Standard racers are alright but I get bored of them pretty quick unless there's something exciting or fun about them.
My favourites were Road Rash on PS1 and ESPN Extreme Games because you could hit the other players, and the cutscenes were funny.
Also these more demanding games are pushing Switch 2 quite hard. It's like Cyberpunk.. it only just manages to run somewhat decently, 30-40fps with dips well below 30 during more intense action, it can b...
I enjoyed both Rush games, I did think the action was sometimes too fast to see what was coming up in terms of hazards though, which meant replaying the same stage a bunch of times, other than that they were enjoyable, good special stages, 3D sections and bosses for the most part.
Dreamcast was a very good console, with some minor setbacks, no 2nd stick and could've used a bit more disc space. The main thing that let it down was support, the short time it was on the market it did still bring in a bunch of really good titles, if only it had another 2-3 years and more longer story based games as well as the arcade games.
I would say because of the above the Mega Drive / Genesis is probably their best, simply because of the wide range of support and...
Took a long while to get to CRT levels of motion clarity, while 120hz screens were nice in 2012+ they still couldn't match the levels of CRT.
Kind of baffling why they ditched CRT in the first place except for the fact that they were bulky, and I don't know enough about the technology to know if it were possible to make them both slim and lightweight.
This technology look very promising though. I was checking out the new dual mode 6k/3k screens an...
They might come in cheaper than expected with good competition in the space, from China etc. Similar to how we have good Android phones at reasonable prices. They'll probably be fairly pricey though at first, guessing in the region of 20-30k, but who knows maybe pricing will come down fairly quickly.
They might come in cheaper than expected with good competition in the space, from China etc.. Similar to how we have good Android phones at reasonable prices. They'll probably be fairly pricey though at first, guessing in the region of 20-30k, but who knows maybe pricing will come down fairly quickly.
It will be interesting to see how that AVA compares to the Dipal, both look like fun products.
I want an actual robot companion though, I know I'm gonna get some flack for saying so but i hope robots get as advanced as LLMs in their abilities over the next few years, that would be pretty damn amazing.
I'm already eyeing a Jenny Wakeman replica home robot... Well someone had to say it.
I still blame Steam for killing off physical games, just my opinion.
I'm selling most of mine since they're basically pointless owning now, and many of them aren't worth that much anyway. And I mean PC only.
The older ones that are Steam activated might as well just be thrown in the bin... Almost, unless you have a slow/limited net connection and really need it for a reinstall.
Collusion has happened before between companies in the RAM space, ups & downs in prices. All the clueless just want to blame AI, so many angry people it's actually funny, instead of doing their own research they just instantly go "AI taking all the RAM, AI bad" when manufacturers have literally put a statement out saying they refuse to increase production in case "the AI bubble pops" and there is a massive oversupply.
Even if it does pop, the eco...
Except if you had done any research into the matter you would know that the blame doesn't rest solely on AI data centres.
RAM manufacturers simply refuse to increase production to meet demand of everyone, including the public..
People with ancient hardware had lots of opportunities to upgrade when DDR4 was dirt cheap, DDR5 had been reasonable for a while. Now even SSDs are like double the cost what they were only some months ago.
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Except if you had done any research into the matter you would know that the blame doesn't rest solely on AI data centres.
RAM manufacturers simply refuse to increase production to meet demand of everyone, including the public.
People with ancient hardware had lots of opportunities to upgrade when DDR4 was dirt cheap, DDR5 had been reasonable for a while. Now even SSDs are like double the cost what they were only some months ago.
Pe...
Well.. There are good things and bad things that will come from AI, one of the most bullshit ones will be (I almost guarantee it) automatic comment moderation on various websites, good AI models understand vague hints towards meaning.. they literally understand the context from my experience most of the time and it can be quite surprising. This will be used to censor speech even more in countries already trying their best to restrict it, I just know it. I wouldn't be surprised if some for...
I agree that too much of something is not always good, however.. Valve sat on their ass for years and years with Source 2.
They were raking in money and didn't want to fix it, we saw demos of Source 2 leaked over a decade ago, and they took ages to do stuff with it.. so much that Alyx wasn't even top tier graphics wise, now they did dumb it down a bit graphically on purpose for it to run better for VR.. but what else have they done except for that? A card game and ...
I mean.. Sony screwed over early adopters of the PS5 Digital version by not allowing external disc drives, or even the add-on to work with it. So.. who knows.
They might have a tool to help shape landscapes and areas faster, or with AI help included.
Shorter development time doesn't always mean less changes.
Games during the 64 days were made in 2-3 years tops, and look at Mario Kart World.. that was made in 8 years and while it has a decent track selection the open mode is basically a giant desert lacking content..
Long development time doesn't always mean lots of content.
Yeah RAM has been cheap for a while up until recently, same for SSDs and even CPUs, you could get a cheapy 8 core Zen 4 processor from Ali Express for the past 1-2 years as well.
It's all about buying at the right time and finding good deals.
Yes, the issue is that you can't always trust the minimum requirements to give good performance, even though it should if using low settings or whatever those requirements are based on.
If playing a game, you usually want to be at least between minimum and recommend or above IMO, for the ideal experience anyway.
At the budget end of the scale the console is usually going to win, and in these days where hardware is more expensive especially so.
Probably because it'll be aimed at those who want super simple plug & play, no matter how little fuss might be involved otherwise. But it's kinda too gimped anyway.
I would wait for prices to come down unless you already have decent hardware and just build your own system. Or only buy soon if you spot a good deal on parts.
As long as Valve don't gimp their newer games because of this fairly low end steam machine I'm fine with it. People can hold onto 5-6+ year old hardware if they want but they shouldn't expect to run newer demanding games well or at all at that point if it's mid class hardware.
Don't forget Steam probably got a ton of survey results from some countries running some basic office PC and running some esports games or something.
All I ask for is plenty of content/stages and a good challenge, if it's a cakewalk I would be disappointed.