Honestly, can’t remember the last time I queued. That said, maybe it’s a regional problem.

if Ryujinx wanted to avoid this outcome, they should have done things differently

How do you not read this as blame? Or, is this not the same as “they had it coming, wouldn’t have happened if they’d been dressed in armour or hadn’t gone down that street alone” which is often known as victim blaming.

Oh, there’s a wiki article on that. It has a section on the thing you’re arguing about, with cars and pedestrians Neat. Maybe this is why people are talking about it.

Based on that, then, do you think that the folk complaining about wokeness are always the vocal minority and the reason you see it far more in unpopular games is that there’s not a higher ratio of positive reviews to hide the assholes?

February 28th, 2025

100% agree, other than the ratio of countries that can legitimately create a PSN account (and/or buy the game).

Otherwise, seems just like the Games For Windows live stuff that people didn’t love but certainly didn’t care this much about.

E.g. Fallout 3, pre-goty.

Though this seems like a reasonably healthy take, it’s another thing that makes me think I don’t need to wonder about going back for The Final Shape.

When the founders all left, and/or Eurogamer acquired it (related) and started pushing the same videos/rubbish guides designed for SEO optimization rather than interesting articles written with passion.

Well, okay - here’s my reasoning:

I have a PC and a PS5.

If the game is on PC, I would prefer to play it there. It is a competitor, in my household (I’d argue elsewhere, too, but I guess that’s an opinion). It is a very useful distinction for me.

There are few games I can only get on my PS5, but that low number does sometimes make me ask why I have a PS5. It is useful to distinguish between the games I can only play on PS5, and those I could instead play on PC, for that reason.

I hugely prefer this world in which Sony releases for my preferred platform, but that doesn’t mean it’s sensible to say that PC isn’t a competitor to consoles and bury your head in the sand because it “devalue[s] pro-consumer behaviour”.

Like what?

Forgive me if this comes across bluntly but, having seen roughly no details on price or actual performance of the still unannounced PS5 Pro, are you pulling the 3-4x cost comparison out of the ether?

If the expectation is that it will increase performance by frame generation, and that’s accepted (e.g. non native resolution performance), then I’d argue you could get away with a very reasonable build and upscale to 4k for a similar imaginary price point - but without any released details (or third party reviews/benchmarks), that’s hard to say seriously.

Online mode seems closer to the worst, with a screen to kick you back to the main menu.

Once back at the main menu, due to the way all travel resets areas, you’re likely to have lost progress since the last gate. You’ll retain items and XP, but lose map reveal and have to run through the areas again.

Thanks! Some fun bits!

What sort of control tuning have you done?

From what I’ve seen, he seems pretty alright. May be wrong.

I’ll be honest, I’ve not watched the video - but the thumbnail alone is either clickbait or misrepresenting the game.

Maybe they should focus on nice things like player-run dedicated servers, or being able to play the game with a larger group than four people…

The developer Bohemia Interactive found it crucial to promote the idea of player creation, something that was true for most of the golden era of early PC gaming.

I can’t agree more - so many high profile games and trends came from the ability for players to mod and map for things, going back to CS and further.

That games with subscriptions etc are so much more locked down these days (for sort of fair reasons, if you agree with that model for monetising games - and not, if not) is pretty sad, and means that folk who may otherwise organically start mucking about with the ideas behind game development much earlier than otherwise.

That said, stuff like unity is way more accessible than it used to be, but it’s a whole other can of worms for various reasons.

Looking back at community mapping competitions as late as TF2 (which didn’t require mindbending detail, just an art style), it’s sad that we’re missing that these days - partly due to the increased detail, but also the ability to host your own server, mess with modding it, add new maps… And all in the name of (pessimistically) greater recurring revenue for shareholders.

To sum it all up, “:(”.

I’ll be honest - I feel however a game is, you will find someone who is happy to play it for literally hundreds of hours. I’m happy you enjoyed it (as I’m sure at least a few others did), but honestly think that on average people haven’t. I may well be wrong! I’m mostly basing this off the reactions my friend groups have had to it, after a few weeks.

So that is literally the last time, assuming no bugs, you would encounter it?

… Yeah, that is pretty much what I figured. 😑

I just cannot figure out how downloading and installing a mod is somehow less engagement with this clearly dangerous pronoun selection compared to, I assume, not moving the menu from the default, creating your character, and getting on with the game?

Does the pronoun selector come back to haunt you during later exploration? Is it the final boss?

As an aside, I’m genuinely a bit worried about what terrible hellscape a site named “basedmods” which is only available on some kind of onion-or-web3 routing must be. (Jokingly, as I clearly can’t resist knowing about it, does anyone have a Firefox add-on that will remove it from the websites I browse?)