We go over common graphical setting to be aware of while gaming. What's up guys, welcome back to the podcast today, I just want to kind of talk to you guys about like different graphics settings and what you can do there. So obviously you got like low lowest settings that don't really have a lot that kind of use the old technology for graphics. And that's really awesome if you're really into gameplay and you want to up those frames per second, which can provide you a competitive edge. A lot of times in like first person shooters, what happens is the smoke gets in the way, one way to get around this and kind of cheat the system is to lower it to the basic graphic settings. And again, which can provide that competitive edge that you're looking for that can make a difference in your reaction times and the ability to see enemies on the field of battle. So that's definitely a strategy you can use when you go on the lowest settings. And you're going to have the most graphical frames per second. And the ability to see across the map. Now, you may want to turn on, let's say the distance turn that up. So you can make sure that you're seeing people across the map. Because sometimes when you turn into the lowest graphical settings, you can actually lose the distance of people. And that can be a problem, of course, you can't see them. Additionally, just make sure you have your video memories still up because that could also get lowered. And certain games have that ability to change how much video memory is being used. You want to make sure you have it up, or you're also going to lose enemies that you could possibly see otherwise. So let's the big thing right there with the lowest things now medium settings that can offer that ability to kind of look around, see stuff and really help for like a mid range computer, obviously. But you want to use that if your computer's just struggling, there's really no other reason to use medium settings. But to turn down stuff a little bit. If you're having some lag on a computer that's maybe not fully up to date with the newest technology, then you have your highest settings, that's where just kind of like that's the base point most games kind of put you at. That's kind of the expected point where you should be at today, I would say ps4 Pro, something like that is where you're at the medium setting or medium to high settings. And then when you start getting into like the RT x cards, you can throw that stuff on ultra, which is the epitome of graphics today. And if you do that there are certain options that you can do. So you can have analyze traffic filtering, you have ray tracing, certain things like that, that really burn energy and performance of these graphics cards, and create the god rays that you really want to see in your games. That's really awesome, right? So you said you set up all these settings. So first off, and strophic filtering, that's kind of like lights, that helps with filtering out that stuff, then you have your analyzing, analyzing is kind of like those curved edges that you see in the game. And that can kind of slow down performance. So be aware, if you turn on like 16 times analyzing and there's like Ms xx analyzing and there's a few other versions, just make sure, no matter what you're choosing the version, that's the best for you. Some will have like less performance hits, versus a certain type of other type of analyzing. So if you have a couple different options, definitely do your research that's ever changing. It seems like it's new features of graphics cards are always changing the anti lysing features, just make sure you're aware of what that does. And it can't hurt performance, but can also make it look like a Pixar movie. So you take what you can, performance can also be impacted by resolution if you turn that down and might be helpful in a first person shooter if your computer is enough to power. So like maybe you want to turn up the graphics, but you want to turn down..

