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    #5462
    marcbrophy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,432 ✭✭✭marcbrophy


    That freedom mode looks interesting pal!
    I love the exploration side of these kinda games, but hate the survival side :D


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    #5463
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users Posts: 13,834 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    Zero-Cool wrote: »
    Just booted it up and there's 4 modes
    1- survival - scavenge, manage hunger and thirst
    2 - freedom - like survival without hunger and thirst
    3 - hardcore - survival but you have only one life
    4 - creative - no hunger, thirst, death or story.

    So is Freedom the mode you're looking for? Maybe that was added after release?

    Ah crap! I'm pretty sure that was an option when I started too, must have not copped it. Might start it again so on the 5 and choose that. The hunger/thirst at the start wasn't too bad but it becomes a chore after a while, especially after getting a certain knife.


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    #5464
    ahnowbrowncow
    Registered Users Posts: 2,565 ✭✭✭ahnowbrowncow


    I wasn't too bothered about getting a PS5 or xbox sx, I decided I'd just build a new PC instead.

    Can't do that either now because the recently released PC products are suffering from the same problem, scalpers buying all of the supply and ripping everyone off.

    Do people have more disposable time/money because of covid, or is supply more limited than ever before or what's causing these shortages? Can't remember anything like it.


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    #5465
    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 25,101 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    ahnowbrowncow wrote: »
    I wasn't too bothered about getting a PS5 or xbox sx, I decided I'd just build a new PC instead.

    Can't do that either now because the recently released PC products are suffering from the same problem, scalpers buying all of the supply and ripping everyone off.

    Do people have more time/disposable money because of covid, or is supply more limited than ever before or what's causing this?

    It's a bit of everything.
    • Supply chains are slowed and disrupted.
    • AMD are also making the parts for the XBox S/X and the PS5, which consumes their capacity.
    • Scalpers went crazy on these releases.


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    #5466
    ironictoaster
    Registered Users Posts: 4,115 ✭✭✭ironictoaster


    Terrible time to be a "gamer" right now as much as I hate that word. Next gen consoles are like gold dust and the queue updates for the chance to buy a Nvidia 30 series card in the pc building forum breaks my heart


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    #5467
    quokula
    Registered Users Posts: 3,574 ✭✭✭quokula


    I managed to pick up a PS5, Series X and a PC which included an RTX 3080 in the last few weeks. Didn't do anything special, just went to retailers websites at the time orders opened for each item - Smyths for the PS5, Microsoft for the Xbox and PCSpecialist for the PC. The consoles came on release day, the PC came on an unspecified date several weeks after the 3080 launch, but it was actually pretty similar to the time between preorder and arrival for the consoles.

    Without lockdown boredom / savings I wouldn't have bothered with the PC, but I was able to justify it to myself as a WFH expense as I am using it for work. Barely used it for any games, just a bit of Flight Simulator and some Crusader Kings, as inevitably anything that is also available on console is 10 times better when playing on the couch in front of a big tv.


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    #5468
    gimli2112
    Registered Users Posts: 13,407 ✭✭✭✭gimli2112


    Phantom has arrived at the acceptance stage having already travelled through anger, denial and bargaining. He can now move on with life.


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    #5469
    Greyfox
    Registered Users Posts: 3,727 ✭✭✭Greyfox


    ironictoaster wrote: »
    Terrible time to be a "gamer" right now as much as I hate that word. Next gen consoles are like gold dust and the queue updates for the chance to buy a Nvidia 30 series card in the pc building forum breaks my heart

    Its not really though, next gen wont get going till next year anyway.


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    #5470
    Jordan 199
    Registered Users Posts: 11,724 ✭✭✭✭Jordan 199


    I'm started playing Ass Creed Rogue yesterday. I like the snowy landscapes (so far) and the ship crew singing shanties. I'll drink rum the next time I'll play it.


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    #5471
    J. Marston
    Registered Users Posts: 23,115 ✭✭✭✭J. Marston


    Fortnite gets some wild cameos...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp5kgIGJ72Y


    Kratos with an assault rifle. Weird.


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    #5472
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users Posts: 13,834 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    They couldn't have picked a worse game for Kratos. He doesn't suit the Fortnite scene, as noted above he just doesn't look right with a gun. It also hurts a little every time I see him do one of those stupid dances....


