Feeling pretty strong buyer's remorse at this point, especially with the announcement that FH5 will be available on last-gen through cloud services.
This whole gamescom show has been a waste of time so far.
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Because mainstream studios are just adult daycares for soyjack npcs and literal children with MBAs. It’s why they can’t reliably push out their formulaic garbage in good times, let alone with coastal COVID restrictions.
Movie studios, cable media, and AAA studios are all the same. They are so bloated with woke idiots that they literally cannot make anything good.
Might as well just play old games. They may have been made by the same giant companies, but at least they had people on staff who gave a shit.
Thousands of old console games I haven't played. More than enough to spend a lifetime going through. Rather give my money to emulator developers and people making interesting hardware to keep old consoles alive than these shit companies.
Console plebs get what they deserve, more at 11.
Don't buy computers which have been purposefully designed to do less things than a standard windows or mac desktop.
This.
I learned from my mistake this time. I was an early adopter of the Xbox One and I barely used it for the first two years. I played online a lot more then, friends didn't have it, and the early games weren't that great.
Last October, I decided to buy a barely used Xbox One X from a guy locally, with a couple like new controllers too. $150. Sold my original Xbox One for $75. Main thing I wanted was some of the 4K upscaling of Original Xbox games and such anyway. I haven't even slightly regretted making that move.
NHL 2015 on XB1 was pretty enough that I bought a new console on impulse after playing it on a store demo.
The actual game was so stripped of features though compared to last gen that my friends and I soon abandoned it completely and went back to NHL on 360.
I can't remember exactly what was so egregious about it, but IIRC, it was something along the lines of not being able to draft your own players in Franchise mode and/or the AI teams being unable to offer you trades spontaneously. I seem to recall that players also never got injured if you played live games vs simming them.
I guess that is more EA's fault, but it was a good lesson.
NHL 15 was the beginning of the end for me with those games. 11-15 on my Xbox 360 I bought every year when new. They actually added things every year too. Most of the games felt different year over year. Sometimes for good, not always. But they tried a lot.
Once they moved to NHL 15 on the Xbox One, it never was the same. I played NHL 16 a decent amount and was done after that. Now it's just Madden microtranny fest with hockey.
I was a very late adopter of the Xbox One, I got it a few weeks after Steam lifted their porn ban and the shovelware floodgates opened.
I was going to get a One X, but I thought being future-proof was worth the extra.
Maybe I'll feel better when FH5 actually releases.
I don't think you will necessarily lose out either way. I was going to buy a Series X, but at the time $500 plus having to find one I just decided to go the cheap route. I just haven't been a PC guy since the early 2000s, the console experience is much more for me.
It's way better than the way Soyny has turned. It wasn't but a few years ago I was going to get a PS5 at some point. It's a good thing they went woke, because they've gone super scummy anti-consumer on top of it. The most recent I noticed was they delist Ghost of Tsushima, so they can jack the price back up to $60 for a "director's cut". I'm thrilled to not be getting sucked into their PS5 game. I still play my PS4 because it's not like I'm paying to use it. I already bought almost everything I want on it, that GoT game being one of the ones I was going to wait to give them $10 for.
LOL if you have a PS4 then you'll definitely be a PC guy today, since you have faster loading times on PC, better controller versatility, and better graphics.
PC gaming today is nothing like it was back in the 80s, 90s, or even the mid-aughts.
Everything is streamlined now and is more console-like than consoles. I usually don't even turn on my PS4 because it has so many forced updates where the features become unusable unless you update. On PC you can turn off the updates, boot up Steam, and play whatever you want. You can even delay updates for games in case you would rather play than wait for the updates to download.
I got a gaming rig back in 2016/2017 (can't remember which year) and it gets to desktop from a cold boot in 17 seconds. I can get into a game faster than the PS4 can load up an app from a warm boot.
Also, being able to have Steam allow you to assign desktop navigation with a controller makes it even easier yet. I have a Switch Pro controller that I absolutely adore, so I use it for a bunch of games on PC.
I know a lot of people are adverse to gaming on PC because it's "cumbersome" and they have "upgrade" every few years, but my gaming rig gets a heck of a lot more mileage out of than the consoles these days (with the exception of the Switch, which actually functions like a classic console instead of a low-end PC).
With the XB1 and PS4 constantly having to update, and the fact that I have to install disc games before playing them (which resulted in me having to play games on my PC while waiting for games to install on my PS4), I just decided to focus more on my PC catalog than the console catalog. There was nothing consoles did better, plus you have to pay to play online with consoles, whereas online multiplayer on PC is free.
It very well could become my next thing to go back to PC, we will have to see where things go with what games come out and such. As I mentioned I am still on the old stuff with no plans to move forward.
