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Doom 1993 when I played it in 1995 on my old IBM Aptiva. From then on it was the usual suspects of Doom II, Final Doom, Heretic, Hexen, Duke Nukem, Quake, Unreal, GoldenEye, Half Life, Unreal Tournament, Quake 3 Arena, Medal of Honour: Allied Assault, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Perfect Dark, Counter Strike, Project IGI, SWAT 3, No One Lives Forever, Kingpin, Battlefield 1942, Call of Duty, Halo etc.. Crazy to think how FPS games evolved within a 10 year period back then and the sheer variety available. Going from Doom to Half Life in just 5 years was nuts although as I was younger, five years felt like an eternity. You also had some iconic first person immersive sims like the ground-breaking Deus Ex and System Shock 2. I still have quite a few of the big boxed PC games in storage although everything after 2001 was DVD cases.
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The cinematic looks fantastic but I am very weary of modern day Blizzard and the overriding impact Activision has. So many big names have left the studio over the years that it's gonna be very difficult to reproduce what they once had and Activision just can't help themselves to ruin their franchise just to grab little more money out of players. I do feel the Warcraft side of the series (minus Reforged) is the strongest the studio has to offer though so they may surprise the cynics but the rest of the company is a bloody travesty. -
The EOMM (aka SBMM) is beyond any developer now - it's definitely written and implemented by a specialist uncredited third party team off the back of Activision's concept patents and I'd say its even past Demonware's pay grades as they are more services-based. It's definitely gaming's closest guarded secret right now and although developers know roughly how it functions as a concept (i.e drive engagement and milk the community via willing payees) they probably don't know the precise true functionality or wont speculate because deep down they know just like FIFA, there is artificial manipulations in play that would severely damage the game. They'd be better off just coming clean because it wont make a blind bit of difference. FIFA had corrupt scripting for years that exists within EAFC and it didn't impact the playerbase and the amount of reverse-boosters and cronus cheaters plaguing COD, it hardly matters. The best thing that can happen is Microsoft weed out all the horrible psychological and manipulative crap from these games and just keep it simple like Counter Strike.
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Styx FREE on GOG Styx: Shards of Darkness on GOG.com WWW.GOG.COM Styx returns in a new stealth adventure! Hired for a critical mission, explore and ma
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GameBattles closing down in January 2024
J4MES OX4D replied to GazzaGarratt's topic in General Gaming Discussion
That's a name I haven't heard in a very long time - giving me almost Machinima vibes! It was a pretty nifty concept until Activision bought it way too late in the day. They did nothing much with it and have really struggled with eSports in general. Should've probably capitalised on the idea around 2009-12 rather than several years later when competitive gaming was heading in a more professional and lucrative direction. Microsoft seem to be going in for the cull and I think the Overwatch League was one of the first to be offed. If that can't survive then GameBattle wouldn't have stood any chance. Games like COD are way too broken and corrupt these days so unless you are hosting a LAN event with fixed balanced weapons then I wouldn't trust any match to be fair especially from an Activision brand. -
Maps look so much better when they aren't reused Warzone textures. Even some of MW3's maps have low-quality assets lifted from that. These ones look much better.
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I kinda departed management games when SI games lost the CM licence and moved to FM. Although it was the same team making the same game, I just felt burned out by then and it wasn't the same. Been playing Championship Manager from 2 until 4 which was ultimately 95-96 all the way to the 03-04 season - literally a decade! FM also didn't have the photo backgrounds which sorta killed the immersion in some way. Nowadays it's just too complex and time consuming to get into although I have been tempted to pick up a new release in recent years.
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Half Life FREE on Steam Save 100% on Half-Life on Steam STORE.STEAMPOWERED.COM Named Game of the Year by over 50 publications, Valve's debut title blends action and adventure with award-winning technology to create a frighteningly realistic world where players must think to survive. Also...
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10 point deduction has gone into effect at Everton which is devastating for them. They were beginning to turn it around too and now they sit joint bottom with Burnley. Although they have posted some bad finances, it's literally no different to Man City - the latter get away with it because they offset losses through false income given by their sister companies. Also City's lawyers are good at tangling litigation and drawing things out i.e making a mockery of the governing bodies. 115 charges and not one has been acted upon yet Everton who are still sustainable even with their losses get fried because they have no side-companies to generate fraudulent laundering methods.
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Funnily enough I watched one of Tom's videos the other week for the first time ever after wanting to see what FM was like these days and his content was excellent! Glad he's making a living off content creation and way more deserved than half the gaming tripe we see plaguing YouTube.
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I wasn't aware this game had so many post-launch issues Payday 3 hasn't had updates because of a 'critical error in our backend', Starbreeze says the launch has been 'frustrating' | PC Gamer WWW.PCGAMER.COM "We have no reason to want to delay updates for this long." Huge drop-off in players and many seem to have returned or stayed with Payday 2. Game seems to be suffering from sequel syndrome like Kerbal Space Program 2. Really disappointing to see a developer accomplish so much for years on one game and then completely bollocks up the safe sequel as it tries to get back to square one.
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Starfield only managed one nomination and it doesn't stand a chance in that category. Only seemed to get nominated because of few candidates too. The Game Awards 2023 Nominations See Baldur's Gate 3 and Alan Wake 2 Leading With 8 Nods Each - IGN WWW.IGN.COM Nominees for The Game Awards 2023 have been revealed, with Alan Wake 2 and Baldur's Gate 3 leading the way with eight nominations each. Starfield's been left out to dry at The Game Awards—and even dedicated fans are 'not terribly surprised' | PC Gamer WWW.PCGAMER.COM Shooting short of the stars.
