Games yes, but generally still need to pay for the lowest tier to utilize any online functionality, sadly.

Agreed wholeheartedly on GamePass. I bought my first Series X specifically to play with friends online who were exclusively on Xbox, and at the time the only way I could get one was via the All Access program (fortunately you can just pay off the line of credit they make you open immediately). I was hooked. Xbox Cloud…

I’m out. The “free” monthly games have been going downhill, and honestly I haven’t even turned my PS5 on since Ragnarok. Tell me Ragnarok and Spider-Man 2 are coming to PC, maybe hook me up with a PC port of Ghost of Tsushima, and I could get rid of my PS5 entirely.

How else is the parasite investor class supposed to receive their eternally exponential growth if prices don’t go up?

Bro fuck Sony. They already raised it to $60 and tied online play to the subscription 

A reminder your local library allows you to get games for free.

When Early Access first started, they were still running hot and heavy on area environmental damage. They have toned it down an enormous amount due to player feedback.

The ONE comment they have on their first comment page about ‘the left’ is them complaining that the left always lets ‘the right’ control the narrative, which is true. Democrats are horrendous about messaging, by and large. Looking at the rest of their comments, they pretty obviously have a liberal mindset.

I’m pretty sure that was sarcasm, but you can never be totally sure anymore.

Pretty much all the jank and stuff I noticed seem to be on the streaming side of things rather than the game itself.

They said the problem was the stream not the game, they had it running at 60 fps (Swen jokingly said he was gonna show the fps counter). Also it runs pretty good in EA.

Welcome to Biden’s America where anyone can just customize their genitals. The woke left has gone too far. Bunch of biological half-orcs unfairly competing against githyankis. It’s a travesty.

There’s plenty of serious stuff alongside lighthearted and sillier moments like choosing to ask Halsin to remain in bear form (the scene can be a rather tender one if you opt for a different route, and really the only truly silly moment is the squirrel’s reaction). If you, the player, choose sillier moments, the game…

You know Baldur’s Gate is already based on D&D... right?

I’ve played EA and I’m assuming they’re refering to all animated scenes. When you talk to NPCs or your companions, the camera goes really close (think third person action game) and the characters are fully animated, voice acted, lipsync, etc.

I doubt the previous two games will even matter much in Baldur’s Gate 3.  It’s a different character in a different time period and using a different ruleset, so if you go into this blind you really shouldn’t be missing much.

Having played it, I disagree that it is merely average. It is legitimately bad, sorry to say. Unless you have a penchant for broken AI, poor controls, empty open worlds and weak characterisation/story, average is far too generous. I agree that this isn’t exactly a death knell for Xbox, that side of the conversation…

I meant what I said. Most of their games seem to call back to older games from previous generations. Right up until DeathLoop, they didn’t really seem interested in making new games, just paying homage to existing games. And for me, to underwhelming effect. I’d almost call them the Looking Glass tribute band.

It’s a different market, really. Big N’s had a corner on the casual/family gaming world since the Wii; of course, that’s sidestepping the WiiU, which was smothered in its sleep by poor branding and a too small, if decent, library of games. The people looking for “hardcore gamer” experiences on the Switch would…

Arkane had been trying to get a publisher on board a multiplayer immersive sim on and off since The Crossing, and they proved the viability of it with Deathloop.