@Flaming_Kaiser For a non-essential cosmetic upgrade, tier skips and some loot boxes? Again, so what? Don't buy them.
The 'outrage' generated here stems from the notion (as pushed by sensationalist headlines) that there's a new game changing weapon in BO4 and it costs £25. There are plenty of FTP games with cosmetics and loot boxes that can run to that.
Don't buy it. You lose nothing, not even competitive advantage.
So with the fact that "..it has the same range and damage output as the standard knife..." - something I can't say I've noticed being pointed out elsewhere reporting on this.
It's a bundle for standard loot box type stuff and some cosmetics?
So what?
I mean, having such a large scale post-sale micro transaction model is one thing, but it's literally just a skin for the knife that being reported as a 'new weapon' that you can only get via the bundle.
Sensationalism at work.
Well done @LiamCroft for pointing that out prominently in the article - but the headline here, as elsewhere, is pretty misleading.
@AdamNovice It doesn't look awful because of the graphics necessarily - but based on what we saw, it looks like a pretty dull, predictable experience. The best bits of the whole thing were the non-gameplay sections.
@Gumbopudding I have very little doubt that YouTube could be flawless, I really don't think they're pouring the same resources in to it as the tech that's going to be used for Stadia.
They don't have to destroy them, just let them know that trying to throttle their service will hurt them in the long run. Which is a good thing.
@playstation1995 DF confirmed that the hardware is already beyond what the next gen consoles will have on board.
@Gumbopudding I think you're underestimating Google's infrastructure.
Also, net neutrality is pretty much a non issue. Without access to Google's framework (which essentially props up most of the Internet, online applications and pretty much every decent consumer location based service in the world), most ISPs would be out of business. They could try and pull it, but it wouldn't take much for Google to decide to charge them for every bit of backend code that they rely on, or worse - pull it from public domain and bring their businesses to their knees.
I'd suggest anyone interested watch the Digital Foundry video.
This really is very promising if it comes off; hardware already ahead of next gen consoles, the whole thing sits on top of YouTube and the controller conects to the server via WiFi, not the device doing the streaming.
It's ridiculously clever, but will probably need a 200mbs connection to be really good. Depending on pricing, it could be worth the hardware/software cost tradeoff.
@nessisonett No, it was fine - it was as I'd expected it to be.
There was an amount of deserved flak shot Murray's way (meeting another player) - but every time that was talked up (not by Murray) he downplayed it and tried to insinuate it was very improbable.
Other than that - people just seemed unduly butt-hurt because the game didn't make you a cup of tea when you woke up in the morning.
@Jaz007 This is a great example of an objective review, actually. there's no particular display of love or loathing for the source material and good design elements are called out when present in an otherwise poorly delivered game.
EDF games are generally reviewed subjectively by people who enjoy them. They are also reviewed objectively as the budget (low cost, 'low quality') titles that they used to be.
Seems fair enough in the context of what he's saying. I mean, does anyone care what Richard Marquand thought of any of the Star Wars adaptations or expanded universe?
@Matroska That doesn't work, the apk has been out of date for a while.
@wiiware That's just an apk side-load, but as i say, it hasn't worked in ages. Remote Play is a good USP to keep hold of for their own stable - but I do think they should roll it out to other phones.
@Kindaichi I said "Do many male attracted gamers get hot by the sight of cg abs and muscles in a fighting game?". So men and women attracted to men...
But I get what you're saying, and there's no doubt that there will be people out there who do fetishise cg men in some way. But they are made simply to look powerful, not titillating - there's no 'bouncy junk' or mankini option.
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Re: Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Is Selling an In-Game Sledgehammer for £25
@Kyroki It's not just the hammer that they get though...
Re: Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Is Selling an In-Game Sledgehammer for £25
@Flaming_Kaiser @Stocksy
How much do the Battle Pass, tier skips and loot boxes sell for separately?
Not buying them is literally the only way they become nonviable as a business model
Re: Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Is Selling an In-Game Sledgehammer for £25
@Flaming_Kaiser
For a non-essential cosmetic upgrade, tier skips and some loot boxes? Again, so what? Don't buy them.
The 'outrage' generated here stems from the notion (as pushed by sensationalist headlines) that there's a new game changing weapon in BO4 and it costs £25. There are plenty of FTP games with cosmetics and loot boxes that can run to that.
Don't buy it. You lose nothing, not even competitive advantage.
Re: Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Is Selling an In-Game Sledgehammer for £25
So with the fact that "..it has the same range and damage output as the standard knife..." - something I can't say I've noticed being pointed out elsewhere reporting on this.
It's a bundle for standard loot box type stuff and some cosmetics?
So what?
I mean, having such a large scale post-sale micro transaction model is one thing, but it's literally just a skin for the knife that being reported as a 'new weapon' that you can only get via the bundle.
Sensationalism at work.
Well done @LiamCroft for pointing that out prominently in the article - but the headline here, as elsewhere, is pretty misleading.
Re: PS Plus April 2019 PS4 Games Announced
Neither games that I would've paid for but would happily try out.
