During Cerny’s presentation, he specifically talked about the compromise between 60fps performance mode and 30fps graphics modes, so it’s to get 60 fps that people are typically enabling performance mode for.

It’s not that confusing. The Activision deal almost didn’t happen following all of the scrutiny Microsoft received from their earlier buying of Bethesda and making all of their new games Xbox exclusives. They squeaked by and sealed the deal in the end, but presumably they don’t want Activision to be their last acquisition ever. To that end, they’re third-partying some of their high-profile-but-probably-not-big-earner games so that when some regulatory agency tries to make that same argument for their next big purchase, they can point at the few titles they published on other consoles as proof that they promise not to be anticompetitive.

Well, since Nvidia has more money than god, the only definition of “fine” that applies to them is “alright”.

To be honest, Halo has already been in that state since 343i took over. With how bad Halo Infinite was, it would be an impressive feat for most developers to do even worse.

I haven’t played it yet myself, but based on the pre-release info I’ve read, I am assuming it’s the separate progression system the DLC uses.

The normal strength of weapons in the rest of the game doesn’t matter as much, there’s a different way of powering up exclusive to the DLC content. So anyone who was buffed up like a god before the DLC is not that far ahead of someone jumping in early during their first playthrough.

I love Wingspan as a board game to play with friends. Not sure how well that really translates to a digital medium like a game console, but I like the calming aesthetics it seems to have.

One can hope, but some features like a level editor may be too much to bet on.

At the very least, the official mod tools don’t seem like they’ll be adding anything that modders haven’t already figured out how to do themselves, so we’re no worse off than we were.

Always good advice.

I am not as worried about this particular DLC because, by all accounts, it is just more Elden Ring, so if you like Elden Ring you’ll like this.

But the number of times I’ve seen games reviewed with 10/10, 5 stars, highly recommend, etc., only for there to be a day 1 patch that makes it a lot more grindy, filling it with MTX and season passes…what can it be called other than a bait and switch?

It’s just a shame that the official mod tools are so neutered in the name of Wizards being able to protect their brand. No custom asset support, no map editor, no cutscene editor, no new NPCs or dialog, etc.

Basically, you are limited to making new gear (but limited to gear models that already exist), tweaking spell effects, and custom dice skins apparently.

If your mad it’s you’re own fault

I don’t think any company would want to keep a separate auth system if they can help it, though. No one wants to spend resources maintaining redundant account systems and interfaces between them when they have the option to consolidate.

But I suppose I just don’t see why there had to be a deadline at all. They know the email addresses associated to the original accounts, so there should just be a database they can reference to check if that email address has an unmigrated account and prompt to convert when next they log in. This is beyond “I don’t want to maintain two account systems,” it’s “Let’s just throw away this old table of email addresses so we can make more room on our servers for telemetry data.”

Sometimes. But not in this case; what happened to Disco Elysium is a rabbit hole of corruption and backstabbing that could only come out of Eastern Europe.

Well, hopefully Avowed’s budget matches how cheap the game looks. Otherwise I would definitely worry about being next on the chopping block.

I would say in one sense yes, because typically property being bequeathed follows different customs than property being sold for profit.

But the point in this case is that your Steam library is not even “property” to begin with, it is a contract that becomes invalid when one of the parties (the customer) dies.

But think of the shareholders!

A thruster pack that only works backwards.

The copy/paste aspect of it is what really got me, and made me want to stop playing.

I’m okay with procedural generation, and there’s a lot of games that handle that sort of thing well. I never feel like exploration is a waste of time in Minecraft, for example, because there are always unique sorts of quirks about how the world is assembled that can still surprise you even if you’ve played for a while.

Starfield was fun for me early on. I was enjoying some of the sidequests and taking some time to just wander aimlessly in different planets. I would actually wake up feeling excited to play more during that first week.

But there was one moment where I was exploring a new planet, and I came upon the exact copy of a dungeon that I had done once already. Exactly the same, down to the layout of the halls, the trip mines placed up near the entrance, the locations of the enemies, and so on. That’s when it felt like I was running out of things to do. The world is procedurally generated, but it’s procedurally generated in a bad way, where there’s really only a small handful of different “things” that can just be anywhere, and there’s nothing really different in the ways that you can interact with them.

Plus the comedy of being on a no-atmosphere planet and seeing some of the clutter on outdoor balconies be, like, open food and drink packages as if people are just casually snacking in the vacuum of space.

It’s just another crappy mobile game. Nothing of value was lost.

Netflix also offers shitty mobile games now, too.

This is the shitty mobile port of GTA.

Yes