Microsoft probably were thinking “He’s just making another Daikatana, anyway.”

and as far as I’m aware, I would probably be unable to buy a PC or console ever again.

I don’t have any suggestions but I am so, so sorry and I really hope things turn around for you for the better.

But seriously this is tragic as hell for all the people losing their jobs and seeing all the work they did on the game go up in a puff of smoke.

You look like you could use some… Surgery…

Steam just needs to move to x64 and work on some way to port/emulate 32-bit for older games.

Honestly this is on Valve imho, moreso than Redhat or Ubuntu or any distro providers.

32-bit is dead and it’s somewhat absurd that Steam is still 32-bit.

I just checked, and while I usually shit on Epic game launcher, theirs is 64-bit by default, they don’t even offer a 32-bit version of the store. This is squarely on Valve.

Music: Flower Face - Girl Prometheus, FIDLAR - Surviving the Dream, Glaive - May It Never Falter, Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us, Alfie Jukes - All Dressed Up For Nothing

TV: Murderbot, Common Side Effects, Creature Commandos, Dan Da Dan, Fallout, Sunny, The Rehearsal (second season)

Games: Blue Prince, To a T, STALKER 2, Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, Balatro, Stolen Realm, Deliver at all Costs, Cleared Hot (only demo is out so far no firm release date just 2025), Ratatan (similarly only demo is out, releases in July)

are the same people talking shit about how all media is dull and lifeless now.

You can literally go look at my post history and see that this is not true.

I can name multiple good albums that came out in the past year, multiple good games that came out in the last year, and multiple good shows that came out in the last year.

Hate to break it to you, Kojima: your career is where it is at becsuse your games are explicitly mainstream. Wow I knew he had his head up his own ass but I didn’t realize how far up there it was really lodged.

Insult Sword Fighting taken to a new level.

I’m gonna love/hate this game just like the original.

The story in 1 was also weak. When you’ve got shit like Disco Elysium out there, the pandering “ooh capitalism is big bad” while also not giving it a serious critique falls pretty flat.

The trailer for 2 even jokes about how its “by capitalism.”

They lost their main VA because he’s a creep. I wonder if they’re gonna hire the same guys Adult Swim hired to replace Roiland on Rick and Morty. The obviously had to emphasize something other than the voice acting, so they went with the skateboarding mechanic.

Justin Roiland hasn’t been with Squanch Games since the abuse allegations and lawsuit regarding his sexual harassment of an employee. Roiland was not named specifically in the suit, but the suit was settled out of court and Roiland left Squanch at the same time, so we can all put 2 and 2 together and make “Roiland is a disgusting freak.”

He wasn’t even in the DLC from the first game, High on Knife.

So yeah, no worries on that front.

That might be more suited to me, I feel wrecked by Ratatan already because it wants me to keep up a beat and control my herald for my Ratatans outside of the beat. That might be more than I can handle haha.

Absolutely. Fucking. Hyped.

Patapon was one of my favorite PSP games. Always wanted it outside of the PSP. Ratatan looks amazing!

Shades of the Neverhood.

Boom. Chrome installed. However, why can’t it be in the App Center where it would be available with only one click?

Hey check it out, this guy doesn’t understand that closed source apps aren’t distributed this way! Chromium and Firefox are available, ya dingus!

Control my phone from the desktop – this appears to be doable in KDE desktop but not easily in Gnome desktop environment

scrcpy, man this guy needs someone walking him through better solutions. He’s even trying to use Notepad++ instead of things like Kate.

Hardware support is the Achilles Heel of Linux

Only if you have fancy shit, it seems like. I am a low-end end nerd and I rarely have hardware issues.

Anyway, yeah, people need help from the community first time around or they’re gonna be figuring out what works by piecemeal instead of having quality suggestions.

Glad to see some love for Shenmue

Props for DE being at the top of your list.

Yeah for a third person isometric RPG with non-linear branching storylines and deep thoughtful story, Disco Elysium positively blows BG3 out of the water.

If I recall correctly it’s related to licensing issues with the person who composed the original music in Sonic 3. Some people see it as evidence of the rumor that Michael Jackson was involved in the Sonic 3 music development.

To be clear, the early 2D series of Sonic was relatively story-light, the detailed stories and characters didn’t really arrive until Sonic Adventure. Some of these you will need emulators on your PC to play. Make sure you have a good gamepad, either an Xbox controller or PS4/PS5 controller or a knockoff in the same style are ideal.

