Not sure, I got the impression that all consoles sold worse than usual, but I didn’t actually dig deep into it.

Oh yeah, that last lines were about Switch 2 doing record sales in first year, not about the holidays sales, should have made it clear.

I agree with all your points about holiday sales, but I am not sure if it means that it’s momentum has slowed down or it just went down because of other expenses and stuff people wanted to buy over this period. Will be interesting if the sales go back up or if they keep going down.

The same is true of PlayStation and Xbox too (and has been for a decade or more). At least in US, don’t know about Europe. This is not to defend Nintendo, just saying that if that was the issue, it would effect all the consoles, and would have been effecting them for last many years. Average people don’t even know about these, and many probably don’t even care.

There might be more to this, but with the current economy, and consoles getting more expensive instead of cheaper as time goes on could be some of the reasons, IMO. And there weren’t much holiday sales this year.

First year sales are also generally limited by supply, not demand, so it will be interesting to see how Switch 2 does in its second and third years, specially if we do get next PS and Xbox next year.

I remember this area. And if I still remember it, must mean it was a tough area.

What are the chances that it was shut down because of the unionization, vs just bad timing?

If Max Payne wasn’t in the pic, it would’ve been pretty difficult to guess.

Yeah, it’s a fun, some of the screenshots can be really tough to guess.

Heh, an interesting way to play them.

Why did you play Max Payne 2 before 1? This doesn’t sit right with me! 😀

It is on my wishlist, glad to see you enjoying it.

Heh, is 500cc the maximum you can do?

Stealth kill missions are my bane. Really hate them, also, where when you have you have to start the mission from the beginning. At least you had fun.

Not a huge fan of multiplayer games, but can be fun with friends.

As for people who don’t like live service games, Sony has mentioned multiple times that the budget for live service games is completely separate from single player games. The issue was that they previously put their good single player studios to making these games, as long as they get proper third party or specialised studios for these and leave their first party studios for first party, I am happy.

“It’s either a passion project you spent ten years on, or you need a bunch of money to be able to hire people and resources”

From the article.

Yeah, that will also require more work and animations for each feature like this. Much easier to do in a game like this.

Ah, okay. Thanks for the info!

Heh, true. When I first looked at it after hearing so much about it I thought it was a wrong game.

Wow, it’s weird to realise that there is so much depth and features in a game that look like this 😀

Ooh, a day late but still, congratulations on 500 posts!

Oooh, I didn’t even notice, 500 in 2 days!

I believe so, except in review build it was a minor who was riding it, and we don’t know what else was there in the “interactive dialogue sequence”

I came in to read what caused Valve’s fall from grace, but nope, still the good guy.

You don’t have to finish all the games. It’s okay to drop games you aren’t enjoying. In the long run, time is a much more scarce commodity than money.

That’s a nice list. Did you finish all the games you started? Or drop some games too?

JRPGs can be annoying to play multiple times.

Civ 6 (or some other strategy game like Age of Empires) and Factorio are great choice for this though.

This looks great. It may scratch that Skyrim itch.

Yeah. I think it’s because no matter how much you improve, you keep learning new stuff to make your code better, so it always feel like what you have already written is a mess.

Also, obligatory comic about code quality:

Heh, don’t worry, that’s how everyone starts.

Ooh, I would love to see your commands / scripts, if you are willing to put the on some day.

Oh yeah, the modern era in Black Flag era was pretty meh. Haven’t played any AC game after that so no idea about those.

So DMCA takedowns are only for gameplay videos, they haven’t sent any takedown (or any other) notice to whoever is hosting / running / developing the custom server code.

It will be interesting to see how it progresses.

Well, as long as you are having fun! 😀

But that would change the format of the title! And while it has evolved over the time, that would feel so weird!

Also, it’s sometimes fun to see the featured picture and guess what the game is 😀

I guess large library size can be a contributing factor too. I have tons of games in my backlog and not enough time, so prefer shorter and tighter experiences, which can sometimes be difficult since my favourite genre is RPG, but I have lost interest in games that doesn’t respect your time, which is most open world games.

There are always exceptions though, just got a Platinum for Ghost of Tsushima few months back. Though I think that only happened cause a friend of mine was also playing at the same time, so discussing the things he has done or I have done kept the interest going for much longer.

they’re an evil shadowy cabal that mind controls companies and has them add brainwashing techniques meant to bring about the downfall of western society

I knew it!

_/s

I liked the game when I played it and I never saw the Haytham twist coming either, I mean until the reveal it themselves. Also don’t remember that sign on his back.

I don’t think I have the stamina for these games anymore. I played Black Flag a few years back but didn’t like it and Black Flag is considered one of the best AC game by everyone.

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s Max Payne!

Congratulations on completing the wall!

This is pretty much why I can’t play much PC games either (even though there are some genres I love that work bes on PC). Handheld works best, or sitting on a couch in front of TV.

I love tablets as a good general purpose device, but don’t have much experience with remote play. Just check how well it works with controllers and the latency / lag.

We all go through time like that. If you like single player games, what helped me was getting a Switch (I had almost quit gaming before that), the ability to play on a handheld which you can pause (put in sleep) anywhere is a godsend. Everyone is different though, but can be worth a try. You can try getting a SteamDeck, and see if that works for you.

At the end of the day, if playing short rounds of Death by Daylight is what you enjoy the most, nothing wrong with just keep doing that.