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BulldogXero
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re: After Playing Xenoblade 2 at 60 FPS in native 4k
Posted by BulldogXero on 8/17/26 at 2:50 pm to Freauxzen
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XC2 was the best blend.
XC2 still has elements that infuriate me, making it my least favorite in the series.
The combat doesn't feel properly playtested and is too reliant on randomness.
The objective marker that always sits DIRECTLY ABOVE the quest objective is complete trash, and some of the maps seem to be designed specifically to frick with the player.
Field skills serve no purpose other than to cockblock the player at specific points for not engaging with its mechanics enough. Luckily, there's only 3-4 instances where field skills actively blocked main story progress and it's primarily relegated to side activities.
The blade GACHA is half baked. The rare blades have cool looking designs but sooooooo many of them look exactly the same that it's hard to tell who is who.
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re: After Playing Xenoblade 2 at 60 FPS in native 4k
Posted by BulldogXero on 8/17/26 at 2:43 pm to j1897
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NATIVE 4k... lol
I am not watching that. The switch is capable out outputting 4K. That being said though, outlets sometimes confuse "running at 4K" with "upscaled to 4K." Would not be shocked if that were the case here, but the visuals appear very sharp regardless.
My point of emphasizing visual clarity of and responsiveness over whatever it is that the team have prioritized to date is the way to go.
After Playing Xenoblade 2 at 60 FPS in native 4k
Posted by BulldogXero on 8/17/26 at 9:09 am
Thanks to the Switch 2, Xenoblade 1 and 2 are now available in native 4k 60 FPS.
Xenoblade 2 in particular feels like the most visually appealing game available on the console. I only say "visually appealing" because technically something like AC Shadows, Oblivion Remaster, or Star Wars Outlaws might be more technically impressive, but they limit the FPS to 30 at max and cut the resolution way down.
If Xenoblade Genesis is 30 FPS at 720-900p as is par for the course with Monolith soft on current gen hardware, it will be a disappointment.
Xenoblade 2 in particular feels like the most visually appealing game available on the console. I only say "visually appealing" because technically something like AC Shadows, Oblivion Remaster, or Star Wars Outlaws might be more technically impressive, but they limit the FPS to 30 at max and cut the resolution way down.
If Xenoblade Genesis is 30 FPS at 720-900p as is par for the course with Monolith soft on current gen hardware, it will be a disappointment.
re: Travel Ball Powerhouse B3 Elite 7U just picked up a huge commitment
Posted by BulldogXero on 8/17/26 at 9:01 am to lsu777
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they still have that, its just that you are so far behind if thats all you do, by 12, in most cases you have about a 1% chance of continuing to play. Wont even make the middle school team if they even have that, much less HS team unless its a really small school
That is precisely the issue.
It essentially feeds in on itself. Come up with concept, utilize FOMO to coax parents to sign their kids up. Kids abandon rec league. Travel ball is now the only way to prepare for JH, HS, and beyond. More and more money is pumped into travel ball.
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but dont get it twisted, in 95% of cases, its the kids driving the travel movement. Parents dont just wake up and say let me spend all kinds of money and give up lots of weekends. Im sure there is about 5% of cases like that in the OP but the other 95% are just trying to allow their kid to play more baseball because that is what he wants and as they get older, allow them to chase their dreams if that is truely what they want.
Kids know don't know any other way when they've been force fed travel ball from the age of 3.
We've ruined sports for kids.
re: Travel Ball Powerhouse B3 Elite 7U just picked up a huge commitment
Posted by BulldogXero on 8/17/26 at 8:47 am to tiggerthetooth
I miss the days when children's sports wasn't all about mom and dad.
Sign up for local rec league. Play baseball. Team sponsored by local business.
Go to the local ball park once or twice a week for a game.
These days, it's start at the age of three. Sign up for travel ball. Shell out thousands of dollars. Travel to multi-day tournaments in halfway across the country, some of which take place during the work week. Insert volleyball or Ace cheerleading instead of baseball.
At least marching band hasn't yet been infected by this cancer.
Sign up for local rec league. Play baseball. Team sponsored by local business.
Go to the local ball park once or twice a week for a game.
These days, it's start at the age of three. Sign up for travel ball. Shell out thousands of dollars. Travel to multi-day tournaments in halfway across the country, some of which take place during the work week. Insert volleyball or Ace cheerleading instead of baseball.
At least marching band hasn't yet been infected by this cancer.
re: Star Wars: Ahsoka Season 2 Teaser Trailer - Premieres Jan 20, 2027
Posted by BulldogXero on 8/15/26 at 7:26 pm to Esquire
At the rate Disney is pumping these out, it will be 2030 before Season 3 comes out. Thrawn actor might die of old age.
re: How many Christians believe
Posted by BulldogXero on 8/15/26 at 7:24 pm to Jjdoc
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Not saying tomorrow... but in the next maybe 10 years?
We've been in the end times for the last 2,000 years.
re: Creative Assembly: Total War Series
Posted by BulldogXero on 8/11/26 at 8:56 pm to kilo
They lost the plot after Shogun 2
re: Xbox CEO Asha tweets about TESVI playthrough
Posted by BulldogXero on 8/11/26 at 8:55 pm to sicboy
I mean my god what a coincidence, I was playing GTA 6 beta earlier today
re: GTA VI Pre Orders Start June 25th, Standard Edition $80, Ultimate $100
Posted by BulldogXero on 8/11/26 at 10:01 am to imjustafatkid
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What incentive is there for Rockstar to decrease the price of a digital game with no after-market sales capability?
