Think of it as more a rhythm game then a souls like, probably better you don't have to unlearn any dark souls habits
At the higher levels you realise the randomness is too much, not sure if they updated the starting rounds to have more player choice
Is there a name for apartments that have flat sides, but are protruding like a clover?
For example the living room is a middle square and the kitchen and bed rooms are not aligned but just smaller squares added to the sides
Regular players are red, think if you meet someone in white, they 100% the game
Me: Mom can we have Ghost of Tsushima?
Mom: We have Ghost of Tsushima at home
I don't get the part about the economy not doing well, stock market is at all time high and houses are selling for insane prices
Not even confident of beating an early access game
His hands are super veiny
It's Act 2. Just chill and enjoy the silliness and roam around. Or rush through it and try battles in hard mode
Yakuza Infinite then to FF7 Rebirth. They both have japanised Hawaii in it
They are going to get jumanjied aren't they?
In terms of value for money try last gen AMD, I have a 6700xt and it runs well on my 6 year old system. My bottleneck is mostly CPU now until I upgrade
Have you ever seen coal in real life?
I just realised that I have never seen or used it, neither crude oil of course, but there are more variants of it than this natural mineral that powers a lot of the world.
What led to you seeing or touching coal?
Since I don't see it Return of the Obra Dinn is one of the best games ever made, and done by 1 guy
Kung Fu Sandworm is not as catchy as Barbenheimer. Dune Panda?
Could be cool as a new way to differentiate from AAA. One i for a solo dev, ii for a small team and iii for big indie devs
This was a plot point in parks and rec to explain Pratts transformation off screen from Andy to Starlord
Dune and Jack Reacher shows whats wrong with Foundation
- Recurring characters.
Movies in general get away with this better than multi season shows with actors contracts and killing off a character early.
Sean Bean humourously being killed off in LOTR and Game of Thrones. This also ties into later seasons when the writers were afraid to kill lead characters. Jack Reacher does well not bringing back 2 of the leads from season 1.
Foundation is deathly afraid of this, having 6 characters that carry over season to season where in the books there are none.
- Faithfulness to source material.
For people who have not read the books, Dune part 2 does end with a white saviour story and includes holy war, religious imagery. The distance from 9/11 helps though the middle eastern conflicts don't. A few actions scenes and techy stuff is added and some ideas and scenes are moved around. The daringness to commit to the source material is amazing, weird worm bile, talking babies, drugs and hallucinations
Foundation ignores this, having pacifist characters shoot at each other, adding pointless sex and action scenes that have no impact on the plot. The core premise abandoned very early on. It's like they wanted to make their own sci fi show but just slapped the name on it
Question about First Law series
Hi, I am on a driving trip and downloaded a recommended books, "Best Served Cold" and then the reviews say read the original trilogy first. After several hours of "The Blade Itself" there is no sense of a plot or where the characters are going, they are just meeting up.
I understand that this is a common criticism of his early works. Should I finish the Blade Itself or go on to the sequel standalone novel? I got a bit of the sense of the world.
Incidentally, I loved "Project Hail Mary" and started "Three Body Problem", but the pronunciation of the chinese names turned me off, so I'll read the book instead.
These only exist at high end which the article probably says. Otherwise I get teenagers talking through the entire movie. Parents who bring their kids then turn on their phones at full brightness
Opinion from someone not into live service games. I've played Destiny and found the story pushes you along, a lot of interesting set pieces and bosses and expansive world, but that's on a whole different budget.
Helldivers gets the core gameplay there, but it's very grindy. You essentially loop into a small flat world without any landmarks and use the mini map to head to the objectives. Which are mostly kill stuff. You interact with a console sometimes.
The meta game is just unlocking new weapons and costumes. You do get early taste of better weapons if you team up with higher level players
The game is most fun in a team, solo is good to learn the ropes but gets tedious quickly. There are no roles or tactics like in Deep Rock Galactic
Enemy variety at least for my brief time playing is very low, there are 2 archetypes, varying from small mobs to the standard armoured large dude or charging monster.
The tutorial is fantastic and hilarious but that type of writing isn't brought up again.
I would say wait for more content patches. Vehicles, more enemy types, linear worlds or more interesting objectives would drive up the variety and replayablity
TIL that a billionaire bought Lonely Planet and put an inexperienced 24 year old wedding photographer in charge
Daniel Houghton, a former wedding photographer with no prior executive experience, has been trying to turn around global travel guide company Lonely Planet.
Have you had a "Walter Mitty" moment?
