I dunno, I might have missed some of the hype then. There’s a hundred things Dreams is incredible for, but what I see most online are a) ‘look at this game/other IP recreated in Dreams’ posts and b) ‘look at how real this looks’ posts. I get irked.

It’s not, I’m not hating on anything, I’m just annoyed.

Ah, great. When Dreams first came out everyone apparently thought it was ‘neat’, because games aren’t impressive until you can count the hairs in the Grizzled Photoreal Main Guy’s stubble (and preferably someone’s getting shot in the head). But if you use sparse voxel-based global illumination to light a stuffed…

Yeah, pretty much. I like displays of athleticism as much as anyone, but I feel like sword choreography in this vein has been completely lost in modern cinema. Even hand to hand fights have more diversity these days, we see both fancy fake stuff and straightforward dirty punchouts, but when it comes to swords it seems…

Back from where? The original version isn’t going anywhere.

You’re not crazy - you just apparently have an increased sensitivity to a well-known neural phenomenon. For a while there back in the 3D TV days at least one company was experimenting with using this principle to try and add a 3D effect to regular 2D screens via color filter.

Clips from pro players make it pretty clear that Marauders are designed to make you quick swap weapons as much as possible - ideally you’re swapping between the super shotgun and the ballista and doing quite a lot of damage in a single stun. Real badasses manage quick swapping between the super shotgun, ballista and…

It’s a modern classic!

So here’s the thing: I am not a Trekkie or a Trekker or whatever the popular term is now. I have certainly seen my fair share of Star Trek, at least a few episodes or more from each of the shows, and know the difference between a Romulan and a Vulcan (at least theoretically, I’m still not sure if they’re also supposed…

Copyright most certainly has not always been the law, in fact the concept is barely older than the United States - and there’s no real reason to assume that this law, unlike all others, will ‘always be’, aside from some powerful and moneyed interests wishing it were.

With the limited medical equipment available, are these fine media personalities going to be the ones to decide which specific Americans get to live and which get to die? No - wait. Wait! I have the solution!

In reality almost irrelevant compared to the UI update, which on the other hand I will still only believe when I see it. The original UI is just so comprehensively hostile to the player that I don’t trust Toady to be able to design a better one.

A+ translation of character designs, and all the shots get the mood and expressions right, but it’s not very ‘anime’. It very much looks like a modern anime-influenced Western show - maybe in the vein of Castlevania, but that even that one is more anime than this is.

the torture in 24 wasn’t presented as a positive thing

Why were you under the impression that you had to use the Index? Genuine question - I’m seeing floods of comments online about the game which all also seem to be assuming the Index is the one and only way to play Alyx. Where is that coming from? Both Valve and all gaming sites I’ve seen seem to me to have made pretty…

If you moved from the PC to consoles but want to play the new Half-life, you should be good to wait for the PSVR2 port of Alyx which I’m pretty sure will be coming for the PS5.

Valve won’t need any game of theirs to ‘sell well’ - or in fact make money at all - for as long as any of us live.

Fair enough. Admittedly I am aware of that and was being unnecessarily facetious, and now you come in here with your facts and stuff :-)

True, and there are plenty of such ‘windows’ in the game. The article is specifically not about that though - it’s about a piece of glass that blocks nothing, displays nothing, and has no gameplay reason to be indestructible. It is so simply because the engine doesn’t support it being otherwise.

Isn’t this literally how the last economic crisis started? The only difference is in the mortgage rates.