Biggest issues for me is I'm 100% a couch/TV player. I sit at my desk for work all day. Sitting at a desk for gaming is a total no-go. I don't care how many hardcore gamers do it and how serious business it is to use the mouse and keyboard for leet skillz. Every day I get closer to old codger and farther from teenager and that stuff holds absolutely zero importance to me.
The last time I looked at going back to PC I was going to build something into an HTPC case and put on my TV. Why I didn't then is because I do tend to play a lot of older games, and up until just a few years ago controller support on PC was just plain atrocious. Sure, I can piddle with those things like xpadder or whatever it's called now forever and still be unhappy with them. At the time, MS was pushing out a lot of the backwards compatible stuff so my Xbox covered way more of what I wanted to play. Next time around, I'll look at the same thought process again and see how the PC lays out. That will probably be a few years whenever I get tired of what I have. I wouldn't be shocked if I just go to whatever the Switch's successor is and go back and catch up on whatever comes from that library instead.
I actually don't like my PS4. If I could go back to 2017 with what I know now I'd probably never have bought it. Since I have it I do play it occasionally, but it's mostly for Japanese stuff that I can't play on Xbox. A lot of those games (e.g. Yakuza series) are all going multi-platform now anyway. Sony's games lost my interest from boredom about a year before I really started to notice their wokedom.
Ha, yes! That was one of my biggest peeves with PC gaming as well. But I have a separate, dedicated gaming rig literally hooked up to a 40-inch, sitting on the entertainment system on the shelf beneath the PS4.
It's in a Syber case (horrible for heat, I know), so I had to remove the bottom plates and grille, so the GPU could vent the heat, and propped it up on some little furniture stands. So the heating issue is dealt with. Not sure why they designed the thing that way, but it was an easy problem to fix. Now it just looks like a really large Xbox-like console on the shelf.
Oh boy do I remember those days, when the Gravis Game Pad was all the rage, but support for it was about as shoddy as a wooden shed in a thunderstorm.
These days controller support is WAAAAAAY better, so much so you can actually use Steam to emulate keyboard/mouse functionality for controllers OUTSIDE of Steam.
So for my gaming rig it doesn't even have a mouse or keyboard plugged in. No wires or cables coming out of the front. All the major controllers are wireless. So I turn it on, turn on the Steam controller, and navigate to the tab I want to use. All the tabs on the main desktop are gaming related; emulators, Steam, nucleuscoop, the Xbox companion (to stream Xbox games on PC), etc.
I can't remember the exact year, but once Steam implemented Big Picture Mode they made controller compatible far superior to anything else on the market. No more Xpadder, no more Xbox360CE, no more DualSoft4 or whatever that DualShock emulator is called. It's all native support for every type of controller, even the 8bit retro SNES wireless controllers, which I bought for the Switch but also use on PC to play stuff like Streets of Rage Remake.
Same here. Only two major things I play now are the PC and Switch. I know my post sort of reads like a sales pitch, but really, I'm just so happy with my gaming rig and how console-like it feels. That was my biggest disappointment with the XB1 and PS4. The load times, the installation times, the constant updates. One day while I was waiting for a really large update to install on PS4, where I couldn't do anything but sit and wait, I started thinking "Why am I doing this? Why am waiting for a console to load an update when I could just use my gaming rig and multi-task?" That was the eye-opening moment for me.
The only thing I don't use very often is the VR headsets, and it's just because of how cumbersome they are. But otherwise, I've been playing through quite a few old PS3 games via emulation on PC. Just click the tab on the desktop, hook up a DualShock controller, and you're good to go. It's amazing because it's easier and better playing some PS3 games on PC (with native resolution upscaling) than it is on the PS4!
Haha, I just got rid of a Gravis Gamepad I found in a drawer a few months ago. No idea why I'd hung on to it as I haven't used it since the 90s. 15 pin game port, so I have no use for it anymore. Worked sort of ok in the old DOS platformers. I remember playing Descent with a joystick for some reason too. I guess it worked ok.
So RPCS3 works that well? I've tried Dolphin and PCSX2 and was quite impressed. I doubt my antique CPU will run PS3 but I wouldn't use it anyway. Still will note for future reference.
Right now if anyone wants to sell me anything, they have to work on some games. I can't think of a time where I've been less interested in what's coming out, so I'll just keep what I have.
Oh boy, yeah I think I still have mine in a box somewhere with a bunch of broken OG Xbox controllers.
I think I only ever got it to work right with a few games, one of which was Venom & Spider-Man: Separation Anxiety for Windows 95, which was one of the earliest games that required exclusive use of DirectX, so you couldn't play it in Win 3.10 or Win 3.11.
