Oh it’s definitely rare - the SimCity reboot in I want to say, 2012? was the last one I remember where it would literally lock you out of the game after 30 minutes or something if you didn’t have an internet connection, no matter whether you were playing single player or multiplayer. I think they patched it…

Oh god, can you imagine?

I only really have a problem with always online requirements when it doesn’t make sense. For example, if a game like Horizon Forbidden West didn’t work without an internet connection. However, Call of warzone MMO battle royale? Of course it makes sense that that’s always online.

I will say that I have played games that were ported to console as an afterthought, and menu screens that are mouse centered drive me nuts. No Man’s Sky is one that comes to mind right away - having to navigate menus with a cursor with a mouse makes total sense. Doing so with a controller is a huge pain.

I’ve had some games crash when I do it... others, ignore it entirely. Although the worse has been one or two where the window goes away and the process keeps cranking in the background chewing up 100% cpu. It’s been a while, though - but I also don’t game on my pc as much these days. I’ve been wfh since covid and…

I’ve had the opposite - games where if you’re using borderless windowed mode lets the mouse escape the game when you mouse that side of the screen when all you wanted to do was scroll the map to the right or turn your character to the right, lol.

I agree entirely on that as well! I mean, honestly, I played a souls game years ago, decided they’re not for me and haven’t looked back since. Likewise, with rare exceptions, I really dislike rogue-like games... so if I read about a game and see “rogue-like” in the description... I skip it. What I wrote above is for…

I totally agree. Too often in this and in other things, people make the argument “I wouldn’t use that option, so no one should have it”, which is insane. A game without a quest log would be terrible for me because of my life - I get to game in 15-30 minute spurts because I’m a dad of a young kid and have a fully time…

You can install the ps4 version on the ps5, sync the saves from the cloud and then export... but otherwise, you’re absolutely right, the bizarre save file wall is ridiculous.

Kamurocho will never be the same...

hey, it’s the closest thing to Japan I’ll probably ever get to experience.

I’m not convinced that quantum GPU they’re bragging about will actually yield 16k@120fps like they claim.

I’m not saying it would be a bad thing... I’ve just seen this kind of rumor mill going before and it turned out to be something completely different that everyone ended up being disappointed in because they were convinced it was something else.

It might be, I just happen to be mainly a gamer when it comes to following news on a certain topic - I don’t tend to do the same for my other fandoms, it’s just the way I am.

We gamers can be so ridiculous. In the absence of news, we seem to decide that there has to be something and then start making things up out of whole cloth and then get disappointed (at best) or even angry (at worst) when the stuff we made up in our heads turns out to be wrong. I include myself in this because I’ve…

why stop playing over that? you can ignore it entirely if you want. Of course, it would be a little more tricky without the Yakuza-mandatory yen printing game, but definitely not a requirement.

I mean, I personally prefer to do it alone, other people just ruin it for me...

If MS doesn’t make an AndroidTV app, Nvidia can’t exactly send some thugs to kneecap them if they don’t add support for it...

Ohhh... so true, he was a fantastic villain and the perfect take on him. I was genuinely worried because he has often been a super cheesy villain in the past.

Spiderverse is definitely my favorite, but I’d put this one above Far From Home personally.

I’m a little disappointed that most of this list is rogue-likes (a term that I personally believe is defined as a game that punishes you for wanting to play it) and games about capitalism - which I’d rather not have to think about when I’m wanting to have fun, I already know how much it sucks, thank you.