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Look, we don't even have to dig into it too deeply. DethStrand's PS4 cover features no firearm nor some dude expressing a threat in their body language. How else the dudebros going to relate to its characters or decide whether the game is for them or not?
The secret to sell more games in America: always feature a gun in the cover. You won't sell as much units otherwise.
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My MB came with one. My NVME sits at around 40-50 °C. Without the heatsink it would easily reach 60 °C
Hot take: Kojima has absolutely a point tho. His games always carry a message, which cannot be said for the 90% other mainstream releases in any given year. By message I mean Kojima wanting to teach something to the player, not just have a compelling story.My favorite thing about his comments is everyone working themselves into a frenzy over the like, most goddamn stereotypical auteur comments possible. It's like Scorsese and Marvel all over again (not that I think Kojima is on the same plane of creativity as Scorsese).
Shocking news, dude who likes making weirdo shit that tries to comment on the American military complex might have some salt over games funded by the American military complex selling better than his.
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I've played deep games and I've played shallow games and if it's not engaging to me for whatever reason, be that gameplay or story or a sum of all its parts, I'm not gonna recommend it to anybody. Having a message doesn't exempt it from criticism on how it delivers it to the player (not reader, or viewer, or anything of the sort, the player). I've not played it, I'm just saying. Even if reviewers totally missed the message, if the game wasn't compelling to them then that's that. If they find it "empty" and don't find the fun/entertainment/interest/message/engagement in surviving/defeating/whatever the open world for hours on end, well it is what it is, not anybody being too dumb to get it, too beneath its inspiring radiance, or whatever, it's all just subjective. Maybe I'll adore it when it releases on Steam, maybe I'll hate it, it could go either way with his track record. Hopefully no Kojima is God "jokes" in this one though, too cringey.
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He's probably talking about reviews like Giant Bomb and IGN, doubt he even read that Kotaku review. It seems Kojima is always in one controversy or another when it comes to the game industry, lol
The more I read about Destra, the more interesting it seems, though not as a full price title, honestly.
The community aspect seems interesting, but I also kinda hope there's a way to turn it off, would rather explore the world and build shortcuts on my own.
The community aspect seems interesting, but I also kinda hope there's a way to turn it off, would rather explore the world and build shortcuts on my own.
The problem is that Kojima is attempting to deliver that message through terrible, terrible means. His writing is at film student level. Maybe not even that.
Any recommendations for a heatsink? I plan on buying a 2TB Intel 660p and I have a Asrock Taichi X470 mobo. Are all heatsinks rather similar or is there the issue that some may not fit all drives?
By the way H games are something else.....some of them can have very simple level designs and that's not bad.
If only they allowed for more save slots though.....
H games are the future.
Im curious about this too. Ive ordered a M.2 drive so will install it this weekend, looks like my Mobo already has a heat sink attached for one of the M.2 slots. Anyone know any reason not to just use it?
Also the drive i bought is PCIe gen 3 but i think my mobo would support a gen4. Im assuming i just wont get the 4 speeds but that shouldn't really matter should it? I mean, its going to be pretty fast anyway and fine for just gaming use right?
Please be aware that this is not an attack on anyone, because I love you all but I have a minor pet peeve these days on Meta : context.
Regularly some controversy happens and people react to it here. Normal. But no one takes the time to give context as to what prompted the reaction, there is no 'summary' of the original issue. And I have to go elsewhere to get the full thing.
My point is that discussions here should be self sufficient and I shouldn't have to go elsewhere to 'get it'.
By the way and on a tangent, I'm arguing for self sufficiency, not isolation.
Regularly some controversy happens and people react to it here. Normal. But no one takes the time to give context as to what prompted the reaction, there is no 'summary' of the original issue. And I have to go elsewhere to get the full thing.
My point is that discussions here should be self sufficient and I shouldn't have to go elsewhere to 'get it'.
By the way and on a tangent, I'm arguing for self sufficiency, not isolation.
I am feeling the same way. Sometimes I feel like I am stupid or something. Suddenly a new topic is being discussed, but there is no context on the first post that started the discussion.
