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Any competition for Sony is a good thing, I hope it sells like hot cakes

I can’t get behind AI art. I can get behind it as a coding tool, I use it everyday at work as a developer and it’s a game changer, but AI art is where I have to draw the line.

Can’t have too many Henry’s

The game already does a pretty decent job of matching solos with solos, it’s pretty great. The strength of these features really relies on a strong player base, so time will tell if these hold up long term.

I’m loving it so far, I appreciate how chill everyone is, I’m way more into playing a sneaky scavenger than doing constant PvP, and I’ve only had a few instances where people shoot on sight

In some ways it’s the best Fallout, in some ways it’s the worst Fallout. I’m glad I played it but my core takeaway is just how unfinished a lot of it felt. It needs a true remaster, not a rerelease.

Maybe they’ll sell it again in a few years with some actual improvements

Heh. I have a core childhood memory around this game. There are some questionable lines in this game. My elementary school was fancy and had a really nice computer lab with lots of games, and when I was in grade 4 someone installed all the popular FMV games from the time, including this one. In one scene, a character is hitting on a girl and says “girl, I would drink your bath water.” Ten year old me was like “what?!” Stuck with me ever since.

To play devil’s advocate for a minute, if esports is ever to make the jump to legitimate mainstream spectator sport, this will be a natural evolution (think boxing, UFC, WWE, etc)… whether the right time for that evolution is now is another question entirely.

lol I love showing up late to these threads and seeing all the deleted comments, delicious

It’s very good.

What’s good for the companies isn’t what’s good for the gamers, I’ve been wholly disappointed with this gen for a lot of the reasons these companies are taking in record amounts of dough.

Nice, I’ve been waiting on this one. Played Demon’s Tilt on PlayStation so I’ve been holding off on playing this one on Steam

The whole “users are the beta testers” thing is so pervasive in this industry now that the developers are beta testing UE5 while shipping broken games for users to beta test the game to beta test the engine.

This is good news, I absolutely love this game, it’s one of my go to’s that’s always great when I come back to it.

Kinda shady ngl

I am loving it so far, the top tier world building elevates a relatively simple game to something I just can’t put down.

@zeppray57 gee, I wonder why that is?

I totally believe the speculation about PS5’s Fairgames getting cancelled.

Howard the Duck or we riot

I hope the 1-2 punch of DD2 and MH: Wilds wakes devs up that there is indeed a line in the sand when it comes to performance and optimization. That seems to be the corner to cut to keep operating costs down in order to compete in a market that also includes billion dollar behemoths like Fortnite, etc., but you can only take it so far in my opinion.

Is the stick just analog with a restrictor gate? Why does it look like that?

A lot of these companies are quite literally going to choose death over not having their own Fortnite, welcome to late stage capitalism bb’s! Those that don’t choose death, will be forced to cut as many corners as possible to produce the kind of fundamentals that investors crave. Welcome to the future of AAA. The last thing they care about is what the user wants.

Xbox posted a buuunch of jobs on LinkedIn within the last couple days. There’s a concerted effort happening in tech right now to devalue technical roles, bolstered by inflated AI numbers and dubious benchmarks. They know they still need these people, they just don’t want them making 6 figure salaries anymore. It’s insidious, it’s all just stock market manipulation, something Microsoft is very, very good at. I’ve worked for some of these companies and you can see the grift for what it is. Pretty sad, makes me want to be a farmer and never write a line of code ever again.

Oh man I need that Rey-u Mysterio on my shelf

It really depends on the game for me. If it’s a game I’ll play for 100’s of hours, sure.. that’s still an OK ROI for me. However, it being a green light to just charge that much for every release is a DAFT idea that I really hope blows up in their faces. I was thinking about grabbing the Switch 2 Mario Party release this week, but it’s 115$ CAD. That’s ridiculous. It’s a collection of mini games that might get cracked open here and there when friends are over, not a frigging chance in hell.

I can only imagine what they’re going to sell that thing for next gen when they don’t have any real competition

CEO is clown shoes after those statements and that stupid hat

Not everything needs to be a franchise

THPS 3 was an obsession of mine the year it came out, so I am super excited for this because of that. I have never actually played THPS 4, and this feels like a bad way to experience that game for the first time. I’m very conflicted by this, it feels like it should have been two separate releases if they were really that concerned about cohesion.

It’s funny because I didn’t hear about this movement until I saw that PirateSoftware drama about it. For something he wanted to actively work against, he sure brought a lot of eyeballs to it.

I’m convinced the second you put CEO next to your name, it rots a hole in your brain.

The industry is in roughhhhhhh shape right now. Burn it all down and rebuild, I say! Put the industry back in the hands of people who actually care about the hobby and know what the heck they’re doing. I saw something on PCGamer that EA has set a user target of like 100,000,000 people for Battlefield 6. These suits are too out of touch for this to continue.

I don’t think the C suite at Microsoft feels the same way about Phil Spencer as the rest of the gaming community does

“Microsoft: Spectacularly Failing Upwards Since Windows Vista”

But seriously the company’s never been more successful, their net income increased by 7.5 billion since 2023, the year they acquired Activision/Blizzard. It’s easy to point to that as the cause here but I think it’s a bit more nuanced than just that, although I’m sure it has a part to play.

So how does Microsoft deliver value to shareholders when so many of their products appear to be stinking hot garbage water? Operating efficiency. They have a 46% operating margin, which is incredibly “efficient” to an investor. It’s kind of their style, and this is how they achieve it, gutting their divisions, hands off project management, all the things we rail on about are actually intentional things to this company, even if they’re resulting in substandard products. The point isn’t to make good software, it’s to sell shares of their company and making sure those shares continue to go up.

At the end of the day, it sucks, and Microsoft hoovering up companies was terrible for those companies and their products, because now their products are being made (or not made) the Microsoft way.

David Dastmalchian is going to kill that part

I love a good arcade sports title but this doesn’t look great.

I made it a good chunk of the way towards the platinum in this game and had to give it up, it became super tedious. I love the game but I don’t love it THAT much, apparently.

I think this is the biggest problem in some of these live service games that fail, they feel like the concepts were designed by a bunch of suits who never played a game before in their lives. Meanwhile, when it’s a fresh idea by passionate people, like Helldivers 2, they’re a runaway success. Let creatives be creative.

People saying there’s no story to Elden Ring really surprised me. What game did y’all play? The story plays out in every inch of that game.

The game’s alright. I just don’t think that cuts it right now.

A wee bit of hidden inflation, stop rewarding people with discounts

I remember when prices of a console went down this far into their lifecycle. Crazy times!

Probably one of my favourite games of all time. Everything about it is perfect.

That’s a really solid lineup in my opinion. ARK has a lot to offer if you can push past the jank, probably one of the deepest games I’ve ever played. Balatro is a 10/10, full stop. Boltgun rips if you like boomer shooters.

get rich or die trying

The weird celebrity cameos cheapen the vibe, I don’t think there’s any coming back from that no matter how much money you throw at it

When are companies going to realize you’ll just need to let Fortnite have that space?

I never think to try this. Mouse and keyboard on PS5 without the PC cheaters is probably the best way to play some of these games.

I think I preferred the pixel art of the first one, but I’ll check this out. I still fire up One Strike with friends sometimes, it makes a great party game because it’s so stripped down.