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    #5473
    Varik
    Registered Users Posts: 12,502 ✭✭✭✭Varik


    Spear wrote: »
    It's a bit of everything.
    • Supply chains are slowed and disrupted.
    • AMD are also making the parts for the XBox S/X and the PS5, which consumes their capacity.
    • Scalpers went crazy on these releases.

    AMD don't manufacture their own stuff.


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    #5474
    ZiabR
    Registered Users Posts: 5,575 ✭✭✭ZiabR


    Varik wrote: »
    AMD don't manufacture their own stuff.

    You know that they mean though. Irrespective of whether they manufacturer their own chips or not, their point is still valid. Global production has been limited this year for obvious reasons.


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    #5475
    gimli2112
    Registered Users Posts: 13,407 ✭✭✭✭gimli2112


    Potential-Monke wrote: »
    They couldn't have picked a worse game for Kratos. He doesn't suit the Fortnite scene, as noted above he just doesn't look right with a gun. It also hurts a little every time I see him do one of those stupid dances....

    He was in everybody's golf world tour and didn't look out of place. I won a G0 tournement online with him handicapped with a mandatory traditional swing.

    If he didn't look out of place playing golf, I'm sure he'll be fine shooting the Fotnite toons


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    #5476
    ahnowbrowncow
    Registered Users Posts: 2,565 ✭✭✭ahnowbrowncow


    ZiabR wrote: »
    You know that they mean though. Irrespective of whether they manufacturer their own chips or not, their point is still valid. Global production has been limited this year for obvious reasons.

    Has there been any decrease in production though? I think demand for these products has just gone through the roof.

    Amd and Nvidia's suppliers can't make enough chips for them.

    Even puppy prices have went crazy, if you can find them. This to me just points to a huge surge in demand due to people working from home and distance learning.


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    #5477
    J. Marston
    Registered Users Posts: 23,115 ✭✭✭✭J. Marston


    Potential-Monke wrote: »
    They couldn't have picked a worse game for Kratos. He doesn't suit the Fortnite scene, as noted above he just doesn't look right with a gun. It also hurts a little every time I see him do one of those stupid dances....

    Close your heart to it, boy.


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    #5478
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 35,941 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Playing the lauded CrossCode, and yeah the old school, Chrono Trigger feel is strong with this one. Two things strike me though...

    1. the shock this was built entirely in JavaScript; that's quite astonishing they pulled so much from it.
    2. I am done with lazy f*cking tutorial sections at the start. Oh hey, your abilities aren't working, let's go through a bazillion learner tasks. Well done you pressed B!


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    #5479
    The Raging Bile Duct
    Registered Users Posts: 2,087 ✭✭✭The Raging Bile Duct


    The Phantom Pain wrote: »
    Wrong pronoun btw :rolleyes:

    Boom... Mind blown!!!


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    #5480
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,162 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    Been playing a lot of Spiritfarer - not something you can finish quickly or easily, it seems! Started it hoping it’d be a nice, contained, narrative-led game, but by god it’s a sprawling one!

    I do like it a lot overall - it’s perhaps the freshest take on a Metroidvania I can remember (not the best - that’d be Hollow Knight - just the most ambitious). But it’s that and a resource management / community management / settlement builder game as well. It has this really strange pace where you’re constantly busy, with dozens of moving pieces at any given time. There’s a mind-melting variety of resources to collect and use in a bunch of different ways. So it’s total, relentless busywork, but in a way that has this particular sense of focus and constant goals / upgrades to work towards. The balance feels a bit off - there’s been a few stretches when progress has kind of ground to a halt for me until I pulled a bunch of resources together. And sometimes the triggers for actual story progress seem a tad messy and arbitrary. But I do like the flow when you have a particular sense of purpose and a couple of different goals to work towards.

    It looks and sounds great - like an animated film in motion - although the story has left me a tad cold (mainly because it can feel like ages between each chunk of story). But it’s an interesting game that does some familiar things in an admirably different way... just don’t expect to polish it off in a weekend :pac:


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    #5481
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,869 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Following on from Sakuna: of Rice and Ruin, in the latest news of amazing games the mainstream press are ignoring, Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate released on Steam and the Switch during the week.