We finally get to the bottom of it. and it is not as obvious as thought. What's up guys, welcome back to the podcast today, I just want to talk about something really cool. And as always, guys, please, please subscribe. That'd be awesome if you do that. And if you can just rate me. So to get started, I want to talk about do you prefer a controller or a mouse? Like, what do you guys prefer? I think when it comes down to it, I prefer personally controller and I have seen both sides of it. And the reason why I like controllers is I can just sit here on my butt and play a game on the couch. And it's pretty easy. I don't have to move anything, I sit at a desk all day for my job. And I don't want to sit at a desk when I'm at home. So I like the idea of a couch and a big TV, and a surround sound system and really having that theatrical experience when it comes to my games. But I can totally understand wanting a keyboard and mouse because it gives you that much more control when it comes to games, and razor. And those companies have really brought in phenomenal hardware that really gives you that control that high DPI when it comes to a mouse. And I cannot understate like, why wouldn't you do the high DPI mouse if you can. In fact, for work, I make sure I use a high DPI mouse because I like the idea of being on a click stuff fast and having control over my clicks. So just like something I do a lot of those keyboards and mouse's have awesome effects like you can change the colors, certain games, and they're really neat on how they do that. So that's kind of the neat thing. And they can add like that extra effect, like maybe they'll blink whenever a certain moment comes into a game. And they'll change that color to developer put that in there. And with the controller, I think the ps4 controller does change colors. So depending on what's going on in the game, the developer does have the opportunity to change the color of the controller to like red, green, blue, which is neat and adds that extra immersion, I'm sure with keyboards, there are ways to get sound to come out of it. I know the PlayStation controller does allow for like sound, little sound things to come out of it. That kind of just adds to the experience a little bit. So I haven't seen that with a keyboard. But maybe that would just be annoying, potentially. So there's some cons and pros to each option. But if you like to say on the cache controller is definitely option to go with. If you're a gamer, maybe you can work something out with having a mouse and a keyboard and still sitting on a big TV or big monitor. I guess a big monitor can kind of pay that off. Or if you have a really good comfortable chair that can kind of get you to be ergonomically correct and have the nice little posture you want to have when it comes to your gaming experience. But I think it you know like all things it comes down to just customization What is your favorite thing to have? Do you want to have a nice? Do you want to sit like in this really nice, a battle station gaming PC system that has all the specs and all the best hardware, that's going to give you complete control when you're playing your games, it's going to give you that competitive edge. And I think if you're a competitive player, PC is definitely the way to go. Because it gives you the absolute full throttle control and the high frames per second, which is what you guys love. But I'm I'm I'm more a PlayStation player, but I can definitely see where that is beneficial to anyone on that side of things. So from a controller perspective, I feel that you don't have as much control. But I feel like it's more of an even playing field, which kind of got me back into controller gaming. I felt like on PC, I was having a lot of issues with people just who had better hardware. And that's one of the problems that you run into if you run against people who have this amazing hardware, who are able

Is 4k really worth it for gaming? What's up, guys? Welcome back to the podcasts of next generation video games by Nick. Awesome. So what I want to talk to you guys today about is is 4k really worth it? Yeah, I said it. Is 4k actually something that is worth it or is it the gameplay, and I think when it comes down to this is that it's personal preference like 4k is such an awesome thing. If it's done right, it's very crisp. And it's even a little bit a little bit better than 290 P, I just, I've had a p monitors in 4k. And honestly, 4k just wasn't that big of a jump for me. Maybe it's the monitor I have, I don't know. But I feel like 4k just didn't do it for me. And there definitely needs to be some improvement there. To get to that point, maybe 8k will be that jump for me personally. But yeah, I mean, I'd be fine with a 290 p monitor if it was really good. And the colors were really good. So I don't think there's anything and parently great, necessarily about 4k monitors. Because we don't even see 4k as being a standard in gaming, we see those little less 1440 p k monitors which aren't even true 4k. So it's kind of interesting how you haven't even had a full adaption by the PC crowd and 4k. And a lot of that has to do with the graphics cards as of today are not able to keep up with true 4k. So we got to we kind of have to balance that out too. But 4k is definitely the future. However, I don't think it's something that is going to inherently take off until the next generation shows up and is able to perform 4k a little bit better. ps4 Pro kind of brought that into lie in the new Xbox One X and they kind of brought 4k a little bit further into the mainstream, but I don't think we've kind of reached that full fruition of what 4k has potential to be. But personally, I would be fine with 1080 p some of you guys may also be more into gameplay used to kind of see those people who play older games and like give me the gameplay gave me the best gameplay that you can possibly have. And let's go from there. And I totally agree with you guys. Like why not have the best gameplay. Instead of just focusing on the graphics. Sometimes we lose ourselves when we focus on graphics, and we end up with just like a hollow game. That's not something that we'd want to really play anyway. So yeah, why not just play the original Starcraft and be really happy if you like that. I'm not a huge Starcraft fan. But I'm sure there are some PC people out there listening, that are huge Starcraft fans. And when you see these games out there, you want to make sure that you're getting the optimal experience. I think that's the most important thing is for what's your experience? Are you really into gameplay? Do you want to be good at gameplay, maybe someone who's not as good a gameplay would prefer better graphics, you see experience and we all have busy lives for adults, some of us who are listening. And if you're a kid, we all have busy lives. So why would you necessarily? Why don't you want a game that's going to give you the best experience or best gameplay over graphics. Sometimes we get lost in that. I think that can kind of hurt a game if we focus in on graphics too much, or we're gameplay crisis did a really good balance of this, I think and that's why they're gonna release a new crisis, which will be awesome, because it will push the limit. So I can't wait till that comes out in the future. But right now, we're kind of is law between next generation systems. And I think with that, gameplay definitely does play a part because we're used to the graphics technology of today. And no matter what, no matter who you are, you're not going to have the best graphics. Because games haven't reached that point. So we get kind of unlocked by the next gen, we're kind of in this weird bottleneck before we upgrade to the PS five and all those other systems. And that's going to create that bottleneck. And until like streaming services are absolutely awesome fidelity...