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COD doesn't use typical SBMM by definition - that's just the basic term coined by users when they are hit by it. The games use EOMM and SBMM concepts. If the games used traditional SBMM like seen in many other competitive titles then every lobby would be painfully streamlined based on current skill but COD has retention-based factors (EOMM-driven) in play where you get buttfucked for a couple of games let's say, and then you can rest your ass with an easy match after, which baits you into playing more rinse and repeat. Lobbies disband and the back-end algorithms are desperately working and then there's instances where your connection may be manipulated or guns suddenly don't feel as effective. It's all phycological and artificial - you will have a great game but expect to also get battered in the same session especially if you are playing solo. COD games are scripted just as hard as FIFA and it's more obvious than ever. If people want a fair experience then a game like CS2 is the way to go - no P2W bundles, sub-tick servers, clean netcode etc. but games like COD are rigged to a degree and punishment always drives retention especially when Activision can flaunt their temporary P2W bundles as leverage. I remember playing Cold War where EOMM was so predictable, I could tell before a match exactly how it would go! COD should either use pure SBMM or exclusive connection-based matchmaking. This current EOMM-based monetised-matchmaking is just too much of a strain on the community especially if in-match factors are also impacting.
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Their revenues are likely still up because they just milk the people left over even harder. They'll probably just release a new £29.99 bundle every 3-5 weeks now to mitigate any lost players. Those that just played the games and didn't spend any money (like me and most others) aren't worth nothing to them after release so it's no big loss. Two bundles that cost nothing to produce instantly covers what I would've paid for the base game and there is a staggering amount of people with their wallets out willing to pay. Crap games, broken games, unfinished games - it doesn't mean anything to them because they always know they can recoup any lost revenue. They could sell a blank disc and still people will buy it. Fortnite is getting 6m players peak right now and the new update had 45m players because it's made to the highest technical and development standards possible. MW3 is so shambolic in comparison from an ethical and quality standpoint. I really hope Microsoft get their teeth into this brand unlike taking a backseat for profits like they did with Bethesda and really shake things up. Sack the board, remove this annual schedule and rebuild from the ground up. I also can't believe this is in the game - lost count of how many videos I've seen users get killed by this. Visibility seems bad enough on most maps without a near-invisible skin Pay-to-win 'Groot' skin is ruining MW3 matches, and CoD fans are furious - Dot Esports DOTESPORTS.COM There's no escape from the Gaia skin.
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Challenges like these have been pretty much hit and miss in the past because they are bugged or the developers haven't coded them to unlock outside of the custom class setup. Theoretically it should unlock by using default classes but unfortunately its down to whether the devs have ballsed it up or not. At least it can be tried for one game and if it doesn't work then you know its screwed rather than persistently trying with a dud class to no avail.
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Sounds like a blinding night A load of people were blinded by the light at ApeFest in Hong Kong METRO.CO.UK Festival goers who went to Yuga Labs' ApeFest in Hong Kong this weekend say they almost lost their eyesight due to...
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Out of nowhere and out next week subject to availability
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Steam Deck OLED revealed and releasing next week https://www.theverge.com/23951674/valve-steam-deck-oled-price-release-date
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I wish they abandoned PvP altogether - it feels like a watered-down version of Halo with no balance or meat to the mode. Always felt like it was included as filler and that's the way it's always persisted yet it was never really needed as it still only represents a minor part of the game, yet still big enough to alienate new and even longstanding players. Bungie have spent way too much time half-assing so many aspects and then tweaking others and it's no wonder they could just settle down and comfortably make expansions when they couldn't even get the foundation right after a decade nearly.
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Looks like the reveal is very close as well as the trailer GTA 6 will reportedly be announced this week ahead of December trailer | PC Gamer WWW.PCGAMER.COM Bloomberg report points to an avalanche of Rockstar activity.
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In typical Spurs fashion, their entire season could implode on just one unfortunate game. Last night was crazy and the game had everything! Chelsea very lucky has usual. Big Ange I'm sure will steady the ship after the fantastic job he's done so far but these next few games could prove very difficult.
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It's more like Max Payne meets Twin Peaks with a supernatural vibe.
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I had a thread from back in March about it I enjoyed what I played but they really need to adjust a few key things else risk pissing off a large portion of players. If they remain stubborn then it could sink the whole game. With MW3 in the shit, it could be a decent alternative so they can't afford to fuck this up.
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This problem is back. I saw there was maintenance work over the weekend and not sure if that's still going on but I'm scrollbar has gone walkies again
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I managed to watch the whole thing on YouTube - seems like there's only about 3-4 traditional COD missions (which weren't great either) and the others are just lame padding using Warzone assets that offer nothing to the story or wider narrative. This nauseating obsession with armour plates is also getting a bit cringe now too. This campaign was definitely the MW2 DLC (and definitely unfinished) to introduce Makarov, but now they'll have to make MW4 to tie the thing off when the real MW3 was likely supposed to be out in 2025. They've thrown the brand under the bus and made series look a shambles all because they didn't have the balls just to sell it as a premium DLC and take the hit from the people they disappointed with MW2 not wanting to buy into the new content. They'll get away with it still but this is just another example of the community being completely screwed and let down.
