Sounds like I should stay away from Metal: Hellslinger. I don’t got rhythm. Enjoying Hi-Fi Rush regardless.  It rewards staying on rhythm, but rarely punishes, which I think it key.  Even when I do fail the game seems to want to give additional chances.

I can’t see how a sequel would fix anything. New games come out all the time in far worse shape than Destiny 2 has ever been. A new game will only bring with it added challenges such as having to produce enough content to be worthy of a launch. Bungie swears they rarely have enough resources to create one new Strike…

I assume that you’re describing the power curve when playing the campaign on a fresh profile. The dual nature of the game was really wonky. During the campaign the leveling and gear systems make almost no sense. It’s over long before you can unlock enough on a character to experience how they were meant to be played.…

Factorio made a splash when it came out, but that was many years ago. By the time people knew how awful the dev is, the game was out of the public consciousness. FNAF, meanwhile, is about as high profile as an indie franchise can get.  It’s simply a difference in scale.

Trans people in many parts of the world are murdered for being trans. Rowling helps to mainstream hate of trans people. Ultimately it’s all about hatred.  But hey, I know no matter what I say you’re going to keep on employing projection to promote your nihilistic view.

Nice try, but there’s a huge amount of overlap between the people who agree with Rowlings words and also think Putin has some good ideas there.  Unsurprising when both paths ultimately lead to genocide of those who are different.

I see they had to kick this all the way down to the guy in charge of the product to finally find a decent human being. Though I’m under no illusion that he has any actual say in the decisions being made here.

Yes, yes I am.  The 1060 is still a fine video card though.

I paid almost exactly the same amount for 32GB of DDR4 RAM in 2022 as I did for 8GB of DDR3 in 2012. Just upgrade, it’s cheaper than buying another controller for comparison.

Keep in mind that an i3 vs i5 vs i7 can only really be compared within a particular Intel generation. I used that same processor until recently. It’s ten years old. It’s really not good enough for modern games. I kept having to do all kinds of tweaks to get games like Horizon Zero Dawn and FF7 remake working somewhat…

This topic has me thinking back to a footnote from the Discworld novel, Witches Abroad: “Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because—what with trolls and dwarfs and so on—speciesism was more interesting. Black and white lived in perfect harmony and ganged up on green.”

Note the 1986 Japanese film in which Mario and Luigi are presumably in the real world and Peach, Bowser and others are from a video game world. It wasn’t just NoA. Regardless, I don’t believe audiences will be confused by it. Another world stories are popular, and as such will be accepted readily without much thought.…

This isn’t an idea that only existed for “a few years.” The Bob Hoskins Super Mario Bros. film (1993) was taking cues from an entire decade of Mario media which came before it. Numerous cartoons, the Japanese animated film, the English SMB1 manual all assume that the Mushroom Kingdom was a world unknown to Mario…

It doesn’t matter how it makes YOU feel. She was the abuse victim, not you. If she wants to keep doing these things for herself, then great. If she can keep doing these things and not have lingering trauma associated with them, that’s wonderful. I’ve seen friends give up things they loved because the trauma was too…

For a time I was for this merger just to put a leash on Activision-Blizzard. However in watching the Mick Gordon episode, the way litigious Bethesda was throwing threats and terrible PR, I’ve changed my mind. That threat against Mick Gordon was effectively a message from Microsoft. They won’t control Todd Howard’s…

Many bad mergers have gone through because of precedent. There gets to be a point where they’ve allowed so much, they have to keep allowing it. However the political climate has shifted, and we’re still feeling the effects of the disastrous AT&T/Time Warner merger. We may have finally reached the point that the US…

Considering that one of the people posting these is a known leaker for the game, one who operates openly, I don’t think it’s all that weird. Miller’s entire fame is based on being a leaker for the game. Shitting on his rival, Waggoner, is simply one more tally mark for him.

I am not a fan of digging up this stuff. I certainly thought Disney’s reaction to James Gunn’s old Tweets was a disaster. I used to be caught up in the Fox News delusions and I’m rather glad any of my rants circa 2009 are long deleted. On the other hand, I’m not sad about Waggoner having to be quiet. He was a very…

“Now it’s all over because of some asshole.” I appreciate your post until you get to the end there. That all just reeks of scapegoating unless they were talking someone at the very top like Bobby Kotick.