TL;DR - The game doesn’t play great, the loot doesn’t do anything, the leveling mechanics don’t operate intuitively, the map sucks, upgrading weapons is arbitrarily difficult, and all of this may just actually blow up your Xbox for all we know. BUT if you have a sufficiently-sized hard-on for cyberpunk minutiae, it’s…

Idk, it sounds like you’re projecting a type of thought process that’s realistic to how people actually function. Plenty of folks(myself included) ask rhetorical questions out-loud. Like if I’m doing quick math, I might say “what’s 5x5?” out loud. It’s not because I literally forgot what 5x5 was. I have an issue I’d…

but somehow Americans are to blame for the bad image?

Since “Spamfeller Loves Nazis” dismissed my response, I’ll re-write it here.

I’ve been following this issue the past day as it’s been developing, and I have to agree completely. Anyone who lays any blame on the software end of things is ignorant and, dare I say, idiotic. These defects were well documented ahead of time and every single one of those cards is still under warranty, with no…

This is an EVGA issue and New World is not responsible in any way.

The idea that a game hitting 99% gpu usage is an issue is ridiculous. People pay huge amounts of money for these cards and hitting 99% means you’re getting what you paid for.

There’s been many times in my life when I’ve looked back at the amount of money I put into a gatcha and saw a disturbing trend with my mental health being low at the time. So this is definitely a really great point that I hope the author takes seriously.

Be careful, as it sounds like you’re in a vulnerable headspace that can leave you more susceptible to predatory game design (eg. gacha). I speak from experience.

Crypto in and of itself isn’t shady. There are real benefits to using real blockchain technology. Not all of it is about BTC and DOGE.

Here are some real world benefits.

Oh cool, ill just go back to not playing with the exactly one pokestop i can see from the house

A Director’s Cut doesn’t mean the game was rushed or incomplete-- it just means that the original version is ready for the market. There are radio-edit’s of Top 40 songs, and those are not “incomplete”.

I’m not a PS or MS fan boy as I have all three plus a PC, but it’s laughable you think this is the same situation as Horizon, GoW or Last of Us, three franchises and studios that have for over a decade been Sony owned and funded studios, VS a company who was recently bought out and you could pre-order said game at…

Your point about Insomniac stands, but Spider-Man is a bad example. Sony has had rights to Spider-Man in general for a long time. It’s why he’s not really part of the MCU. Nobody other than a Sony studio can make a Spider-Man game.

To me this feels more monopolistic. They are buying a decently sized publisher with a history of releasing their games multiplatform. That is quite a bit different that Sony buying a dev like naughty dog after working with them exclusively/building them up over decades.

There’s a difference between 1st party games developed in house and buying a studio that’s making a game for multiple platforms and stopping the production of games on other platforms. 

You seriously believe that ES6 is going to be on Playstation? That is not what Microsoft spent all that money to do. I hate the situation. I appreciate Pete’s apology. I also don’t blame Microsoft for doing it, they got slaughtered on first party exclusives last gen. It was a smart business move for them. I don’t see…

I mean, it’s not really the same thing especially considering Skyrim exists on like six thousand platforms. Kratos on Xbox would be like Master Chief on Playstation or Mario on Sega in the 90s. This is more like Sony buying exclusivity from Square Enix for FF16 and FF7R, just on a (much) bigger scale.

Ah, yes, lets compare those games made by Sony’s first party studios who have been making games exclusively for Sony for ages to a game made by Bethesda, a studio that, until not that long ago, made their games multiplatform.

I’m an xbox stan (I just hate a lot of the decisions Sony does with their consoles as well as just having a chip on my shoulder from the N64/Gamecube days on the playground) but there is a difference between what Microsoft is doing and what Sony is doing. Sony exclusives were never coming to other consoles. they were…