Well that’s an ominous headline if ever I saw one.

Being banned.

Careful what you wish for.

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I want devs to write games for £400 Steam Decks. I don’t want them to write games for £3000 GPUs.

There’s realistically no games that won’t run on PS5 level hardware. Every effect that can be done with raytracing can be done a little worse without it.

Connery even made a Michael Bay movie watchable.

There’s not many actors that can say that.

Yeah, but in the third act he got to fight a giant spider. Do you know anything about spiders? They’re the fiercest killers in the insect kingdom.

He’s going as one of the creepy guys from Expedition 33.

They already did that in Far Cry Primal…

My CV1 died a few weeks ago. I fancy the Steam Frame, but I’ll wait for release before deciding. I hate Meta, but do I hate them for several times the price of a Quest…

Get to work, plebs. Those guillotines won’t build themselves.

But that was the one place that hadn’t been corrupted by capitalism!

They released one game last year that I’d expect to make money (Assassin’s Creed 14).

Not sure how they’re actually in business right now. Surely they need more than that to stay afloat. None of their microtransaction games are whale milking machines like EA’s FIFA/Madden or Activision’s COD series.

I’ll kind of miss them when they’re gone. They’ve always been the least evil of the big publishers.

After pushback from users? Or after realising how much it’s costing them on the server end?

Street Fighter

It’s terrible. Almost nobody can act. I suspect none of the writers had even looked at the game beyond a few screenshots. The script and plot are laughable.

But then Raul Julia shows up. He knows this is crap. But his kids love the games. He’s literally dying of stomach cancer in every scene. He knows this is his last movie. He’s going to fucking enjoy it, and so are you.

Oh it’s bad. You’ll guess the main plot about two minutes in and it never waves from that. The movie ends and you won’t remember anyone’s names or even what most of them look like.

Great music video though. Watch with a good sound system and a big OLED TV. The experience on a little phone or laptop screen with tinny speakers is going to be a 1/10.

That’s about 20 bucks though.

I think the base game is really a testament to the fact that CDPR have a lot of success with open world games, but don’t really do them very well… They make really solid campaigns, and then pad them out with utter nonsense that kills the pacing stone-cold dead.

“Oh hey, here’s something really urgent. We cannot stress enough how urgent it is. By the way we’ve also just unlocked about a hundred side quests. Enjoy!”

I’m still salty that I missed one of the ending achievements because if you follow the instructions it gives you, it will cause a fail state on that particular ending.

Make sure to make a save at the appropriate point so you can do both paths.

I found it rough near the start, but it gets a lot easier as you go on, once you get more of a feel for when attacks are coming. Eventually you’ll be dodging things you’ve never seen before just on instinct.

Dodges are a lot easier than parries, even if you don’t get the extra AP from it. Fights last a bit longer, but you can definitely plough through most of it even with bad timing. Explore thoroughly in act 1, otherwise you’ll probably be underlevelled for the last boss there. Not really any need to grind mindlessly, but you can if you really need the extra levels.

Do yourself a favour and get the Ultimate Edition. Phantom Liberty is the only real reason to put yourself through it.