Yeah, it was weird, non-sensical, and gratuitously fan-servicey at times, but really, that’s just what Star Wars kind of is these days.

Yep. Pretty much.

Wise words. But one thing most fail to realize, is that to truly understand why these words are wise, you have to grow up to about the age your are, more or less some years...

I completely get that the economic situation may be worse for many than it has been for us, which was probably worse than the situation our…

I just hope you don’t have a Switch. Because you’ll then pay full price for YEARS old games... lol! ;)

It IS absurdly large for the type of game it is. I still can’t get my head around how such a game could use 75gb. I mean, unless you have all spoken languages in there recorded in an uncompressed format, and even so... Probably some cinematics that are prerendered at 4k, and again uncompressed or something... Textures…

Walgrave pointed to the potential of seeing gameplay in a YouTube video, pushing a button, and be playing on Stadia.

Pretty much all of those I went to in the last couple of years were like that. It just happened I went in one today (I have kids), and the clerk at the counter was doing all she could to sell an extended warranty to an old lady buying a Switch Lite for her grandson. Like, even blatant lying, saying that Nintendo only…

And this goes in line with almost any business out there that are on the verge of failing. Most of them have the same thing in common; they cite “online business” as the number one reason behind their failure, which only shows that they just don’t get it.

You know, I could use the same argumentative style about how music is shit these days because of audio clipping and the loudness war, and tons of other things that I notice but you probably don’t because you don’t care or just don’t notice them, and how some recordings are so much betters than others. Then I’d say…

I think it’s a lot more interesting to see where tech can lead us on those fronts, than simply upping the graphical fidelity like they currently do every gen by throwing more grunt at it. Currently, most games I see on current-gen hardware would still work on past generations, only with a graphical downgrade. There…

Funny that for each one like you, getting the point I was making, there are 10 others not grasping it, almost reacting like they were attacked!

I agree with you on that. I personally don’t “feel” like I need better graphics. I’m pretty happy with what we have right now. Sure, better is better, and I’m not complaining, but I personally value a lot more QoL improvements than a simple spec bump. Having an SSD is nice, no doubt. More power also means that some…

So there’s lots of things in any given game you’re entirely unlikely to notice that are leaps and bounds better than the previous generation.

I think it’s all relative. I still play old games on a regular basis. So maybe the lower resolution doesn’t affect me that much. Maybe younger generations than mine get to notice these things more as maybe they didn’t live through those “leaps” from generations past to notice their actual impact. I don’t know.

I’m not saying these games aren’t beautiful. But I guess what defines them graphically as “better” might vary from person to person. I’ll agree with you these games are looking awesome and better than what came from the previous generation. That’s not in dispute. But I still don’t see the “night and day” difference.

Thing is, it’s all cool and stuff, but in the end, it’s the real-world results that counts. We’ve been seeing diminished returns for each generation since quite some times already, each one of them having announced anything between 2 to 4 times, or about, more power than the previous generation. Thing is, what we get…

And that’s why it’s the Xbox One S that’s hooked up to my main telly in the living room. The PS4 has been relegated to the basement TV. The thing with redundancy is that most people don’t keep two devices that can do the same thing. My Xbox One S actually replaced my regular player I had on that TV before. That box…

We don’t even have multiple Switches in my family and just being forced to all share the same island (we all love AC), had the same effect here. I don’t want my son to go and cut down all the trees my daughter planted to piss her off. I play games to escape the real world. I don’t want to police my kids in a virtual…

... and the whole “one island per system” thing too. I mean, it never was a problem to me with the portable versions, as portable systems are always more personnal in nature, but now having a family with kids that also like AC (they played the original on an old GC - yay for keeping old consoles!) a one island per…

Well, while I agree with what you said to an extent, my personnal experience have been somewhat the other way around. I feel like social media act a lot more like an echo chamber, as what you see is almost always filtered to fit your interests anyway. And it’s litterally impossible to have anything even remotely…