One of the biggest things for me is seeing how the characters develop over the long time period of the game. Every one is basically a living, breathing, entity with their own needs, wants, and regrets (which is of course TFA). I think the closest thing to it are the Legend of Heroes RPGs, where you can see individual…

Admiring Elmo never seems to survive actual contact with Elmo. I guess he has to say nice things on the way out, but bailing after only a month tells you the truth.

As it should be!  Only the white landed slaveowners really have ‘skin in the game’ and should be allowed to vote.  Elmo continues his heroic defense of free speech and democracy.

From one Hive of Scum and Villainy to the next!

It really does make sense, because Pavone’s actual god is Trump at this point.

‘Hmmm, maybe I can do some real good by spending a decade of my life working for Satan from the inside.’

Wow, what a fucking snowflake. This twat is the very parody of a right wing douchebag. If you made him up Nazis would accuse you of strawmanning... but here he is, in the flesh, the living incarnation of MAGA to take the Angry Toddler’s torch.

What a rogues’ gallery of villains this is (except for Linux Foundation). I expect they’ll be stabbing each other in the backs at the first opportunity.

Yeah, I’ve played released games vs. the pirated games with the Denuvo removed and the non-Denuvo version is always better. It kills frame rates when used naively, which is why I said naively. See https://www.altchar.com/game-news/denuvo-hampers-frame-rate-and-loading-times-aHKXG4v7tWoK for example.

No, not at all. I am a fucking whore. I will go wherever the best games are. In the X360/PS3 generation I was a completely X360 fanboy because Sony was completely pathetic and needed its ass kicked. I own a PC, a Switch, a PS5, and an XBone.

Pentiment is awesome. And I can play that on PC, and have been. Grounded is kind of good but not great, and I played that on PC. Starfield will probably be pretty cool if MS actually makes Bethesda not release a fantastically buggy piece of shit at launch like they did with Skyrim. The rest of them are just really…

It’s not totally unnecessary - initial reviews turned me off enough that I decided not to buy it. Now maybe I will.

This is exactly why loot boxes are gambling. Your addicts are complaining that they’re no longer getting their high - because just paying for what you want doesn’t trigger that endorphin rush for them.

I wonder if maybe Denuvo isn’t running ‘properly’ if you don’t go through the launcher.  The game definitely has Denuvo, and Denuvo has been repeatedly shown to tank frame rates and cause stuttering if used naively.

Like you said, this is a two hour game - with basically no replay value.

Look, XBox is the ‘all you can shovel into your giant pie-hole for one low price’ buffet option. It is not the quality option. Except for maybe Forza Horizon (and Flight Sim for some people), all their IPs are old and tired. If you wanted quality games you’d be on Playstation, Switch, or PC (where you can also get…

Fucking TikTokers are like Instagramers with 10x the asshole.

No, it’s not. It’s just how terrible Japanese corporations are in general.  In particular, everyone working at GameFreak has likely been through this.

We may be seeing more of this as they keep going back through his history! Who knows how long he’s been doing it?

Babylon’s Fall absolutely owns it for most lazy cynical failure. ‘Here’s a boring ugly service game with almost no content for $60, suckers, trust us, we’ll update it later, now cough up for those micropayments on top of your $60.’ It failing as hard as it deserved is actually one of the best stories of 2022 (while…