I mean…it’s playable on PS4, and subsequently on PS5. That’s pretty easy access, and it’s cheap too. Don’t know how it plays as I haven’t gotten to it.

I have no confidence in the Stories Untold guys to deliver. That thing was a mess; started neat, but devolved into random little gameplay bits strung together and topped of with the king of bad amateur writing tropes.

Atmospherically it was neat, changing to be a mom protag was good, but it was the start of the downward slope effectively. Especially in terms of using Pyramid Head for every fucking thing. It basically cribbed him and the laying figure creature out of SH2 where they had psychological intention behind their design and…

Silent Hill f is what I’ll be paying closest attention to. A lot of the rest of this I just don’t care about because they spent years tanking Silent Hill down into the sewers. So all I want is a Silent Hill game, that feels like a Silent Hill game (not some weird project or “something you’ve never quite seen before”)…

The developers should unionize too.

Oh I wouldn’t believe they can pull it off, and I wouldn’t particularly want to go there myself (although I do imagine it would come with some rebranding and overhaul of the approach/attitude employees have toward customers). But if the physical game market isn’t going to hold them afloat, it seems like the cleanest…

I obviously know fuck all about how their business is currently actually doing, like, whether they’re secretly on the verge of collapsing or if they’re just being used by executives to siphon money until dead.

Without spending a ton of time digging through various patch note and hot fix posts back through time:

All 3 Dark Souls do some stuff dependent on your definitions for new content. DS3 has improved rings behind NG+ and NG++, and I can’t recall if there are multiple uses for boss souls i.e. make weapon B instead of A.

I mean, they do. Go actually bother to check through patch notes, and you’ll find plenty of times where they nerf something then simultaneously give it a PVE-only damage buff to compensate.

Huh. Probably a map editing tool for checking things against generic player/human height, right? Make sure everything is scaled correctly. And then they took these map beauty shots in those dev tools and didn’t uncheck a box to hide them. Kinda neat.

Idk how supplies are right now, but I’ve had one for a year or more. Paid regular retail for it too, not scalper price. I decided I wanted one, followed a journalist account on Twitter that would post when various stores had resupplies, grabbed one from GameStop’s site within like 2 weeks of casually paying attention.…

I think it holds up broadly, I just think the points where it felt lacking compared to what came after it stood out starkly. Gems are important for high difficulty, but I’d bet the majority of players don’t actually go up into high NG+ cycles in any of these games. Most probably just play through NG alone, some into…

I think the reality is that people would like a sequel (the genre has advanced a lot since Bloodborne was made, and you could make a ton of improvements). So they’re secretly hoping for a remaster as a lead-up to a sequel release.

If they stuck to their guns and made everyone go through it, I’d believe it was what they genuinely thought would improve the experience for new players. But the second you offer “Or you can pay us $40 and skip all of this” I know it’s bullshit, because every time games do this the developers are financially…

Ugh. After re-reading I get it. There’s a moment where Dumbledore asks Snape, “Still?” after seeing his patronus, and Snape replies “Always.” It’s in reference to him still being in love with his unrequited crush (Harry’s mom) and his patronus matches hers because of it or whatever.

PSVR was made to incorporate an existing stock of failed PlayStation Move controllers. So games used those. They aren’t programmed to use these new controllers, which presumably work with completely different tech, so it makes sense.

They added skill based matchmaking to Control as a test run, and I’m gonna bet people ditching matches was abundant enough they felt this necessary. People bailing on a match just strands the others with a disadvantage, and even when it finds someone to add late, THAT person spawns in at a disadvantage on the losing…

Tears of the Kingdom indeed.

Well, I get what you mean but the point here is that the book in question isn’t a novel but rather a fictional history book intentionally written to imitate the kind of bias and bullshit peppered into real historical texts. So it’s built on the accounts of primarily 2 fictional characters with often conflicting…