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I think the main issue people have is that they got Peter Molyneux’d on it. Which is fair enough, and why I don’t really read much about games before I play them.

I’m glad I held off until PL came out, because it looks like the 2.0 update fixed a lot of things that would irritate me, like gear and levelling blocking off missions. It does rob you of a sense of progression, but I’ll trust their decision to drop that.

There’s enough RPG elements to get in the way of it being a shooter, but not enough to actually satisfy anybody who wanted a full blown RPG. Decisions especially are very binary and I gave up on the platinum trophy after seeing I’d have to save a guy I let die about 60 hours of gameplay ago, in a save long since overridden.

I guess I’ve been around the block enough times to filter out any claims of amazing AI and day/night cycles. We’ve heard those claims before with Fable and Oblivion, and all it really meant is “the shops shut at night”. And here it didn’t even do that, at least beyond a handful of locations where you had to press a button to wait until they opened before you could do the quest inside.

I think I’ve had a lot better experience going into this late and blind.

Patches mean we’re no longer in the days of bad games being bad forever, but they’re certainly remembered that way.

I’m not sure what most people were expecting but I finally got around to playing the GOTY edition recently.

I got a game with great characters, writing and story, slightly average gameplay, all shackled to a bizarre open world that completely destroys any pacing and urgency. It really did not need all those fixers and like 150 police mini missions, which detract from it all in a major way.

Having also played Witcher 3, that’s kind of what I was expecting, I guess. I genuinely think CDPR should abandon their open world ideas, because they’re excellent at story telling, but really bad at filler bullshit.

Phantom Liberty ups the package to a flawed masterpiece.

That’s not going to mean shit when it downloads a 100GB day one patch.

Option 1: Admit your UI choices (made mostly to accommodate an all tablet PC future that never arrived) are terrible and redesign the Windows settings screens to display all new and old settings that still work, with search functions.

Option 2: Spend tens of billions training an AI to find those settings and change them.

Well done, Microsoft. I knew you’d make the right choice.

Plus it was horrifically slow for everything. Even when new.

It arguable it’s not more powerful than a phone, but the keyboard would certainly be useful.

Phones are capable of a lot, but even something basic like a network ping is buried and they prefer you to install some crappy app with adverts and in app purchases, rather than let you use the PC in your pocket.

“This app is Free!”

*opens app*

“Psyche! Get your credit card out…”

As always the best way to get a response on the internet is not to ask a question.

The best way is to post a wrong answer.

On what planet does a Steam Deck give 4070 performance?

And on which does a 4070 cost $300 for that matter? They cost more than a whole PS5.

No, but it looks interesting. Never seen a pinball RTS before.

I did recently play a pinball platformer, in Yoku’s Island Express.

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I consider that new. I’ve still got a few GC games on my “to play” list…

I like it.

I just don’t like it when people much younger than me do it because I played their “childhood favourites” when I was already working for a living.

And that’s not even the first 3D Mario.

No no no, it’s not Chinese data mining.

it’s just socialised data with Chinese characteristics! Much better.

People never bought music from artists.

They bought it from record labels.

Whenever you see an artist complain they had a million streams and made twenty dollars, it’s not Spotify that’s keeping it all.

It is, and more than that it takes way too long to build. The time for it was 30 years ago.

I noticed that during the 80s and 90s it “wasn’t safe”, and during the last 20 years it was “too expensive”, but now you see a few powerful people advocating for it.

And I can only assume it’s the same big booming Brian Blessed-esque voice as before: that of the fossil fuel industry.

They know they’re on the way out, but if they can make people bicker and argue and spend all their money on nuclear, which will likely take 20 years to actually come online, they can carry on guzzling dinosaur juice, while simultaneously nixing any large eco friendly plans under a giant banner of “the nuclear is already on it’s way!”

Yeah, but a clumsy Soviet Union and a massive fossil fuel lobby put paid to that in the UK. 5% of our power comes across the channel from France…