It’s always possible that Cyberpunk 2077 could be a disappointment, but I don’t see it necessarily being for the reason suggested in the Penny Arcade comic. After all, I’d argue that having expertise primarily in RTS and traditional MMO game play doesn’t exactly set up a developer for success in the FPS realm, yet…

The Banned for Life Club is getting retired? Uh, that’s great, I think.

As a kid, I never had an NES, but had a friend who did. One of the games he had was Commando, which I found quite impressive relative to the sorts of games I could play on my dad’s Tandy 1000 at the time. When I found out that there was a PC version made by Data East, I jumped at the opportunity to get it.…

You’re going to have to ask Bowser about that.

It may lack context relative to the previous strip, but in terms of real-world “hey, lets start doing stupid stuff at the first sign of easing restrictions and start getting sick again”, it’s depressingly on point. 

That's a Mexican flag.

It would take roughly an 80MB file for that math to work out. 

It was just a made-up number. At 2.5kb/s, it would take 72 hours to download just shy of 80MB of data. Even modern web browsing would be effectively unusable at those speeds. 

While there is truth to your statement, I can’t fully agree with your final point. If a person has serious technical issues with the game, or finds it frustratingly difficult, they may be unable to play a signifant amount of the game. The limited playtime in such cases doesn’t nullify the legitimacy of their…

Too much upkeep?! I have an AIO on one of my computers that’s been running nearly nonstop for over 5 years, and I haven’t had to do anything with it since the day I installed it. I also have a different computer running a hard line cooling loop, and even that has been largely maintenance free. I’ve only drained the…

Yes, you can. In fact, some of the same flight simulators available to the general public aare also certified for professional flight training when paired with approved hardware and commercial licensing.

The physical copy won’t ship with its own activation server, so the physical copy is just as vulnerable to those problems as digital distribution is. 

A significant problem is that with online activation being more and more common, possession of physical media won’t necessarily protect you anymore. What good will your physical copy do if the activation server refuses to activate your copy or simply doesn’t exist anymore?

True, though it sure feels weird for a LEGO recreation of an item to cost more than the real thing.

Seems more likely that someone will pick it up and think it’s spelled fine.

Because the whole point of it was to be a launch title for the Valve Index. The game originally was supposed to be much shorter and less ambitious (4-5 hours and built on Half-Life 2 assets). But it ended up gaining momentum, and became much larger than expected. The VR gameplay is different enough that to make it a no…

One major problem with that is that the team would be working with outdated information. Despite being billed as a prequel, Half-Life: Alyx does in fact have a significant impact on the Half-Life continuity. Let’s just say that Half-Life: Alyx de-canonizes what most people thought the Half-Life 3 story would become.

Nice try, but a critical detail you’re leaving out is that the gate leads to a street that’s shared by the residents of that neighborhood. The homeowner does not own that gate or that street. It’s quite clear from the video that the protesters were on the neighborhood sidewalk, not the homeowner’s property.

In Iron Man VR, you DO press a button (actually the triggers) to fly. Aiming your palms is just for choosing a direction of flight. Aim your palms downward and you’re going to fly upward. Aim your palms to the rear, and you’ll fly forward. You’re basically just aiming rocket thrusters to vector yourself in the correct…

So is the game more about you delegating high-level instructions to NPCs in the game... and the NPCs try to do things in a best-effort manner and they have their own morale and might deviate from your decisions?