A few days ago, we posted an editorial about how all those dreadful scripted events are killing the gaming experience. Seems that we should had also added all those annoying QTEs that were used heavily in God of War. These QTEs are not immersive and have no place in modern-day games as they can be easily replaced by clever, real-time, gameplay ideas. Seriously developers, we are not watching movies. We are playing games and this is definitely not the right way to create dramatic or cinematic scenes. An adventure game like Heavy Rain can get away with this. But the sequel to one of the best tactical FPS games to be filled with QTEs? Seriously now Ubisoft? Oh the horror. Continue reading Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Patriots – Target footage is disappointing to say the least→
Oh boy, here we go again with the scripted events. I’m pretty sure you’ve heard it before that those dreadful scripted events, which are included in most modern-day titles, are killing the whole gaming experience. There is a lot of argue about it, and to be honest, both sides are right. On one hand, scripted events give a cinematic feel, a more intense – albeit ‘fake’ – experience that could not be achieved with any other way. On the other hand, however, these same scripted events are hurting the dynamic nature of the games. Games are transforming into movies, meaning that the players are simply attending instead of actually playing them. Continue reading Editorial – Scripted events are killing the gaming experience→
PC gamers are right now disappointed with iD Software’s title as it doesn’t provide any in-game settings to adjust some of the game’s settings. Well, time to get excited because there is light at the end of the tunnel my friends. As with most iD Software engines, RAGE can be tweaked via the console commands or a config file, so keep reading to find out what can be changed at this point. Continue reading RAGE PC – How To Adjust Some Graphical Settings→
It’s really funny how things turned out for DICE and Infinity Ward/Sledgehammer. Both companies are talented and have been with us for quite some time. It wasn’t untill recently though when gamers found out the first studio, mainly due to its console version of Battlefield called, Bad Company. In fact… the same can be said about Infinity Ward too since their roots can be found on the PC with the creation of the first Call of Duty game. The only difference is that they moved to consoles way before DICE did. Continue reading How Battlefield 3 managed to steal Modern Warfare 3’s thunder→
By now, most of you will probably know iCEnhancer, the graphical mod that transformed GTA4 to one of the best looking games ever. What you might not know however, is that iCEnhancer is based on the ENB series for GTA4 and to prove how much better a tweaked version of ENB can be, “gionight” went ahead and captured some breathtaking screenshots of his tweaked ENB Series version 0.82. And let us tell you that you haven’t seen anything like this. We were pretty amazed with some previous GTA4 modded screenshots but these latest ones will certainly make you upgrade your system. Yeap, they are THAT good. Continue reading GTA 4 looked great with iCEnhancer1.3? Guess again cause these screenshots will leave you speechless→
Wow, it’s already been two months since DSOGaming opened its doors and since we hit the 100K uniques monthly mark, it was about time to write a proper editorial to let you know more about us and about our site. But first of all, huge thanks to everyone that visited DSOGaming and hope you’ve enjoyed it thus far. Continue reading Editorial: Two Months Live; What happened and what’s about to come→
The winners of the gamescom award 2011 have been determined. At the launch of this year’s gamescom trade fair, the independent expert jury from the field of publishing and media designated the best products. Battlefield 3 (Electronic Arts) was unanimously elected the “Best of gamescom 2011”. Continue reading Gamescom 2011 Winners Announced; Battlefield 3 is the best game of the show→
Okay we admit it, we are nerds and we love the demo scene. It’s a scene with a hell of great ideas and showcased in the past some amazing graphical techniques and tricks. And who can forget the PC demo that featured most of Carmack’s tricks in only 64 kilobytes. Now that’s impressive. Few days ago, Evoke 2011 was held and we have today its winners. So get ready to dive in this underground scene and who knows… you might like it. Continue reading Demoscene’s Evoke 2011 Winners Announced→
Let’s get one thing straight from the beginning. I was among those that criticized Crytek’s decision to release a dumbed down version of Crysis 2 to the PC. As I wrote in my ‘How Crytek doomed Crysis 2’s PC version’ article for another publication, Crytek had failed to release a proper PC version of Crysis 2 and didn’t include any DX11 support, modding tools, advanced graphics options or an 64bit executable file. Fast forward some months and here we are today with most of those issues addressed/fixed. Continue reading Crysis 2 – The Way It Was Meant To Be… Partially→
Hello everyone and welcome to DSOGaming. As the title suggests, this is the Dark Side Of Gaming. This gaming site focuses on both consoles and PCs. What can our viewers expect from us? Daily news for both triple-A titles and those that are not as well-known to the masses. Moreover, you can expect some PC performance analyses for most, if not all, PC games. Continue reading Welcome and Enjoy your stay – DSOGaming is opening its doors→
