MostlySquares

I agree with this fully. I play a lot of VR, and the graphics in there aren't on par with what's out there on consoles or PC, but I don't really care. If it's got a nice style, that's all that matters. Holds true today just as it did on the Nintendo DS or GBA or SNES or PS1 or NES or Atari.. People have made games look good by one method or another for almost 40 years.

I'll also add that I love the return of the PS1 era texture resolution and stuff. Carrier Command 2 has a ridiculous but awesome look to it. I prefer stuff like that over photorealism. Photorealism is also often just too cluttered for games' purposes. It's hard to make out an enemy in an appropriately lush forest for example. Most of nature hides people if they lay down. Hides them completely. That's not good for gameplay in all games. Lots of issues with photorealism in games.

I was really only here for the people, now they're mostly gone. Can't find it in me to care much about the new folks, plus I just don't give a shit about random people's negative views on music or anything else. New weezer album sucks, that's a show right? I guess.. Not for me. Also, I'm already way too online. Waaaaay too online.

I wish they went for a wider spectrum of gaming rather than including other forms of media. More VR, maybe even more phone games or whatever the hell. Broader range of genres, more simulators etc. etc. etc.

If I want someone's opinions on movies or music or whatever, I'll ask someone I know. Gaming is different because you can actually watch people do it. Content made about every other medium is just "oh hey we can't really show or play anything cause then we get copyright struck, so here is me talking about a movie/album for 45 minutes." Valueless. Even if they have the right to play clips or whole songs etc, just of no value.

Games are the superior medium. They are all that matter. Everything else is inferior passive garbage.

Been obsessed with Larcenauts on the Oculus Quest (also exists on PCVR). It's a type of hero brawler in the vein of Overwatch and Paladins etc. I like it a lot, and I'm pretty damn good at it :D Having so much fun learning the different classes and being a sassy lady while I blink around the map with the equivalent of Tracer in this game. "Being Tracer" is really fricken cool.

There's a bit of jank now and again, but I really don't care. It's so much fun to just swosh around at high speeds in a twitch-shooter in VR. Can't get enough of it. Although the summer has really made VR a disgusting affair in terms of sweats... So nasty.

One of the best soundtracks of all time, made by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails (as I'm sure everyone knows.) The soundtrack is soooooooo dark and grimy. Love it. Game's glorious as well. 25 years, kinda feels like 25 years...

Games that demand 100% of my focus, that's my go to for keeping my mind off of depression. Racing sims/games in tryhard mode are good. FPS games that are super high pace and have no downtime are great. Stuff like Quake or CoD or whatever, no respawn time or nothing just pew pew pew pew pew all day long. My go to was Tribes Ascend back in the day. No time to dwell on nothing, just full tilt all day long.

Also, VR. VR is the best cure for misery that I've ever come across. Being completely absorbed by another world does a trick on the brain, and sometimes it's just what the brain needs. The strongest of diversions. Works 3x as good if you're someone who might enjoy isolating a bit when the sadness hits the hardest.

Oh thank jebus, finally some great news. As others have mentioned, the podcast void was real.

@crashman06: I think you're right. Jeff has mentioned a few times how much work it is to write a review, and how few clicks those actually get. I haven't personally read a game review in more than 8 years I think. Once people started playing games online, all the reviews instantly became pointless. I can tell by looking at a game being played if it's a game I want to play or not. Words do not paint a particularly accurate picture of gameplay or why something might be fun/addictive/frustrating. You can write three paragraphs about how great/bad a UI is and still I'd get more info by glancing at Twitch for 10 seconds.

For better or worse, game reviews are pretty much done. Especially in text form. Just a gigantic waste of time writing and reading those.

Not sure I miss them at all either tbh. It's like reviews of music in the era of spotify. You can just listen to the songs and make up your own mind instead of reading words about songs.

Kurt Cobain.

We'll start seeing the end of it in the west around september-december. Then, as billions more are unvaccinated we'll see mutations crop up that are actually not affected by the vaccine. At which point we're going to be fucked again.

For it to "end", the world must be vaccinated. Until then, more and more mutations will emerge. It is very likely that some of them will not be knocked out by the vaccine. If this happens, any prediction is pointless.

Will it happen? There's a higher than zero percent chance. Have we as humans been on a streak of good luck lately? Nah. Will the poor parts of the world be vaccinated by the end of 2021? No. End of 2022? No sir. Money and the will to spend it on poor people will run dry before half the planet is vaccinated.

We'll continue sleeping in the bed we shat in.

I liked iRacing a lot back when I played it a bunch. It has a very different vibe from all other sims cause it's just really hardcore with penalizing you for breaking rules in multiplayer games.

The one I've played by far the most is Live for Speed (not need for speed) which is probably still to this day the best sim for drifting. I love drifting, it's kinda why I don't do iRacing anymore :D Love sliding that ass.

Screamer 1 and 2 and Screamer Rally from the 90s sometime was super fun.

Carmageddon had some cool ideas, probably doesn't stand the test of time...

Interstate 76 wasn't really a racing game, but it was a car game, and it is probably the most stylin' car game of all time.

WipEout Omega Collection in VR is a god damned treat.