Gaming/VR
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@kiwiwomble said in Gaming/VR:
@mn5 agreed, in hindsight its a testament to them i was able to all but finish san andreas on something like my phone, its like a 50 odd hour game so the three of them must be around 100 hours
From memory GTA3 was the real game changer in terms of gameplay and your character was so cool despite not speaking a word. The next two were just bigger and better and stole from Miami Vice/Scarface and Boys in the Hood/Menace II Society respectively.
Shit there were some clever buggers who came up with those ideas.
I mentioned Fary Cry before, my boy got number 5 for Xmas, not sure if his mother knew it contained cult members being burnt alive and various other gory shit but she gave the green light and he was happy haha.
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@mn5 Indeed. GTA and GTA 2 had a top down view, GTA 3 (New York?) went 3D and then GTA 3 Vice City was ... perfect.
Very hard to make that 2D to 3D transition, most games screwed it up by over-focussing on the graphical opportunities but they really kept the purity of the original anarchic gameplay in the (huge) move from GTA 2 to GTA 3
Rockstar games started in the UK, made it big time ... Sam and Dan Houser
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@mn5 Indeed. GTA and GTA 2 had a top down view, GTA 3 (New York?) went 3D and then GTA 3 Vice City was ... perfect.
Very hard to make that 2D to 3D transition, most games screwed it up by over-focussing on the graphical opportunities but they really kept the purity of the original anarchic gameplay in the (huge) move from GTA 2 to GTA 3
Rockstar games started in the UK, made it big time ... Sam and Dan Houser
Part of the fun in those games was hopping in a car and going for a drive and listening to the hilarious talkback radio or the soundtracks ( which were incredible, so many great tunes )
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@mn5 I always assumed the talkback radio and ads were was satirical until I spent a lot of time in LA. Now ... semi-satirical only
Rockstar and Valve were (maybe still are??) the only two "studios" I know that release games "ready when they're ready" i.e. almost perfect, and it shows.
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@mn5 I always assumed the talkback radio and ads were was satirical until I spent a lot of time in LA. Now ... semi-satirical only
Rockstar and Valve were (maybe still are??) the only two "studios" I know that release games "ready when they're ready" i.e. almost perfect, and it shows.
Yeah Lazlo and his talkback and Tommy nightmare Smith who I only found out recently was voiced by none other than Axl Rose !
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"Activision employee leaves his credentials in a text file on his desktop" surely not an IT guy...?!
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@tim long video to say; "nope".
Industry makes more money they hollywood, think of how many shitty movies are make every year. They are in the same boat, just in the stage where bad Star Wars movies are being made.
What is a potential big change is if goverments decide micro transactions are gambling for children (hint; they are) and ban them. Sooner that happens the better, and then we might get finished games again, instead of having to buy pieces of them after release.
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@kirwan ... and I now spend more on games than movies each year. I'm not a big gamer - but movies are expensive, shit, and the theatres are full of idiots. Some o fthe modern games are amazingly good and interesting.
So yeah, can't see that changing soon.
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@nzzp playing through knights of the old republic and Witcher 3 last year…both better stories than so many movies that get made…hell, Witcher 3 could be a series of movies
I’m sure there are loads of others I don’t know about as I’m only really a casual gamer
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@kiwiwomble I really tried to get into Witcher 3, but found it a real drag. I'm nto alone, but it sure is an unpopular opinion.
I may try again sometime, as it's such a well regarded game. I just kinda found it a chore, and the combat was frustrating as all hell
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@nzzp fair enough, I’m sure it’s not for everyone, I really loved the stories, even the side quests, basically none of them are clear cut good or bad, all areas of grey, lesser of two evils kind of stuff
Either of you watch the Witcher Netflix series?
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@kiwiwomble said in Gaming/VR:
@nzzp fair enough, I’m sure it’s not for everyone, I really loved the stories, even the side quests, basically none of them are clear cut good or bad, all areas of grey, lesser of two evils kind of stuff
Either of you watch the Witcher Netflix series?
Yes, love the series. It almost lost me with the bard, then I started liking the fucking song. That is a hell of a magic trick in of itself.