Anyone buying into this vaporware a decade after the original announcement while it’s still nowhere near complete gets what’s coming.

Played it for a handful of hours, it’s unfortunately at it’s best when you’re rolling the enemy team or being rolled. Matches where the teams are even easily drag out into a 1+ hour slog. I did like the feature that integrates build guides into the ui.

A union wouldn’t actually help in this case since MS laid everyone off anyway. They only cared about keeping the IP and wouldn’t have really cared about striking workers. Antitrust laws are supposed to stop industry consolidation due to a large competitor buying a smaller one, but courts have been doing their best to make them unenforceable.

It’s so rare that a game that even needs a better card comes up it’d be hard to justify a new card even if prices were normal. I feel like I play maybe one game a year that makes me consider upgrading.

I really don’t understand all these articles either, I’ve been playing a lot of recent games and IMO this is one of the best years for gaming in nearly a decade. Tekken 8, Helldivers, animal well, and lethal company are all very recent games I’ve had a blast with this year. Maybe it feels bad because of consolidation under Sony and Microsoft, but I feel like nearly all the buyouts I’ve seen have been studios that were on life support creatively, if not monetarily. ActiBliz hadn’t released anything other than trendchasing crap and COD installments since overwatch, which went to shit long before OW2. The last good game Bethesda publiahed was prey and you’ve gotta go even further back for a good first party title.

It’s that + content drops being tied to in game story\metagame elements, and much better communication with the community than the previous game.

This is really only true if you don’t count dlss which mops the floor with fsr in terms of visual quality

The enshitification discourse on lemmy is fucking nuts. Service goes from you getting a gaming PC completely free, no strings attached except your play session is limited to hour, to the same thing but you see preroll ads while you queue. Any person with more than two braincells could tell it was meant to be a trial for the paid service, but of course people on here are gonna cry because they don’t get free toys anymore.

I think AAA studios are the main culprits here, I haven’t been playing more than one game a year that requires a recent setup for many years now, and most of my friends are in the same boat. Most people in that situation aren’t gonna buy a new GPU even if a mid range card was ~$400. Graphics haven’t been improving much even in AAA titles either since the MO of live service titles is to get as many people playing as possible.

Also since this works on cards that are already old, it lets you eek out a few more years out of a card you already own rather than being a shitty excuse to overcharge for a weak card.

It’s much better than Pokémon imo, but if you don’t like JRPGs at all you probably won’t enjoy it.

Now it’ll go to some private equity vampire who will really ruin it

Would love to see devolver or other small publishers put money behind this

Do people actually believe anything they do on company computers is private? I honestly assume that someone is at least skimming my work messages already

My girlfriend and I thought It Takes Two was excellent. We also enjoyed A Way Out

The dynamic colors are a fucking nightmare. No, I don’t want all my ui elements to be the same color as my girlfriend’s skin tone. And the worst is even if I change it, it resets every update. I also don’t like the new quick access controls in the pull down. This is really the first Android update that’s felt like a flat downgrade for me.

The lack of a battle pass is really great imo, whenever games include them it puts a bad taste in my mouth. It’s also really scratching the BF3/4 itch that’s been missing from the market since Dice took Battlefield in a less vehicle focused direction, and tossed any sort of thoughtful map design off a cliff.

I’ve found lately GPUs are the only thing that’s way out of line price wise. CPUs are as reasonable as ever, SSDs and RAM are cheaper than they’ve ever been. If you’re willing to go for a last gen GPU you can get a great deal on the used market. I don’t think the situation is nearly as dire as this time last year.

Been back on factorio lately, also doing a run through of terraria with my girlfriend