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- Comment on Ken Levine's Judas Could Slip Nearly Three More Years, Putting BioShock Successor Eleven Years Deep in Development 5 days ago:
BioShock Infinite took long enough and the finished product was significantly less interesting than the previews. This looks like it’s going to take twice as long. I don’t see that working out.
- Comment on Half of UK adults say they spend less than three hours a week outside in nature 5 days ago:
That makes sense for me. Weekends are often consumed by catching up with various errands and chores, as well as hopefully at least something fun. During the week loads of us work full time. Sure, there’s time in the evenings for some of the year, but for a decent chunk of it darkness sets in before work is over.
Fitting in an hour of being in nature, three times per week? That’s a big ask, I suspect.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 week ago:
Does the other person’s reply not appear for you?
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 week ago:
I don’t think I’ve encountered a magic system that doesn’t annoy me, unfortunately.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 week ago:
Basically anything focused on fantasy dungeon crawling. I spend my life indoors without enough daylight. Why would I want to do that but with even less light and more stuff trying to kill me?
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 week ago:
I can’t tell if this is a joke comment or not. I don’t know what the letters stand for and as such it could be about almost anything.
- Comment on UK ‘built for climate that no longer exists’ and needs urgent changes to survive global heating, report warns 1 week ago:
It hasn’t made much sense to have air-conditioning for the week a year where it’d make life a bit more comfortable. Our summers aren’t that hot. London is probably awful given that it’s all concrete and glass but the rest of the UK isn’t quite so urbanised.
- Comment on 60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market 2 weeks ago:
For me “too much” was a long time ago. The price of graphics cards went insane at some point and it stopped being worth it. The last time I bought a graphics card new was in 2009 and that cost me, adjusted for inflation, £220 (Why do I still have the receipt..?). It was an nVidia GTX 260 and at the time was a fairly decent midrange card. Looking at graphics card pricing now, uh, nope, that wouldn’t buy me anything comparable - it looks like we’re talking ~£380 for midrange stuff, so a ~70% increase in price.
Whilst obviously the hardware is a lot more capable now than it was then, the amount of enjoyment I get out of gaming hasn’t gone up. If anything I enjoy gaming less now than I did then, although that’s more due to me getting older.
I’m constantly baffled as to how anyone can justify the cost of a decent gaming PC these days.
- Comment on How getting young people into sport could save the UK millions 2 weeks ago:
A great many of us spent our childhoods with terrible associations with sport. To this day I dislike it, despite not wanting to.
I’m hoping I can make it more fun for my daughter so she can walk a different path.
- Comment on What gaming console you owned disappointed you the most and why ? 2 weeks ago:
The PSP was both amazing and awful. So much squandered potential. So few developers did anything cool with it.
- Comment on What was the last physical retail store game purchase you've made? 3 weeks ago:
Until recently I was buying second hand games for my Xbox One. Then I got a Steam Deck and that was that.
- Comment on Nintendo is raising the price of the Switch 2, blaming 'market conditions' 3 weeks ago:
What about Starfox 2?
- Comment on London Marathon: Choir dropped by charity Scope over founder's gender-critical views 5 weeks ago:
“lawfully held” - when your go-to argument is “it’s not technically illegal” then you might want to consider your stance.
- Comment on McDonald's boss on abuse claims: 'I don't want to talk about the past' 5 weeks ago:
Lauren Schultz told the BBC what had happened in recent years was “unacceptable” but said “we have drawn a line under it”.
Wait, that’s a thing we can do? I wonder if the missus can write off her student loan like that.
- Comment on Metro 2039 - Official Reveal Trailer 1 month ago:
The “open world craze”? I get disagreeing with design decisions but that seems a bit of an odd angle, given how long open world games had been popular at the time of release.
I’ve not played an open world game that was anything like Exodus. It was an interesting blend of sandbox and tight narrative.
I couldn’t really get into the early games, despite liking the concept, but loved Exodus. I could see how it wouldn’t suite someone who preferred the style of the previous games, but I think I would argue that “a third helping of the same” rarely takes a game series anywhere interesting.
- Comment on Hot Take: most modern games are designed to purely kill time 1 month ago:
A great many of the games I grew up with were descended from coin-op design principles and so were designed to delay progress as much as possible.
- Comment on PS5 Price increase collapses PlayStation console sales in Japan, with Xbox gaining 1 month ago:
Whilst it’s an oversimplification, if the old price only got Y sales then a higher new price was always only going to get a subset of Y.
Console sales go up over time in part because the price goes down, broadening the customer base. Sure, the library gets bigger over time too, but that’s barely happening either.
- Comment on Is the UK falling out of love with social media? 1 month ago:
Yeah, I use it for Marketplace and a wargaming group I admin. Its original use case for me is long gone.
- Comment on Confirmed: PS5 console prices are being raised by $100 | VGC 2 months ago:
I guess I’ll just have to buy even fewer consoles than I already am.
- Comment on Why Everyone’s Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026 (my article!) 2 months ago:
I should really get replacement batteries for my two PSPs.
- Comment on Why Everyone’s Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026 (my article!) 2 months ago:
I wouldn’t say “the worst” but the phrase “squandered potential” looms large.
- Comment on UK looks to emulate Spanish youth custody where inmates do art and play sport 2 months ago:
I do find it very strange how few systems are built based on outcomes. Brutalising people doesn’t result in less crime, it’s just spending millions to make the problem worse.
- Comment on What are your hallmark games? What games have shaped how you view games? 2 months ago:
Little Big Adventure 2.
It’s a massive game with both a 3D open world and isometric gorgeousness. Some character progression (not experience points), full voice acting, and a lot of character.
In many ways it set the bar for me in terms of how much a game should contain and the level of quality I expected.
- Comment on I started playing WH40k Rogue Trader and I'm digging it, but I know virtually nothing of Warhammer. Any super basic world info I should know going in? 2 months ago:
I’ve heard this said many, many times, but I’ve yet to see an actual source on it.
I collected Orks in 3rd edition. I have the big black book, I have the codex, I was subscribed to White Dwarf. I don’t recall seeing anything like that at the time.
- Comment on I started playing WH40k Rogue Trader and I'm digging it, but I know virtually nothing of Warhammer. Any super basic world info I should know going in? 2 months ago:
No idea, I was responding to their first paragraph.
- Comment on I started playing WH40k Rogue Trader and I'm digging it, but I know virtually nothing of Warhammer. Any super basic world info I should know going in? 2 months ago:
That Ork stuff is a meme. Their tech works, they’re not powered by imagination.
- Comment on Video game PEGI age-ratings are changing in Europe from June. Four new categories added to tackle elements of addictive design, unmonitored online communication and loot boxes 2 months ago:
As the parent of a tiny child this is great to see. I couldn’t give less of a shit about violent contents in games and ratings based on that sort of unproven rubbish. However games that deliberately implement dark patterns are literally designed to be dangerously manipulative and that I want to be able to make informed decisions about.
- Comment on Wealth Taxes Are Pointless While Tax Havens Exist 2 months ago:
I guess we’ll just have to continue doing nothing and see if things improve.
Or perhaps by establishing the principle in law we can then build on it to take various measures to combat the problem. A solution doesn’t need to be perfect to be better than ignoring the problem.
- Comment on South Devon farmers design proposal for UK’s first Basic Income for Farmers pilot 2 months ago:
The notion that farming is supposed to be profitable is wild to me. The idea should be that we put money in and get food out. Wanting to also get money out is insane to me.
- Comment on Trump: 'I am not happy with the UK' 2 months ago:
Best news I’ve heard all day. I’d be more ashamed of us than usual if he was pleased with us.