Maybe, although it isn’t always true that a persons personal opinions are always directly reflected in their art or any other part of their life. Games also aren’t made in isolation, and a lot of the work in a game isn’t art, the personal opinions of someone writing code really don’t impact the final products social…

Quarantine not pandemic, its fiction so it can reference events that make sense to the audience that aren’t strictly congruent with the internal timeline. You just make up something to make it make sense if you need to or you just ignore it as being viewer/reader context not internal context.

They can be a good substitution, but not a perfect one, for a tomato based sauce you can end up with a very different product in ketchup vs. paste.

To be fair other than ray tracing and DLSS a 1070 is actually still a really competent card capable of running pretty much anything as long as it isn’t in 4k. That includes VR, I’ve got one myself and while it’s due for replacement when you get rid of the rest of CPU bottlenecks it is actually more than sufficient for…

Support is one thing, latency is another, Stadia got latency down to ok levels for flat screen. Would be an absolute vomfest though on VR, the latency aspect and the amount of data that needs to be shifted so quickly to actually make VR work make cloud VR relatively difficult.

If your game relies heavily on a community then yes. Single player games it is much less of a thing unless it’s fairly niche i.e. The Sims is popular, but the genre itself won’t support more than one game of the same type.

Because they are slapping lipstick on a pig. They aren’t really redoing the game, just updating it so it runs better on modern systems and slapping a few new graphical tricks and better textures.

So I would say they are in the same class in the same way a Mercedes A class is the same as class as a VW Golf/Rabbit, different prices, but the same class. An i3 costs a lot more, but range and physical size and typical usage are the same. But I do see your point on the difference.

You make a compelling argument that it isn’t a bad car for a third of the money.

To be fair he usually is when it gets into the details, he’s just arrogant as anyone in his position is, and doesn’t pull punches. He also enjoys screwing with people/systems and the media eats it up. He’s essentially a brilliant total asshole, but there is no version of a human that can do what he did and does and…

They did, but they also have way more experience with the material in automotive. And what is available for a solution in one vehicle is not an option for another.

That ship has sailed, the guy that fits hot water heaters and new phone lines is an “Engineer” across most of the planet. And half the countries that do restrict the term do it based on very shaky standards compared to what even the countries that don’t consider to an “engineer”, the Engineering accreditation system…

You can make dentures for anything, but safety wise it’s probably better to make ground meat and soup!

To be fair the article doesn’t say if they considered other options. Captivity would have been an option for a Bear of have advanced age and the ethical issues about it would be balanced by the fact it couldn’t survived in the wild.

There are ways to do that, but they are cost prohibitive as at a certain point you need to have a very divergant code base. It’s not like making a whole new game, but it is like when before printing presses people copied books by hand, you have the book, but it’s still a lot of work to make another.

Geforce Now is definitely a draw, I am planning to get a month to try over the holiday when I’m away from my main machine so I can keep playing.

Could always try Steam/GoG and geforce Now, it’s what I will be doing while I’m away from home over the next month or so.

I think PC was the target audience to be fair, CDPR have always been a PC title centric studio.

Thing is they didn’t even if it was PC first they would have made money, there are lots of titles that you can look to on PC and they do just fine with no issues.

Well it was literally spawned out of the force in episode 1 basically so I think it is safe to say they won’t do that as it would require some next level fan fiction machination to make that work.