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So I tried PlayStation Now again after remembering you can download games instead of stream them and that is true - for some games I really wanted to play Sonic Unleashed and finally upload cool runs to YT (Not that there aren’t loads of them already or mine would be extra good, but just for fun) but of course both Sonic Unleashed and Sonic Generations are both games that aren’t downloadable. And it turns out you can’t even capture footage of PS Now anyway Auto Renewal off

I took a break from smuggling to unlock one of the other engineers. I went all the way out to the Pleiades to buy a meta alloy so I could unlock Felicity Farseer, but as soon as I showed up I got an emergency mission from The Federation asking me to go reclaim a blackbox from a ship that went dark. Now if you don't know, the Pleiades is where the Thargoids are from, or somewhere around that neck of the galaxy. I am scared of these aliens. I've never met them and I intend to keep it that way for as long as I can. I did a scan and pulled 105 cases of Thargoid activity. That is insane. The threat level went right up to 9. I thought it stopped at 5, but now I know better. Anyway I found where the black box was. I was super hesitant. Right in the middle of a Thargoid attack. I went in and managed to get the black box and then got the fuck out of there as quickly as I could. I was shitting my pants trying to scoop the box and get out of there before anyone showed up. I got masslocked by the debris of the destroyed ship so that made me sweat a bit. I managed to get everything out and land while holding onto the hot potato. All space salvage is considered illegal so I had to smuggle it into the port I was told to hand in at. Got a nice reward and a cool story to tell though.

I think Sly's a cunt.

To be honest mate I was exactly the same when I started playing it, go back a few pages and you’ll see I fucking hated the game. I was not having a good time at all and was frustrated to almost tears several times so I totally get you. I stuck with it (mostly because I couldn’t afford to not play a game I just spent £50 on AND because I have a FromSoft dedicated YouTube channel) and by the end I fell in love with it. I’m playing through it again and now I completely understand how it wants me to play I’m having a blast, it’s an absolute masterpiece. I really hope it clicks for you guys soon and you start having fun with it, it’d be a real shame if you didn’t.

See, it’s that kind of sentence I wouldn’t use. That implies you’re on a different level to everyone else. If you couple that with a username of Pious The Chosen, do you not see how people would come to that conclusion?

Firstly, I was on GTM and I remember you intentionally or not winding people up. I don't think that's a new thing. Secondly, as it's a common theme, I would maybe advise you to think more about how you word stuff, as if we get enough complaints you will be asked to leave.

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You've obviously never paid any attention to how vehemently I disagree with all this shit. It should just be in the game, especially something like this. It's not like they're making a game and running it for 5 years, they'll be making KKXII in a few years for another bite of the pie.

Oh, my god. So Wolverine has come back to life. Let’s talk about this. So a few years ago Wolverine died because he lost he’s healing factor, word got out and all he’s enemies came for him, and then comic books happened and he died engulfed in adamantium like a statue Fast forward a number of years and Wolverine was grave robbed and he’s corpse gone. This lead into Marvel putting out a few mini series called Hunt for Wolverine. A bunch of the X-Men girls went to Madripoor and fought an evil team of mutants, tried to stop a rocket ship, or did stop a rocket ship I forget. But it all ended up being for naught except they found a woman called Persephone who was like “lol, fuck off” There were other mini series as well. All of them not resulting in very much except Dakan died (Yay) and...actually that was it. Like all the books ended with something but basically none of it mattered. Congratulations, Marvel. You got me again. But at the end of it they teased a new series called Return of Wolverine. Like nice, ok. Also Wolverine had been turning up randomly at the end of comics when they were building up to the Infinity Wars storyline last year. But whatever. Return of Wolverine is supposed to come first and it has all the answers as to why Wolverine is back and why he’s claws turn to red hot fire and why does he have an Infinity Stone and all this. But I just read it and that’s bullshit, too. Short version is Wolverine came back to life because Persephone’s power is she can reanimate corpses to a degree, but when she did it to Wolverine he’s healing factor kicked in and bought him fully back to life. And then nothing happens. It ends with Wolverine on a space base with Persephone who has a plan you don’t care about and then Wolverine destroys it from the inside and out and it falls to Earth and Wolverine survived re-retry because of he’s healing factor DESPITE THE FACT THAT HE DIED IN THE FIRST PLACE BECAUSE HE LOST HE’S HEALING FACTOR. They never explain that, they never explain the burning claws, they never explain how he got broke out of he’s adamantium coffin, the art looks like this for 3 out of 5 issues Like what the shit? And then at the very end of the series they have a “Want to find out what happens next? Be sure to read Wolverine: Infinity Watch!” *shakes head* Do you know what? No. I just don’t care enough.

