Interesting! I notice quite a theme there - none of them are action games, they’re all driving games. I wonder what made it possible to do it with driving games, but not action games.

He’s not right though, you don’t have to regularly say it or even think it, if it was ingrained enough at a certain point. I’ve never called anyone any person a slur online in, like 25 years of online gaming (in general in game I’m weirdly far more polite than forum posts). But I did use the early internet, and…

Want to list some of the “multiple last gen” open-world games that have instant fast travel?

“Any game can be optimized if it’s a priority; that’s not been a priority for Bethesda for a long time (if ever).”

Sorry just saw this - that’s a barely-literate article that seems to be full of made-up nonsense, and gives no sources for any of their wild claims, so if you’re trusting that, I’m afraid that’s unreasonable behaviour.

At the current rate? A couple of years. I think we’re at least an expansion and an accompanying major gameplay overhaul away from D4 being an actually good ARPG, rather than a really pretty and nice-sounding (though the music isn’t quite there) and very well-running one. It just lacks even the charm of latter-day D3…

You’d think so, right? And I think it’s true for a lot of people.

I mean, it’s the very definition of a “Saturday Night Special”, so “real gun” is perhaps strong language, but certainly it is a 9mm pistol capable of killing people. Probably cheaper than a lot of prop guns at $239.

I don’t think a dude who is waving a gun around in the street and headbutting women with a helmet, whilst on video, is getting bail. There’s no doubt he’s a violent criminal, the only real questions are, when’s the trial (if he doesn’t plead out) and what will the exact sentence be.

Yeah there are a ton of improvements here but no changes to what makes D4 fundamentally tedious and uninvolving as an ARPG. It’s like you have a broken leg and yes they put bandaids on all the scratches and cuts and gave you two ibuprofen, but they didn’t splint it let alone put it in a cast and aren’t going to any…

Was it? It’s not funny. Just sounds like a whinge.

That’s ridiculous. Cole is based on a real person and looks far more like the real person than the ridiculous Chad version. It looks like dogshit if you actually Aaron Staton looks like:

Also - the thumbnail is of a FACIAL SCAN, so the original is actually what the guy looks like, whereas the other one some ridiculous Chad’d up version.

ITT two humourless bastards.

LOL try and keep up. He claimed “since the late 1980s”, but he’s full of shit. So no, he moved the goalposts, not me.

Yeah exactly - this is pretty similar to the Pagan Min one - it’s not an ending many, if any people are likely to even consider could exist, nor see, even by accident.

Dude, you’ve moved the goalposts repeatedly. You claimed it was common in the “late ‘80s” and haven’t given any examples from before 1995.

So this is fascinating because you’ve only been able to find examples from 1995 and 1996, not earlier.

So nothing until 1995? The games you’re talking about are all 1995 or later. By which time the Genesis was basically done, because the PSX had arrived.

I assume they were lying, because this was used this as a justification for their pricing on multiple occasions.