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Here's hoping Remedy is making AW2 part of the 3 ongoing projects they've got going on right now.

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44 minutes ago, WD said: I hope this means next gen games will stay under 100 gigs in disk space if we don't need so much texture budget from now on. I hate owning multiple disks, and SSDs still aint cheap enough!

Well, lemme crush your hopes immediately... it probably means the inverse, games with high fidelity assets will get a larger install.

Dynamic lighting does mean you don't need to ship a game with lightmaps, which will bring disc size down a bit, but the thing is, high density geometry also occupies a fairly large size on disc, and all those assets you see there still make use of Color, Roughness and normal maps. Fitting all that on a reasonable storage device will be a challenge. What we have here is essentially some very futuristic streaming technology, now that consoles will have 16gb of memory and SSD, you have a lot of buffer to stream shit in and out of memory.

This is fucking amazing... it might be akin to the jump between PS2 and PS3 graphics. Everyone was talking about how the PS4 was a iterative gen, this next one seems to be a huge leap!

Fuck, yes! Red letter day for game artists.

And seems like a remaster is on the way, we should see more footage on the 19th. Also, Mafia 1 is a full remake, with expanded story and gameplay!!!

Damn, this is legit making me wanna boot up the game once more. Cult classic is the perfect description of this gem of a game.

Oh and yeah, I also got the collectors back when it came out. It's a beautiful big black book, that doesn't fit anywhere, ahah.

Ha yeah, I finished Days Gone a few months ago. The game's story really picks about around half way through, I don't know what happened but all of a sudden I actually started caring for the characters and the overall plot. Towards the end, the game has some really cool missions, a few of them really memorable on part with stuff we've seen on R* games.

Game is dirt cheap atm, recomended.

Quote from Buddy

1 hour ago, Buddy said: Needs more vaginas

That's what she said...?

Yeah, S2 pales in comparison to the first. S1 is poetry, so damn beautiful.

I think the last ep of s3 was just released too, so I might renew my HBO Now account to watch it.

Quote from dux

6 hours ago, dux said: Yeah you ain't fooling me twice. That first one was a mess hidden under good trailers.

What first one? Did this ever get released?

I know they released a demo for backers, but afaik that was about it?

The character art is sub-par, probably shouldn't have used regular NPC's you encounter in the game so prominently in a trailer. Some of those characters look straight out of a The Sims game, not sure if it's the render of this engine, lighting or whatever is going on.

But, it's the only gripe I have with it really. I'm actually very looking forward to this, for a while now. Immersive sims aren't exactly a dime a dozens these days, so part of me really hopes the whole package of this turns out to be excellent.

Remember hearing about this on a podcast, and it's been on my backlog for years. Will deffo pick it up eventually.

Quote from Radu

5 hours ago, Radu said: You'd think so, but maybe people are really not that hungry. If you look at the achievements on Steam, only 30% have managed to finish the game. And that's funny because people couldn't even be bothered to get to the end of the game despite the significant financial investment on their side. I think HL:A is a well made game with some awesome moments to be experienced in VR, but now that the initial hype has died down, I can't say that I want to replay it anytime soon or experience another HL in VR or keep playing in VR.

There's some people that say VR is the future and are pretty convinced about it, but I just can't see it.

If it's around 30%, it's actually around the average if not above the average. I remember around 2010, the percentage of people that finished the games they bought, hovered around 12%. (I was dumbfounded when I learned about this, specially as someone who finishes the vast majority of the games I start.)

The good news is, way more people play games now than they did back in 2010, and you'd think that would actually bring the statistic down even more as it reached mainstream, but it seems like it went up to around 30%! This is obviously an average, and it depends a lot on the game genre and specific game, but if 30% of people managed to stay inside a VR Game for a dozen hours and actually finish it, which is way more effort than sitting your ass on your couch with a controller, is actually pretty good for a game that's been out for a month.

Some stats from PS Network:

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Quote Watch Dogs[/b] Completed game (“Log Off”): 27.6% Platinum: 0.7%

Transistor[/b] Completed game (“Bye()”): 28.5% Platinum: 7.0%

Entwined[/b] Completed game (“Eternity”): 36.4% Platinum: 0.5%

Wolfenstein: The New Order[/b] Completed game (“Liberation”): 30.2% Platinum: 3.4%

Lego: The Hobbit[/b] Completed game (“Think furnace, with wings”): 38.6% Platinum: 6.1%

Infamous: Second Son[/b] Completed game (“Reconciliation”): 50.3% Platinum: 9.6%

Mercenary Kings[/b] Completed game (“Coronation”): 0.7% Platinum: 0.1%

Call of Duty: Ghosts[/b] Completed game (“The Ghost Killer”): 26.6% Platinum: 0.4%

Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition[/b] Completed game (A Survivor is Born”): 43.1% Platinum: 0.7%

Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag[/b] Completed game (“Saw That One Coming…”): 33.0% Platinum: 0.7%

The Lego Movie Videogame[/b] Completed game (You Can Still Change Everything”): 42.7% Platinum: 5.6%

