Gaming The RedCafe General/Random Gaming Chat Thread

Ødegaard said:
Pcsx2 in my experience.
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Seconded. It's the only one you'll ever need, with the AA options making some of the oldest PS2 games look like decent PS3 games. Couldn't believe the difference it made on THPS3.

The Bloody-Nine said:
What's a good strategy game option? I really liked the XCOM series but hated Gran Turismo 5.
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Crusader Kings II/Europa Universalis IV :drool:
 
Just got Doom 3 and the Ressurrection of Evil expansion from a charity shop for a quid each. I don't remember ever playing a Doom game before (properly), so should be fun to give it a go.
 
Finished the final DLC for Dark Souls 3. The areas were brutally difficult but fortunately the bosses weren't too bad. Tough but not absurd. The final boss fight was fantastic, one of my favourites in all of Dark Souls I think, really enjoyed it. Bloodborne and all 3 Dark Souls + all DLC completed back to back, I never thought I'd pull it off. I've already dusted off the old PS3, did the latest system update and installed Demon's Souls. I can't help it, I need to complete the set now. :lol::nervous:

Shame they took those servers down though. I don't summon but I'll miss the messages.
 
Ainu said:
Finished the final DLC for Dark Souls 3. The areas were brutally difficult but fortunately the bosses weren't too bad. Tough but not absurd. The final boss fight was fantastic, one of my favourites in all of Dark Souls I think, really enjoyed it. Bloodborne and all 3 Dark Souls + all DLC completed back to back, I never thought I'd pull it off. I've already dusted off the old PS3, did the latest system update and installed Demon's Souls. I can't help it, I need to complete the set now. :lol::nervous:

Shame they took those servers down though. I don't summon but I'll miss the messages.
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Demon's is my favourite of the series (I played it first). Sucks that you won't get to experience The Old Monk like you should.
 
Lootboxes and similar Gambling mechanics in games are slowly coming under some heavy scrutiny by various governments. It's all getting rather interesting this, and the fact that it's all EA's fault and due to their pure greed a light is being shone on this side of gaming makes it all the more satisfying.



 
ArmandTamzarian said:
Lootboxes and similar Gambling mechanics in games are slowly coming under some heavy scrutiny by various governments. It's all getting rather interesting this, and the fact that it's all EA's fault and due to their pure greed a light is being shone on this side of gaming makes it all the more satisfying.



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There is simply too much money being made by these companies for them to be stopped engaging in this.

From Fifa 17's FUT, EA made $700 million in microtransactions. You can assume that rose for Fifa 18. That's almost a billion dollars before even accounting for the 24 million sales of the game across all platforms. That's one mode from one game from their entire catalogue.

Blizzard Activision made $7.16 billion in profit in 2017. Over $4 billion of that was directly attributed to microtransactions.

It's nice that governments are looking at it but the most it will result in is maybe slightly more prominent warnings of the practices used in the games. There will be no Europe-wide banning of them. I bet Belgium will even backdown eventually.
 
Is it possible to use emulators on a Nintendo 3DS (particularly snes, mega drive, game boy advance?) and is there any reliable guides on how to go about it (that is n00b friendly)?

I only seem to be able to find 3DS emulators for PC, so perhaps I'm not searching for the right thing.
 
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-10-22-ccp-ceo-you-cant-build-a-business-on-current-vr


The company had become something of a poster child for virtual reality with Eve: Valkyrie, a space dogfighting spin-off of its hugely popular MMO.

But last October, the firm announced it was shutting down its Atlanta studio and selling the Newcastle team behind Valkyrie, effectively exiting the virtual reality business.

"We expected VR to be two to three times as big as it was, period," Pétursson said. "You can't build a business on that."

"If it does take off - and I mean if - we'll reassess," he said. "The important thing is we need to see the metrics for active users of VR. A lot of people bought headsets just to try it out. How many of those people are active? We found that in terms of our data, a lot of users weren't.
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They're not cheap enough," he said of the headsets now on the market. "They don't work well enough, you don't have enough good control systems, you can't see your arms and your legs in most of them and use them in an interactive way, there's not a lot of content."

