>>57637

I wonder will this help the linux side of things.

Desperately want to dump windows fully (near fully at least).

>>57638
It might make some more competitive developments versus the usual 3D stays of Darkplaces and Unity.

As for dumping Windows, have either [DETERMINATION] or patience.

>>57630
Now that is proper use of one of those goofy ass Oculus Rift things.

I was following this blog where a guy was trying to get old skool BATTLEZONE, green wirefram goodness, to work on his Rift but he suddenly stopped updating...

>>57630
>You'll need one of those playstation cameras to use it, so tack on another $50 or so.
Pre-order says $549, right?

I'm totally ok with any VR set that comes up, but..
>960 x 1080 per eye (single 1920x1080 screen)
>only PS4 (right?)
Stay in your peasantry.

>>57633
>Pre-order says $549, right?
That's for some kind of launch bundle with all the toys, as far as I can tell. The headset it'self will be $400.

>Stay in your peasantry.
The PC headsets, while preferable, are more expensive and are more likely to be replaced by better performing variants much faster. That and I don't have to upgrade my PC along with buying a headset.

Also, Ace Combat.

>>57634
do you like being motion sick? because this is how you get motion sick, im really worried people are going to buy this have a shit experience and label all vr as shit, also i dont own a play station so i would be spending as much as a oculus and stuck on their platform

I didn't read whatever the title is or the text. I only saw the image and got a massive boner.

Just keep posting more. I'll be in muh bunk.

Interesting. Backed.

  The developers have released a teaser demo. It really feels like a Descent game IMO.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/revivalprod/overload-the-ultimate-six-degree-of-freedom-shoote/posts/1511997
http://store.steampowered.com/app/450220/

However they're only at $175,000 with 3 days left, so I'm hoping it picks up over the last couple days or that they've got some angel investors waiting in the wings.

And it got funded. It was a pretty close thing too, they hit $300k with 2 hours left and only went $6500 over their goal. (and hopefully they weren't lowballing like some kickstarters.)

>>57515
Put an hour or three into super hot earlier.

Its quite fun, and Im enjoying the cerebral aspect of it.

Also watching the replays in real time is quite fun to see how operator you are.

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>>57515
The Path was the opposite of that:

"Stay on the path and go to grandma's house, you little shit"
>fuck that, Imma explore this forest, mother fucker.

It looks neat, and when I played the demo it was decent enough...but I'm not paying $35 for a fucking Unity game, especially not a crowdfunded one.

  >>57512
I played the Demo a while back and had a lot of fun. Really like how this game plays. Thinking about buy it but also money is a serious issue for me right now.

This video made me laugh for some reason.

Torchlight 2. Coop oriented, cheap, and very reminiscent of Diablo 2.

>>57536
Diablo 3 is apparently pretty good now too, but I haven't picked it up myself.

Grim Dawn also just left early access and is basically Titan Quest 2: Grimdark Boogaloo.

>>57536
I remember reading about that game I think.

>>57561
I've played D3 semi-recently (not the newest patch however). Way better than at launch I've got to say.

  Path of Exile, its free, no pay2win, and its basically D2 on adderall. Also a whole new expansion introducing a new Act and prestige classes comes out tomorrow.

>>57563
I can fully back this suggestion. Its a fantastic fucking game.

KL-E-O is probably my favorite character in the game. And Cricket.

>>57470
I liked Cricket until I read....spoiler alert....that she was an Institute spy. Pretty much all the Caravan people are. And snitches get stitches.

I may not like the Railroad, that Watts woman from Fallout 3 being a cunt kinda soured that relationship for me and the F4 RR with their "help synths, fuck humans" attitude doesn't do them any favors, but I like the Institute even less.

At their very core they are kidnappers. The game starts with them kidnapping your kid. Throughout the game you hear about dozens of people who have been replaced. You run into a person being replaced. Thats fucked up. They are killing people and replacing them with slave copies that they don't even have the decency to care about.

And thats not all. That doesn't even get into the probably hundreds of people they kidnapped and experimented on with FEV. People that once infected they just tossed out into the Commonwealth creating the current super mutant menace there.

Then there is the whole towns they wiped out with their earlier robit synths. Places like University Point and various settlements they launch raids on. People in those settlements they replace.

