General Gaming Thread

[Draevyn]

I actually forgot about Unity but I've heard nothing but bad things about it anyway to be honest.

[Avenged Probably]

Yeah, the additions to movement are the only real plus about it. Skip it and play Syndicate I say. For the story there's little bits in the new one which explain the few present day happenings too. 

[Benji]

Played Street Fighter IV for the first time since a few weeks after I got it in 2009 and remembering why I stopped. This game is insanely hard, and I am so god damn sick of cheap as fuck end bosses for beat 'em ups.

It's somewhat fun once you get back into it, but insanely steep learning curve. If anyone's up for an online match or two on PS3 some time, hit me up.

[ADG]

I was reading an article earlier about the best games coming out in January, one was the Resident Evil Zero remaster and I thought that might be fun to revisit as I have fond memories of playing it on the Gamecube (I was one of those kids that took a console on holiday and I even had the add-on screen that clipped onto the console so you didn't need a TV) but I can't see myself playing it now. Static cameras, the shooting mechanics being just high-middle-low and the fucking opening door loading animations have put me right off it.

[Benji]

2 hours ago, DeliBenji said:

Played Street Fighter IV for the first time since a few weeks after I got it in 2009 and remembering why I stopped. This game is insanely hard, and I am so god damn sick of cheap as fuck end bosses for beat 'em ups.

It's somewhat fun once you get back into it, but insanely steep learning curve. If anyone's up for an online match or two on PS3 some time, hit me up.

Seriously though, cause the online community is gross and horrible from the four matches I've had so far >_>

[Ruki]

All the JRPGs coming out this year.

 

In order, the ones I'm excited for: Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen (never played the original, and I wanna climb and stab some monsters), Final Fantasy XV (because I am a slave to the name), Fire Emblem Fates (this is gonna be so good! You don't need one of those fancy new 3DS' do you?), Setsuna (a classic JRPG? Sign me the fuck up!), Nights of Azure (it sounds cool!), Persona 5 (....duh), Star Ocean (I enjoy the Star Ocean games, so may give this one a try!), Valkyria: Azure Revolution (A new Valkyria game? I am on board), and maybe Worlds of Final Fantasy.

 

...gonna be a busy year.

[Benji]

I basically listed most of them in the PS4 thread the other week :/

[TheWho87]

It took Terry Garrett five years to complete Ocarina of Time. Why so long, he is blind and using the games audio to guide him.

 

The Beginning/explanation on how he can play the game

Spoiler

Conquering the water temple

Spoiler

 

The end

Spoiler

 

[Benji]

Oculus Rift starting at $599 plus shipping on release despite previous insistence on between $200 and $400.

Talk about a way to kill a cool new technology dead in the water for a few years.

[Bobfoc]

Here's a great tweet from Kaz Hirai.

[TKz]

Yeah, for £100-£200 I would have considered a rift, but holy shit, there's no way that thing is worth the price of admission. There's no way there'll be anything worth playing on it for a while yet, outside of maybe some VR tech demos that'll be fun for 10 minutes.

[Bobfoc]

Don't forget that you'd need some decent hardware to even run it, and that would set you back a few more hundred pounds/dollars/euros if you didn't have the necessary upgrades already. For a device that's being touted as a revolutionary piece of kit, that's a very large barrier to entry. I'll be interested to see how much interest it can retain while so many people won't be able to afford it, especially without any "must-have" games or applications announced yet.

[Benji]

Parody account, but still hilarious.

[apsham]

Oculus is fucked anyways - I think a lot of the other companies that have come out with similar concepts have far better looking prospects than the Oculous does. I don't think that VR is a fad in the same way that I see 3D televisions and things along those lines - I think it very much has a future but I just don't think the Rift is going to be what everyone hoped it was going to be way back when.

