General Arcade and Retro Chat - Insert Coin -

o1s1n

Oh really? But what is Anita Sarkeesian meant to complain about? :pac:

WiiU aside, I've still yet to buy a console from the current gen. Feels like I'm missing out on a tonne.

CiDeRmAn

Rez Infinite looks great on a normal HD display, though no more great than Rez HD a few years ago on the 360.
Some of the reviews of the PS VR seem pretty good, as long as you don't mind the resolution and the apparently awful motion tracking.

DinoRex

My PSVR should be arriving tomorrow.

Looking forward to my new life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5wvWuGBLMA

Doge

After going to the demo in Dublin, I decided the resolution is too poor for me to invest in one.

The rep looking after me was so busy chatting to other staff I was playing it for over a half an hour on my own helping myself to the dualshock 4 for other games! :pac:

Graphics can look a bit PS2 and even PS1ish at times, they were awful in the VR Luge demo, and controlling your direction by tilting your head felt very gimmicky and kinnectish. I would much have preferred to use an analog stick for that demo.

When I was playing Eve Valkriye it took me a few minutes to realise there was numbers over the enemy ships they were that illegible.

Resolution aside though, it was a lot of fun.

The london heist demo and Battlezone stuck out as the best interactive demos for me.

The immersion made you feel like you were a bad ass gangster in a movie in London Heist. Reaching out with your hands to pick up magazines on the dashboard felt amazing, and having to load the uzi yourself was much more satisfying than pressing a button.

I played Rigs for a while too, but it was very hard to get used to the controls.
Even that aside, it just didnt seem like that fun a game, something like unreal tournament in VR at a slower pace would be insanely fun I reckon.

So in a nuthsell, Its fun but I can see people tiring of the low resolution pretty quickly. Wether the PS Pro will solve that issue, I do not know.

Doge

I wanna kidnap this dude, and lock him inside my Megadrive!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbY2QiJ3lus

Retr0gamer

o1s1n wrote: »

Oh really? But what is Anita Sarkeesian meant to complain about? :pac:

WiiU aside, I've still yet to buy a console from the current gen. Feels like I'm missing out on a tonne.

Honestly I'd invest in a PC. All Xbix one exclusives are coming to PC and the PS4 outside of bloodbourne has failed to deliver a must own exclusive (bloodbourne however is worth the price of a PS4). I'd pick up a PS4 down the line as it will eventually get some good games exclusive to the platform but even japanese companies are embracing PC big time. We just got chapter 4 of higurashi and dodonpachi resurrection on the same day last week.

CiDeRmAn

Looking at the PS4 and XB1, they cost €700, roughly, combined.
Factor in 2nd controllers and the high cost of new software, really a PC has a better software library that will never be left behind in the previous gen.
If I was of a mind to buy just one games platform, outside of Nintendo, it would be a PC.

Doge

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Looking at the PS4 and XB1, they cost €700, roughly, combined.
Factor in 2nd controllers and the high cost of new software, really a PC has a better software library that will never be left behind in the previous gen.
If I was of a mind to buy just one games platform, outside of Nintendo, it would be a PC.

Makes even more sense now that all the Xbox exclusives are coming out on PC.

Edit.: it was already mentioned! My bad.

the groutch

Doge wrote: »

I wanna kidnap this dude, and lock him inside my Megadrive!

tbh, I think he goes a bit too overboard with the sound effects

Doge

the groutch wrote: »

tbh, I think he goes a bit too overboard with the sound effects

Ah thats half the skill, in being able to change between the sound effects and melody so quickly!

Edward Hopper

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Looking at the PS4 and XB1, they cost €700, roughly, combined.
Factor in 2nd controllers and the high cost of new software, really a PC has a better software library that will never be left behind in the previous gen.
If I was of a mind to buy just one games platform, outside of Nintendo, it would be a PC.

I'd like to get a pc for gaming but it's all a bit confusing. That's why I end up buying a console or shuffling back to my reassuringly familiar 8-bit computer.

CiDeRmAn

I think PC gaming is a different beast these days.
With Steam and a compatible video card playing a game is pretty simple and a lot cheaper on the format.
I'm not a PC gamer btw, but it really does seem like a future proof system.
Consoles suck that little bit more now too, with the great advantage for a games player being, if you bought a 360 you were set up for the next 6 years, while PC owners seemed intent on updating their video hardware more often, costing more.
Well, console owners need not feel left out, as mid generation refreshed consoles means, to stay on the best hardware, you're going to have to reinvest in another console.
Fewer and fewer reasons to buy into consoles.... Aside from Nintendo.... Natch...

DinoRex

Yeah. Both Steam and Gog are very good systems. No real messing around to get a game running these days.

