augustwhere you come from is goneRegistered Userregular
edited September 2020
Granted I only really listened to Jeff play it, but I didn't expect the Fast & Furious game to be... boring? I expected it to be bad, but not like... the story parts of a softcore porn, set in an "exotic" locale, where dramatic stuff is supposed to be happening but clearly neither the actors or characters give a single shit about what's going on. The dialogue just goes and goes and sounds weirdly formal. Like does anyone in the Fast & Furious movies say "let's just continue on down the road?"
Bad media is often boring. The odds of some mediocre thing coming out hilarious is slim.
In the case of F&F, from what I saw they basically tried to make a NFS / Burnout game on a very tight budget.
They use FF chars in the opening then transition to original chars.
IDK what happened in development but it's just not up to standard. Clunky script, very basic missions, and I understand it is short too.
I do wonder what it's like to work on a game like this. It's probably still 50% of the work for like 10% of the outcome.
It is also something that is attracting a ton of negative attention and wrestlers are speaking out against it so
It may not last long
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Olivawgood name, isn't it?the foot of mt fujiRegistered Userregular
This is a dumb fight for WWE to pick, but my dumb hope is that it’s exactly the sort of fight in exactly the sort of moment that maybe prompts some folks to get together and go “hey maybe collective bargaining would be cool”
I don't fully get what the big deal is about ray tracing
Ray tracing lets you do real time reflections and shadows and diffuse lighting super nicely by doing physical simulation of a few photon "rays" bouncing around off surfaces. It's basically the most realistic way we have to simulate light in 3D graphics, potentially significantly better looking than all the myriad ways games have faked those effects since 3D games started being a thing. Non-real-time 3D rendering has used ray tracing for really nice looking versions of those effects for decades, it was just too computationally expensive to work in real time applications like games before now.
I don't fully get what the big deal is about ray tracing
ray tracing is not something that is going to just jump out at you like a standard def to a high def change. But it is something, especially in a game like Control, where you will just notice things that are not present in other games. Like being able to see your actual reflection in a window, and see through that reflection to the actual room on the other side. For the water on the ground to spray light in the right way.
It's not something where you'll look at a screenshot necessarily and be like oh shit. But for me at least, playing through Control made me realize all of the visual shorthand in games that simply was not being used, because they were able to create an actual facsimile.
I wish that some PC gamers would be able to understand that some people just like the experience of gaming on consoles better.
If I can very easily plug in a console controller into my PC, either through a wired connection or wireless, and hook my PC up to my large TV, what's the difference?
I don’t have to fiddle with drivers on my console, or wonder why the game isn’t performing the way it’s supposed to even though I’ve exceeded all the requirements, or have my 4K output just not work right for no reason. Nor does my PC play nicely with my sound system or my TV. Also, my PC doesn’t let me use my controllers wirelessly.
There’s also a ton of games I love on the PS4 that either never came to PC or came much later. Exclusives matter. PC has its own exclusives of course.
I think it’s disingenuous to ignore that PC gaming is far more fiddly and less reliable and simple to work with compared to consoles for a lot of people like me. I don’t want to put in effort to make game run. I want to put disc in and game go.
Actually, that’s another thing: discs. I want to own my games. And physical games on PC have been dead for some time now.
I’ll always make sure I have a competent PC ready to play games that I can only play on it, but console gaming has always been a far more pleasant experience for me.
The main reason why I like consoles more than PC, at least for multiplayer games, is that cheating on the PC is much more prevalent due to it being an open platform.
The recent giant bomb dot com video release with Jeff Gerstmann playing a Fast & Furious game has put in me a hankering for awful trash played by good people whats fresh and excellent in that area
Matt McMuscles did a full playthrough of 'Devil's Hunt', a game that certainly is both awful and trash:
The recent giant bomb dot com video release with Jeff Gerstmann playing a Fast & Furious game has put in me a hankering for awful trash played by good people whats fresh and excellent in that area
Jeff and vinny played a game called 'persona 4' once
The main reason why I like consoles more than PC, at least for multiplayer games, is that cheating on the PC is much more prevalent due to it being an open platform.
