Nocall

It’s not that I think all games need 60 fps, it’s that I don’t have time to play every good game released these days. Even minor strikes are enough to warrant skipping something.

My first game was “Hunt the Wumpus” on a TI-99/4, so it’s not an age thing.

Not going to argue, because *opinions*, but I’m willing to wait until I possibly have more time, the inevitable DLC is released, and <$20 sale that’ll happen 5 years or so from now on this one.

I’m going to be “that guy”. No 60 fps == no thanks. Backlog is huge this year already, so I’m actively looking for reasons to skip “good” games.

I am probably one of the few who does care about Twisted Metal, but hearing that it was a live service game — yeah, no thanks. Would rather see a straight port of TM: Head-On than a brand new live service TM game.

@mellotronrules: I played ER a few months after having beaten the Demons Souls remake and felt the same open-world fatigue pretty quickly. I enjoyed ER’s “legacy dungeons” far more than anything in the open world.

But what do I know, I’m one of those idiots who also thought DS2:SotFS was more enjoyable than DS3 (of course the first 2/3rds of DS1 put both to shame)

So Henry Cavill is going to produce/star in a 40K series, right? So now might be a good time to consider dipping your toes.

Granted, the 40K books will never be mistaken for high fiction. But they can be really fun.

If you’ve never played any of the games and have no idea about the background (or interest in digging through wikis to get a primer), I would recommend either “Xenos” or “Double Eagle” by Dan Abnett.

Xenos is basically a detective story. If Amazon decides to adopt an existing narrative instead of making something original, then Xenos seems like the obvious choice.

Double Eagle is the Battle of Britain, sci-fi version. Lots of fun dogfights, some really memorable characters/moments.

Neither of them assume you know everything about the background. All you really need to know is that the Imperium is mankind after it spread across the stars. Demons (ie “Daemons”) are extra-dimensional entities from warp-space, which the Imperium’s spacecraft need to pass through in order to travel vast distances. These daemons cannot exist in “real space” for very long, but they can exert some influence via human intermediates (witches, basically). You ever see the movie “Event Horizon “? It’s 100% that.

For real. I quit when Apollo went offline. Was a great decision.

From the producer of the venom and uncharted movies, and the director of the maze runner trilogy, comes yet another soulless video game adaptation starring whomever our algorithm tells us is the most bankable actor at this very moment.

Projected profit: sleventween kabajillion dollars.

So I kind of…hate…the dualsense controller. It’s awkwardly contoured (my hands/fingers get tired after about an hour of play), it’s also heavy, has a terrible battery life, and the sticks start drifting way too fast.

At first I loved it, but after a couple years now I find myself wishing Sony would just let the DualShock 4 work on PS5 games. I turned off haptics and trigger resistance long ago and have never missed them.

I find myself playing the PS4 version of PS5 games just so I don’t have to use it.

@mellotronrules:

Tallboy here. Briefly went flatboy during that “upright causes overheating” scare, but went back because it just takes up too much space in my setup when horizontal

Man I’m pretty bummed with Sony’s behavior recently regarding pricing. I guess there’s some parallels that can be drawn between ps4 era sony == ps2 era “good guy” sony, whereas ps5 era == ps3 era “we’re king of the world” sony.