The 660p won't need a heatsink. Very few SSDs in very specific scenarios like high load for a long time in badly ventilated cases will overheat to a point that the performance suffers noticeably*. Just think about how much data you can transfer at full speed in a few seconds which isn't enough for the drive to heat up. The obsession with keeping everything as cool as possible despite not coming close to critical temps has gone too damn far, I say!1! Some components (like memory chips on SSDs) actually do like a certain amount of heat, being too cool while working cuts their life short, kinda like a cold car engine shouldn't be pushed too hard before warming up.
And there are lots of different heatsinks, you gotta look at your SSD and figure out what fits best, for example if it has memory chips on both sides?
*Ah, another exception are some of the newer PCIe 4.0 drives which get quite hot.
Under sustained load? 60* isn't anything to worry about.
If your 'heatsink' looks like this don't use it:
Most mobo manufacturers learned from that disaster though, so chances are it at least won't do any harm.
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Did you read the RPGCodex review of DE? It's certainly different.
In continuation of the topic touched upon on the last pages.
I'm gonna be honest, I don't think that reviewers are obligated to give any special treatment to a game which has a "message" or should inform the reader about every little reference the game has (for example, Onimusha is, very obviously, references Shakespeare or even Stoppard if we are charitable) unless there's a thematical relevance to it, fanservicy mentions akin to Psycho-Pass are nothing but a white noise.
With that being out of a way, I think there's defnitely a huge room for improvement in a creation of this kind of content. Modern video game reviews more often than not follow a blueprint full of checkboxes which renders a more creative approach to the review near impossible. How do you combat that? Honestly, I don't know. Literary and film criticism existed for centuries and had a long time to evolve into academic discipline with its own methodology. Would it be even possible with video games? How are you going to evaluate the worth of something as abstract and variable as gameplay? What's more important, gameplay, story, influence? At first glance these might be trivial questions but they haven't been answered yet.
As for Kojima's response, 2deep4you has never been a particularly good line of defence and he just comes off as a pompous asshole from JRPG threads on GFaqs.
I'm gonna be honest, I don't think that reviewers are obligated to give any special treatment to a game which has a "message" or should inform the reader about every little reference the game has (for example, Onimusha is, very obviously, references Shakespeare or even Stoppard if we are charitable) unless there's a thematical relevance to it, fanservicy mentions akin to Psycho-Pass are nothing but a white noise.
With that being out of a way, I think there's defnitely a huge room for improvement in a creation of this kind of content. Modern video game reviews more often than not follow a blueprint full of checkboxes which renders a more creative approach to the review near impossible. How do you combat that? Honestly, I don't know. Literary and film criticism existed for centuries and had a long time to evolve into academic discipline with its own methodology. Would it be even possible with video games? How are you going to evaluate the worth of something as abstract and variable as gameplay? What's more important, gameplay, story, influence? At first glance these might be trivial questions but they haven't been answered yet.
As for Kojima's response, 2deep4you has never been a particularly good line of defence and he just comes off as a pompous asshole from JRPG threads on GFaqs.
The Evo Plus starts to throttle at 83° so if that's while under heavy load it isn't too bad. If idle then you have a serious airflow issue, should be more like 40° going by this review.. But their test system doen't have a graphics card so I'd say a tad more would be fine too.
This is without heatsink lol.
Been playing DXHR-DC and man this game just keeps on going. Maybe it just feels too long because running around in the open areas took forever and the map sucks. So far, Missing Link was the best part of it. Very well designed, focused and a boss fight that isn’t terrible.
I definitely feel like games writing could use better analysis, as Samson pointed out. I don't think this means that "deeper" games should get better treatment, and this isn't even some kind of constraint. It's just about having some level of reflection, instead of providing a dreary, and boring report. I don't even feel like that's asking for a lot, unless you believe games don't have any inherent complexity that would permit analytic writing about them.
I suppose the real issue, though, is that people don't want to read anything. Just feed the hungry masses some stars and 10/10 and they're happy and content.
I suppose the real issue, though, is that people don't want to read anything. Just feed the hungry masses some stars and 10/10 and they're happy and content.
