I put all the points into both outpost skills, thinking “I can’t wait to delve into that aspect of the game eventually.”

“not to mention various shortcuts that aren’t spelled out, like the ability to go immediately to the star map by holding down the menu button.”

If the planets are procedurally generated then I would expect to be able to walk across the entire planet. Now, is that something I’d actually want to do from a gameplay standpoint? Hell no. However, from a technical standpoint, it should be entirely feasible if the planets are procedural.

Even as a massive NMS shill literally from day-1, I never expected there to be limitless walking planet-side. It’s never even really done in NMS, for that matter. I’ve got probably close to a thousand hours in the game split across PS4 and PC, and honestly, I can count on two hands how many times I walked more than 15…

This is kind of worded like it’s a decision from Larian, but I have to assume it’s really Xbox seeing all the BG3 hype and deciding to change their policy so they can get BG3 out faster.

Local Co-op / Local Multiplayer is something that can really take a game and make it special, and it’s unfortunate that it gets pushed aside these days for everything else. It’s another casualty of having to chase the highest visual standards because so much power goes into rendering the game, that rendering it from…

I’d pay $70 to play this on a modern console with RDR2's graphics and gameplay systems. 

I know it’s extremely uncool to like Ubisoft open worlds, and I understand that they’re formulaic. But man, there aren’t that many devs out there just putting out games with bottomless pits of content (for single player games). And I really like a space where I can just kind of turn my brain off, maybe throw on a…

Personally, I prefer women protagonists these days. I just find it more interesting, as they’re often given deeper characterization than the dime-a-dozen stoic men protagonists. Plus, I play games to not be me. A woman is about as far from me as I can get.

This is your daily reminder that the only power people have over their employers is the one they exercise collectively, as a union. That power is the reason we have safety regulations to make our workplaces safe to work in. It’s why we have 40-hour work weeks and (used to be) unconditional overtime pay. It’s why…

Honestly I think the most fun I’ve had in the AC games was in Brotherhood when Ezio is basically just a walking force of nature and can either just stealth kill everybody via gadgets or summoning his assassins or he can just counter kill 600 dudes in a row.

I’m with you 100%. I like the visuals and I like the scattered crumbs of lore cookies you have to piece together. I also don’t like bashing my head against the same boss or section of an area all day without making progress.

I have a similar problem, mainly coming down to time and patience. When I was a kid it took me an entire year to beat Castlevania III. There’s no doubt I cracked a hundred + attempts on certain sections. Certainly I played other games while working at it, but I had the time to devote to it.
Tons of elements of the…

About 20 years ago I rented Alien 3, and due to some combination of the filmmaking and the wear-and-tear on the VHS tape, the dialog was unintelligible, the sound effects were overpowering, and the picture was muddy except for a few sequences with obtrusive, shiny-looking CGI.

If the pay is anything like other play to earn NFT games, and I imagine it’d be even worse because these people wouldn’t be accruing the rare items and in game currency that makes the regular play to earn model, lol, “work,” then they’d be making a upennies a day, maybe less, for hours and hours of labor. IMO if…

I’m going to honor Red Dead Redemption 2 the way the game would want: by worrying constantly about the endless, tedious tasks I need to do, and being punished if I do anything fun.

I only remember playing two snowboarding games: Amped on the old Xbox (liked it) and SSX (I think it was SSX Tricky).
Liked Amped more for some reason, but somehow the snowboarding game (or game part) I played most were the parts in Sega Extreme Sports.
Now that was a great and fun game, and the transitions between…

I was going to offer my 100% RDR2 save file. There are no quests, no bandit camps, no bounties... Just horses and folks to say ‘howdy’ to and fish to catch.

That’s been my MO as of late; wait a good three years. I didn’t get both a PS3 and PS4 until they had both existed for roughly three years each. By that time there is plenty of content available, prices have dropped, and I’m likely working on backlogged titles anyways that I’m not really missing any of the current…

Hell yeah.