I wanted to like it. I really wanted it to resolve all of my issues with botw and allow me to forgive the unresolvable ones.

I put hours in and all I get is the feeling of putting 80 bucks in a single pull on slot machine that takes several days or weeks to show that I lost it all, but I watched a couple of cool video clips while it was spinning.

if it wasn’t clear, the cool video clips represent the parts of the game that I liked.

It was utterly inexcusable when it came out as in at the time of its release, as well as when it came out as in the year they released a game not up to modern standards. Ignoring that modern standards have been declining…

Anyway one of my friends gave me shit for saying that so I’ll try to find time to see what it’s like now. What blows my mind is ‘update’ or ‘patch’ in the same sentence as a bethesda title without ‘unofficial community’ and/or ‘mod’ but apparently they even patched out out of bounds shop inventories you can just take. I would have expected paid mods and an anniversary edition that is a new full priced release but not that. I hope they reduced the amount of loading too.

It was amazing yes. It had a few cutscenes that were excellent and anyone with any investment in the series would get pumped. Mechanics feel nearly perfect and not many games come close. And a number of other things, I’m sure you know them all.

But I will still never forgive Nintendo. They hate plot so much that continuity is nearly outright forbidden. I almost felt actual pain from the visual world building cues that were not only not expanded upon but many outright deleted. I want to play a game again and find new things I never noticed before, not find more things that were erased without any explanation or hint as to why. Don’t just leave me hanging with not only generic NPCs with low effort models forgetting me, but the guy that built my house after bringing him a literal entire forest too? It could have been a plot element or have a hint that it was time travel related and it would have been cool, but I cant help but feel like Nintendo is just building in a fuck you to the people that like analysing the lore or exploring the map looking for history clues.

Then the almost word for word duplicate cutscenes, the “oops all tutorial” trial chambers, being able to nearly effortlessly cheese everything with recall, the sheer volume of trials and koroks with largely disappointing returns on both, and I think even hestu forgets you now that I think about it, and the overall feel was just not quite there compared to botw.
Some things felt like they were made to accomodate people that hadn’t played BotW, but others seemed like they were made for people born before computers existed while ignoring that such a person couldn’t be expected to play a game more complicated than pong. Or trying to account for far too many incompatible edge cases and missing the mark on all of them. And inheriting the design mindset that led to the poor choices in the Oot and MM 3ds remakes.

Anyway I felt betrayed after BotW got my hopes up. Nintendo made my childhood then shat on it like my dad turned maga. I’m bitter and angry about it.

I bitch about live stream games? When? And “good” was simply using the same word as you in an attempt to maintain some semblance of continuity in discussion which was apparently meaningless since you seem incapable of that, since the me in your head apparently gets bonus dialogue lines nobody else gets to see

The words before the list gave me the impression that the list was not meant to be just live service free games but good ones. If it’s meant to be just a list of big releases then sure. Intent and tone don’t always convey well over the internet.

I haven’t played all of those games but given the ones that I have, I’m reluctant to accept totk in that list, and offended by starfield

if it flopslike the previous one, but I’m not counting on it considering I didn’t like steam controller 1 but I absolutely love steam deck controls and have been wanting this controller to exist since I first used the deck

Damn. I needed this like 20 years ago

I like the idea that inside their skulls is just hair

nope. Pirate and if its good buy in preference order of direct then gog then steam.

oh yes please delete all the analogue gambling for children too. make it something everyone has to follow

maybe the woman is actually AI as well

This has puzzled me for a long time. I had the same phone from the introduction of the original swype to it becoming inexplicably worse, to gboard being functionally better if you can ignore it probably spying on you via goog services even with internet permission removed, to that also becoming mysteriously worse, and all the other attempts at implementing it coming and going while never reaching the level of swype or gboard at their peaks.
I considered maybe my old phone had a deteriorated touch panel but three phones later and it’s still never been as good. I’ve been wondering if the tired scenario occurred of some common code like an unattributed foss library that had an update that broke the original functionality of multiple swipe keyboards and none of the keyboard devs ever noticed.

