TIL I’m better at predicting the future than the average Wall Streeter. Maybe I should get into Wall Streeting.

I think it adds to the presentation personally

If I exercise my free speech in the woods with no one around to hear it, is it free speech?

Insomniac is clearly great at developing what they set out to do, but I think what they set out to do here appears (to me, in my opinion) relatively uninspired. Wolverine would be a fun character to play in heavy, slow-paced 1-on-1 (or 1-on-a few) combat, but the trailer makes it seem like they’re sort of porting over combat mechanics from Spider-man, which in turn is just ported over from the Arkham games.

I think Spider-man is a better-suited character for the Arkham-style combat than even Batman was because of the ridiculous, cartoonish acrobatics that fit Spider-man’s characterization, and not so much Batman’s supposedly grounded and gritty persona.

I’m not trying to say I think this game won’t be good, I’m sure it’ll be more than competent and definitely fun, but my hunch is that it won’t outshine Spider-man.

Again, I’m just judging from that trailer, and the trailer was clearly one of the higher-octane scripted sequences from the game, but I really cannot get a sense of the kind of weight Logan is supposed to have. Like is he really fast, is he heavy (like, because of his entire skeleton being coated in metal, and the way the camera shakes when he hits the ground), is he acrobatic, is he old and stiff?

I dunno. I hope it does well, being one of the few single-player games with a console manufacturer funding it, but I’m definitely not looking to buy a PS5 for it.

I take it you’re part of the “most people” to which the title question is referring

Sounds like you’re part of the “most people” to which the question is referring

Lawbreakers.

I swear, people wanted that game to fail because everyone thought Cliff Blezinski was too full of himself when he was advertising it. The main gripe people seemed to have with it was that it was “too much like Overwatch.” That game had less in common with Overwatch than Titanfall has in common with Apex Legends. The other most-repeated gripe was that people were fatigued with the “hero shooter” genre. Well here we are 9 years later and every “new” FPS is some new remix of a hero shooter, so obviously that wasn’t the case.

This game single-handedly convinced me that I grew up too late to experience what would have been my favorite era of multiplayer video games - the golden era of arena shooters. This game was balls-to-the-wall fast with a ridiculously high TTK in the best way possible. To win a gunfight you had to be dead-on precise with your aim while your target was slingshotting, kicksliding, or literally jetting through the sky, and the zero-G zones of the maps meant you could never predict the path they were going to follow.

The only other game that I thought ever came close to being similarly fun was Titanfall 2, but that game suffered a little from the CoD-inspired blink-and-you’ll-miss-it TTK for the pilots.

Lawbreakers never got its chance thanks to all the misguided hate. The devs and designers were incredibly talented and deserved better than for their studio to go out with the whimper that was Radical Heights

Burnout Paradise is the first that comes to mind. In my head it’s the best racing game I’ve ever played. Whenever I see discussions of the Burnout series on the internet, everyone raves about the series but noone mentions Burnout Paradise.

I imagine it’s because they just liked the older ones more, but I never played them so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Yeah you make a good point. I hate all of it

Wow what a bummer that trains, buses, bikes, electric scooters, and every other mode of rapid, inexpensive transportation has been un-invented. Those would have been really useful literally every moment since they were first invented. If we had those we could treat driving like it was the most dangerous thing people do every day, which it is.

My point is that driving is essential only because the people in power have unilaterally decided that it must be, and fuck them for that.

Driving is not a right. WAY too many people are allowed to drive. What’s worse is that WAY too many people have no option BUT to drive

Caves of Qud. I’m still on the fence about whether or not I like the perma-death mode, but the writing is fantastically poetic and it’s clear the systems of interactivity in the game world are expansive beyond what I could ever hope to really comprehend.

Exactly. Lilith Walther loves that aesthetic so much that she animates and builds entire games in it today

New video games.

I understand the hype around a new game you’re specifically looking forward to, but people drag the Steam Deck because it’s “not powerful enough” for the latest AAAA game. Have you seen the disgustingly huge catalog of old amazing games from the 6th, 7th, and 8th console generations that are perfectly playable on the Steam Deck? How many games have gen Z and gen Alpha missed out on simply because they’re “old.”

I 100% agree. TLOU is a very basic game, however it’s magnificently well put together.

The core gameplay mechanics are very simple, but the AI of the enemies is great. The story is very derivative and unoriginal (right up until the last 5 minutes) but it’s extremely well told.

All that said, The Last of Us Part 2 more than makes up for it. EVERYTHING is improved. The story is engaging, , well-told, and gripping. The gameplay is weightier and grounded and intense. There were so many times I forgot I was playing a game with zombies in it.

If you can bare TLOU, it’s worth it for the context you get for playing the sequel.

If you ask me, playing on lower difficulties is boring. But there’s an insane rush from the challenge and chaos on the higher difficulties. Also the core mechanics mesh so well together; every action feels heavy and like a tactical decision.

Well, when I’m sleeping it’s definitely “soooooock shooooooe. sooooooock shooooooe”

I don’t believe them. They just think that lying to the public will sell more PS5s… somehow

You’re fucking kidding me. Schrodinger’s Onion

https://youtu.be/QNixDlRoMvA

Yeah you’re right, the main goal of science and the math we use for science is to model the universe. That model is completely subjective. The more we learn about the universe, the more the model changes. The way we learn is limited by our 5 senses and our mental models for the immediate universe around us.

That model is something of a language itself, and if a language is subjectively limited then I don’t think it can be universal