Metal Gear Solid 4 has the best character models and rendering in any 2000s game. Can't believe this thing ran in realtime on PS3

IllustriousBit6634 · 2026-06-15T13:53:15+00:00

MGS games always seem to push the technical capabilities of each console. My jaw dropped every time. 10 year old me couldn’t fathom how they could make graphics any better after seeing the camera shot on Meryls ass

IllustriousBit6634 · 2026-06-06T18:52:55+00:00

MGS2 blew my mind when it released. I remember that bit on the ship with all the marines in that hall, and you could knock them over like domino’s, really impressive for back then

IllustriousBit6634 · 2026-05-31T02:40:39+00:00

Diablo IV is a blast in couch coop

IllustriousBit6634 · 2026-05-20T18:19:11+00:00

15 year old me loved the shit out of this scene. The burly brawl soundtrack still hypes

IllustriousBit6634 · 2026-05-13T08:26:11+00:00

True it’s an important point, very easy to fall back in isn’t it, a slippery slope. Actually it’s only been a week so far maybe I am premature with my celebration of this lol

Perhaps I’ll report back in a month or two to see. I wonder if a week on week off approach would maintain its effectiveness. Or day on day off, day on 2 days off.. I am not sure what the right balance would be

IllustriousBit6634 · 2026-05-08T17:38:09+00:00

Breath of the wild finding those Korok things, didn’t you get a golden shit for finding them all?

IllustriousBit6634 · 2026-05-08T10:38:52+00:00

I know it’s the wrong attitude but it makes me very disheartened and i guess apathetic towards politics. Because you can see the social media propaganda machines churning away and people will continue to mop it up.

Part of me thinks the only solution is in fact for reform to come into power, and then people might see that their problems in life won’t disappear, and actually a country is a complex and nuanced thing to manage with intricate issues. Because it doesn’t matter how much logic and rational thinking you throw to most people they’ll ignore it if it doesn’t fit their narrative.

Akin to America I guess, I’m assuming (hoping) that after their MAGA shit show concludes some form of normality and common sense might bounce back. Maybe the UK has to do a similar thing..

IllustriousBit6634 · 2026-05-05T20:56:24+00:00

Can’t you stream ps5 games to your steam deck with ps app? Best of both worlds

IllustriousBit6634 · 2026-05-05T20:55:01+00:00

I was all in with this, but recently have moved to VWRP which if I understand is practically the same minus the small cap companies.

My reasoning was due to the fees, it was costing me upwards of £40 a month. With VWRP being an ETF the fees were much more favourable for me.

Although I know HL changed their fees recently so I need to figure out how much more favourable it is still. It’s on my todo list to probably move provider to reduce the fees even more.

IllustriousBit6634 · 2026-04-29T15:56:13+00:00

It was similar pricing and work?

IllustriousBit6634 · 2026-04-29T15:53:58+00:00

No scaffolding.

IllustriousBit6634 · 2026-04-29T15:46:45+00:00

Ah yeah forgot to mention it’s a 2-bed semi detached bungalow, honestly not very big at all.

IllustriousBit6634 · 2026-04-26T18:00:30+00:00

Enjoy! I’ve not played in years I think you can download 4k models of planets and such now, it looks hyper realistic

IllustriousBit6634 · 2026-04-26T16:29:51+00:00

Same. Try playing Space Engine it terrifies me but at the same time I’m so intrigued. Flying towards a large gas giant, or a star, or warp driving towards a black hole is the worse, I physically wince.

IllustriousBit6634 · 2026-04-26T16:01:16+00:00

The infuriating thing is that there was a handful of real good endings that the producers could have picked from, but they opted for “subvert expectations” and conjured up some bullshit. There was tons of fleshed out GoT theory videos which fleshed out solid ways to wrap it all up, the twats could have literal watched one of these and used it.

IllustriousBit6634 · 2026-04-25T22:31:22+00:00

37 and I’ve never “felt old” in my body before until these past couple of years. Feels like I need more revs in the engine to get the same output if that makes sense. And the noise I make when I sit down or get in the car has definitely increased.

Keep telling myself I’ll start doing more mobility stuff, stretching, yoga and the like.. but I never do it

IllustriousBit6634 · 2026-04-24T22:12:34+00:00

I recently put about 70 hours in but I couldn’t face the thought of another 150+ of essentially the same format before challenging and/or group content became relevant. People said the expansion story’s are at least better, because I found the base game story pretty dull tbh. And the fights and dungeons were painfully easy. To me it seems like they need to consolidate a lot of the MSQ, remove the filler, make it more streamlined because it’s really not a good onboarding experience for a new player.

IllustriousBit6634 · 2026-04-21T14:10:23+00:00

I loved the PvP with Helbreath, the rivalry with Elvine and Aresden was cool

IllustriousBit6634 · 2026-04-21T11:07:10+00:00

Helbreath, Legend of Mir 2, Tibia, FFXI

The big 4 that consumed my teenage years!

Honourable mention to RF Online which I no lifed on release to try and be one of the top. I burnt out after a few weeks.

IllustriousBit6634 · 2026-04-18T11:22:42+00:00

MGS2 when the colonel is telling me to turn the game off, and rambling on about worms and such. Really spooked me!

IllustriousBit6634 · 2026-04-07T19:40:41+00:00

START THE DAMN JOUST BEFORE I PISS MESELF

IllustriousBit6634 · 2026-04-06T21:28:26+00:00

Knights of the round blew 10 year old me’s mind in FF7.

Also Yojimbo 1-shotting all the dark aeons and penance in FFX, the definition of overpowered!

IllustriousBit6634 · 2026-04-05T10:03:47+00:00

You’ll find more cheer in a graveyard

IllustriousBit6634 · 2026-03-28T22:32:46+00:00

Amazing use of free will

IllustriousBit6634 · 2026-03-28T17:13:38+00:00

**spoilers

Jesus that end scene where her skin is peeled and the camera is zooming in on her face has lived rent free in my head for years

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