What's up, guys? Welcome back to another episode of next gen gaming theory by Nick. Awesome. And I just want to talk to you guys today about Samurai games, are these games going to just continue on? Are they something that as a fad, I feels like to me these games are something that is definitely going to continue on. And the reason I say that is we got Noah, we got Noah too. And we got a lot of mechanics coming from Star Wars Jedi fallen order that are based upon the samurai games and also Dark Souls, and all these other platform games that are third person, kind of lewd slash really tough, challenging games that are not easy to be games. So Noah is kind of this game on PlayStation, that you're a samurai and you're trying to travel through and be mythical beast and survive in Japan. And you also have the new game goes to Shima, which a did a really good job. So this is really going to bring that Samurai culture to life. So maybe this is going to create this enlightenment of Japanese culture because of these games, that hasn't been really explored as much on the western side. So if they're able to kind of meet halfway in regards to that, and just looking back in recent memory, it hasn't been really explored since Total War, did their version of Japan deeply by Western audiences, who were not already into that Samurai culture, so what we're going to see is, I think we will get a lot more Samurai games, yes, they're challenging, yet, they are really great RPGs if you really get into them. And the Japanese RPG aspect is definitely there, or it's a longer dialogue, challenging parts, you're going to spend many hours playing the game, we're probably going to have to invest over 50 hours to beat the game. But to be honest with you like Assassin's Creed Odyssey was over 50 hours, and people still beat that. So maybe that's not a valid excuse. But when you look at these games, they really bring that ability to immerse yourself in the Japan culture and learn from it and learn the mythologies and learn why it is the way it is. And then you're also a samurai. So you kind of get to read the culture of what it means to be a samurai. And there's so many different lanes here. And then also like the sword combat is really good. And Noah, for instance, there's low stances, there's high stances, there's kind of these backwards stances. And you don't really realize there's all these sorts of stances until you play a game like that. And then you also get more of a blocking, and how to attack the correct way and when to use your power attacks and when not to use those power attacks. And it can really give you a target of just to improve personally, just from a combat perspective. And and also looking at from a game perspective, you're learning a lot about how Samurai used to fight how, how this is brought into the mold. And I think this is a really neat concept that will get kind of expanded in the future, as we see this coming into fruition, as we saw the ghost of Tsushima really taking off in the United States. And I think what you're gonna see, it was actually like one of the top PlayStation games almost ever. And I don't think that was just due to COVID-19 I think this game had a lot of hype to it, they did a really great job of marketing it. And that marketing just paid off for them. They did like those trailers and I was like, I want to play this game. And the whole idea of foxes and going into the Japanese mythology about what that actually is and how you could travel those shrines and, and take on the mythology part of those games really brings it and people got really excited about this game before it ever came out. I remember people talking about it. And some people didn't want to have the mythology, they just want to have a kind of like a samurai experience. So I think that can definitely be explored in a lot of different games. From that aspects. That's not that big of a deal. But th

What's up, guys? Welcome back to the podcast of next generation game theory by Nick. Awesome. I'm so excited to have you guys today. And this episode. So today, I'm just going to talk to you guys about the next generation of graphics cards and what are they going to really offer for us as we see this generation roll through. So I think definitely the R TX, which isn't out yet, I'm shocked. But it's definitely going to be coming out soon. Right before the PS five and Xbox. new systems coming out here soon. And I think this is the perfect time to launch if per se when it comes to grass cars really undercut those next generation systems. And I would expect that we're going to see some awesome tech demos on a level we have not seen before. And I'm excited about what those will entail. Because we're ready for that next generation. And these graphs, cars really want to show whether you're looking at a ti or you're looking at an Nvidia, what are they going to want to show, they're going to want to show