Well now I feel bad for not buying it at launch, but oh well. Still gonna pick it up. Any game with a soundtrack by one half of Visible Cloaks is gonna scratch my aesthetic itch at the very least.

I mean the game was pretty broken at launch but it is WILDLY disingenuous to pretend that it wasn’t a trend to hate on the game. I mean, people have built entire personalities around hating on a fucking videogame, it’s hilarious. Meanwhile the people who actually enjoyed playing it had to stay quiet for like an entire…

This is exactly what I was thinking. But none of these publishers care about what someone might want to play in 5 or 10 or 20 years, just this quarter’s profit margins.

I’m so glad that I’ve only ever heard of any of these streamers’ names in passing on headlines like on this site. seems like an awful thing to be emotionally invested in 

This! It isn’t until kiddo is 3-5 that your gaming time gets severely cut short. But thankfully soon after that, they’ll want to game with you, so it can rebound, albeit in a different way than before you became a parent.

Yeah that’s my entire point. Making new (or vastly updated) engines for every one of these games is what is making them take longer to make. Even if one developer once said it takes longer to add one element in newer engines they’ve worked on, it still takes FAR longer to do that after building a new engine for the…

This isn’t mirrors edge though

I’m 40 years old and absolutely couldn’t stand those slideshow framerates on consoles back in the 90s either - goldeneye was atrocious to someone used to first person games on pc. no need to romanticize outdated tech. higher fps is a matter of playability

lol

I love first person games but honestly it is crazy that this is going to be first person.

I for one hope this Female Han Solo game rules because it’s been way too long since we’ve had a good non-jedi SW game.

Glad to see others are sick of kotaku just clinging to their “game is fundamentally bad at its core because reasons” narrative, entirely divorced from the reality of people actually playing the game. 

Seriously, I’d love to see a return to the era where multiple sequels could drop within one, two years all built on the same engine, just giving us new narratives and environments to enjoy - more focus on writing ingenuity and fun scenarios than constantly updating tech etc.

Good reminder that there’s no reason to own an Xbox.

in windows you can at least set separate volume for system sounds and individual apps - so if you know a certain one is louder than others you can turn it lower, etc. I have mine set so system sounds are quiet (all those random notifications etc) but my music and games are normal and equal.

I wonder how many subs like this, netflix, etc go unused for entire months at a time, how much money people are wasting on subscription garbage.

Honestly I’m over subscription everything. I like to own stuff, especially because it’s clear time is the more precious commodity than money. Sure I can afford a sub for infinite games per month, but there’s no way I’ll end up playing more than one or two and sometimes none depending on how busy I am. So it’s better…

I’m not arguing that it’s unprofitable lol

Huh. I was just thinking today about how much I hate their subscription model. I wish they’d sell us the retro games we want to buy so we can just fucking own them instead of continually paying every month to access them. My kid wanted to play Super Mario World but I’d long ago canceled the sub and instead of paying…

Good reminder that Racer Revenge was the superior podracing game and deserves a release on switch too!