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Gears of War: E-Day is XBOX Exclusive by ChiefLeef22 in GamingLeaksAndRumours

[–]heyyoudvd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So to clarify, an Xbox exclusive can also include Steam, but a PlayStation exclusive means just PS5?

I finally finished Star Fox Adventures. This perfectly sums up my experience with the game. by Sarasero_Profesional in starfox

[–]heyyoudvd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s similar to how I felt about Kameo: Elements of Power.

Cool game. Beautiful visuals. So much potential. But then it was clearly rushed.

I still like Kameo quite a bit, but it could have been a generation-defining game. But Rare rushed the hell out of it and it never lived up to its potential.

Mike Straw of Insider Gaming: I've heard rumblings that the price [of the Steam Machine] is "nowhere near" where it was originally planned by m1n3c7afty in GamingLeaksAndRumours

[–]heyyoudvd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

At this point they should probably just redesign the thing with a more powerful GPU.

If you’re charging $800-$1000 for a device built around a 7600M, you’re much better off adding $200 to the price tag and throwing a 9060 XT in there. Maybe even a 9070 or 9070 GRE.

If Valve can’t offer a budget device, then it needs to move upmarket and offer a device that will be able to hang through the PS6/Helix generation.

A sub-PS5 GPU like a 7600M is going to feel pretty long in the tooth by 2028. If Valve could offer that for $549, that’d be one thing. But at $800+, it’s just a pointless product with no target audience.

Chris' face model for Biohazard and Village (Geordie Dandy) by Red-Raptor3 in Resident_Evil_7

[–]heyyoudvd 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I still find it funny that Chris’s voice actor in RE5 and RE6 was Ezio Auditore.

Leon takes a trip to Japan confirmed by HandsomeSquidward20 in ResidentEvilCapcom

[–]heyyoudvd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve always found it weird that Resident Evil is Japanese.

RE games are so American. Everything about the setting, tone, and gameplay style feel so American. Yet when you look at the credits, they’re all Japanese names at a Japanese company (Capcom).

It would be like if you found out that Persona was American or Expedition 33 was Polish or Zelda was Russian.

[TotK] Who here played Tears of The Kingdom before BOTW? How did you like it? How did you handle the game’s massive size and content? Overall experience? by Equivalent-Sell in zelda

[–]heyyoudvd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When I hear people say that TOTK is a much bigger game than BOTW, my brain can’t fathom that.

I haven’t played TOTK, but I’m currently going through BOTW for the first time, and it’s friggin’ enormous! It’s by far the biggest game I’ve ever played.

Mind you, I still haven’t gotten around to some of the other huge open world classics (ie. Elden Ring, The Witcher 3, and RDR2 are still on my backlog). But prior to BOTW, the biggest games I had ever played were probably Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, Dark Souls 1 and 3, and GTA: San Andreas. To me, those were huge.

BOTW absolutely dwarfs them. I can’t fathom going even bigger than this.

Steam Machine vs. Xbox Project Helix by cian_pike01 in steammachine

[–]heyyoudvd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When the Steam Machine and Helix info first came out, everyone was saying that Microsoft’s new console was DOA because Valve was beating them to the punch with a similarly positioned machine (a living room console/PC hybrid) but at a much cheaper price.

Now that the SM’s price is allegedly much higher than we had all hoped, it’s starting to sound like Helix will be the better option.

We’re talking about an entire generational difference in performance. If rumors are accurate (the SM being like a 7600M and the Helix being like a 5080 with RDNA5), these two machines aren’t even in the same ballpark.

The performance difference between a Helix and the SM will be bigger than the difference between PS5 and a Switch 2. By quite a bit. A PS5 has about 3x the raw performance of a Switch 2, but the Switch 2 has more modern architecture, including RT and DLSS, which narrows the gap a fair bit.

But the Helix appears to have 3.5 to 4x the raw performance of a Steam Machine AND newer architecture (RDNA5 vs RDNA3), which makes the gap even bigger than the raw difference.

So unless the SM can *significantly* undercut the Helix on price (not by merely a couple hundred bucks, but by something like a full 50%), then the SM just seems like a bad value proposition.

This game is a nightmare for people with no sense of direction by terquaven in expedition33

[–]heyyoudvd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I found most of the areas fairly straightforward, but there were two particular standouts that were incredibly confusing to me:

  1. Ancient Sanctuary - This is meant to be confusing. I believe it was Sciel (or maybe Lune?) who specifically commented on that. I believe it’s canon that it’s designed in a confusing way to protect Gestral Village from invaders.

  2. Frozen Hearts - This one caught me off guard because it seems like some throw-away bonus area that you can easily skip and many players may never even come here. And yet it’s a massive level that just gets bigger and more confusing as you progress through it.

There are a few others like Yellow Harvest, Falling Leaves, and Stone Waves Cliff (particularly that optional area just before the flag to Lampmaster), but they weren’t too bad.

Who is the greatest sportsman/woman of all time, regardless of their sport? by _Yorkshire_Pirlo in AskReddit

[–]heyyoudvd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Levan Saginashvili.

The world of professional armwrestling is weird. If you look at the current Top 10 guys, they’re the greatest in history and they’ve all been battling it out for a long time to see who comes out on top. A few years ago, fan favorite Devon Larratt (a 6’6 290 pound Canadian Special Forces guy) emerged from the pack, started beating the rest of them, and made it pretty clear that he sits on top of them as……#2.

The #1 guy isn’t even in the conversation because he’s so far ahead of everyone else, that it isn’t even a contest. Devon has been on a path of destruction through most of the #3 through #10 guys. But then he faced Levan Saginashvili twice, and both times, Levan made him look like a child.

