I’d add a variant on this:

Games where you spend hours unlocking death traps in tombs that haven’t been opened in 500 to 1,000 years only to find the mercenary opposition has already beaten you inside.

Looking at you Uncharted, Tomb Raider, Prince of Persia, etc.

So… we’re never getting Hi Fi Rush, are we?

True Fantasy Live Online looked like it would have been amazing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Fantasy_Live_Online

Look for single player stuff, I found the Bioshock games incredibly well paced.

How long before they cut out half the game and blame the players?

Or how the “Chat Button” is pay gated after the first year…

https://www.polygon.com/nintendo-switch-2/553458/switch-2-nintendo-confirms-c-button-price

“This is the stuffed crust… filled with cheese and pepperoni. It’s like calzone in a bread stick form factor!”

Good news! Used Switch 1 prices are about to crater…

You expect Nintendo to do MULTITASKING? ;)

It’s kind of like the Valve demo that’s free on the Steam Deck to go through all the features on the machine, except not as interesting.

So much for all the “leakers” claiming otherwise.

See, I never understood Animal Crossing. I had it on the Game Cube. “I know, let’s take an RPG, remove everything interesting to do, and just leave an inventory system, massive debt, and fishing.”

Not a Nintendo fanboy, but I have to say, this will be the 2nd Nintendo console I’ve skipped, the other one being the Wii U.

I’m just not seeing a compelling reason to buy one. The big push seems to be “Look, look, we can do big boy games like Street Fighter 6 now!” and I’m like “That’s nice, I don’t need a new console for that…”

Sorry, Bungie. You fucked up Destiny 2, no more money for you.

There was a bullshit explanation, that as time went on proved to be a lie, yeah.

Not in Europe, so I can’t help you there.

But I’d like to add, it’s not JUST about disabling games.

Bungie released Destiny 2 in 2017, in 2020 they started “vaulting” content, locking it away from people who had paid for it.

This included ALL of the story missions, essentially rendering the game plot-less.

Half of the original planet locations in the base $60 game, and the entirety of the first two paid expansions.

It’s literally impossible to play the game as launched even though, technically, it was never disabled and is still online.

The content has never been restored and cannot be accessed, even for a court case, Bungie had to rely on YouTube recordings of the removed content:

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/action/bungies-lawyers-have-to-use-fan-videos-of-old-destiny-2-content-in-court-because-well-it-doesnt-exist-in-game-anymore/

Blueprints here:

https://cyberneticzoo.com/walking-machines/1894-1914-electric-man-perew-american/

The mechanics were all in the cart, it pushed the figure forward rather than having it pull the cart.

Still, a neat bit of kit!

See my “set 2” links above. (at the time) $3,200 8K television, “If you want the brightest image possible, use the default Dynamic Mode settings with Local Dimming set to ‘High’, as we were able to get 1666 nits in the 10% peak window test.”

HDR still trash.

Yup, yup. Highly rated when I bought them, but in actual usage? Not so much.

I WISH it was the default settings. I went through every calibration and firmware update I could find. Even the model specific calibrations on rtings.com. Nothing made a difference.

It appears to just be a flaw in Samsung’s implementation. After going through all the Samsung forum information, the only suggestion that’s guaranteed to work is “turn it off”.

Set #1:

https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/samsung/ks8000

Calibration:

https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/samsung/ks8000/settings

Set #2:

https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/samsung/q800t-8k-qled

https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/samsung/q800t-8k-qled/settings

I’ve been told HDR is not for bright rooms, you have to make everything dark…

Yeah…

“Even playing in HDR…”

Maybe that’s part of the problem? HDR implementation on my Samsung sets is garbage, I have to disable it to watch anything. Too bad too, because the picture is gorgeous without it.

HDR On:

HDR Off:

The ones that were SURPRISINGLY good were the Gex games. Looks like they’re getting a remaster too.

https://youtu.be/PXr2cRbo6Go

Don’t get me started on Xfinity “10G”.

https://www.highspeedinternet.com/resources/xfinity-10g-internet

You’ll shoot your eye out!

I can’t tell you how nice it is to see this variation on the story instead of “studio behind hit new game shuts down.”

$95 for a case with no disc in it. No thank you.

Surprising nobody.

That makes sense then!

I mean, the Marvel stuff has all been gigantic and proves you don’t need sex scenes. In fact, the one Marvel movie with a sex scene (Eternals) did the worst.

This came up, I want to say last year? In regards to movies and TV shows as well.

Aha - 2023:

https://www.npr.org/2023/10/25/1208435267/sex-teens-tv-movies

“Looking for ‘nomance’: Study finds teens want less sex in their TV and movies”

I was set to buy it tonight, imagine my surprise to see the “physical” edition: a) is $95 and b) has no disc, digital download only.

Yeah, no thanks. $95 saved!

TBH, I can’t remember the last time I turned on any of my consoles for anything other than 4K movies.

This generation has just been awful for games, the Covid drop just never recovered.

Will look at Avowed, but not feeling great about it. Dumping games in Jan/Feb generally is not a good look (OTOH you get the occasional Hi Fi Rush instead of Forspoken).

I’ll wait for reviews. Hasn’t been a good one since 2.

I reviewed it when it came out, I thought it was fine, but the strength is more in the story telling of the cutscenes than the actual game play.

The game itself is pretty repetitive and once you get a feel for it, it’s actually a little dull.

Levels are either a) in daylight or b) in the dark, and either c) against the infected or d) against militia groups.

So if your currently playing in the daylight against militia groups, the next level will be in the dark vs. infected, and then it alternates.

The story is top notch though.

Source?

“Operational issue”. Yeah, it stopped operating. ;)

Hard to take it seriously when he would have been, what? 3 years old 9 years ago? ;)

External drives are cheap. Got one working on the Steam Deck.

I just couldn’t get over the janky-ass animation. All the problems inherent in Andromeda were present in 3.

https://youtu.be/Ye0Rl16elKo