I’m still just stunned by how incredibly, deeply incompetent that whole thing was. Like... they LITERALLY had an entire episode demonstrating the threat ballistae pose to dragons. And they... didn’t expect armed enemy warships? When one of the key advantages Cersei has is naval superiority via the Iron Fleet?…

his ultimate is an impenetrable shield

his ultimate is an impenetrable shield

Also, nothing that this game does is particularly visually intensive, and Source can handle some utterly ridiculous stuff without crashing (see: countless videos of people setting off hundreds of explosive barrels at once in Garry’s Mod), so I rather doubt it’s that.

Yeah, sniping is pretty much pointless in this game. Especially since enemies are rocking high-level shields and helmets by the time you typically are able to fully kit out a sniper rifle, so even head shots aren’t guaranteed kills.

I dunno about that. I regularly played a shotgun-packing Infiltrator in Battlefield 4, and in close quarters it was pretty devastating. Situational, granted, but then that kind of fits the role of shotguns anyway.

That was a driver issue more than a game issue, and for NVIDIA at least, updated drivers that address the issue were released yesterday. Not sure about the status of AMD.

...if you only put ten hours into it, I don’t really think you have grounds to make an informed opinion on it, to be honest. 10 hours in isn’t even to the mid-game, and the mid-game and (especially) the late-game are where the bulk of the bugs and poor design choices are.

Also, “I didn’t run into any problems” isn’t a…

Having put quite a few hours into the game, both in the beta and in the full release: yes. Yes, it really, truly is quite bad. It’s a broken, buggy mess built on a questionable design foundation. I mean, I get that my perspective is entirely subjective. But then, so is yours, and yours is very firmly in the minority.…

The Unreal engine, which is still used extensively today, debuted in 1998. So did GoldSrc, which was the direct predecessor to Source (akin to Gamebryo leading to the Creation Engine).

The problem is not repeated usage of the same engine framework. The problem is them not putting the required effort in.

...you, uh... you do realize you can disable all of the “spyware” bits of Windows 10, right? Easily? In one settings window? And most of it is disabled by default? That’s been the case since shortly after it launched years ago.

Though if you have a Windows 7 install set up just right for you, more power to you. But…

Or he simply has higher standards than you and realized that this isn’t f*cking BROKE.

That’s DEFINITELY what it seems like to me, and I say that as someone who still marginally enjoys the game, despite it being an objectively bad product.

Incidentally, side note: That’s something people miss for some reason. You can like a bad product. Bad movies have their fans who realize they’re bad, and there are…

That’s precisely what it was at launch. It was pretty bad. It has, however, reinvented itself pretty thoroughly since launch. I played the ESO beta and post-launch a bit and left because it was garbage, but I came back when the Morrowind expansion launched last year, and it was basically a completely different game.

But…

...ailing? ESO’s been steadily growing since the Morrowind expansion dropped in 2017. It’s regularly among the top five most played MMOs, and it’s even occasionally in the top three. It’s doing remarkably well, thanks in no small part to basically re-inventing itself. Though, granted, when it launched it was utter…

While I can’t speak with authority, speaking as a one-time journalist: yes, almost certainly. Journalism, regardless of type, pretty much demands long hours for often mediocre to downright poor pay. 60-hour workweeks on a $30k salary is not uncommon in the industry. This is also why I speak as a one-time journalist;…

...that’s never been Bethesda’s style, though. Like, at all. They’ve always fully supported mod development, including overhaul mods like this one.

I doubt they’ll care. It’s not a subscription service or anything, so it’s not like they’d be losing money to people playing it offline. Although playing it offline does rather defeat the purpose... probably easier just to run the private servers that they plan on rolling out post-launch, given that Bethesda has…

“Now, Rowling has said that Anthony Goldstein was Jewish in the series, although it’s not mentioned in the books at all.”

To be fair, with a surname like Goldstein, it’s not hard to accept that she did, in fact, intend for him to be Jewish, and used a Jewish surname as a stand-in for actually explaining it more in the…

I’m not saying it’s okay for mobile gaming. I AM saying that the monetization schemes for PC/console gaming and mobile gaming are different. They objectively are. There literally isn’t a PC/console game from a mainstream developer that utilizes, say, the Dungeon Keeper monetization model. There isn’t even anything…