General gaming discussion

Newish on the consoles, but you have been able to play them on your phone for a fair while. I Think about 100 games work from the cloud.

You can use your Xbox one too. And it will stream the Series X version. All the cloud games run on series X servers.

I got a little clip for the controller and slot the phone into it to play in bed.

The cloud is really handy if you just want to jump in and see if a game suits. I had about an hour spare one night. Wanted to play Halo and it would have taken most of my hour to get it downloaded.

Stuck on the cloud and played it on the series X. Then after an hour I liked it so just hit download before heading to bed.

It's surprisingly good. I've always hated mobile gaming so always had a block against it. But played most of RE8 on my phone on Sunday mornings.

The original game? I really enjoyed it. It really picks up in the later episodes and the ending to it was a total sucker punch. I have LiS 2 and I have tried several times to get stuck into it and I can't work up the same enthusiasm for it..

Loved Life is Strange 1. Nice easy going on eps 1 & 2 and really ramps up for 3-5, loved the whole thing. Lis 2 was a strange one. Loved ep 1, liked 2, hated 3 to the point i gave up until i was urged to go back and then ep 4 and 5 were just brilliant. Series not for everyone but an absolute joy for those who click with it.

EA Motive had another Dead Space dev stream on Friday. Focusing on audio this time.

I think these are brilliant, for anyone into gaming it gives an insight into how insanely difficult games are to make. It shows the amount of work that goes into something like this and it's only a fraction of the end experience.

The directional audio one is really interesting, how they block or muffle audio based on the surface it's behind. Or how they move audio down a corridor and around a corner.

Here it is but It's worth checking them all out.

From that demo is looks like it could really throw you off. Sound coming from a room on the right is now blocked by the big steal doors but reflects off the surface so it can travel down a corridor and appears to come from the left.

No, I think it will actually help you track the sound better - the sound now guides towards the event that causes it, which is better from the realism and immersion point of view.

Oh it's a given, but yeah, years away. They said they will return but are working on something else first. It's a definite win for them when they do, both Subnauticas were excellent, and with advances in 3D audio, and hopefully full haptic integration, it would be a GOTY contender before it releases. Just seeing what others are doing with their games and what is yet to come, I see a current gen Subnautica being amazing. Yes, I'm hyping it up too much and it's not even on the drawing board yet, but my god I miss it and want a lot more of it.