Riccitiello went on to mention that the main audience for current VR hardware is the enterprise market, and that none of the available headsets amounts to a "consumer launch" for VR.
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Iribe is leaving Facebook following some internal shake-ups at the company’s virtual reality arm last week that saw the cancellation of the company’s next generation “Rift 2” PC-powered virtual reality headset which he had been leading development of, a source close to the matter tell TechCrunch. Iribe and the Facebook executive team had “fundamentally different views on the future of Oculus that grew deeper over time” and Iribe wasn’t interested in a “race to the bottom” in terms of performance, we are told.
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https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/22/o...acebook-after-cancellation-of-rift-2-headset/

Bizarre little rant eh @Redlambs.

If oculus 2 is cancelled then you may as well give up on VR. I don’t think HTC will continue considering the losses they making. AR will probably end up overtaking it.
 
I sold my rift recently. A real shame, as I did enjoy it, but it just wasn't quite there. I knew this would happen before I bought it, but I thought, naively, I'd try to be part of the solution - Try & show them that the market interest is there in my own little way, and hopefully it'll keep on moving forward & progressing to the point where I'd be able to play the games I want in a proper VR environment.

Sad.
 
Bojan11 said:
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-10-22-ccp-ceo-you-cant-build-a-business-on-current-vr









https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/22/o...acebook-after-cancellation-of-rift-2-headset/

Bizarre little rant eh @Redlambs.

If oculus 2 is cancelled then you may as well give up on VR. I don’t think HTC will continue considering the losses they making. AR will probably end up overtaking it.
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Not really, this sort of thing was expected. VR isn't going away just yet, Sony are still debating what to do next, but PC VR was always too expensive. This is why I continually said on here the PSVR is excellent, but only if you can afford to have it for what it is. And there are some seriously good stuff on there, but the cost and practicality was always going to limit it.

On that though, the control issue and power this guy is talking about is a bit strange. That's up to the developer to sort out how to use best, and did EVE actually play like a game people wanted to play for long periods? I don't know, but releasing a full priced game like that early on and expecting to live off the userbase continuing to play is certainly something I wouldn't have done.
 
Redlambs said:
Not really, this sort of thing was expected. VR isn't going away just yet, Sony are still debating what to do next, but PC VR was always too expensive. This is why I continually said on here the PSVR is excellent, but only if you can afford to have it for what it is. And there are some seriously good stuff on there, but the cost and practicality was always going to limit it.

On that though, the control issue and power this guy is talking about is a bit strange. That's up to the developer to sort out how to use best, and did EVE actually play like a game people wanted to play for long periods? I don't know, but releasing a full priced game like that early on and expecting to live off the userbase continuing to play is certainly something I wouldn't have done.
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But do you think when the new consoles come out will VR even be a talking point?

I don’t think MS will do much as they been more into AR. Sony might give it one more push.

I just don’t see it personally as a long term thing unless they manage to lose all the wires and cable that come with the headset.
 
Bojan11 said:
But do you think when the new consoles come out will VR even be a talking point?
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Is it now?

I just think some want to class it in the same category as the shite Kinect and 3D tvs, when in fact it's nothing of the sort. One was forced on people buying consoles, the other was heavily pushed as the next big thing and dominated tv manufacturing for a while. Both were heavily pushed as major talking points for selling shit. VR was always a side option and a rather excellent one if you could afford it.


I don’t think MS will do much as they been more into AR. Sony might give it one more push.

I just don’t see it personally as a long term thing unless they manage to lose all the wires and cable that come with the headset.
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MS were never interested themselves, they waited to see how the Rift would do. Sony keep going in between, I think they'll definitely do something for next gen but whether it's a new headset completely I have my doubts. As for the wire issue I'm not sure how close anyone is to figuring out a decent way to work it and keep the cost even at current level, though it's hardly the biggest issue with VR being workable to the masses and most would not have any kind of space and set up for Room VR anyway. My PSVR is still being used nearly every day by myself, GF or one of the kids, it's an excellent piece of kit with some decent stuff people are missing out on. However, it doesn't come close to matching the ease of use of the PS4, Switch or PC which is why it won't be a main choice any time soon.
 
