General gaming discussion

If anyone is ever missing what Days Gone 2 could have been, just visit a friend, and then right after you've left, call them on the phone for a chat while you're driving away.

I was having a look to try and find that old Eircom/Telecom Eireann ad of the 2 girls who spend all day together barely talking then when they get home phone each other.

But couldn't find it and instead got reminded that I don't know what a tracker mortgage is.

The other ones will be Bohan, Broker and Algonquin.

"Explore" isnt the word its more filler for them than anything as your not allowed explore in these games. The protagonist is forever telling you were to go constantly.

Watched the gameplay vid and at one point in the fish market spidey whilst looking for someone says " Where are you, Garage might lead to him" and lo and behold a garage with an little bit of yellow trim. Can Sony not help themselves by constantly telling gamers what to do and how to solve stuff.

I guess at least they are consistent and it does look very good.

Have you never played the first two games? That was in the middle of a scripted mission. You have complete freedom outside of those and lots of things to discover if you go exploring. Given how excellent the traversal mechanics are I'd go so far as to say it's one of the very most enjoyable games out there when it comes to exploring an open world.

I have played both, Yeah swinging is great but its not really exploring IMO as there is nothing to "discover" lots of stuff to collect, take photos and lots of crimes to stop ( I say lots there is around 3-5 constant set pieces that play out over and over). I couldn't care less for achievements/Trophies so filler does nothing for me as there is no need to do it.

Exploring to me is " That thing over there around 3 mountain ranges over looks interesting I will go thee " only to get side-tracked for around 15/20 times due to other stuff that looks more interesting. Obvious examples being Elden, RDR2 and BOTW/TOTK. Witcher less so as the map had only ? on it but at least you didnt know what you were going to and had side quests that were epic.

What the Spider-Man game did really well is replicating the feeling of being your friendly neighbourhood wall-crawler. Replayed the first one recently enough and I still love the feeling swinging down to a car chase in progress, and the combat was consistently enjoyable.

But it’s not really open world, Manhattan is more like a hub location that joins all of the missions together. You don’t explore it, you swing from A-B.

I am looking forward to the next one, but it’s interesting to see how much genuine invention they could add that makes it stand out from the others.

Friendly reminder that Warner Brothers absolutely suck for keeping the Nemesis system to themselves and doing sweet **** all with it.

Generally speaking, even if you win a patent case brought against you, you still loose. That's why corporations are hoarding patents even if they aren't actively using them, to keep them as a deterrent against others, in a You sue me I sue you kind of mutually assured destruction strategy, because actually going to court is extremely expensive and usually not worth it even if you win. So no game dev or publisher wants to even be put in that position, to go to court even when the win is pretty much guaranteed, and WB knows that.

I'm trying to find out what exactly is patented. Like, is it the exact system they use, or would something simple like a remake of Dead Ball Zone be breaching their patent? DBZ was a PS1 game where the other team players were either clean or violent towards you depending on your previous games with them. They'd target your best player if they were losing. Would that be a breach? From what I can tell, the wording is so vague that anything that even remotely resembles it might be in breach. I've no issues with patenting very specific things, but if it prevents any kind of npc "memory", it's another crappy move in the world of gaming.

You can't really patent a full game mechanic but you can a system.

So for example no one could patent the idea of a "shrinking playing area" and try to sue every battle royal out there.

But you could come up with a unique system that worked out a rate at which the ring shrunk based on multiple specific inputs and patent that.

As long as the other company showed their circle shrank based on different criteria it wouldn't infringe.

Same here, anyone can make a mechanic where the NPCs remember you based on your actions. But just not by using the same process WB does to create and call that data.

The original Road Rash on Megadrive was an absolute banger. Then i remember Road Rash 3D let you listen to the soundtrack and I just had Kid Rock 'Somebody's Gotta Feel This' on repeat. Goddamn the 90's were awesome.