The combat is fine, my only issue with it was the camera trying to get you killed, especially around corners. Still one of the best games Ubisoft have ever made.

When you turn it on it boots to a controller friendly UI that shows you all your steam games. No setup, no hunting for drivers, no bloat.

They outsourced it to a different studio who slapped UE5 on top of the creation engine while Todd wasn’t looking

It’s not a complicated game and they’ve already delayed it once because it looked ten years old before it had even released. Iirc they assigned it to a different team after that. There’s always hope.

Among a subset of gamers who care about owning the things that they buy, yes

Because the Steamdeck proved there was a market, and didn’t run Windows so Microsoft got nothing from it.

They may have done in performance terms - marginal performance increase in most workloads and relying on dlss4 for any impressive fps gains. If AMD can give a decent performance boost over the 7000 series they stand a chance in the mid to low end.

Arkane Austin made Prey and was a brilliant game that showed how much potential the studio had before they were forced off to the live service gulag.

Then they were forced to make a live service game that they had no passion for and weren’t adept at which naturally failed and killed the studio

That rumour wasn’t true

Me with my physical CDs of games you can’t get digitally…

Still weird that they stopped selling them on steam and gog…

So now imagine that you upgrade to a fast SSD and the latest CPU and GPU and you still get traversal stutter because the game and engine are poorly optimised

Random dropped frames caused by moving around the world as the game loads and unloads data

Don’t conflate the art style with the engine

On the other hand it also has one of the worst main stories in an RPG ever

The default dialer in GrapheneOS allows call recording

I think he was refering to the show being set after new vegas and having to continue on from a game which had different possible endings

I haven’t tried it recently, but I remember having problems with it, let me reinstall it quickly Edit: Installing the unofficial patch wasn’t intuitive, but it worked fine and I’m having a great time again

Vampire: the Masquerade - Bloodlines

If you want to play Deus Ex there is a fully voice acted mod called Lay D Denton. It’s great. https://www.moddb.com/mods/the-lay-d-denton-project/downloads

downloading 30 separate 4GB files one by one is an unecessary chore. A ‘download all’ would make the website good

Mirror’s Edge - a perfect way to spend 5 hours

That’s not an issue, that’s an rpg: the ability to make different choices (informed and uninformed) leads to different experiences and different events each with knockon effects for thr story. It’s only a problem if the game isn’t clever enough to account for all of the different things you’ve done.