Another commented said Fully Remappable Controls, but I want to foot stomp it. On PC games, I use EDSF instead of WASD, but if some controls can’t be remapped and they overlap with EDSF then I won’t play the game.

On console, I fucking hate that Elden Ring maps “crouch/sneak” to pushing down on the movement stick. I’m furiously fighting for my fucking life against a boss that attacks every 0.7 seconds. I’m moving that stick as fast as I can, which means I’m pushing hard on it. It sucks to be trying to run away from an attack but then start crouching and sneaking away from a 40ft tall axe coming down on you.

Fully remappable controls is my biggest wish. I hate WASD and swear by EDSF, but some games like Fallout 4 hardcode some controls. E is hardcoded to “interact” or “open door” or something, but the game DOES let you map “move forward” to E. So I can run around like normal, but every time I run past a door it auto opens to a zombie hiding behind it.

Ghosts of Yotei lets you pause during cut scenes. It doesn’t let you skip most cut scenes, though.

https://cordcuttersnews.com/playstation-5-shatters-sales-records-with-74-9-million-units-sold/

While it might not feel like anyone cares about consoles, they are still selling a lot of them.

To answer the question I think you are asking: No, I’ve never done any of the modern game competitions or leagues. I am not nearly good enough to compete against anyone who is remotely good enough to compete in gaming competitions. I’m also a completely different gamer these days and prefer to just play more meditative single player games that have bursts of action.

To answer the question in a very literal way: Yes, back in the 80s I made it to the regional finals of the Nintendo World Championships (at the time when the Fred Savage movie The Wizard had just came out). I was up on stage in the central throne chair with the 100ft TV screen behind me projecting my game to 1000s of people in front of me cheering us on. I was roughly 10?? at the time, so I thought I was fucking amazing. I just barely missed out on making it to the next round in some other state because I screwed up placing a long piece in Tetris. I won a hat out of the thing.

I also played in a Tetris tournament at a bar in LA about 15 years ago. I fucking crushed it and won $100.

I went to the game’s website to see how they portrayed the game as opposed to taking whatever cherry-picked similarities Sony chose to use as their argument.

Wow. It is fucking identical. Maybe the gameplay is different, but the art is indistinguishable.

I’m personally offended you didn’t list BF1942 in your list of fun games. It was broken in so many hilariously fun ways. How much fun is it to be a sniper flying on the wing of a plane? Or suicide bomb a person in a plane only to eject and pop your parachute 1ft above the ground safely? Or to park your tank with the turret inside the door of a spawn point just blasting away?

This is the likely scenario. They are predicting an incredibly unpredictable consumer market in the next 4-8 years but a very predictable defense industry market in that time.

I did two full playthroughs plus a lot of restarts mid-way to try different endings or different side things. The only voice I can clearly hear in my head is the mage, whose name I can’t even remember. I can’t even remember what my own character’s voice sounded like (the vampire).

Sorry, best we can do is having the audience dodge roll every scene.

A couple years ago my non-gamer girlfriend came home from work and asked if I had ever seen the Leroy Jenkins video since I used to play WoW. I was like, “yes, yes I know about that video.” She thought it was hilarious even though she had no idea what it meant.

The original team remade it as a VR game with a new name in roughly 2017. I played a demo of it at PAX and felt like it was 1996 all over again.

My favorite story was actually from my buddy’s playthrough. He duped the poison apple from the assassin’s guild quest using the arrow glitch. He then duped it 50 more times and put-pocketed one into everyone’s pockets in a specific town. When they all went to lunch they ate them and died. An entire town of dead people. It was hilarious.

Hmm, a 30 minute old account with two posts about the same website that sells skins. Definitely not at all a shill.

I know there WERE Sony fans who would get upset that their exclusives would come out on other platforms. Back in the very early 2000s, fanboys would get irate at the smallest perceived slight to their preferred platform. But that hasn’t been more than a very niche thing for a decade. Almost nobody cares now.

I don’t know if any thing in that video looked even remotely realistic, except maybe the lame handstand ride.

My understanding from a video I watched is it’s a mix of shrinking world survival like PUBG and co-op Elden Ring with a boss at the end of each day when a shrinking happens.

I can actually see Horizon working really well as an MMO. It’s already open world, fetch quest-centered with city quest hubs and such. Yeah, you won’t be that one main character, but you could be out there killing robot dinosaurs with friends.