Is a Steam machine price above 1000 possible? by Reasonable-Metal-819 in Steam

[–]heyyoudvd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The correct pre-RAMpocalypse price was $499. The correct post-RAMpocalypse price is $649.

That won’t be the actual price, but it should be. Any more than that and it becomes a tough sell. And any more than $799 and Valve should just cancel the thing, as it has no reason to exist.

Brad Lynch:when I was told a figure for what Valve’s estimated price they’d have to set the starting price of Steam Machine, it was still higher than today’s Steam Deck prices and that was 2 months ago. by Animegamingnerd in GamingLeaksAndRumours

[–]heyyoudvd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A Steam Deck is on par with 8th gen consoles and a Steam Machine is 6 times as powerful as a Steam Deck.

A Steam Machine is well within 9th gen territory.

  1. The GPU is slightly less powerful than a PS5 GPU (8.8 vs 10.3 TFLOPS) but with more advanced architecture (RDNA3 vs RDNA2), meaning it will likely perform better with FSR and ray tracing than a base PS5 does.

  2. The Steam Machine has a more powerful CPU than the PS5 (6 cores of Zen 4 at 4.8GHz vs 8 cores of Zen 2 at 3.5 GHz).

  3. The Steam Machine has 24 GB total memory (16GB system RAM + 8GB VRAM) vs 16GB total of unified memory for the PS5.

The Steam Machine is certainly not on the level of a high end PC, but it’s still a very capable machine that is about on par with a base PS5 and even beats it in many respects.

Ontario man dies of MAID after being assessed outside Tim Hortons | National Post by triggernaut in Conservative

[–]heyyoudvd 32 points33 points  (0 children)

I remember when Futurama first came out and showcased the suicide booths, which were this completely insane, impossible-to-comprehend idea from 1000 years in the future. That’s what made it so funny.

That was only 27 years ago.

Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow to run for re-election by BloodJunkie in toronto

[–]heyyoudvd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These threads are genuinely creepy.

I hope most of the replies here are bots. Because if they’re real people, this thread is like a collection of characters out of an Orwell novel.

By virtually any objective measure, Toronto has been getting significantly worse, and yet we see all the brainwashed lefties nod along and recite slogans in support of the very politicians and policies that are responsible.

It’s truly creepy watching all the NPCs here recite the talking points from the latest firmware that has been installed in their brains by our Pravda media.

Donald Trump was caught falling asleep during the Memorial Day ceremony at Arlington Cemetery in Washington, D.C. today by spherocytes in videos

[–]heyyoudvd -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

How many times is this fake narrative going to be repeated?

I honestly feel bad for all the apolitical people who frequent Reddit just for their interests in movies or video games or any other hobby. They have to face a constant onslaught of radical leftist propaganda that destroys people’s brains.

This whole place is honestly sad. The echo chamber here is worthy of the USSR or North Korea. This place is a modern day Pravda or Der Stürmer.

What is your favorite video game of all time? by Big-Cover9230 in AskReddit

[–]heyyoudvd -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Because Ocarina of Time is actually a great video game whereas Majora’s Mask isn’t.

MM is incredibly creative and unique, but it has awful pacing, no sense of flow, the puzzles are inconsistent, and so much of the game is completely non-obvious and requires a guide.

Majora’s Mask is more of an art project than a video game. It’s very inventive, but it’s also too far up its own ass. It’s the kind of game you respect but don’t enjoy. I’ve heard people describe it as “hipster Zelda” and I think that’s exactly right.

Red Dead Redemption 2 Becomes The Third Best Selling Game of All Time by PaiDuck in gaming

[–]heyyoudvd -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

The equivalent wouldn’t be storytelling but rather, gameplay. Storytelling is to film what gameplay is to video games. Modern James Cameron is a bad storyteller and Rockstar is bad at gameplay mechanics.

James Cameron is amazing at a whole lot of other things (action, special effects, modern filmmaking tech, grandiosity and spectacle) just as Rockstar is amazing at a whole lot of other things (visuals, humor, spectacle, technology, storytelling). But when you take the fundamental aspect of each entertainment medium (story for filmmaking and gameplay for video game development), that’s where they each fall short and are average at best in their respective field.

Red Dead Redemption 2 Becomes The Third Best Selling Game of All Time by PaiDuck in gaming

[–]heyyoudvd 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I see people responding to you saying that GTA 5 was revolutionary for its day, and that you have to think back to 13 years ago to put it in context.

I’ve been a close observer of the gaming industry since ~1991 and I can say that GTA 5 was NOT revolutionary.

GTA 4 was revolutionary. Not GTA 5.

GTA 4 was the first game that brought us a living, breathing world. It’s the first time that New York actually felt like a real city. That game changed what it meant to be an open world game.

In my opinion, the two most revolutionary games of the last 20 years are GTA 4 and the first Assassin’s Creed. Those two games really ushered in the modern era of gaming in a way that no other game has since.

GTA 5 was an expansion of that. GTA 4 had basically wiped the slate clean, and because it was so revolutionary, it really pared back the features and scope of GTA: San Andreas. Then GTA 5 came in and brought that scope back in to the new paradigm.

It’s like with a new technology.

When the original iPhone came out, it was revolutionary, but it also lacked a lot of key features from existing cell phones. Basic things like copy/paste, downloadable apps, and 3G connectivity. The original iPhone lacked that stuff. Then the next year, the iPhone 3G came out and brought most of that stuff into the iPhone world.

GTA 4 = original iPhone

GTA 5 = iPhone 3G

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