DeadSlash

April is almost here...

The demo is live on Steam, FYI.

1 hour ago, Dazey said:

So far I think it's excellent. I love the RPG(ish) elements re leveling up etc. Bizarrely the one thing that I'm really loving is the new automap which is a massive improvement over Doom 2016. It's got my OCD going something crazy. I've been obsessively wandering to every little corner of all the maps just to ensure that it's all painted green.  

I was loving it at first also, 2 things wore on me REALLY fast:

1. Incessant parkour. It's much more of a platformer than any other Doom.  It got formulaic really fast.  Skirmish, then dead end, look around find path to jump across map.

2. Not enough ammo. ffs.  I have ammo almost maxed, I can unlock one more ammo slot in my suit, it will bring me to a staggering 24 shotgun shells up from the 16 you start with.  Essentially, the way you fight is pretty set in stone: Exhaust your ammo, hit chainsaw attack to restock, repeat as needed.  Even with ammo capacity maxed out, EVERY weapon only lasts about 5-7 seconds in an intense firefight before exhausting all of it's ammo.

It's driving me nuts that you max out at 12 possible shots from the most iconic weapon in video game history, the double barrel shotgun!

I am actually splitting time between Doom Eternal and Doom64.  At first I was like "What is everyone bitching about?"  Then it got old fast.  See if the same happens to you or not.

PS. I like the map too, you can power it up btw, so it gets even better later.

1 minute ago, Oldest Goat said:

I heard Bethesda cut Deathmatch?!

Honestly I'm so tired of their bullshit. Tod Howard needs to stfu

Yeah, Death match will presumably come later.   They really shit up this game.  idk how you could blow a Doom game ffs, but like life in Jurassic Park, Bethesda found a way.

Doom Eternal is really disappointing imo.  The best part about it is that I got a full PC mod of the N64 version.

The game is much more platformer and RPG than Doom, and it's a real shame.  I wanted Doom, not "Mirrors Edge Demonic mix."

3 hours ago, downzy said:

Bought RE2 three months ago and just getting a chance to play it now.

Really weird time to be playing that game.  

Yeah, it's creeping from scifi to "ripped from the headlines"

Doom Eternal AND The Resident Evil 3 remake Demo go live on the 20th, so all other games will be irrelevant!

PS. Anyone who played the demo of re:RE2, Capcom isn't limiting the re:RE3 demo in the same way, no time restrictions.

On 12/31/2019 at 6:12 AM, jackparker123 said:

It's taken me 15 years but Don't Damn Me has finally really grown on me.

I used to always skip it when I was younger.

It could have maybe even been on Appetite, or at least a terrific B-side in that era.

IDK your age but I was alive and had AFD when it was their only album, I was in 7th grade when it came out.  Almost all of Illusions had to grow on me, I was looking for AFD II and was massively disappointed when it first came out!  It seems hard to fathom, even for me when I think about it now, but it's true.

My initial reaction to Civil War was like "WTF is This?"  My tastes eventually matured, and outside of "My World" I love every other song on Illusions.  GnR has had more growers for me than any other band, ever!

I've always found it ironic that a game called *FINAL* anything has like 19 sequels.

10 hours ago, downzy said:

It's funny to hear about a game franchise you had no idea existed but somehow on its fourth iteration.  

That's pretty funny because I had a similar thought when I discovered it.  I knew of "Sniper Elite" but had never heard of Their Zombie Army spinoff until 1-3 was repackaged as a trilogy a few years back.  I assumed I was just retarded.

This is clearly an under the radar title.

The game is getting a 75-85ish reception, but it's way better than that.  If you played the past titles, it's worth grabbing.

I want to pre-order one with a statue, but it looks like I'll have to get a PS4 one for that.  PC doesn't seem to have a special edition?!?

Don't watch that much TV always made sense to me, but even more so now...  When people ask me if I saw who the masked singer was or about some shit on Facebook or twitter and I'm like "Nope."

1 hour ago, RussTCB said:

Honestly, yeah. The leaks didn't do a whole lot for me. I listened to the ones with vocals a handful of times, but that was it. I never even bothered listening to much of the instrumental stuff. 

I didn't care for anything without vocals either, but Perhaps, SOG and Hard School were really good imo, good enough to put it in front of many, many other years of nothingness. 

10 minutes ago, RussTCB said:

2019 was the lowest point as a GNR fan, at least for me. 

Really?  With all the unheard shit we got?  I could certainly find a lot of other years that I would rank below 2019!

On 6/13/2019 at 1:51 PM, FRANSAD said:

 they also got rid of the kiddy image nintendo consoles use to have.

