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- Comment on Day 836 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 10 hours ago:
Just a Windows PC. I’ve never messed with installing stuff from git or running emulators and IMO it’s tough to find legitimate resources to get started.
- Comment on Day 836 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 19 hours ago:
Are you playing these games via emulation? I’ve always wanted to go back to them but TBH I have no clue where to start (that’s trustworthy).
- Comment on Is Minecraft Dungeons 2 a bad sequel? 2 weeks ago:
I think it’s much closer to Diablo 4. There are quest-giver NPCs around a world map, instanced mission areas (akin to D4 dungeons), configurable ability-based combat, and loot dropped on the spot.
- Comment on Day 821 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
Facility in GoldenEye 64 is kinda this. There’s a similar level in Perfect Dark, too. Both are “normal” stages with a bunch of vents that provide alternative connections between areas. They’re fun… unless you’re playing the Perfect Dark one and someone else has the Farsight.
- Comment on Is Minecraft Dungeons 2 a bad sequel? 2 weeks ago:
I’m by no means a big fan of the series, but I think it’s fine. Is a light little Diablo clone in the Minecraft universe. I played for 2-3 hours solo on Game Pass and it felt as expected. I enjoyed it more than the first game but take all that with a grain of salt since I only played #1 for maybe 7 hours.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Are the ratings supposed to be for the game or for the recomp quality?
- Comment on Hellblade developer Ninja Theory heading towards closure in new wave of Xbox cuts, as two separate agreements collapse 5 weeks ago:
I read a good article a while back about how Microsoft needs to choose whether there are console maker or a game publisher. As a company, you can’t succeed at both because fundamentally those two approaches are at odds with each other. Consoles need exclusives. But game publishers need maximum exposure, which comes from NOT being exclusive.
FWIW, I don’t think Sharma understands this.
- Comment on The Next Chapter for Bungie 5 weeks ago:
Woah. What’s going on at Bungie that prompted this sudden change?
- Comment on Upcoming Changes to XBOX Cloud Gaming [time limits] 1 month ago:
Xbox snatching defeat from the jaws of victory yet again.
Sony is fucking up left and right, and gamers are pissed at them. This should be a slam dunk situation for Microsoft, but here we are. - Comment on Upcoming Changes to XBOX Cloud Gaming [time limits] 1 month ago:
For real. Cloud gaming was just starting to get somewhat appealing, here they are killing any momentum it may have had.
- Comment on Xbox wanted 77M Game Pass subscribers by 2026 — today it has less than half that 3 months ago:
Look I know it’s cool to hate on Microslop, but c’mon.
- People are largely fine with renting when they can rent a shit ton of stuff at the same time. This is Netflix for video games, and it’s actually done well (compared to whatever the fuck PS tries to do).
- Mods are niche. The type of person who buys a console already knows they aren’t going to get mods.
- Game Pass has a strong track record of giving plenty of advance notice for both additions and removals from service. And they offer discounts on all games that are about to go away.
- See #3. This is a made up strawman issue.
Microsoft is fucked from a business perspective, but Game Pass was a great idea and a great offering right up until they fucked themselves from a business perspective by buying Activision for an ocean of money.
- Comment on Microsoft is selling off four Xbox studios as part of significant gaming cuts 3 months ago:
What a stupid idea on their part, if accurate.
If you make AI slop, you have to compete with everyone else who is making AI slop. And pretty much everyone else is making AI slop with less overhead than Microsoft will EVER get down to. Shit, the new XBOX CEO probably makes more than most AI-centric devs/teams.
The advantage of being big is that you can gain access to resources and sources that aren’t available to competitors who are small. That’s real voice talent, amazing designers, capital to develop and maintain your own game systems (e.g. engines). So if you’re going to do small-company stuff while being big, you’ll always lose to the small companies (business-wise). Guess the new CEO either doesn’t realize this or doesn’t want to believe it.
- Comment on Finally started Cyberpunk.... I can't stop climbing everything. 3 months ago:
To add to this, don’t be afraid to adjust the difficulty to your liking. Scaling is honestly GREAT for the game, but IMO normal-level combat is too easy. Higher difficulties add real threat to combat, which I think makes things much more interesting.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
This guy nailed it. I’m one of the players who came back for MoT / bought the everything collection. I’ve been playing through the content after the Europa story, and the game’s quality tanked after Final Shape. Final Shape is GREAT - campaign is fun & interesting, new location has tons of new activities with lots of secret content, and prismatic is a cool new way to build your character.
