Honestly the best way to play Ark is on your own server where you can modify the settings.  Its okay solo but fun with a few friends but the key is pushing all the sliders up so shit doesn’t take centuries to make and train dinosaurs

MS is doing good in pushing that gaming is a service rather than a platform now. Great time to be a PC gamer. 

The tantrums that Playstation players are throwing over Xbox finally gaining a solid list of exclusives is giving me so much joy.

Was just thinking the other day that it would be cool to have a Left 4 Dead with dinos....and then a few days later it appeared.

That’s true, cloud saves are a bad analogy. “Smart delivery” is more equivalent to “how PC games have worked for over 30 years.”

Think about it this way: Sony is in the console business, while Microsoft is in the console AND PC business.

Microsoft is used to having an online software storefront that has to be compatible with multiple operating systems, versions of operating systems, software, and a practically-infinite number of potential hardwa…

Huh. The game sure feels like a comic book game while I am playing it. 

On the other...what’s the point?... All of this just seems like a massive waste of resources. Either take what you learned and make a sequel that addresses the many, many, many issues of the first and makes good on the promises of that game...or cut your losses and move on. 

The greatest sin was finally developing a decent starfighter game then utterly abandoning it. 

And also his memorable turn as Ford Prefect in Hitchhiker’s!

Let’s be honest here.  xCloud will be great for playing single player, but online won’t be a desired option if it’s competitive.  Shockingly not everyone uses a PC either.  My best friend refuses to switch to PC because he doesn’t like a KB+Mouse for playing.  Yes he can use a controller too but competitive games…

In short, it seems to me that the Xbox, as in the proprietary hardware, is no longer the real selling point for Microsoft. The brand is. The ecosystem they’ve built is. I have all the major systems, but the Xbox gets the most play out of me. I love Sony’s exclusives, and the Xbox is sorely lacking in them.

The game called TELL ME WHY huh?

It was hilarious, esp how they attacked each side without naming anyone.

Really too bad because it is a very fun game to play.

I also haven’t felt hampered by the progression system in Multiplayer one bit (not even half a bit) so... as per usual - internet just blowing stuff WAY out of proportion without any actual experience with what they are bemoaning.

Maybe it’s Baby’s First Critical Analysis to suggest that Twin Peaks: The Return is an extended meditation on both itself and the original run of episodes, but that’s the most coherent interpretation I have so far. I guess the only insight less piercing than that would be “Dale Cooper symbolically represents the…

Have you tried Adventures in Depression by Allie Brosh (Hyperbole and a Half)? I’ve never read an account of depression that felt so accurate to me. Never.

I mighta gone with “root of the story”....

Princess Valhalla Hawkwind forever!

Speaking as a Christian.