Listen to this guy OP. Don’t be like me and give yourself tinnitus by your early 20s listening to Nine Inch Nails full volume for hours on end. Aint worth it.

I understand what you’re saying (I think) but you know that… you can kill everyone, right? The worst the game does is throw a few more enemies at you (to kill) and some moral characters say mean things to you. Pretty standard RPG mechanics, IMO. It’s just a choice and like I said, the narrative framing sets you up to be a highly-trained stealthy assassin, not some mass-murdering juggernaut. But you can do that if you want

Similarly I could not use the tools the game gives me

Offers* you. There’s even an achievement for completing the game with just a sword and pistol, no upgrades or powers ;) Choices!!

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IIRC you still get the low-chaos ending if you only kill the targets. It’s just by going wild and killing everyone that you get high-chaos, and I think this fits in the moral framing of the game.

I do agree with your gripe that D1 gives you a lot of fun ways to kill people and challenges you not to use them, while at the same time giving you very little nonlethal tools. They addressed this well in the sequel IMO, but I did also love the challenge and the temptation knowing that these enemies would be so easy to defeat with a rat swarm but I just shouldn’t. Like I said, keeps with the moral framing about the slippery slope of mindless revenge IMO

My poor bookshelf…

Wow that looks like a blast. I just finished my ~fifth playthrough of Bioshock: Infinite last week and that game looks like it would slot in right beside that. Thanks for sharing!

THERE ARE BOOKS!?

Dishonored (1) is my favorite game of all time. I’ve put in so many hours across every console I’ve owned since it came out in 2012. Some of the best DLC story expansions of all time, too. Glad to see it still getting some love and mourning the fact that we’ll never get another game.

PS5 still has no games. It’s an anomonly. Even after 5 years and dozens of games, the console still has no games. Wow. Truly one for the history books. I can see why Sony is already talking about releasing the PS6.

Glad to have sold my Index this past summer. Prices are gonna plummet once V.2 comes out

Eh.

It’s a limited-release phone case, essentially. This is a marketing campaign meant to go viral to reaffirm brand identity with customers, not a new product they’re putting into production. Think: “Oh Apple makes those fun pleated phone holders, they’re the fun brand, I’ll get my son’s next phone form there!” “Oh Dodge makes those super powerful muscle cars, they’re the ‘real man’s’ car brand, I’ll get my family’s next grocery-getter from there!” etc., etc.

A need for what? Fucking pockets? That’s been well and truly addressed for hundreds if not thousands of years already.

Can never have enough pockets. I don’t know about you, but I also hate putting my phone in my pants pocket. Kind of like how modern cars still don’t have a real solution to phone storage, most modern clothes still don’t have a good way to store $1,000 electronic devices that for most people carry their whole identity. It’s neat, it’s novel. Anyone who follows any kind of fashion should recognize Issey Miyake and understand that Apple at least did things right and hired a real celebrated human designer for this.

This is 200% that.

Maybe in a long way if you consider that Apple invented the first smartphone fifteen years ago (which they didn’t), but like I said, this actually tries to solve the problem of carrying an expensive smart device that I personally have experienced for years.

tl;dr: if this was just called the ISSEY MIYAKE Phone Carrier, 99% of ya’ll would look at it for ten seconds, call it a silly, overpriced novel designer accessory that’s been around forever and go about your day without getting all eschatological about it.

Silly? Stupid? Sure, but also not at all compulsory and it seems to address a need in the market versus Apple’s usual “inventing problems” approach

It just saves us all time tbh

It’s possible and FWIW, that would be a damn fine game to be remembered for. RDR2 was phenomenal and made even better by the fact that online never really caught on so it could just exist as its own thing, unlike GTA V which is also a great game but also inseparable from GTO:O at this point that no one even bothers talking about the great single player of the game

If thats the case then history books are going to rremember Ben Shapiro as a prolific murderer who stalked college campuses and slayed students in ritualistic spectator events

Its not about being too big but too little stuff to do IMO. The first Assassin’s Creed wasnt even that big but felt like a wasteland going from one side of the map to the other

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I see what you mean. Everyone’s needs are different. But PC is better, of course

Yeah, its interesting that OP is just now asking about this when it seems like the console wars have died down entirely

Uhuhuh did you just say fap time? Uhuhuh