Recent content by ARTofTOR

Do you think many gamers are 'in control' of their habit? Has gaming become the equivalent of a socially acceptable drug? I'm not talking about cellphone gambling games, as I think most people into 'real games' can easily see the foibles of them. I'm talking about mainstream gaming, what are...

I think it's more that major developers can't tell a good story, anymore. If you take a trip back to 1999, and play Deus Ex, one of the things you might notice is how drastically different game's stories were, back then. Deus Ex features a story in which the illuminati is unleashing a plague...

I keep hearing rumors 'bout an Obsidian TESIV: Oblivion remake using UE5, I'd probly buy that. I don't even buy AAA games anymore, they're too rage inducing. All the games I've enjoyed lately were games like Hero's Hour, Sands of Salzaar, or older games. Games that either did release 15 years...

*deep breath* Dual-wielding in 2D games is mostly a gimmick, just more DPS. In Skyrim it compromised the control scheme to be worse than Oblivion's. Dual-wielding in VR is legit. In Payday2 being able to lock down two different directions just by turning your head, or in Dead Effect 2, being...

'Saddle the Pony' Just doesn't do it for me the same way 'Hong Kong Streets' does.

Cool. The actual bike I got was an Amyet V9 G60, from ali. There were some more expensive models on sale, but I just got the cheapest one 'cause it seemed like the best deal and I liked the design. I blanked out the logo on the battery with acrylic paint so it's in stealth-mode. Looks like a...

I was going to create a thread titled 'VR is for nerds', which if I remember, is an exact quote from a MS Exec. To which the obvious reply would be, "yes, so are Videogames".

Games used to be more 'complete'. In lieu of 2024 graphics, you had games that were designed as more of a tour-de-force of a total picture fully realized exactly as intended. Everything made these days is so ham-fisted. I kinda jumped off the bandwagon with Bioshock: Infinite. Whatever other...

I'll hit my own thread rather than disturbing another topic. Gamers, us, we on the 'just want to play some good games' side of things, have a tendency to refer to some entity like Bethesda as if they are some bumbling, incompetent buffoon of an individual rather than in terms of a sociopathic...

Shattered Steel is the best FPS in my recent memory. It's one of those bullet-time, parkour, doing flips while sliding upside-down and headshotting 3 enemies at the same time kind of FPS's. An indie title, but absolutely fantastic. I also think Shadow Warrior 2 is very good compared to most...

I'm getting a full motorcycle helmet already, just in case I need to go on the road. Even a 1000w bike has a regulator on it, and can be unlocked to go 50mph, I've heard. Doing 20mph on dirt trails feels pretty darn fast. There's another rider with a dirtbike around here that's made all...

So I impulse bought a 1000w 20Ah moped-style e-bike 'bout a week ago. I'm surprised by how fun it is. I'd never owned a motorcycle or anything similar, or even driven one before. One of the first things I did was take a spill, ofc, but luckily I was at a stop. I adopted a dog from the...

Really? I'd feel comfortable saying the only reason we aren't talking about 'the gaming crash of '24' already, right now, is because there is no physical landfill overflowing with copies of Redfall, Gollum, Suicide Squad, Forspoken, etc. that people can point to and say 'yep, gaming crashed'...

I don't work in games, or really have more than a passing interest in them anymore. Kinda getting old, myself. I'd just say it's sad to see, that when a government is corrupt and intentionally doing the wrong things and promoting the wrong ideas, that the abuses that corporations can get away...

I should also mention it's not just anti-consumer, to have the largest corporations with the most money and influence singlehandedly changing policy or doing this sort of 'avant-garde' grassroots advertising, if that's how you wish to perceive it. It's harmful to the rest of the industry...