General gaming discussion

MS would simply close the studio.

Still knocking through Grounded. It's such a great game. It doesn't hold your hand like other games with markers on where to find the labs. All done from exploring the garden and finding it yourself. I just done my third lab and need an upgraded knife to get in. It was pure guess work on my end. I was saying to myself I bet that is it and sure enough it was exactly how to get into the lab. But it was a challenge to get the upgraded knife parts that was need to enter the lab.

My eyes have blood shot veins atm, happens when I put big hours into a game in a short timespan. I have been playing Grounded constantly all weekend. Normally I'm a casual gamer but when a game hooks me in I cannot stop playing it. I'm even thinking about what to do in the game while in bed before I fall asleep.

I agree that it can depend on a variety of factors; how often you have to pick things up, is there an action of your character picking things up which affects movement speed, does picking up items mean they add to any kind of encumberence, are there items you'll never need and it becomes a burden to organise/remove/sell such items.

With Horizon in particular, you have to collect so many resources to craft all the different types of ammo and consumables, that pressing the button each time just becomes annoying. It pretty much becomes automatic because you're just pressing the button any time you're near something flashy on the ground regardless of what it is. The benefits of immersion aren't worth the hassle imo. At the very least they patched out the pickup animation for general resources.

To me it always feels like this (bar the box at the end)

Yeah, there's immersion and there's... "Ugh, I'm not even going to bother picking that up so i can avoid a mini cutscene".

I like that power up in games as well, usually when it's bringing currency or health to you. Like in Metroid Prim, charging teh beam sucks any missiles or energy to you.

But in games like Horizon and others, auto pickup is just so much handier instead of seeing something, going over to it, getting the angle just right to have the pickup prompt appear. Especially if in an area with multiple pickups - Press triangle, crouch and pick up, press triangle, crouch and pick up, turn slightly, press triangle, crouch and pick up, etc.

Immersion kinda goes out the window anyway when you open your inventory to see you're somehow carrying 100 branches plus everything else. 😀

It's one thing I hate in a lot of RPGs, where you collect so many different types of junk items, that instead of just being lumped together into one inventory "Assorted Junk" item, they clog up half the inventory. And to get rid, unless there's a "Sell all junk" option, you have to try sell or discard it all manually. But you also can't help but collect it all because when you're looting a box or body it's far easier to just select "Take all items" rather than sort through it.

Great thing about Fallout 3, NV and 4 was I could just store stuff in a bin any where in the game world and come back and they are still there. I used to loot a building and store stuff I wanted to sell in the bin and come back to it. But yea I still had to mange the inventory so it would be a lot easier if you could carry everything. I used to hate the encumbered thing in those games.

Starfield evolved this by letting you put items anywhere at all and it will still be there when you come back.

And that costs you everything.

This is so utterly disgusting, and the comments under their post are even more depressing. Lifetime bans are the least of what's required.

I think Mario Kart 8 on Switch is the only game I've ever played over the internet and you can pick from about 10 phrases in that, which seems very restrictive, but now I know why. And also it's another reason why Mario Kart 8 is one of the best selling games of all time. It does not exclude anyone. It even has steering assist for those who need it. The controls are super simple and so versatile at the same time.

Hard to even listen to that and to see the amount of people defending him, Jesus Christ. 'banter' my hole. That guy should be identified and called out, that's not a normal thing to say to someone.

Anyway, i have an awful hankering for the Red Dead Redemption remaster. I reinstalled RDR2 to play a bit of the Epilogue which i think i enjoyed more than the base game and add absolutely incredible it is too look at, it's a chore to play with the amount of realism and systems in place. RDR 1 was a much simpler game and the better for it imo.

I noticed Smyths selling it for 30 and cex offering 25 cash to buy back, seems like a good option.

There's 2 parts of the epilogue, the 1st part as you do missions learning to ranch and help people while meeting up with old friends. The 2nd part has got biting land and building Beechers Hope, your home from the first game, bang of nostalgia knowing what's to come. Such an easy going and enjoyable part of the game and definitely increases the want to replay the first game.