the best steps, they're going to have some awesome graphics tech demos, they're going to want to prevent you from jumping ship to these next gens. And sticking with them, and the PC gaming world. As someone who's really excited, I really like the features of the R TX cards and what they're trying to do with lighting, when it comes to just trying to make the lighting really good and mirroring that approach of having really realistic photorealistic environment. And they've really done a good job of bringing that together and marketing that if what they're trying to do with those RT x cards, and the 338 hundreds are really going to bring it in at 39 series, I see so much potential here. And I've even seen things of showing up 11 gigabytes of video RAM, even higher than that in some areas. So we're gonna get some of the first cards that reach these video ram potentials that we haven't seen before. And even if you're looking on the type of a titan card almost at these levels, and it's going to be interesting to see as a gaming focus card, what how that translates to games and those frames per second. But if you're buying these beasts, you're going to just have an ultimate gaming experience, no matter which card you choose. As always, when you buy these, you want to make sure you kind of choose a CPU, that's not going to bottleneck you. And you also want to make sure you have enough ram installed on your system because you have to have those in the first place to even game well. So just be aware of those when you go to set up your system. Because it's going to make your experience that much more better for the next generation of gaming. So my experience is I originally had like a GTX RAM and an R TX I had a GTX like 280 back in the day, and I was so thrilled about that that was like when Xbox 360 was out. And back then the big thing was just physics Did you guys have ever heard of that. But physics is basically like we're objects move and Call of Duty Modern Warfare was really big into that physics approach. Then when we got later on, we get into the tessellation period of those cards. So tessellation became a big thing. We're kind of like create graphics for you. And now we've reached the ray tracing and all that stuff really is coming into approach with what we're seeing what these r TX cards. So I'm excited to see how those approaches do work out as you're seeing more dynamic approaches. And for many years, it was almost impossible to get ray tracing done. But now we're starting to see that. And it took a long time, because it takes a lot of computational power to do that. And we finally have reached that point where it is actually possible to take on these higher levels of graphical fidelity type systems within the system to create games that are lifelike. So cyberpunk probably be the game that's really going to push the graphical limits for next generation. I'm assuming why they're holding off is they really want to pick up that next ge

Well guys, I'm really excited about this topic about Call of Duty. In fact, I've decided to play a little bit of Call of Duty while I record this episode just for dramatic effect, of course, now call of duty is a franchise that really has taken on and next generation level it seems like it's always right there and he kind of innovation. And it really is kind of funny when Call of Duty came out, it was a war two based and from Call of Duty on on that PC. And you see Call of Duty finest hour just kind of growing into that big following until finally sees this huge launch for Xbox 360 and ps3 at the time, and becoming a really big part of that generation. And kind of how it were to experience should be done. And I think that's a really good thing when it comes to call of duty and all the options it brings to the table and Call of Duty's really allowed that to occur. And why not like call it geez freakin awesome. So we kind of see this transition along the lines there. From a war to shooter to becoming a more modern shooter. With modern warfare. Modern Warfare really broke the grain for Call of Duty There is nothing like it before that. And that's what may call of duty such an incredible game was you had this ability to go really deep into stuff and take it on, I can remember playing up with friends playing some Call of Duty out there. And Modern Warfare was kind of like this college kid Hangout, where you'd all get together you play called demarre for warfare. And I remember Captain price and introduction to him and how it had just such a profound impact on my life at that time, it was such an amazing experience. And it kind of like brought in real world events, Modern Warfare was kind of the big thing at the time. And there was a lot going on in the world. And it kind of made those events kind of come to life in a way, even though it was loosely based upon anything actually going on in the world that kind of kind of brought in regions