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  • Registered Users Posts: 11,962 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    Didn't David Cage get sidelined recently after some sexual misconduct allegations?



  • Registered Users Posts: 11,962 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    What a classy gentleman. When's he joining Activision?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,029 ✭✭✭✭Jordan 199




  • Registered Users Posts: 3,157 ✭✭✭Markitron


    I wonder will it include a feature where the taxi drivers treat the staff like **** just because they buy a lot of petrol there and feel like they own the place.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,901 ✭✭✭✭Zero-Cool


    So, you definitely worked as a disgruntled petrol station employee for it to be that specific :D

    I see it's also coming to Playstation, looks like a laugh.

    In other news, EA Play is currently 1 euro for 1 month (can't stack) until end of September and you can use it for the free 10 hours of Fifa 22 if you wanted to give it a go.



  • Registered Users Posts: 3,157 ✭✭✭Markitron


    I can assure I was 100% gruntled until I had to serve them every day



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 51,816 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Or the bellends with bottom of the range BMWs or Audis kicking off with you get one drop of petrol on the paint work.

    I need to see my therapist again. I've been triggered.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,000 ✭✭✭Stone Deaf 4evr


    I hope you can level up strength by horsing 45kg bags of coal into the boot of mrs murphys car, but get a roasting for throwing them on top of her shoppping.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,000 ✭✭✭Mr Crispy




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,694 ✭✭✭sniper_samurai


    Apparently if you want to transfer your save in Death Stranding to the PS5 version you literally have to deliver it in game first.


    Bloody Kojima.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,000 ✭✭✭Mr Crispy


    So the cast for the Mario movie has been revealed...


    Quickly changing the subject before I stab myself in the temple...

    SNES curio Actraiser has received the proper remaster treatment, and is out now!




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,901 ✭✭✭✭Zero-Cool


    Mario and Luigi trying to figure out why there's going to be a new Super Mario film when the first was perfection.




  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    To be fair, Pratt has acquitted himself well in voice work for Pixar's Onward - and he's an excellent comic performer in the first place - as by and large big Hollywood names don't translate to animated, voice-only roles IMO. The choice of Pratt in the first place is totally lazy but unsurprising: you can be sure the casting department had a single piece of paper, with the names of Pratt, Reynolds and The Rock listed at the top.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,901 ✭✭✭✭Zero-Cool


    Oh it's animated, phew ok carry on.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 51,816 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Yuzo koshiro has said actraiser will have an arranged soundtrack as well an option for the original snes soundtrack.

    Also all the new music he composed for new areas have also been recorded on an actual snes.



  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,394 Mod ✭✭✭✭CatInABox


    Jesus, that new "expansion pak" tier for Nintendo Online is one of the most money grubbing things I've ever seen.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 51,816 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    True but you also have to consider the price compared to XBL and PSN, it's significantly cheaper and you get games you haven't either played 5 years ago or didn't play 5 years ago because you didn't want to play them.

    Paying to play online is still scum no matter what platform as you are essentially paying to use their platform which they advertise to you on for the privilege for something that is provided for free on PC.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,000 ✭✭✭Stone Deaf 4evr


    It never ceases to amaze me how people just brush over Nintendos shortcomings regarding networking and online management.

    for the price of entry to PSN or XBL, you've robust friends lists, gamertags, clan support, LFG, party chat, matchmaking, messaging and voice chat, across different games and platforms if you include pc,

    whereas nintendo come out with some nonsense like downloading an app to your phone or scanning barcodes or 30 digit 'friend' codes and people just give them a pass,

    its hors£hit, and not good enough in this day and age. you cant argue 'its cheaper' if its not fit for purpose to begin with.

    And waving the flag that PC is free is also pointless, given the high cost of entry / component scarcity that isnt going away anytime soon. Consoles have never been better value than the are this gen (if you can get one).



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,694 ✭✭✭sniper_samurai


    The worst is trying to charge €49.99 for a Bluetooth 3 button Mega Drive controller when Retrobit do official 6 button Bluetooth Mega Drive controllers for half that.



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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 51,816 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    But I'm not defending their online implementation. I pay for it for the old games and it's a great price for what it offers I feel. Paying for online play though is a scam no matter what the system.

