Australia had a bit of an old fart classification board. It’s gotten a lot better in recent years, especially after the R18 rating was introduced. It was pretty dumb for a while though I agree.

I feel called out by this but also so seen.

I’m so thirsty my dude

Assuming you want an actual answer, supply lines and distribution. We didn’t get the index for ages either until EB Games took on the distribution.

So I’m guessing sales are bad enough that it’s not worth the denuvo subscription huh

Yeah grey talon is a magic nuker, but you expect bullet damage or something if you’ve not really played much until then. I also fell into that trap.

Paradox is also my jam, good taste

Yeah I wouldn’t. It’s not really the same kind of game ultimately, and the time investment you need to grasp it can be a lot, even for someone like me who played DOTA and shooters way too much.

If you can get into it though, it’s a real banger so far.

I feel you. Honestly it’s weird to me that I enjoy this game, but sometimes I need a bit of white noise and the feeling that I’m getting something done. Also I’m sure my knees would give out after a few days of physical labour.

Are you hungry?

I don’t know if I’d go as far with my personal tastes, but I know for sure ds3 makes me stressed out. I think the combat system is far too fast and roll centric to be enjoyable to me. DS2 is just a nice adventure and sometimes I need that despite its flaws.

I recently replayed it. It’s kind of a weird one, but yes I’d say worth 5 bucks even as a window into the past.

The interrogation gameplay mechanics are a bit vague and difficult to understand exactly how to make the game do what you want, or even what you think the entire mechanic does, but to its credit it doesn’t usually give you a hard game over when you make mistakes. I failed an interrogation for example, but I got a few extra scenes of comedy that I didn’t see last time when I succeeded.

It pioneered facial capture in video games, but it’s out of sync with the rest of the body animation. Combine that with the low res textures and it’s a bit uncanny at times. Fascinating to see given where motion and facial capture is today though.

It is, but by god don’t grind your face against bosses that are too hard. I was having a bad time when I did three major bosses in a row, now I’m fucking around and exploring it’s much more enjoyable.

God I wish that were me

I’ve been doing the same thing, if the performance of a game feels like it could be better I slap that shit in there and it often drops GPU usage by at least half, it’s frankly ridiculous.

Honestly this behaviour comes off as some way to enact a loss leading strategy. Thing is, I can’t figure out what they would be trying to sell here?

Like making everyone use an account for Sony games does not lessen the blow of potentially paying for online, or using a hypothetical PC Sony store, or buying a PS5. It honestly feels like they’re just incredibly out of touch and don’t understand what the hell they’re doing.

Hell yeah my dude prioritise healthy art process

Can’t imagine it’d be worth doing considering you could just dock your deck to the tv. I know the deck is a beast at streaming to it though.

Holy shit you’re right, that doesn’t bode well for conservation in the future. Hopefully by then the anti piracy will all be a bad memory.

I’m with you for the most part, but they aren’t a monopoly. The definition changes depending on who you ask, I’m going by the overwhelming market share + providing barriers to entry to competitors. They do debatably meet the market share, but I’d argue not the practices that bar the existence of competitors.

I feel like they’ve been very careful to not meet that second criteria and it’s been healthy to the games market as a whole. GoG has a different niche, humble bundle sells wholesale discounts, and every company has their own store, for better or worse.

Meanwhile epic gets on my nerves because it’s been throwing around exclusivity deals to their platform and throwing around free games, which are both tactics to try to undermine the others in the market. If they had the kind of userbase steam has, yes I’d say that would be a monopoly.

Ditto, and then you see people claiming they’re a monopoly despite not doing anything monopolistic, supporting other launchers in steam, and allowing keys purchased through other stores to activate on steam.

Meanwhile epic is throwing around exclusivity deals, but that’s fine because they’re too incompetent a storefront to make an actual impact I guess?