that you didn't really think about and Call of Duty kind of filled that void during that time. So Modern Warfare was a huge leap and jump graphically compared to even more call duty to, which was an awesome game. By the way, I can remember that mission where your facility or facility I think's name. And you're out here, you're in mother, Russia, and you're trying to defend the motherland from the Nazis. And it's really awesome and you're running, you hear him scream, they yell, and you have to defend. So college is always been that franchise for dramatics. And bringing that extra edge and extra level of just realism. And it's always been right there. When it comes to that, like I cannot think of any other franchise who's really brought cinematics on that type of next gen level during that time, because that was next gen. And then I remember in modern warfare, my favorite memories is kind of like scrolling through the the Russian mission, and laying down in an abandoned town and making sure that you aren't seen so you can get that sniper shot off to save the world. And it's just one of those things that you get, and they've done such a good job early on in their franchise to really establish what they wanted to do as a franchise. And that's why Call of Duty just has been that that extra own, of bringing it all together, of creating this fan franchise that has stood the test of time that's broken, the grain that has brought it all together to really bring on what people want. And they really do listen to their fan base, which a lot of other franchises don't always do this. And yeah, they've been known to kind of nickel and dime people, they're one of the first put a season pass out there and stuff like that, but they really have a let that franchise grow into what it is today as a multiplayer powerhouse. And even even stepping into the steps of pub G and what that franchise was trying to do and upstart and then really filling that void with what they have now. And it's it's really interesting how the

Alright guys, thank you for that break there for the sponsor. And as always, please click subscribe to this podcast that is going to be many more episodes, they're all in a line ready for your viewing pleasure. So as we kind of see here, the VR capabilities of the PS five is going to be through the roof, even in comparison with the PS Pro right now. And I really am excited to see where this goes, I think I'm may end up purchasing a VR, they release it, especially if they can get it wireless, which I don't see happening. But I do think they're going to make the VR system a little bit smaller, and even maybe pull a 4k screen in there. Potentially, that can really bring in maybe going to a movie theater type experience. So for instance, a VR system could have you go into a movie theater, watch your movie, and very high, HD. And where you can look around and seems like you're actually there. And I've not seen this done. I've seen Samsung try this a few times. And I don't think it was really there. But I think if they could perfect it to where you can't see those pixels anymore. And the virtual reality world, this is something that will take that next step when it comes to the future of gaming. And that's going to be a really exciting thing to see as we continue on up those steps. And anytime you turn a light like that, it really provides that experience. And it's really been done well by PlayStation, they're one of the few companies that's really taken off this VR platform. And with the power to run the system, I think the system may not be able to do 4k natively at 60 frames, 120 frames per second. But it will be able to do VR very well based upon how that technology develops in a highly optimized system that PlayStation has endorsed for many years and will continue to endorse for the PS five. So very excited to see what is made of this and how that will kind of continue on in the future. So that technology will continue to grow. And there's so much they can do with the VR technology. They really haven't compounded on a triple A titles, it still seems like it's short games from here and there. I think a lot of that has to do sure you have your Skyrim VR and stuff like that. And Doom VR. But we haven't really seen just an all out assault from triple A developers on the virtual reality technology. And I think that kind of does hurt VR, and aspects. So I'd like to see, as this hardware technology will reach that point, then this next generation, where we can start seeing the take off of virtual reality. And where that's going to go with that 4k hardware is just not going to be reached on the screen. But VR is definitely something that can occur. So as always, guys, I don't want to just talk about the 4k capabilities and how it's probably not going to be able to run 4k, and the aspect that you're going to see or normally see, they're going to probably have to do a little bit of