Real question: after WoW had been around for a year or so, were you still unhappy about it? I never played any of the Warcraft games before WoW and had never played any MMOs before Wow, so I had no feeling either way about the announcement. I started playing WoW because two of my close friends and two of my coworkers were playing a bunch, so it was a good way to have more gaming friends than just my one gaming friend. Were most WC3 players unhappy about the announcement? It’s clear that millions of people ended up being pretty happy about it in the end.

Defender number 33 bit hard 3 times and didn’t recover-react fast enough either time. Great work from Rodry to keep pulling more defenders one way and get them to bite on a fake.

This is one of those things where I hate everything about it, but if RM don’t make it then the ends just might justify the means.

The only time I’ve seen it enforced was in the Womens World Cup final between Canada and the US, against the Canadian GK who had been warned twice already that game for it. The rest of the world was furious, but it was the correct call… and after two warnings it was also the “right” call.

This is one of those things that has always annoyed me. Nobody ever enforces the rule, and every single GK breaks the rule nearly every single time they grab the ball.

Good. They took their time to create a masterpiece this time, plus a pretty great expansion in short order. I would be upset if they said they were rushing to put out something just to cash in.

Read the text from the post, not the article. OP said it is releasing in 2044 instead of 2024.

Oh god, the PvP ranking bullshit grind. Yeah, you almost had to account share to get the top ranks. Back in Vanilla, two of my IRL buddies did the HWL grind. It was different from the Arena rankings grind, but still brutal. The last 3 weeks were nearly 24/7 to move up, and that’s only because we had an organized server that had a list of who was next in line to get HWL and enforced weekly caps to make sure someone didn’t grind 24/7 and miss a rank.

I stopped at Centurion, because fuck all that. I also wasn’t good at PvP.

Hang on. WoW came out in 2004. So in 6 years you played 3 years in-game? 12 hours a day, every single day for 6 solid years? Were you on disability? Because after sleeping, that doesn’t leave much time for work or school.

I used to get so mad at movies that had unrealistic portrayals of how people would act in a crisis situation.

After COVID, I no longer question the unbelievable stupidity of humans, nor the amount of hatred humans have.

The only reason I’m not happier that a non-striker won is he plays on City.

I think there was a foul on City when they gained possession to start the string of corners that led to the goal. Wolves should’ve had a free kick in a dangerous position, but instead City countered and got corner after corner. That said, the Wolves player should have passed it earlier instead of allowing himself to be tackled.

So much cheaper than going to MLS games.

Watching the earlier levels I can hear the thumps on the controller indicating he is doing a bump/rolling control method.

Did he use an original NES controller with the ROM or a modern controller? I know I have a hard time getting the 40 year old controllers to respond fast enough at higher levels, though I haven’t tried the bump control method.

You love to see it.

That finish by Kulusevski was special.

I don’t know about other sports in the rest of the world, but in the US all the pro sports have unions representing the players who collectively bargain with the club/team owners for standardized terms and conditions. There is no world governing body that the NBA, MLB, NHL, or NFL listen to, so they handle their own contracts. MLS follows most of FIFA rules but still handles their own collective bargaining (there was a major dispute in the US about solidarity payments to lower clubs where MLS had to move closer to FIFA rules). I know LigaMX also has their own closed system that royally fucks over players in that league. So instead of FIFA doing all the bargaining and controlling the transfers of players, the PL would have a standard set of terms and conditions for contracts, which would be different from the BuLi and different from L1 and LaLiga. Maybe the BuLi contracts have game limitations for players but the PL doesn’t? Or maybe L1 guarantees a percentage of transfer fees to players?

While I like to think this would give some power back to the players, since they could start having preferences on which league they go to based on their contract conditions, we all know the mega-clubs will find a way to fuck over players. This might also lead to collusion among billionaires exactly like what happens in LigaMX.

How in the world was this not a red? Did VAR not look at it?

I couldn’t find that option when I bought this game on PS5 last year or whenever it came out.

The problem is that the requirement to have an account is in fine print most people would never read. Therefore you might accidentally buy a game without knowing you need it and can’t just “not buy the game and move on.” I’m fucking sick of having to create an account with every goddamn game company out there to play single player games on a PS5 or on Steam.

That was absolutely horrific from the ref. The player was clearing the ball from danger, not kicking it away to waste time. He kicked it just barely after the whistle, so I don’t think it was out of frustration.