actions are quite common for someone who is hell bent on revenge - it causes people to act rather selfishly, which would have been true in the case of this game."
Any current day examples you want to share? Perhaps with the police?
Ah no or you don't have any?
Either way you've just proved that your whole "everyone is out for revenge" bullet-point dead wrong. I can't think of really a...
Spoilers ahoy for a couple games...
Hit the minus button if you don't want to be spoiled.
@Nitrox
Remember when Killzone: Shadow Fall did this all at the beginning of the PS4's life-cycle?
I sure do. You play as a new character adopted by the good guy who betrays you at the end of the game and then another individual from the enemy contingent hunts him down for killing their "enemy"?
Yeah I'm making things pretty con...
@jambola
Until then...
/s ⤵️
Of course I mean use this all the time... It won't save you as many idiots don't know what "/s" even means anymore.
@rainslacker
My links are sound. They're links to peer reviewed papers and medical articles including those posted by the CDC themselves. Don't know what to tell you aside from the idiots on TV aren't the ones you should be listening to.
May I remind you that I also told you not to disobey any guidance from the CDC or local authorities. I'm giving you the means to start looking into the facts you don't believe that are backed by empirical eviden...
@rainslacker
You aren't aware that vaccines aren't cures they're a prophylactic.
Masks don't work because people do not wear the right ones and when they do they don't wear them properly anyway which negates their effectiveness.
Coronaviruses aren't new, humans have been fighting them for many millenia. They mutate rapidly and as a result we haven't created any effective vaccines for Coronaviruses even today ...
I got it on the 3DS over a year ago now and I still cannot get invested in it. I probably just haven't gotten far enough to understand the fans of this game either that or it's just not my type of game to begin with. I do like the scale of the world though that's pretty nice. I just wish they weren't so empty and barren. At least random encounters aren't a thing considering all enemies are plainly visible. It's actually been long enough that I can't recall if the i...
4K60...
Funnily enough a game like Xenoblade Chronicles (1) should probably hit that mark on Tegra X1 hardware especially considering the hype Jensen was pumping up during the Shield TV launch. They demonstrated Dead Trigger 2 at 4K so I can't imaging a Wii title like Xeno couldn't run in 4K at 60FPS!
If you believe the hype that is.
@Vegamyster
Try playing GRID or basically any title on a Samsung device dating back to the Note 4 with Game Tuner ( https://news.samsung.com/gl... - now defunct) or Game Plug-ins (Game Tuners replacement).
If you set your phone hardware to output at 720p natively and adjust Game Tuner or Game Plug-ins resolution scale to 75% you'll see how bad 540p looks. ...
@sampsonon
You can't stop the mob mentality easily. Calling it out isn't going to stop it we've tried that and it just doesn't work. Mob mentality is the living things default state. I mean that all organisms on this planet adhere to the herd/mob to a very obvious extent. Today schools teach it and even Neil Druckman himself is a part of it by injecting his own personal politics into the story. His worldview shaped the themes of The Last of Us Part II and they made no...