cheating to get games at 4k, or maybe just a little bit under. And that's fine. I mean, you rise cannot really tell. Don't tell that to PC Gamer or hardcore. There's probably one here who's probably just like, oh, what are you talking about. But you probably have a point to but I just want to say that your eyes really can't tell, especially if you turn on things like anti lysing, which will smooth over those edges, which stat is most likely how they're going to kind of cheat there's they're going to turn on those filters that are gonna kind of trick your eyes into thinking it is 4k. And you're not going to really notice there's a lot of things they can do with gaming, when it comes to tricking what you're seeing. And that's a neat part of gaming that they've come so far and being able to do that. One of the things I do see, you know, to get to that hardware level and not take up as much virtual ram virtual memory, from the PS five perspective is they'll have a developer create a scene and that scene doesn't

Mass Effect is a trilogy that came out a while back, as many of you guys know and Mass Effect had a profound impact on my life, as it was kind of the kickoff from Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic. And even my childhood favorite Jade Empire hope that brings some flashbacks for some of you who are listening in today. We really have a phenomenal game here when it came out. And it was one of the launch titles for the Xbox 360. And it really brought next gen into the RPG market. And I can't say enough about this incredibly amazing game, just in general, when you think about everything that Mass effect was able to do just from that standpoint, of the dialogue options, you hadn't seen that on that level. Before that time, also is really cool, how you would have those characters scenes, and you're able to go through those dialogue options. And it really was even better than some of the previous games. And it was original IP by Bioware. And when you see some games come out like this Mass effect was a great game, it did come out. And it had a few bugs on it. Like the combat wasn't really the greatest, it could have been improved, the biotic system was kind of a strange deal. And a lot of people kind of stood went away from that because of some of the issues there. And especially if you're playing on Xbox 360. And the key mappings were kind of off in a way, but overall the game when you come to story, and Commander Shepard and his crew and being on a meet them throughout the galaxy, it really was a phenomenal game. And that aspect really brought everything that we want to see in gaming. Mass Effect is one of those deep RPGs when it comes to innovation, innovation was key during this time, because it was a new new generation of gaming. And it brought to the forefront is the series has aged relatively well in comparison to some series during that time. And I think a lot of it has to do with just that great story that Mass Effect brings the character. And that was really neat concept. Plus, you could travel throughout the universe, explore that universe. And that was what really what really brought that next generation level because you wanted that new expansive system in place of exploring the universe. And when you really see that, from a perspective standpoint, it really brings you to where you want to be, for instance, that that feeling of the unit exploring and, and meeting new new adventures along the way. And throughout that you would fight mega corporations and pirates. And it just had everything in it that you really wanted to have in a space RPG. And it hadn't been done that well previously. Bioware is a company with a big history with their knights, a republic series, they kind of started with this concept of the dialogue options, having that combat system in place through the Star Wars universe, and then going on to Jade Empire and creating an incredible story there. And then finally reaching out to Mass Effect, which was their original IP, as I stated, and when you see a game take on these IPS, it there's a big budget involved, there's a lot of risk and creating your own IP, a lot of people thought that maybe they should have done Star Wars and that would have maybe helped a little bit better in the aspect from a risk management standpoint. But now Bioware went ahead and decided to create their own IP and that gamble definitely paid off as this ended up being a trilogy. Today, I'm just going to talk about that original Mass Effect because of its profound influence. And if you haven't played this game, I really highly recommend this would get a stamp of approval per se. And you definitely need to go out there and play the original Mass Effect. Now there have been some rumors, and in the recent future, is that are they going to make another one? That is a great question. You hear this all the time, especially when it gets around the Mass Effect day.