Wednesday 28 May 2014

Watching Dogs.

its almost 24 hours since watch dogs (officially) launched, I know some of you where a bit naughty and acquired it one way or the other early, but as we gauge the reaction to the launch from commentators, media, and reviews alike, does watch dogs live up to the hype.

Now I have no played it yet, and from what I have seen I am gonna wait anyway. I love a game that pushes boundaries, where the developers go to great lengths to make a large, open world game, with a twist on the traditional GTA style of game, new and interesting mechanics. But I feel Ubi have sort of shot em selves in the foot with this one. I mean its good, don't get me wrong, some of the twitch streams ive seen, and videos online show some really great MP, with the hack your friend, and find them, the police chase stuff, looks cool would be fun but

graphically, and yes I am talking graphically, its not as good as it was all hyped up to be, there are performance issues PC and console. Considering it was delayed, along with alot of launch titles for the new systems, we have the PS4 and Xbox One, but so many delayed games, and the games that have been released like Battlefield 4 riddled with bugs, poor performance and problems. Hard to believe that with the last generation lasting so long that the games on this generation, run worse than the last and are being delayed, Maybe its just teething issues with the new hardware, getting used to new dev kits, hopefully games will improve as time goes on. 

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/wat...iew,9.html

Planetside 2 on PC, still not very well optimized, it still runs like shit even on top spec machines, sure it gets a bit better with every update, it will be interesting to see how well the PS4 version runs, hopefully it gets the elusive 60 frame rate because in a FPS 60 fps is very important, makes for a better experience, Was MAG 720 60?, I can't remember! 

Total Biscuit mentioned quoted in his v review to say the game looks no better than Sleeping dogs, click text for 1080p image. Although that may be because of the realistic look of the city rather than the colourful look of Hong Kong in SD, If you have not played sleeping dogs btw, make sure you do, very cool game. 

Watchdogs, didn't score as high as GTA V did, 


IGN gave
Watch dogs 8.4
GTA V 10.0

Eurogamer 
Watchdogs 7.0
GTA V 9.0

Playstation Universe
Watch dogs: Review Pending
GTA V 10.0

CVG
Watchdogs 9.0
GTA V 10.

so I am comparing GTA to Watchdogs, I mean afterall its a GTA clone right, well no, its not I mean it holds its own with its original story, the ways you can interact with the world, but its open world shooter, 

but GTA was last gen, watch dogs was this gen, and not quite hit the mark IMO, the review scores are close I mean its above a 6 right now, and won't know the true metacritic rating for a while but I mean reviews are not always everything, just numbers. If you have watch dogs, are you enjoying it? The people I have spoken too have, its just I got board of GTA, and regretted paying full retail for it, I am pretty sure I would get board of Watch dogs too. Will wait for a lower price point.

GTA was good tho, don't get me wrong. Just Last gen let it down, with the low framerate, frame drops, long loading times, and GTA has always had long loading times, and reading some watch dogs reviews apparently long (initial, after boot up) loading times are a feature, I thank ubi for making sure to get that one in, once the game has loaded up its pretty fluid, GTA online was hellish for its loading times, really off putting.


I don't see Watchdogs getting GoTY. But it certainly is not overhyped nonsense, thats too far, its sort of in the middle. 



its like I reviewed watchdogs without even playing it, you can sort of get away with that thanks to twitch, youtube and reading a few good old fashioned reviews.

Tuesday 13 May 2014

M$, Ubisoft, and Age of Mythology

Xbox 180


Lot of news came out today, starting with M$. Who have U turned on the whole Kinect xbox One requirements. Yep there selling the Xbone without the Kinect now, its going to be around $100 cheaper than the cheapest xbox bundle that comes with it. There are not that many great kinect games, the voice features are great, but there are not that many good games that use it, so its pretty pointless, serving asa $100 microphone! So good news for consumers that want the Xbone.

Also announced was that you will no longer need gold to use apps like Netflix. Hurray, finally microsoft we are getting somewhere! It was a stupid restriction anyway!

Watching dogs.


So watch dogs was original slated as being 1080 60 (I mean 1080p full hd resolution, with a frame rate of 60,) however Ubisoft ninja removed that statement from listings of the PS4 version of the game, shortly after they announce the Xbox one version will be running at 792 30 with the PS4 version running at a slightly higher 900p but still locked at 30 frames. What a load of rubbish, they delayed the game 5 months and still where not able to optimize it to run @ at least 60 frames. A smooth 30 frames is going to look better than an unstable fluctuating frame rate that moved between say 45 and 60.

