As a huge Dota fan I was really goddamned impressed with Arcane, definitely the better of the two MOBA shows. I don’t know much about LoL’s lore but the story so far has been really easy to follow and surprisingly emotional. It’s also really fucking pretty!

That’s a really good point. I guess I’m just so used to seeing poorly-implemented progression systems, but you’re absolutely right - they can be a good tool for guiding players and easing them into things.

To be fair, persistent unlock systems/grinds are manipulative garbage meant to stimulate your addiction centers and keep you playing longer. These days they’re also usually tied into microtransactions and “double XP” boosters

The one Medal of Honor game eventually came to Steam, so I’m kinda suspecting this will too at some point.

Yeah that’s definitely the first miniboss on the way to the peak. I think they just took some assets they already had and mashed them together to make a cool trailer, rather than this being any sort of actual new content/remix.

Wipeout without The Designer’s Republic’s artistic flair feels like a cheap imitation.

Maybe I just play too much Halo but I really didn’t find the bots as hard as people are making them out to be. Believable and well-designed, absolutely, but I don’t remember losing any games or even having any particularly standout “oh shit” moments.

I’m not the biggest fan either, but hey, that’s just a mechanic that modern shooters are expected to have these days. For what it’s worth Infinite’s implementation feels better than 4 or 5, or they’ve managed to balance around it in a way that it still feels like Halo.

I really enjoyed it but stopped myself from getting too invested since I assumed (wrongly, apparently) that everyone was just killing time until Halo came out on PC since it has a pretty similar feel.

This looks like those fake mobile game ads they use to trick people into downloading even worse mobile games.

Uh... Are people forgetting that you can literally just install Windows on it if you want?

Hilariously unfortunate but I doubt it’ll affect them much - it’s a pretty niche (but well-established within that niche) product and the kinds of people who’d even consider picking this up are already well aware of Elgato.

Now if only they’d bring the BF2 servers back online :(

It really doesn’t, aside from replacing their server bill with a cheaper one. Discord is great for group chats and the like but it absolutely fucking blows for longform discussion, especially if you have more than like a dozen people.

You can, yes! If you place the TV/monitor items you can cast your desktop to it. You can also do it through the Home menu and then “pin” it (inside any game, I believe) if you want something that you can resize.

If there’s one thing that’s kept me optimistic about Infinite - despite how much of a shitshow that game’s development seems to be - it’s just how much love they’re giving to MCC. It really does feel like a passion project at this point, like there are still people at 343 who genuinely give a shit and want to see the…

Nothing really, it was just a random neat-looking shape you could put on your armor in multiplayer.

Not quite the same thing but there’s a relatively well-known Saudi prince in the Dota 2 scene who spends literally tens of thousands every year on the Battle Pass

I’m in this boat as well. Skipped out on this gen entirely in favor of upgrading my PC, but now there’s a pretty sizable library of PS4 exclusives I want to play. PS4 Pro prices are still super inflated due to the pandemic so it doesn’t really make sense to buy that when I could get the brand new one for (probably)…