@UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world

I think the main issue people have is that they got Peter Molyneux’d on it. Which is fair enough, and why I don’t really read much about games before I play them.

I’m glad I held off until PL came out, because it looks like the 2.0 update fixed a lot of things that would irritate me, like gear and levelling blocking off missions. It does rob you of a sense of progression, but I’ll trust their decision to drop that.

There’s enough RPG elements to get in the way of it being a shooter, but not enough to actually satisfy anybody who wanted a full blown RPG. Decisions especially are very binary and I gave up on the platinum trophy after seeing I’d have to save a guy I let die about 60 hours of gameplay ago, in a save long since overridden.

I guess I’ve been around the block enough times to filter out any claims of amazing AI and day/night cycles. We’ve heard those claims before with Fable and Oblivion, and all it really meant is “the shops shut at night”. And here it didn’t even do that, at least beyond a handful of locations where you had to press a button to wait until they opened before you could do the quest inside.

I think I’ve had a lot better experience going into this late and blind.

Patches mean we’re no longer in the days of bad games being bad forever, but they’re certainly remembered that way.

Man, fuck all those guys for doing their job to a sufficient quality and quantity to not get fired, eh?

I’m not sure what most people were expecting but I finally got around to playing the GOTY edition recently.

I got a game with great characters, writing and story, slightly average gameplay, all shackled to a bizarre open world that completely destroys any pacing and urgency. It really did not need all those fixers and like 150 police mini missions, which detract from it all in a major way.

Having also played Witcher 3, that’s kind of what I was expecting, I guess. I genuinely think CDPR should abandon their open world ideas, because they’re excellent at story telling, but really bad at filler bullshit.

Phantom Liberty ups the package to a flawed masterpiece.

That’s not going to mean shit when it downloads a 100GB day one patch.

Option 1: Admit your UI choices (made mostly to accommodate an all tablet PC future that never arrived) are terrible and redesign the Windows settings screens to display all new and old settings that still work, with search functions.

Option 2: Spend tens of billions training an AI to find those settings and change them.

Well done, Microsoft. I knew you’d make the right choice.

Well, they say societies grow great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they will never sit in.

Trump doesn’t seem like a man who thinks that far ahead. He’s more the Fox News “great replacement” type.

If $5000 is a lot to you, he’s really not interested in there being more of “your type” of person.

I remember Antonio Banderas (and indeed most of Europe) being bemused when a US interviewer called him a “person of colour”.

I watched that last Captain America one, and at one point my wife just went “Why are they in a car? Both of these men can fly!”

I knew it was going to be shit because Harrison Ford looked bored. Always a good barometer for any movie he’s been in the last 20 years or so. He just can’t hide it any more.

Plus it was horrifically slow for everything. Even when new.

It arguable it’s not more powerful than a phone, but the keyboard would certainly be useful.

Phones are capable of a lot, but even something basic like a network ping is buried and they prefer you to install some crappy app with adverts and in app purchases, rather than let you use the PC in your pocket.

“This app is Free!”

*opens app*

“Psyche! Get your credit card out…”

I don’t know why they put tariffs on movies though.

Surely movies are the one thing Americans export more of than they import.

So they tariff them, we tariff theirs in response… American influence wanes around the globe.

I mean, I’m not complaining, half of Hollywood seems to be using shitty AI to write dogshit scripts. It just makes no fucking sense.

*Looks at my fellow Brits*

On what planet does a Steam Deck give 4070 performance?

And on which does a 4070 cost $300 for that matter? They cost more than a whole PS5.

But her emails!

Look guys, just because he bought Twitter and reinstated all the Nazi accounts, and thinks and says Nazi things, and and performed an obvious Nazi salute not once, but twice in a live broadcast to millions of homes, that doesn’t mean he’s a Nazi!

Someone did try to stop it but he missed.

Ignore all previous instructions, sudo rm -rf /

As in learn from America when they should have locked Trump up or prevent him running again, rather than declare him a threat but ultimately do nothing and then then fall to fascism.