I was interested in this game but a 70€ GKC is a nope for me. Even if it were a proper physical release, that price seems way too high for the kind of game it is.

“Bad” is relative, but it does reduce the long-term lifespan of your battery. Ideally you should charge to 80%, but if you actually need the 100%, I wouldn’t worry about it either.

Wish they’d give us the on-console activity log back instead of putting everything into apps.

It’s also a big risk, as they could always enshittify. It’s a good platform now, but if Gabe dies or decides to give up his leadership position, that could all change very quickly.

Technically, I’d say that GOG does, as you can just download and back up all the installers for the games. Wouldn’t even matter if the company went bankrupt or even if the entire internet died completely. You could still install and play the games just fine.

It’s too big when the developers are unable to fill it with enough interesting things to do and discover to keep my attention. But there’s no absolute size I’d automatically consider too big, as it also depends on things like traversal. If you ride through the map on a mech going 400km/h, it can be much larger and more spread out than if I have to traverse the entire map on foot.

I find myself becoming less and less interested in staying in the industry I’m currently working in for the rest of my life. Problem is, I don’t have any other qualifications. So I guess it could start working on acquiring new ones while I’m still young enough to do so, but I’d need both a clear idea on what other career I want to pursue and the motivation to leave my currently pretty comfortable position in life. I have neither.

I’ve only gotten like 1.5 hours in so I can’t really say yet, but so far it feels similar to the first one with some improvements to stuff like gunplay.

It’s the main menu. Pretty fun idea, but from what I’ve played of the actual game so far, it isn’t nearly as creative or meta unfortunately.

It’s The Outer Worlds 2.

It plays games

This is a massive free content update for a 5 year old game and a $5 update for Switch 2 owners who want higher resolutions and more online features. No reason to try and find something to complain about just because it’s Nintendo.

Nice that they’re packing the bulk of the features into the free update instead of the Switch 2 edition! 5€ for the latter also seems like a very fair deal. Definitely getting this.

City: The Animation for me. I really wanted to like it and the animation style is great, but I just didn’t find it very funny.

There isn’t a single site I’d consider an alternative. These days I mostly order from specialized online shops for different product categories, so for example electronics from Alternate, video games from netgames etc. Price comparison sites are often a good place to find these shops. When available I buy directly from manufacturers as well, especially clothing. Occasionally I also order stuff from AliExpress.

I also found that I buy less things in general since ditching Amazon. I guess the additional hassle of buying through other shops makes it easier to realize I don’t actually need many of the things I might have otherwise purchased.

Yeah. I mean Crysis had been out for 3 years already. N64 graphics seemed ancient at that point.

Crazy how much airtime this game gets, for what it is. Seems like we’ll know about every aspect of the game in excruciating detail by the time it releases. The first one was already twice as long as it needed to be, but I guess as long as it makes Sakurai happy…

That strategy sounds way too advanced for Trump’s mind, so I really don’t think so.

I was gifted that book, but I admit I haven’t really read it. I do miss Iwata-era Nintendo. It wasn’t perfect, but it felt far less “soulless corporation” than it does now. Having an actual game developer leading a gaming company is definitely better than a random corpo. And Iwata himself seemed like a decent person.

Cool concept for sure! Gave the demo a short go, but it seems like it’s really just a tech-demo, where you can place some buildings on the world map but with no actual gameplay.