I have a feeling a lot of people are putting the console upside down just because the disc drive is more accessible that way. Stood as intended it’s really awkward inserting a disc due to the way the white shell protrudes over the drive. It’s equally annoying stood vertically.

Some people find things like this meditative and relaxing, I do sometimes - rewarding, even. While the achievement for it is just like everybody else’s, it carries a certain weight that, while silly to you or me, obviously means something to him.

I would argue it’s more impressive, if not all that exciting.

That’s true of any leisure activity. Not everyone wants to write the next great novel or treat lepers in their free time. 

There’s no reason to believe an external drive is any more vulnerable to jailbreaking than the internal one, as long as they’re manufactured in the same way. It’s not like the internal drive is sealed, it can be removed and its connectors interfaced with just the same as you can with any external drive. The only…

Well, I imagine/hope they’re doing other things while doing this so it’s not a waste of time: watching movies or TV, listening to podcasts or audiobooks, etc. It’s arguably not anymore a waste of time than playing the game the way it was meant to be played. It just puts that time-wasting directly in the spotlight,…

Nah, I feel good about it. The disk model is an obvious design compromise that unnecessarily complicates the production chain, splits factory time, and looks like a tumour.

I still don’t know why it had to be a weird tuxedo thing. Can’t it just be a slightly stylized box? Whats wrong with that? The screen is where we look when we play games. I’m hoping the PS5 slim, if it happens, brings us something more nondescript instead of an inside-out oreo.

“But we’ve extended all other possible means of navigating the situation.”

With a world full of cybernetics, I was hoping the game to include genital mods too. To explore transhumanic sexuality a bit. If most people have half their bodies cybernetic i have hard time believing that no one thought of enhancing their sexual experience as well

They barely got the game out the door and had to crunch to do it, but you don’t like that they didn’t include a vagina slider? Insanity or just a lack of self awareness?

Infamously, Fallout New Vegas’ dev team, which somehow managed to make what many consider to be the best Fallout game in a mere 18 months, was denied this bonus because the game didn’t get a high enough Metacritic score.

I’m struggling to understand what “But we’ve extended all other possible means of navigating the situation” was supposed to mean there. That isn’t a coherent phrase.

That seems like a rather misguided take, or at least is ignoring the nuances of complexity for each game. Just the hours it takes to beat says very little about how complex a game is. Was it a simplistic 2d platformer with minimal controls or was it an expansive 3D open world game? Was it only in English with minimal…

This is all very scummy and worth writing about. I question whether a review of Cyberpunk 2077 is the right place to do it. People are looking for a review of the GAME, not the PUBLISHER.

It’s weird that despite all the cyberware you can get in the game, nothing will let you change from Penis 1 to Penis 2.  You’d think, diagetically, that would be a surgery people would be interested in!

I mean, Luke’s not saying this is a fatal problem with the game or anything, just that it’s amusing that a game where you can swap out body parts doesn’t let you get a haircut.

I’d probably give them a pass if their own ads weren’t talking about “becoming anything you want” and how modding yourself is how people live in the future (paraphrase). Yeah, that is really weird. 

It’s really sad that cyberpunk seems to mean “style over substance,” because most good cyberpunk stuff has a ton of substance. Ghost in the Shell? Neuromancer? The Matrix? Yeah, those all have a lot of style, but they all have something to say, too.

“But Cyberpunk so far has nothing to say about how humanity made those fever dreams a reality. It can be traced historically through the game’s abundant lore, but the lived experience of it hasn’t felt real to me. The game isn’t some kind of warning about the future; it seems to take as a given that the world will…