The aesthetic just doesn’t work for me. It’s too… gritty? realistic? Brown? idk how to describe it. I had the same issue with Concord. The proportions are right in the uncanny valley for me.
TF2 and OW both really work for me, they’re cartoony in just the right way. Same for Valorant. But the only one of those with gameplay that I like is TF2.
There’s a sweet spot with internet forums, and the exact number varies by community, but every forum I’ve ever been on got shit after getting too big.
Hang on, is CoD a Metal Gear-esque fever dream of supernatural opponents and dreamlike scenarios now? I might actually check it out if that’s the case.
Not really interested in the Machine but the Controller v2 and the Frame look absolutely perfect. Especially that controller - every single annoyance about the v1 seems to have been addressed, from the lack of a real D pad to the ease of accidentally touching the trackpad without meaning to.
Unfortunately for Valve, I’m the type of person who will continue using my Index and Controller v1 until they literally disintegrate in my hands, which hasn’t happened yet because they made them so high quality in the first go around, so I probably won’t be buying either for a while if ever.
Crypto is banned in most of China, but it isn’t banned in Hong Kong, and based on my very brief search is seems that LuBian (the miners that were stolen from) stopped mining in 2021 when the general Chinese ban came down, but this hack occurred in 2020 when they were still active. So in terms of crypto theft this is ancient news either way, but if the news is credible I’m guessing its only coming out now because it was a long investigation.
But if one of those characters wears a wetsuit instead of a bikini in her summer skin, you might accidentally spark a civil war.
“woman with a sword” genre continues to be a big hit with the people who actually buy video games instead of complaining about them on twitter, more at eleven.
No… that’s not true… that’s impossible!
Someone saying this could either mean:
a) There are so many indie games being made by passionate devs with interesting ideas that you could play a new one every day and never run out
or
b) graphics have never been better (thanks to record levels of dev crunch)
I feel like it’s a good time to be a non-publicly traded company these days. No private equity coming for you, no incoherent demands from investors who can only see one quarter into the future.
Has Valve ever put out statements about their intent to leverage ai/nfts/crypto? I mean they kind of invented their own with the CSGO marketplace and that has all of the problems you would expect, but the fact that they don’t thoughtlessly chase every trend to impress the stockholders is a pretty big indicator of their stability.
lame people: there are too many magic items in d&d, everything’s a monty haul campaign
cool people: haha fire sword go brr
i had a game once where every player showed up with a broom of flight. 10/10 game it basically turned into touhou
ooh I like that helm, stealing that
I hope you only train normal type pokemon, other types are far too spicy
[gaming laptops]'re desktop replacements and they’re just worse than a desktop in every way and cost more
Learned this the hard way when I was nineteen. Had a fat ass Alienware, top of the line everything, played Crysis, lasted about one day past the warranty and promptly died.
About four years ago I bought a laptop for work, an old Thinkpad. It was used when I got it and it’s still kicking. Runs a web browser just fine (and stuff like PuTTy and Teams) and can hang with indie games.
The only reason I would consider buying a laptop that’s more than a web browser/video streaming machine now is if I really needed to be able to use it as a tablet for art and stuff.
Maybe, but with the level of monopolization that exists now, I don’t think the biggestt publishers like EA/Paramount would invest in sequels to every single IP they own just to keep the rights.
Unironically one of the best reforms we could make to copyright (aside from abolishing it all together) would be a “use it or lose it” clause.
You’re thinking of Enter the Matrix, which is a much more straightforward action game set in the Matrix universe.
Path of Neo was a game that tried to be a meta commentary on the movies, and famously includes Neo fighting giant ants.
The game really benefits from replaying the Sonic and Shadow levels and skipping everything else a zillion times as a kid.
Same for playing through only the daylight stages in Sonic Unleashed
just have public toilets my god
IMO there have definitely been multiple attempts at HL3 but they’ve all been derailed. Like Half Life: Alyx was probably imagined as HL3 at some point in its development before getting turned into the Valve Index console exclusive.