[Quom]

It depends on the alternative uses and who can capture that market. I think there is the potential to partner with sports/movies/netflix/internet. Like giving you the experience you're in the front row at a WWE/sports event/concert. Being able to sit down and watch a movie/tv show with someone else that's somewhere else and being able to communicate with them/interacting with the internet and people in a new novel way. Hell add in porn and cyber sex. If a company with a big bankroll can convince people to exclusively partner with them it could make the competition way less equal. I wonder who might have the bankroll to do something like that >_>

The problem with this is one of most important things will be sound, which is going to require premium built in headphones or the further purchase of high end headphones (for those without them). You can also add in the annoyance that the best headphones don't have mics.

It's why I'm going to hold off for a bit. I can see the technology being picked up in ways I can't even fathom which in turn creates changes to the hardware either leading to add-ons or revisions. I'd rather wait 3-5 years and get something with all the new bits. 

Edit. Just read the AMA on Reddit. Seems like the lifespan is 1-3 years (somewhere between a console and a mobile phone was given as the estimation between new releases of the tech). 

Edited January 7, 2016 by Quom

[Benji]

8 hours ago, apsham said:

Oculus is fucked anyways - I think a lot of the other companies that have come out with similar concepts have far better looking prospects than the Oculous does. I don't think that VR is a fad in the same way that I see 3D televisions and things along those lines - I think it very much has a future but I just don't think the Rift is going to be what everyone hoped it was going to be way back when.

Agreed, but I also think the Rift is by far the most well marketed, so its failure would inevitably put back perception of the hardware for a few years. I'm also waiting for mass reports of headaches from the devices, because I honestly can't see it not having similar issues to 3D movies in that respect.

[MalaCloudy Black]

XCOM 2 footage/preview let's plays are going up on YouTube now since as of 20 minutes ago, the NDA was lifted.

Here's quill18's XCOM 2 preview let's play.

[Herr Matzat]

Well, prices will drop fast. Sony already anounced theirs will be at the price of a console so thats at most half of the rift price.

My google cardboard was 2,50 on ebay. >_>

 

Punch Club up for preorder now. THe game will get sold as soon as twitch beats it. Hopeing for tomorrow.

[Robsturgh]

Honestly I think this is going to make Oculus fall way behind Samsung and Sony (assuming the price point is better, I expect it will be) with that price point. It's a shame as well, they can't help it as they are already selling it below cost I believe, but this goes to show how far we still are from our dark dystopian VR future.

[Quom]

I sort of agree and disagree. If I was jumping in right now I'd probably want the best version of the hardware. From what Oculus are saying they have actually and legitimately priced the Oculus below the cost of the components (let alone the cost of putting them all together, R&D etc).   

Without any reviews of the finished products I'm left operating under the assumption that the Oculus is going to be the best version. For people motivated to jump in at the ground floor - who must be aware this is like buying an iPhone 1, great now, will be laughable in 5 years -  I can see them paying double for something better. $300 (if the Vive is sold closer to the $350 ballpark Oculus were talking about) isn't that great an amount if you're spending a minimum of $600 on a CPU and GPU just to upgrade your PC so you can use it. Then again I'm kind of confused by all the talk of OMG TOO EXPENSIVE, in Australia people are happily paying $2-3k for a television and $700-1200 for the newest mobile phone (some yearly). 

Sony is a whole other kettle of fish. If they can get something on the market at a cheap price that only requires a PS4 I could see it either being massive and changing the game, or being the equivalent of Kinect and Move where people buy it but don't really use it. I can see the PS4 being a bottle neck since the specs are well under those needed to VR on PC. But it could be great for the experience stuff like going to a concert or sitting courtside for an NBA game or front row at Wrestlemania.

For me the biggest issue is going to be how quickly the specs jump. At the moment pundits are acting like needing a top spec GPU and good CPU is to future proof, but if it's a constant i.e. the next version of Oculus also requires a top 5 GPU I could see that getting in the way as you'll need all current users as well as new users to upgrade to play the best games.

Edited January 7, 2016 by Quom