BulldogXero
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re: Question on teacher pay raise
Posted by BulldogXero on 5/13/26 at 11:13 am to GeauxGoose
Americans seem to have this weird hatred for educators.
It's like because they get the summers off that they think they should be making poverty wages.
It's like because they get the summers off that they think they should be making poverty wages.
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re: RE9 - honest opinion
Posted by BulldogXero on 5/13/26 at 8:07 am to td01241
I don't know what the games industry's obsession is with formulaic game design where it's so easy to see the semes. Maybe it's because I have been playing video games for 30 years.
Play as Grace = run from a monster
Play as Leon = short arena-like zombie slaughter mission
Repeat 5-6 times then roll credits.
Play as Grace = run from a monster
Play as Leon = short arena-like zombie slaughter mission
Repeat 5-6 times then roll credits.
re: StarFox Direct
Posted by BulldogXero on 5/6/26 at 6:46 pm to StansberryRules
Star Fox Assault is underrated.
re: StarFox Direct
Posted by BulldogXero on 5/6/26 at 5:10 pm to P-Dawg
I'm convinced Miyamoto is trying so damn hard to kill this franchise
re: What I hate about the entire gaming universe
Posted by BulldogXero on 4/29/26 at 8:09 am to Geekboy
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All these articles and announcements and teases about video games that aren’t going to be released for another year or two. And most of the time when a release date gets announced it gets delayed two weeks before the release date.
A game a year or two out is relatively close to release.
A game like Fate of the Old Republic will probably never actually come out.
re: PlayStation Hardware Prices Increasing on April 2nd
Posted by BulldogXero on 4/27/26 at 9:02 am to LSUGent
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Graphical fidelity’s next frontier is path traced lighting. The consoles today have very minimal ability to run any ray tracing, let alone the amount of compute needed to calculate the amount of rays for path traced lighting, plus a denoiser.
Another area current gen consoles lack is access to modern machine learning upscaling and frame gen tech. PS5 pro has pssr, but that still isn’t as good as DLSS or FSR 4.
Next gen consoles will actually allow game devs to not only have great graphical fidelity, but it will be able to actually utilize 4k 120hz TVs (and not look like blurry dogshit)
Ray Tracing and most in-engine tools that suck your PC's horsepower are for lazy developers. Unfortunately, lazy dev is quickly becoming the only kind of dev there is in gaming these days.
4K is another thing. It takes a lot of horsepower to run 4K. It's a misnomer to say that with new hardware, we'll be able to run all games at 4k. We continue to push high quality visuals, and resolution will be the first to go when the consoles can no longer keep up. I expect they will be equipped with quality upscalers to help mitigate this problem, but console is not where you go these days if you enjoy sharp visual presentations.
re: Rank the mainline single player Final Fantasies
Posted by BulldogXero on 4/23/26 at 9:54 pm to P-Dawg
IX
X
XII
V
III
IV
I
VI
VII
II
VIII
XVI
XV
XIII
X
XII
V
III
IV
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VII
II
VIII
XVI
XV
XIII
re: Official Black Flag remake thread (ffs, the other title was an April Fools Joke from Ubi)
Posted by BulldogXero on 4/23/26 at 6:27 pm to sicboy
I'm still not convinced Ubisoft can make video games anymore.
re: Game Pass Ultimate drops to 22.99 from 29.99
Posted by BulldogXero on 4/21/26 at 3:08 pm to OneSaintsFan
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Microsoft has dropped the price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate from $29.99 per month to $22.99 per month, while PC Game Pass is being reduced from $16.49 per month to $13.99 per month. Both changes are effective immediately. Meanwhile, new Call of Duty games will no longer be included as day-one releases in either service, and instead will be added "during the following holiday season (about a year later)," according to Microsoft. Call of Duty games that are already part of any tier of Game Pass are unaffected by this change.
So they are basically admitting that Game Pass is a failure. ok :lol:
I do fear for the approximate 1/3rd of the gaming industry they acquired over the course of their crash and burn.
re: Turtle WoW being shutdown
Posted by BulldogXero on 4/21/26 at 2:27 pm to Decisions
Some of these servers I think forget what a legal grey area they operate under.
re: End of Owning your own console
Posted by BulldogXero on 3/30/26 at 1:15 pm to MountainDewGF
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with the current console prices rising and PC parts in general rising, I don't see consoles being feasible cheap options for gamers as they once were. The future is subscriptions like geforce now and for stream boxes. that is the only way to keep cost down. nobody is going to buy a ps6 at $1000. that is all
Internet service isn't where it needs to be yet to support full on games streaming but no doubt this is where publishers want us to be.
