I think the term “open world” is mostly meaningless these days. Skyrim, for example, is called an open world game. But… It’s not? At least not by the definition that “open world” originally meant, which literally was just a continuous game world with no loading screens between areas.

Now it just kinda means “game with big outside map.” Unless I can walk into a building without seeing a load screen, I don’t consider it to be truly open world.

Dark Souls is a true open world game, even though it’s not big or has vast open fields, while, again, Skyrim is not because going into a cave, or a house, or even a major city, requires loading a new level, breaking up the world.

(I know he apparently didn’t actually say that. Sssshhhhh)

Just change Miyamoto’s face with Kojima’s. 🤷🏻‍♂️

After Oblivion, I wonder if they would announce it and release it at the same time, too.

Lance is the best! But it’s also one of the hardest to use effectively.

Look up the actual combos, because most of the games I’ve played in the series do not tell you every single combo you can do in game, and some of them are extremely helpful. Especially with the lance.

It hasnt needed a local connection for a while. I usually play Civilization over it when out of the house.

What more do they need to do besides having Steam Link to let you stream your PC games to your phone?

I don’t have a desk job. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I also always end up taking a break in the suggested (or rather, the suggested manner back when video games straight up had warnings about playing too long in the manual/splash screens when starting them) when I am playing. Just stand up, walk to the kitchen/bathroom/whatever and look at something other than a screen for like 5-10 minutes every 45-minutes to an hour.

You should be able to do that at work, too. Just stand up, stretch, look at the ceiling/floor. You don’t even have to leave your cubicle/office.

Only one of those looks like any butthole I’ve ever seen. Now I wanna see the buttholes whoever wrote this has seen.

The content isn’t the problem. Or, well, most of the content, anyway. The problem is who controls its recommendation algorithm and collects the data. Personally, I don’t know if it warrants a ban; but I certainly will never download the app.

Shenmue

My thoughts exactly. Sure it was good; but influencial? I am trying to remember what, if anything, it even did that was novel for the time, let alone what’s been replicated from it that would show some influence it had.

Also: Baldur’s Gate 3 is so new, it’s hard to say it’s had any influence at all yet. I’m not even sure Larian has influenced much in the industry, and they have made a lot of public statements about the state of the industry since BG3 blew up.

I don’t know how, I don’t know why… But no other game, even those inspired by and basically copying GTA, feels as good to move around in. Whether you’re on foot or in a vehicle, the GTA series just has this nice feel to it that I have only seen come close to being replicated with the very first Saint’s Row. And even it wasn’t as tight.

You can copy everything else, it seems, from the giant detailed cities, to the format of missions and the gunplay; but the driving always feels garbo compared to GTA.

I wouldn’t think it wouldn’t be any more of a legal requirement than making sure you keep CSAM off your servers as with current laws, just now with deep fakes too.

I had made a script that would allow me to set timers for my stickies as a demo. Spray a CP or doorway with 'em, set the timer to, like, 60 seconds and then go spam regular nades somewhere and just wait for someone to explode a minute later.

You can play most vidja james with the graphics maxed out. At least @ 1080p on that one.

I just want to know that something new I subscribe to was added because it doesn’t always appear on my front page or recommendations, doesn’t show a thing on the subscription panel (assuming the channel is one of the ones visible without going into the whole page of subscriptions) and I don’t want to have to check every channel I subscribe to every time I am watching YT just to know whether or not there is anything new.

It’s not like the notifications go to my phone or anything.

I have them all set to all.

What surprised me the most was the statistic that only 3% of author’s views come from the subscriptions feed. This is wild to me because subscriptions are pretty much the only way I have ever used YouTube.

Considering that my biggest issue with YouTube is the fact that subscribing to a channel means fucking nothing now, it doesn’t surprise me at all.

Being subscribed to a channel used to actually inform you when that channel uploaded something new, every time without fail. Now, that system is a separate thing (the bell) and it doesn’t even fucking work 100% of the time. I subscribe to and have notifications enabled for about 13 channels that upload every single day; I only get notified like once a month about a random video whenever YouTube decides it wants to actually do the thing I have told it to do.

Like, I am subscribed to Technology Connections and have notifications enabled but this post is how I have come to know this video was uploaded.

Where?

Counter-Counter-Point: Valve literally is the developer that made lootboxes ubiquitous in gaming. The good things they do have and have done still do not outweigh the bad, nor should this fact ever be ignored. They make a good product because it gets them customers. They also were one of the first devs I read about to have hired psychologists to scientifically addict you to games. They are only your friend so far as they understand you can get more flies with honey than with vinegar.

I’d love to see someone make a “TF2 Classic” where it’s the game as it was on release, but with all the current QOL and fixes; none of the unlockables and hats and all that bullshit. Just pure fucking fun. Oh, and also give us back all the scripting commands they needlessly took away because some players are too dumb to type shit into the console or download someone else’s config and were claiming that they were unfair.