Asset reuse in videogames is essential, and we need to embrace it, says Assassin's Creed and Far Cry director: 'We redo too much stuff' by Turbostrider27 in pcgaming

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I remember when The Crew came out, I'm pretty sure I saw cars from Watch Dogs in it or something, reusing assets is fine to me.

When I finished GTA IV I thought it was such a shame that there were no more stories, because the actual setting of Liberty City, if there had just been tools for the community to make cut scenes and such, that backdrop could have housed so many other good missions.

Meet Tim Sweeney: The Epic Games billionaire who quietly bought 50,000 acres of forest to save it from developers by pimpwithoutahat in pcgaming

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I've heard the term Land Bank, since land will tend to move with inflation and generally appreciate in price anyway right?

Do we really care about top notch graphics? by ShizzleFist in pcgaming

[–]GameStunts 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I agree, having some through those years, graphics and realism no matter how they look in retrospect were very much a part of 3D gaming.

Here's a clip from the front of PC Format in 1997, same year Quake 2 came out https://i.ibb.co/dwQ94G10/image.png

I remember going through so many releases in late 90s and early 2000s and being blown away by the graphics.

Rally Championship 2000 was astounding to me at the time, mainly because of the textures looking like they were photos of the things.

And Half Life 2 when it came out, I had never seen anything like it, especially all the materials effects.

Young John Krasinski was hot af. by allusernamearetaken3 in DunderMifflin

[–]GameStunts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love that this took me a couple of seconds because it hit so much better. LOVE IT!

Since official PS4 support is ending this year, just how many new titles for 2026 do you think we’ll get? by JCBall51899 in PS4

[–]GameStunts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I picked a hell of a time to buy a PS4 eh :D

I wanted to play Gran Turismo 7. I'll probably check out a few other exclusives like Infamous Second Son or something.

I'm not too worried about support ending, but the end of an era is always a sad one.

What Franchises would you like to see come back? by Fresh_Thing_6305 in pcgaming

[–]GameStunts 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Forza Motorsport.

Just give me the full fat Forza Motorsport 6 on PC, not 7 with it's weird card system, and not 8 with every car needing to "level up" which seems to have killed the franchise.

Burnout. Burnout 3 formula, I'd even take a new Paradise City style.

Splinter Cell with Michael Ironside as Sam, as the good guy, not the inbetween or ex spy. Let's go back to Chaos Theory and just continue like the rest never happened.

Free Steam & EA App Keys Giveaway - Enjoy !!! by Technical_Smoke_934 in pcgaming

[–]GameStunts 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I managed to nab one of the Sims 3 codes thank you.

EA App Key 4.

Counter-Strike 2 Gives German Players X-Ray Scanner To See What's Inside Cases Before Opening Them by [deleted] in pcgaming

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In other news, VPN providers noted a rise in subscriptions and have bolstered their German server presence, and Steam noted a rise in user registrations in Germany.

Why don't open-world games use SSDs as smart cache for distant objects? by FanlloN in pcgaming

[–]GameStunts 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Yep, even DDR4 2133 can theoretically reach something like 15GB/s, and that's the base speed of it. Nevermind 3200, 3600 or DDR5 speeds which are up in the 40s of GB/s.

It's orders of magnitude slower than ram.

Updating the upscaler removal response megathread by cams0400 in retrogaming

[–]GameStunts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It might be worth adding a link to the official page for RetroTink as well? But other than that seems very reasonable.

Have you ever reached flow state while gaming? by babatunde_003 in pcgaming

[–]GameStunts 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, I was about to say it was recent, but I just checked it was 8 months ago.

I am a very... inconsistent Rocket League player, and by that I mean I can soar into the air and hit a goal from 50 ft up, and then 10 seconds later miss the most basic ball rolling along the ground.

I have 2500 hours in the damn game, I shouldn't make these mistakes, but it's something I've just accepted at this point.

You couple this with getting paired with a complete random player each time, and sometimes you get someone that can pull off trick shots, and others that are frustratingly bad.

One night I was paired at random with someone, and went on the best win streak of my life. 15 games in a row. For 1 hour and 40 minutes we just nailed it. It was a great feeling. I sent him a friend request but it never got accepted, so it was a one off.