There's this Ben Stiller movie where he gets pushed to travel the world alone and find himself.
Engineering feels more like being Tony Stark while Programming seems more like Dr Strange
Am a civil engineer working in tech now. I never felt like engineering was magical, we studied materials and stresses and tested stuff and built things.
While I know software engineers basically do the same things in a digital concept (hardware included) they are basically speaking arcane words that make the machine do things like conjure up images, transport information across the world at the speed of light.
Maybe fantasy writers should write more infrastructure into their stories for their wizards, like undersea cables or satellites built by the generations before
Were Arkane, Bioware, Rocksteady and Naughty Dog done in by live service strategies?
4 top tier single player games developers tasked to build live service games.
Naughty Dog hasn't released anything new, both sequels then silence. Suicide Squad kills the game studio. At least Arkane and Bioware are given chances to carry on with the next game.
We could have had the next big WB superhero game or Wolverine. Prey 2? There's a higher chance of Amy Henning working on a Soul Reaver game than ND coming out with an original IP
Old articles are clogging up search engines
The internet used to be where you found the latest information. But it's old enough that you could easily find info on 10-20 year old articles that are out of date and irrelevant
Does anyone else hear the JoyCon 'snap' in the main themes for ToTK and Mario Wonder?
It's more of a percussion slap in totk though
This console generation seems skippable
I've never skipped a console gen starting from Super NES, PS1 through 4 plus the Switch Oled 5 years after launch of the OG Switch
It seems like exclusives are rarer now with Sony and Xbox pushing games to PC and Nintendo spending resources on remasters. COVID made it incredibly difficult to own a PS5 and they have some disappointing exclusives as well
What do you think? Any reason to own a PS5 or PS5 pro?
Is computer science lightning or rock magic?
Or both? You're basically running electricity through silicon to control satellites, rockets and the cash register in a subway.
Heres an idea, Fromsoft should make the Soul Reaver sequel
They had GRRM write Elden Ring. They can get Amy Henning to write SR before she retires
It has Souls in the name already.
Lords of the Fallen did the dual world thing
A weakened hero taking on bosses who are literally gods?
Worst case we get the Lies of P studio to do it
If Skull and Bones came out and was a 10/10 what would your user review look like?
I haven't seen any trailers and things have changed in a decade and Ubisoft haven't made a universally acclaimed game in a long time.
There's simply no expectations that this game will be good unlike the overhyped Day Before, Starfield, NMS and Cyberpunk 1
What if...
Is PC Dead Space and Jedi Survivor abandoned by EA?
The stutter issues in Dead Space and bugs in JS. They are basically unplayable on PC right?
Whats with the sudden indie output from South Korea?
Usually known for their internal online and mobile games. In 2023 we get Dave the Diver and Lies of P which are non mobile single player games.
Tangentially is 2023 chock full of great games because the pandemic held up the development of so many studios?
'Great' games I didn't play this year due to requirements
Currently running a Ryzen 2600 and AMD 6700XT, older cpu with mid tier gpu. This is my round up of 2023 gaming
Installed Dead Space remake on gamepass, stutters everywhere, apparently not limited to older hardware. Played Resident Evil 4 Remake instead, fantastic reimagining of the original, super tight controls, darker tone, less annoying Ashley. Platinumed it on Steam.
Remnant 2 went on sale, got it, textures were weirdly smeared, FPS was low, Played Lies of P instead running on UE4 instead of UE5, caught off guard by how good the combat, story and music was.
Got Wo Long, felt like playing with glue, refunded, went for an older Team Ninja game** Final Fantasy Origin: Strangers of Paradise** not a fantastic game, but good for chilling with, pick up and play, run a few builds, crush chaos, felt the typical Team Ninja slow motion during busy fights.
Wanted to play Jedi Survivor or Starfield, heard about PC problems, played Like a Dragon: Man who Erased his Name instead, small side story, essentially the penultimate chapter of Kiryu's story, nothing new was added, story was great.
Hogwarts Legacy, ran terrible, boring gameplay. Hi Fi Rush, ran great, fun rhythm based combat. Cocoon, mild performance issues, but otherwise excellent puzzle game with mind bending twists.
All in all, it seems that games built on older engines still looked comparable to new gen games, but ran better. I imagine that once developers get the hang of things, the performance may improve. Capcom is great at PC now and EA still sucks. Indie games greatly depended if studios knew how to scope their project and play to their strengths.
What should be the price difference for a 7800x3d build vs a 7600
Would I need a better mobo for the 7800x3d? More expensive ram?