Console with a Portal is an option. 30fps isn’t exactly ideal for remote play, but I’ll take it for the convenience of playing on the go. I am slightly concerned with how blatantly gleeful the game appears to burn time. There are a large variety of games out there... I’ll be disappointed if this one just feels like a…

It emphatically does not, unfortunately. It barely runs on the systems its on.

Outside of being produced by Meta, I’ve always recommened getting a Quest 2 if you want an introduction to VR. $249 vs $550 ($1,050 if you don’t already have a PS5) is really a large price gap between the two. You also get the much larger library and productivity apps with Quest. For me the nicest part of it for me is…

Saga being a Black woman is perfectly integrated into the story and even adds to the story during an early investigation scene.

This x1000. I am so tired of Multiverse shenanigans being the solution to conflict. “well in this universe we did it this way, shame you didnt think of that.”

This multiverse obsession in media is the natural conclusion of both MCU aping and IP-driven “creative” work:

For sure that is part of it. Another part I am now thinking of is a common one in the older publishers, when times are good for a studio and publisher, there is often less oversight, projects may get greenlit with ambitious goals. Likewise, team leadership probably also contributed to overly ambitious goals with no…

Live service is not a genre. Its a service you can add on to a game. I don’t think anyone minds it, as long as the game its added to is good by itself. And if the game itself is good, it can substantially increase the lifespan of the game.

80% of my kid’s gaming time is spent in Minecraft. They might stop and play the new hotness for a day or two, but then it’s right back to building with virtual blocks.

Its the MMO thing all over again. Everyone was trying to get inon that sub money WoW had - and no one could really do it. Everyone one of them spent a ton of money and fizzled. It took how many years and a massive reboot before FFXIV came along?? That is a lot of studio time and money dumped in the trash heap.

It’s basically like opening a restaurant now. Most of them are going to fail in that first year, but investors are going to blindly hope and invest that their product is the one that will break through.

This.

There are multiple problems with gaming in general right now:

With a game name like Tactical Breach Wizards, it better know not to take itself too seriously, and have fun with the concept.

Also God of War (2018) lampshaded the yellow paint in an incredibly poignant and heartbreaking manner. That reveal is among my favorite video game moments - and it got some nice callbacks in the Ragnarok flashbacks.

It’s always the biggest corporations too, Apple, Tesla, crazy how they’ve all built these insanely loyal fanbases, these people are so eager to spend thousands on more techno-crap from their favorite corporation worth billions.

Oh hey, it’s today’s reminder that fandom is inherently toxic.

“I was wrong all of this time, Xbox doesn’t care about us, Microsoft doesn’t care about us. We’ve been fighting this war for nothing.”

To me the arkham games got worse with each installment. The bite size metroidvania first one was amazing. Arkham City was OK, loved flying around and beating up big groups was as fun as ever, but it got more repetitive. I stopped played Arkham Knight a few hours in. The car sucked, the city was too big and everything…

Unnecessary boob physics on both the MC and the small engineer character? Sigh.