    To throw it back at you it never ceases to amaze me that people are so willing to jump in and defend a corporation charging for online play when it's been free for years and continues to be free on pc. And component shortages aren't a defense as you really don't need to have the most up to date pc to play games on pc.

    Paying for online is a scam.



  • Registered Users Posts: 3,157 ✭✭✭Markitron


    Paying for online is definitely a scam, and Nintendo's scam is by far the worst.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,000 ✭✭✭Stone Deaf 4evr


    you don't need a great pc to play any of the old games, but best of luck getting something that'll run modern games at high resolution and framerate.

    I'm also not defending console manufacturers either, but its fair to say, you'll have a lot of years worth of PS plus or XBL bought by the time you've gathered the price of even a middling GPU at the moment.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 51,816 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    And why is that? Have you even got a Switch?

    It's 20 instead of the 60 asked by the other two and the price alone is worth it for me for the access to the library of games they give you. The tetris, mario and pac man games have been great as well. It's a third of the price of the other two.

    Not saying it's great but for me at least it has a hook and is cheap enough for me to begrudgingly pay for it whereas the other two I'm perfectly ok not to subscribe.

    As someone that spent a lot of money on a new PC, there's not a whole lot to actually justify one of the new GPUs. I'd have been perfectly happy with my old rig. You really don't need a monster PC to run games are reasonable graphical settings either.

    You are also ignoring all the savings you make on cheaper games and the wealth of freebies on PC as well as the fact that a PC isn't just for games.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,000 ✭✭✭Stone Deaf 4evr


    keep moving the goalposts along, whether or not you're happy with playing stuff at 1080p or not is irrelevant, if you can buy a much cheaper console that'll do upscaled 4k, straight out of the box for €299, and comes with a €70 controller and doesn't need any additional peripherals to get up and going.

    The consoles' digital storefronts have sales as often as PC does at this stage, I'm not as Au-fait with Sony, but XBL are giving away 4 games a month (most of which are the same as have been given away on consoles) and then you've gamepass added into the mix, which gives you access to a crazy amount of titles on xbox, pc, and mobile, as well as remote play with cross save / progression, and discounts on buying those games if you like them.

    The Mad thing is, over the last 2 years, I've become a primarily PC gamer, and one thing it most certainly isn't, is cheap. But its allowing me to have unique experiences like Escape from Tarkov.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 51,816 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Well I agree that the current consoles represent good value for money considering the tech inside them but it's not always been like that. Plenty of times in the last 15 years when a decent PC was a better choice and online subscriptions were a lot tougher to swallow.



  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,100 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion



    PC gaming certainly can be cheap outside of the PC itself. Xbox game pass works on PC. Games usually release a bit cheaper on PC and get discounted heavily enough pretty quickly. Then you have Epic giving away games every week. No ongoing costs for online services. The expensive part of PC gaming is the PC itself and that is pretty recent thanks to the hardware shortages. Even about 12 months ago, I was looking at gaming PCs for someone and you could get a prebuilt PC (I think it was from AWD) with a Ryzen 3600, 8GBs RAM, SSD and 8GB 580 for about €650 I think.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,000 ✭✭✭Stone Deaf 4evr



    did it come with a keyboard / mouse / mousepad / speakers /monitor? - these are often left out when comparing one with the other - whereas everyone has a TV for a console to hook up to. Specially the monitor, if you've a high spec PC, no point in skimping on a monitor.

    I'm not being deliberately argumentative tbh - its just worth giving both sides a fair appraisal.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 51,816 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    That kind of stuff carries over from build to build. You only really take that into account if you need them. You can do without speakers with a decent headset which can be used on console.

    I do need a monitor myself but I'd had my current 3440x1440 one for years while the consoles were struggling with yo get a stable 30 fps on at 720p. You also need a new 4K TV to get the most out of a new console.



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  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,100 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    There was a bundle you could get that included a keyboard and mouse for about £20 if I remember right. I can't remember if that was included in that price above. He was just going to use it hooked up to a TV so didn't need a monitor and speakers.

    PC gaming can be expensive but it can be relatively cheap (outside of the current parts shortage of course). You don't need a high end monitor for PC gaming or a high spec PC. Saying PC gaming is expensive because you may as well get a high end monitor is like saying console gaming is expensive because you might as well buy a 65" 4k 120Hz TV and a few Xbox Elite controllers.



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