They say do the first 70 seconds, how do you compare over those same seconds?

What resolution, what are your other specs, do you have the latest drivers, are you monitoring other things going on in the background, etc.? Since obviously no, they didn’t just do the test on the main menu, the prudent question would be why you’re different.

It’s happened. A murderous rampage got me to #5, my peak so far.

Competitive 500+ multiplayer snake with variable speed snakes that can cross themselves. It’s surprisingly complex.

Just played it for the first time and got top 40! Had a few close calls before I realized there was a PvP element. I’m too nice to target someone unless they target me first, and then they’re doomed!

Minsc is a brain damaged warrior who shouts catchphrases and silly lines. Don’t get me wrong, I love Baldur’s Gate 1 and 2, and have spent more hours than I want to consider playing them, but Misnc is beloved precisely because his lines are played for laughs and little else. I don’t remember if he has any modern…

Right? If every game was a Witcher 3 or Baldur’s Gate, we’d all play two games a year and be too burned out for anything else. Some games are 200 hours and require significant time investment to learn the mechanics. Some games aren’t. The earlier Uncharteds were probably more linear than desirable (and I don’t think 1…

Really? The first 15 minutes of Dig are jetting around in space but the rest is a classic adventure game with (hard!) puzzles and characters on an alien planet. Puzzles and characters sounds like the opposite of this.

I think you may have mixed them up. The raptor had both better shields and armor, and was faster than the scimitar (I even just checked!). If you lose some missions, you get dumped back in a scimitar as punishment!

I spent 60% of my childhood watching a progress bar and anticipating the instruction to insert the next disk.

Raptor was a heavy fighter. Broadswords were bombers. Raptors were the “best” ship in Wing Commander 1 until the Rapier was introduced towards the end.

That was just copy protection, lots of old games did stuff like that. Any chance you’re thinking of Red Storm Rising?

331 bytes of instructions. Presumably (I haven’t seen the video), it’s leveraging the game’s already existing rendering engine and graphics assets.

I don’t think of my vision as particularly bad (as in, corrects to 20/20 no problem, nothing special about it) but I can’t comfortably read a book at anything resembling a normal distance without glasses or contacts. If I do lean in close to read, because one eye is better than the other it’s really...weird. And will…

He cares because he thinks it’s a misallocation of their talent. They’re publicly working on a product. Free or not it’s perfectly reasonable for the public to have feedback. And they’re allowed to ignore or heed as desired. If my farts cured malaria, I’d be free to live in Canada but maybe, just maybe, it would be…

I’m right with ya. Nearly 200 hours of Witcher 3, then I fired up Divinity: OS and my brain was frazzled. I broke it up with Rise of the Tomb Raider. 30 hours, some light collecting, and I’m right as rain.

Are you unfamilar with gaming’s FMV phase in the 90s? It served a role during that time, but was always jarring. The in-engine game models are so good now that you can either just render the cutscenes in real time with the engine (and with a fixed camera with no user input you can use some tricks to ramp up the…

Hah, that game is how I learned what “Pharmacy” meant (I never even played it, I just saw an ad for it and asked). My mom would occasionally let my sister and I call the Sierra hint line, but we had to haul ass because it charged by the minute. Man, what a weird concept.

That’s the dilemma of adventure games. You have to inject “challenge” somehow but in a way that feels fair and fulfilling. I think LucasArts succeeded more than Sierra (as an aside, I’m pretty sure I could type every command needed to complete space quest 2 right now, from memory, in order). The problem is that…

I mean, you should be careful, but you don’t need to be THAT careful. With even the slightest bit of caution about what you touch you’d probably be fine on carpet, wearing socks, in winter. I wouldn’t recommend it, but just setting it up on a table would probably be fine. I always tell myself never again, but…