even in skyrim? but I love the soundtrack.Originally Posted by Seanspeed
For a lot of open-world games, try turning off the music for a far more immersive experience.
I'm just putting this on the new page, I feel like people discredit the enjoyment of visuals as their own separate things too frequently.
I don't think I agree with this because different things are important to different people.
I really, really enjoyed Dear Esther. I wouldn't have enjoyed it nearly as much at 720p/30fps. The resolution and visuals were absolutely essential to the experience.
Different people take different things from games and I can appreciate games on a visual level separate from a purely gameplay level, as well as audio, control feel, etc etc.
We don't have to only come to games for gameplay, and I don't. So I think it absolutely can matter and affect your enjoyment of a game.
Read GAF only to hype yourself up. Once you got the game GTFO of the threads.
Even then, everything is so much fun when stoned. I got lost in fire emblem for hours on end after smoking a bowl. I just started AC4 last night and when I saw a giant whale jump out of the ocean while sailing my mind was blown. <3 MJYes, this is no joke. Immersion x10. The only exception would be something a little more dry, like turned based strategy or simulation, especially if it's your first time and there's a tutorial (oh god...).
Yes and no. The latter most definitely.Originally Posted by Holy Order Sol
Read GAF only to hype yourself up. Once you got the game GTFO of the threads.
Reading GAF to get hyped often (in my case) leads to that hype getting killed after 10 pages of over analyzing every detail. Killzone SF for example, I now don't give a fuck about after spending a lot of time in it's thread.
All you really need is a great sound system and a weed brownie. Great games are more immersive and intense and shitty games feel even shittier. Also stop buying games and you are much less forgiving or willing to stick with a shitty game.
Golden rule: Never blame the game for your mistakes. You may be able to learn from them and improve if you aren't too busy looking for excuses.
Also, weed is great to play video games I've heard. :p
Use your imagination. When we were kids the worlds in games were alive to us. We didn't know that they were just a bunch of scripts and shallow programming functions. We thought AI was way better than it really is. We thought walking through a field was walking through a field, and not moving a 3D model around and simply playing animations. We have seen the strings pulling the puppets and we don't care anymore.
That's why they need to spend alot more time and effort on AI, and integrity of game worlds. They need to make us say wow again, and make NPC's eerily life-like. They need to record our actions and store them on a server and give memories to NPC's about the way we walk and act in the world, so that we can be fooled again into thinking the game is real.
Some people say get really stoned before you play. That's an option. As I've gotten older, to recapture the magic, I have played like this (did it for the past 3 years exclusively) .When youre blasted on your drug of choice it kind of makes you stop over-analyzing how fake everything is, and you take it seriously again, or you get 'fooled' into believing the game world. But it doesn't work for very long. We need better games. Not better weed, or 1080p... we need better games. Deeper games.
I don't buy this "as we get older, we experience better things, and those old things of less quality do not do it for us anymore." That's a completely logical argument but I don't agree with that being what's causing us to lose interest in games. I think they stopped making games as real as they can and started focusing on selling points like "good story" and "sweet graphics" and 60 FPS. I don't care about any of that shit if I don't care about the experience itself. And the experience needs to be deeper for us gamers who are so into it and so jaded that we just see a bunch of objects clashing together with a story slapped on top. Just my two cents
That's why they need to spend alot more time and effort on AI, and integrity of game worlds. They need to make us say wow again, and make NPC's eerily life-like. They need to record our actions and store them on a server and give memories to NPC's about the way we walk and act in the world, so that we can be fooled again into thinking the game is real.
Some people say get really stoned before you play. That's an option. As I've gotten older, to recapture the magic, I have played like this (did it for the past 3 years exclusively) .When youre blasted on your drug of choice it kind of makes you stop over-analyzing how fake everything is, and you take it seriously again, or you get 'fooled' into believing the game world. But it doesn't work for very long. We need better games. Not better weed, or 1080p... we need better games. Deeper games.
