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A little more information on the CPU/Motherboard question from someone that had to deal with this in real life. My first CPU in my current PC was a first generation Ryzen 5 that fits into an AM4 slot. All current AMD CPUs use this slot as opposed to intel CPUs which use an LGA 1200, so there's the simple dichotomy of how to pick a motherboard solely based on slot. However, some older motherboards will advertise that they accept the current generation of CPU but will fail to mention that, although they have the correct socket that fits the make and model of the CPU, they may fail to mention that you have to flash your bios to the newest firmware to make sure that your computer even boots. Make sure to look up the history of the bios for the motherboard you intend to buy to make sure there aren't any bios that specifically say they update the motherboard to be compatible with a certain generation of CPU or you're going to have to spend time flashing your bios before putting together your PC.

I'm in this boat with you, there's so many games that use really similar styles of pixel art that it starts to get really tiresome to see another indie game come out with another pixel art style month after month.

I mean, Fall Guys kinda has it covered, just without the social deception and violence. At it's core Squid Game's a modern retelling of Battle Royale with a more economically tinged social critique. I don't see a developer sticking their neck out to make a game that combines that action of a battle royale with the deception of something like Among Us. I think The Culling tried to do something like that and survival based games like DayZ and Rust come close, but from what I've seen they don't really make grouping and teaming up integral to the game since you can play both of those games solo.

I mean, I don't know what kind of faith I have in Konami even if they decide to outsource their games to third party studios. Silent Hill had its moment of revival when PT came out but Konami basically aborted that game when they decided to put Kojima in the grave and after Metal Gear Survive I'm not even sure if Konami understands what Metal Gear even is. Konami could try to make Metal Gear their tent pole franchise and stick MGS5's bones in a new open world every year but that's not really what I as a long time Metal Gear fan would even want from a game. Metal Gear was uniquely Kojima and without him who knows if it even has a chance of retaining the wackiness and whiplash that series has.

As with Castlevania, Lords of Shadow 1 and 2 were fine as standard B games called Lords of Shadow but once you slap the Castlevania name on the cover it just makes me go "Did Konami ever play a Castlevania game?" Castlevania and Metroid had that Metroidvania section cornered but now with the rise of indies coming out, a third of them seem to Metroidvanias that technically rival Konami's. It seems Iga's pretty content with Bloodstained so I don't see him leaving his indie team to go back to work for Konami. I've got some mild excitement for the return of these franchises but I won't be surprised when 6 years from now we're talking about how big of a flop Metal Gear Survive 2 and Castlevania Nocturne of Darkness were.

What size is this thing? Better not fit like some kinda middle school art smock.

@yapapanda: A decent alternative to a hitbox is just playing with a keyboard, so if a hitbox is out of the question then a keyboard’s probably your answer

In terms of actual gameplay though your tremors might severely limit what kind of input motions you’re able to do like quarter circles and DP motions. I’d suggest picking charge based characters like Guile or Chun LI, although in SF5 her lightning kicks are a qcf motion now. I’d probably stay away from learning grapplers in most Japanese fighting games since a lot of them have full 360 motions and that might not be feasible.

I'm curious as to what this is going to be, I don't see Microsoft putting Perfect Dark back on the playing field if it's just going to be another techno-spy First Person Shooter. With Crystal Dynamics working on it now I wonder if they really are moving towards that third-person Uncharted-esque game Tomb Raider was or if perhaps see a more RPG focused game like Matt Rorie's Alpha Protocol?

Article says that it's being tooled for a streaming service called Binge which hasn't even launched? That sounds really odd to have basically what I'm assuming is their flagship show on their new streaming service to be a video game based property. Is Binge a Ubisoft venture or something?

I skipped around the video and checked out when the dude decided he didn't know what the words "extraplanetary," and "multiform," mean so they must've deliberately plagiarized the name.

I tried my hand at playing this on game pass but it just felt like such a slog. The combat doesn't really have any impact to it and it kinda pales in comparison to games like Hades or Dead Cells that really hone in on what makes combat feel good and fun to engage with. It seemed like most of the work went into the art design and writing which just gave off huge 2012 era fanfiction vibes which just isn't my style at all. I could see someone playing this just for the dating / visual novel stuff but that's probably just not for me.

I noticed you also bring up the option to keep things platonic with any of the weapons but I guess I just didn't play enough to get to that. I think I went on the first "date" with the blood falchion man and he seemed way to into me for something I just wanted to be a platonic hangout section and I just wasn't about that. Seems to me that it's kind of a bummer that you can't just immediately say to each weapon that you want to keep it platonic and the game just off the bat assumes what you're into which just includes everyone.