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SG Brown #90: You Reap What You Waggle

SG - Like the Empire before them, the Brown show strikes back as the crew nerds out about SWOTOR, Skyrim, and uh… that’s about it because there’s a lot of ground to cover with those two titles. Listen up, and find out what Brown can do for you. There’s bonus content for SG ipod and android app users.

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Anyone else not blown away with graphics these days? Me neither

Talal writes: "I'm talking about having that rush of excitement - that feeling you get when you know you've just made a memory for a lifetime."

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OptimusDK2h ago

There are different games. Some have gamplay at it highest priority, some have the story, some have the replay value and choices... There are a lot of different game experiences.

It is laughable that just now graphics does not have anything to do with that experiene. We have had many games of that type over time. This is just the one that have come closest to feel like playing an actual movie. Just look the the Digital foundry walkthrough it is a masterpiece in that perspective and hence wrth trying. But yes do not do it for the gameplay - but that was never the goal of this experience.

MyDripMyDripO1h ago

Of course Christopher would submit this lol.

PS fanboys like Christopher for years: “OMG visuals!”
Xbox releases a game with better visuals than any Sony game: “visuals don’t matter!”

Giga_Gaia1h ago

Not better than any Sony games. Hellblade 2 visuals aren't really impressive and anything we haven't seen. Plus everything else about the game is shit. Wouldn't be different if it was multiplatform.

MyDripMyDripO1h ago

No Sony game looks as good as HB2. Not even close

Eonjay1h ago(Edited 1h ago)

You mist be late to the party.
Christopher submits most VideoGamer articles... because N4G is owned by VideoGamer...

Nevermind alt...

MyDripMyDripO1h ago(Edited 1h ago)

And 100% of those articles just happen to be negative Xbox and positive PlayStation 😂😂

Remember when we had 1 approved article for PS layoffs and 100 approved duplicate articles for Xbox layoffs?

😂😂

1Victor1h ago

@obcurednewaccount: “Of course Christopher would submit this lol.”
You don’t learn do you expect to be closed soon 🤦🏿🤣
The graphics in the industry are getting less shocking than 10-15 years ago but now and then we get games that look great like like this new game from ninja theory.

MyDripMyDripO1h ago(Edited 1h ago)

“ You don’t learn do you expect to be closed soon ”

English mothafucka - do you speak it!?

1Victor42m ago

@obscureotheraccountsoontobeba nned: “English mothafucka - do you speak it!?”
🧐Tally ho good sir and good luck in your future endeavors looking for a new name less peasant 🧐

jjb198143m ago

Nothing to see here in the above comment but another alt account splooging over a glorified photo mode.

MyDripMyDripO37m ago

PS fans love a good photo mode though, no?

Or did that goalpost move now that an Xbox game looks better?

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Kneetos1h ago

Mario kart 8 ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Sonic18811h ago

Horizon forbidden West has great graphics and great gameplay

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Two Decades Later, the Original Splinter Cell is Still a Masterpiece

They don't make games like this anymore.

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vgvill8d ago

Too dated in my book. The AI is way too unpredictable to be acceptable today. It's definitely a game of its time.

Jingsing8d ago (Edited 8d ago )

Agreed with those sentiments. The quality of the CPU controlled characters make or break a stealth game and they are pretty poor in all the Splinter Cell games by today's standard. This is what led me to playing Spies vs Mercs all the time in later games just to get a better stealth experience from a real person. Arguably Sony are making better stealth games albeit not Tom Clancy stuff.

TheProfessional8d ago (Edited 8d ago )

You should stick with fortnite or one of the countless bloodborne style games then. What a joke.

rlow18d ago

I had a good time with the game. It is a product of its time. But when it came out it was a must have game for a lot of people. I wish Ubisoft would make another game in the series or at least a reboot.

vgvill8d ago

They are making a remake, I think. I loved the original game when it was released, but I tried to play it again in recent years and just couldn't get on with it. The same with the older Hitman games.

PrecursorOrb8d ago

Yeah chaos theory still holds up though I gotta say. If you’re a fan of the series I highly suggest you go back to that one. Ubi has said they are remaking sc for “modern audiences”. I don’t have a lot of faith for the future of that company

Chocoburger7d ago (Edited 7d ago )

Due to the lack of modern stealth games, and me constantly playing the MGS series, I've been looking for alternative stealth games to play, and went back and re-played the SC series recently. I wouldn't call SC1 or SC:PT masterpieces, there are AI issues, they're very much trial-and-error games, and that can lead to a lot of frustration. I also found the stories in this series to be boring, uninteresting, and just sloppily told. Cinematics are also of poor quality for both in-game scenes and CG cut-scenes, the soundtrack didn't leave any impression on me either.

Chaos Theory is better, but there was still a lot of room for improvement, and Double Agent (old gen ver.) was a sloppy mess that ended up a regression from CT. But still, at least they tried back then, these days Ubi-junk doesn't even try to make good games!

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A Matter Of Trust: What The Game Industry Should Do To Win Gamers Back

Skewed and Reviewed have written an Opinion Piece covering issues in the gaming industry, how current issues were issues years ago, and what can be done to help restore consumer trust.

anast13d ago

Nothing. It's up to the gamers to stop consuming content from companies that they don't agree with.

Garethvk13d ago

How do you know if you agree with it or not unless you play it? Which without conventions forces gamers to rely on trailers. Perhaps Demos should be made more frequently. But companies need to do better as well.

anast13d ago

Wait until release. Watch Gameplay. Exercise patience.

Garethvk13d ago

But is that not what they have now? Tons of gameplay or are you talking about watching actual gamers play it versus the trailers and streams? The big issue is that some companies pay streamers and influencers and they create content but for me; that is hardly a fair, unbiased, and factual look at a game.

1nsomniac13d ago

Get rid of the suits in the industry and job done!!

Garethvk13d ago

They usually are attached to the money sadly. It would be nice to have gamers in charge but you have so much money invested that business people are needed. Hence the issue; you need people who know business but are also gamers who know have an eye to the community. It sounds simple in theory that if you give gamers quality games that they want to play; money will be made. But that is not always so.