PC version of Disgaea 5 is meant to be lacking some features as well as suffering from some pretty big port issues for a number of owners. A damn shame.
 
Anyone watching the WCS finals? There's a westerner in the final for the first time in Starcraft history, and he goes into it as the favourite.
 
People lap that shit up though.

"Oh it's ok that there's a massive download to update, that's what all games do!"

"Oh it doesn't matter that the Spiderman game is cut short and we already know the rest is being sold to us, because weeeeee!!!!"

"Oh it doesn't matter that RDR2 controls like a drunk man with the aim of a baby because realism!!!".



Ok, scratch that last one, cowboys were really like that. However I refuse to believe horses were ever that dumb :(
 
Never played HL, always wondered what the buzz was about.. will probably never know. I expect it being more nostalgia to most than anything else.
 
Both are still good games for me.

But yeah, Steam sale tonight. Will be keeping an eye out for some nakige games I don't already own, but besides that, I think I'll mostly be sticking with what I have & waiting for Artifact next week :D Then just blow a lot in the winter sale where things should be slightly cheaper.
 
One Night Only said:
Never played HL, always wondered what the buzz was about.. will probably never know. I expect it being more nostalgia to most than anything else.
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It still has far better level design as most modern shooters. That's not nostalgia. Well, at least until you get to Xen. It's absolutely worth playing, even in 2018.
 
Ainu said:
It still has far better level design as most modern shooters. That's not nostalgia. Well, at least until you get to Xen. It's absolutely worth playing, even in 2018.
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Agreed. Modern FPS games tend to go for the cinematic too much (as perfectly illustrated in this video I saw recently):

(Maybe I'm just a sucker for that PS2 era MoH hype).

Anyway, Steam sale actually started today...

Danganronpa V3 still £25? Pass...
STEINS;GATE 0 & the Zero Escape games not on offer? Shame...
Muv-Luv 40% off? Tempting...
Valkyria Chronicles 4 half price? Already? Tempting! (But probably an xmas sale deal)...

"G-senjou no Maou", "The Fruit of Grisaia" and "The House in Fata Morgana" are looking like my buys so far.
 
One Night Only said:
Never played HL, always wondered what the buzz was about.. will probably never know. I expect it being more nostalgia to most than anything else.
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Nope, it's still a top game. As said above level design is excellent, but what made it so special too was the a.i which is still smarter than a lot of shooters since.
 
Redlambs said:
Nope, it's still a top game. As said above level design is excellent, but what made it so special too was the a.i which is still smarter than a lot of shooters since.
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Yeah it's weird how the human AI is still better than pretty much every shooter out there. I've always thought the only game that did this consistently better was the first F.E.A.R. and, well, I still struggle to think of anything better. It's like developers eventually just gave up trying to improve AI.
 
Ainu said:
Yeah it's weird how the human AI is still better than pretty much every shooter out there. I've always thought the only game that did this consistently better was the first F.E.A.R. and, well, I still struggle to think of anything better. It's like developers eventually just gave up trying to improve AI.
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Fear was going to be my given example also. Since then, yeah, what do we have... Besides from the absolute ludicrous incomparable stuff like Deepmind, that is.

Hell, I remember laughing at Blizzard's "Island Expedition" AI. Oh they were so proud of it. Turns out, the AI was so dumb, they actually focused on killing the mobs that you'd already tagged, so you'd get full credit & they'd get nothing :lol:
 
Ainu said:
Yeah it's weird how the human AI is still better than pretty much every shooter out there. I've always thought the only game that did this consistently better was the first F.E.A.R. and, well, I still struggle to think of anything better. It's like developers eventually just gave up trying to improve AI.
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People want graphics and to be fooled into thinking the world is vibrant, which is easier to fake. Lool at RDR2 for example, there's very little going on anywhere. A.I has taken a massive backstep since the early 2000's, Halo 1 was probably the last step up and as said above, F.e.a.r the last title to actually do something with it.
 
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