that should absolutely be regulated globally and it better damn well include roblox and literally every gacha and shooter game too. Parents should really be doing the wallet voting and politician mailing there but I’ve seen dads quiet their kids by letting them roll gacha on the phone while waiting to pay for food and when I told my friends about the pedos on roblox situation they told me off saying I don’t know what its like to have kids… When the parents are happy to feed their children to the machine what the fuck can I do about it?

possible until someone shares how then all the items involved get scalped. most recent memory would be the build your own steam machine something something compute blade that was chump change but jacked up the moment it hit socials

literally just said I would reasses if he died OR things went that way

and literally every other company is aready doing their version of ‘that’ to their clients but yes lets attack the ones that haven’t yet then if they do I guess we can switch back to ignoring it like the rest of them

and the bulk of the users can enjoy being forced to upgrade to hardware with even more spying being the only difference just to run a shittier version of their old operating system rental cloud compute and game streaming. I’ll reassess when gabe dies or if they start firing off u.s. politics level red flags but worst case I have drm free/stripped copies of every game I might play again or recommend on offline hdd and tape.

If epic put money into bringing linux gaming decades ahead of where it was instead of hating on it I would have jumped ship even if they didn’t make linux supported hardware that lives on my recliner.

This is almost as sus as the the specific preferred age range terminology for pedophiles that comes up now and again in the most uncomfortable of scenarios

I have said this to every person that has gushed about the game to me, often more than once per person.

Tons of bugs. Rereleased on every platform. Zero fixes. Special editions fix nothing of note either.

I have this feeling that even if valve makes it work, rootkit anticheat devs will push updates that intentionally make it not work again. Probably with more claims like the majority of cheaters being linux users

is there an achievement for getting 5000000000 kills in multiplayer?

Gustave, don’t die! *bam bam bam slice whack… bangbangbang smash whiff, proceeds to die to giant mime Pinocchio

it’s a bit late in the game to be making idiotic claims but I guess the default state for corpos is being out of touch

hah get fucked nintendo

not ignore them, support, protect, and empower them

wasn’t going to buy it anyway

time limit is rarely enough for me. work is all over the place and can’t give me a reasonably regular schedule unless its just constantly busy

This is another reason why I pirate anything I’m not 100% sure about and buy it if I like it. I don’t want 299 shitty games still in my steam library

its my favourite spider-man/hulk type game. other titles like prototype and game I can’t remember the name of just felt like spider-man with non marvel characters but gravity rush actually felt like something new. I spent a good chunk of time rolling around in a ball on the floor using the vita motion controls. I also still have a ptsd reaction from the lava area music and how cursed of the lava area was.

and while gravity rush 2 had a kinda mediocre ending and the server shutdown prevented getting all the costumes, the end of the intro sequence blew me away.

honestly as much as I liked the recent god of war and spider-man games I’d sacrifice all of them and ff7 remakes for gravity rush on pc

England really wants to be a worse police state than the u.s. it seems

yeah. I’ve been wondering when this would happen since spore. Took longer than I expected really.

supposedly doesn’t work on windows either if you play valorant ar maybe other games with similar anticheats competing for the same system area no video game shoud have control over

if I was told my bonus isn’t coming I would immediately start slacking

I’m saying I would rather have the value of the switch as more cash tacked on to that bonus. even if I worked at a game studio it doesnt mean I want to have a console without its overpriced games.

but since I’m pissing off nintendo slave-fanboys anyway, I suppose if it was received close enough to the release date of the switch2 and if I was fast I could potentially scalp it for more than the original cash value

I’d rather have a bigger bonus than a switch 2 but I guess it’s better than layoffs

they also have child labour exploitation and gambling that is mostly the direct fault of those who operate roblox and not just an “accused of allowing” situation. I’d like to see them punished for all of their bullshit, though if these lawsuits go anywhere I’ll still consider it a win.

back in the day they did but not really any more