All Things Videogame Related: EXTREME VS!!

[azrael]

1st handheld, officially, announced with the Z2 Extreme CPU.

MSI Claw A8 announced ~ Rumors were true — MSI indeed has a Ryzen-powered handheld.

[davidwhangchoi]

nice, hope the price is competitive vs. the Ally

[davidwhangchoi]

out now

[mikeszekely]

48 minutes ago, davidwhangchoi said:

out now

Bought. Great timing, too, I just finished AC Shadows on Monday and the Oblivion Remaster today.

[davidwhangchoi]

On 5/21/2025 at 10:46 PM, mikeszekely said:

Bought. Great timing, too, I just finished AC Shadows on Monday and the Oblivion Remaster today.

nice! the hard copy for switch (international version) also released, i'm getting that copy.

 

[mikeszekely]

On 5/23/2025 at 3:03 AM, davidwhangchoi said:

nice! the hard copy for switch (international version) also released, i'm getting that copy.

 

Should run fine even on Switch. I have the graphics settings maxed and I'm still getting 60fps at 1080p on the 17w setting on my ROG Ally X.  With the default settings, the game has a 60fps limit turned on.  I'll try later with the frame limit off, on both the 12w and 17w settings (though, even at 25w, the Ally X lasts me just over 90 minutes, which is enough to get through my kid's dance classes).

With the frame limit turned off and maxed at 1440p on my desktop I'm getting 400-600fps... my monitor is only 240hz.🤯

Edited May 25 by mikeszekely

[davidwhangchoi]

 

[mikeszekely]

6 hours ago, davidwhangchoi said:

 

Yes please. For all the hype P5 got, P4 is still my favorite game in the series.

[sh9000]

 

[Tking22]

Went to Target this morning to grab some coffee and they had two pallets of Switch 2 consoles, and over a half dozen Mario Kart bundles. No line, no chaos, no crowd, no mess, just sitting there ready to go at retail. That's a nice change, I'm reading scalpers are still listing, and somehow selling, consoles at $700 and MK bundles at $800, crazy. Still passed, it's just not worth it to me at launch, it looks cool, and Mario Kart Horizon looks cool, but not $500+ cool. 

At least it seems those that missed pre-orders, or had a pre-order cancelled, should still be able to call around and find a console at retail, maybe Nintendo actually made enough for launch? 

[Chronocidal]

I'm not even sure it would be that, it kind of sounds like Nintendo is leaning into the idea that they can min-max their profits by raising their prices until the demand equals the supply.

[TangledThorns]

$500 for a console... I must be out of touch these days, lol.  

EDIT: Oof

https://www.ign.com/articles/nintendo-switch-2-screen-punctures-ruin-launch-day-for-fans-due-to-store-receipts-stapled-into-consoles-box

Edited Thursday at 05:16 PM by TangledThorns

[Chronocidal]

Holy crap you utter dipshits, Nintendo.. at least COVER THE FREAKING SCREENS.  Why the everloving crap would you pack it with the screen facing the exterior with no crush space?

Not to excuse the stupidity of stapling receipts to boxes, but if the stores have adopted that as standard procedure for electronics sales, maybe you need to look at packaging standards for fragile electronics products.

Edited Thursday at 10:53 PM by Chronocidal

[Big s]

I gotta say that stapling receipts to a box is pretty stupid. That should never have been a thing in the first place for any product. They petty much trashed a few hundred thousand dollars or possibly much more worth of product.

I bet the people at Nintendo are all fairly confused over this one. 

[azrael]

Ummmm...I'm not blaming Nintendo for that. That's all on Gamestop. Why the hell are you STAPLING a receipt to the box? What happened to just taping it? Or neither. 

[JB0]

5 hours ago, azrael said:

Ummmm...I'm not blaming Nintendo for that. That's all on Gamestop. Why the hell are you STAPLING a receipt to the box? What happened to just taping it? Or neither. 

They had problems with tape not sticking, apparently root-caused to a broken air conditioner.

 

Everyone was miserable, and this made it worse. 

