“We all know a good, fresh tomato eaten in peak season is a mind-blowing culinary experience. That’s not what you’re getting on most burgers, though. You’re getting a pale, watery slice of mealy flesh and slimy moisture that rapidly cools down your sandwich.”

So what you’re saying is if you take the WORST version of…

Looks like they may have been racing someone else and could handle the turn.

While some fans are trouncing MJ’s vehicular oopsie as developer Insomniac Games “not [understanding] the assignment”

SquareEnix:  "300 million copies?  What a financial disappointment."

It’s more that the actual design of the Smasher fight was underwhelming. His attacks were really basic and easy to avoid and for some reason, CDPR decided to add random enemies to the fight when it really should have just been 1v1.

Larian’s character creation tool is pretty extensive

All NPCs now scale to your level. Enemy difficulty is no longer dependent on what area of Night City you’re in.

Steam doesn’t use NFTs or a blockchain. They use a regular old database, which is a far better tool for this sort of thing.

You don’t need NFTs or blockchain to run a closed market for skins or whatever. 

I’ve gotten into arguments here before about that with GamePass. I find it a great value and I’ve played way more games than I would have otherwise. I’ve always just seen it as a Netflix for games. But then comparing it Netflix I’d always get the argument that they’re not the same things.

its not really guaranteed since most games for the last 4 or 5 years dint even contain all the game data on the disk anyway. Most contain only a little of the data on it and most of it has to be downloaded

I don’t know if you noticed this, but you can’t just put a game into a console and play anymore. Everything requires installation regardless of having a disc. The disc itself is just proof you bought it. It just tells whoever is delivering the content that you are authorized to download it. We went full digital a long…

Really? That’s it? You’re just out and going to never buy another new game or console again? Okay then.

I don’t think I’ve had a disc drive on my PCs for almost a decade now.

This feels like fake outrage because its Microsoft. Next.

The thing with preservation after the xb360 and ps3 is that most games are downloaded anyway. Once those authentication servers go down, most of the games aren’t on disc anyway; a lot of games cannot be played with the day one patch; etc. There are already existing issues for game preservation that aren’t being…

For big companies, you just know that everything can become public at any moment, and you preach that to your employees, so it is not surprising that a lot of this back and forth is mostly business with a couple of jokes.

Improved reparability and thumbsticks is a great change on the controller.

Au contrere mon frère! I LOVE the idea of a unique cryptid, which adds to the appeal and quest-like nature of getting this special Ursaluna. For ages, there have been myths about super-large and super aggressive bears in Alaska, and the native people associate different concepts to each. In more recent times, we have…

Far be it from me to let a corporation off the hook for a scummy business practice, it’s definitely shitty of them to squeeze another $30 for a problem they literally just invented and try to reverse-psychology us into thinking it’s a bonus.