Yeah, but look at how cheap the consoles were! I remember saving up my allowance to get the N64.

This. I don't do game QA, I'm in IT, but it's the same idea. It's easy to program a bot to do what the end user is supposed to do, but it's very hard to get it to do everything the end user isn't supposed to do. And that's where most of the bugs are.

I share some concerns, namely that this is undoubtedly a cash grab, but I don’t think being a 3D space is anything to worry about. You can already do 3D mapping in Foundry (with modules), for example, and it’s not as complicated as you might think. However, it does still require setup time, as you said, and it’s by no…

Still waiting for them to bring over Call of Cthulhu from original Xbox. The PC port is... a bit buggy.

I used to use YNAB, and it did help me get my spending under control, but these days I just use a spreadsheet. The most useful thing about YNAB wasn’t the expense tracking but the education that came with it, mostly learning to avoid the “credit card float.” After that, I realized that it didn’t really matter that…

I never said any of them don’t work, just that they don’t work well. Can’t remember if it’s resolved now, but for a long while, Reaper (my DAW of choice) scaled really weirdly on high DPI displays. At this point, it’s mostly older programs that have the issue, so depending on your specific needs, YMMV.

Exactly. Blurriness is one of the “don’t work well” factors I’m talking about.

There's also general usage to consider. The higher your resolution, the smaller everything on your screen becomes (assuming the physical screen size is the same). This might mean that you want to scale things back up with Windows's scaling feature, but some apps, particularly older ones, don't support that very well…

This is addressed in the article. People don’t like it because the fact that 1000+ explorable planets exist means that Bethesda had to program and develop for all of those planets. Given that time and money are essentially fixed variables for game development, this means that they can either a) create a lot of…

It seems like there’s more detail and better lighting and that’s really it visually. If that were it, I don’t think it would be worth it. It’s the overhaul to the controls I’d be interested in, even on the lowest sensitivity it was just hard to hit anything in that game. Plus the 60 FPS mode on PS5 just doesn’t work…

I took advantage of the $1 to upgrade the remainder of your Gold subscription a few years ago and got myself like 3 years of Game Pass Ultimate for $1. Looking at that, yes, of course the value is there. But when that finally expires and I have to start paying for it for real... I probably still will. But finally…

Yes, yes you can. The point being that you have to be afraid of the bad guys and run away to survive as opposed to standing there and blasting them with a million bullets.

I thought The Medium was a really great horror game. Maybe I’m not the right person to be judging them, I don’t generally play a lot of horror games, but it did a really great job of putting the survive in survival horror whereas all the recent Resident Evils have just been like well you don’t have enough ammo, that…

“There are even rumblings that the lower-specced Xbox Series S has been a “painful” thorn in some developers’ sides.”

Gawker sites are nearly 100% of the reason I use Edge, simply because it has adblocking built in on mobile and these sites are basically completely unusable on phones.

Really sad about Mimic Tear. If they’re going to nerf it that much, they should cut down the HP cost, too, because it is expeeeeensive. But mostly I am sad because I *just* got it and dumped a ton of resources into leveling it up and now it’s just not going to be anywhere as useful. Especially since the ability it…

Honestly, not showing it made it mostly just unsatisfying and not terrifying at all. My immediate reaction to it was, “Cowards.” I really wanted to have a tyrant chase me out of the facility.

On console, at least, you can also just go back to the home screen to suspend the game. I do it all the time and it's way faster.

I play offline, so until you mentioned messages of other players, it seemed absurd to me that someone should see the only two obviously interactable things in the room and ignore them. But I can see how the message would get lost now. Having said that, it teaches you that a) exploring is encouraged, b) what sort of…

I work with a lot of long, long spreadsheets, so this could be useful for me. But it wouldn't fit on my desk well and would put the webcam up way too high, so...