I’m seeing conflicting information out there, but that makes more sense. Ars Technica was saying the Keanu Reeves section was totally digital, and I’ve seen people picking apart Keanu in that scene, but he looked photo-real to me in a way he doesn’t once he’s replaced with is younger facsimile, so it does seem more…

The real mind-blowing thing is that the whole intro "video" mentioned here is apparently CGI models being rendered in real time. So the Keanu Reeves talking to you is just another game model. Crazy

I agree with how this article positioned MGS2: it was a game that was confusing and a bit disappointing at the time, but has aged brilliantly. The fact that GW is an AI designed to filter through the misinformation and “fake news” produced by giving humanity free reign to propagate bullshit on the internet...it was…

Man, the piling on about the watch here is blowing my mind. Clearly Kendall is a materialistic ass, given this whole episode takes place in a wildly expensive physical manifestation of his ego. What the hell DO you get someone like that? And Naomi’s clearly really nervous and uncomfortable about it, basically…

It’s funny to me that one of the cruelest moments of the episode, to me, was how shitty Kendall was that Naomi’s gift wasn’t good enough when she was clearly self-conscious about it. Then I come here and the reviewer mentions three times how upset she is that NAOMI could be so thoughtless. It came up more times than…

Just curious, did you play it at the time of release, or recently? Because in the modern game landscape, you’re right. It doesn’t do anything with character psychology that other games haven’t done better in the years since. But at the time, just having that kind of thought, and subtext, and symbolism, go into a game…

I’m 35, was born in 1986, and saw quite a bit of the show while it was on, and ESPECIALLY in the decades after while it was ubiquitous in syndication. I love that show, even own the complete series box set on DVD. It’s probably hard to grasp now that pop culture is more ephemeral and being constantly rebooted, but…

I don’t have an RTX card (running a GTX 1080), but I’ve noticed a lot of the performance-based automated settings in this game are totally busted, and I wouldn’t trust it with DLSS. It defaulted my PC to all medium settings, which looked horrendous in this game, and when I tried turning on DRS, it would almost…

It’s also notable that Rockstar’s not re-listing the originals on any store but their own, where they take a bigger cut of the profits. So even their mea culpa is self-serving.

It also sucks that they charge the player money in order to swap out a challenge, and there’s no way to pick what mode you’re searching for. So you have to just queue up for random matches hoping you get, say, an Oddball match so you can complete your “Play an Oddball Match” challenge...unless you pay them more money.…

There’s absolutely no way that’s the case. Whether or not you’re playing Halo Infinite, you’re still paying for Game Pass, which is all Microsoft wants. Having Destiny’s DLC on there adds to the value of the platform, and getting rid of it doesn’t help them at all. This is just Bungie being greedy, thinking they got…

I’m not on an RTX card, so I can’t say anything about how it handles DLSS specifically, but I can say that it’s Dynamic Resolution Scaling is completely busted. I foolishly turned it on my default at first, and it made the whole game look like I was watching somebody’s grainy video footage. It had to be below SD…

I skipped BFV, but my experience with BFs in the past is that it’s BY FAR the most toxic community. People were constantly insulting their teammates, or throwing around the n word or the r word. It’s the only game I’ve quite playing largely BECAUSE the community was so bad.

It also makes Battle Pass progression take longer, because you can’t just choose modes or maps which accommodate for specific challenges. For instance, if you get a “Play a game of Oddball” challenge, you can’t clear it until the game is generous enough to put you in an Oddball game. The fact that you can’t swap out…

Maybe they looked at the success of Breath of the Wild and went “hey, we should make OUR game unplayable during rainfall too!”

Modding seems like the way to go...if you can find the mods now, since Rockstar tried to sue them out of existence.

It’s funny, because plenty of articles matching that exact description have already been written about Cowboy Bebop in particular.

Frankly, I was a lot more interested based on the actual series trailer, because it suggested that the series DID have an original take on the material.

It’s really not that surprising that there aren’t a lot of Playstation first-party studio games on here, because, as is mentioned, it’s tracking cumulative in-game hours. So obviously the the games that are going to rank highest are going to be service games or popular multiplayer titles, where you can dump hundreds…

It’s funny, because you can’t REALLY say they’re underrated when they’re, frankly, the most successful and transformative band in modern history. But it does kind of feel like it today, when we’re a few generations removed from their success and it’s easy to ignorantly write them off as some old band that had a few…

For sure. I notice that kind of thing a lot in the anything-for-content era of web articles. Like all the articles floating around right now about how the original Dexter showrunner (and new series showrunner) “revealed” how he would have ended the show when he already said the same thing (and got a whole lot of…