RxBrad
@RxBrad@infosec.pub
The Internet is bad.
- Comment on Nintendo filed a lawsuit against Pocketpair, Inc. 14 hours ago:
Wait until they make all the money that was to be made on their game.
Then yoink all of that money.
- Comment on Sony announces the PS5 Pro with a larger GPU, advanced ray tracing, and AI upscaling 1 week ago:
That optimization part is what worries me. I still remember games like Control & Cyberpunk being basically unplayable unless you had a PS4 Pro.
- Comment on Fake Pokémon Cartridge Spotted At GameStop Raises Concerns Among Retro Gamers 1 week ago:
I’m surprised that they don’t take even a minimal amount of effort to clean those things up before selling it. A little dab of isopropryl alcohol does wonders.
That cartridge looks like it spent the last 20 years in a butt.
- Comment on Fake Pokémon Cartridge Spotted At GameStop Raises Concerns Among Retro Gamers 1 week ago:
Someone buys fake on eBay. Plays it. Sells it to Gamestop. Minimum wage employee does not spot that it’s fake and it ends up on the used game shelf.
None of this is new.
- Comment on Avowed Runs at 30fps on Xbox Series X and S, Obsidian Confirms 3 weeks ago:
Consoles are $500 gaming machines, generally capable of about 30fps in games. It’s no different for Microsoft or Sony.
And Nintendo… Well, Nintendo is Nintendo.
The bean counters have decided that people don’t want to spend more than that on videogame consoles. If you want more fps, luckily everything gets a PC port nowadays; and your almost-certainly-more-than-$500 rig can handle that.
It is what it is.
- Comment on Avowed Runs at 30fps on Xbox Series X and S, Obsidian Confirms 3 weeks ago:
That was an option on console for most of the generation so far: Performance Mode vs. Quality Mode. But that’s mostly because nearly every game released so far has been a hastily ported last-gen title. It feels like this gen has really just barely started.
Single-player console games being 30fps is not new by any stretch. That’s basically what consoles do. And they’ve managed pretty well with it so far. If you want to spend 2-3x more on a beefy PC, you can get all the frames you want. More power to you.
20 years ago… Skyrim, Fallout, The Last of Us 1, GTA4 on PS3/360 gen. 30fps.
10 years ago… God of War, Gears of War single-player, Fallout 4, The Last of Us 2 on PS4/XBoxOne gen. Also 30fps.
- Comment on Avowed Runs at 30fps on Xbox Series X and S, Obsidian Confirms 3 weeks ago:
Luckily, this is about as much of a FPS as Skyrim.
Skyrim, too, was 30fps when it first released on PS3/360 back in 2011. None of this is new.
- Comment on Avowed Runs at 30fps on Xbox Series X and S, Obsidian Confirms 3 weeks ago:
Both can be true.
I mean… 30fps has been the single-player console experience for as long as I can remember. (Except for the PS4/XboxOne-native games – seemingly this entire generation – which get 60fps on current gen.)
Yes, PC can do 60fps+ if your rig is beefy enough. Yay.
Console wars bullshit is insufferable. Even when PC is one of the consoles.
- Comment on Aftermath: Valve’s Baffling Deadlock Decisions Don’t Need Defending 5 weeks ago:
“But I must defend everything Daddy GabeN does!” ~ half of internet commenters, apparently
- Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO 5 weeks ago:
Congratulations. Your new position is…
Boardroom Table.
- Comment on Lemmy's what are your favorite gaming podcasts? 1 month ago:
They’re still around. It’s just very different since COVID happened. And I’m old.
- Comment on Lemmy's what are your favorite gaming podcasts? 1 month ago:
- Nextlander
- Fire Escape
- Jeff Gerstmann
(Yes, I’m a Giant Bomb refugee.)