Best 2D Sonic (light on story, heavy on gameplay): Sonic the Hedgehog 2

Close 2nd 2D Sonic: Sonic 3 + Sonic & Knuckles

Best 3D Sonic (heavy on story and gameplay): Sonic Adventure

Close 2nd 3D Sonic: Sonic Adventure 2

3D “Sonic” with a cult following: Shadow the Hedgehog

Honorable Mention because it’s so fun in terms of gameplay and story: Sonic Generations and/or Shadow Generations

It actually is directly tied to the movies. The character who first gives Furiosa a chassis to build from isn’t quite as hunchbacked as in the game but he is credited as “Chumbucket!”

For a moment I thought you were talking about the Newsmax host and I was very offended and confused, but it looks like there is another, lesser known Chris Plante in gaming journalism.

Holy shit somehow no one has mentioned:

Nier Automata

It counts as a masterpiece because of how well it blends game design, gameplay and story. I have played very few games as thoughtful, or that weaved the gameplay together into the story it was telling in such a meaningful way. I never thought once in my life that I would think philosophically about bullet hell but somehow Nier Automata has something profound to say and even manages to say it using bullet hell as a gameplay mechanic.

On top of all this, it also has a lot to say about classical philosophers, their works, and honestly deeply subverts things they had to say. It asks tough questions about their thoughts and ideas, once again, through gameplay. Numerous characters are named for classical philosophers: Pascal, Jean-Paul, Simone, Engels, Immanuel… (Yoko Taro obviously has feelings about how Jean-Paul Sartre treated Simone de Beauvoir.)

Further, Yoko Taro is doing something that a lot of game developers fail to manage to do: He is embracing gaming as a storytelling medium and eschewing the traditional three-act arc from film. Because gaming is not film. As Marshall McLuhan posited, “the medium is the message” and unlike other developers Taro’s writing is aimed at the medium he is working in instead of leaning on the ropes and tropes of other mediums. (Referring back to above, tying the gameplay into the story, focusing on the medium)

It’s basically impossible to not break down into tears at the ending.

Don’t write it off because of the scantily clad anime women. Stay for the depth of the human condition. It is truly a masterwork in multiple respects.

Rey being too good at everything from the get-go with absolutely no character development to support that

I don’t know where you seem to feel like this was just a lukewarm response to that. Male fans were absolutely unhinged with hatred over this point.

The Wikipedia entry for Force Awakens literally has a portion dedicated to fan backlash, which also included backlash against Boyega with bullshit crybaby screams of “white genocide” and “cultural marxism.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Force_Awakens#Fan_backlash

It’s weird, Breen is so… forgettable to me.

To be fair, they both look like high school principals.

To be fair to Star Wars, the suits at Disney changed tactics because of negative fan reaction to the first sequel so we don’t actually know how good they could have turned out if we had just let the creatives in charge finish their vision that started in 7. 8 and 9 were weird specifically because Disney suits were afraid of pissing off fans and changed direction twice instead of committing to the original vision. Fans complained about the prequels as well but Lucas committed to his vision and now so many years later the prequels are viewed far more favorably.

Is the G-man the main villain? I thought it was always a little unclear. In HL it’s the Nialinth snd and HL2 it’s the Combine. G-man seems like he’s not clear on what side he is on, and it always felt that vagueness was intentional.

Remember when people lost their shit over an Xbox console being all digital distribution and no ability to sell used games like 10 years ago maybe?

https://kotaku.com/that-xbox-one-reveal-sure-was-a-disaster-huh-509192266

Nintendo fans are fucking masochists.

No and they don’t plan to federate it. Not on their roadmap.

Further Matrix is guided by the Matrix Foundation, a non-profit group.

But I mean sure let’s just dump one for-profit app for another as if it won’t follow the same path.

World-leading research is taking place into this field at King’s College London, where scientists have explored lab-grown teeth for more than a decade.

Yep, I first read about this more than a decade ago so that tracks. Probably a decade or three more before it’s really viable as a solution.

Commander Shepard tried for both Liara and Ashley at the same time.

Ms. Huang knows whats up.

Also Starcraft: Ghost

14 isn’t old, it’s not even legal age to buy cigarettes.

I don’t play CounterStrike or Team Fortress 2 because I’m not a god damned masochist.

In the end, I’m technically already boycotting them.

Quite possibly because it shared a lot of DNA with Halo which they don’t own anymore.