Sure, you could do this, but then you get into the same problem as you see in every MMO eventually, which is that the “it’s all math so just increase everything by an order of magnitude” argument leads to its own levels of ridiculous power creep.

I don’t know, I am of a somewhat mixed opinion on that point. By the time I finished my hard mode run, I was max level, with all maxed materia, 99 of almost every item, and hundreds of thousands of gil, and that would’ve been a crazy starting place because then what level are we in part 3? And does that mean all the…

Alright, sure, for long-term viability and to protect against “game death” if the servers ever go offline, then an offline mode is objectively a good thing. But as a note, it is also, frankly, wild that so many people decided this was the issue to complain about on steam.

Boo. The first SSX remains one of the best games of all time, IMO, and I still go back to it every couple years. Emulated and upscaled on a PC, it looks and plays great still; it’s the absolute peak of “arcade’y sports games”, coming from someone who generally never plays sports games of any kind.

In the end it really seems to be what ecosystem you’re already embedded in more than anything else.

Yeah, that is increasingly true, but I do still see some benefits to having a dedicated console. There are some types of game that I really significantly prefer to play with a controller, and there are some games I also prefer to play on a TV. I would never play Horizon or Resident Evil with a keyboard and mouse, for…

As I’ve said multiple times since this generation started up, Microsoft has given me literally zero reason to buy an Xbox. I’ve had every generation of PlayStation since the original, so it was already my “default” console, but I am not inherently anti-xbox; I loved and still have the first one. However, since I…

Even when MS was “not supporting” PC games during the mid-late-2000s, they were still developing DirectX, which ran almost every single PC game until Vulcan offered an alternative. Sure, no one is “buying windows to play games” specifically, but people were very much not buying macOS and very pointedly not installing…

I feel like a PS5 is the only logical console for a PC owner to have. Any Microsoft exclusives are already on PC, so if you want access to the most games possible, the PC/PS5 combo is the best set. Despite also owning a hilariously overkill PC because of my job, I still use and love my PS5, but that’s really just…

PC is hardly agnostic; apart from a tiny minority of pure Linux users, PC gamers are overwhelmingly running Windows, which means MS is not only getting a significant number of windows licensing sales, but also game pass subs. PC is not a significant direct competitor to consoles, but it is heavily tilted in MS’s favor…

Maybe? At least that would be an actual deformation.

For the non-modelers in attendance: Some (all?) 3d modeling packages will let you use the scale tool to perform deformations, like, if you select two different edges, you can “scale” them along an axis, such that the two edges get closer together, or further apart,…

Mofo, I used god-damn LightWave to learn 3D modeling in the 90s and have been using Maya for over 20 years. At no point in the ENTIRE HISTORY of 3D modeling has scaling been a destructive transformation OR been considered editing. You are a “3D artist” as much as a dude who watched one 10-min video of C++ on YouTube…

Obviously, mileage will vary based on the person, but my first headset (that I own) was a PSVR2, and while yes, I did get some less than great motion sickness the first week, it did actually wear off pretty quickly, and I never felt like I was going to actually vomit, only that it was clear I needed to take the…

The man is not wrong, though. Sony and Microsoft might be willing to take a risk here or there on a project, but with any publicly traded company, their #1 concern will and always will be the investors, so at the end of the day, GamePass et al. will only fund projects that they deem safe and that will return a profit…

Right? Jesse was very overtly throwing herself at him and the dude was just like “Cool, so goodnight then”

I had the same thought. Even if it has a loud audio alert to say it is returning control to the driver, if the driver is already _not_ paying attention (because they are an idiot who trusts Tesla), then I am not at all confident in that person’s ability to rapidly take control back. If anything, the autosteer is…

The Bungie guys have had to do all of this by the seat of their pants.

Johnny is 100% my guess. No one else is going to use the word “bodacious”

Pretty much this. The vibe I got was that Nintendo wanted “Anime” acting, which always has a VERY particular sound and style. To western audiences, the result is that it always sounds extremely cheap and generic, regardless of who you cast.

Yep. After watching thousands of hours of Crit Role his voice is so absurdly recognizable that it doesn’t matter what voice or accent he is doing, you just go “Yep, there’s Mercer”.