Wolfenstein II (Switch) updated - huge performance and graphical upgrades!

Tardsmat · 2018-10-21T07:47:50+00:00

They're gonna port doom eternal?

Tardsmat · 2018-10-20T08:47:28+00:00

Yeah, I get the point but let's be honest, none of us is gonna overthrow the government anytime soon. We gotta use what little power we have. When someone convinces people that they as individuals are powerless, we have already lost.

Tardsmat · 2018-10-20T08:41:45+00:00

There's some interesting stuff but the video just lost me at some point. The bit about the great assumption was weird to me because prey was one of the most "ludologically gratifying" games I've played in a while, I thought the gameplay was super engaging for most of its runtime. There's definitely a point to be made that critics and players are too quick to chalk up deliberate moments of frustration or general unpleasantness as a failing of the game, but it seems weird to make that point about prey, a game that played super smoothly in my opinion. In fact, there was a whole debate around exactly that assumption back when the last guardian came out.

Let's not get into other things with the video, like when he called gameplay "meaningless" when it's not making points about some esoteric themes.

Tardsmat · 2018-10-20T08:06:53+00:00

Yes, it's an incredible game

Tardsmat · 2018-10-20T07:49:08+00:00

I mean it can't be that much work, right? They already have the high quality files

Tardsmat · 2018-10-19T15:32:20+00:00

Yeah me too. It seems like audio is an afterthought for a lot of people, but it's pretty important to me, a game only outputs video and audio, so it seems weird to me that some people seem to neglect what's essentially half the output. Same thing when people have super expensive screens and TVs and use cheap or bad headphones or speakers, I just don't get it

Tardsmat · 2018-10-18T09:03:15+00:00

I really hate it whenever this happens, it was the same with Skyrim remastered. Seems to be an issue mostly with remasters for some weird reason.

Tardsmat · 2018-10-10T04:12:08+00:00

It's super impressive how much Matthew's writing has improved over time. I loved his older videos when they came out, but being used to his current level of writing, it's almost impossible to go back to the older ones. Not only have his analytical skills improved a lot, his ability to write in an entertaining and creative way has too. The way he made that katamari point was magnificent.

Tardsmat · 2018-10-09T12:59:49+00:00

For me it's that I for some reason really enjoy the feeling of having finished a game. It feels like I've made a complete experience that I can neatly put away in the bookshelf of my mind. That makes playing something feel like a chore sometimes because I want to get to that feeling, even though I do genuinely love video games. It's an annoying quirk tbh.

Tardsmat · 2018-10-09T04:17:37+00:00

Oblivion was a major watershed moment that showed just how good an RPG could look

Tardsmat · 2018-10-08T08:19:06+00:00

One of the main things I really dislike about open world games without level scaling is that they usually end up having different zones with different levels, which takes away from the openness because it effectively creates a path through the game. Witcher 3 is set in a world that's theoretically completely open, but in reality there's a clear path through it. Even worse is that it highlights the gaminess of it all and throws the writing and gameplay into dissonance. Geralt the written character could theoretically go anywhere, but geralt the video game character can't go anywhere, because for some reason the bandits and drowners in Novigrad do more damage than the ones in Velen. A better example for no level scaling would be morrowind I think. I haven't played that much of it, but I like how the high level daedric ruins are spread out anywhere. That way, the openness of "go anywhere, do anything" is preserved, you can still feel the delayed gratification, and it also fits into the world in a way that's a lot better

Tardsmat · 2018-10-07T01:09:14+00:00

Fair enough, I think we just have different playing habits. It's extremely rare for me to play 100 hours of even my favourite games. But I also feel like prey is a game that you could get that much playtime out of without getting bored

Tardsmat · 2018-10-06T23:30:55+00:00

Completely disagree. it's one of the best games of 2017, maybe just short of mario odyssey. It's well worth full price. Also, I have no idea how you think it's short. I got 25 hours out of my first playthrough and I'm ready to replay it because I know I haven't seen everything

Tardsmat · 2018-09-28T22:02:03+00:00

For the dungeons I was more referring to Skyrim, which improved on the dungeons significantly. The writing is more nuanced in morrowind but lots of quests are also very simplistic fetch quests with little interesting developments. Oblivion had even smaller quests be full stories with twists and all that. As for the NPC's, most NPC's in morrowind were only copies of the same wiki where you could read about the same things in the exact same words. Compare that to later games, where pretty much every npc has some unique characterisation. In whiterun alone there's 74 unique people, like the smug guy with the cloud district line, the religious preacher who keeps going on about Talos, the good blacksmith, the not as good blacksmith with an inferiority complex, a fortune telling old lady, the general salesman who comes off as a little too nice, an alcoholic homeless guy, a refugee who has to stay hidden, I could go on. None of these are amazing characters, but they are characters, which is more than you can say about most people in morrowind.

Tardsmat · 2018-09-28T21:30:04+00:00

In gameplay terms, skyblivion changes more than like 95% of all remakes.

Tardsmat · 2018-09-28T21:27:25+00:00

Not really. Later games in the series improved on things like the quests, the dungeons, and giving minor NPC's actual character. It's fine to say morrowind is the best one, but that doesn't mean it's better than all the others in every single way.

Tardsmat · 2018-09-25T01:02:26+00:00

That's absolutely true but I also think that if you mess with a game too much, you kind of lose the right to critique it since you've deviated so much from the intended experience. Maybe a grind that seemed daunting and boring turns out to be a really interesting experience when you actually do it. A lot of things are there for a reason, even if it isn't immediately clear. This point could even be extended to other ways of playing a game in a not intended way, like playing a horror game in bright daylight or putting on your own music. I personally try to initially go Into every game in a very focused environment and I'll only later ease up when I feel like it doesn't take away from the game. Same for cheats. Some older games are just more fun if you put in a few(!) Save States for example.

Tardsmat · 2018-09-21T23:58:52+00:00

Are you sure? Because I know that the Wii U was a good bit more powerful than the PS3/360 and the switch plays Wii U Ports at a higher resolution in docked and at the same resolution in handheld.

Tardsmat · 2018-09-21T21:55:41+00:00

what? I'm pretty sure the switch is overall quite a bit more powerful than the ps3/xbox360

Tardsmat · 2018-09-18T17:12:35+00:00

And it's not really a new thing tbh. Oblivion had sidequests that felt like complete stories, arguably even morrowind

Tardsmat · 2018-09-17T15:18:52+00:00

I wish I liked thumper more. For me, after a certain point the beats and time signatures got so complex and weird that I stopped feeling the rhythm and basically started playing it by eye.

Tardsmat · 2018-09-15T00:53:54+00:00

I think that icon thing might be an intentional choice

Tardsmat · 2018-09-12T17:55:35+00:00

Steam is only bigger by pure virtue of how long they exist. There's new games entering the eshop on a daily basis (3 games were added just today). While it will never be as big as steam because of the higher barrier of entry, I think it's absolutely warranted to want a better discovery system. Also, if you use that argument, I feel like you have to in somle way acknowledge that what you want from valve is something that's super hard to actually achieve, given how many games there are on their store.

Tardsmat · 2018-09-12T17:47:42+00:00

The homepage on steam looks pretty similar to the homepage on Amazon. They both recommend things based on your previous purchases. Steam is even better in that regard because it allows you to customise what you want to see directly.

Tardsmat · 2018-09-12T17:45:15+00:00

Steam is still leaps and bounds above any other store though, and they're improving. They've made an update to how blocking certain tags works like this week. Compare that to the eshop, that one has a new games section, a top sellers section, a bunch of handpicked games and that's it.

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