Well, the new consoles don't go above 30 fps either.
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How come Wii U can hit 60 FPS with Splatoon if the other guys can't get there with their stuff?
"We're adding more colours for the PC market."[DOUBLEPOST=1433612702,1433612672][/DOUBLEPOST]
Can you be a squid now or a kid now on the PS4 or the Xbox? No. No, you cannot. That's why.
Because Splatoon could run on a 360 or Ps3.
... that's fucking stupid then. PS4 and Xbone have such an increased demand on graphics that it makes the processing power of the new consoles irrelevant?
GasBandit
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I mean, it seems fun and all, but Splatoon looks like it might actually run on a Dreamcast.
Nintendo favors high framerate over graphical fidelity. Splatoon can run at 60fps because it doesn't need as much horsepower.
Have you seen a DC game lately? I know you're not a console fan, but come on now.[DOUBLEPOST=1433619386,1433619232][/DOUBLEPOST]
Honestly I think a lot of the problem started with the push of games like Gears of War. There was this sudden need to make the games look gritty and gloomy due to the setting and unfortunately a lot of developers latched on and never let go. Throwing a brown/green/etc filter over the camera is a lot easier than actually working to make your setting believable.They'll say it was only possible with the new generation of consoles.
As someone that still has (and even sometimes still plays) his Dreamcast, I can say that people tend to overestimate the power of their old machines, because nostalgia makes us remember them as impressive for the time.
Yeah I still use mine sometimes, and if anything the graphics would equate more to early XBox/PS2 games at best.
So if anyone's curious the Steam Refund thing is working great. I returned a couple games I bought (one on 5/30, the other in March) that I hadn't played much of and the money will go back to my account within a week. They seem pretty forgiving on the return date and overall playtime, at least for now.
It's a bit more streamlined than that, but it doesn't have an enormous graphics demand. I think the only reason it would need a current console is for the liquid effects.
And it's a lot more fun than I expected. I'm not as obsessed with it as my wife (she who is evidence that removing voice chat was a smart move by Nintendo), but I've been playing it most days this past week.[DOUBLEPOST=1433640545,1433640473][/DOUBLEPOST]
I wish the Nintendo eshop had a return policy. I would've returned Code of Princess at 1:05 AM, 25 minutes after I bought it.
(And probably Retro City Rampage DX this week; I'm just not feeling it.)
Their return policy is this:
tldr; too fucking bad, do more research, don't buy wrong games/DLC
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Well this a terrifying concept.
Cross-posted from the Awesome Videos thread: another example of showing today's kids the challenge of yesterday's games.
GasBandit
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Just to see how rusty I am after 30 years, I fired up contra on an emulator tonight and gave it a go. No Konami code, no continues, I made it to the level 7 boss. Not too shabby if I say so myself. I probably could do better if I played it again, but to be honest toward the end there I was starting to find it a bit tedious.
Muscle memory, man. I find myself doing the same paths/moves in old games even 20 years later. The body knows what it's supposed to do, even if you don't remember.
Every time I try to get back into tanking in an MMO I remember why I stopped. Dickbag DPS pulling whatever they want and whining when I don't bother peeling off them, healers trying to DPS while I'm holding upwards of 4+ mobs at once, etc etc.
The opposite happens whenever I try old games. In many of the Mega Man levels, I rarely managed to reach even the boss. Even struggled with, say, early stages in Super Mario World.
This works for me until those GODDAMN PHASING BLOCKS BECAUSE THEY'RE PIECES OF SHIT AND I HATE THEM AND THEIR FAMILIES AND
I tried playing Sonic 1 and 2 years later; despite being those games repeatedly, I do not have the muscle memory for them. Fortunately Sonic 2 is pretty easy anyway.
Jim Almighty, this is all my fault.
See, Jim Sterling makes three types of videos regularly: the weekly Jimquistion, Squirty Plays (basically a first-look Let's Play), and Steam Greenlight Trailers (reacting to terrible Greenlight trailers).
The Greenlight trailers reaction actually resulted in the Five Nights at Freddy's Games being created, when he criticized a game trailer for something else by the same dev.
Anyway, I joked in a comment for one that for all these terrible games in Greenlight - especially for ____ Simulator games - that eventually someone would make a Jim Sterling Simulator. Jim even responded, "I'd play it if it was called The Jimulator."
Thus...
See, Jim Sterling makes three types of videos regularly: the weekly Jimquistion, Squirty Plays (basically a first-look Let's Play), and Steam Greenlight Trailers (reacting to terrible Greenlight trailers).
The Greenlight trailers reaction actually resulted in the Five Nights at Freddy's Games being created, when he criticized a game trailer for something else by the same dev.
Anyway, I joked in a comment for one that for all these terrible games in Greenlight - especially for ____ Simulator games - that eventually someone would make a Jim Sterling Simulator. Jim even responded, "I'd play it if it was called The Jimulator."
Thus...
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Totalbiscuit did a wtf is of it. It's not a bad game, there just isn't much meat to it. And the 'controversy' surrounding it was dumb, when really what happens in the game is no worse than anything you can do in other, better games, like GTA.
Except for the execution QTEs, which are more like Manhunt or Space Marine. And yeah, while you can go on a killing spree in GTA, in Hatred, that's literally all there is to do, and whether you do nothing or not, eventually police / military will show up to kill you in Hatred.
TB's WTF Is of it basically shows that the game boils down to:
Shoot everyone
Don't get shot
Do Executions (but turn off the cinematic because it gets dumb and redundant) to get back health
Without the controversy the game wouldn't have even gotten a second thought from most people because it honestly looks boring as shit.
Shoot everyone
Don't get shot
Do Executions (but turn off the cinematic because it gets dumb and redundant) to get back health
Without the controversy the game wouldn't have even gotten a second thought from most people because it honestly looks boring as shit.
I was not aware of that, makes the whole thing doubly gross.[DOUBLEPOST=1433873028,1433872567][/DOUBLEPOST]It's unfortunate more people don't cover FF Tactics music because it's some of the best.
Final Fantasy Tactics anything is my crack.
(except the Advance games and the iOs game)
(except the Advance games and the iOs game)
The iOS game is the PSP version, so there's really nothing wrong with it. Otherwise I agree, FFTA never caught my interest which means I didn't even bother with FFTA2.
I was referring to Final Fantasy Tactics S, but apparently that only lasted for a little over a year.