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BioShock: The Collection is free to keep from Epic right now
BioShock: The Collection is currently free from the Epic Games Store, making Bioshock 1, 2 and BioShock Infinite free to keep with all add-ons.
I would kindly recommend this trilogy, esp the first one. Worth a look if you haven't played before
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Still wasting hours on Vampire Survivor but the latest hoopla is Diablo Immortal, currently known as Diablo Immoral. Blizzard have cranked the tits off the Pay to Win model. 'Cunningly' you don't directly pay for your gear in the main 12 slots. But there is a parallel economy for levelling up gems, which are a big deal. Estimates range up to 110k USD to fully level your character up!!
If the last meme phrase was "don't you guys have phones?" this one is "Don't you guys have credit cards?". PTW has been in mobile gaming for ages, but Blizzard can't see how it's the overlap with the Diablo franchise, and the absolute cynicism to try and say the in-game purchase elements don't impact the experience.
Really hoping we see more countries following Belgium and the Netherlands. They've outlawed loot boxes/gambling in games.
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@Paekakboyz said in Gaming/VR:
Still wasting hours on Vampire Survivor but the latest hoopla is Diablo Immortal, currently known as Diablo Immoral. Blizzard have cranked the tits off the Pay to Win model. 'Cunningly' you don't directly pay for your gear in the main 12 slots. But there is a parallel economy for levelling up gems, which are a big deal. Estimates range up to 110k USD to fully level your character up!!
If the last meme phrase was "don't you guys have phones?" this one is "Don't you guys have credit cards?". PTW has been in mobile gaming for ages, but Blizzard can't see how it's the overlap with the Diablo franchise, and the absolute cynicism to try and say the in-game purchase elements don't impact the experience.
Really hoping we see more countries following Belgium and the Netherlands. They've outlawed loot boxes/gambling in games.
Can't come soon enough IMO.
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@Paekakboyz said in Gaming/VR:
Really hoping we see more countries following Belgium and the Netherlands. They've outlawed loot boxes/gambling in games.
For a while I played TF2 Mann Up mode quite a bit with very good players. The end result of which was collecting numerous "Australium" (golden) weapons which could be re-sold on Steam's marketplace for sums in excess of hundreds of dollars. It quickly became a perpetual motion machine; people would pay more for an item than it cost me to procure. Even now a strange golden frying pan is selling for >$5K which raises some interesting psychological questions. A parallel I see in crypto when irrational exuberancy really takes off.
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@antipodean said in Gaming/VR:
@Paekakboyz said in Gaming/VR:
Really hoping we see more countries following Belgium and the Netherlands. They've outlawed loot boxes/gambling in games.
For a while I played TF2 Mann Up mode quite a bit with very good players. The end result of which was collecting numerous "Australium" (golden) weapons which could be re-sold on Steam's marketplace for sums in excess of hundreds of dollars. It quickly became a perpetual motion machine; people would pay more for an item than it cost me to procure. Even now a strange golden frying pan is selling for >$5K which raises some interesting psychological questions. A parallel I see in crypto when irrational exuberancy really takes off.
They are designed to target the pleasure centres of the brain, just like Vegas one armed bandits. Disgusting that they are aimed at kids.
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It is 100% built to pump us for money. The veneer of not 'having' to pay for 'core' stuff is sooo bullshit. I like games like Path of Exile who only have cosmetic stuff you can pay for. If you don't care about that stuff you aren't penalised in the game at all.
One of the major devs for Diablo Immoral came out hot about misinformation etc. Then had to dance on the head of a pin about how the pay to win stuff is linked to the non-pay to win. The sad thing is everyone seems to think the game is legit good. Get this, some of the stuff you buy can actually get downgraded (or lost) if you aren't logging in frequently enough... and by enough I think it was something like needing daily logins.
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@Kirwan MSFS? Pretty good, some of the flight models feel very accurate. I've spent a fair bit of timme flying around in a (paid for) RAF Hawk, pretty good. The guy in the vid is ex RAF pilot, Hawk instructor, so much more stick time than me! He is praises the accuracy. The Hawk is cool, cos it's old fashioned, dials and stuff, and very little to learn. But still a 500 knot jet, fun to blast around the southern alps etc
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@Machpants said in Gaming/VR:
@Kirwan MSFS? Pretty good, some of the flight models feel very accurate. I've spent a fair bit of timme flying around in a (paid for) RAF Hawk, pretty good. The guy in the vid is ex RAF pilot, Hawk instructor, so much more stick time than me! He is praises the accuracy. The Hawk is cool, cos it's old fashioned, dials and stuff, and very little to learn. But still a 500 knot jet, fun to blast around the southern alps etc
Awesome. I’ve played these since 1990ish, when the buildings were yellow blocks.
Have no idea how realistic the flying is.
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@Machpants said in Gaming/VR:
@Kirwan MSFS? Pretty good, some of the flight models feel very accurate. I've spent a fair bit of timme flying around in a (paid for) RAF Hawk, pretty good. The guy in the vid is ex RAF pilot, Hawk instructor, so much more stick time than me! He is praises the accuracy. The Hawk is cool, cos it's old fashioned, dials and stuff, and very little to learn. But still a 500 knot jet, fun to blast around the southern alps etc
Awesome. I’ve played these since 1990ish, when the buildings were yellow blocks.
Have no idea how realistic the flying is.
It's a pretty amazing game, and the mods you can get are increasing. Real time weather pretty special too
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The Captain is free at the Epic Games' store:
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I remember playing this on green screen on my mates dad's accounting computer. Awesome, and frustrating!
‘I saw the possibility of what could be done – so I did it’: revolutionary video game The Hobbit turns 40
The developer of the text-adventure game on how, at 20, she overcame 1980s misogyny to turn a Tolkien book into one of the most groundbreaking titles in the gaming canon
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I've put a few hours into Call of Duty Modern Warfare II now and apart from a noticeable decrease in reaction time, it's entertaining as usual.
Plenty of issues as you'd expect in a big budget, multi console/ PC game. But occasionally it's a bunch of fun.
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This is a fantastic game that I play with the boys.
I’ve actually improved and can sneak a couple of wins with Boba Fett against them. Getting in close with the flamethrower punches can actually cause the Jedi characters all sorts of problems.
They’re hoping that an update comes out with all the newer characters. Mando, Fennic, Cara, Greef, Ashoka etc which would be great fun.
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