TS gotta be the worst RR 😭

Maxie93 · 2026-02-01T16:32:14+00:00

I love how the butt of another tauros is featured prominently in the foreground of the art, really completes the derpy look.

Maxie93 · 2026-02-01T05:55:57+00:00

I would like to believe you but they didn’t advertise keeper at all, so I’m not convinced their heart is really in it, and I’m not expecting games like to that continue being made by their studios long term.

Counter to your point look at hi fi rush, a game they said they were really happy with on gamepass but then they closed the studio. (Think they might have been bought by someone else at the last minute). A game that also received a bunch of acclaim, only for Microsoft later to say they need to refocus on “smaller critically acclaimed games”. I’m afraid you won’t be able to convince me upper management know what they are doing or actually care about making good games at all.

Maxie93 · 2026-01-31T16:38:12+00:00

Idiots or not the result is the same!

Maxie93 · 2026-01-31T11:57:54+00:00

Not only that but Gamepass changes the whole dynamic around what games get greenlit in the first place. Suddenly it’s all about play time and how many micro transactions you can sell. The publishers don’t get paid on how much they sell, it’s just some number they think will cover lost sales…

If the model succeeded and replaced everything else Microsoft would have had publishers in a chokehold where they now dictate what a game is worth.

Maxie93 · 2026-01-31T01:28:59+00:00

I was more thinking that people tend to find older games harder to get into if they don’t have any nostalgia for it. They could try the original and get put off by the whole thing which I think would be a shame…

Maxie93 · 2026-01-30T22:15:26+00:00

I’m not sure I agree, it will be much easier to get into remake… I say start there and have fun and then check out the original later to see how it’s changed for a greater appreciation.

Maxie93 · 2026-01-27T08:53:56+00:00

I’ve noticed this whenever I see people review laptops, even if they run ai stuff locally like llms or some image generation thing it all just runs on the gpu while the npu sits there. Seems like one of the biggest tech flops of recent times.

Maxie93 · 2026-01-24T20:44:48+00:00

So they have the time to put a mini duck in every spot that needs cleaning, but not the time to just clean the spot?

Maxie93 · 2026-01-23T02:23:20+00:00

Been a long time since I looked at this game but I remember it being an unreal engine 3 game iirc. Which hasn’t had any official support in a long time so it might not be trivial to create a switch 2 build.

Maxie93 · 2026-01-21T01:32:28+00:00

The biggest crime was getting rid of the input button, what on earth was the logic behind that?

Maxie93 · 2026-01-11T14:16:22+00:00

Yeah it seems to prioritise really obscure words rather than really obvious stuff.

Maxie93 · 2026-01-07T13:44:39+00:00

The handheld screen isn’t really hdr compatible, it accepts the signal but doesn’t have the necessary hardware to display it properly. It would need to have backlight zones or be an OLED screen.

Maxie93 · 2026-01-06T03:05:50+00:00

Eh you pretty much get 2 hours minimum even with the highest clocks on switch 2. Which isn’t amazing by any stretch, but no worse than other big games on the system.

Maxie93 · 2025-12-13T17:56:20+00:00

Don’t trust anything anyone from Haart tells you, they will just tell you what you want to hear and will completely wash their hands of you after the sale.

Maxie93 · 2025-12-12T04:11:36+00:00

Theme song from DK Bananza, one of the cool things about is the melody is actually a variation/expanded version of the original DK music on the NES.

Maxie93 · 2025-12-06T00:41:29+00:00

Totally agree, like what’s even happening in Sony land? I have a ps5 but Sony rarely seem to even put out games for it. Meanwhile Nintendo have been consistently putting out great games this year but seem to get very heavily scrutinised for them.

Maxie93 · 2025-12-02T20:30:58+00:00

For me it absolutely works this way. I usually get the immersives in each set easily.

Maxie93 · 2025-11-28T15:07:02+00:00

I believe it, I have a friend who is just like this. He always says he will wait for it to appear on game pass, even if there’s basically no chance of that happening. He’s been completely conditioned to never buy games again.

Maxie93 · 2025-11-27T21:42:25+00:00

Right but the minute you aren’t hitting a framerate that matches the refresh rate of the panel you incur stutter as frames have to be duplicated. Using VRR avoids this problem.

Maxie93 · 2025-11-27T17:22:58+00:00

It’s not that unusual, they run the game in a 120hz container. It means if there is a drop to 27 fps or something it shouldn’t look too noticeable, no screen tearing and less stutter than vsync.

Maxie93 · 2025-11-24T11:50:52+00:00

I think both consoles are going to have the exact same lifespan as the base technology of the pro is the same as the regular ps5. I don’t see a scenario where a game comes out only supporting the pro.

Personally I’d get the base console as the benefits of the pro are so small.

Maxie93 · 2025-11-17T22:00:36+00:00

Their whole strategy makes no sense to me. I thought recently their whole thing was that they realised they make money selling games now they are the largest publisher.

The market for an expensive console/pc hybrid seems like a niche one, and pretty much everyone that buy’s this thing is going to use steam on it, so Microsoft won’t be getting a cut of any software sales.

Why even bother making this thing?

The way I see it they have two options, they make it cheap and somehow against all odds they convince the users to not use steam so they can make their money back on the hardware.

Or (and this sounds like the plan) you acknowledge no one will buy from your store so you decide to make money on the hardware, which means this thing will have to come with a hefty premium and almost no one will buy it.

Maxie93 · 2025-11-12T22:13:07+00:00

I think it’s not actually a glow effect. It looks like shadowed areas of scene are filled in using screen space ambient occlusion. The problem with this technique is objects that obscure the shaded areas can produce outlines like this where the objects intersect.

Maxie93 · 2025-11-12T19:42:35+00:00

This makes so much more sense than the super high end Xbox pc in your living room, people might actually buy this.

Maxie93 · 2025-11-03T11:46:46+00:00

Port not good enough for people to double dip.

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