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[CriticalGaming]

Fast & Furious Crossroads to be fastly and furiously delisted April 29

The spinoff that arrived ahead of last year’s F9: The Fast Saga is being removed from digital storefronts at the end of the month, disappearing after less than two years on sale.

www.polygon.com

hahahahahahahaha! So bad it's getting delisted. Hilarious

Fast and the Finished.

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

Horizon Forbidden West update quietly lets you turn off animations for Aloy picking up items

It's actually a massive boost for gameplay speed

www.gamesradar.com

Not gonna say the high praise for ER had anything to do with this, but the timing is peculiar. Whatever the case, I’ll take it. I can understand not having it for machine parts but kinda odd it doesn’t include normal animals. Also doesn’t say anything about while on a mount so guessing no there too.

 

[BrawlMan]

Horizon Forbidden West update quietly lets you turn off animations for Aloy picking up items

It's actually a massive boost for gameplay speed

www.gamesradar.com

Not gonna say the high praise for ER had anything to do with this, but the timing is peculiar. Whatever the case, I’ll take it. I can understand not having it for machine parts but kinda odd it doesn’t include normal animals. Also doesn’t say anything about while on a mount so guessing no there too.

Tsushima got this right on day one. I'm surprised it took the team this long to figure it out. At least it's there now.

 

[CriticalGaming]

Horizon Forbidden West update quietly lets you turn off animations for Aloy picking up items

It's actually a massive boost for gameplay speed

www.gamesradar.com

Not gonna say the high praise for ER had anything to do with this, but the timing is peculiar. Whatever the case, I’ll take it. I can understand not having it for machine parts but kinda odd it doesn’t include normal animals. Also doesn’t say anything about while on a mount so guessing no there too.

The animation is so fucking fast though, I don't see why this was such a complaint. Red Dead 2 and Last of us both had stupid long animations for picking shit up. But Aloy is typically really fast with it and I don't even notice.

ER not having any animation is more of a cut corner than a design choice if I had to guess. It's a nice corner to cut because crafting is a waste of time in that game so.....

 

[BrawlMan]

Red Dead 2 and Last of us both had stupid long animations for picking shit up.

Cuz "realism!" & "art!".

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

The animation is so fucking fast though, I don't see why this was such a complaint. Red Dead 2 and Last of us both had stupid long animations for picking shit up. But Aloy is typically really fast with it and I don't even notice.

ER not having any animation is more of a cut corner than a design choice if I had to guess. It's a nice corner to cut because crafting is a waste of time in that game so.....

Cuz "realism!" & "art!".

It’s funny because in RDO animations in general are sped up a bit like roughly double, and you can also pick herbs from your horse, but of course Rockstar never patched that into Story mode. Even fast travel takes less than half the time, but that’s probably because the world isn’t nearly as populated with interacting NPCs.

Speaking of, the lack of a fast crafting solution was always my biggest gripe. The rest fit well with the thematics of the game, so the slower pace never bothered me.

 

[Specter Von Baren]

Cuz "realism!" & "art!".

 

[BrawlMan]

Fla. sheriff’s office using video games to connect with the community

Deputies will drive around in the "Mobile Video Game Theater" to neighborhoods where they can interact with kids in the community

www.police1.com

Video: 10 Exciting New Games Coming To Nintendo Switch In July 2024

Nintendo World Championships, TMNT, One Piece and more!

www.nintendolife.com

Platinum ‘announced’ 9 retro games in a bizarre press conference, but won’t say if it’s an April Fools | VGC

Sol Cresta was previously announced on April 1…

www.videogameschronicle.com

If the nine new games are legitimate, the full ‘Shocking 10’ series is as follows:

Sol Cresta
Belt Scroll Galactic Yankee Action (tentative)
Battle Action Breakout (tentative)
SF Superhero Soccer (tentative)
Pretty Great Side-Scrolling Action (tentative)
Constellation-Based Side-Scrolling Shooter (tentative)
High-Speed Action Racing Game (tentative)
Dynamite Sexy Puzzle (tentative)
Ultimate Top View Bastard Action (tentative)
Apocalyptic Giant Robot Fighting (tentative)
Speaking to VGC earlier this year, Kamiya revealed that the next games in Platinum’s Neo Classic Arcade series were already in the planning stages.

