Originally posted by Adam Grimes
I just have up on finishing Elden Ring atm. Seems like I just lack the focus to go and actually end it so I'm taking a break.Been playing Gears of War Ultimate Edition to get into the series as I'm unsure what else to play, really. Lol.
I could never get into them as a solo experience, always need to coop or go home.
Halo's different, 1, 2, 3, and Reach are great solo (Haven't played the rest)
Adam, you like Pinball?
Anyone who likes Pinball, just tell me what you've got and maybe we can score compete. Could really use a non anonymous FX3 leaderboarder to up my Medieval Madness, Attack From Mars, or Doom game.
Single Player Classic, Arcade mode on the Williams tables (Meaning the realistic physics without the insane table slope)
I think Gears is by far the best coop shooter franchise out there...or at least in terms of a single player campaign.
Halo is OK but I never really felt that great about the coop aspect....or at least in online co-op.
Gears does such a good job of making sure you see your co-op partner actions....from their own flashlight...to the key aspect, seeing the coop partners bullet streams flying past you. The other part is seeing the enemies head pop off when attacking.
I never saw that with Halo. I always felt it as just two peeps shooting things and I never really got a sense of what the other guy was doing. Half the time I'm like..where the **** are you!.
Gears doesn't have the problem.
Originally posted by Kazenji
I can with Borderlands, Enjoy it more Solo and also not everyone is fighting over the goddamn loot.
We solved that problem with a really bad internet connection on one end.
Meaning whoever was hosting generally got ALL the loot before the other parties knew they dropped. 🤣
So I have a philosophical problem.
I don't like the idea of funding Zen when they abandoned the Steam community for Epic Game Store. Yet I didn't buy Marvel's Infinity Gauntlet Pinball, and it looks f'n awesome.
And all Marvel pins will not be on the new Epic system, because license. Which logically means at some point they'll probably pull them from Steam unless it's a perpetual license for one platform (doubtful).
And I mean, I use Epic. I'm not one of those who hates Epic and loves Steam. I mostly hate how Zen promised to update their FX3 Willams tables with the latest and best physics, and now they aren't, and telling everyone to get the best physics on EGS.
Decided to test out the new Epic Game Store Pinball FX physics, now that Son of Zeus and Star Wars Clone Wars are the two tables on daily free rotation, both of which I own in Steam's FX3.
First off, the requirements are much steeper. I can just about get playable frames with low settings and 50-70% resolution scaling, at the cost of a much worse looking table compared to FX3, which I can get playable framerates even on high settings there (Except the Williams Tables with the realism physics, that I need to disable shadows and lower other settings)
You can't disable anything in Epic's version either. No disabling shadows outright, no switching off post processing. Only low settings, which makes a big difference to borderline cases like mine.
As to the actual gameplay.... For Clone Wars, I definitely notice a difference. The ball has more weight to it, drains much faster, doesn't go up lanes as easily. Is it more "realistic", I couldn't say. They promised to switch their arcadey propriety "Zen Physics" the the newest ultra realistic "Williams" flipper physics for every table. I can't really say this seems as realistic as playing Circus Voltaire or White Water.
But Son of Zeus, that one I don't see much difference at all. Handling seems identical to me. Either the phony Zen Physics were super tuned to play really close to Williams style, or they didn't actually add Williams style flipper and ball physics to every table as promised.
Overall not too impressed.
I also found this interesting video:
It shows ball behavior in Theater of Magic, comparing EGS Pinball FX, PH3 "Zen physics", and FX3 ultra realistic "Arcade Williams physics"
It's a LOT of fun. 👆
I needed something after reading a list of glitch's turned me off from Red Dead Redemption. Something about faces being horribly distorted on shot. Teeth and eyes bulging out, exclusive to one console version.
I haven't actually noticed any of this myself, but its always going to be in the back of mind now.
Rom files keep getting corrupted on an SD card. I keep the card sitting in an emulation console, and it can sit in a drawer for months and when I pull it out, games that were working fine suddenly won't load.
It's an offline system, so no updates to blame on it. I figure there must be physical damage happening, but I can't understand how that's possible by simply staying locked in a drive on a flat surface.
I assume SD cards aren't known to degrade over time like tape cassettes would? I mean, it's a digital medium, so I assume these things last forever if properly stored.