Only played a few games. Resistance, Resistance 3, Blacksite Area 51, Clive Barker's Jericho, Godfather: Blackhand Edition, Army of Two, Army of Two: The 40th Day, and Captain America: Super Soldier. Ran all the games fine except for Resistance 3 -- game runs well, but it hits an error in one of the stages, so it needs an emu update. I turned on the 200% upscaler to run the games in 4K, otherwise the PS3's native resolution is a chore to get through.
Dolphin runs games like a dream, and I still need to finish Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines some day, ha!
Haven't really looked into the spec requirements all that much, but I think any multi-core i7 should do the trick if you were planning on going that route.
Yup. Totally agreed. Right now I'm just working through my old back catalog of games, hardly buying anything new. In fact, most of the "new" stuff I'm buying are just old games on discount that I may have missed in previous years.
Interesting. I moved away from couch/TV gaming to office/desk gaming because my office setup was so comfortable I thought it was superior. My office chair is really comfortable, and my being closer to monitors means the game takes up more of my field of view than playing in my living room on the TV. I like it so much I use the same setup for my consoles.
And I'm not getting any younger either, which is why my aging eyes like being closer to the screen instead of further away.
I'd be totally happy if that was all dropped in lieu of making games fun again. Which I suppose happens sometimes. They get so caught up in making crap like flowing hair and realistic grass that even when the big devs put out something it's just a bunch of the most boring repetitive open world with some pretty scenery.
Seriously, after a certain point I can barely tell the difference, I was happy to play New Vegas at 800 x 600 before I built a pc.
Don't buy from big devs. There's plenty of smaller devs making fun things and not putting a single processor cycle into hair.
I think about everything I've bought this year has been either small devs or 10+ years old. Most recently I bought the two Supergiant games I was missing. Haven't played them yet, and they are probably kinda samey to Bastion and Hades that I already had, but those two were so well put together and I enjoyed them.
I was really enjoying Hades for a while. I don't think their next game will be an insta-buy, though. I'm worried the black Greek gods is a sign of things to come.
The Nintendo model. None of your new ideas caught on? Sell new consoles and market old games that remind people of their childhoods.
They are probably waiting untill chips are easier to get to put out more consoles and get more sales from bigger AAA games
The short answer is "because the One S processor isn't that much better than the processor in the One"
Seriously, it's a 1.75GHz 8-core unit vs a 2.3GHz 8-core unit.
If you want to see a more substantial difference, look to the RAM, look to the storage.
I've read reports that Series owners are having problems running Civ 6 similar to last gen users, which was released on PC in 2016.
With the shortage it seems like nobody has them, so it would be foolish to develop software exclusively for a system consumers cant reliably purchase.
Because women, obviously.
Because no one wants to make a super expensive game right that is held back by last gen tech due to hardware shortages. The absolute biggest change isn't the CPU, isn't the GPU, it's the IO. CPU is nice as it will double FPS for console gamers. GPU is nice cus it can push those frames and have new graphics options enabled that were on the PC. The IO though will allow them to deliver much more vast worlds and seamless experiences. Texture streaming from the SSD directly to the GPU is going to be a huge deal. It's why you could only do so much with Cyberpunk and why the world is so disappointing.
It's why games like Jedi Fallen Order stutter and can't be fixed and why the new Unreal Engine demo focused on the SSD. You are completely limited without Direct Storage in the API (Sony is focused on this as well, they just use a proprietary OpenGL, which is now Vulkan) and that is coming in a Windows 10 update this year. "Large world games" currently just suck. You have the same copy and pasted trees, foliage and buildings, because you cant stream in unique textures.
For PC Gamers you are simply going to want a NVME SSD going forward or your games will be a stuttering mess. Games like the new Dead Space are already leveraging the SSD and will have no load screens from start to finish. Search the article for "ssd" with f3. https://www.techradar.com/news/dead-space-remake
They can now just stream in the new assets with the SSD and not be bottlenecked by the CPU. Because the CPU has much less it has to do, you can push physics, AI and other cool stuff. The CPU's in the consoles are actually pretty decent.
Direct Storage is so big for games MS had to backtrack and put it on Win 10 due to pressure from devs who are working on games NOW leveraging it. They didn't want to do that and to be honest I think they didn't know this was coming or they would have went as big as PS5 did with the SSD. The Xbox division was always about a API monopoly and Windows sales than profits. They lost 2 billion in a year on the console and made 150 billion selling Windows.