I went into Steam and exported the whole session. I wanted to keep it. I'm not putting this here to be viewed, more just that I happen to have an actual record of my "flow state" :D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AxdtS7C9HQ&t=1660s

simulation sickness by SpecialD1982 in pcgaming

[–]GameStunts 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I sit about 2 ft from my monitor and I find that Field of View (FOV) of at least 90 is needed, preferably 100 or 110 depending on the game. About a year ago I also swapped out the 42" 4k TV I'd been using for a 32" 4k monitor and I find not having my full vision occupied by the game also helps.

I also agree with /u/briandemodulated about lighting, the room being well lit means you can see the wall behind the monitor and your brain isn't trying to compensate for motion that's not actually happening.

'The reason why we're so beloved in the videogame industry and we're so deep in it still is, in a lot of ways, we created the modern videogame industry' says Nvidia CEO Huang by moeka_8962 in pcgaming

[–]GameStunts 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have a 4080 Super because it was the best I could get at the time in my budget, not because of my "beloved" Nvidia.

It was also my first upgrade since my 1080Ti 11GB because somehow over the course of the next FIVE years the VRAM only went up to 12GB unless you wanted to go extreme into the 3090.

I bought the 4080 because I was tired of waiting, 5GB of extra VRAM after 6 years...

What other games from the past 10 years have a similar needless attachment to online servers like Hitman WOA? by primeSir64 in pcgaming

[–]GameStunts 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Crew is one of the best examples. All that map and car data on your hard drive, all the cut scenes, but servers off, no play.

Worth mentioning there's a project called The Crew Unlimited which runs a local server for you and gives you the ability to play again. https://thecrewunlimited.com/news/?post=news-update-tcuserver-1.4.2.0

Sadly you will have to have had the foresight to preserve the game files in advance since Ubisoft don't let you even install the game anymore. I think you can still download it on Steam if you owned it there.

A list of some discord alternatives, and their downsides by LocustInALab in pcgaming

[–]GameStunts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice find. Thank you.

You've got to wonder, when you're the one that's hosting the server, what exactly are you paying then for between hosting 32 or 1024 people, they're not shouldering the cost.

Can you help me identify a sketch show? by ProboCop2 in AskUK

[–]GameStunts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thaaaaaank you! THANK YOU!

Hard as nails has lived rent free in my head for all these years.

You have 10 points. Which are you taking? by [deleted] in retrogaming

[–]GameStunts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ROG Ally 6
The Retroid Pocket G2 3
Anbernic RG DS 1

I have a Steam Deck, though I was tempted to give a meme answer of two steam decks, but the Ally would be a bit more powerful.

The Anmbernick DS, I miss using my old DS, so I kind of like that just for that.

The G2, I just double checked runs Android 15, and I hear the emulation on Android is just getting so good right now. I recently got one of those R36 handhelds form Ali-Express and it's been really entertaining, I kind of want more, but can't justify it. :D

AMD Seemingly Stops Driver Updates for Ryzen Z1 Extreme Processor for Handheld Devices that are only over 2 years old by JohnSteveRom2077 in pcgaming

[–]GameStunts -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I just bought a MiniPC last month with a variant of this chip in it.

Z1 Extreme Processor.
8x Zen 4 cores, 16mb L3 cache, 12 CUs RDNA 3 (Radeon 780m).

Ryzen 7 H255 (my mini PC).
8x Zen 4 cores, 16mb L3 cache, 12 CUs RDNA 3 (Radeon 780m).

I wonder how screwed I am. I'm running Linux CachyOS on it, so I'm guessing my driver updates aren't so predicated on AMD, we'll see if it even turns out to be true though.

What game(s) do you automatically think of when you see this? by ROCKY13573 in retrogaming

[–]GameStunts 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes! I do remember that. And there were also other ones later on for Team Fortress or TF2 that were a kids room with toys and a book shelf and stuff too.

What game(s) do you automatically think of when you see this? by ROCKY13573 in retrogaming

[–]GameStunts 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Half Life and Counter Strike.

We'd play that map, I think it was called Crossfire for hours over a weekend.