PhobosAnomaly
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Eurogamer as a website is just stuck in a tailspin now. I used to really like the site but now it’s in resale hell - thrown like a rugby ball to conglomerate after conglomerate where the only noticeable difference is more adverts on screen, and more pieces based on Twitter posts masquerading as journalism.
Thankfully, spinoffs like as Digital Foundry are still doing very very well and largely immune to whatever the fuck is going on at EG.
I don’t even know where to look for decent gaming news now if I’m honest.
Game Pass is cool and all, but the rebrands and weird omissions make it a bit of a shambles.
I still have an Xbox One, but I’ve got a chonky internet connection (at least for my area) and Cloud Gaming is a fantastic bit of kit. I was tempted to buy a cheap one-month Game Pass code and play this Black Ops 6 campaign and another game or two… but this isn’t on the Cloud Gaming service.
It’s shit like this that makes the high seas a far more attractive option. I know not every game is Cloud Gaming enabled, but one would expect that certainly all the Game Pass titles would be included.
Oh well, I just won’t play it I suppose, I’m sure I’ll find something else to do with those five or six hours!
I bought a second generation of Rift (no idea what model it was, but it was the second retail one, not including the CV1 or whatever dev build it was) - and it was fantastic. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
The moment they forced the use of a Facebook account, it stopped getting used. The visor, controllers, and sensors have been sat in a cupboard for a year or two.
I really should see if it has been jailbroken, or if there’s a way to utilise the Rift features without any Meta bollocks.
Patience is the key - I hate Denuvo, you (probably) hate Denuvo, and most devs hate Denuvo… once the magic first week or two are done, the new trend seems to be devs patching out Denuvo once their release sales have peaked so fingers crossed this will continue.
A cheaper, patched, DRM-less game a few months behind release. Winner.
or , none of the cities were equipped, trained, or willing to deal with the additional security risks or associated public order issues that it causes - so rather than cancel the game, it got moved to a neutral venue?
I’ve heard some stupid shit in my time, but moving an international game that benefits Israel by removing the home advantage and then calling it “anti-Semitic” is pretty entertaining.
I dunno man. I quite enjoy watching documentaries on how the bangbang sticks go bang, and how engineers overcame technical challenges.
I’m not a huge fan of Gravy Seals videos of people doing weird cover to cover movement and blatting off rounds at targets, but each to their own.
I guess I think there’s bigger problems faced by YouTube and this should be pretty far down the list.
I’m on the same page as you, I’m quite worried for it though.
I’ve been looking forward to it for years - I didn’t even know there was a demo, there’s been nothing in the way if hype being built for the game, and when the release date trailer came out I was caught well off guard - I thought it would be a longer run-up to launch.
I hope this low-key launch doesn’t hurt sales and fuck the developers over.
I’ve been following this for years and I’m super stoked that it has a date… and it’s within a month!
Annoyingly it clashes with my end-of-year studies, but maybe I’ll leave it for a few weeks. I picked up South of the Circle on day one and it had some bugs and glitches that took the shine off the experience, even though that was brilliant too.
Harold Halibut and Still Wakes The Deep are top of my summer list this year.
I can’t remember the last time a review embargo was placed on a game, or when major outlets didn’t get review code - and the game turned out to be okay.
It’s a tale as old as time, and particularly egregious this time round with the late-notice addition of Denuvo.
I mean, die hard fans won’t mind either way and good on them, I hope they enjoy it - but for others who pre-ordered the game, I suppose you’re only getting what you deserve.
Not sure what brings back more nostalgia in that picture to be honest. The feeling of the vastness of a game that had no right to feel so big given it’s constraints, or the GLC’s lyric “I made love to a BBC Micro”.
Right then, c’mon Wales, let’s go to Germa…
…actually, maybe let’s not bother!
I’ve been subbed to Jobst for years. I really like his speedrun content - particularly his Goldeneye stuff as he’s both an engaging storyteller, and supports it with his own top-tier experience of running the game.
It rubs off on his other gaming content too - his evaluations of the speedrunning scenes for various different games is pretty polished and easy watching for the layman.
His coverage of the Billy Mitchell and Todd Rodgers lawsuits are not my kind of thing - I absolutely get why he’s doing it because both of them have tried to do his legs and he’s firing back, and his coverage does seem to be fairly balanced given the legal threats that have been repeatedly thrown his way. It does feel like a playground argument that has gotten far too serious, but hey - it’s an interesting story and it’s a unique insight from someone who’s a defendant in this case.
