Doom 2016 wasn’t exactly generous with ammo limits in the early game, but Eternal was a chore. Here’s 20 enemies, 6 of them are cacodemons that will only die if you lob a shotgun grenade at their mouth. You have 12 shotgun and 50 plasma bullets, the latter enough to kill 1 caco.

His GDC presentation on how his work happened is an excellent watch

Doom: Behind the Music, GDC 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4FNBMZsqrY

But, until that person who can unite gamers appears again, and holds those important and knowledgeable discussions… Influencers will be just that: influencers - not journalists. And be unreliable shills.

Given past events, the more likely outcome is yet another gamergate, where actual criticism of the lack of honesty in games reporting gets drowned in a sea of misogyny, personal attacks and hate based on disinformation

Fifthy pounder on the way

Go for release order. People (including me) can complain about episode 1 all they want, I think it’s better to get a good grasp of “what was intended” first before understanding the whole fan recommendations

“It was for my kids, I swear!!”

I mean, humans completely suck at evaluating vertical distances, thinking that taller = more is just further evidence, I’d say

After Nintendo saw how much the Wii succeeded while effectively being a gamecube with motion controls and a DVD drive vs. two “top tier titans”, they never bothered again with being at the forefront of tech, which possibly felt like a homecoming, considering the Famicom was kinda underpowered at release, but cheap to produce.

A PS2 with FreeMCBoot is always a great option. If you can get a phat model and stick a HDD there, you’re golden

You can also jailbreak it, depending on the firmware version

According to this chart, yes, the PS5 is leading by roughly 40 million units compared to the current XSX

'Member when you bought a magazine and got a FREE floppy or CD with a bunch of (shareware/demo) games? I played the same 2 demo maps of Age of Empires to death - the game had 3, but the 3rd one was too hard for youngster me.

I’d fill the whole screen, then use the freestyle cutting and go wild with the mouse, then delete the selection, leaving a weirdly neat 2-color mosaic

Obligatory XKCD - https://xkcd.com/667/

Somewhat related, I recall Michael Bell talking about his experience with Soul Reaver, shortly after release. The voice of Raziel couldn’t get past the jump part of the tutorial and just gave up

Meanwhile, PC players can still buy and play it off steam. Or just pirate it

Tricky dik diks

How Ben and Luke tell the story of how the latter nearly killed his nephew could’ve used better execution/storytelling, that alone would significantly reduce the amount of discussion on how the movie “killed his character”

Nah, even if it wasn’t Star Wars, it’d be 6/10 at best

I was ok with using the ship as a suicidal torpedo, but I wasn’t ok with a single person being able to fully maneuver the thing all by herself, or the ensuing space rip conveniently doing that V shape and getting all 3 ships.

But the bombing run at the beginning of the movie really set the tone for “Prepare to be sorely disappointed”