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Awesome so far. Lovely mix of 3d character models and 2D backgrounds. Very much in the Broken Sword style.
Along with Zombie Detective I feel like adventure games are just as good as they used to be now.
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All I've been playing is SimCity 3000. And trying to get my ancient PC to once again recognize my video card.
I usually only lasted half the month. Upgrading to 40 GB was amazing.
By Miu Watanabe.
That Master sword is going to become quite the collectors item though.
Great Deku Tree 2-in-1 77092 | LEGO® The Legend of Zelda™ | Buy online at the Official LEGO® Shop US
I disagree. I think this looks like a good build. It's a statuette rather than a toy, like the other Lego Nintendo releases.
I'm informed on this by just having completed this with my daughter:
They go for $500 new and was only 1,700 pieces. (Zelda is a massive 2,500 pieces) and it looks dull but on the other side there is plenty of interactive bits for kids to play with (and it was a fun challenge to make it).
I should mention that we were very kindly gifted this (new) from a workfriend whose daughter had outgrown interest in Frozen.
I would not buy Zelda LEGO as the subject matter is not my passion. But if they do a Yakuza one I'd consider it.
I guess I feel it lacks refinement when viewed as a statuette compared to other sets, and it lacks options for play when viewed as a playset. For that money they could have made the deku tree at least a storey higher and added in some more internal chambers.
News: Star Citizen, after 12 years, has raised $700 MILLION USD.
Do you think it will ever be released?
"I guess I feel it lacks refinement when viewed as a statuette compared to other sets"
Yes I agree with that. It's a bit short!
All the Disney LEGO's get a piece number reduction, I assume due to a hefty licensing cut from the House of Mouse.
Was checking out all the 360 games I bought recently.
Going back two gens was a rude awakening in some cases. Some games, mostly Zenimax ones, required huge installs that took ages.
Why is Wolfenstein 1 on 4 dvds FFS.
The updates were laughably small, 4mb or 8mbs.
The visuals of most games was rough on a 1080p set. I guess the 17 inch 720p I used to use masked a lot of the 360s games visual flaws. Not only are games blurry, but jaggy as well. It's almost more egregious than SD games as you can see the games would look alright with a resolution bump.
Need to hook up Mclassic.
Prey started like a 90s movie, damn looks like a ps2 game.
Evil Within graphics are bad. And it seems to have a hard mode and slightly less hard mode lol.
Vanquish seemed really cool, love the fast pace way you move around, reminded me of that Free to play switch game Panic Button ported.
The games were surprising at how much low HQ compressed video they use in cutscenes. My return to cinematic AAA games was annoying in some other aspects, watching 50 logos at the start of every game. Watching a 30 minute cutscene before you can actually play anything.
But I was left with a confused and slightly melancholic feeling about game preservation. I wish there was a DVD like model where you can still buy and watch a famous movie from the 40s for instance.
There are so many 3rd party games that are going to be lost in the mists of time, when all they need is a resolution bump and a more convenient way to play them.
After hours of disc swapping and installs and updates, it felt ridiculous to pick up my switch and to have a console wireless, in my hand, all my game carts in a tiny game case, over a hundred more, all on board the sd card.
This is what game preservation should be like.
Physical disks, cartridges and hardware will degrade and fail eventually.
Game preservation is what Gog does well, IMO. They sell modern and old games without DRM, that can be downloaded and installed by themselves without a store launcher, and come with all of the maps, manuals, hint guides that originally came with the game in PDF format. Gog isn't perfect, but they are way ahead of the rest of the industry in preservation. Sadly, they are mostly limited to PC gaming, but they are starting to add retro arcade/console games to their catalog as well.
Eh, I installed all these 3 disc games to 360.
Takes ages BTW, I guess the disc drive is slow.
Then I attempted to launch said games and it makes you put the game disc anyway. Ehhhh
I know it's because of piracy but it's a pain. Is there no alternative?
Need a portable PC I guess. I've tried so many times to hook up my old consoles and be faced with tv compatibility issues, wonky resolutions. Breaking out old ass memory cards and wired controllers.
I'm at the point where I'm fed up with it all. I wish old consoles would be rebooted as handheld with decent screens and battery life. And it would let me play (by some means) the games I already own for it.
Like a Dreamcast handheld, a 360 handheld etc. Nothing fancy or expensive buy competent and convenient.
Whenever I look at my DS Lite and game collection all the carts are in a game card case. The adaptor isn't a giant brick.
I could break it out and play within minutes and not have to deal with dodgy shit, like wires everywhere and tv resolution mismatch.
Same for 3DS.
I feel consoles need to be more accessible.
I've seen some 4terabyte, obviously dodgy retro game PCs with shitloads of old games on board.
Tomorrow don't state of play and some silent hill event, e3 season is kicking off! I am not really expecting much. Nintendo won't be showing much of anything cause they are waiting for switch 2. Sony has nothing but Astro bot. RE might not be shown as 9 is still a ways off and zero is probably next. I have zero faith in SH. So let's see if anything surprises. Oh MGS3 remake, that's should be cool.
I've been playing Dragons Dogma 2 which is an odd game that's a lot like the first one. The different classes have cool unique skills, in switching around trying them out but you are limited to four attack skill slots, but you can learn way more than four, you have to pick your four and can only switch them at camp sites. Why? Also how is there no pawn direct command, I can't tell a pawn to use a certain skill, you just have to hope they do it. The world is extensive but it's mostly junk mobs with some scattered boss enemies around, most stuff you find is the usual RPG junk. The best parts of the game are when you are out in the world away from a camp, low on health, need to reach safety while a giant ass boss is hunting you, that's fun. Most of the time though I'm just going through the motions.
I also played Crow Country which is an indie RE style game, cool but nothing too great.
and I got in the Mario mood so I started up sunshine from the 3D collection. I hate and like the game. It controls like ass, Mario just wants to slide all over any touch sends him flying in a direction. There are some annoying ass gameplay quirks, this one with a watermelon you have to guide is just horrible. But hey it's still a Mario game, so still great, just the worst of the 3D Mario's.
Really hoping that we finally see what Blupoint have been working on but I’m not sure if it’ll be at Sony’s State of Play tomorrow.
I have little faith in the Silent Hill 2 Remake. Will check out whatever they show tomorrow but am expecting to be disappointed.
Am hoping that MGS 3 Remake is good but am nervous about it.
So Sony is reaffirming their stance that their big story driven games will come out to PC at a later date, online games will be both ps and PC releases. Helldivers 2 is the fastest selling game in PS history, it's already outsold SM2 in only 3 months. So many are saying Sony should put everything on PC day one to which I say sure if you want to kill your console. Now PS is the primary console for those console only gamers, so it won't crash as Xbox did but their sales would take a hit if they no longer have any exclusives. What they got going now seems to be working.
What do you mean?
I mean I don't want to have to have reams of old equipment, giant power bricks, wired controllers, shelves of endless dvd sized boxes. Hdmi adapters and scalers, old AA battery powered controllers, sensor bars etc.
I want a switch like device but for old content like a Dreamcast handheld, with as little size and space as possible, meaning small game carts or digital storage. No fuss, no wasted space, no labyrinth of wires.
I want game hardware makers to actually care about making their old games accessible, in the long term. Not sporadic backwards compatibility on their modern machine that will rarely be used.and may be discontinued on their newer system.