I don't buy this "as we get older, we experience better things, and those old things of less quality do not do it for us anymore." That's a completely logical argument but I don't agree with that being what's causing us to lose interest in games. I think they stopped making games as real as they can and started focusing on selling points like "good story" and "sweet graphics" and 60 FPS. I don't care about any of that shit if I don't care about the experience itself. And the experience needs to be deeper for us gamers who are so into it and so jaded that we just see a bunch of objects clashing together with a story slapped on top. Just my two cents
Last edited by GreatestHits; 11-29-2013 at 06:58 PM.
Smoke some fine herb and have a beverage nearby, preferably tea or coffee.
LOL @ all the potheads in the thread :)
This this, a thousand times this. I've got a 1000 buck headphone set up and it just doesn't compare to my bro in laws surround set up. At all. Can't wait to buy my house at the end of the year.Bullshit to the headphones idea. I'll take the surround system with the full proper range produced in a proper environment over having something plastered to my head any day. Crank it up and actually get to feel the sound instead of isolating it.
Now that I'm married I've played Black Flag and GTA5 a few nights with headphones on so my wife can sleep, its a true REMOVAL of the experience. This using a pair of HD650's from my work studio. You can not recreate that stage and power in headphones, you just cant. Who ever says you can has not had there whole house shaking with the sounds of canons firing from every direction.
I should print this out and put it next to my collection.
I get so bogged down trying to decide which game to play from my backlog that I end up playing nothing at all.
I get so bogged down trying to decide which game to play from my backlog that I end up playing nothing at all.
Stop worrying about K/D in multiplayer and just have fun. I struggle to follow this advice myself though.
The idea of backlogs are weird, just play what you want to play. Having more games means more choice, it should never be treated as a burden.
Pause your game and masturbate. It's more enjoyable than whatever you were playing.
Only buy games produced in low quantities. When you get home get a cardboard box, put your game inside, and then stick in the attic for 30-40 years. When you take them out, stick them on Ebay/Craigslist/GAF and sell them for several thousand quid each. Take early retirement, buy a yacht, a key of cocaine, a couple of crates of champagne/lambrini(all tastes the same) and a bunch of clean looking hookers. Get in a few donkey punches before partying till you choke on your own vomit. Far more satisfying conclusion than any game. If only I hadn't succumbed to the temptation and opened my copy of Shaq-fu in '94.....They would have been some mighty clean looking hookers too. What a waste.
i genuinely feel bad for those who don't know about smoking weed and videogames
The most fun games i have played were all 720p or below and most are 640x480 onesOriginally Posted by The Smoking Bun
Realize that your system of choice doesn't matter and stuff like FPS and Resolution need only be at a playable level say locked 30 @ 720p. Only fun matters.
So i guess my advice would be to play old classics before anything else
Last edited by nasos_333; 11-30-2013 at 12:29 AM.
The best tip anyone could ever give.
Dont over think it.
Done.
Dont over think it.
Done.
This may echo previous tips but anymore my go-to advice is:
Don't ever underestimate state of mind and its effect on your perceptions. There are too many people who rage about a game they were hyped for because it's not the game they imagined. And it's practically pandemic among hardcore fans of a franchise.
If you feel yourself buying into hype, and a game doesn't send you over the moon the moment you play it - put it down, and go do something else. Play something else. Come back a week later and start over.
I've been doing this shit for 30 years now and it's amazing how many games are totally different a week, month, or a year later. Often for the better.
Don't ever underestimate state of mind and its effect on your perceptions. There are too many people who rage about a game they were hyped for because it's not the game they imagined. And it's practically pandemic among hardcore fans of a franchise.
If you feel yourself buying into hype, and a game doesn't send you over the moon the moment you play it - put it down, and go do something else. Play something else. Come back a week later and start over.
I've been doing this shit for 30 years now and it's amazing how many games are totally different a week, month, or a year later. Often for the better.
It doesn't hurt to over think it a bit if it stops you from rolling a bard archer.
Can you guys recommend some good headphones?
I like to take a week or two off after playing through a game.
The always use headphones shtick on GAF I'd garbage and this is coming from someone who used a pair of Bayer T1s. It's more like the vast majority of gamers own sub par speakers that are poorly calibrated and have the bass turned up top high. A decent surround sound system with a nice sub property calibrated will always outperform any headphone set up.
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