Quick Questions XIV: A Question Reasked (Part 1)

my mkv files keep stuttering. please someone help hook me up with a working player and the latest shit im going nuts over here

What do you use? I use SMPlayer, and it works pretty good, no stuttering.

I was using mpc but i downloaded the latest mvp release and it fixed my issue

are you using CCCP

don’t use cccp. it’s 2020 you don’t need codec packs. you didn’t need them in 2010 either. mpc-be and lavfilters.

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and what would that buy me over using cccp

Closed Store Environment + Xbox Game Pass and low hassle

Vs

Every video game ever made but dealing with problems

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a version of mpc and lav filters that isn’t 5 years old. less shit installed designed for watching anime off kazaa in 2005

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is there anyone here who defends Mirror’s Edge Catalyst?

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I mean, I’ve completed it. It’s not good though. AMA

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Is there a cool moment where you are playing the game to the chvrches song?

I don’t think so, that was an end credits thing like you’d expect.

You eventually get a neat grappling hook and the final mission is spectacular, but there’s just too much bullshit design to deal with.

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I still stan the first game despite its flaws I should play the second one eventually

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The first game is very good

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i love the first one and played a few hours of 2 some months after release when it was on sale for £5. the whole open world design just did not seem to gel with the structure of that movement, plus skill trees for basic actions seemed bad.
all i remember liking was some of the art design choices of how fully empty they managed to make it feel.

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I will defend Catalyst because few do. They should’ve abandoned combat rather than lean into it and the open world leads to some so-so traversal. The map is cluttered with shitty games-as-a-service live events from other players as well. The scripted levels and the aforementioned final level are really good setpieces though.

There’s some cool stuff: grappling hook, just looking into the skybox and chilling, some decent story stuff. Early on there’s a nightmare-fuel AR device that explains the HUD diegetically. When you first put it on it needs to be hacked so that it doesn’t just spam your consciousness with ads. Made me shudder but then they play it off as a one-off thing.

I just need more of that aesthetic and any franchise that develops it just dies.

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I have honestly not thought of a codec pack in like a fucking decade so this conversation is totally bewildering

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a lot of people flat out stopped learning anything new about computers in the windows xp era

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Part of me still believes Windows 2000 is cool and good so I get it

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Mirror’s Edge Catalyst isn’t like awful or anything, it just is much more bland than one would hope a sequel to Mirror’s Edge would be. As someone who believes that these big mega AAA games can serve as the gaming equivalent of ā€œcomfort foodā€ Catalyst let’s you run around a pretty look city’s rooftops and serves that purpose well enough.

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