Plus not getting destroyed by a 13-year-old with reflexes much, much better than anything you have now.
I'm gonna wait until there's a $250 card with ray tracing cores probably, and also I have money
Considering I still have a 1080 monitor and I'm only kind of considering a 1440, I'm thinking the eventual 3060 might be a better buy for me
If you're just trying to hit 1080/60hz, a 1060 is going to be fine still.
1080p/120-144hz, a 2060 or 5700XT for $350 is going to be more than enough for another few years (though the 2060 might run into issues with its 6gb of VRAM)
1440p/4k are where the GPU markets kind of breaks down. Currently, both the 5700XT and 2070/2070 Super are only really okay at doing 1440p at high refresh rates. 2080 Super/2080ti would handle 1440p decently, but thats $700-800+ because they weren't really in stock anywhere.
at 4k, a 2080S can barely keep above 60fps for most new releases.
Thats the real strength of the new 3000 series, its should actually be really good for 1440p/4k. Picking up a 3070 for $500 is going to better than grabbing a 2080ti for $1200 if you have a 1440p/120+hz display, and it should have a decent shot at doing ~60fps at 4k.
I'm very curious what they can get the price down to on the 3060, but honestly its going to be hard fight against AMD at anything sub-$400 right now. In that price range the 5700XT is a beast.
Ray tracing makes a huge difference in Control, but it's hard to point at any one thing that accounts for that
It is a combination of tons and tons of little things, like the sheen on marble, or seeing a hint of reflection in polished wood, that all kind of adds up to more than the sum of its parts. It's probably the most noticeable in the astral plane stuff
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Indie Winterdie KräheRudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered Userregular
ok so I have a pretty good graphics card I think? it's old but all the benchmark sites say it's one of the top ones, a GTX 1070 G1
but the computer it's in is old, so I'm thinking about replacing it and just putting that card in the new one
is a $1500 rig (processor, CPU, motherboard, etc.) without a graphics card reasonable?
The recent giant bomb dot com video release with Jeff Gerstmann playing a Fast & Furious game has put in me a hankering for awful trash played by good people whats fresh and excellent in that area
Jeff and vinny played a game called 'persona 4' once
Yes YES very good
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Indie Winterdie KräheRudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered Userregular
okay I'm just straight up going to put the whole component list down below in a spoiler, in case anyone wants to give it a gander and express an opinion; I know this ain't the thread for it be tbqh I'm a bit weary asking this over in the hardware section of G&T, that place gives me Serious Gamer vibes that I, an adult man, am intimidated by
Processor: Intel Core i5 10600K 4.1Ghz 12MB Cache s1200 - Tray
CPU Cooler: Antec A400 RGB
Motherboard: Asus ROG STRIX Z490-G GAMING LGA1200, Intel Z490, DDR4, 2xPCI-E
RAM: HyperX FURY Black 2x8GB DDR4 3200MHz CL16 Kit
HDD: Western Digital Caviar Black WD1003FZEX 1TB Sata III
SSD: Kingston A2000 M.2 SA2000M8/250G 250GB SSD PCIe NVMe
Power Unit: Antec VALUE POWER Active PFC 12cm 550W 80+ VP550P Plus PSU
Case: MSI MPG GUNGNIR 100D Mid Tower Black
Speaker: Logitech Z533 2.1 Multimedia Speakers System
Monitor: Asus VA27EHE 27 Inch LED IPS
okay I'm just straight up going to put the whole component list down below in a spoiler, in case anyone wants to give it a gander and express an opinion; I know this ain't the thread for it be tbqh I'm a bit weary asking this over in the hardware section of G&T, that place gives me Serious Gamer vibes that I, an adult man, am intimidated by
Processor: Intel Core i5 10600K 4.1Ghz 12MB Cache s1200 - Tray
CPU Cooler: Antec A400 RGB
Motherboard: Asus ROG STRIX Z490-G GAMING LGA1200, Intel Z490, DDR4, 2xPCI-E
RAM: HyperX FURY Black 2x8GB DDR4 3200MHz CL16 Kit
HDD: Western Digital Caviar Black WD1003FZEX 1TB Sata III
SSD: Kingston A2000 M.2 SA2000M8/250G 250GB SSD PCIe NVMe
Power Unit: Antec VALUE POWER Active PFC 12cm 550W 80+ VP550P Plus PSU
Case: MSI MPG GUNGNIR 100D Mid Tower Black
Speaker: Logitech Z533 2.1 Multimedia Speakers System
Monitor: Asus VA27EHE 27 Inch LED IPS
The advice I will always give here is post it to the pcbuild reddit. Those nerds fuckin' loved looking at my build, mocking it, and giving me a cheaper and more powerful list. Could have done without the snark but meh, they did just work for free for me for some reason.
