I don't know you or your general taste in music but if you ever want something a bit more modern yet als doing the 'start slow until you made a wall of sound out of it' thing, I highly recommend you check out the band Motorpsycho! Pretty much every album they made in the 90s and early 2000s have always at least one great song which will build and build and build up to a great crescendo. Their other stuff is absolutely great too!
Their song Vortex Surfer got played for 24 hours on new years eve (I think it was 99 to 2000) on a Norwegian radio station.
Swimming. My brother in law is from India and he never learned how to swim due to him growing up in a place with only one extremely dirty river and no other lakes or swimming pools near his family. Apparently no one in his family can swim.
He kinda can swim now but it still looks funny. A bit like I must have looked from the outside when I learned to swim - as a six years old.
I always found this very odd because the dude is smart, hard working and has a degree but it took years and him becoming a dad to realize that swimming is something pretty much everyone can.
We have one of those. It's called "Sparschäler" over here in Germany. I have no idea how to translate it but maybe "a thing that peels and saves as much of the veggie in the process" or savingspeeler??
Whatever, my point is: those little teeth are something else! I got them stuck in the skin of my fingers/hand so often, I got another one without the teeth. The one without teeth isn't as effective (especially when I peel carrots) and cuts more off the vegetables I peel. Feels smoother, though!
I mean, if you phrase it that way, sure. Just a dude in his spare room. But then again, aside from the fact that he makes probably 20 000 dollar a month alone from his Patreon, almost everyone who is interested in video games knows this man's name for way over a decade. More like two decades, actually. And while he certainly hasn't anywhere near the same visibility as he had at Gamespot or Giantbomb, way more of the people who do follow him, actually pay him money directly. Reach alone isn't what's important these days. And yet, Jeff still has the potential to influence a lot of people who do not directly give him money. He also has a podcast, he streams and has 170k follower on Twitter. And if he has a very contrarian take on something, it will get noticed. Maybe not as much as 15 years ago but still noticed.
A bit of a ramble, sorry! I guess it triggered some memories of me listening to Giantbomb with him, Ryan, Vinnie, Alex and Brad while going to work or cleaning the house. Bombcast was pretty much the first podcast I regularly listened to.
Eh, the article mentions how the service didn't quite catch on anyway. So probably an easy decision for Nvidia because they didn't make enough money to be profitable. So I doubt think this is a case of a corporation doing the right thing but a corporation doing the right thing for it's bottom line.
Those numbers in the hundreds of thousands (often referred to as "liquidated" in the numbers published by the Ukrainians) contain killed, missing, Pow and injured. Also those numbers are likely inflated for obvious reasons: this is an information war just as much as one on the battlefield.
There are some sources (Oryx on Twitter for example) and people who digest those kind of sources (Perun on YouTube for example) I suggest watching to be as good informed as possible.
And yet there will still be copius amounts of disinformation, propaganda and fake news on both sides and we probably have to wait years afters this war has ended to know at least some truths.
I like the idea and all but the graphics look very rough and lifeless, especially the character animations. And I feel the game generally is a quick cashgrab based on the Harry Potter magic school idea.
I'd argue they exclusively make absolutely great games! The dig ones are two of my favorite short jump n runs and Steamworld Heist is just such a fun, easy to learn tactical rpgish game with an appropriate amount of tactics and depth.
I hope the developer doesn't burn out on the Steamworld franchise and probably get to expand the scope of their games!
I am pretty sure they know how to get proper cloud streaming going. Even the Vita has it. But why would they? So some people who don't own a PS5 get this thing and then don't buy more games and just stream their PS plus games? I can't imagine they would make much money that way!
If you like the pixel Final Fantasy games and haven't already, I recommend you check out the two games for the Game Boy Final Fantasy Adventure 1& 2! They were my first rpgs I ever played and still have a special place in my heart.
Be also ready for the realization of how barebones those games are. Played a couple of 2600 games with a friend and there is just a tiny amount of genuine fun to be had. And I am definitely not hating on simple old games! But most of the games we tried boiled down to "follow ball" with terrible controls. His collection might just have been bad, though.
You should really provide a bit more information other than a cropped screenshot and a vage question!
I mean, the way you posted it would probably fit in a forum/discord that's specific for whatever game it is your question refers to.
Maybe that's just me but I think it's good etiquette to at least mention what game you are talking about.
I don't have an Xbox, so I don't know if they only offer backwards compatibility for first party games?
If no and they offer old third party games, then there is no excuse for Nintendo! If Xbox can do it, the biggest player on the console market can do it!
While I guess you ask because you want to know if the story of the first is important to the second and I can't answer that because I only played the first.
But
If you like hard but rewarding Metrodvania games and you are interested in the weird and interesting religious/horror pixel aesthetic I say: definitely play the first Blasphemous!
Sure, but if I already got an old Super Mario game on the Wii or DS, I can't just re-download it on my Switch. I have to pay for Nintendo Online to play the games. It would be easy for Nintendo to see if I already own a game in their library of available games and allow me to play them without paying for the subscription. They also could make more games they already released on older Eshops and make them playable. The emulator to play old Nintendo games is right there on the Switch!
But yeah, why sell the stuff once if they can just rent it to us anew every couple of years.
I agree 100% with you!
Just a tiny thing I'd like to add: Ubi does, aside from some shitty practices, microtransactions and a ton of stupid money grabbing games, actually makes also a lot of good games. Their "Indie" games series form a couple of years ago had some games where you could feel the love the people making them put in. Valiant Hearts will forever be one of my favorite gaming experiences be!
I don't know you or your general taste in music but if you ever want something a bit more modern yet als doing the 'start slow until you made a wall of sound out of it' thing, I highly recommend you check out the band Motorpsycho! Pretty much every album they made in the 90s and early 2000s have always at least one great song which will build and build and build up to a great crescendo. Their other stuff is absolutely great too! Their song Vortex Surfer got played for 24 hours on new years eve (I think it was 99 to 2000) on a Norwegian radio station.