Video & PC Game Discussion

JJLehto wrote: I have no doubt, still doesn't mean I have to like it To be fair, I thought graphics kinda plateaued years ago. They always get "better" but it's always in such fine or minute ways ya know? Half the time my brother will point these things out and I can't even notice! Years ago though they reached the point where it resembles real life and now we're just improving reality

No, not really. Just look at the PC versions of titles like The Witcher 2 and Crysis 3, as well as some of the upcoming titles. There's a lot of room for improvement, really; we've just been in an awful funk for the last few years because this console generation just wouldn't die. Games are mostly made to console specs, and the 360 is going on 8 years old. By contrast, the SNES showed up in 1990, followed by N64 in 1996 (5-and-a-half years later), then the Gamecube in 2001 (5 years later) and Wii in 2006 (5 years later). 5 years, give or take, has been the standard for ages. Sony followed a similar pattern -- 5 years for PS to PS2, 6 years from PS2 to PS3. We've been outdated and ready for a change for 3 years now.

You might say 5 years from now that we haven't improved much, and that might not be far off in the sense that there's no active work on DX12 (current version is DX11, last-gen consoles are stuck on what amounts to DX9) and that budgets are stretched about as far as one can imagine they'd ever be. The main developments for the next years are going to be improvements to decrease development cost. Since every improvement in appearance must be met with an equivalent cost-saving measure, I don't expect to see huge leaps, just incremental improvements.

I am the Carnival Freak Show Pinball Wizard 

@ Retro Mundi

Try  to top me high-score

Oh, click the 

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icon to view the scores

http://www.retromundi.com/games/pinball-games/freakshow-pinball.html

Horizons wrote: I just beat The Last Of Us.  Overall i loved the experience, it made me feel both fear and sympathy for the characters and situations. I won't spoil anything but i love the emotional factor of the game and the growth Ellie and Joel had.  I found the combat fun and rewarding and the settings of the game were both fun to explore and fight in (the sniper scene was memorable).  The only issue with the game is the silliness of the companion AI sometimes (Bill did it constantly..), where they would stomp around, be seen, or bump into enemies without any repercussions. It kind of made me facepalm a bit, but at least the slight clumsiness of the AI didn't really stab me in the back - it just sometimes broke the feeling at that moment.  I would love to play the game on a higher difficultly or watch a friend play it for the first time.  I won't try to rate it because that'll just ruin it for me. All i know is i wish more games were like this and had the same effect on me and my enthusiasm.

Well, Horizons, after viewin' thine avatar...me be a feelin' mighty enthusiastic i-self 

[Tor makes wolf sound here---then coughs---snorts---goes to take heart med]

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If'in ye needs a game that'll bring forth great flows of empathy & pathos then I'd suggest AnkoMako, which is @

http://www.retromundi.com/index.php?Itemid=100004&fid=12&gid=115&option=com_puarcade

As before click the

[+/-] to view the high-scores of which moi 'tis #1.

It 'tis a MOST deceptively simple pastime. 

Stay on groovin' safari,

Tor 

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http://news.xbox.com/2013/06/update
So, what do you guys think of this, quite the U turn from Microsoft.

sleeper wrote: http://news.xbox.com/2013/06/update So, what do you guys think of this, quite the U turn from Microsoft.

good idea about microsoft to turn it around as i myself have been a very happy xbox 360 lover since it came out ( been through 3 so far ).........thing is i'm still put off by the kinect.......i hate kinect and as i understand the new xbox you have to have kinect plugged in at all times.

Dishonored

I got my kid a Pokemon game for his DS and I think I play it more than he does.  

Heart Gold is pretty damn addicting