When you consider that a major feature for the PS5 was a highly optimized I/O controller for a very fast SSD, I have no faith whatsoever that we’ll be seeing SD cards as a viable game storage mechanism. Unfortunately.

Truly one of the best games ever, especially in the context of when it came out. Perfect timing of the well-executed slowmo gunplay mechanics right as the matrix popularized bullet time. Story and storytelling way better than they had any right to be. Really good pacing and length. Acts broken up by genre-bending dream sequences. Great voice acting.

I think the graphics might have been the only thing about this game that wasn’t ahead of its time. They still got the job done though.

Hopefully this game gets a remake as faithful as Demons’s Souls.

download the podcasts ahead of time too smh

I coincidentally played it during covid lockdown and the thematic connections to the moment were really special. Bird flu is coming, maybe wait for the next pandemic lockdowns and try it then?

minecraft and rimworld too

this is the future libertarians want

Mainstream gaming, is on aggregate, getting worse and worse over time. Everyone wants to feel empowered to stop that from happening.

You could punch upward, targeting management of stuidos and publishers.

You could look inward, and make a commitment to sincerely boycott games from companies that consistely release games in an unfinished state, use dark patterns to exploit gambling addictions for profit, mistreat their staff, etc.

Or you could punch down, and target LGBT creators, who are largely individual contributors and completely unrelated with any of the root causes of the decline in game quality. But this one is SO much easier than the other two, so maybe you’ll do this one so that you can feel like you’re doing something without really having to do anything. Especially since it confims some things you heard from politicians that need to distract you from how their only policy is to make life better for rich people.

why?

death stranding 2 spoilers

I understand that a rather large portion of the active players of FFXIV are subbed mainly so that they can participate in the mod-supported ERP community. Yoshida is also the director of that game so I’m pretty sure he knows precisely how futile this request is.

he’s known for ages and had this one in his back pocket just waiting for the moment when you finally come out

recurring cost to rent a multiplayer server though, maybe that was it

lol ok sure is terarria a dead game? what about mario 3? agree with the devs on this one who gives a shit if people aren’t mainlining it every day of their life

some kids call their father “daddy” smh

They are and they must. There is no path forward that doesn’t massively disinvest from personal vehicles.

the enemy placement isn’t exactly amazing in vanilla but it is atrocious in scholar of the first sin. which one did you play?

due to the way causality works it would be pretty difficult to tell a story in any genre where someone’s opportunities in life are not strongly correlated to circumstances from their past that are outside of their control (like their birth)

And he’s right! It might not be as good as the games that came before it or after it but that bar is so high that it can still be a great game despite it

“I want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less and I’m not kidding 😎”

Indie games are kind of this, but it’s hard to make the “paid more” work consistently at scale. Largely because there’s a shitload of people making really good indie games and I can only play so many of them.

Almost always food