The style of videogame critique we see most is probably at least partly attributable to games being long compared to a lot of other media. If I want to hear interesting thoughts about a game I played, I rarely look up reviews. Most of the best content that really dissects a game (that I’ve come across) is released post-launch. Stuff like Errant Signal, Watch Out for Fireballs, etc. If you have to keep up with several releases per month, that’s a lot of work I imagine — assuming the site targets a relatively mainstream audience. Waypoint tends to put out solid content on the regular, but they also don’t cover everything and they’re not a huge operation either. The other major advantage of retrospectives over pre-release content other than time is also simply that you can draw from other people’s experiences, knowledge and so forth; digest that alongside your own thoughts and synthesize new insights. That kind of collective knowledge-seeking is a lot more powerful than ruminating on a game on your own.
One thing that bugs me is how easily high scores or praise in general is given out. There are a lot of games that score exceptionally well but seem like 5-7 at best. Sure, scores are largely meaningless, but I start questioning the writer’s eye for quality.
One thing that bugs me is how easily high scores or praise in general is given out. There are a lot of games that score exceptionally well but seem like 5-7 at best. Sure, scores are largely meaningless, but I start questioning the writer’s eye for quality.
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Definitely. Putting dozens of hours into a single game is a lot of work. This is why retrospective reviews are more interesting to read, they aren't wrtten under time constraints, allow more exploration and there's no pressure on the reviewer due to the hype surrounding the game, just a more relaxed experience that allows you to breathe.
Did you like LiS1?
Want to have your heart crushed?
If so, buy away. Game is great, as good as the original was, despite the dev change.
Buying little by little the parts for my new PC build. So far, I got me a Ryzen 3900x, Phanteks P600s chassis, an open box Asus ROG x570-E Gaming mobo, and a Corsair TX850 80+ Gold PSU. Just need some RAM and a CPU Cooler. I already have my 1080 Ti vid card.
As for games, been playing Lonely Mountains: Downhill. It's a bit tough to handle but I do like that it's a mixture of Descenders and Trials HD. Short impressions so far gives me that "one more try" kind of vibe.
As for games, been playing Lonely Mountains: Downhill. It's a bit tough to handle but I do like that it's a mixture of Descenders and Trials HD. Short impressions so far gives me that "one more try" kind of vibe.
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Isn’t that the same as Co-Op? Otherwise, what is Co Op?Hmm.. They forgot PvE
Hmm.. Maybe they are...
Maybe someone can enlighten me if there are differences between co-op and pve?
I need to start doing what you’re doing with parts accumulation. Are you looking for sales/deals? Or just picking up what you want, but parsing it out so it doesn’t hit your wallet at once?
Also, where? I used to live off of Newegg but there is some shadiness going on with them.
Online-PVE without co-op would just be single-player with forced online, wouldn't it?
How did you even come across this?
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they seem to be testing something ... or breaking something
it just randomly appears and disappears for me every few hours
They better not remove it like they did with the home button and then add it back againthey seem to be testing something ... or breaking something
it just randomly appears and disappears for me every few hours
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i hope not ... but they should probably make it "toggleable" for people who don't want to see itThey better not remove it like they did with the home button and then add it back again
maybe that's what they're trying to do ... who knows
It's nowhere near LiS1, but it's still a pretty good game. I'd say go for it if you enjoyed the first one.
Good intentions and artistic value aren't everything, the execution matters too. Not saying this is the case with Death Stranding (haven't played it nor watched any gameplay apart from the reveal a while ago), but something being different or weird or artsy doesn't mean it's good. Case in point: Undertale, which I think is a terrible experience gameplaywise. I get why many people like it, but I'm also not surprised that I hated it so much. Likewise, I could understand someone thinking Super Paper Mario is trash (it makes you fight 20 enemies in a row in the most boring way, and that's after you were forced to run around in a hamster wheel for 5 minutes straight), and yet I love that game to death.
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Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford in Cyberpunk confirmed,
Also, RIP Rutger Hauer.
Also, RIP Rutger Hauer.
Finished off Spec Ops: The Line.
Was a good generic 3rd person cover shooter elevated by an interesting plot. I liked it.
Was a good generic 3rd person cover shooter elevated by an interesting plot. I liked it.
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