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SnicketysnickThe Greatest Hype Man inWesterosRegistered Userregular
okay I'm just straight up going to put the whole component list down below in a spoiler, in case anyone wants to give it a gander and express an opinion; I know this ain't the thread for it be tbqh I'm a bit weary asking this over in the hardware section of G&T, that place gives me Serious Gamer vibes that I, an adult man, am intimidated by
Processor: Intel Core i5 10600K 4.1Ghz 12MB Cache s1200 - Tray
CPU Cooler: Antec A400 RGB
Motherboard: Asus ROG STRIX Z490-G GAMING LGA1200, Intel Z490, DDR4, 2xPCI-E
RAM: HyperX FURY Black 2x8GB DDR4 3200MHz CL16 Kit
HDD: Western Digital Caviar Black WD1003FZEX 1TB Sata III
SSD: Kingston A2000 M.2 SA2000M8/250G 250GB SSD PCIe NVMe
Power Unit: Antec VALUE POWER Active PFC 12cm 550W 80+ VP550P Plus PSU
Case: MSI MPG GUNGNIR 100D Mid Tower Black
Speaker: Logitech Z533 2.1 Multimedia Speakers System
Monitor: Asus VA27EHE 27 Inch LED IPS
You don't have a graphics card in there but I guess you know that, on a more general point I would take a hard look at AMD on the CPU side as they are significantly better bang for your buck unless the only thing you care about is maximum single threaded performance. The R5 3600 is generally the go-to but the R7 3700X is also an excellent choice if you want a few more cores.
Indie Winterdie KräheRudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered Userregular
edited September 2020
sure yeah I'm afraid to wade into the murky gaming waters of the g&t kiddy pool so your advice is to drop me into this shark tank with a busted door on my cage, cool cool
I kid, obviously, I will probably post there if no other advice comes up. Thank you.
the Devil's Hunt LP is fucking wild, because it feels like the story is being written by two people with wildly different levels of self-awareness
like half the cutscenes know how corny everything is and how stupid the protagonist is and how campy the game needs to be in order to work, and the other half do not
like there's a hard contrast between the boring-ass early set-up scenes and the chunk in the middle with Belial
What is that company what makes almost exclusively the shitty little concealed carry automatics that weigh like 5oz unloaded or whatever?
Taurus or something like that?
I've known like 3 separate folks who owned at least one of those. And for something called a conceal carry you'd think they wouldn't be so eager to show it off all the time but... Well... Gun nuts.
SCCY is the one I think of as "exclusively shitty pocket guns", though Hi-Point is pretty close. Taurus is a pretty big Brazilian manufacturer that has a full range of guns
Guns make me extremely nervous to be around, which is probably the correct way to feel about them imho.
That said I have always wanted to go to a supervised range and shoot, to kind of demystify them somewhat in my imagination so I'm not quite as paralyzed when someone is open carrying near me.
He declared the pistol “accurate enough for combat actions” and “reliable.” For less than $300, the SCCY CPX-2 is a suitable defensive pistol that could work for you.
sure yeah I'm afraid to wade into the murky gaming waters of the g&t kiddy pool so your advice is to drop me into this shark tank with a busted door on my cage, cool cool
I kid, obviously, I will probably post there if no other advice comes up. Thank you.
I'm not saying there aren't jerks, just that they can be useful ones, and who cares if people who spend all day reading tech specs and prices tear apart what you found? They spend way more time immersed in it, they SHOULD be able to know rapidly what is a good deal and what goes with what. You got this. (Or at worse I figure logical increments is probably still good for a list for "I have x dollars, what list of things will be a good idea?")
