And Infinite is likely the end, at least for me…

I still say Enclave was a great game. The reviewers at the time absolutely misunderstood it.

Most of the complaints from 2003 are things people love about the Souls games now…

HD version:

https://cogconnected.com/review/enclave-hd-review/

So what’s a PC with the same level of performance?

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine

CPU
Semi-custom AMD Zen 4 6C / 12T
up to 4.8 GHz, 30W TDP

GPU
Semi-Custom AMD RDNA3 28CUs
2.45GHz max sustained clock, 110W TDP

16GB DDR5 + 8GB GDDR6 VRAM
512GB NVMe SSD OR
2TB NVMe SSD

$1,000?

https://www.microcenter.com/product/698874/powerspec-g527-gaming-pc

You have been eaten by a Grue.

You have been eaten by a grue.

“11+ years of service — 36 months’ salary”

Man, I wish my company would do that, I’d resign, pay off my house! 😉 I’d even have money left over!

Blows my mind that Sony was supporting the PS1, 2 and 3 in 2006.

They are still making PS4 games. Just because a new gen launches doesn’t mean the previous gen is cut off.

https://www.playstation.com/en-us/ps4/ps4-games/

The long generation got extended because of the 2008 financial crisis, if anything I’d have expected a covid extension on the PS4.

Seems likely given the overlap between generations.

PS1 - 1995 to 2006
PS2 - 2000 to 2013
PS3 - 2006 to 2017
PS4 - 2013 to 2025
PS5 - 2020 to 20???

So 11 years, 13, 11, 12…

PS5 is 5 years in. Don’t expect it to shut down until at least 2031, maybe even 2033.

Paramount/Skydance put Bari Weiss in charge of CBS News.

Weiss is known to be problematic for a variety of reasons:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/ng-interactive/2025/sep/10/bari-weiss-cbs

Pulling for Disney:

The rumor a few weeks ago was Paramount/Skydance… you know… this Paramount:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bari-weiss-editor-in-chief-cbs-news-paramount-the-free-press/

In case you don’t know who that is:

(34 minutes, NSFW)

https://youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ

I wonder how many people were layed off multiple times?

Your studio closes, you go to another studio which gets merged in with another. That kind of thing?

Good luck with the tarriffs…

The last time a console generation lined up with a giant economic crisis we got the Kinect and PlayStation Move instead and a proper console release was delayed until 2013.

I could see this being pushed to 2030, easy, if it happens at all.

It was hilarious, and less of a control issue and more of a “2 death scenarios executing at the same time.”

The last Target I was at only had Xbox games in their clearance section and they were last years sporto titles, nothing current.

Small selection of Playstation and Switch games.

Way back in the day, Tomb Raider, there was this pit, with a break away floor, and water beneath it.

Fell, hit the platform breaking her neck, then the platform dropped her in the water, twitching and drowning. It was horrifying!

Yup. This. To the point where, playing FFVII the first time I was like “Oh, shit, better not give Aerith anything important…”

This is in line with what I’m seeing locally. Weird they aren’t doing a fire sale like Sam’s Club:

Weird how what was once applicable to Switch 2 news now applies to Xbox.

Thank god I’m multi-platform…

You might even be able to sell it for what you paid for it…

Even if you make an excellent game that makes money you can STILL be on the chopping block. See Hi Fi Rush. 😟

“Of the 1,431 games released last year that garnered more than 500 reviews — an indication that they were played by at least a few thousand people — more than 260 were rated positively by 90% or more of the players. More than 800 scored 80% or better.”

Problem - You can’t trust Steam reviews. Steam users will give top ratings to “Click the Duck”.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3110500/The_Best_Duck_Clicker/

From what I hear from people actually able to play the game, it’s better than 3.

Something like:

2 > 4 > 1 > 3 > Pre-Sequel

DF is who I’m waiting on, but from what I’m hearing, they didn’t send reviewer codes so it’s all delayed and that’s never a good sign.

How is it on console though? Better on PS5 or Xbox?

Picked it up on Saturday, finally! For some reason it’s been super hard to find!

I don’t need to personally be an engineer to call out a train wreck when I see one…

It’s a dedicated monotasker, not handcuffs. Consoles have always been that way.

On console, Denuvo isn’t an issue. :)

1 and 2 were legitimately good games.

Pre-Sequel was terrible, 3 was better but still not good.

Can’t say I remember enough about the Tell Tale game to have an opinion which may also very well be an opinion. ;)

Waaaaaay ahead of you Gearbox…

No, the PS5 has a standard expansion slot.

Yup. On the PS5, you can add standard M2 storage to increase the usable internal space.

On the Xbox you have to use the Seagate or WD plug.

You can, but you can’t play games from it, it would be storage only. You’d have to move it to internal memory to play it.

Current gen games can’t be played from standard external storage. You could put the game there, but it would have to be moved to internal memory to play it.

BC games would work fine, but not current gen.

Applies to both PS5 and Xbox both.

825GB is the raw space, not usable space.

You lose some to formatting and file structure, you lose more to system reserved space for updates and what not.

Out of the box, a 1 TB PS5 has 848 GB available.

So if you’re starting with 825 GB that means you’re likely to only have, what? 700 GB free? Less?

Some games push 100 GB, so max of 7 of those not counting DLC and what not?

Digital only with reduced space? What’s the worst that could happen? 🤔

“Buy a bigger SSD!”

Yeah, taking action that at a minimum gets uou fired from a good paying job in this economy is Hi-larious!