So anyone who works with the Institute willingly is the enemy.

>>57472
Ahhh spoilers. I'm only 161 hours into the game!

Actually I just came back from Deadpool with some friends. €14 for a ticket, large popcorn and coke. So I'll buy Firewatch when it's (20-14) €6 on sale haha

Great film by the way.


More seriously though, I don't mind games that are on the line of possibly being in the wrong medium. Just as long as it is very clear what kind of game it will be so the consumer can make a good decision with their vidja bux.

Cinematic is a very annoying term though, usually just means "are game's a bit shit and wont have good frame rates".

>>57451
>I can go to a matinee showing of Deadpool with a burger lunch and a beer delivered to my seat and pay the same, if not a dollar more than Firewatch at MSRP.

Yes, that's what I was getting at. You can go see a 2hr movie in theaters, or play a game like Firewatch, which is essentially an interactive movie, for 4-6.

>Firewatch is a game with all the right elements poorly executed

Nothing is really poorly executed about it other than the fact that it isn't long enough to really be good value compared to other videogames.

>>57454
>nothing poor about it
well that's your subjective view, but then you go on and admit that...

>isn't...good value compared to other videogames.

Exactly his point. It's failed at it's medium; and intended audience. This is the same reason 10 or 15 minute cartoons at movie theaters, and you don't have a waiter at McDonald's.

>>57455

>It's failed at it's medium

There isn't a correct way to use a creative medium. That's a non-sequitur. Barnett Newman and Van Gogh are both equally successful and critically acclaimed painters and to rail against that is just to be bitter that history got written without your input.

Firewatch has recieved glowing reviews from both critical reviewers and players, and no doubt been commercially successful, so really it's egotistical to say that it's failed anyone other than the handful of people that wanted a more traditional videogame experience.

>>57428
But like >>57424 said, adventure games tend to use puzzles just to pad out game length (and pre-GameFAQs, make more money off of players), take for example, the maple syrup cat hair mustache in Gabriel Knight 3, or (IIRC) the hidden fusion reactor you need to solve a puzzle in a Space Quest game that is never once mentioned beforehand.

>>57397
Game AI have an OODA loop it's just really fast, that's why speedrunning games works. It's worse on modern games for some reason.

I think you just about got inside the AI OODA loop.

>>57408
I actually had similar results on that one. More wounded due to grenade hits, but most of my "reinforcements" never even got to engage, despite my original six being so badly outnumbered.

I honestly think the AI just isn't very good at dealing with a relatively large head to head engagement where both parties know what they're running into.

Finished the game on commander. Had to retry the last mission several times to get shit done.

While some people seem to love hacking oriented specialists, I've had horrendous fucking luck with them (even when using the skulljack to boost hacking stats). In the end game, I'd probably just take an extra magi instead.
Maybe it's just my horrendous luck with the RNG, but even with double hacking stat to the hacking difficulty, I still got owned constantly when hacking.

I doubt I'll continue playing XCOM2 (though I will no doubt play the expansion when it's out). I played XCOM:EU/EW many times through, but I won't with XCOM2.

>>57443
Mages and tech-priests are the two best units in the game. Mages can double your team. The other powers like null lance and soul fire, combat protocol, capacitor discharge all ignore armor.

I breezed through the last mission without any of my team even being hit. When you have a gatekeeper, three archons, and a sectopod you don't really have to worry that much about anything.

>>57444

My little tech priest had 160 or 165 hacking skill and he did not do any successful hack throughout the entire fucking mission.
Must be just my luck.
My magi on the other hand kick serious ass.

Also, your Sectopod would leave your control in a few rounds... Mind controlled enemies don't. (though you can get many hacks for only one mind control)

One of my friends was trying to explain to me that a different team worked on Dark Souls 2. The original dark souls team was doing bloodborn at the time. So friend thinks dark souls 3 will be good.

>>57441
Pretty much spot on. So far, it looks like Dark Souls 3 will take significantly after Bloodborne but with Dark Souls 1's art direction. Granted, everything seems way too fast, IE a Wandering Knight with the Greatsword in the stress-test has no problem fast-rolling. It's probably going to change in the actual game, but I fear the first few months will be as bad as Dark Souls 1 when the Darkwood Grain Ring allowed everyone to flip.

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