It's why it's so maddening why Microsoft have wheeled out such a terrible product with their Store.

johnny_ultimate

I hate to say it because I in principle really admire Microsoft's strategy of putting all their exclusives on PC, but currently the system just doesn't work. Paying pretty ridiculous premium prices (a good €10-20 above even higher tier releases on other stores) for a vastly inferior service to Steam, Humble, GoG etc... just isn't something I'm inclined to do. Hopefully they see a bit of sense, because they're slowly building up an unimaginative but nonetheless high-quality line-up of games.

Retr0gamer

UWP that they are pushing as well flies in the face of everything that makes the PC good. No bizarre set ups like SLI supported, no low level access to hardware, no mods, no user made content. While the consoles are becoming really awful attempts to emulate PC gaming MS seem to be trying their hardest to close off the open ended nature of PC software development just so they can emulate the Apple model.

Star Lord

Someone remaking Castlevania in Unreal Engine 4:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mONE-71l3Xg

CiDeRmAn

Hoping to pick up a PS TV in the coming days.
I only want it so I can play the fantastic TxK, which I already own for the Vita, reckon it'll look great on the big screen.
Only problem is I don't think I can get my Vita catalogue onto it via PSN without updating away the ability to load games that work but officially are off the cards.

CiDeRmAn

So...
The NX is being revealed today.... at 3pm... Finally...

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

So...
The NX is being revealed today.... at 3pm... Finally...

DinoRex

Not sure PSVR is for me.

3 days after using it and I've still got a headache.

Hopefully it's an unrelated headache, as I do actually really like PSVR.

CiDeRmAn

DinoRex wrote: »

Not sure PSVR is for me.

3 days after using it and I've still got a headache.

Hopefully it's an unrelated headache, as I do actually really like PSVR.

I'll give a copy of Rise of the Robots and a preowned bag of smokey bacon Tayto for it!

Steve X2

It’s worth mentioning for those that don’t follow these things, but the requirements for the Oculus Rift have significantly dropped since the start of the month due to a new technique they can use to improve performance on lower end cards (asychronous spacewarp). All you really need to hit now is 45fps, rather than 90fps. It creates a synthetic frame when your PC can’t hit the required fps and inserts it.

It’s actually a really clever way of doing things, but it still wouldn’t be as good as graphics card hitting the true 90fps, but very close. I think the main plus point is a lot of people are going to have the minimum requirements to actually get a Rift now, rather than looking at the price of the Rift+new graphics/CPU etc.

The min specs are now a Nvidia 960 or AMD 470 with an i3 processor, quite a drop, so quite a price drop as well if you need to upgrade and don’t want to spend a fortune getting a Nvidia 1080.

Retr0gamer

Really looking forward to the NX reveal today but annoyed I'll be in work for all the excitement.

I'm hoping for something bonkers like the DS and Wii were. Nintendo can't really compete with the PS4/Xbox One. There's a really ignorant and quite frankly wrong preception that Nintendo only recycle the same ideas and IP over and over and weird tribalism around the Sony and MS machines at the moment that is kind of scary and there's no place for Nintendo to slot in.

I hope the price is low enough to compete as well but I fear Nintendo won't low ball the price especially if the device comes with some form of screen.

Andrew76

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Really looking forward to the NX reveal today but annoyed I'll be in work for all the excitement.

I'm hoping for something bonkers like the DS and Wii were. Nintendo can't really compete with the PS4/Xbox One. There's a really ignorant and quite frankly wrong preception that Nintendo only recycle the same ideas and IP over and over and weird tribalism around the Sony and MS machines at the moment that is kind of scary and there's no place for Nintendo to slot in.

I hope the price is low enough to compete as well but I fear Nintendo won't low ball the price especially if the device comes with some form of screen.

Head on over to the Nintendo forum where we've all lost the plot today with the announcement reveal. :pac:

Also, work from home, it's great. Mostly. :cool:

DinoRex

Bunch of new Breath of Wild footage just leaked. Looks better quality than what has been seen before so is probably NX footage.

Andrew76

For anyone not over on the Ninty forum - Nintendo Switch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5uik5fgIaI

I'm impressed!

o1s1n

I'm really taken aback by how sleek it looks. It's not something I've really ever associated with Nintendo. Looks the business and I need one this instant

CiDeRmAn

List of must have games for the Nintendo Switch...

Rise of the Robots
Legend of Zelda: CDi legacy edition
Superman 64 sequel
No Man's Sky: Still Broken
Tingle's Rosey Rupee Vasectomy Simulator
Duke Nukem Forever

Mr.Saturn

Looking forward to Christmas 2019 when Switch actually has a roster of software.

Looks incredibly new and fun and seamless.

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

List of must have games for the Nintendo Switch...

Rise of the Robots
Legend of Zelda: CDi legacy edition
Superman 64 sequel
No Man's Sky: Still Broken
Tingle's Rosey Rupee Vasectomy Simulator
Duke Nukem Forever

Don't forget
Burn Cycle
Farmville
Ride to Hell 2 Electric Boogaloo
Seaman
Another David Cage game to play David Cage bingo with