I bought it at launch for the PS4, and then I bought it again later on a digital sale for the XSX. It’s basically a completely different game now. Ignore the launch reviews. It is very good these days.

I’m with you. I can understand why they’re doing this on hosted services, but my actual device? GTFO of here. Just having this capability makes it possible for bad actor regimes to make demands.

I’m with you, man. This is definitely on our list of things to do in the next decade. I remember my one and only “full-fat” trip to Disney and a Disney resort as a kid super vividly, and I do think that really engaging the magic does make an impact on them. Doesn’t need to be every year or whatever.

I’m with you, and many of these guys do not understand how much a full-fat Disney experience costs. I was just at Disney last week. Two nights at the Polynesian and Contemporary can cost you $2000, easy. Throw in the hopper pass and food, and I just don’t know that it’s so astronomically worse than just going to…

I was there last week on Wednesday, and that area was PACKED, even though it was the day after the CDC hit the panic button.

Precisely. I don’t mind paying a bit and waiting in a line for a few months. That’s a LOT better than trying my luck with random drops.

The PS2 and Xbox 360 both had situations a lot like this, yeah. Much as I’d like a PS5, it’s just not worth $800 or a ton of my time to hunt for.

Dude, I am totally with you. I dumped all my PC builds, and run Surface devices, multiple consoles, a Synology NAS, and have my network running on Ubiquiti Unifi. I don’t want to maintain things anymore. I want to click a couple buttons and have everything deal with that itself.

If the Steam Deck forces more games to support controllers just so they can maintain marketshare, that’s enough for me. I’m a couch gamer. It is what it is.

I’m interested and reserved the mid-end one. My gaming laptop is getting old (GTX 1060), and I’d like to have a turnkey solution for continuing to run PC games. I’m almost 40, I’ve got a wife and kids, I have a demanding job (that sometimes requires travel), and I just don’t want to run on the driver and system…

In my opinion, you are incorrect. Tom Clancy was strongly against Iraq War II, and would have hated Trump. You may not agree with his politics, but the man was principled and intelligent. He would not have bought into Q BS, or Trump’s nonsense.

Check his grave, the dude is probably spinning wildly in it.

Whatever else you can say about crypto in general, I’ve become convinced that the crypto markets are being manipulated by big players working in concert. The recent runs on BTC, doge, etc. should tell you everything. There’s no fundamentals at work when things go insane like that, but there’s certainly market…

Even if you buy into that concept, you don’t need a specific bit of entertainment to live. No one’s dying because they specifically can’t buy an XSX or PS5. I say that as someone who’d very much like to buy a PS5 but can’t find one for MSRP.

The number of Sony fanboys in denial about the medium-term effects of Microsoft buying Zeni is amazing. You better believe they’re not going to be supporting Sony’s consoles by releasing new AAAs on there, much like Sony would have to be stupid to put Horizon 2 on the XSX - yet you never seem to hear much complaining…

Yeah, I’m with you. No idea what happened here except maybe they started with the PC version this time and did a terrible job optimizing for the Switch.

I am still completely scarred from my encounter with the PC version and have zero desire to play it ever again. I guess I got my money’s worth, but DAMN, that’s a PTSD-inducer.

People who thought Microsoft was going to buy Bethesda and then be like “lol, we’re going to release all our most awaited exclusives on all platforms!” were seriously deluded. Microsoft could have gotten THAT a lot cheaper.

Yeah, there’s clearly a lot of Sony fanboys who didn’t realize what it was going to feel like with the shoe on the other foot, and I say that as someone who owns every Sony system since the PS2 (except for the PS5, which I would buy if I could at MSRP). I know I personally would have bought Returnal if it had been…

YES. Reloaded was a genuinely great sequel, and I’m unsure how people lump it in with Revolutions. I didn’t hate Revolutions, but the lack of consistency and final answers left it unfulfilling.