As far as Win 11? TPM 2.0, which I think they thought they could push with Direct Storage as a carrot, which is REQUIRED for Win 11 is the holy grail to end piracy and curate the end users (say goodbye to free mods) and the internet eventually. In a few years these garbage social media platforms will be apps and those apps will go through TPM 2.0 identifying your machine and you. Alternative social media apps simply won't run on Windows 11 and you have a dumber and dumber userbase who just wants to use an app. A VPN will be worthless as far as hiding your identity and because the dumb masses don't understand any of this, those alternative social media outlets won't have any eyes on them. TPM 2.0 is the endgame. Enjoy. :)
In a few years you will just have a handful of people on Linux talking on forums no one even knows about. Of course on those forums you will still have a large population of JIDF shills. Just like on KIA2. Oh the game devs will also refuse to launch games on Linux so good luck with piracy in the future or reshade or mods. Because the games will all be tranny propaganda sales will suck as well, which is why they HAVE to stop piracy.
They refuse to do this right now, so, I'm not sure how this would be any different at all from how reality is right this second.
The nice thing is that valve has been working on proton quite a lot so it doesn't matter what individual game devs do. I already have completely moved to Linux and every game that I give a fuck about runs perfectly despite none of them being supported in Linux whatsoever by the developer.
Nah. Biggest titles are on Linux now. Won't be, but they are there now. RDR2, Cyberpunk run better on Linux than they do on Windows. Shouldn't be surprising since RDR2 runs stupidly better on the Vulkan backend than the DX 12 one.
All Vulkan games now have pretty much native support of AMD FSR as well. https://youtu.be/kI7XaQhRiCE https://youtu.be/ytGR7JKYhL8 https://youtu.be/BhpaDtUJZWE
There are utilities that can do something similar with FSR now on Windows like Magpie and Lossless Scaling, but the latency and overhead is pretty bad. Magpie performs badly without a batch file to start it in high priority.
As far as Steam? Gaben is a former MS employee and Win 11 is going on his new handheld. https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/9/22616395/valve-steam-deck-windows-11-support-tpm-amd
Gaben isn't dumb. He knows what TPM 2.0 means. A lot more money in his pocket. Not just games, but mods (eventually, because you have to take over pc gamers pc's gradually or they might call out your bullshit), which he tried to monetize before on Steam. He couldn't because the PC is too open a platform. It's also why the UI is increasingly more dumbed down and mobile. It's not about me who will mod it to be more open and accessible. It's about the dumber and dumber generations of kids who won't. I'm a lost cause and they know it. Same with the tranny propaganda. They aren't targeting older people, they are targeting kids-college students.
They don't give a fuck if we hate the mobile style OS and TPM 2.0 has been in the works a long time. The media is just so consolidated now that no one will call it out. They tried this with Win 8. Security personnel in countries were calling out their bullshit. Those dudes have been replaced by trannies by now in every country that had a big enough platform to be heard. https://www.theregister.com/2013/08/23/nsa_germany_windows_8/
Atari founder in 2008 saying TPM would end piracy. https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/encryption-chip-will-end-piracy-open-markets-says-bushnell
""There is a stealth encryption chip called a TPM that is going on the motherboards of most of the computers that are coming out now," he pointed out
"What that says is that in the games business we will be able to encrypt with an absolutely verifiable private key in the encryption world - which is uncrackable by people on the internet and by giving away passwords - which will allow for a huge market to develop in some of the areas where piracy has been a real problem."
As I said though they faced pushback on every implementation and requirement so they got people accustomed to it. First the motherboards had it available, then they put it on the MB, now they have it built into the CPU, but not turned on yet in the BIOS and next there will be no BIOS option to turn it off all in the name of "security".
Good luck trying to call it out though. Manipulated forums/astroturfing and moron will attack you. They think it's "security", when it's really control and hijacking an open platform.
Because it's an actual fucking computer that they are allowing their customers to do whatever they want with it. If people are such fucking sheep that they remove Linux and install their preferred spywareOS, that's their business. For me, valve allowing people to rip out their pre-installed OS and install their preference is not a negative, it is a positive.
I don't give a shit about TPM, I don't fucking use windows and proprietary software in general. Even now I have more open source games installed then closed-source. I literally cannot pirate 99.9% of the software I use because it is provided gratis and typically GPL or MIT licensed. If and when Linux gets corrupted, I have zero issues fleeing to the BSD's. I'm sure this will make the average idiots life worse and stealing will be harder, I couldn't give less of a fuck about that if I tried. Stop living under the boot of copyrighted and licensed intellectual property in general, instead of screaming about the boot slamming down yet again.
All consoles are basically a scam imho. The only ones that aren't would be things like the wii and switch, stuff that a computer is unable to do. Though even then, most things that one could do for a console one could make for a pc by simply creating a periphery (ala controller).