Video Games

Tekken 8 launches tomorrow

Tonight isn't it? 8pm or something

11pm so basically tomorrow

Is anyone playing Throne & Liberty?

I've been steaming a bit of Tekken 8. It's going pretty well.

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putting a tablet on a vpn in front of your dog doesn't count.

I don't apologise for having a supportive family

My joycons seem to be broken. Well to be exact only one of them and only a bit broken, but broken enough to make it annoying.

I don’t want to pay £60 for a new set of official nintendo ones. There seem to be 1000s of almost identical looking knock off ones on amazon and ebay. Has anyone bought any of these / can anyone point me to a pair that will do all the same things as the official ones and won’t break in a week?

Managed to mod the mighty 787b in PCars...

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• Project CARS 2™ 2024-01-30 787B_1.mp4

I mean, none of them work exactly like the original joycons to my knowledge.
Perhaps you should look at CEX, as you can purchase a single replacement in a colour of your choice. Also a 24m warranty.

Ordered Tekken 8.
Game Collection eBay store and the JanPay20 discount code gets it down to £47

Edit: who'd be a console gamer!

Nice. I bought from Simply Games but am regretting it already. It'll either get played a grand total of 5 times, or it's gonna keep me captive for far too long. Neither are good outcomes.

I just buy the parts and fix mine - had to do it for four! Annoying yes, and I've clumsily ripped the LED ribbon cable before.

Joy-cons are not durable.

Joycon repair kit? I managed to fix one for my son and it has held up well for a year now. Not difficult just fiddly.

Mine didn't hold up as long unfortunately. The analog stick button/press failed pretty quick. But no drift is a welcome enough return.

I have just ordered a new PC so I can retire my old one for my son to use. He is dying to play fortnite with a mouse and keyboard. Aiming with joysticks, is, and always will be, bullshit. Coop BL3 will be pretty damn fun too.

Sniper Elite series was a random punt at Steam that has turned into an absolute blast. Sniping Nazis at 250m never gets old.

I am almost 100% on SE5 and just started playing SE4 now. I think it is the first time I have experienced de-evolving of the the mechanics by working backwards in a series. Interesting to say the least.

Aiming with joysticks, is, and always will be, bullshit

Disagree for anything 3rd person - and I started on M&Kb

I go back to late 70s arcade cabinets.

Joystick aiming for 1st and 3rd person is too slow an imprecise. Ref: Geats of War, et al.

Been playing Far Cry 6 on Game pass. It's a bit samey, but discovered I'm surprisingly good at head shots in this game (weirdly better with a regular rifle than with an actual sniper rifle). Much better than I am on online multiplayer shooters...

Cheers, I hadn’t thought of that, but not a bad idea, I’ll take a look.

Pfft, aiming with mice is slow and imprecise compared to trackballs.

@infmz and @Aroogah. Thanks, also something I’ll consider. I have already repaired these once, so was thinking maybe I’d be better off with a brand new one. Though sounds like maybe it's best to think of them as Trigger’s joycon.

Pfft.

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Although the well weighted massive trackball in the arcade version of Missile Defence was never replicated for the home market sadly.

I'm loving Tekken 8, my ps network name is ssumo89 if you fancy a game some time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMSTkN8mfTM