We are essentially living in an age of tech feudalism where companies have discovered that making existing customers continue to pay is much more profitable than a finite number of people buying once and owning forever.
re: Crimson Desert discussion thread - Try to be spoiler free
Posted by BulldogXero on 3/27/26 at 8:33 pm to BoomerandSooner
Tenebrum fight and I'm thinking this game has a lot of good ideas, but it's a shame it's developed by people who have never made or played any other games than Black Desert Online.
The bad puzzles and lack of direction have nothing to do with a conscientious design decision and everything to do with the developers just not knowing what the frick they are doing, caring more about making a big world than filling a smaller map with well designed activities.
Bad game design aside, everything about this game feels mobile-esque more like Genshin Impact than Breathe of the Wild from the UI to world design, to how main quests and side quests are handed out, to gear, progression, to the faction rep system.
We are enamored with the visuals and the draw distance, but there's really not a single thing this game does better than similar titles on the market today.
The bad puzzles and lack of direction have nothing to do with a conscientious design decision and everything to do with the developers just not knowing what the frick they are doing, caring more about making a big world than filling a smaller map with well designed activities.
Bad game design aside, everything about this game feels mobile-esque more like Genshin Impact than Breathe of the Wild from the UI to world design, to how main quests and side quests are handed out, to gear, progression, to the faction rep system.
We are enamored with the visuals and the draw distance, but there's really not a single thing this game does better than similar titles on the market today.
re: New (old) Everquest coming
Posted by BulldogXero on 3/24/26 at 8:59 pm to DoUrden
Isn't this literally the same as the Heroes Journey private server they shut down? Excellent look
re: Crimson Desert discussion thread - Try to be spoiler free
Posted by BulldogXero on 3/24/26 at 3:08 pm to sgallo3
I like it a lot and hate it at the same time.
Had to clear out bandits from a quarry, and the amount of enemies I had to kill was just insane. Was not difficult once I upgraded my gear except for I kept hitting the exploding barrels and killing myself. Luckily it respawned me close enough to the place that progress was intact, and I just kept chipping away at it.
I think I may end up somewhere on the side of favoring quality over quantity, but it's truly a beautiful game with some interesting mechanics.
Had to clear out bandits from a quarry, and the amount of enemies I had to kill was just insane. Was not difficult once I upgraded my gear except for I kept hitting the exploding barrels and killing myself. Luckily it respawned me close enough to the place that progress was intact, and I just kept chipping away at it.
I think I may end up somewhere on the side of favoring quality over quantity, but it's truly a beautiful game with some interesting mechanics.
re: Kingdoms Come Deliverance II
Posted by BulldogXero on 3/24/26 at 10:11 am to cfish140
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Video games are subjective and it’s fine to have different opinions and people like what they like. But to say “KCD2 wipes the floor with E33 and it isn’t even close” is so fricking pretentious .
I can assure you that the loudest proponents of E33 are far more pretentious.
As your post proves
re: Do you care if AI is used?
Posted by BulldogXero on 3/24/26 at 10:04 am to Gusoline
Not necessarily know. I care about lazy and blatant AI use like when you see artwork in an advertisement and the character has 6 fingers.
re: Crimson Desert discussion thread - Try to be spoiler free
Posted by BulldogXero on 3/23/26 at 10:48 am to BoomerandSooner
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I told you guys. People were getting refunds because of this.
It really shows that some people never played Capcom's Gold Medal Challenge 92 on the NES.
re: Crimson Desert discussion thread - Try to be spoiler free
Posted by BulldogXero on 3/22/26 at 7:58 pm to Roaad
I think the combat in this game is awful. The trailers make it look like it's Platinum Games level but it's actually a shittier version of modern-day Assassin's Creed style combat. You get to these camps with like a million enemies and they all just bum rush you, and the controls aren't responsive enough to react
re: Crimson Desert discussion thread - Try to be spoiler free
Posted by BulldogXero on 3/22/26 at 2:48 pm to HailToTheChiz
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Then you have the streamers with crazy complaints.
I mean there are absolutely elements to this game that feel like they were designed by people who have never made a video game before.
That isn't always a bad thing though as even some of the things the game takes from other open world games is done in a unique, novel way.
re: Crimson Desert discussion thread - Try to be spoiler free
Posted by BulldogXero on 3/19/26 at 10:31 pm to DownSouthCrawfish
The more I play, the more I am convinced that this game started out as a F2P GACHA game that was converted to a single player RPG late in development.
re: Crimson Desert discussion thread - Try to be spoiler free
Posted by BulldogXero on 3/19/26 at 6:38 pm to TideSaint
Coming from Black Desert, I am so far surprised at how clunky the game feels to play. Gives me Where Winds Meet vibes, but game was simultaneously released on phones.
Copying the jump mechanics from 1997's Elder Scrolls Battlespire was a choice
Copying the jump mechanics from 1997's Elder Scrolls Battlespire was a choice
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