I’ve not seen the second one so that’ll explain why i didn’t know about that

It’s definitely not cryptic I was like 10 or so when i played that and i figured it out. I think one of the missions tells you how to do it. It also added more agency to how you boost with some risk reward instead of just passively earning boost from drifting.

The best evolution would’ve been a mix of both. Gain boost passively but speed it up by alternating directions.

I think i bounced off the wii version (didn’t own it only played at friends) because i was confused on how drifting worked. Wasn’t until i got 8 on the wii u when i realised that alternating directions wasn’t needed anymore. 8 is fun, mostly due to track design and the fact it became second nature like riding a bike but i think DS was more actively fun in the moment to moment. Not to mention the mission mode which is a crime it’s never returned.

I don’t think the union was official yet, i think they were discussing unionising

I actually enjoy the drifting and was saddened that it was dumbed down in later entries

Isn’t it that desire what drives one to solve it though? I think you can only solve it if you have that desire

I think they’ve been waiting for what I’ve been predicting for a while. They’re going to make the next steam deck ARM based so they can make it potentially smaller or at least better battery life. Since the new frame is ARM, I think it’s everything but confirmed now. Since they said they want the new steam deck to be a significant step up they’re probably now waiting for certain components to go down in price so it can be more powerful than the OG but not be too expensive.

Year of the Linux living room

That’s fair, don’t think I’ve messed with Linux mint in a good while. Didn’t realise there’d be much of a difference between Wayland on one DE vs the other. Since that is the case isn’t that more of a mark against the DE rather than Wayland itself?

I’m pretty sure you can get that effect in the desktop effects menu in kde settings

That must’ve been like ten years ago then

I’d feel violated. Even if the drawings aren’t technically me, but are styled after me, it shows a glimpse of their creepy obsessive nature with “myself” in the middle without my consent. The implications scream louder than the act itself.

But then nothing has changed if they were just collating what was already leaked.

Not to mention the bombardment of phone calls and messages while trying to "mourn’. Awful pacing.

Sadly,most people in the general public haven’t got a fucking clue how to boot into a USB drive, especially since most motherboard BIOS’ don’t default to do so

The game is definitely too sparse and spread out. It should’ve taken more inspiration from the likes of yakuza than gta and made a smaller but more dense world to play in where every nook and cranny ACTUALLY meant something rather than giving the illusion of doing so.

To me every nook and cranny just looks bland with nothing to do there. Everywhere just had the same sidewalks and railings. There’s no way i could ever navigate that game without waypoints.

And with the acting the emphasis she puts on certain words in a sentence just don’t match the situation and the others she’s talking to, and it feels like she swaps between extreme emotions on the same dialogue and it’s like tonal whiplash to me. There was no nuance to lay in between, and nothing to unpack for the listener. You know when she’s angry because she has her 110% angry voice on and so on.

Unless the situation is heightened and dire, it just never fit in my opinion. Her performance fits a stage play more than what’s meant to be an immersive video game in my opinion.

Jackie’s and Keanu’s voice acting though was stellar.

Cyberpunk 2077.

It’s okay, but it’s a far cry from giving me the feelings of a cyberpunk world in my opinion and I’m a massive fan of blade runner and the like.

Why am i spending so much time wandering at the street level where everywhere just looks and feels the same. Travelling is so boring.

And the voice acting of V (I played female) is so overreacted, it’s one of the cringiest performances in gaming, considering it’s meant to be all serious and whatnot.

The current difficulty of the game would be the “normal” ya dingus.

Yeah they’re not great when it comes to some stuff for returns.

Last year I bought Assassins Creed 1 and 2 on sale. I played through 1 first, had a lovely time, then went to 2 and noticed some annoying graphical issues. Things that seemingly can’t be fixed after I tried with various mods and patches.

I had only played it for 30 minutes so i tried to get a refund and they declined me because I had bought it so long ago, even though I argued that the game was technically too broken for me to play.

I had to just suck it up and just play it on the PS4 with the Ezio Collection.

They don’t have to go all out. Shitty easier/harder difficulties that just multiply or divide values in a basic manner is better than nothing at all.

Devs should absolutely just focus on the difficulty specific experience they planned but nothing is stopping them from doing the bare minimum. And if you have good coding practices, it’s easy as fuck to implement with the difficulty menu itself likely to be the hardest part to implement after the fact.