Not really, when I texted my friend that I bought a Switch, he replied back "Holy shit, I didn't know you had a kid!"

Never realized how similar the riffs were.  Did GnR kinda rip it off?

Umm, oops.  I didn't realize it was ANY links, thought it was GnR links.

Look up "Egg raid on Mojo" by the Beastie boys, it's the same riff as ISO

On 12/14/2019 at 8:15 PM, F*ck Fear said:

I don't think I've listened to one album that has been released in 2019.

It's a weird time in gaming, console titles dominate sales, PC titles are on the rebound, and mobile gaming is surging and making the most money.   It always seems like someone is "going to win" but so far, the market is there for 3 different approaches to gaming.

2 hours ago, downzy said:

Yeah, the thought definitely crossed my mind.

I remember when Watch Dogs was first revealed it looked amazing.  The final product: not so much.

Guess we'll have to see.  

Yeah, it's something we see in games a lot.  I hope it's at least close to what is being shown.  

I've always had a bee in my bonnet about consoles BSing on pre-release stuff, ever since 99 when I was managing a Babbage's looking for a real job after college.  The internet wasn't what it is today, and there was SOOOO much misinformation about the PS2 and people would talk/ask me about it all the time because I was working in a videogame store.  It was a purposeful move on Sony's part, even their reps would just straight out lie about the PS2 when they would visit the store.  One of my favorite(most despised?) rumors I've mentioned before, the PS2 was so powerful, there was going to be a shortage because it's deliveries would need military escorts.  If a bad actor got a hold of something as powerful as a PS2, it could take over entire countries...   <------ that was a fucking thing.

I think their most famous lie was "Toy Story 2 graphics"

***** Are there specs on this yet?

I'll tell you what my biggest concern is with what we are seeing from the new consoles, a lot of what is either being assumed/presented as in-game "real time" visuals isn't.

Sony has a long track record of this, I'm not as sure about Microsoft but here's the bottom line:

If you know PC hardware and console hardware, whatever is in the console is always a few years behind PC in raw power.  The console version is ALWAYS well optimized, and looks and performs better than it's PC counterpart, but visuals that are unattainable on CURRENT PC hardware WILL NOT be attainable on a console released next year.  I haven't looked it up yet, but the GPU in the next gen consoles will probably be the equivalent of the 9 or 10 series Nvidia chips, around 2020 of next year the 30 series should be out. The 30 series will probably be $1500 to $2k a card.  You will not get anything that powerful in a $400-$800 console.

There are visuals being shown (I didn't spend a lot of time on the XbX reveal posted here, but I've seen some PS ones) that are better than anything that is on the PC market.  Those are bullshit.  They won't happen.  There is some admission of this when companies say they are "anticipating" more powerful tech, but WE KNOW that the GPU will HAVE to be a few gens old in order to be affordable, it's a bit disingenuous for their marketing to hide behind the "It might be invented by next year" line, because even if it was, it wouldn't be priced to go with a console.

All tis being said, I'm still going to get one.  All I'm saying is it won't look it does in the hype package.

Holy shit, April?  I'm soooooo stoked for this game.  Huge RE fan, reRE2 is my favorite remake of all time.

I guess first come first serve is fair.  I have copy from Humble Bundle and I already own it.

1 minute ago, DeadSlash said:

I guess first come first serve is fair.  I have copy from Humble Bundle and I already own it.

I'll PM the key to whoever wants it.

PS.  This is legal and allowed by Humble Bundle, I don't need any of your info, I'll just send you a key.

21 hours ago, spunko12345 said:

Does anyone know how to get rid of mice or a mouse? Fast. I was watching tv this morning and a fucking mouse ran across the living room floor. I will admit i froze. I cannot fucking bear the thought of it. Any methods of getting rid of this cunt would be most appreciated.  The less humane the better.

It's something primal, mice skeeve me out and it's really nonsensical because I've had pets in the past that ate live mice.... A white mouse is like ezpz, but a live mouse in the wild and I'll jump on a fucking chair.

If you REALLY want to be a dick, the good sized have-a-heart traps (ironically) are really fucked.  They hold like 20 mice, so you throw a little bit of food in, and they come in, then eat each other.  It's fucking mouse thunderdome.  It's brutal.

On 10/17/2019 at 7:45 AM, megaguns1982 said:

They could sound good if Axl could be bothered, but doubtful..

the AC/DC thing proved he can still sing great but god only knows why he doesn't with GNR.

Deep down, as hard as it might be to believe, famous people are actually people, just like you or I.

Axl got to live a dream doing the Axl/DC thing.  

It's classic or it isn't.  Beatles songs don't get worse because they aren't releasing new music.