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Post by drhickman1983 on Nov 15, 2023 9:27:00 GMT
The only game released this year that I can recall playing is Starfield. Which I got bored of very quickly.
So by default it's the most dissappointing game, but think it would hold that title even if I'd played more this year.
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Post by Duffking on Nov 15, 2023 10:08:09 GMT
I had read somewhere, can't remember where, that there was talk of this not being a UE5 game from the get go. As in it was purely meant to be UE4 but higher ups wanted a show stopper so the team had to do a crash course and changed midway to UE5 and obviously this was the result. I could well believe it as the performance I've seen does seem shocking. A show stopper it certainly is, emphasis on stopper, as the game occasionally comes to a halt  I wouldn't trust any game made in UE5 yet, at least not for another year or two. It only officially became "production ready" roughly 1 year ago, so anything releasing now was largely built on tech that wasn't ready for shipping a game and even now we're only seeing essential improvements to the headline features of UE5 coming in updates. Anything that's released so far will have had to been realtively hastily put together on new tech that isn't fully understood by third parties yet, not least because of how bad Epic is at documenting literally anything. |
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Post by JonFE on Nov 15, 2023 10:18:15 GMT
Duffking I definitely agree with you on that, devs still need to find their footing with Unreal 5.
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Post by darkling on Nov 15, 2023 10:26:47 GMT
That said, I'd still rather be playing something like Starfield than anything on offer in the Sony camp. You're really missing out tbh. I jumped ship from Xbox to PS at the begininning of the last gen and I've never looked back. There's nothing on Xbox than can compete with what Sony are putting out. Not to come across like some kind of wittering fanboi but their exclusives have been some of the best games I've ever played. I also went from X360 to PS4, which was the right choice, but I'm just not a fan of the action games Sony are putting out. As technically accomplished as they are, I have no desire to play yet another superhero sequel, or linear action game. I'm a 40 year old man and I think I'm just growing tired of the AAA space. I crave more depth from my games. I think I'm going to go back to PC and start playing simpler games. I love games like FTL, X-COM and Gwent because of the strategy. I'm developing my own version of Gwent at the mo, just for quick ad-hoc games on my phone. |
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Post by richyroo on Nov 15, 2023 10:39:35 GMT
Alan Wake 2.
Numerous reasons which I have gone into detail over on the Alan Wake 2 thread.
Just so over-rated. I think critics have forgotten what actually makes a good game.
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Post by bichii2 on Nov 15, 2023 10:42:45 GMT
Redfall as well actually. I had some fun in co op but it's an arkane game so my expectations were high. If it were some unknown developer I'd have just happily enjoyed it's average fun co op stuff but arkane make some of my favourite games.
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Post by wunty on Nov 15, 2023 11:40:50 GMT
You're really missing out tbh. I jumped ship from Xbox to PS at the begininning of the last gen and I've never looked back. There's nothing on Xbox than can compete with what Sony are putting out. Not to come across like some kind of wittering fanboi but their exclusives have been some of the best games I've ever played. I also went from X360 to PS4, which was the right choice, but I'm just not a fan of the action games Sony are putting out. As technically accomplished as they are, I have no desire to play yet another superhero sequel, or linear action game. I'm a 40 year old man and I think I'm just growing tired of the AAA space. I crave more depth from my games. I think I'm going to go back to PC and start playing simpler games. I love games like FTL, X-COM and Gwent because of the strategy. I'm developing my own version of Gwent at the mo, just for quick ad-hoc games on my phone. Oh right, it's just you mentioned Starfield which is as AAA as you can get, so was the only frame of reference I had. Hey ho. |
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Post by dangerousdave on Nov 15, 2023 11:57:36 GMT
Yeah, if we’re taking Xbox AAA versus Sony AAA, it’s been so incredibly one sided for the past four years. Outside of Forza Horizon 5, Microsoft have seemingly dropped the ball so badly, they can’t even find the ball, let alone pick it back up.
But if we’re talking AAA console exclusives in general, it’s possibly the weakest and least exciting category(?) of gaming.
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Post by Tuffty on Nov 15, 2023 12:01:00 GMT
*shows the most mundane gameplay of Mario Wonder*
"Can you believe the Game Awards thinks Mario is better than Starfield? Look!"
*shows the most bland grey hallway shooter gameplay of Starfield*
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Post by Jambowayoh on Nov 15, 2023 12:02:29 GMT
Sometimes in my darkest moments I wonder if my life is going the way I thought it would be, then see I a tweet like this and I suddenly feel better.
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Post by cubby on Nov 15, 2023 13:11:42 GMT
That gun sure does shoot at things though.
