I heard that the game sucks you through your monitor and uploads you straight to the Ukranian front lines.

Russia, such a superpower that it’s scared of a video game.

Close enough I suppose.

Holy crap, someone who actually didn’t have it yet!

Nintendo has been cracking down on emulators this year.

I’m guessing it’s because the Switch 2 will be a “Gamecube to Wii” sort of upgrade. Gruntier CPU and GPU, minor hardware changes, but same basic system. So Nintendo has been cracking down on Switch emulators so there won’t be a zero day Switch 2 emulator.

Placing a bomb and then switching to a weapon no longer applies its enchantments to the bomb damage.

Huh, never knew about that one.

There’s also a pack containing every ship they’ve sold which you can only see/purchase if you’ve spent one thousand dollars in their ship store. I’ll spoiler the price so you can try and guess how much it is first:

Edit: I should include the source for that price since (as mentioned) you can’t even see the pack until you’ve dropped $1k

At least it’s not Star Citizen prices:

I didn’t even know we were at six. Of course, I’ve never really been interested in the CoD or Cod Blops series, so I supose that’s not too surprising.

Gee, we’ve had over a half century of computer graphics at this point. However, suddenly when a technology arises that requires obscene amount of GPU’s to generate a results a GPU manufacturer is here to tell us that all computer graphics without that new technology is dead for… reasons. I cannot see any see any connections between these points.

If you liked the SNES Megaman X games you’ll like 20XX.

Honestly his music wasn’t even all that great IMO. It was just kinda there, like the musical equivalent of wallpaper.

IMO improving graphics technology is a case of diminishing returns. Sure you can always make a better looking game by throwing more processing power at it, but that has (at best) a minor effect on things like gameplay and story. Like seriously, if Squenix had decided to make FF7: Rebirth in the PS3 era, other then some uglier graphics how much would the game have have been different?

And (to actually tie this in to the thread) that’s the reason PS5 sales have been so sluggish. What do you really need those PS5 graphics for? I mean my PC is still running hardware from 5-10 years ago, because there isn’t anything I really need to upgrade for. Most of what I’ve been playing is indy titles and for the few graphic intensive games I want to play they’ll usually run if I lower some graphics settings.

I still like Skyrim, it’s a great “Run around, steal stuff and stab people” simulator. But the Bethesda Fallouts have never really clicked with me. Three was okay-ish, NV was in the “good-ish once you get used to the jank” range and 4 felt like a grab bag of half finished ideas. Since 76 seems to to be mainly drawing from the FO4 well, I never bothered playing it.

To be as generous as possible maybe they’re going for a The Sims 4 approach; the base game is free, expansions cost money. I suspect though they’re going to go for a pay-to-play style game, there’ll be a ultra bare-bones base game and all meaningful content will be locked behind macro-transactions.

I rented Quest 64 back in the day but never beat or bought it. From that rental my impression was that it had some good ideas but need a lot more polish, add in the N64 price tag (especially since I could run burned CDs on my PlayStation at that point) and it was banished into the realm of “Maybe if I see it on sale”.

It’s like watching a child who stubbornly refuses to learn that touching a glowing stove coil is bad.

Kinda hard to categorize. I mean, child me would have lost their mind over most modern games, but back when I was a kid in the late 80’s having a game who’s gameplay was more complex than “shoot till you die” was revolutionary. As such I’m gonna rank my three picks taking into account to the era they released.

Adventure. Adventure was a goal oriented… well, adventure game. That doesn’t sound like much now but at the time it was amazing. You had to move multiple items one at a time while dodging dragons (or killing them if you had the right item) to complete the game. Add in a item stealing bat and a item randomizer mode and for the time it was a truly amazing game for the time.

Chrono Trigger. Chrono Trigger joins time traveling with the standard “saving the world” storyline, but somehow it’s more than the sum of it’s parts. IMO Chrono Trigger is the pinnacle of the SNES JRPG with the perfect mix of taking itself seriously and just being a fun RPG.

Binding of Issac. One of the early “Roguelike unlock-a-thon” games BoI has just the right mix of “I want to unlock a new item” and “How broken will this run get?” that keeps me coming back. Granted, I’m combining the original Binding of Issac with Rebirth through Afterbirth here, but there’s enough continuity for me to group them all together.

However, without an alternative to get a lot of these games, it feels very shitty.

Well… while there’s no legal way to get many of the 3DS games, there are still plenty of alternatives available.

I mean, to be fair both consoles are over a decade old. Still not happy about it.

I don’t think it’s even about that, they’re angry because the want to be angry. The why doesn’t matter, if the current right wing outrage du-jour had been… I dunno, left handed people rather than trans people, you’d see all the same people working themselves into a screaming tantrum if a game or movie had a left handed person in it.

Eh, a camera can be useful, on the 3DS it’s great for scanning a QR code rather then manually entering a url.

And really at this point why not throw a camera on the Switch 2? The parts for a cellphone camera is like what… a couple bucks?

transfer non-seasonal items to a seasonal character.

I haven’t been following Diablo 4, could somebody explain this bit? The article doesn’t explain why transferring items is so disruptive, or what seasonal and non-seasonal items are.

I’m honestly surprised that no other phone manufacture has gone the Xperia Play route and just made a gaming cellphone. I mean all these handheld emulation devices show that there’s a market for emulation on the go and everyone needs a cell phone now, so why has there only been one phone that combines them?

This headline is much funnier when your skimming headlines and misread it as “Google ordered to pay $339M for stealing the very idea of Christmas”

3 was kinda weird, I didn’t care for the pointer aiming and the NPC filled intro made the game feel kinda Halo-ish. Still a good game, but kinda the odd one out of the Prime trilogy.

Also surprised that you skipped the Wii, for all the shovelware there were a lot of very solid games on the console. You might still want to pick one up second hand for cheap. With some homebrewing you can load Wii and Gamecube images off a hard drive, and it’s got surprisingly solid emulators for the fourth and below console generations… of course even a budget PC could emulate all of that as well as WII and GC games now.

Hmm… given the current tech fad’s I’m gonna guess something AI related. Maybe AI generated NPCs or something.