I didn’t buy it, but I don’t know how you can bash something clearly experimental like that that leveraged the hardware in unique and interesting ways.

So after all the people actually playing it came up for air lol?

Yeah, I’m not really disagreeing with him, though I do think Elden Ring is one of the least janky games I’ve ever played. It really does feel incredibly consistent to me. Compared to something like the Witcher where even walking doesn’t seem to stop in the same place consistently, it really does work pretty well IMO. I think the older games did feel a lot sloppier, but Elden Ring took a step forward into super smooth control to me.

But I would like a better visual cue.

Why exactly do they need to be targeting photorealism with shit like PBR?

Good video.

I get his point and agree with some of it (I’d rather boss designs not lean on your invincibility), but I just fundamentally feel like dodging against the grain of attacks adds something. It would be cool if, as the engines get better, you got more animations where you slid over, hopped over, etc attacks instead of just rolling and not taking damage.

https://fortelabs.co/blog/the-secret-power-of-read-it-later-apps

So this article was included with Omnivore, which is suggested elsewhere in this thread, but it does provide a bunch of well structured arguments for the utility of a dedicated app.

Thanks for this. I don’t usually dive into longer format article stuff because I find it on my phone and reading on my phone sucks. I tried pocket, but it didn’t function at all on my reader.

This solves that problem reasonably well.

(Edit: also an RSS reader? Maybe I should start using RSS again. I do wish it offered paged navigation controls to better work on an ereader, but it’s definitely an improvement still.)

I would much rather pay full price than still pay for a DRMed version that’s effectively guaranteed to be supporting some sort of organized crime group. Mass distribution at scale, with DRM, by definition means Russian organized crime, or a drug cartel, or some other global bad actor on that scale that’s doing shit like trafficking humans, arms dealing, drugs, etc, as well.

But ignoring that (and that I generally buy my content), I wouldn’t pay $.10 for an illegitimate copy that had an added layer of DRM on it. It’s fundamentally fucking repulsive for some subgroup whose whole business relies on bypassing someone else’s copy control to add their own.

For IGN, a gaming media company?

Their ownership of FromSoft is by far the most relevant thing to IGN’s audience. The article wouldn’t have any reason to exist otherwise.

DRM on pirated games is fucking gross as shit.

I tried. It’s basically the only app I couldn’t get to work on my boox.

The number of the games on this list that are in my library and I haven’t played…

If you’re scared about Microsoft tracking your UX engagement on a website, the best way to make sure your sex life stays private is to file it in federal court.

That’s not “being bad at a game”. That’s “worse than a 5 year old”.

And the source of that video absolutely thought they were qualified to complain about difficulty.

Every complaint I saw was real world proportions that were similar to actual animals.

But I straight up don’t care even a little bit. You’re fully legally entitled to have characters that resemble someone else’s characters. There’s no “suspiciously” anything because being inspired by someone else’s characters with your own flavor is entirely legitimate and legal.

They have PvP, but it’s a game that works perfectly well single player, and you absolutely don’t have to engage with other players to get the meat of the game.

Steam machines were bad prebuilts with an OS that wasn’t ready. Of course it didn’t sell well.

That doesn’t really say anything about the appeal of couch PC gaming.

Who was the one who couldn’t make the jump on the cup head tutorial? Was that the Verge?

Copycats of designs of real animals in a similar art style?

Yeah it’s not really supposed to be “funny”. It’s just Barney being corny because that’s who the character is. (When he’s not being a sociopath with women.)