Cyberspark @ Cyberspark @sh.itjust.works

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Cool, maybe rpgs aren't for you. Exploration, change and discovery is half the point. If you want to automatically get all the best loot because you went to a required place and did the required thing maybe you don't want an rpg maybe you just want a story game. That's fine, but DA was supposed to a BG spiritual successor once upon a time.

A lot of the TV show is the world's slowest "unboxing" of the Fallout world. It's a fun ride, but the ultimate reveal is everyone's too busy being out for themselves to make the world better. (Not a surprise to anyone versed in Fallout lore), but without any of the story surprises, lore reveals the acting and story alone aren't really strong enough on their own to call for second viewings.

If you don't live in one of the 180 territories that still can't play the game

That's a fair argument and a decent case, but not one that strongly backs an anti-competition legal action.

If we needed E3 we'd still have E3.

Steam very much makes that 30% worthwhile with the support and features they provide for free. They can't be forced to host games, prices are set by publishers/devs, steam takes 0% of steam key sales.

The price parity is the part that might be argued, but I doubt it will go far. I'm not seeing very good arguments for this being anti-consumer, which is the key point.

PC games often use or recommend controllers and there's nothing stopping them doing the same thing. I hesitate to label it as a console innovation because it's not limited to console in effect. Hell, PC games can use kinect and wii-motes, though not without some work, so those I'm more likely to give.

I'll take your word on the PS5 games, it wasn't really fair for me to make that judgement without having access to many myself. I think it's one of those things that's easily overlooked. I don't think it's as big as gyro, though that xbox still lacks that is shocking. We'll see going forward I guess.

Except that's not even a console innovation, that's a control/controller innovation.

That said it's barely used and will probably quickly be forgotten as a feature.

I couldn't tell XD

The truth of the matter is that AAA games have become so risk adverse and so determined to get all the money that they've become a risky purchase for players. Though recent publisher action has proved that's true of some indies too. Getting players to pay full price in this market is going to be increasingly hard.

Judging from how many think the helldivers are the good guys, not really.

That's routine stock price manipulation. They're not doing that because they need to, they're doing it because it makes shareholders think their costs are cut and makes their stock price jump.

That said its less and less effective.

Not a complaint, but it does raise the entry level for people getting excited about the story.

In true kojima fashion it gets weirder the deeper you go

Really it did a few major things for fps

• regenerating health, allowing for a smoother difficulty curve and easier time balancing for devs
• online multiplayer
• A-B tested a bunch of controls for console shooter control schemes going forward

Until halo right-stick to turn, ads to aim on screen was a common control mechanism.

As soon as it released regenerating health, the control scheme and online multiplayer became a must-have for AAA fps. For PC it's basically just regenerating health, which was has proved to be a mixed blessing.

Let's not pretend that MGS lore is more than a barely comprehensible fever dream. It's good, for sure, and insanely pretty for a 2004 ps2 release, but try explaining it to someone and see how far you get.

Everyone familiar with the lore knew going in that it was going to be a tragedy. Reach had to fall after all. The tricky and surprising thing was getting people to root for the team and have hope for them, knowing the planet was going to be glassed.

They turned the story of the planet into a small personal story about a very desperate situation. It isn't the best game, by any means, but it's impressive in it's own way and one of the better prequels.

Only if it's an actual wall. A lot of YT channels and even free games are supported by Patreon and similar.

There is patreon-supported or similar. There are also ad blockers that click the ads too to destroy your tracking profile. I'm not sure if they trigger click-through statistics for payment purposes.

This is the same guy that thought his anti-revenge story was the second coming of christ and people just didn't understand.