TehPickle

F-zero is the obvious answer here, for sure.

I will say though 1080 was pretty great, and had a pretty unique control method of constantly having to keep the board properly angled on the terrain to maintain speed, as opposed to just being a simple "go fast" button. It was as much a game about balance as anything. Pretty underrated, it seems. I wouldn't mind seeing a modern version of that, personally.

I bounced off The Witcher pretty quickly after launch. I understand my main complaints were addressed through patches down the line, but my biggest gripes were the sloppy movement controls and that absolutely God awful Witchy Sense that had me following boring breadcrumb trails with (Totalbiscuit mode: engaged) absolutely abysmal FoV.

I have considered going back to it again, but those super negative first impressions really soured me on the whole thing, and I have a significant backlog from years of Steam sales to work through.

Shame really. From what I've seen and heard there's some really interesting quests in there, I just can't bring myself to wade through a bunch of dotted lines to see them.

It doesn't surprise me at all that CD:PR are aiming for using high end hardware for Cyberpunk. All their games have had high requirements to get a decent experience. It has been that way since at least Witcher 2, which had graphics settings way beyond what most PCs were capable of.

Frankly, at this point I'd be disappointed if a 1080Ti was even good enough to reach minimum requirements.

Personally I'd say you'd be fine just to play the first two games and have more than enough knowledge of the world to pick up on the little details within Tales, but even that isn't all that necessary.

Perhaps it's just me, but I would suggest avoiding Pre-Sequel all together. I have so many issues with that game that I wouldn't recommend it to anyone but the hardcoriest of Borderlands fans.

Tales is absolutely brilliant once it gets rolling. It's probably my favourite telltale game. The sooner you (or anyone) plays it, the better!

For me, I guess it depends on what is used is used as a qualifier. I certainly don't think this generation is the worst per-se (they are all just products of their time), but I think I've found it the most disappointing in many ways. When I say that, I'm more talking more about the disappointing tech and it's associated visual priorities than anything, immediately followed by the worst industry bullshit we've seen yet.

In terms of horsepower and pure aesthetics, I've found this generation to be considerably lacking overall. Some outliers aside (hello Unchartered 4), graphically a great deal of games don't really look that much better than a good amount of the stuff we saw on PS3 and 360. When you compare the jumps made between PS1 -> PS2 -> PS3 (using only Sony purely for the sake of brevity), the PS4, to me, comes off as really disappointing. The PS4 pro hardware makes significant steps there, but it will always be hamstrung by the fact that the base system exists. All games therefore have to be designed to meet the standards of the lowest common denominator and that's a great shame. Ultimately I think that the PS4 Pro and the One X are the systems that should've launched this generation in the first place.

On a similar point, I'm really disappointed that the current generation of consoles are chasing resolutions instead of frame rates. I will never understand why that sort of illusory 4K that we're now seeing has become more important than 60fps. One makes a game functionally more fluid and fun to play overall, the other does not.

Then we move onto the industry bullshit, and it's now at the most disgusting than it has ever been. Clearly cropped content to sell as DLC, other content withheld behind preorders, season passes, microtransactions, lootboxes, ridiculously lengthy installs that dump obscene amounts of data on relatively small hard drives, and bug ridden launches with enormous day 1 patches. I could go on but I think that's enough to make my point. I also think I may be morphing into Jim Sterling as I write this. I think a lot of this stuff has gotten completely out of hand, and I eagerly await a day where the industry a whole hits the reset button on this bullshit.

There have been some really great games released so far this generation, no doubt, but the above bullshit makes it so hard for me to truly enjoy a great deal of them. So many end up just feeling tainted to me, and it's a huge shame.

As a result, my consoles have essentially turned into dust collectors, and I just stick with my now mid-range PC.

Oh sweet baby Jesus! I don't think they could've possibly developed a product I could be less interested in!

That reaction was perfect, and very well deserved.

Eff Valve.

That name will forever recall to me that rather nasty little book by Poppy Z Brite.

And oh boy, is it ever nasty!

It was a while ago now, but my pick would be my first foray into Disgaea. I think it was the third game with the demon father breaking the sons video game console.

The first time I picked it up, I was completely overwhelmed by the sheer amount of systems upon systems, all of them with their own experience levels. The offbeat setting and story didn't work for me either, and overall it was a bit of an assault on the brain. I noped out after about 2 hours.

A year or so later I tried it again, and fell down the deepest SRPG hole I've ever been down. Everything just clicked into place the second time around, and I loved all of the near 300 hours I ploughed into it. I'm now a total Disgaea convert.

Since the big money is made through software sales, I'm not too concerned about Microsoft's position here. Having many millions of devoted pc users getting access to games they wouldn't have previously had can really only be a good thing for both parties.

That said, if MS want this to pay off, they seriously need to overhaul the widows store. I won't buy anything from there until it's on more of the level of Steam, minus the obscene amounts of asset flip shovelware at least. It's just not a service I trust in the slightest, right now.

@wlleiotl: Removing the rather grotty spin that this uploader was clearly shooting for, here's McDonnells marxism in action. From each according to his ability, to each according to his need:

Corbyn has never been quite so blatant (I never suggested otherwise, nor did I call him a terrorist sympathiser, thank you very much), but his praise and admiration of a communist dictator is more than close enough. I really couldn't care less what the manifesto says. Their own words speak far louder about their fundamental beliefs, and that's more than enough for me. I consider it ill-intent, even if they're never able to take action.

Whatever Diane Abbott has achieved in the past (I did read the op-ed you linked fyi) has, for me, been rendered moot by her constant embarrassing flailing over recent months. That may very well have something to do with her alleged ill health (though I'm sceptical on that). Mind you, she did avoid the article 50 vote because she had a headache which may or may not have something to do with her spine, or lack thereof. Finally, let us not forget that her and Corbyn were... um.. very close in the 70's. I call that nepotism, regardless of long ago it was. In politics, time is much more elastic. Such relationships, regardless of how historical, have no place in government.

Official Cambridge figures on student ethnicity have only been announced up to 2015, and that shows 15 black men, and 23 black women. Citation. While I grant that the figure is still low, that's more than double what was stated in your link, and I'm the one that's apparently swallowing the information that's offered to me, wholesale? Forgive me for not idly accepting the pro abbott rantings on a activists vegetarian cooking website at face value. And yes, I'm sorry to say that the withering sarcasm was intended.