How much for the employee that did the stapling?

“Oops. The healthy salad got corrupted. Guess it’s just steak. 🤷‍♂️”

I think if I was irresponsible with my money, I’d be paying for games and pirating food instead of the other way around. 🤷‍♂️

Just lemme buy it with the money enemies drop when I kill them. 😬

Hm… Maybe that’s what I am thinking of. I know for sure that Smite is the reason Tribes: Ascend was left for dead, though, and that’s reason enough to hate it.

That said, it’s closer to Smite than it is a hero shooter.

I haven’t played Smite since it came out, but has it really changed that much that it’s no longer a hero shooter? 🤨 It was like Overwatch, 2 years before Overwatch came out.

I’ve been over the hero shooter fad for almost a decade. Where are the actually new ideas for the genre?

My first one was the first one, and what sets it (and 2) apart from 3 other than literally the entire game (1 and 2 were 2D isometric, dialogue and choice heavy, CRPGs with turn-based tactical combat) was as I said the general vibe.

It didn’t take itself too seriously and the humor was incredibly seated in pop culture references. Bethesda’s brand of humor is more muted and generic, and their writing is incredibly dry sometimes (the best writing they’ve ever seen is in Elder Scrolls 3).

4 has the same kind of silliness as the originals, the visuals also fit a lot better IMO. But the CRPG elements are almost entirely gone at this point, which is why I regard it as a fun shooter and not an RPG.

New Vegas, however, is still the GOAT among the 3D Fallout games. Not only does it have actual RPG elements that I expect from something calling itself an RPG, it has the exact same tone and vibe as the first two games mainly because it had Brian Fargo and one of the other original writers working on it.

They’re working on that, too. It went from preproduction to full development about 2 years ago. It is likely to be released next year, according to some sources that were also completely accurate about the Oblivion remake rumors.

I would argue that Fallout 3 is a good game, but it is not a good Fallout game. It is fun to play, and has all the other hallmarks of a good Bethesda game, but the vibe is wrong. It feels like something ripping off Fallout (because, it kinda is?) and misses the beats of the originals. It’s more than likely just cultural differences between the developers. Black Isle was Californian, Bethesda is somewhere on the East coast. And 4 managed to bring that OG vibe to the series, even if it absolutely fucking sucks as an RPG (great FPS tho).

That said, the Oblivion remake showed me that just updating the graphics but keeping the original jank was not a good thing. Fallout 3 now would not hold up the same way it did back in 2008.

I only know the OG cartoon and movies, myself. Shredder wasn’t even the true villain in the OG cartoon after a certain point; he became Krang’s bumbling henchman in like the second or 3rd season. Krang, being the literal brains of the operstion had plans and Shredder, well… Shredded them.

Ubisoft is the Shredder of game companies. Evil, but ultimately their plans would fall apart even without the Turtles intervening because they are just awful.

This is primarily why I don’t bother discussing game balance in live service games. They will never balance the game to have a level field between the items and characters. They will always balance the game to keep you playing and spending money on mtx.

Most players thinking of quitting a game, generally are losing often. The game will notice this, and then give you a win. It’s always been noticeable, but some games, like The Finals, are super egregious with it because it shows everyone’s MMR right off the bat and you will be able to tell if you will win or lose a match right as it starts when you see that your team is 5 times higher ranked than the other 2 teams, or vice versa.

She deserted because she was made to do some fucked up shit, and they don’t beat around the bush about this in the game.

Fuck developer choice! What about my choice as a consumer?

It stopped being just $1 and instantly became the worst thing ever. /s

Is bigot pronounced “bih-got” or “bih-go?” 🤔

They got 6, count them SIX, negative reviews in one day. Such review bombing, indeed.

Someone should go back and give Daikatana a redeption arc so we finally can be John Romero’s bitches.

The average vocal PC gamer also tends to have the top of the line components, so I just tend to think it’s not the gaming part that makes them entitled little assholes; it’s being rich.

I’m calling it now: Thor is going to eventually say that this was his plan all along.

From Crosspoint I heard that they even cancelled and shut down the studio making a game (forget the name off the top of my head) that Phil Spencer himself was said to have liked so much, they had to force him to quit playing their demo in a meeting about it. Not to mention the absolute waste of time and money on nearly finished projects that were probably going to sell well.

Can I be a big time Twitch celebrity too if I doodle a series of completely nondescriptive boxes and link them with little lines in MS Paint as I talk?

Definitely. Especially if you have large breasts.

I hate having to hear his obnoxious voice because my sister watches him all the fuckin’ time.

People 'bout to go into debt over stupid fake bullshit and not just stupid real shit.

Wow really? They said it would in one of the longer trailers for the game.

It has always had single player you just get NPC team mates instead of human players. It’s not even always online.

They would be especially terrifying if you saw one following you while hiking up a mountain trail.

At least there aren’t walking nuclear battle tanks capable of launching undetectable nuclear strikes from any point on the globe.

Idk if Kojima truly made MGS with no politics in mind. He kinda predicted a lot of reality of the past few years with 2 and 4.

It, like most games of the era, followed the rule of cool. As such, it references a ton of similarly themed media. A lot of which was cyberpunk, conspiracy theories, and general sci-fi. All the unique ideas in the game are really just in the game part. The story and all that is almost all entirely lifted from other sources. So it makes sense to me that they didn’t project their own message into the game. It doesn’t say anything the media that inspired it hadn’t already said.

Presumably it requires the Steam Overlay, which does have a slight impact on performance (and stability). Though, unless something is really wrong, you’re not going to notice the incredibly small loss of 1fps.

I wonder if this will let me see if framegen is being used in games that don’t have an explicit option to turn it on or off… 🤔

If that’s your takeaway, I suggest seeking some classes in reading comprehension.

I don’t need to step in every pile of shit I see to know it’s shit. Seeing it and smelling it is enough to know I don’t want to touch or taste it.

So you’ve played every single game ever made, huh? 🙄

One does not need to play every single piece of shovelware to be able to identify shovelware.

I understand just fine. The only good mobile games aren’t mobile games. They are ports of normal games for mobile devices. Which is a super incredibly small number of games.

And latching onto Gatcha games as a good thing for kids? Might as well get them cigarettes and alcohol too if you wanna get them addicted earlier.

I still remember the time I went to best buy looking for a PS/2 to USB adapter and told the greeter what I was looking for; he took me over to the video game accessories. 🤦‍♂️

I find it kinda funny that the devs of Anarchy Online didn’t think about kiting as a strategy in 2025.

Even if they made collisions/blocking not possible, you could still lure hostile mobs on another player as has been tradition in many games that have no PvP at all since the days of MUDs and MUSHes.