“The most I can say is that we do have some ideas and we’re already thinking about the next step,” he said. “I’ve got an idea or two on the back burner that I’m already writing about as well, so I’ve got a lot going on in my head that I want to reveal to you when the time is right

 

[FakeSympathy]

At first I was excited, then I realize what day today is. Damn it

 

[BrawlMan]

This one is from back in February. I support doing something different, but never ever ever ever. do GaaS ever again!

Interview: PlatinumGames doesn’t want to be known as ‘just the action game company’ | VGC

The Bayonetta studio’s newly-promoted president and vice president discuss service games, NFTs…

www.videogameschronicle.com

 

[Specter Von Baren]

At first I was excited, then I realize what day today is. Damn it

April Fools was once a day of peace fun, until the internet attacked.

 

[FakeSympathy]

Diablo IV Will Have a Large Open-World With Over 150 Dungeons – Buzleaks

buzleaks.com

Knowing Diablo, I'm willing to bet almost all of these dungeons are goona be copy-pasted with slight variations on the enemy types and the reward.

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

Forget ray tracing - Nvidia calls path tracing one of the "largest breakthroughs for real-time graphics in many years"

That's quite the claim

www.gamesradar.com

“Breaking news: Path Tracing is in! In other news, Ray Tracing is out! To take advantage of this new technology, you’ll need to toss your RTX card in the trash and purchase our brand new PTX card. Prices will start at just $899 for the base model, with premium model options to be determined at a later date.”

 

[FakeSympathy]

Halo Infinite's CM admits the game is a bit of a hot mess.

It just sounds like more PR bullshit. Like, no kidding the team needs more time. Really feels like the game should've been delayed for at least 6 months. Gaming Community is surprisingly patient with releases, save for couple of individuals

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

Halo Infinite's CM admits the game is a bit of a hot mess.

It just sounds like more PR bullshit. Like, no kidding the team needs more time. Really feels like the game should've been delayed for at least 6 months. Gaming Community is surprisingly patient with releases, save for couple of individuals

I guess infinite (zing!) spending only goes so far.

 

[FakeSympathy]

Pinball FX fans criticise plans for $150 of microtransactions and $15 monthly sub | VGC

Players will have to re-purchase all their old tables using a ‘ticket’ based in-game currency…

www.videogameschronicle.com

For.....virtual pinball? Da fuq?

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Pinball FX fans criticise plans for $150 of microtransactions and $15 monthly sub | VGC

Players will have to re-purchase all their old tables using a ‘ticket’ based in-game currency…

www.videogameschronicle.com

For.....virtual pinball? Da fuq?

It's like they looked at all the backlash regarding microtransactions lately and thought "what if we could get in on some of that hate?".

 

[Dalisclock]

Halo Infinite's CM admits the game is a bit of a hot mess.

It just sounds like more PR bullshit. Like, no kidding the team needs more time. Really feels like the game should've been delayed for at least 6 months. Gaming Community is surprisingly patient with releases, save for couple of individuals

"We've made a Live Service out of this. Now we just wait for the money to roollllll in"-343, probably.

Nobody wants to work anymore.

It's like they looked at all the backlash regarding microtransactions lately and thought "what if we could get in on some of that hate?".

"But can we put some NFT's in this?"

The poor decision train just keeps chugging

 

[Chimpzy]

So eh, apparently Kirby just won a Grammy

EDIT: found the actual song

 

[sXeth]

ER not having any animation is more of a cut corner than a design choice if I had to guess. It's a nice corner to cut because crafting is a waste of time in that game so.....

Eh, if you go all in on the rogue archetype/arcane build, its pretty effective (assuming you lucky guess which statuses apply to what correctly. Turns out you can give a dude super-infested with Rot even more Rot, a statue frostbite, and periodically can bleed a ghost (and amusingly, the Lord of Blood).


Although with any reasonably tanky ashes summons its easier to just whip the appropriate dragonbreath out (although the bleed spells are way farther off)

If it wasn't such an obnoxious recipe to get to, I'd make a series of just killing every open world boss with two rot pots lol