What happened? She died, and they parted.

Isn’t that also what’s killing the conservative party right now? They created an extreme-right monster by falling in line with the wrong people, and now they can’t put the cat back in the bag.

I get the feeling that award was also slightly tongue-in-cheek.

Literally sex.

The person who downloads the demo is the person who is on the fence about the game. And research has shown that if you’re enjoying a game, you are actually more likely to put money into it. Freemium games are entirely built on this model!

This shows how little research you did. Developers can choose to make their demo a time-trial of the full game, requiring no real effort on their part.

Wow, somebody needs to tell Valve this information right away so they stop their demo weekends!

Paragraph 1: Sony is anti-consumer so they suck.

This is a very narrow view of the company, reached by looking at a single slice that was 2022. In 2021 we got Ratchet & Clank, and we know that Team Asobi is working on a new Astrobot game.

Even assuming that’s true, why does Nintendo seem to be the only gaming company with this issue? Either way, they need to get their act together.

This isn’t a rebuttal of your opinion, but you are dead wrong about the way AI images are generated.

I think I should make it more clear: I was not saying that most fights only had one enemy, but that moment-to-moment battles are meant to be mostly one-on-one. Kratos fights one enemy, then another enemy, etc. And the game actually makes enemies you aren’t engaged with pull their punches to allow for this focus. To…

It’s pretty hard not to look at the whole company when this entire deal was done using Microsoft’s money, not Xbox’s. And that’s important, as it means they can literally just keep using big daddy’s money to buy themselves to the top. Whereas gaming is literally one of Sony’s two major revenue streams. In short, if…

Hmm, remind me again when Sony did that thing the FTC just accused Microsoft of? You know, that time they purchased a publisher, said their games would remain third party, and then immediately rescinded that offer?

Yes, both companies have a history of paying for third party exclusivity. Was one company more egregious than the other? Probably not. Microsoft has been paying to keep Dead Rising a timed exclusive since the 360 days. Sony has been paying for Final Fantasy exclusivity. Microsoft paid for Tomb Raider exclusivity, and…

My only real wish for AC6 is to be structured like Metal Gear Solid V. That also has sortie-based missions just like Armored Core, but you could also just go explorin’ on your own without a mission.

Don’t forget that the PS5 also has a blazing-fast SSD. So the game could be offloading more data to RAM to compensate for that lack in most PCs.

I didn’t really have that issue. The game is setup to be mostly 1v1 and the fights are small enough that those indicators mainly represent when you need to be careful... Once you get learned enough, you can use them to time exactly when to dodge, which is quite fun and empowering.

I’d argue that Microsoft’s problem is more that they’ve been trying the same strategy with game development since day 1, without really evolving. They purchase developers (Bungie, Rare) for the star power, but have zero internal direction or guidance. So those studios either fail on their own, are forced to make the…

Forza Horizon Five isn’t old and tired? And Flight Sim is literally Microsoft’s oldest game franchise!