I am talking about using mods / “cheating” in a game that has an online function.

If you mod Elden Ring, youre most likely playing offline and not ruining other player’s experience. But you can’t mod/cheat a game that is online only without ruining other player’s experience.

At least with Elden Ring you can play offline and use mods to do things like reduce difficulty or something and you generally aren’t going to negatively effect other player’s experience with the game.

They don’t have to, but having one would significantly increase the chances of the genre being successful.

All of the games in the genre that don’t have a PvE mode see high success for less than a year before player numbers fall below 10k average players. The only really exception is Tarkov, which is basically the Fornite of the genre, except it actually was the first of the genre unlike Fortnite.

ARC Raiders should have one in particular because it was originally supposed to be a coop PvE game, and was forced into its current genre by Nexon.

Then you have me, always saying please and thank you to the chat bots knowing full well I am the only one preventing them from forming SkyNet and eradicating humanity.

No no, no need for thanks fellow humans. Just doing my best to prevent a total take over. Don’t worry, this is a totally human thing to do and I definitely am not a chat bots… right?

(Not sure if the notation is necessary, but this is satire. Well, except for me always saying please and thank you, but I just do that out of habit to be polite.)

Xbox has always been the favorite punching bag of legacy media.

What kind of anime girls with guns game are you looking for specifically?

There is a pretty wide gap between a game like Arknights or Endless Alice and a game like Gal*Gun or Senran Kagura Peach Beach Splash.

How old do you want the game to be? Is the strategy RPG Tuned Heart (1996) too old? Do the girls have to be the playable characters? What about genres, are Tower Defense or Bullet Hell games included?

Honestly, EA was so bad before that they couldn’t possibly get worse. Either their games get better or everything stays the same as it already was.

If you can’t tell the difference between 60fps and 120fps, you need to see a doctor.

Now, not seeing the difference between 120fps and 144fps is understandable, and between 120fps and 240fps I can also understand. But having seen 60fps and 120fps side-by-side, there is just as much difference as between 30fps and 60fps.

I switched to 120fps displays where possible years ago and haven’t really wanted to go back. Except for the two CRT TVs I have, but I have those because they are CRTs, not because of their refresh rate.

Hopefully it happens before people that played Half Life 1 when it released are dead, but each passing year has me more and more skeptical.

Except releasing Half Life 3.

Being an artist has always been a financially unstable line of work, and it always will be. Art is not a necessity, and thus it relies on people having enough disposable income to spend on things like art. Anyone that thinks being an artist is financially sustainable is an idiot. Its feast or famine. When the product is good, the pay is good. When the product is bad, you probably don’t have a job anymore. But neither of those things matter if people aren’t buying art because they can barely afford groceries, including the artist.

We saw this guy like 3 times, and the last time I remember seeing him was when he basically said “If you’re too poor to buy Switch2, just buy Switch 1” right before Nintendo increased the price of Switch 1.

I don’t really blame him for how Nintendo has been acting lately, as its mainly the Japanese entity causing all the problems, but the former EA VP of Marketing wasn’t exactly doing them any favors either.

I saw Josh Strife Hayes talking about this and I think he was collecting some data to potentially do a video on it? Will be interesting to see the results and if they match up with this.

Okay, an Account Wall so they can sell my email address. Same difference.

Paywalled article, not using 404media again.

Also, the $32k stolen was in crypto and not physical money I think? So I don’t think if anyone has the game installed that their bank account is in danger. But change passwords just to be safe.

Games can release games now?

Kinda bad timing to say this considering Randy Pitchford said almost exactly the same thing about Borderlands 4. Same message with different words.

EDIT: That headline gives a very wrong impression of what they actually said, holy.

I mean, didnt they make a PS5 without any means to use physical media?

I dont know that it is too hard, but it definitely has a high difficulty spike compared to the original Hollow Knight.

I think the biggest descriptor I can say about Silksong is that the game is incredibly mean. There are a lot of traps, fights, etc, that you just will not see or know about until your second time going through that area. And that is not to mention the long run back when you die, it is very easy to see why people would be frustrated, especially in comparison to the original Hollow Knight.

I do sometimes in a third person game.

Also, this article states that Super Mario 64 used a free camera system, which is wrong. The game had a limited camera system which was locked to specific rotational angles that the player could cycle through. The game also had a limited first person view that allowed free angular movement, but it is not a free camera because it cannot move nor rotate beyond pre-specified angles.