The whole Completionist thing does seem to be a mountain out of a molehill though, it’s a bit of a strange thing to put someone on blast for even though it absolutely should be called out and remedied by people with experience with these sorts of financial shenanigans. It doesn’t help that the charity’s spokesperson (was it his brother? I forget now) tried to handwave it away gave the case a proper Streisand effect, but the way Jobst has approached it feels like he’s just uncovered who actually shot JFK, rather than some bollocks accounting practices and misleading public in a charity event.
I’m a fan of investigative journalism, the whole Panama Papers and WikiLeaks Câbles have exposed people and factions for doing shady shit, and sent a message to the world that this is absolutely disgraceful. This does seem like small fry, and I’m not sure why Jobst himself is taking up the cause.
Yeah, it’s probably more British slang more than anything. To “bang in” or “knock in” or “pan in” or “put in” a quantity of anything is generally used to describe a tedious or repetitive task.
One could “knock in a good few hours of revision” or “bang in half hour on the treadmill” or “put in a shitload of effort” or other such terms.
In this case, my lad plays Pokémon Go, but I’ll cover distance goals to accelerate progress a bit.
It’s doable. It’s just a different game. You get to know usernames who take or join gyms, you can recognise people on the rare occasion you party up for a raid.
A friend of mine GPS spoofs the game and it’s a completely different game though. I’m having to use external tools to remote raid for cool mons as an organised party, but they just tip up to any major city centre raid location and do whatever they need to do whenever they want. That said, gyms turn over within minutes, so getting free coins is a pain in the ass whereas a lot of rural folk repsect the 8hr rule to maximise coins.
If I’m honest, I’m just a guy who let his youngster sign up for an account, so that my boy could play the game while I banged in the buddy miles daily when out running, but I’ve quite enjoyed it too being out in the sticks.
I have (and still do) use EG for most of my news, but that has taken a slide in quality over the years. In general, they’re not receptive to developmental feedback either - though I’m not prepared to leave the blame at the editorial or mod staff door on that one when you’ve got a company like ReedPop coming in with a clear agenda to make more money, and leaving so soon.
My main concern is for DigitalFoundry - genuinely one of the best, most entertaining, and in-depth spin off channels out there.
I had the Titan. I wanted to keep a QWERTY phone after BlackBerry pulled out of the hardware market. It’s the opposite of the small form factor that you’re after, though I understand the Titan Pocket goes some way to addressing this.
It was… functional. The keyboard was good, and certainly robust. The battery lasted a day and a half of fair to heavy use, and it was sturdy enough to shrug off most bumps and grinds with the Unihertz gel case. It was also super affordable, even at it’s peak of interest.
Unfortunately, the camera was utter shit (even with decent third party apps like Opencamera), and a design quirk with the fingerprint sensor mounted on the home button meant that it was the on the most raised surface of the front of the phone, meaning that it took the brunt of scuffs or scrapes, so the sensor became less effective. Some of the included apps were a bit janky but certainly workable, and even though the screen was super pretty the aspect ratio did funky things with apps designed for standard portrait displays.
For the money, you can’t go wrong with Unihertz phones, just don’t expect them to be flagship quality, and be prepared to put up with some minor annoyances.
I enjoyed my 18 months with it overall. I jumped to the Samsung Galaxy Flip 3 when I ran out of QWERTY options.
I think it’s a little unfair - the guy is a fantastic - maybe even genius - problem-solver that just happened to be thrust into the limelight with little to no media or PR training, just making comments that perhaps don’t age well while letting his software do most of the talking.
Sure, he joined Meta - but quit some years later with a quite incendiary resignation letter ( https://www.nme.com/news/gaming-news/doom-veteran-john-carmack-leaves-meta-with-fiery-exit-letter-give-a-damn-3368893 ). That said, he’s still no stranger to controversy it seems ( https://www.eurogamer.net/john-carmack-responds-to-convention-attendance-criticism ).
I think despite the gaming media wanting to keep a shitstorm between them to drive clicks, Carmack has said on a few occasions (the last one from memory: https://youtu.be/_D5cwq4HVXc ) that a few choice words were said between them back at id, but both of them regret it in hindsight and that they’re both hugely respectful of each others talents nowadays.
I’m not saying they’re best pals but I think they’ve both grown up and gone their seperate ways and appreciate the work that the other has achieved.
32-bit FIFA 98, best FIFA.
I never did beat Lode Runner on my Atari 800. What an absolute banger of a game though. Speaking of which, I remember playing Encounter on the Atari 800 and Mercenary III on the Atari ST, and realising “this is the direction of video games”. Incredible stuff.