Have you heard of Google or do you just like getting raw dogged?

I don’t see a single puddle so this must be a graphical downgrade.

If it’s taking 5 minutes to load Starfield, you need to check where it’s installed. That sounds like you’ve got it on an external USB drive. Either that, or something else is throttling your performance.

On my Series X, it takes less than a minute to start the game from the main Xbox screen (not Quick Resume), select…

Insomniac’s games are always really, really well optimized so this isn’t too surprising, even Spidey MM and Remastered loaded insanely fast for open-world games. Designing from the ground up for PS5 clearly did this sequel wonders, they seem to have taken advantage of every bit of power on PS5, and that speedy SSD…

The raw speed is obviously very impressive, but the slickness of that transition is the real wow factor here, IMO. Open map, select fast travel, fade out/in in the exact same timeframe would be significantly less impressive than this map level geometry blending wizardry.

“Super Switch”
It’s a throw-back and a double down on fun.

I think Switch 2 is fine.  It has worked for the PlayStation and is what MS should have been doing all along.   The “2” makes it clear that this is the successor unlike “U” which was just ambiguous.

I dunno, “PlayStation 2" seemed to work out pretty well for Sony. (See also: 3, 4, 5)

Pros:

Kinda crazy to think that my daughter who is now in 2nd grade has only known the Nintendo Switch as the “current Nintendo console” for her entire life.

Even when a reddit community is fairly reasonable about discussions it still feels like they end up much more on the cynical/negative side of opinions, especially around the launch of a game.

Holy Crap!!! Did you guys actually get a review copy of a game?!    I thought you managed to piss off everyone

Gamefly is still a thing.

I’m going to buy it and I’m going to love it, but it’s also the kind of game that makes me look across my TV to the other side where my Xbox sits and makes me grateful for Game Pass, which is the perfect place for a game like this, that I’m going to play for 15 hours, beat, and then never touch again. At least that’s…

NOLF is in copyright hell, basically. Nobody knows who actually owns the IP but everyone is willing to sue to make sure nothing happens with it. The games were developed by Monolith, which is now owned by WB, and were published by either Sierra, Fox Interactive, MacPlay and/or Vivendi depending on the platform and…

And they’ll do absolutely fuck all with 90% of those franchises.

Now, any chance they can discover the old Sierra/Monolith game No One Lives Forever 2 actually belongs to them now? Probably not, but one can wish the game could be remastered or remade...

Interstate ‘76

So what you’re saying is that MS’ IP doesn’t have the same cultural cache as IPs that were established long before the Xbox even existed..? Huh, whodathunk? Obviously MS’s characters can’t compete with Nintendo’s in terms of name recognition. Mario is the most famous videogame character of all time and has been around…

“Why does it have to be a fighting game? Why can’t it be a kart rac-”