Yes, an excellent point!

Yes, exactly. And this, too has it’s own ableist problems, as it assumes a “normal” that can be a real problem with dealing differences in people—again, something worthy of discussion—but it isn’t the cut and dry mods=lack of humanity (thus disability adaptations somehow mean less human) that the video implies. 

Both the OG game, and this video miss the point through a lack of nuance. The TTRPG cludges a system that doesn’t do what it means to do, accidentally saying that X number of disability aids = less than human, and that is stupid and wrong. It’s obvious in the game that they aren’t trying to dehumanize disabled people,…

A tornado and a prayer our only hope (I don’t remember if I had Bless at that point)

Oh, lord, the necrofire everywhere...

That’s because the ship was boring, and that prison island was mostly boring. DoS2 got SO MUCH BETTER once you were done with Act 1. And I’ll be honest, I only got past act 1 when I was doing a coop campaign with a friend.

Environmental effects are 95% reduced. There are still a few moments when you can find a barrel, or a weak structure, etc. and take advantage of that, but it’s pretty much what you would expect from a DnD game, not a Divinity game.

Good news for my gamepass queue, but bad news all around. 

I’m not at all worried about the framerate, as it runs well in the early access builds I’ve played, and there were obviously some debug issues that probably won’t matter, but I think that the animation almost certainly isn’t going to get better (but I hope it does). I didn’t mind the generic big-RPG bland animations…

Yes, far worse. Poorly written, poorly acted, barely making any sense, and surprisingly ugly, to boot. While Rise of Skywalker was also terrible, The Force Awakens was only derivative, and The Last Jedi was a flawed but very good movie. But all three of the sequels were beautifully shot and well acted (Driver and…

Look, in no way do I want to defend Disney, but you seem to have forgotten that the prequel movies exist, and they are far worse films than the sequels. You also seem to have forgotten Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

Have you....read cyberpunk before? Are you not familiar with Snowcrash, one of the more famous ones, whose lead is Hiro Protagonist, a pizza delivery driver who calls himself “The Deliverator” and carries a katana? Who teams up with “Yours Truly” (Y.T.), a skateboard courier who refers to herself exclusively in the…

I mean, you can still hate the game but it is a furious, angst-ridden rejection of a corporate fascism that has taken over the world, from the perspective of a lowlife who is trying to improve their lot and reject that structure; which is very cyber-punk. It’s not bringing anything new to the table, but it’s very…

Agreed. I have no desire to defend Bioshock Infinite, as it was mediocre, but being high while you played it and not remembering things is...that’s not related to the game, it’s the drugs.

Yup, his tattoos ARE still pretty frikin’ rad. Imagine how much cooler it is for him, who chose them? Awesome. 

Not cutscenes, but “cinematic dialog,” which means, here, voiced dialog from NPCs in conversations. So you’ll be making text choices, and then the NPC will respond with a voiced, animated response (literally in every single voiced RPG). So between all possible responses, there are 174 hours of recorded audio in the…

What an absolutely stupid take.

First act is great—it’s been out on Early Access, and I actually love it, unlike D:OS2, which had a tedious as hell first act that I had difficulty getting past

Oh fuck off with your disingenuous nonsense. You’re treating what MS is saying as if you are their lawyer in a perjury trial, so if they didn’t literally say: “Please kill Mr. Starfield,” but instead said, “It would be unfortunate if our starry friend went for a little swim tonight,” then they can’t possibly have…

Hardware Unboxed did a comparison between DLSS and FSR showed that the differences between the two are relatively marginal and that while DLSS is slightly better than FSR, there’s several situations where FSR is better and that it’s hard to tell the difference between the two in motion.