That's very much what Plus is for for me.
Re: Wolfenstein: Youngblood Kicks Nazi Butt in New Story Trailer, Coming July 2019
Enjoyed the remake (though it was too long) but skipped Wolfenstein 2.
This looks decent though
Re: Streets of Rage 4 Looks Great in New Gameplay Trailer, But Platforms Are Still Unconfirmed
This has Apple exclusive written all over it 😢
Re: Diablo-Like, Free-to-Play Action RPG Path of Exile Has Arrived on PS4
@Doctor_BK Same here!
I'll definitely be trying it out!
Re: WayForward Announces Shantae 5, Coming to PS4 Later This Year
I have the physical HGH Risky Beats for Vita - not spent much time with it though. Seemed pretty good though.
Can't hurt having more.
Re: State of Play: Iron Man VR Suits Up on PS4 and PSVR This Year
@AdamNovice It looks as if it'll feel rote more than anything.
Beyond the novelty factor, the likelihood is that we're seeing the entirety of the gameplay loop right here.
Re: Skyworld - Baffling Design Choices Overshadow Political Charm
This actually looked quite interesting.
Like a kidified version of Ruse - which was awesome!
Re: State of Play: Iron Man VR Suits Up on PS4 and PSVR This Year
@AdamNovice It doesn't look awful because of the graphics necessarily - but based on what we saw, it looks like a pretty dull, predictable experience.
The best bits of the whole thing were the non-gameplay sections.
Re: State of Play: Iron Man VR Suits Up on PS4 and PSVR This Year
This looks awful.
Re: Xenon Racer Gears Up for Launch on PS4 with a New Trailer
Looks great! Not forty quid great, but still great.
Re: Samurai Shodown PS4 Release Date Set for June
Certainly interested - if it does well, hopefully SNK will pay more attention to their other properties beyond re releases.
Re: It's Morphin Time as Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid Gets PS4 Release Dates
So tempted 😂
I'll have to see some final gameplay first though.
Re: The Terrible Tennis World Tour Repackaged for Roland-Garros
New Virtua Tennis? I'd buy that!
Re: Poll: Do You Think Google Stadia and Streaming Are the Future of Video Games?
It's certainly a part of the future.
As with ebooks, when the buzz was that printed books would die out. They haven't.
There will always be a market for offline gaming. Be that 'purists' or even just those who can't access some technologies.
Re: Stranger Things 3: The Game Will Turn PS4 Upside Down on 4th July
My daughter is really interested in watching Stranger Things - this will be a fine substitute!
Re: Guide: Mortal Kombat 11 - All Confirmed Characters
@Tasuki They were a great MasterBlaster pair!
Had a lot of fun with them before my mate ruined the game with his ridiculously good Erron Black game!
Re: PlayStation Could Have Fresh Competition in Stadia, Google's New Game Streaming Platform
@hotukdeals at 4k60fps with no noticable lag? Doubt it.
Re: Konami Celebrates 50th Anniversary with Retro Collections Coming to PS4
Just this pop up on fb.
Nice collections. Totally up for Contra and Castlevania.
Hopefully they'll get a combined physical release at some point.
Re: Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice PS4 File Size Might Surprise You
It's very likely a matter of assets - I'm not sure of the scope of Sekiro - but RDR2 is huge with a decent amount of asset variety.
Still, 15GB is impressive - I wonder how heavily the game streams (sorry @jdv95) from the disc.
Re: Sony's Got March Madness as Loads of New Offers Begin on EU PlayStation Store
In my best Richard Richard - "Bloody helllll!"
Re: PlayStation Could Have Fresh Competition in Stadia, Google's New Game Streaming Platform
@Gumbopudding I have very little doubt that YouTube could be flawless, I really don't think they're pouring the same resources in to it as the tech that's going to be used for Stadia.
They don't have to destroy them, just let them know that trying to throttle their service will hurt them in the long run. Which is a good thing.
Re: PlayStation Could Have Fresh Competition in Stadia, Google's New Game Streaming Platform
@playstation1995 DF confirmed that the hardware is already beyond what the next gen consoles will have on board.
@Gumbopudding I think you're underestimating Google's infrastructure.
Also, net neutrality is pretty much a non issue. Without access to Google's framework (which essentially props up most of the Internet, online applications and pretty much every decent consumer location based service in the world), most ISPs would be out of business. They could try and pull it, but it wouldn't take much for Google to decide to charge them for every bit of backend code that they rely on, or worse - pull it from public domain and bring their businesses to their knees.
Re: PlayStation Could Have Fresh Competition in Stadia, Google's New Game Streaming Platform
I'd suggest anyone interested watch the Digital Foundry video.
This really is very promising if it comes off; hardware already ahead of next gen consoles, the whole thing sits on top of YouTube and the controller conects to the server via WiFi, not the device doing the streaming.
It's ridiculously clever, but will probably need a 200mbs connection to be really good. Depending on pricing, it could be worth the hardware/software cost tradeoff.