Battlefield 4[/b] Completed game (“Antediluvian”): 32.4% Platinum: 1.3%

Thief[/b] Completed game (“The Dawn’s Light”): 15.7% Platinum: 0.5%

Sound Shapes:[/b] Completed game (“Campaign Complete”): 37.9% Platinum: 18.0%

Knack[/b] Completed game (“Guardian Badge”): 35.9% Platinum: 0.9%

UFC[/b] Completed game (“Top of the Mountain”): 38.2% Platinum: 0.1%

Killzone: Shadow Fall[/b] Completed game (“The Savior”): 22.2% Platinum: 0.2%

Trine 2: Complete Story[/b] Completed game (“I want more!”): 0.5% Platinum: 0.1%

Strider[/b] Completed game (“Class-A Ninja”): 4.5% Platinum: 0.9%

Skylanders: Swap Force[/b] Completed game (“Kaos Quashed”): 28.1% Platinum: 0.4%

Alien: Isolation – Ripley, Signing Off – 17.7%

Batman: Arkham Knight – Master of Fear – 43.5%

BioShock Infinite – Saw the Elephant – 25.2%

Bloodborne – Yharnam Sunrise (13.9%) Honoring Wishes (18.9%) Childhood’s Beginning (19.9%)

Call of Duty: Black Ops III – Full Circle – 2.4% (Hardened, Veteran, or Realistic)

Danganronpa – All’s Well That Ends… Umm… – 54.2%

Danganronpa 2 – Goodbye Academy of Despair – 58.9% (the highest % of anything in my list. Not surprising, as I assume most folks who dipped into a visual novel sequel are committed to seeing it through)

Dead Space 2 – Made Us Whole – 38%

Dead Space Extraction – Survivor – 13.6%

Demon’s Souls – World Uniter’s Trophy – 19.6%

Devil May Cry 4 SE – Easy Does It – 17.5%

DmC: Devil May Cry – The End? Don’t Bet On It – 39.1%

Doom – Knee-Deep in the Dead – 18.2%

Dragon Age: Inquisition – Doom Upon All the World – 23.8%

Earth Defense Force 4.1 – A Walk in the Park (Ranger, 3.5%), Winging It (Wing Diver, 2.7%), Clearing the Air (Air Raider, 1.1%), Fencing Scholar (Fencer, 0.9%)

The Evil Within – Another Day on the Job – 10.3%

Fallout 4 – Prepared for the Future – 27.6%

Final Fantasy XIII – Instrument of Change – 27.9%

Infamous – Good Finish (23.1%), Evil Finish (15.2%)

infamous First Light – She’s Ready – 33.2%

LA Noire – Moth to a Flame – 24.3%

The Last of Us – No Matter What – 31.1%

Life is Strange – Polarized – 40.4%

Mega Man 10 – WHOMP WILY! – 15.3%

Mega Man Legacy Collection – Rock and Roll (13%) The Mystery of Dr Wily (16.4%) The End of Dr Wily?! (9.7%) A New Ambition! (7.2%) Proto Man’s Trap (5.9%) The Greatest Battle Ever! (5.4%)

Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor – The Hand is Severed – 37%

Persona 4 Golden – Breaking Through the Fog – 12.5%

Resident Evil 6 PS4 – Normal is Good – 9.1%

Shadow of the Colossus – Final Colossus – 19.7%

Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time – Home Sick – 32.1%

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 – Win – 2.9%

Tearaway – You Have 1 New Message – 38.2%

Titan Souls – Titan Soul – 18.3%

Transformers: War for Cybertron – Autobot Commander (15.1%) Deception Seeker (20.3%)

Uncharted 2 – Charted! Normal – 35.5%

Uncharted 3 – Charted! Normal – 27%

Uncharted 4 – Charted! Moderate – 30.9%

Velocity 2X – Mind Over Matter – 2.3%

Witcher 3 – Passed the Trial – 27.4%

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https://www.pcgamer.com/almost-1-milli…-alyx-launched/

1 mil, not bad at all. Specially considering it's nearly impossible to buy a VR headset right now, in normal times that number could easily be double.

Now the ball is on the side of all the other VR devs, after playing and finishing Alyx, people will be hungry for more games to play on their headsets.

Last AC I've played was Black Flag, it was alright but I really dislike how "safe" and "formulaic" these series became. Not for me.

Quote from Squad

2 minutes ago, Squad said: Fuck it, I'm getting it now It's been on my wishlist for a while, but the pixelated artstyle was the only thing holding me back so far, as I'm not a huge fan of it personally. I've been playing a lot of local coop games lately, Guacamelee 2 (really enjoyed the first one years ago) and Overcooked so far. Overcooked is so much fun in (local) coop, that I immediately bought the sequel as well. Next up is probably Hidden In Plain Sight and Guns, Gore & Cannoli 2.

You can turn off the pixelated filter under Options, great of him for adding that.

PS. I remenber LOVING Guacamelee on my PSVita!

Quote from Radu

1 minute ago, Radu said: I picked up A Short Hike after I watched the GDC talk and it really worked me up towards the end. It's so innocent and simple. It reminded me a lot of my childhood, spending the summers at the country side and playing about, climbing over fences and whatnot. This one hour experience has more value to me than most of the 15+ hrs games I've played lately. Hmmm

ikr! A big company would never make a game like this, yet it manages to leave a long lasting effect in you.

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On 12/22/2019 at 5:05 AM, Klems said: First walkthrough is up. You'll get a good idea of the mod, but spoiler heavy of course!

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