For me, the problem with River City Girls is the lack of feeling of progression. In many beat-em-ups, you feel like you’re pressing forward in a hostile environment, and that kind of progress is quite important to keeping you engaged. But in River City Girls, it felt like I was constantly stuck in a room, and when I…

“This made the gameplay less like a frenetic beat ‘em up and more like a methodical game of kiting and micromanaging enemies at a chess player’s pace.”

I think that approach makes sense. I bought it on launch. First, I couldn’t start it for a week or so, it always threw up some error message. Then, it could launch it, but it didn’t detect the controller I normally use on my PC, so I had to go grab an Xbox controller to make it work. Then it ate my safegame.

You’re right, my mistake, I’ll go to Internet jail now.

Earth was a mistake.

I feel like the ethics of this heavily depends on what exactly is being leaked.

Sounds like a win-win to me then. It also seems to have worked, so good on them.

“I’d give more credence to their boycott if it wasn’t Christmas”

I think there is something to the idea that the less you know about how the game works, the more compelling it is. I remember as a kid playing terrible games on my Amiga and being absolutely enraptured by even the shittiest game, because it felt like I was looking into a different world with its own mysterious rules.

Double Fine used to do stuff like that. The problem is that videogame development is messy, things that were planned turn out to not be fun, features dev talked about are cut because there isn’t enough time to finish them, and so on. But people see early planning as a promise, so when these things don’t ship, some are…

“which created confusion about what I stand for”

Maybe you don’t understand what top-binned means. It doesn’t mean you get the best card, it means the card has the best chip in it. This typically means that it can run stable at higher temps, which means that you can either put good cooling on it and run it faster, or put shitty cooling on it and it will still run…

They’re doing the opposite of committing suicide, they’re saving the portion of their business that is actually capable of making a consistent profit, and deleting the 80% of their revenue that barely covered its costs.

What? Was there something lost in translation here? This seems borderline impossible. There are plenty of PSVR games that I love, and that I was looking forward to playing again with the PSVR2. I still haven’t finished Statik, and there is absolutely no reason why it wouldn’t work with the PSVR2.

It heavily depends on what game I’m playing. For racing games, 30fps just doesn’t cut it. If I’m playing Sim City, it’s absolutely fine.

TBH, I’m super confused by the metanarrative of the Assassin’s Creed games. I tried to get into it initially, because it seemed like a super cool concept, but I ended up just turning my brain off when this stuff happened later on. I have no idea how any of these things connect. I don’t even know how the historical…

Thanks for letting me know. I stand corrected.

This sounds like another great game absolutely destroyed by atrocious monetization.

“if you are not practicing your morals all the time then you shouldn’t have any”

This isn’t really different from buying any pair of shoes, which were, with 99.9% probability, manufactured in a country that has cheap labor, under appalling conditions. Or your phone. Or pretty much anything you own, really.