OK, what the fuck.

15 years of legal battle for a patent on a controller that has stopped being relevant in 2017. And that’s me being generous, since despite liking that console, even I think counting the Wii U as being relevant is a bit ridiculous.

I mean, that setting alone shouldn’t be enough to claim copyright infringement, but the visual identity of the Tencent game looks way too close to Horizon. And since apparently they tried to get the licence and failed, it’s even harder to see it as anything but an attempt to make “I can’t believe it’s not Horizon”.

They could have made it look different enough that it would be considered at most heavily inspired and there would be nothing wrong with it.

I certainly don’t think Sony needs defending, but yeah, I can’t say that result is surprising.

The reason they’re cheaper is because the carrier is expecting to keep you locked in their network.

Not worth it IMO. Similar to cheaper phones with loads of preinstalled crap, you’re not getting a discount, you’re signing a deal to be farmed.

I don’t buy very expensive phones, but I try to find ones that are mostly free of crap (not easy), and I’m ready to pay a bit extra for that.

It’s not wrong, but the amount of random shit they added to it is enough to make a dive into it worth it to me, at least once in a while.

It’s certainly not deep, but there’s stuff to do, some room for creativity, and occasional funny weirdo creatures to encounter.

It’s Bethesda we’re talking about. They can definitely reach that level of incompetence without AI being involved.

I absolutely love XC1 and 3, and I enjoy XCX for everything that’s not its story, and…

Yeah I totally agree with you. XC2 is cursed on many levels. It’s the one I just can’t replay and it’s mainly because of its characters and degenerate quirks. You’ve played the worst game of the series by far.

Too bad, decent hardware for the price is the only thing they had. Everything else is a terrible experience.

I was already almost certain I would never buy another headset from them, so thank you for making that decision easier.

Do you have coin for that khajiit’s wares?

My VR headset can create pretty accurate 3D maps of my environment like nothing, and it only uses cameras to do so, so I can imagine it’s doable.

Then, yeah, it doesn’t “make sense” for that thing to externalize that.

There’s something not working in this article.

They say it “makes sense” for the device to basically send the plan of your home to some online server, because the vacuum is not powerful enough to process this data on its own. This is already a bit horrifying to me, but okay.

And then when that guy blocked it out, the vacuum “worked for a while” before something sent the kill command through an update.

How come is it still working at all if navigation requires that server?

Update : CotND is now working (again!) on Switch 2. And I haven’t had the sound issue from earlier either. There was a bugfix patch lately, and I guess they must have found what caused the Switch 2 crash and fixed it in this.

I am sure anyone who played Tears of the Kingdom did that at some point, but there are those koroks little guys you’re supposed to guide to their destination, generally by designing machines to carry them there.

Of course instead you just strap them to the most absurd rocket powered contraptions and play Korok Space Program.

A bit weird indeed. I’ve played it on switch and it runs perfectly fine on it.

I can kind of see that.

It was not a huge problem for me, but I play lots of metroidvania, and I am used to memorizing stuff for later. And for stuff that I know will be hard to remember, occasionally, I might take notes or screenshots of hints.

Though most of the time, there are more than one hint for a single quest. The game does a very good job at updating every related NPC dialogue when something has changed.

But if you want to find everything, yeah you have to talk to absolutely everyone. TWICE. Almost everyone has two lines of dialogue at any moment.

I like CrossCode, but I am going to bat for Phoenotopia Awakening, one of the best game almost nobody has heard about. Slightly different perspective but similarly massive game full of secrets, puzzles, fun characters and a consistent world where even the tiniest bit of banter can lead you to discover something on the other side of the map.

Yeah, I would never even have considered those if I just encountered them with no other info.

I can get branding things that are maybe even tangentially related to their main activity, and then there’s a chance they’d want something at least decent. Possibly.

That one is so random I couldn’t imagine more thought went into it than tacking their logo on the cheapest thing they could buy.

It doesn’t actually appear anywhere in game but Oblivion’s main character has an internal name in the editor. “Bendu Olo”. Very Geoge Lucas kind of name.

Shin Megami Tensei games have you rename their protagonist (and often the 3 other central characters too), but most of them don’t have a canonical name. Also most of the time those people are supposed to be Japanese. Every time I am starting a game like that I struggle to choose a name that doesn’t stick out like a sore thumb for them.

If there is a default name, I usually use it. Exceptions are the kind of RPG where the character is a blank slate, whose identity doesn’t matter at all and whose appearance is custom (like Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Xenoblade X for example). And stuff like Pokémon, obviously. When your avatar is going to meet other players, doesn’t look good if everyone has the same name.

I started Xenoblade Chronicles X (Wii U) without even knowing the main character had a canon name (it’s… Cross. Like the X is supposed to be pronounced in the games’s title). But even if know it now I still rename them. They are custom, there is multiplayer, and story-wise they’re the blandest of characters anyway, so…

A bit of warning : I’ve seen indie developers mention that having a single common word for their game title was a mistake. It makes it hard to search for. A combination of words or a simple phrase is better in that regard.

Searching only for “Architect game” right now already yields a bunch of things, like a Korean MMO, actual house architect simulators, and you know, the very popular Prison Architect.

Yeah, not a lot of dev kits went to indie apparently. It’s a bit baffling that Brace Yourself is so low on that list. Not sure if they got one since, but when I reported my issue in early November, they told me they still didn’t have any.

At least Cadence of Hyrule works (and Rift of the Necrodancer too, but it’s a very different game).