Recent content by hughJ

Does this game have proper mouse support out of the box, or is there still some X/Y sensitivity weirdness? IIRC I think that's why I bounced off it on release.

Re: fallout Really really not a fan of modern TV formula where you have a season long mystery that gets wrapped up in a 20 minute exposition dump in the final episode. Any TV show that does that is just a reminder of why I don't watch TV anymore. The constant flashbacks and having so many key...

I would liken my introduction to KCD with the first time I played Deus Ex. They both asked a lot of me in terms of setting aside my preconceptions of how I thought the game was going to play, but once I was able to do that it was quite special and I'm glad they made the decisions that they did...

From an IGN article: "Kingdom Come: Deliverance II will once again utilize the CryEngine, which studio spokesperson Tobias Stolz-Zwilling attributed to familiarity and established pipelines, and will feature a variety of environments, including lush forests and other areas." I'm glad for this...

And you can do that because it's a PC game with a command line prompt that exposes the entirety of the game's back-end functionality. The Crew is a console game where all the back-end services and connectivity is expected to be turnkey with minimal user friction. Using a PC to play a console...

Games with dedicated server releases aren't immune from losing functionality; the master server that handles authentication and server indexing between the clients and the servers can still be shut down, any kind of centralized stat tracking and progression run by the studio can be shut down...

Definitely no argument that Ubisoft should have delisted The Crew at least a year before shutting services down. Beyond that though I'm really not sure what the issue is here. It's an online-only title, yeah? No online-only titles remain active forever. The fact that tNFS still works is...

Why stop at 10-20x RT. Even if there were infinite RT prowess such that Spiderman/GoW/AC:Whatever looked like they were rendered in Octane, I don't think the games are going to be any more engaging to their existing audience, or capture a new audience that were previously unconvinced. It would...

Trying to tease out any nuance from a single "video game hardware sales" bar chart seems dubious and likely to lead to misleading conclusions. The Wii and Guitar Hero period is not a market that the games industry should be expecting to recapture -- there was no market; it was a cultural bubble...

Back in the late 90s and early 00s they also had the SOE umbrella with Everquest, SWG, Planetside, etc. Sony's kind of always had its fingers in a lot of pies.

IIRC that's the rumored(cited?) reason the Forza games get delisted after 4 years. Forza Horizon 1/2 also had their online services fully shut down last year. To play devil's advocate, I could see there being other issues with these service games when there's a user creation, upload, and...

Kind of playing together. My memories of playing Civ3 and 4 with the girlfriend involved a lot of cries for help when she was being attacked by her neighbors, and me having to depend on half-truths and plausible deniability for why I couldn't fully rush to her aid, or why I was reluctant to...

Might be used for later projects, and might contain stuff they've licensed and can't release. Of course this also raises the question about things in the game that may have time-limited licenses. Cars, brands, music, etc. Ultima Online and Everquest continue to operate, but Star Wars...

That's pretty much what you're signing up for when you buy a console game-as-a-service from one of the big publishers these days. These games are made to be huge hits; they make their money from having some critical threshold of players that can be milked with battlepasses and...

The premise of the Terminator hinged on an AI sending technology back in time which rapidly seeded the tech advancements that gave rise to the AI. It wasn't a modern retelling of Frankenstein, it was a plot device for a robot assassin action movie.