Unprofessional Fridays: 05/11/2018

YAY!

damn that was fast

That Jeff Gerstmann sure plays a mean pinball!

no 1080?

I think Ben was talking about Yeltsin, not Gorbachev, with the drunk taxi calling. I don't believe Gorbachev drank at all.

It really is a bummer all those pinball tables are getting removed. Great show though.

Cool show. Not interested in any of these games but stayed for the talkin'.

Ben will (rightly) not care or read this but instead of saying 'multiple people' he'd be more in command of language to know that 'several' is the word he probably wants to describe a group as few as three or as many as whatever. Even though language use is changing and people really don't give a shit, having two teachers as parents correcting me my entire life on this I figured I'd pass it on to a journalist *shrug*. Have good weekend yallz.

Yep Old Desktop....my work computer has a desktop dump folder that is full of junk.

I'm playing a bit with Pinball Arcade, and outlanes are just a curse. The ball can so often just get dropped in there by the table mechanisms with no input on my part. I mean, come on. It's not like I'm not butterfingers enough with the flippers. You'll get enough of my (virtual) quarters without resorting to auto-lose tactics.

(The freebie Arabian Nights table is really excellent, though.)

@johnjamieson: I think you're right. Or at least, Clinton does claim that Yeltsin tried to hail a cab while drunk on Penn. Ave, in just his underwear.

https://www.politico.com/blogs/on-congress/2009/09/yeltsin-drunk-in-his-underwear-hailing-a-cab-021553

Not sure if its THE best story mode in a racing game but the story mode in Driver: San Fransisco is pretty fucking rad.

I know going back to the old style of Monster Hunter won't be easy, but there's enough Generations Ultimate offers that I don't mind. The amount of monsters is huge and as a result so is the number of weapons and armors you can get, the weapons will actually look unique and aren't just reskins of the base weapons with some monster skin slapped on, the brighter/more colorful art style, more monster variety, more areas.

Oh and most importantly, transmog! No more mix and matched clown suits!

Janthings!

Oh, good. This one's watchable.

That's a shame, Trailblazers seems to run very well on PC. I'm running it at 4K and everything. It also seems to have crossplatform support, but that's not working for me.

Jeff's wacky cartoon whoops are the best worst thing.

I feel blessed to be in the quasi-presence of an official mod of the official arli$$ reddit official. News of a reboot?

Rage was awesome parts that didn't manage to combine the cool parts into a great game.

Jeff with the shortest of shorts again.

I forgot how brown Burnout Revenge was, but that was the brown era of video games.

My guess when Sony says they will be showing things a bit diffrent at E3 this year, is that they will be having diffrent people from the teams come out on stage and talk and show one exact thing, instead of the normal playthroughs of a live demo, Sony always have been good to give the teams their moment in the spotlight, and It's the only way I can think of when they say things will be a bit diffrent this year.

It will be interessting for sure if they really are doing it diffrently or if it's just a hoax (don't think so)

"It is a unity game." - Brad

Don't ever use that as an excuse, I work in unity and the performance you get out of it is the work you put into it. Blame the devs that didn't put in the hours into optimization, not the engine.

Trailblazers compared to revenge after looks mediocre in so many ways and that music is terrrible

I bought rage day one for 60 bucks. It was the worst id game but at least it's not another dishonored dlc or some thing judging from the pink big Ben

Was gonna check out the Goemon's Adventure segment but then you hardly even look at the intro then finishes it off by mashing buttons and skipping it.

@steveurkel: I wish there was more Dishonored DLC.

I'd love watch Jeff play gun.

Trailblazers looks cool, and I'm getting a rad "Jet-Set Radio" vibe from the art style and the music, but MAN that hitching framerate is disgusting. I might pick it up if the devs ever resolve that issue.

Obviously there are some really polished console Unity games out there (Inside is immaculate) so I felt slightly shitty saying it. Hard to deny a bit of a trend though when you look at a list of games that have shipped on consoles with rough performance over the last few years.

The main thing I've heard from a few indie devs is that Unity's multithreading support came online pretty late in the game, considering that's effectively all console development is these days, and still wasn't amazing last I heard a while ago. Sounded like the engine relies on the PC's horsepower to brute force decent performance there, but that doesn't translate to platforms with weak individual cores. This was all 2015-16ish though, what's your experience been with it more recently?

I'm not going to bullshit, I can only speak to the experience I have as an indie dev. I haven't spent the money on console development licensing (don't have the money if I wanted to), but I've done a fair deal of testing on a weak computer (just around as strong as a 360, maybe less-so) and was able to get a lot out of it, as long as I didn't, as you say, brute force it.

The issue with Unity isn't the engine, it's that the developers that use it don't respect that it's not going to just take whatever you throw at it and produce perfect results. I understand the mindset, since a lot of those games have a big "Unity" logo on them, so rather then individually looking at the devs it's way easier to try to find a single cause. Sadly the single cause is that it's easier to be lazy and not polish a game then it is to make it truly great.

And it isn't just with Unity, Unreal has been free to get into for a while now and we're starting to get a similar style of poorly optimized Unreal games as well. An engine that is used to AAA levels of polish, so has a set level of expectations is coming up sorely short because it's going through the same issue as Unity. Since everyone has access to it, that includes people who aren't necessarily trained in it's use and how to make a quality product. Though Unreal definitely handles intensive assets more comfortably without getting overloaded (better built in lighting system as well), but it has other issues which make Unity my preferred engine to work with.

Being able to set the PS4 Pro to display in 1080p at the system level is a good option to have. On the Xbox One X you can’t do that, and so I got the PS4 version of The Evil Within 2 to play at 1080 with a much higher frame rate. The only other game I’ve done that with was The Last Guardian.

I played all of Gun in one sitting on a beautiful summer day with a friend of mine, it was a trance like experience.

Burnout Revenge is the best Burnout. Paradise does not scratch the same itch. Plus that soundtrack was killer

@mendia: I am sure Ben enjoys being corrected as much as you did when your parents did it.

@ssully: Huh? I was just talking about being excited forMonster Hunter.

New podcast: All Systems Goemon?

@janman could you maybe, please, consider tweaking the noise gate a bit more? It's still a bit tight. "Hi" becomes "i" somethimes, etc. I really, truly appreciate you working with what you've got and trying to solve the background noise problem. I'm just reporting a "bug". You are the best.

Okay so what's the name of this window manager app Ben used to love?

@mendia: My mistake. That was directed at @knoxt

NAH HAAA HAAAAA!!!!

@yeahimjordan: I think Brad has a lot of anxiety, that's all. i'd perform like shit if I had to talk at the same time and I knew there'd be multiple thousands of people watching me and judging me and making really shitty comments about me.

That Goemon segment sure was rough, Ben you give up on things so fast.

I really wish Ben wouldn't have skipped the intro of the Goemon game. Why would you even test out the buttons during a cutscene?

I almost never use tabs. I use one tab for everything.

the end kinda ruined it for me

Burnout Revenge HD is so fucking great

YAAAH HA HOOOO