I think it was a CoD that big but it might have been some other AAA perennial. Either way, 4K textures are huge when unoptimized and in the era of gigabit internet and digital distribution, devs don’t feel much pressure to optimize.

Good thing she’s such a cutie!

What’s that got to do with the price of tea in China? Stop posting made-up nonsense.

This is also 3+ years old. 2023 isn’t 2026.

And CoD is 250GB or something.

FO4 is kind of bland by itself but it does have a lot of great mods. Horizon’s my favorite simply because it’s kind of designed to be a self-contained experience (even including texture and lighting mods by the same creator!) so it’s very much a quick and easy process.

In what way? Most every planet has every important resource and PoI.

I love NMS but it’s been shelved for the better part of a year at this point and I don’t even really return for the updates anymore. Mods do a lot to improve the game and the new stuff they add is really cool but it’s built on a painfully limited and outdated foundation. Every planet might as well be the same so what’s the point of exploring?

Playing a game like BG3 in co-op sounds utterly absurd to me. You’re supposed to have a gripping narrative with your character (which for a lot players will be a self insert, making it even more personal) with lots of text to read and digest and process. How are you supposed to focus on all that if you’re on a call with a friend??

RE9 is probably on the lower end for me. Was excited and paid full price and didn’t even get more than an hour into a second run before I got bored. The game is good but a depressing amount of it is basically on rails, kind of like the Beneviento house in RE8.

For 70 fucking bucks, it needs to ship with a mercenaries mode or seriously different NG+ mode. Insanity stops being interesting as soon as you get the blood collector and start making OP backstab injectors again and ironically showcases how actually rather unobservant most enemies are.

Compare that to games like Abiotic Factor, which are half the price (and I paid less than that because I got it during its 0.9 early access patch) and I’ve clocked hundreds of hours in or games like WoW or FFXIV which have clocked several thousand hours each.

No one actually wants physical media other than collectors and preservationists, and the latter can just write digitally obtained files to storage after the fact.

Modern games are very bloated, and even optimized 4K textures still take up a lot of space. We’re past the point where discs are remotely feasible as a way of efficiently storing games.

Just in time for the Code Veronica remake. Maybe it’ll be a launch title.

Not really end of an era, you’re just witnessing a monopoly forming since Xbox is pretty much dead in the water. I guess it’s technically a duopoly since Nintendo is fine, but Nintendo kinda does its own thing without regard to what others do. Basically, with Xbox out of the picture, Sony is free to do whatever it wants.

I don’t disagree, but it’s hard to think of many states that are still around today that haven’t done evil shit. If you’re against the idea of uneven trade and exploitation of developing countries, it’s probably not impossible to find a moral state.

I really like the burrow move. Dodge rolls tend to be extremely OP in anything souls inspired. Players don’t really need to properly understand the enemies because they get a pretty healthy amount of iframes with minimal startup and sometimes even no cost at all. It’s definitely something that needs adjusting to and you’ll get your shit slapped a lot if you’re used to souls style dodging. There are trinkets that make your mercy invincibility and stuff better but I’m honestly not a huge fan of how they do trinkets. Too many of them have a “why isn’t this just default?” feel to em.

Living in a van down by the river, obviously!

Just be more cautious about how you word things in the future.

If you value privacy, fuck off into the woods at this point. It’s looking pretty likely increasingly invasive spying laws will get approved in many different countries.

Cool. A federated Discord might be the easiest solution. If you’re gonna self host I’m not sure why you wouldn’t just use teamspeak, though.

At the S tier level it’s both strategy and speed. Lower than that, as in like over 99% of players, strategy is more important than anything else.