Ah yes, I totally have the time to dedicate to each and every single one of these ‘endless’ experiences and an bottomless wallet chock full of cash whose only purpose is to be spent on cosmetic items that nobody but me will ever give two shits about.

Consider the average person’s intelligence. Then realize half (or so) are stupider than that.

From Faux News, no less.

I think is is, yeah.

I personally went from having to have everything on low or turned off to literally cranking everything all the way up and it’s still playable. Mind you, I’m running an eight year old quad-core Xeon, 64Gb of 2400mhz ECC DDR4, and a 2080ti. Game’s installed on a SATA SSD that isn’t exactly new.

And yes, I’m aware that’s an odd mishmash of parts. Most of it came from an old server my last job was throwing away.

Money!

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Nice.

…there are a lot of good Indie games on GamePass.

Right, but I meant a service in the traditional sense, like trains or food stamps or whatever. Windows is so ubiquitous with operating a PC at this point, and they’ve literally given it away for free for so long at this point that if they start charging a subscription for it nobody’s gonna go along with it. Microsoft’ll be in the same position they are now, but they’ll lose a lot of money implementing this BS.

This is what happens when one part of their business (Game Pass) does well and they want to translate that success to other operations. What they don’t realize is that Windows is less a product and more a service, and you can’t make money on services. Not for long, anyway.

…the link literally goes to CDPR’s website. Or would you rather they not post patch notes?

The game has a graphics preset for Steam Deck now, but I wouldn’t take that to mean much.

…role playing games - y’know, the ones where you play a character and a story happens around them - are older than video games and, in fact, are some of the oldest video games. Saying story doesn’t belong in games is a disservice to the medium of games, both video and tabletop.

So they’ll be owned by Microsoft before too long. Maybe we’ll get the 3+4 remake we deserve.

It’s weird - when I played at launch, I had precisely one bug that impacted my gameplay. Other than that, the game ran pretty smooth and was a joy to play.

Now mind you, I was playing on a PC with a Xeon, 64GB of RAM, and an RTX 2080ti. Nothing ram badly on that system three years ago. Nowadays the older CPU, slower RAM and admittedly older GPU without all the newest bells and whistles (DLSS Framegen I’m looking at you) can’t quite measure up to the latest titles.

Cyberpunk, at launch, was great. For me. Specifically for me. I loved it and still do. But this article hits a point for me that I’ve been struggling to find reason to write about without feeling like I’m ignoring people who primarily play on consoles or can’t afford a nice PC. Regardless…

Man it fuckin’ sucks how you can spend a huge amount of money on a new GPU and then four months later a new one comes out that blows it out of the water. New hardware is so much better and - because all the game devs are using that hardware to design their games both on and for - systems like mine that are still fairly new can’t run the latest games at high settings anymore.

It used to be that if you ponied up the money for a high-end rig, you could expect decent performance for years to come. But I guess blowing a grand on a GPU these days just means you’ll be doing it again in a year or something, instead of the decade or so before.

I’m not saying my PC is bad. Most of what I play runs excellently. But when I spend a grand on just a GPU I expect that GPU to run the newest games at high settings for a long time. Jedi Survivor, Starfield, both run like crap on my system. Never mind the 2TB NVMe drive everything’s installed on.

But I’m just bitching to bitch. Ignore me.

Sea of Stars had some really catchy tunes.

Guess how I’ve been playing Starfield on my Xbox One? I’ll give you a hint, it starts with a C and ends with Loud.

Meanwhile I haven’t bought a physical game in like, a decade.

It’s on GamePass as well, if that matters.

I dunno, I’ve met a few engineers that fancied themselves as being smarter than everyone else. Their ideas were the only ones that held merit due to their belief that they were ‘enlightened’, so to speak.

The vast majority I’ve met are normal, well-adjusted human beings that think the ‘smart’ ones are full of it. Specifically, they they can’t seem to see the forest for the trees.

You mistake their actions for more than they are. The people that make decisions there aren’t the same folks that started their streaming service in the first place. And even if they are, the only thing that matters now is the bottom line.

It’s not that they forgot, it’s that they don’t care. There’s money to be made.

Games with Gold only gave your permanent licenses for Xbox and Xbox 360 games. Xbox One games were limited to the console you claimed them on, I believe. Or they could only be played from your account. I know it wasn’t as ‘far reaching’ as the 360 games were.

For whatever reason I love the Deep Rock Galactic community. I very rarely play the game, but I always love me a good ROCK AND STONE!

Currently Farthest Frontier, the best Banished-alike I’ve played so far.

DAE think Cyberpunk is the worst thing ever?!?!?!

And there went all, if any, excitement I had for either game.

I think it’ll be just like every other release. If it’s not absolutely perfect people are gonna shit all over it, but the reality will be that it’s fine. There’s no such thing as a perfect game. Either play and enjoy it or don’t. It’ll be on GamePass day one, so your monetary investment in trying it doesn’t have to be $70. Hell, you can probably find a free trial somewhere to try it with. So who cares if it’s not perfect or not. I bet just like all of their other games it’ll be a load of fun.