I’m not sure what you consider “features”, but on my Series X there are substantial visual upgrades and better performance tailored to the Series X upgrade version. It’s not simply running on better hardware. It’s a game tailored to the hardware capable of ray tracing, native 4K/HDR, 60-120FPS, etc. When I was on…

the point is normalizing the $69.99 price point. nothing else than “we want an extra $10 from you chucklefucks to line our CEO/Shareholder’s pockets, we know you will pay it, and we know some of you will even DEFEND it saying it will trickle down to our abused and ununionized staff.”

However, if Sony didn’t charge this fee, then what would be the point in anyone ever buying the PS5 version of a game?

PS4 games cost $60 and PS5 games $70. Allow me to pay the extra $10 to upgrade if I want to. Most likely I won’t and will probably buy all first party games on the PS4 because I don’t care about the minor graphics boost. I save $10 bucks and experience the same gameplay, minus the extra pretty… shrug.

the problem is that so far most PS5 versions that offer cross saves require you to upload your save to another server and then redownload it to the PS5 so that it can be converted into the new save format (FF7 Remake did this as an example) it’s tedious and can be buggy.

honestly I’m fine with them not including a disc with the steelbook. at this point I buy most of my games digitally if I can. a physical copy can only be played by 1 user at a time but a digital copy of a game on my xbox can be played by two people at the same time (one on the home console and one on my actual…

You don’t get games yanked away from you at ‘any time’. They tell you what games are leaving at the end of each month. When you start playing a game you simply check if it’s a game that’s leaving the service soon.

This. 

Subscription services like this don’t chip away at ownership any more than any type of rental policy ever did. Long before Gamepass or Netflix, people were going to rental stores like Blockbuster on a regular basis. Hell, the concept of actually owning a movie is quite recent, as prior to the home VHS market the only…

That's how I played both Destiny games

Well that is weird, because quick match only searches servers hosting the same DLC as you; and on PC most of the largest servers are sans-DLC

Microsoft is a global corporation

That is an incredibly selective quote out of context, they are specifically referring to P.W. Singer, who is a freelance consultant, he writes everything from in depth reporting (did fascinating work on child soldiers and mercenaries/PMCs) but also sci-fi books about future wars. He does consult for the DoD on things…

“nor did they make any notable attempt to win over the local population”
After 2003, this is 100% wrong, as someone who spent two years in Iraq, ALL we did was work with the local population; it wasn’t about kills and casualties it was just about rebuilding, letting the locals take control, getting them to turn on…

You know an overwhelming number of those dead were from sectarian conflicts (IE: Sunni Muslims versus Shia Muslims) Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) set off car bombs in busy intersections and crowded marketplaces. Shia paramilitary groups such as Jaysh al-Mahdi had death squads targeting Sunnis or anyone working with the US…

It’d be kind of misleading/dishonest, though, because plenty of people enthusiastically joined in on atrocities without any sort of “I was a kid” “I was brutalized” “I was brainwashed” stuff, and if you did that just for the SS, you’d basically be white-washing the SS, which is a disturbingly common thing anyway.…

Some would argue that shooting people is wrong no matter the circumstances, just cause or not. It’s all about point of view and if WWII is fair game, then so should Fallujah, IMO. Censoring art (even art that the majority disagrees with) is never the answer to anything.

“IGN’s description of the free publicity reads.”

Speaking of the gameplay trailer, I thought it looked surprisingly good. A bit like a modern Brothers in Arms.

Honestly? i'd give this episode an A+. Just a TREMENDOUS experiment. And it left me sure that Dennis is going to kill a man by the end of this season.