Guns make me extremely nervous to be around, which is probably the correct way to feel about them imho.
That said I have always wanted to go to a supervised range and shoot, to kind of demystify them somewhat in my imagination so I'm not quite as paralyzed when someone is open carrying near me.
I don't think having a basic familiarity with firearms is a terrible idea, knowing how to safely unload them particularly
Guns make me extremely nervous to be around, which is probably the correct way to feel about them imho.
That said I have always wanted to go to a supervised range and shoot, to kind of demystify them somewhat in my imagination so I'm not quite as paralyzed when someone is open carrying near me.
I don't think having a basic familiarity with firearms is a terrible idea, knowing how to safely unload them particularly
I know the biggest important rules I think
Treat every firearm as if it is loaded at all times
Never point the barrel at anything you don't want to destroy / be aware at all times where it is pointed
Oh and don't put your finger near the trigger until you are ready to fire
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In the case of F&F, from what I saw they basically tried to make a NFS / Burnout game on a very tight budget.
They use FF chars in the opening then transition to original chars.
IDK what happened in development but it's just not up to standard. Clunky script, very basic missions, and I understand it is short too.
I do wonder what it's like to work on a game like this. It's probably still 50% of the work for like 10% of the outcome.
I have no idea if this affects WWE employee Dan Ryckert, who regularly streams on Twitch and has a Cameo
It may not last long
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Ray tracing lets you do real time reflections and shadows and diffuse lighting super nicely by doing physical simulation of a few photon "rays" bouncing around off surfaces. It's basically the most realistic way we have to simulate light in 3D graphics, potentially significantly better looking than all the myriad ways games have faked those effects since 3D games started being a thing. Non-real-time 3D rendering has used ray tracing for really nice looking versions of those effects for decades, it was just too computationally expensive to work in real time applications like games before now.
ray tracing is not something that is going to just jump out at you like a standard def to a high def change. But it is something, especially in a game like Control, where you will just notice things that are not present in other games. Like being able to see your actual reflection in a window, and see through that reflection to the actual room on the other side. For the water on the ground to spray light in the right way.
It's not something where you'll look at a screenshot necessarily and be like oh shit. But for me at least, playing through Control made me realize all of the visual shorthand in games that simply was not being used, because they were able to create an actual facsimile.
I don’t have to fiddle with drivers on my console, or wonder why the game isn’t performing the way it’s supposed to even though I’ve exceeded all the requirements, or have my 4K output just not work right for no reason. Nor does my PC play nicely with my sound system or my TV. Also, my PC doesn’t let me use my controllers wirelessly.
There’s also a ton of games I love on the PS4 that either never came to PC or came much later. Exclusives matter. PC has its own exclusives of course.
I think it’s disingenuous to ignore that PC gaming is far more fiddly and less reliable and simple to work with compared to consoles for a lot of people like me. I don’t want to put in effort to make game run. I want to put disc in and game go.
Actually, that’s another thing: discs. I want to own my games. And physical games on PC have been dead for some time now.
I’ll always make sure I have a competent PC ready to play games that I can only play on it, but console gaming has always been a far more pleasant experience for me.
My Let's Play Channel: https://youtube.com/channel/UC2go70QLfwGq-hW4nvUqmog
Matt McMuscles did a full playthrough of 'Devil's Hunt', a game that certainly is both awful and trash:
Or for a one-off video, there is Ukranian masterpiece 'Collapse':
Jeff and vinny played a game called 'persona 4' once
Plus not getting destroyed by a 13-year-old with reflexes much, much better than anything you have now.
Twin analog sticks are a great equalizer.
If you're just trying to hit 1080/60hz, a 1060 is going to be fine still.
1080p/120-144hz, a 2060 or 5700XT for $350 is going to be more than enough for another few years (though the 2060 might run into issues with its 6gb of VRAM)
1440p/4k are where the GPU markets kind of breaks down. Currently, both the 5700XT and 2070/2070 Super are only really okay at doing 1440p at high refresh rates. 2080 Super/2080ti would handle 1440p decently, but thats $700-800+ because they weren't really in stock anywhere.
at 4k, a 2080S can barely keep above 60fps for most new releases.