    Been waiting on a Shiren game to hit steam for ages. Shiren is a rogue-like game. It's part of the mystery dungeon series which pretty much every modern rogue-like is based off of. It was originally released in the west as one of the last Vita games so got criminally ignored. Hoping this release does a lot better. I've only played a little bit of this but previous Shiren games have been incredible and are probably the best rogue-like games that sticks to more traditional rogue gameplay and are far ahead of others in terms of their design and ideas.

    https://store.steampowered.com/app/1178790/Shiren_the_Wanderer_The_Tower_of_Fortune_and_the_Dice_of_Fate/
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    #5482
    Gunmonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 4,067 ✭✭✭Gunmonkey


    Good chance Shiren will fly under the radar as I've been anticipating it coming out and hadn't realised it already had!

    Now all I need is someone to remaster Azure Dreams and can die a happy man...oh wait, no thats from Konami.......sigh *grabs pachinko balls*


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    #5483
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,869 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    I think Shiren is a good stepping stone for people unsure about rogue games and want to give one a try. It's got a huge amount of complexity and systems but is still far more accessible than going in cold to something like Nethack.
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    #5484
    copperspock
    Registered Users Posts: 222 ✭✭copperspock


    Potential-Monke wrote: »
    The problem with a modern show, as noted, is that it's all available online now anyway, and a tv show wouldn't have anything new to show, because it would already have been leaked or shown online. When we were young and GamesMaster and the other shows were out, it was during a time where internet access was still limited, so was possibly the only source of information outside of magazines, and seeing a game in action is better than seeing screenshots in a magazine.

    But I agree also that it shouldn't be aimed solely at kids, because a: the average age of a gamer now is mid-30's, and b: it results in a lot of games not allowed to be shown because of age ratings. I think there's definitely a market for a good, comedy driven competition/review panel type show. I would be behind Dara hosting it, as he's a genuine gamer with a genuine interest in it, but he will need a good team behind him and bosses/producers that know about the medium, otherwise it's just setting itself up to fail.

    No issue with a game show aimed at kids though, but I can't see it lasting tbh.

    Something like No Clip could work. Docs on the making of games/successes of popular dev companies.


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    #5485
    _Godot_
    Registered Users Posts: 877 ✭✭✭_Godot_


    quokula wrote: »
    Gamesmaster was for kids, and people remember it fondly because they were kids when they watched it. I'm not sure it's necessarily wildly better than more recent content, though it did benefit from strong presenters. The thing is, at that time, that age group was the primary market for games. There are of course still many games for kids and stuff like Minecraft and Fortnite are huge for that reason and there's still plenty of room for games shows for kids. But to a large extent the industry has grown up over the last couple of decades, while the perception of it from TV shows hasn't.

    VideoGaiden was excellent by the way, good call on that, I'd forgotten they'd done that show for BBC.

    Still love their God Hand review.


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    #5486
    Robert ninja
    Registered Users Posts: 3,878 ✭✭✭Robert ninja


    _Godot_ wrote: »
    Still love their God Hand review.

    I recently replayed that. Super hard but "I love it!". Actually got into the high-rollers casino. Was disappointing lol.


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    #5487
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,869 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    In another update in awesome games that the mainstream press are ignoring:

    I know, I know, I won't shut up about how great Ace Combat 7 is. I'll stop.

    Project Wingman however is an Ace Combat game made by Ace Combat fans that is borderline plagiarism. Which is a good thing because AC is awesome and they absolutely nailed it.

    So for a good bit less than half the price of AC7 what do you get? A full campaign that is pretty great so far. Great graphics that aren't quite as good as AC7 but pretty damn close. A great soundtrack. Cheeseball story.

    But you also get a full Rogue like mode. And on top of that the entire thing can be played in stomach churning VR. The VR mode is so good in this game that I'd recommend this to anyone with a VR headset.

    It's a bargain considering what you are getting.
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    #5488
    Jordan 199
    Registered Users Posts: 11,724 ✭✭✭✭Jordan 199


    Everybody should have a copy of Ace Combat 7.


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    #5489
    JimBurnley
    Registered Users Posts: 1,590 ✭✭✭JimBurnley


    Jordan 199 wrote: »
    Everybody should have a copy of Ace Combat 7.

    Makes a great drinks mat


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