Eh...depending on your setup some games like Starfield or Lords of the Fallen or Last of Us Part 1 ran like garbage (even on systems well above recommended specs) or had serious issues unless you did a lot of forum reading about settings to tweak. Many games just work, sure, but some don’t.

Not to mention the first game was severely hampered by the fact that as most classes you had enough stamina to sprint for like 10 seconds every 30 seconds, plodding along the rest of the time, so traversal was an incredible chore.

Yeah, but they WERE rare in the base game. I think it was the kind of QOL thing that DLCs often throw in cause it’s been long enough since the game came out that they think it’s time to make it easier for people who are probably sick of it already. :P

I’m shocked it got ANY. An oscar nomination for a Japanese Godzilla movie is awesome. If the awards had any justice for impressiveness of effects vs budget that would be the clear winner out of those nominees. But objectively the ones with many, many millions more in their budgets probably had “better effects.” Not…

Yup, most game discs these days can’t actually play the game if you put them in a console that’s not connected to the internet. All this crowing about “game preservation” connecting it to discs is silly when those discs haven’t contained a working copy of the game (in the majority of cases - I bet GOTY edition…

While this is definitely BS...I can’t even imagine wanting to play NG+ on a game like this where it’s designed to take hundreds of hours on NG and most of that time is going to be doing grind-a-thon side missions, like their whole Animal Crossing thing they have going this time. These are games that are meant to be…

Thanks, going to watch it tonight!!!

BG3 is STILL completely broken on xbox, it has a high rate of randomly deleting saves and sometimes entire campaigns. PS5 it’s mostly OK till act III, but it’s anything but polished right now and on release date it was a gigantic mess. I spent about 15 hours playing it for the first time the last few days and while…

I so want to buy one of these, but I really think there’s a grand total of 0 exclusives I would buy, so I think it would functionally just be a backwards compatibility box for my large collection of 360 games that my ailing 360 can barely play anymore. 350 almost makes it worth it, though...

Real estate in Florida a good investment in 2023, considering what we have seen with global warming and what we know about their geography? Now I’ve heard everything.

I profoundly doubt they’re going to change the voice acting, unfortunately. Capcom clearly doesn’t have much of a problem with bad VA after their doubling down on that terrible actress (and indeed, even getting a worse performance from her) for RE4 with its DLC, despite the performance in the first game getting about…

That’s....actually a good policy.

Unfortunately Xbox has literally no exclusives I have any interest in so I’m not going to buy into their ecosystem for free patches on first party games I wouldn’t play. I’m guessing the developer-released next gen paid patches still aren’t free though on xbox? For example, Sega’s “Judgment” had a PS5 version that…

I feel like “ASAP” is appropriate for something like this, which is basically a (not free) patch to enable better graphics options and decrease load times if you’re playing it on a PS5. I really appreciate these kind of updates, even though I appreciate them a lot more when they’re free (ex, The Witcher 3), but 10…

The last of us part 1 remake was far less justifiable given it was 70 bucks with no upgrade path. This is $10 for previous owners, contrary to the blatantly untrue catastrophizing in this post and its first response. I would have been all over the LOU1 remaster if it was 20 or less upgrade, but as is I’m not touching…

I played through this game twice, and also had to replay the “secret” last boss like 3 times while trying to get the last ending trophies I needed. My experience was that while I mostly got through it pretty quick, I did find most of the boss fights to be harder than the majority of bosses in games like Dark Souls or…

This is such a corporate apologist argument. “VIDEOGAMES WERE 60-70 IN THE 90S, THEY’RE UNDERPRICED NOW!!!” a HUGE part of that 60-70 in the 90s was for the actual physical cartridge that that game came on, manufacturing those things was a huge cost that went down quite a bit with the advent of disc-based games, and…

As a counterpoint, I thought Andromeda had the worst gameplay of the series because they inexplicably removed the ability to actually cast your squadmates’ powers and instead just changed them to be in like, aggressive or defensive modes. It completely eliminated the ability to do things like 3's fancy timed biotic…

Not really. The highlight reel on Youtube is vastly more entertaining. There’s tons of boring dead spots.

Nah, it definitely sands off all the edges. Like, the murder in bed scene towards the end in the original is REALLY queasy and you’re unsure if it’s a dream or not. In the American one, they have her shifting heads via bad CGI nonstop just cause you wouldn’t want to possibly disturb the audience into thinking Tom…