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Flamekebab, miesiąc temu do games w Years later, Arkane’s Dishonored is still a modern stealth classic

I’m reminded of a show I was watching and lampshading. One of the characters is exhausting to watch and the other characters comment on how much the character sucks. That’s great an’ all but I’m still stuck watching this character suck. Commenting on it doesn’t make it go away.

Similarly I could not use the tools the game gives me but they’re there for me to use. If I’m not supposed to use them then I might as well instead play something that wants me to play it!

Flamekebab, miesiąc temu do games w Years later, Arkane’s Dishonored is still a modern stealth classic

I grew up playing Fallout 1/2, Deus Ex, stuff like that. Dishonored framed its morality system as “chaos” rather than good vs. bad but ultimately I had characters complaining about my methods. You brought in someone to specifically be an assassin and then you’re outraged that he kills people? I shot the damn traiterous boatman in the head at the end of the game.

Flamekebab, miesiąc temu do games w Years later, Arkane’s Dishonored is still a modern stealth classic

I think I’m the only person who played through the entire game and didn’t like it. Yes, yes, I should probably have quit but I’m a bit of an optimist and hoped it would get better.

It felt to me like the game really didn’t want me to kill anyone. However it had any number of fun ways to kill people and then scolded me when I was naughty enough to (gasp) use them!

Also the rats were bizarrely low poly compared to everything else. Odd gripe, perhaps, but given how crucial they are to the setting it felt strangely shit.

Flamekebab, miesiąc temu do games w Day 484 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing

I felt like the modern sections were starting to fulfil what had been promised throughout the series. Then they just slam the door on that. Blech.

Also agreed on length. I’m not planning to play Valhalla because I don’t want a second job.

Flamekebab, miesiąc temu do games w 'The PS5 is only in the middle of [it's lifespan],' says Sony CFO

Sounds like another console generation I’m skipping in that case. The middle of its lifespan means it’s on the way to life support in the near future. Never really went anywhere, which is a bit of a shame.

Flamekebab, miesiąc temu do games w Day 481 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing

Climbing between the same three tree branches was not my idea of fun…

Flamekebab, miesiąc temu do games w Day 481 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing

I played this one purely for Desmond’s story. I found everything about Connor’s story utterly tedious and the setting meant that the buildings were awful for traversal.

Flamekebab, miesiąc temu do games w For those of you who enjoy open-world games, how big of a world is too big?

A wasteland that one can throw a stone across doesn’t feel like much of a wasteland to me. I don’t want realism, just big enough that I can suspend my disbelief. I want to get immersed but a “town” with six people isn’t a godsdamned town.

Flamekebab, miesiąc temu do games w For those of you who enjoy open-world games, how big of a world is too big?

My go-to “too big” is True Crime: Streets of LA. If memory serves it’s a decent chunk of LA at 1:1 scale.

It’s far too big and there’s not much to do. It doesn’t help that the game is dross.

Flamekebab, miesiąc temu do games w For those of you who enjoy open-world games, how big of a world is too big?

I would argue that Fallout 3’s map is ridiculously tiny.

Flamekebab, miesiąc temu do games w Mexican Government To Tax Violent Video Games It Says Make Kids Violent

Whilst I can’t be bothered to look it up on my phone - we have hard data that disproves this link, last I checked.

Flamekebab, miesiąc temu do games w When was the last time you actually laughed while playing a game?

Saints Row (2022) had some of my flavour of silliness.

Flamekebab, miesiąc temu do games w Xbox ditching hardware and exclusive games "makes sense," former Microsoft exec and Blizzard boss says, as "only a moron would continue" making consoles as games go third party

Which is fair enough and totally reasonable - it was purely in the context of that comment it seemed odd. You had a device that actually uses the architecture that Macs use and one that used an architecture that they don’t but… yeah. It’s not important, it just made me chuckle.

…and groan about the march of time.

Flamekebab, 2 miesiące temu do games w Xbox ditching hardware and exclusive games "makes sense," former Microsoft exec and Blizzard boss says, as "only a moron would continue" making consoles as games go third party

But the Switch and beyond use ARM, the architecture Macs have used for the last five years?
It just seemed an odd thing to mention given how long it’s been since Macs used PPC. I know they used to, but I’m old enough to have used 68000k Macs too so of course I remember that time.

Flamekebab, 2 miesiące temu do games w Xbox ditching hardware and exclusive games "makes sense," former Microsoft exec and Blizzard boss says, as "only a moron would continue" making consoles as games go third party

I’m confused by your first sentence - the last machines they made that used PPC were in 2005. To me it reads like you’re correcting me but saying exactly the same thing..?

The fact that Macs stopped using the architecture twenty years ago makes it bit of an odd connection, I would argue. As you say, the 360 used the architecture far more recently and over 84 million of those were sold. It’s not like it was some obscure device.