Thats the real strength of the new 3000 series, its should actually be really good for 1440p/4k. Picking up a 3070 for $500 is going to better than grabbing a 2080ti for $1200 if you have a 1440p/120+hz display, and it should have a decent shot at doing ~60fps at 4k.
I'm very curious what they can get the price down to on the 3060, but honestly its going to be hard fight against AMD at anything sub-$400 right now. In that price range the 5700XT is a beast.
It is a combination of tons and tons of little things, like the sheen on marble, or seeing a hint of reflection in polished wood, that all kind of adds up to more than the sum of its parts. It's probably the most noticeable in the astral plane stuff
but the computer it's in is old, so I'm thinking about replacing it and just putting that card in the new one
is a $1500 rig (processor, CPU, motherboard, etc.) without a graphics card reasonable?
I feel like you could build an extremely good PC with 1500 if you're not spending any of that on a GPU
I also live in a place with VAT and my experience is that the equivalent of 1500 USD buys a nice computer WITH a graphics card.
Just King Things released a new episode a few days ago:
Yes YES very good
CPU Cooler: Antec A400 RGB
Motherboard: Asus ROG STRIX Z490-G GAMING LGA1200, Intel Z490, DDR4, 2xPCI-E
RAM: HyperX FURY Black 2x8GB DDR4 3200MHz CL16 Kit
HDD: Western Digital Caviar Black WD1003FZEX 1TB Sata III
SSD: Kingston A2000 M.2 SA2000M8/250G 250GB SSD PCIe NVMe
Power Unit: Antec VALUE POWER Active PFC 12cm 550W 80+ VP550P Plus PSU
Case: MSI MPG GUNGNIR 100D Mid Tower Black
Speaker: Logitech Z533 2.1 Multimedia Speakers System
Monitor: Asus VA27EHE 27 Inch LED IPS
Wait how does this even work
Guns are heavy, it should be pulling his mask down
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The advice I will always give here is post it to the pcbuild reddit. Those nerds fuckin' loved looking at my build, mocking it, and giving me a cheaper and more powerful list. Could have done without the snark but meh, they did just work for free for me for some reason.
You don't have a graphics card in there but I guess you know that, on a more general point I would take a hard look at AMD on the CPU side as they are significantly better bang for your buck unless the only thing you care about is maximum single threaded performance. The R5 3600 is generally the go-to but the R7 3700X is also an excellent choice if you want a few more cores.
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I kid, obviously, I will probably post there if no other advice comes up. Thank you.
like half the cutscenes know how corny everything is and how stupid the protagonist is and how campy the game needs to be in order to work, and the other half do not
like there's a hard contrast between the boring-ass early set-up scenes and the chunk in the middle with Belial
Oh well the heaviness of guns is a spectrum, thats quite a compact automatic pistol and I suspect it is not loaded for just the reason you bring up
Might be a Colt Commander all gussied up, I would say it is that sewage tubes concealed carry piece
Taurus or something like that?
I've known like 3 separate folks who owned at least one of those. And for something called a conceal carry you'd think they wouldn't be so eager to show it off all the time but... Well... Gun nuts.
That said I have always wanted to go to a supervised range and shoot, to kind of demystify them somewhat in my imagination so I'm not quite as paralyzed when someone is open carrying near me.
Hah hah! Three hundred bucks brand new! Hah! Hah!
I'm not saying there aren't jerks, just that they can be useful ones, and who cares if people who spend all day reading tech specs and prices tear apart what you found? They spend way more time immersed in it, they SHOULD be able to know rapidly what is a good deal and what goes with what. You got this. (Or at worse I figure logical increments is probably still good for a list for "I have x dollars, what list of things will be a good idea?")
I don't think having a basic familiarity with firearms is a terrible idea, knowing how to safely unload them particularly
I know the biggest important rules I think
Treat every firearm as if it is loaded at all times
Never point the barrel at anything you don't want to destroy / be aware at all times where it is pointed
Oh and don't put your finger near the trigger until you are ready to fire
Par example the copromorph above has the muzzle of his firearm tucked into his throat, thats bad