A gaming thread for 2019

You’re right - my bad.

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TRISS 4 LYF

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TBF when I came back to W3 post-Bloodborne to do the first DLC I found moving around the world and, in particular, combat unplayable in comparison

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Way to make everyone who bought an Xbone feel like chumps, Microsoft.

This reminds me of when I’m hopelessly losing on Pro Evo so I deliberately get enough players sent off to forfeit the game. Stop the other guy from racking up an embarrassing score by burning everything down and then demand a rematch.

Apparently all xbone games will be compatible with it sooooo not so much

Yeah but everyone with an xbone will have to upgrade if they want to play games for the new shiny console, no? I wouldn’t find that much consolation if I’d bought one.

I imagine the games will be crossgen for a while if all the games are going to be backward compatible it suggests minimal changed to architecture

Is there really anything in gaming that can’t be achieved on the current iterations of the Playstation and Xbox consoles? The graphical quality increases between generations are getting smaller and smaller. It’s going to be very hard for me to get excited for a new machine.

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I’m not sure I really see the point then tbh. And announcing it so soon after the release of the Xbox One X is just a weird move. Who wants to have to update their console every 2 years to stay up to date? And I’m not sure the casual market who Sony have in their palm at the moment are going to be swayed by a family of consoles. Too confusing.

I presume they’re hoping to steal a march on Sony on the streaming games thing. If they can make xbox live the Netflix of games it’ll certainly pay off for them. Still seems like a dick move from a gaggle of steaming cunts to me though.

One of the big emerging trends at the moment is streaming services. Seems quite likely that the pivot we’ll see in the next gen (and maybe the generation after that) is more subscription services and less powerful consoles, you’re effectively paying as little as possible for the device but the platform gets a long-tail revenue stream from each player.

It’s kind of the Sky/Now TV model. Make as cheap a box as possible but some kind of subscription is required in order for that cheap box to work. Microsoft’s had the Gold subscription service for over a decade now so their audience is already prepped for something like this.

The note about Microsoft’s next platform being ‘multi device’ kind of supports this as well. If you’ve got a good internet connection you can get a cheap box and play games in the cloud. If your connection’s not so good, there’s a more expensive model that can play the games locally.

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Drowned in XCom Report 5

The guerilla tactics school produces a steady supply of fresh and woefully under-prepared meat for the eternally short-handed terrorist organisation. A new rocket pal and rifle mate are on the next mission, to rescue a friendly scientician from a Black Maria.


The mission gives the increasingly influential Antpocalypse the opportunity to stick a giant USD stick into an Advent Captain’s brain and download the recipe for Soylent Street Salad, the next step in discovering the full scope of the aliens’ plans. Meanwhile Advent set Perv on fire on no less than 3 separate occasions, but it barely even troubles her make-up. She and Horse become bezzies.



DiX are almost immediately sent back out, this time to track down an Advent general who’s touring Volgograd’s sewer system for some reason. It seems like a good opportunity to debut our back-up ninja, Manches Brute. We get a helping hand in the form of a random resistance fighter on this one! Surely nothing will go wrong. Brute and Bugduv go off general hunting in one direction. The random resistance fighter runs face first into the general’s sensual, slithery escort in the other.

A horribly attenuated DiX attempts to remedy the situation. Brute and Bugduv scramble to get back to the main group whilst Dix the Skirmisher, Jazz Ballet and Agg Pass mostly miss their targets and set stuff on fire. A man in a wet suit does… something to Ant that paralyses him.

Just as things are looking bleak Bugduv and Brute run face first into the Advent general, fucking off as fast as she can down a side tunnel! Bugduv freezes her and Manch the Man throws an axe through her head. Good work you knuckleheads! The rest manage to pull themselves together and polish off the disheartened Advent forces, although the random resistance bod does not survive the snakey cuddles.


Despite Ant’s brain hack Advent are getting troublingly close to midnight on their Avatar doomsday clock. One of the eternal conflicts of XCom is when to launch the remorselessly tough story and facility raid missions - the only surefire ways to set back the doomsday clock - since there’s always the chance you’ll get hit with a random mission directly after that you won’t have anyone fit for.

DiX have been painted into a corner though, so a Bugduv and THEO-led task force is sent to take out the Avatar facility located in West Africa. A mech triggers Bugduv’s PTSD which creates a shitstorm, a gigantic snake turns up to push yet more unasked for cuddles on people, yet somehow the mission is still a success. Boom. A single measly bar comes off the doomsday clock.



The aliens’ counterstroke is rapid and brutal. A resistance encampment is attacked; it turns out to be simply a decoy so that Jessie can stun our own field commander Jamos, and steal some of his precious memories. She’s one step closer to locating DiX’s mobile party bus.

Next, greenhorn Shiny McShine limps back to base after the latest covert action to inform us that it was also ambushed, and Epimer has been captured by Meowth. Nobody cares about Epimer but still, ouch.

We should really do something about that guy.

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To be fair, 7 years is OK. And many, many titles will be cross-gen.

Is this going to involve probing of any kind?

Has it been 5 years already? Christ. I remember the word being that this generation would last a lot longer than the last but I guess it’s easy to say that when you’re not having your arse handed to you.

I’m glad I migrated to PC anyways. cba with this nonsense.

Undoubtedly and unrelentingly.

^ 5 @TheBarbieMovie2023! We look pretty badass there, which is a little misleading as my only notable actions thus far have been terrible.

Can I have a tl;dr of this thread? I see the word Perv but i have no idea what’s going on.

@Parsefone is playing a game of XCOM 2 (a tactical combat game where you fight evil space aliens in order to free the world from their tyranny) and he’s named all his soldiers after DiSers. One thing that happens in the game is that soldiers who fight together a lot become buddies and your avatar and my avatar are now BFFs. This is them:

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Aww! I love the fact that getting set on fire doesn’t ruin my makeup too. True dedication to #fashionwatch2k18

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