I mean, GTA V has been on sale numerous times. The real money is GTA Online and funneling people into that.
re: GTA VI Pre Orders Start June 25th, Standard Edition $80, Ultimate $100
Posted by BulldogXero on 8/11/26 at 9:50 am to Sl0thstronautEsq
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Grand Theft Auto 6 fans are pre-ordering the $100 Ultimate Edition more than the standard edition of the game.
People are fricking stupid and are the architects of their own destruction.
I still have no idea why anyone is pre-ordering a DIGITAL game to begin with.
Ultimate Edition may be worth getting when it's on sale for 70 or less.
re: Games that were criticized at the time but remembered fondly now
Posted by BulldogXero on 8/11/26 at 9:48 am to cfish140
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I don’t think anybody looks back on FF13 today and has changed their mind about it. The graphics are great though.
FFX is my favorite FF, but it's linear as shite too. It is more open-ended than 13, but it's pretty close.
I didn't like how the game limited character progression behind story progress.
The story was also very poorly told. The game feels like it starts halfway into the plot. Characters are throwing around names of places, terms, etc and you have no idea what anyone is talking about for like the first 10 hours, unless you are reading all the data logs.
I can't speak for XIII-2 and Lightning Returns.
The trilogy does need a remaster or modern ports. The PC ports of XIII and XIII-2 in particular are garbage.
re: Which is better: Battlefield series or Call of Duty series?
Posted by BulldogXero on 8/9/26 at 2:21 pm to braves21
It depends on what you want. CoD has a better "feel" than Battfield.
CoD is better for straight up TDM style play. Battlefield is better if you want something larger scale and more strategic.
CoD is better for straight up TDM style play. Battlefield is better if you want something larger scale and more strategic.
re: Games that were criticized at the time but remembered fondly now
Posted by BulldogXero on 8/9/26 at 11:58 am to sicboy
I think it worked for RDR2 because you felt immersed in the setting. I do not want to see GTA like that.
Games that were criticized at the time but remembered fondly now
Posted by BulldogXero on 8/8/26 at 1:20 pm
I distinctly remember Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 being criticized back in the day for it essentially being "more of the same." Tony Hawk 4 on the other hand was widely praised for being a departure from what came before.
These days, it feels like Pro Skater 3 is, for many people, the best in the franchise and Tony Hawk 4 is kind of forgotten.
Personally, I think Underground 1 was the series peak.
Likewise Jedi Academy was criticized for doing away with series protagonist Kyle Katarn and eschewing the story-based structure for a nearly unrelated series of missions.
These days, while Jedi Knight is still looked upon fondly, most people will jump straight to Jedi Academy as you get a light saber from the beginning as opposed to slogging through half a game of meh FPS mechanics. Likewise, the mission-based structure seems to be just what people want from the series as it fits the theme of "Jedi Simulator" better than anything that has come before or after.
These days, it feels like Pro Skater 3 is, for many people, the best in the franchise and Tony Hawk 4 is kind of forgotten.
Personally, I think Underground 1 was the series peak.
Likewise Jedi Academy was criticized for doing away with series protagonist Kyle Katarn and eschewing the story-based structure for a nearly unrelated series of missions.
These days, while Jedi Knight is still looked upon fondly, most people will jump straight to Jedi Academy as you get a light saber from the beginning as opposed to slogging through half a game of meh FPS mechanics. Likewise, the mission-based structure seems to be just what people want from the series as it fits the theme of "Jedi Simulator" better than anything that has come before or after.
re: The problem with gaming today
Posted by BulldogXero on 8/8/26 at 1:12 pm to STLDawg
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For years, games have been designed to make players spend time rather than be good games.
Reminds me of when the CoD devs got butthurt over Christopher Judge's comments at the Game Awards that one year.
"But like, look at our player engagement metrics!" is exactly the sort of thing you'd think a CoD developer would say.
re: FFVII Revelation: Complete Hamaguchi Interview Breakdown – A Ton of New Details
Posted by BulldogXero on 8/7/26 at 9:29 am to td01241
FFVII Rebirth had one of the worst open worlds I've seen. Between that and FFXV, SquareEnix hasn't yet shown they understand open world game design.
re: The economy lost 23k jobs in July
Posted by BulldogXero on 8/7/26 at 9:10 am to 50_Tiger
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Either way K shaped economy doing what it does. I am trying to figure out what right now Republicans can hang their hat on for the midterms outside of were not Democratic Socialists at least
Short of some kind of mass revolution, this country is beyond cooked.
The USA is becoming a playground for the rich subsidized by cheap, foreign labor.
re: GTA 6 extended look premiers on Netflix August 27
Posted by BulldogXero on 8/6/26 at 2:53 pm to sicboy
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Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look premieres on Netflix on August 27, at 12pm PT / 3pm ET / 8pm BST.
That is the most disgusting thing I have ever read.
re: Going back to Starfield
Posted by BulldogXero on 8/3/26 at 4:02 pm to JetsetNuggs
Starfield gets a lot of unnecessary hate when it is essentially space Daggerfall.
I wish they would have gone the No Mans Sky route of adding more sand in the box with each update. The one criticism I have is how repetitive the randomly generated content is
I wish they would have gone the No Mans Sky route of adding more sand in the box with each update. The one criticism I have is how repetitive the randomly generated content is
re: EA Set to Close $55 Billion Go-Private Deal Next Week
Posted by BulldogXero on 8/3/26 at 4:00 pm to Henry Jones Jr
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It’s been hilarious watching The Sims community melt over this. For those of you not aware, The Sims has become woke as frick in almost every possible way the last decade or so. To the point the game is broken because all they focus is adding things to be “inclusive” and they ignore fixing the game
I don't know. I thought people were down on the Sims because it has like 10,000 dollars worth of DLC available for purchase. That'll only get worse now
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