I don’t know if there’s a combination of words that has less content, or destroys any hope left for the game more thoroughly than what they chose. Never could I have imagined that one sentence would manage to bottom out both categories at once. Give my compliments to the chef MBA!

FTL is amazing, especially with the multiverse mod. Basically a fan-made DLC, maybe even a 1.5-quel.

Are you a Sony shareholder, or a small child? I clearly formulated my criticism: Steam offers me something (downloading of patches, Linux compatibility etc.), while PSN only offers incompatability. They deliberately make their games harder to play than necessary without giving me anything in return.

Would you like to take your ridiculous straw man back and try again?

I know how patches used to work, I used to download them myself. But those were times with far smaller file sizes! Today patches can easily reach 20-100 GB. That’s not just expensive, it’s also not something companies want to provide for free for pirates. So patches would be locked behind an account no matter what.

That still leaves the criticism of Steam not being necessary as a running program, and it’s a valid criticism. But PSN doesn’t give me any advantage, while Steam at least increases convenience. PSN only has downsides for me. That’s why it’s not a comparable requirement.

I second this recommendation! Steam sometimes shows that the controller isn’t supported completely/at all, but I haven’t had issues - except one game (can’t remember which), but disabling Steam Input for that game fixed that too.

Darn, would have loved to be a part this time around, but got no consoles. Oh well, videos will have to suffice :)

And how does the developer verify that you actually bought the game before letting you download the patch? Through an account.

Sure, there were reasons to dislike Steam. That does not mean that PSN account requirements and Steam account requirements are comparable. Unless you can show me where I can use the PSN account to download updates for the games without requiring a Steam account?

The Steam Account is used to distribute updates etc. to the client. The PSN account has no such advantage, it doesn’t help me. How are they the same?

Would you want to play it (and support Bethesda) if it’s as bad as Starfield? If yes I won’t judge you, but if not it’s worth it to wait 1-2 weeks. If it’s bad and you still want to play, the seven seas might provide a solution…

Actually not a joke, I tried and legitimately couldn’t remember. I did remember Shattered Space (since that’s a pretty cool name), but not Starfield.

There’s 0 chance it will be better than their new game (successfully blocked out the title, sorry).

I’ll be interested to see what the writing is like. It was by far the weakest part in the first game - hopefully they use this opportunity to improve it.

It was amazing, aside from some aspects (like the final boss). Really happy with SotE being the cherry on top of the amazing cake that’s Elden Ring!

It’s a very unclear signal as there’s a bunch of other possibilities too. Maybe I already have a similar game I prefer, maybe I don’t like the genre, …

I’ve been playing Parkitect over the last months, it’s pretty fun! Usually I don’t stick with Tycoon games for long, but I did >10 campaign levels there.

Only bummer is that the tooling around blueprints is pretty underdeveloped (can’t sort/tag them, very inflexible), and it gets tiring to recreate all the basic decorations around food courts etc.

Funnily enough this is the one way they could make me interested in these games again (haven’t played since Revelations). There’s a lack of games that focus on expressive and fun movement!

Yes, it’s the game with the jokers

You either didn’t get past the start screen, or you’re trolling.

• Sekiro has a single weapon, Elden Ring has hundreds
• Sekiro has death blows and the parrying mechanic, Elden Ring has staggering, dodging and blocking
• Sekiro has prosthetic tools you can upgrade and switch through, Elden Ring only has ashes of war
• Sekiro has lots of vertical movement through grappling and jumping, Elden Ring has no comparable mechanic

Elden Ring is an evolution of the Demon Souls formula, but already with large changes. Sekiro is completely different.

Meh, on average more than 1.5 years between games doesn’t qualify as yearly for me, especially if you’re counting DLC.

It’s also simply not “the same monotonous bullshit”. Each game has variations and improvements, sometimes leading to drastically different gameplay (compare Sekiro and Elden Ring). Otherwise, why not also count Armored Core?

Now they are releasing an experimental spin-off that again drastically changes a bunch of mechanics, but that’s also somehow not good enough? Seems like you just don’t like their games, irrespective of how much they evolve from the Dark Souls formula.

Souls games are nowhere near “yearly”, and there’s been massive changes throughout the games. How do you get anything close to “yearly FIFA slop” from that?!

Nice, hope you enjoy & have fun!

In what way do they expect you to do that? I’ve been happily playing on Linux.

Do you just want games to no longer release on consoles? Or what is your complaint?

“Mile wide and inch deep” is a great way to put it.

I’m playing through the game right now, and there’s a bunch of small annoyances (like getting stuck on invisible terrain while walking/driving), but I can overlook those. But so many things are lifeless beyond the basic game mechanics.

As an example, I just bought an expensive apartment. I didn’t expect a crazy cutscene or anything, but at least the person I bought it from should have shown some kind of reaction, maybe a short dialogue. But no, nothing. I pressed the button, money was subtracted, and I can enter the elevator. The person I bought it from didn’t even look up.

Compare that to something like Baldurs Gate 3, where even small unlikely interactions have surprising amounts of interactivity. The game oozes life out of every pore.

It’s depressing that this is the final state after so many updates.

Talk about missing the forest for the trees. No, that would not have been a better move. Just put in some actual effort.

Man, God of War Ragnarok was a fun game. Too bad they didn’t want me to pay for it.

How have I never heard of “gayety”

Well, more like “left wing groups being destroyed by greedy capitalists”

YOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Looks great, I can’t wait!

Also, the man doesn’t know how to do effective allegories.

“Look, the robots all have to stand in the back of the bus and are treated badly! Really makes you think, hm?”

So you’re saying we just have to add a “horse farm” minigame that has to be played every time the units are used?

If I understand correctly, the PSN overlay is the main issue for Linux players. This is already shitty. But they are explicitly excluding part of their potential customer base because they expect the payoff from forcing the accounts to be bigger than that loss. That should make you worry what your data will be used for, because simple upselling hasn’t worked for other attempts at forcing additional logins - why should it work for Sony?

Why? The devs can just go with another publisher. Or does Annapurna own the IP?

III. if you spend money on a Ubisoft game, you get what you fucking deserve.

Jack-Off Box

There’s always the option to buy a cheaper game in the genre first, or to wait for a sale. You don’t have to start with the newest biggest title.

I don’t think that there’s a realistic way to measure a fair amount of progression in every game, and it could be hard as a consumer to keep track of the limit. It could work if the minimum limit is 2 hours, and a maximum can be set by devs/publishers, but it seems unlikely many would go for that…

Apparently most of those are alpha/beta versions, only 14 out of 40 are actually new

When will you get out of prison?

No human has perfect consistency, and it’s always an option to manually review data if it’s questionable.

What good is client-side scanning, when you can just run the aimbot outside the client and send the inputs directly through hardware?

Primarily by not sending non-visible information and by detecting unrealistic/impossible motion. If the aimbot has to limit itself to what humans can do, it doesn’t really matter anymore.

That’s not fair. You didn’t mention at least 5 different women with bare feet!