Re: Store Update: 19th March 2019 (Europe)
"LEGO DC Super-Villains
Batman: The Animated Series Level Pack"
Say what? 😲
Re: Dreamcast Classic Space Channel 5 Struts to PSVR Soon
I don't want VR lightgun games. I want lightgun games.
Namco could release Time Crisis 5 and just re-shell the G-con 3 and sell it with the IR sensor set up.
Re: No Man's Sky Beyond Is the Next Big Update Coming to the Space Exploration Title
@nessisonett I honestly think Murray got swept up in the PR machine and was under pressure to make the game out to be something that it wasn't.
Every time I saw him interviewed, he just wanted to talk about the maths behind the world and the technicality of the game. He always seemed earnest.
Re: Sony Reveals New Alpine Green DualShock 4 PS4 Controller
@Shellcore you are very welcome 😉
Re: Sony Reveals New Alpine Green DualShock 4 PS4 Controller
That's nasty...
It looks like chav trainers.
Re: No Man's Sky Beyond Is the Next Big Update Coming to the Space Exploration Title
@nessisonett
No, it was fine - it was as I'd expected it to be.
There was an amount of deserved flak shot Murray's way (meeting another player) - but every time that was talked up (not by Murray) he downplayed it and tried to insinuate it was very improbable.
Other than that - people just seemed unduly butt-hurt because the game didn't make you a cup of tea when you woke up in the morning.
Re: No Man's Sky Beyond Is the Next Big Update Coming to the Space Exploration Title
I really enjoyed what No Man's Sky used to be...
Re: One Piece: World Seeker - A Lifeless, Clearly Unfinished Game That Shouldn't Have Been Released
@Jaz007 This is a great example of an objective review, actually. there's no particular display of love or loathing for the source material and good design elements are called out when present in an otherwise poorly delivered game.
EDF games are generally reviewed subjectively by people who enjoy them. They are also reviewed objectively as the budget (low cost, 'low quality') titles that they used to be.
Re: One Piece: World Seeker - A Lifeless, Clearly Unfinished Game That Shouldn't Have Been Released
@fabisputza00
Here lies the difference between someone who really likes a game and someone else being objective.
I know for a fact that Star Wars: Masters of Teras Kasi is not a good game, but I loved it and could write you a brilliant review for it.
Re: Snooker 19 Sure Looks Like a Snooker Game in First PS4 Trailer
@get2sammyb
"... hello JV..."
Can't wait for the PlayLink 'Big Break' DLC... wait... that's actually a great idea!!
Re: Xenon Racer Zooms onto PS4 on 26th March
Looks pretty sweet.
The cars remind me somewhat of Ridge Racer (Vita).
Re: Ex-Uncharted Movie Writer Joe Carnahan Calls Neil Druckmann a 'Jerkoff'
Seems fair enough in the context of what he's saying.
I mean, does anyone care what Richard Marquand thought of any of the Star Wars adaptations or expanded universe?
Re: The Riftbreaker Is a Mix of Action RPG and Base Building Coming to PS4
Sounds pretty interesting.
Re: PS4's Free International Women's Day Theme Is Ace
Nice.
Reminds me that I always meant to get around to Horizon...
Re: 3D Realms Returns to Its Roots with Wrath: Aeon of Ruin
Oh my...
Well isn't this a pleasant surprise?!
Hopefully it does well, then the floodgates of re-releases of old FPS games will commence!
Re: PS4 Firmware Update 6.50 Released, Adds Remote Play for iOS Devices
@Matroska That doesn't work, the apk has been out of date for a while.
@wiiware That's just an apk side-load, but as i say, it hasn't worked in ages.
Remote Play is a good USP to keep hold of for their own stable - but I do think they should roll it out to other phones.
Re: PS4 Firmware Update 6.50 Released, Adds Remote Play for iOS Devices
@wiiware I suspect Remote Play won't venture officially outside of iOS and the high end Xperias for a while yet.
Silly really.
Re: Talking Point: Would You Buy a Disc-Less PS4 Console?
In short, no.
Not while every digital purchase is a license and I have no rights to manage the content.
Re: Mortal Kombat 11's Story Trailer Has More Than Enough Stupidity to Leave You Hyped
Sweet. MKX really was great.
@Flaming_Kaiser 'Komplete'
Re: God of War Was Almost Called Something Totally Different, Says Creator David Jaffe
Reminds me David Bowie's song writing process
Re: Poll: Do You Feel Ripped Off by PS Plus' Recent Changes?
@Juvenlast
That's easily the best suggestion I've seen regarding value. I'd have liked something similar for Now on the Vita rather than disabling it.
Re: Dead or Alive 6 - A Soft Sequel That Somehow Feels Rushed
@JJ2 Saw it in the comments there.
Re: Dead or Alive 6 - A Soft Sequel That Somehow Feels Rushed
@Kindaichi
I said "Do many male attracted gamers get hot by the sight of cg abs and muscles in a fighting game?". So men and women attracted to men...
But I get what you're saying, and there's no doubt that there will be people out there who do fetishise cg men in some way. But they are made simply to look powerful, not titillating - there's no 'bouncy junk' or mankini option.