But then Edge of Fate comes along, and Bungie very clearly cheaped out and cut all kinds of corners. The story dialogue is nonsense and half of the interactions are literally just text boxes over static characters, Fallout-style. They didn’t even bother to record voice work. The campaign level design to a nose dive where they clearly just decided to throw a billion enemies at you rather than create interesting encounters.
Renegades is a little better from a writing perspective, but all of the other corner-cutting problems persist.
- Comment on Good luck grocery clerks 3 months ago:
It’s not just that there’s a protein-packed option for everything, it’s that the options are 1) protein-packed or 2) total garbage.
Like, I want to eat healthy and not buy shit with 147% of my daily sugar intake in a single serving, but at the same time I don’t need extra protein.
- Comment on Horror story 4 months ago:
It’s not? Everyone at my company has the same experience.
- Comment on Already going to be a problem child 4 months ago:
Tell me you haven’t watched Serpico without telling me you haven’t watched Serpico.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
Doom Guy does not look cool with his helmet off.
- Comment on Mina The Hollower Is Now Metacritic's Highest-Rated Game Of 2026 5 months ago:
Didn’t this game come out like 39 hours ago?
- Comment on 5 months ago:
Damn, this sounds a lot better than I expected. I’ll have to check this out once my Forza hype dies down.
- Comment on This is the dark souls of games journalism 5 months ago:
Because he’s an extreme perfectionist, and it will never be perfect.
There’s a GREAT book about the making of different games called Blood, Sweat, and Pixels and it includes a chapter on Stardew Valley. Pretty much the only reason Stardew was released was because Ape had pretty bad financial troubles. He won’t be in that situation again thanks to Stardew’s success.
HC will never be good enough (in Ape’s super-perfectionist mind), so he’ll keep working on it forever. And he won’t bring anyone in to help him finish it for the same reason. I mean, we’re already six years into development and he still hasn’t indicated anything about being remotely close, or even said “I want to finish these things before I release v1.” He wants to release a perfect game that does everything he could dream of as v1, and doesn’t want to compromise with anything less.
It’s basically a curse of his and TBH I feel bad for the guy. Do read the book (or at least the Stardew vignette) if you’re a fan of his work - it was very enlightening.
- Comment on This is the dark souls of games journalism 5 months ago:
Geez, that’s a whole lot of dreaming and unfounded hype-building, especially for a game that will likely never see an actual release.
- Comment on Xbox Player Voice Quickly Reveals What Players Want Most 5 months ago:
Have you looked at the page? It would be a BIG effort to fake it, and the suggestions read like the kind of stupid shit only real players come up with. “Make Xbox Love free” was one of the top suggestions… why would Xbox even put that on there, much less fake it to the top?
- Comment on PlayStation Plus price increase announced for new customers 5 months ago:
Fucking hell. PS5 finally gets a few good exclusives and then they jack up other prices so high that the barrier to entry is still unjustifiable. Good luck fixing those slumping sales numbers, Sony.
- Comment on The Secrets Behind THAT Cyberpunk 2077 Montage | Game Maker's Toolkit 5 months ago:
This is pretty badass.
- Comment on PS5 Exclusive Saros Has Reportedly Only Sold 300K Copies 5 months ago:
I would be all over this if it were available on a platform I actually owned. But I’m not about to pay $1k to play it (or whatever it costs after Sony’s latest round of price hikes on aging hardware).
- Comment on Sony PS5 sales drop 46%, even before recent price increase 5 months ago:
And the console is like 8 years old, so anyone who wants one already has one.
- Comment on Top-selling video games ever (2025) 6 months ago:
Including Wii Sports is kinda bullshit. It was a pack-in for the console. Not like people had a choice there.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
He makes/contributes to country music now. Maybe that’s what the second panel is getting at.
- Comment on Times sure have changed 6 months ago:
I wouldn’t call this scene a “good night’s sleep”…