You know when I am recording PS2, my recording software being Software heavy it actually looks better if I lock PS2 to 30 frames, because if I don't it jump between 30 and 60 which is noticeable to me. But not to you, as youtube is locked at 30 frames anyway so me recording a game at anything higher than 30 is a waste of time. UNLESS I wanna use slow motion, slow motion footage would obviously benefit from a higher frame rate but ive not come across any footage I would want to slow down.

So yea a SOLID 60 frames looks better than a solid 30 frames, but if they were not able to optimize it to run @ 60 then fine lock it to 30, its just a poor show on what has been from its Announcement at E3 a few years back, marketed as the "next gen game" or game that will represent the next gen experience

Welcome to next generation gaming guys, where we still can't get a game running @ 792 60 let alone 1080 60! There where 1080p games coming out on the PS3 at launch... and yet its a STEP DOWN with this new generation, its like WHAT!

And you what, as a PC gamer, this worries me, Its fucking ubisoft who have released notoriously badly optimized games, is it gonna run like shit on my machine. I expect yes, so I think I am going to give it a miss, I am going to wait for launch, read some reviews, see some forums, see if its actually worth buying. PC was lead platform, so it should be well optimized, so I might get it, see I am mixed, its only £25 which is a good price so... I dunno.


On to AOM


So I got my first AOM EE video out, I've not played today unfortunately just the news, editing that 10 min PS video, and some other stuff I have done today didn't get a chance to play any, tommorow my new cooler should be arriving, yea getting a new CPU cooler when royal mail redeliver it so i am prob gonna be configuring that, gonna try and overclock my CPU to a stable level of course but I hope I can get 20-25% maybe more, who knows, I mean its a sort mid spec cooler so I am not expecting magic, but will see what I can do with it. I usually aim to keep the temps below 75c when on max load so will see how high we can clock it will post what I get here no doubt.

here is the AOM video:

And yea today as I said I did a PS2 video!





Wednesday 7 May 2014

rest of this week and beyond.

Whelp I am going home again this weekend, so no gaming for me, however tomorrow is the launch of AOMEE so will try and get a few matches of that in, get some videos done to put up over the weekend, and hopefully end up back on Monday. I tweet now. Yea as some of you know I had a falling out with my twitter, my old account sending out spam, and twitter support not really doing anything about it, despite me changing passwords, restricting my account so no apps could use it ETC, ive closed my old account and set up a new one under the same name so it should all be good now in theory.

We are just over a month away from E3 which is always exciting, hoping for some big new title releases. Leading up to and during that, even closer is the launch of Watch dogs still not preordered that dunno if I wanna go day one, will see how my finance's are looking closer to launch (and when some reviewers have got there hands on it so we know its not a pile of shit)

Ive set up some automated ifttt recipes. So when I post a blog post here, or Upload a youtube video it will auto tweet it, don't wanna piss my followers off tho, if its annoying let me know! Will prob blog again before weekend.

Monday 5 May 2014

Bring on UT4, AOMEE,

Epic are set to announce something about the unreal series and this tweet pretty much confirms its going to be a new release.
Get on the hype train? (choo choo)

I wonder if development has already started, will they have something to show, not that I am fussed any news is good news, UT3 was not the biggest success although I enjoyed playing it, UT2004 prob being the best, if not the original. 


AOMEE is out this week!!! And its out on Thursday, which is great as I have an exam that day, so exam, then AoM EE all weekend, I will be recording all my matches so expect some more videos from me when it launches!

The game is 20% off if you pre order. http://store.steampowered.com/app/266840/?snr=1_4_4__105_1

Saturday 3 May 2014

wow CCP way to dick people over

Some really horror storys coming from DUST 514 players after CCP announce they are ending support for it, at EVE fanfest an event thats was meant to provide big announcements on fucture development for the game, a game that was meant to last 10+ years,


https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=159617
This fanfest attendee describes the moment when CCP announce they where dropping dust support

CCP have not exactly been pleasing fans after cancelling the World of Darkness MMO, and then killing off a game they promised would get so much, things have really been mishandled. Several ex employees have also given horror story's on working conditions at CCP.

I ended my eve subscription recently, as it takes too much time (and costs too money) to play, I love it don't get me wrong, but its just too consuming for me at the moment, but there new announced PC version of dust which is going by the name of Project legion appears to be dusts replacement.