[Old_Nash_II]

Resident Evil Re9uiem

 

[sh9000]

 

[Roy Focker]

(Repost this here. Couldn't find this thread earlier)

 

It was mentioned a few years ago that IOI the makers of Hitman were going to do a James Bond game. I was wondering about its status after the franchise was sold to Amazon. Looks like the game is still going forward. I found their Hitman games to be very fun with the sneaking around or walking around wearing disguises in exotic locations trying to get to your target to very Bond like. Can't wait to play this game.

 

[Old_Nash_II]

 

[Valkyrie Hunter D]

Ooh, AI assisted lightguns. There are a few lightgun peripherals out there now, but this one has Namco's support behind it:

[sh9000]

 

 

[Valkyrie Hunter D]

The setting has changed, but it looks this game got the green light:

[davidwhangchoi]

14 hours ago, Valkyrie Hunter D said:

Ooh, AI assisted lightguns. There are a few lightgun peripherals out there now, but this one has Namco's support behind it:

i like that of the tiers comes with a pedal to duck and cover reload. 

[sh9000]

 

 

[Valkyrie Hunter D]

Leon is still supposedly a main character:

[TangledThorns]

Hopefully its good as THE EXPANSE was one of my favorite sci-fi series in the past ten years. 

 

 

[sh9000]

 

 

[davidwhangchoi]

 

Edited 20 hours ago by davidwhangchoi

[mikeszekely]

I don't understand the marketing.  Freedom from Windows?  But it still has Windows on it.  Do they mean because it does Xbox Cloud streaming?  I can game from the cloud on the regular ROG Ally/Ally X now.

Nice to see that both versions now have two USB C ports, and the X version retains the extra RAM and larger battery of the current Ally X.  The X version gets the Z2 Extreme, but the regular only gets the Z2 A?   The screen seems the same as the current model, and I kind of hate the chonky new grips.  Unless the Z2 is a HUGE upgrade I'll stick with my Ally X.

[sh9000]

 

 

[davidwhangchoi]

13 hours ago, mikeszekely said:

I don't understand the marketing.  Freedom from Windows?  But it still has Windows on it.  Do they mean because it does Xbox Cloud streaming?  I can game from the cloud on the regular ROG Ally/Ally X now.

Nice to see that both versions now have two USB C ports, and the X version retains the extra RAM and larger battery of the current Ally X.  The X version gets the Z2 Extreme, but the regular only gets the Z2 A?   The screen seems the same as the current model, and I kind of hate the chonky new grips.  Unless the Z2 is a HUGE upgrade I'll stick with my Ally X.

I was scratching my head at the slogan till I watched the youtube trailer. 

Apparently, it's Freedom "of" Windows.   Wario got the wording wrong.

Edited 5 hours ago by davidwhangchoi

[Duymon]

A very stripped down windows would theoretically have much better compatibility than the proton layer that Steam OS uses, but we'll just have to wait and see. Proton and Anti-cheat don't get along if the gamedevs are lazy.

They had better make it do stop'n'go as well as Steam OS, because that's the one huge downgrade I experienced when I went from a Steamdeck to the Rog Ally. Losing a few minutes everytime I had to put the game on hold makes playing games during my commute awful; a problem the Nintendo Switch or Steamdeck never had.

If the Xbox Ally fixes that stop'n'go issue and the Z2 extrene offers a significant upgrade in performance over the Z1 extreme I'll definitely nab one.

Edited 5 hours ago by Duymon

[azrael]

But it's still Windows, even if stripped down. The Xbox app is running on top of this stripped down Windows and allows you to import games from other storefronts (Steam, Battle.net, Epic, etc as well as serve as a Xbox Cloud device). Microsoft is trying to make this a one-stop-shop-handheld. And that admirable but we'll have to see how well it does it in practice. 

[mikeszekely]

I caught LTT's preview of the Xbox Ally family. What the Microsoft team is doing on the Windows side is pretty interesting, and I'm more interested than I initially was. For me it's really going to come down to price and the performance delta of the Xbox Ally X over the original Ally X.

... Wish they could have made the screen a little bigger. After 40 years of 20/20 vision I'm starting  to need reading glasses. The Switch 2's bigger screen is starting to spoil me.