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Post by RadicalRex on Nov 15, 2023 15:32:47 GMT
I have no words for how much more fun the Mario footage looks
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Post by Whizzo on Nov 15, 2023 15:40:57 GMT
It's a bizarre choice of footage for Starfield, the Mario stuff isn't great either, but some FPS gloom seems the wrong way to sell a space game, show a spaceship doing stuff or something.
The twat that posts it continues to get dunked and he continues to double down at every opportunity so at least it's funny.
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Post by damagedinc on Nov 15, 2023 15:52:34 GMT
*shows the most mundane gameplay of Mario Wonder* "Can you believe the Game Awards thinks Mario is better than Starfield? Look!" *shows the most bland grey hallway shooter gameplay of Starfield* Pure gold |
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Post by Whizzo on Nov 15, 2023 16:03:38 GMT
Hopefully temporary gaming disappointment, just fired up Teardown for the first time (out today on PS5/Xbox Series, day one on PS Extra) and there's no invert Y option so I can't actually play it. Plenty of people saying the exact same thing on Twitter directly to the devs so fingers crossed that omission is rectified quickly.
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Post by baihu1983 on Nov 15, 2023 16:04:42 GMT
The comments are what you would expect/hope.
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Post by wunty on Nov 15, 2023 16:23:12 GMT
Hopefully temporary gaming disappointment, just fired up Teardown for the first time (out today on PS5/Xbox Series, day one on PS Extra) and there's no invert Y option so I can't actually play it. Plenty of people saying the exact same thing on Twitter directly to the devs so fingers crossed that omission is rectified quickly. There have actually been three or four games I've bought recently with no invert Y option. You can have a discourse about this as much as you like, but the fact remains there are people like me and your good self and plenty of others that can only play this way. In this age of making games more accessible, it's shocking that more seem to be coming out without what is essentially an incredibly basic option. |
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Post by Whizzo on Nov 15, 2023 16:33:31 GMT
I foolishly thought that maybe Teardown was one of those rare games that takes notice of the invert option you can set in your default profile and... nope.
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Post by zagibu on Nov 15, 2023 16:37:50 GMT
You can have a discourse about this as much as you like, but the fact remains there are people like me and your good self and plenty of others that can only play this way. You can play it non-inverted, though. It takes about 15 Minutes to rewire your brain to it. I know it because I was an inverted Y guy for the longest time, until some game came along that didn't let you invert it, so I just switched. |
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Post by wunty on Nov 15, 2023 16:38:40 GMT
I can’t though. Or I would.
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Post by FlexibleFeline on Nov 15, 2023 16:42:27 GMT
*shows the most mundane gameplay of Mario Wonder* "Can you believe the Game Awards thinks Mario is better than Starfield? Look!" *shows the most bland grey hallway shooter gameplay of Starfield* Jesus wept. |
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Post by Whizzo on Nov 15, 2023 17:03:12 GMT
I can’t though. Or I would. Same, every time someone says "oh it only take a few minutes to change over" no, I've been playing games like this since the days of the first 3D games were ever created, my brain is hard wired to inverting Y, no matter how many times people say it's easy I say it's not. |
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Post by Lizard on Nov 15, 2023 17:13:26 GMT
Most disappointing Y-inverters 2023.
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Post by Zuluhero on Nov 15, 2023 17:38:43 GMT
I think they're confusing fun for visuals.
And even then Mario looks better 😅
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Post by Aunt Alison on Nov 15, 2023 17:41:25 GMT
Mario has colours and is for babies
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Post by convercide on Nov 15, 2023 18:15:02 GMT
Hopefully temporary gaming disappointment, just fired up Teardown for the first time (out today on PS5/Xbox Series, day one on PS Extra) and there's no invert Y option so I can't actually play it. Plenty of people saying the exact same thing on Twitter directly to the devs so fingers crossed that omission is rectified quickly. There have actually been three or four games I've bought recently with no invert Y option. You can have a discourse about this as much as you like, but the fact remains there are people like me and your good self and plenty of others that can only play this way. In this age of making games more accessible, it's shocking that more seem to be coming out without what is essentially an incredibly basic option. Luckily you can just swap the axis as default on Xbox. |
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Post by zephro on Nov 15, 2023 18:18:52 GMT
I think I did y invert for Dark Forces and Quake 1 then switched to non invert by Quake 2 and Half Life. Seems like a 90s problem.
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Post by convercide on Nov 15, 2023 18:25:19 GMT
I blame it on Goldeneye. Was inverted by default.
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Post by apollo on Nov 15, 2023 18:32:21 GMT
certain xbox owners become unhinged ever since the xbox one with kinect reveal
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Post by RadicalRex on Nov 15, 2023 18:51:14 GMT
I blame it on Goldeneye. Was inverted by default. And Ocarina. And Super Mario 64. And any flight/space game. edit: and Turok (N64). |
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