lustyargonian @ lustyargonian @lemm.ee

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Will this mean PS5 games in coming years would come in two disks?

Update: never mind they were always using 100 gb

Yup! In the latest friends per second podcast the podcasters were talking about how From Software games (tbh Lies of P is a love letter to bloodborne) don't explicitly give you a difficulty modifier but the games themselves have several things/objects/weapons that can modify the game difficulty for you. It's like the setting is hidden within the game, rather than on the menu.

This idea really clicked with me. So if gamers want an easy mode, they use the "cheeses", if they want hard mode, they ignore that, and if they want to change difficulty, they simply equip/unequip the cheese.

If I were young I would totally play all the games I could. They young ones saw 2008, pandemic, wars, inflation. If not escapism then what?

I cheesed the game using throwables and summons and I absolutely loved it. Without those I would've been frustrated and spent quality time on ignoring the tools that help me finish the game and compensating with my hard labour.

Licensing will do that for you. At least you'll be able to still play it, unlike Crew.

tl;dr: it is what it is

I guess we'll see one or two games do this every 1-2 years, and I think that's actually fine. Baldur's Gate 3 did it but in the end optimising for Series S improved it for everyone. Alan Wake 2 devs said it was hard to fit things into Series S memory but they got there in the end and even delivered a 60 FPS mode. Even Immortals of Avuem got it working at 60 FPS for Series S.

It sucks for the devs for sure and they should leverage it to get some concessions from Microsoft for making them do all the hard work. Maybe a smaller platform fee, or partial funding.

I was so confused by the trailer. What exactly is this game lol

30 FPS and heavy motion blur put me off. Maybe it was just how it was recorded/presented in the stream I guess.

Big if true

They worked on both their engine and Starfield. I just hope now the next games don't require too much engine work (since it was anyway designed around segmented maps of Oblivion and Fallout 3) and can ship games at a faster cadence.

Not sure if the generalization is true, but the point of most stories is to make the protagonist look good and relatable and antagonist look bad and horrible.

God of War, however, is an interesting story where the protagonist is actually pretty unstable with a dark past and on a rampage to kill all gods. He's the monster in a way, and the monsters he has been killing are usually pawns of these gods.

F

AI is going through an "there's an app for that" phase. 2-5 years from now we'll see where AI actually makes most sense.

Unless you're Nintendo of course.

Xbox has tried very hard to convince you to play their games on anything but the Xbox. Cloud? Sure. PC? Sure. PS5? Sure. Switch? Most definitely.

CPU vs GPU tasks I suppose.

I think they set the target of 21M but sold 20.8M. Almost achieved would be more fitting.

Are you sure both weren't running at 60 for you?

Weren't they gaslighting Xbox players that the modes are working fine?