I hate it when people ask me to disarm the nuclear warhead.

I sort of picture this happening more often at the graphical plateau. It used to be that these franchises needed big face lifts to stay relevant, but even that can sometimes happen with a lighting update.

The other reason might be if they want to do subtractive redesigns of the core concept but I’m still not sure what that should be for The Sims.

I’ve been there. I have to admit, I was tired after our cycling and having this gigantic field of asphalt separating the house from the city center just made me feel more tired. The rest of the city is pretty nicely walkable and has trams.

Steamworld Heist 2 has been a lot of fun. Allows for a bit of grinding to account for difficulty gaps, as well as many mix-matched abilities.

It avoids one issue many RPGS have where everything about characters is customizable and thus no one is unique. While each character starts off with some advances in a given skill tree, they also have some particularly good unique abilities that can potentially be used with any class. For instance, Daisy the sniper has a stun gun that uses no action points and stuns someone for a turn.

And, as with the original, getting ricochets is a lot of fun. It’s especially nice as the sniper class using a Perfect Aim ability to more easily get the crazy shots that are ricocheting around 8 times.

I fucking dare an Xbox exec to take two new Xbox accounts, and try to get them to join a private online game together.

I wouldn’t mind either.

I recognize the risks of martyrization, but only for a movement that has certain intents and goals. Many of Trump’s base can’t even agree on what it is they like about him. They had such a hard time finding a VP that they ended up with a heap like Vance, while the Democrats were willing to let theirs become President.

I don’t understand. I see more than 6 beans in all of those containers.

We needED the justice system to sentence him. It didn’t.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

It’s a small measure, but I’d really like to see a law where gacha games need to publicly advertise their odds and allow independent verification.

The biggest effect it would have is, the odds would need to be static. Many gacha systems have been accused of putting a hand on the wheel, assuring someone “so close to their needed item” must keep going through a series of failures.

It kind of fits SAS tactics, who often complete missions with no lethal shots. They flood areas with CS gas (using grenade launchers) then invade with gas masks.

I honestly tried to get back into it with an old account. Apparently, the entire world went up in power level with no exceptions, but not my character - meaning there was literally not a single enemy I could kill across the PVE environment to gain better gear/levels to contend with enemies.

I did not feel like making a new character or redoing the tutorial so I decided to not even bother, taking it as a sign the game was poorly thought out.

Character design is basically high-level direction, which is why I said that. The concept artists come up with ideas and the lead designer decides which one they go with.

The biggest tragedy with Concord is that the mistake was in the high-level direction. From what I heard, everything past that about gameplay systems and coding was reasonably serviceable. So people did their jobs right, and were doomed anyway by executives.

The Patriots were right. The world really is controlled by memes.

Yeah, I admit, that was me. I think the rapid political cycle in news made me think the election was closer than it was.

Ooh, ooh, forgot the next step:

“I vote for this man”

The article author honestly made a very valid point, but wrapped it up with a terrible headline.

I even feel like the PS4 and Xbox One currently serve the use case of being “the cheap consoles”. There are a number of games they cannot run or would run poorly - but for their price point they’re much more of an option for the non-wealthy, primarily in other countries. It’s like it’s all one console generation with no signs of ending, and a varying range of specs.

I’m going to agree with you, but only in the sense they hired more people than they should’ve, not that they should be firing people.

I really blame Telltale Games as one studio that demonstrated this issue in a microcosm. They had some successful games. Then they hired enough extra hands that they MUST make excellent games. Their next few games were not excellent. Then, everybody gets fired.

Speak for yourself, man. I am more than happy that my Playstation 5 doesn’t have a Playstation 3 and a Playstation 2 bolted into its insides. That would make for a gargantuan console with tons of electronics waste.

At the time, backwards compatibility was attained by putting a miniature PlayStation 2 inside the console. It really wasn’t sustainable for the future.