Recent content by Bruttle

So I've been playing video games for a minute. As many of us here have. As the result of a conversation about 90's games, I stumbled across this site (HERE). It turns out to be quite an amazing site. I don't know if it's on the level of The Wayback Machine, but maybe. I immediately lost a...

Ran into this article (HERE). It looks like they're going to be jumping back into VR integration in the next couple months. It seems like forever ago, but VR is what led me to find out Star Citizen was a thing. The possibility of flying a ship with full VR in a AAA game led me to an immediate...

Oh, and mine was F29 Retaliator. It was my first flight game with a joystick back in 1990. Man, did I log some hours on that one.

I fell down this rabbit hole ages ago. There were a bunch of games that I fondly remembered and wanted to play again. That was the starting point. The finish line was a new permanent fixture in my house and about 1tb of games loaded on it. It has just about every game made from Atari 2600 to...

I definitely understand that one. I really, really dislike reality tv shows. In spite of that, I have seen an absolute ton of seasons.

I don't know if anyone's read the book, but it looks like a movie's coming out for it next year. If it's half as good as The Martian, it should be phenomenal. I really enjoyed the book. I have to caution watching the trailer if you haven't read the book though. The trailer feels like it...

The Battle for Brooklyn DLC drops today. It also goes up on gamepass. View: https://youtu.be/S65EIG8H3Z4?si=8AfCiV1Oww-PwaGi

It doesn't look like it will even be available on PC for a while after release. GTA V took what, a year before moving on from consoles to the PC? So for gamers like me that can't shoot for shit on a controller, it's going to be much later than May 26th before it becomes a thing for me. Also...

I had my hopes that it would turn out to be some long winded, epic story. Godspeed Cosmic, godspeed.

Holy shit, that's wicked. Awesome work!

Haha! My wife too! I always envision Henry Cavill walking down the street, anywhere, any street, just getting showered by underwear wherever he goes. Like a goddam tickertape parade...

While it hasn't gotten far enough to reach individual cheaters yet, Bungie has successfully sued Lavicheats, VeteranCheats, and AimJunkies for millions each (6.7m, 4.3m, and 12m respectively). Activision scored one too against EngineOwning UG for a cool million. So there has been some justice...

That's the other side of the issue. The more PVP is enabled, the more attractive it is for cheat developers and exploiters. Along with that is RMT and people that start using that community as a source of income. The true extent of the cheat issue is debated, but even on the low end it's...

I respectfully disagree. I think now is the perfect time to deep dive into the conversation. Not specifically now, but while development still has room to change. I've seen far too many games with relaxed pvp frameworks fail almost immediately. Millions of players show up to the game's...

Many games have tried to mix PVP with PVE. Most have failed miserably. I would even argue that all have failed in that the "successes" are only after most of the PVE players leave and only PVP players that dabble in PVE remain. The problem is and always has been a combination of risk...