You should do a live stream. I would watch the hell out of that.Quoting Irish (view post)
Doing the story does help with the hunting though, because it frees up better weapons. I always head shot big game with a long-scope rifle, which you get after a certain mission in Chapter 2.
Well SOMEONE needs to do a live stream!
Ha, with three dogs running around, probably not.
“What we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, er... an eating machine. It's really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks and that's all.”
Favorite hunting rifle: Bolt action, with scope and express ammunition (explosive for Legendary hunting).
Favorite combat rifle: Just keep getting the best lever action available.
“What we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, er... an eating machine. It's really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks and that's all.”
Huh. I've actually never even considered putting a scope on the Bolt Action, which I never use. I just use the Rolling Block. Also, I'm clueless.
One of my annoyances with the game is that you can't discard weapons you don't ever use. I wind up with 15 weapons in my weapon wheel, maybe 5 of which I use on a regular basis.
I would like the rolling block faaaaar more if you can swap between open sights and scope, (I use a Ruger #1 falling block for deer hunting, very similar). Putting a scope on the bolt action and using express ammunition gives you just about the same amount of knock down that you get from the rolling block, but the quick target acquisition in case you kick something up that doesn't like you. I always switch back to open sights after using the scope.Huh. I've actually never even considered putting a scope on the Bolt Action, which I never use. I just use the Rolling Block. Also, I'm clueless.
One of my annoyances with the game is that you can't discard weapons you don't ever use. I wind up with 15 weapons in my weapon wheel, maybe 5 of which I use on a regular basis.
In RDR1, once I got the Buffalo Rifle (single shot BEAST), I used it exclusively for hunting.
“What we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, er... an eating machine. It's really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks and that's all.”
As I was installing RDR2, I told myself that I was going to start over. It auto loaded my 92% total completion game. I was like, “Well, I’ll just warm up with this save.” Four hours later, it was time to make dinner. Think I’ll work on the Bandit challenges and go from there.
“What we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, er... an eating machine. It's really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks and that's all.”
Started RDR2.
Quick question:
How long before I can "accidentally" put a bullet in Dutch's head?
Well.... he is in Red Read Redemption... which comes AFTER RDR2. So.
Every next-gen demo... continues to blow me away. Imagine an Uncharted game with this engine?
Holy shit. That looks like PC. Has the gap finally closed or is PC even further ahead? (I'm a full gen behind for the first time in my life)
This is how PC game looked in 2008
Yeah I know lol. What I mean is, is PC now equally ahead?This is how PC game looked in 2008
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Thing is - Xbox Series X and PS5 are essentially gaming PCs. Their architecture is very similar both between them and compared to PCs as well.
Prepping...
Hyper-realism will kill gaming
You might be thinking of Stardew Valley?
Genuinely great moment
I am currently addicted to Animal Crossing, after having beaten Breath of the Wild.
Hyper realism is a step towards true VR. It's where gaming was always headed.
Maybe --- but at that point, you're no longer playing a game.
You're in the holodeck having an orgy with Rita Hayworth and Commander Data.
I can watch real movies or shitty porn movies to get a, uhm, quick fix.
I can play an amazing VR game such as Half Life Alyx or I can resort to shitty porn variants.
Those two worlds are always going to be there.
[+] closer to next rating / [-] closer to previous rating
- Dark (S3) ✦✦✦½ [-]
- Fall (Mann, 2022) ✦✦✦½ [-]
- Ms. Marvel (S1) ✦½ [+]
- Dark (S2) ✦✦✦✦
- Moon Knight (S1) ✦✦½ [-]
- Get Carter (Hodges, 1971) ✦✦✦½ [+]
- Prey (Trachtenberg, 2022) ✦✦✦ [-]
- Black Bird (S1) ✦✦✦✦
- Better Call Saul (S6) ✦✦✦½ [+]
- Halo (S1) ✦✦✦ [-]
- Slow Horses (S1) ✦✦✦½ [+]
- H4Z4RD (Govaerts, 2022/BE) ✦✦½ [-]
- Gangs of London (S1) ✦✦✦½ [+]
- We Own This City (S1) ✦✦✦½ [+]
- Thor: Love and Thunder (Waititi, 2022) ✦✦ [+]
Maybe by then I'll have a PS4
HL:A isn't "true VR." Near as I can tell, it's a traditional 2-D game with a fancy interface.
I'm guessing a bit at ETM's meaning, but I don't think it fits in with what he was saying.
I'm saying gaming graphics have always aimed for the highest realism achievable, at least those whose gameplay benefits from it (no point making Monument Valley hyper realistic). The ultimate goal has always been virtual reality, not what we have today, but fully immersive realistic experiences. More The Oasis than Holodeck. In every generation, we percieve what's possible in computer graphics at that time as "realistic", but the goal post keeps moving forward. This will not stop, if anything because it's easier to offer gradually more realistic versions of previous games with incremental improvements to gameplay.
Ya'll see this?
Looks utterly gorgeous. Makes me wish I had a PS sometimes, but perhaps it'll be ported at some point. I like that they have an option to play the whole game in B&W in honor of the samurai movies they love.
"How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home wine-making course and forgot how to drive?"
--Homer
Gonna be my next purchase, fer sher, when I finally finish RDR2.
Losing is like fertilizer: it stinks for a while, then you get used to it. (Tony, Hibbing)
Looks great but the demonstrated gameplay is ... meh? Like, not a whole lot different than the action/adventure/RPGs I've been playing around with for the last month.
The wind thing is almost an interesting idea ... until you realize that you'll be doing it for hours on hours. Fighting looks fine but again not altogether different from the shit everybody else is doing or has done.
Also, serious lol at a buncha ex-microsofties doing a game set in feudal Japan after From & Sekiro.
Bitching aside, I still wanna keep my eye on it because this was demo'd last year during E3 and it looked cooler than this vid.
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