Before we go any further down this dark path, can I informally ask that the comic/super hero stuff gets calmed down a bit? I’m not saying this as a mod, just as someone who uses the forum. I expect it in relevant threads, I don’t really expect it to crop up basically everywhere.

In light of the Legacy of Kain series, can't say enough praise about Amy Hennig as a writer. On that note (as I've been waiting for a segue into this vid for a while)...

If anyone has seen Troy Baker and Nolan North do their stuff together, you know they're a good team. Now, Nolan North is playing through the Uncharted games for the first time. This should be a cracker of a series.

Seconded.

I installed the ray traced version of Quake 2 on my pc today. Ray tracing, for those that don't know, essentially treats light as though it's real, so it bounces off every surface. This means, theoretically, reflections are accurate, and you get lighting looking real rather than a candle lighting up an entire room, even behind objects. The problem is to do this requires a lot of maths, the latest Nvidia cards (RTX) have a core dedicated to doing this, doing this on a traditional card will use the resources of the card. That means even something like Quake 2, which came out while I was at school, will run at 17fps on a GTX1080 if you try to run it at 1080p, I dropped it to 720p and managed to get over 30fps I'm going to put them in spoilers, but here's a few videos of it working. First up the game without ray tracing turned on. This is the vulkan version of the game, so it has some modern touches (I don't think the window that smashes was as transparent), but you can see the laser beam is a light source, it did this even back in the day but I don't think it casts shadows, so it lights up things but the world doesn't react the way it would to real light. You can also see how lit the hole where the armour is, and how the grunt hidden in an alcove is very visible next is the same section with ray tracing on. You can see how dark the alcove with the armour is, how the grunt is hidden, and how dark areas can be lit up by the beam and finally the reflections. These aren't great, you can see that they're accurate, but because the game wasn't built with them in mind the surface of the water isn't transparent at all, so you're basically walking on a mirror (Quake guy has no body). When I find the secret in the water you can see that it looks like the water emits a green glow, but as I leave the area it's clearer that the green is a texture on the walls, , which is how it was faked back in the day. You can see the silencer I pick up briefly lit by the laser as it travels past it, before going dark because the light is behind it. You can also see the light from the exploding barrels at the end create a slight shadow on the rear of the boxes, where the light created wouldn't hit

I did not lose my arm in the great ninja wars to be called a "wuss" ? Oh it's on

@OCH I'm still not seeing a proper explanation as to how you've been misunderstood, which does seem to be a common trait of your posting. You get pulled up on something then claim to be misunderstood, but never walk it back and make yourself understood. Unless something changes this is just going to keep happening, which isn't enjoyable for anyone anyway, I'm sure we've all got better things we could be doing on a bank holiday than arguing on the internet ?

I don't think the backlash response here is owing to you not being part of a clique tho Pious, I'm new here also. You seem to be expecting everyone else to adjust to your wavelength which is not how these places work

I laughed almost all the way through that. It also made my rape of Jennifer Lawrence look positively gentlemanly and I think graph paper is how Nintendo originally designed Mario levels (plus Riley will fucking love that graph paper)

By buying this game you are also supporting that same business model

Old school perhaps (Take note, Marvel Unlimited readers), but if you want to read a Wolverine that actually matters, before he became too overexposed: Marvel Comics Presents Weapon X #72 - #85: The definitive Wolverine origin story Wolverine by Larry Hama & Marc Silvestri - Also collected in TPB collections now. Hama created the character most are familiar with. Uncanny X-Force by Rick Remender & various - Probably the best non-mainline X-Men book ever written (Daken dies in this too @Maf) Astonishing X-Men by Joss Whedon & John Cassaday - Although this is mostly a love letter to Cyclops, Wolverine is probably at his best here too.