As I said (oh god, its only been a month) at release, the game is absolutley NOT optimistic about the future or painting a rosy outlook. Earth was utterly ruined, everything we love is gone and even now, clinging to barely habitable rocks, we still let the 1% play games and allow tribal infighting to dominate all.

Agree on that first bit. The assassin's Creed formula was already starting to wear thin at that point. The privacy parts were just so damn fun and original that I was able to mostly overlook how much the actual association bits sucked.

For me, the parts of Black Flag that made it great were the parts that had nothing to do with Assassin’s Creed, so in that sense the ‘best AC game’ to that point was good for being not a good AC game.

An interesting thing about so many of the great titles this year: They’ve all been single player.  Baldur’s Gate 3, Phantom Liberty, Tears of the Kingdom, Spiderman 2, Starfield, RE4 Remake, Dead Space Remake, Mario Wonder, Armored Core VI, Lies of P.  Single player games have dominated gaming hype for most of this…

Well, personally speaking I’m more inclined to dislike someone who’s clearly exploiting people who have deepseated mental health problems than to dislike the people with those problems, so that’s probably part of it!

These days, basically yes. A window runs before the game and asks what modifiers you want and maybe key bindings to turn them on&off.

Some people just don’t like first person games but for others they physically can’t play without getting motion sickness. My wife has that issue. It sucks but we live in a time where tons of games come out in a year so there are alternatives 

Honestly a well done First person RPG is far more immersive imho then an old school tactical combat RPG. I like those to but I seldom feel like I’m the character like I do in Skyrim or Cyberpunk

A trainer... I’ve seen those mentioned over the years but have never looked into them. Is is like a modern day Game Genie? Genuinely curious. I usually just stick to Medium and tough it out, but the option to remove the grind is appealing. The only game in recent memory I went hardcore on was DOOM Eternal. 

I always get a chuckle when that happens on Playstation too. You’ll witness a tragic conclusion to a chapter, high drama, possibly a character death and “Ding!” Trophy pop “Ouch That Hurt! (Beat Chapter 4)" 

Grr, I thought we were finally done with large titles going exclusive to Epic. I really do hope they stick around as an alternative to Steam (in case they go dark side), but I avoid them.

Some tips for any would-be apocalypse averters:

NVidia took a look at the scalping market and decided that they wanted to cut out the middleman.  

You can be against what Nintendo was doing while understanding the legal framework that allows them to do it.

It’s those inflated GPU prices that really hurt upgrading... when I built my previous PC in 2015 the CPU and GPU where quite similarly priced... now last year I built a new PC and if you want a 4080 RTX it is just way overpiced compared to the CPU which is still pretty much on the same pricing level as it was in 2015.

When you buy a video game you’re only buying it for personal use.

Is anyone making money? Are people profiting on it?

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Like the falcon doors, it’s an unnecessary challenge. Yes, Tesla has great engineers. But by dictating that style, Musk has made their jobs harder without really a reason other than “I think it looks cool”