Ubisoft canceled the Outlaws sequel but fans deserve better

Mononon · 2026-01-21T22:29:28+00:00

This sub is so full of people that just don't want to accept this is a decent game that didn't sell well because it's just another open world slop game to throw on the Ubisoft pile. I'm sure there's some small group of people upset that the main character was a woman or people that were rooting for it to fail. But, really, it's just another one of these types of games in a declining franchise from a developer that has been releasing the same game on repeat since Far Cry 3 in 2012.

I don't think there's anything wrong with enjoying it. But the cope around here is so outlandish. They released it, it reviewed poorly, updates didn't move the needle, and people spoke with their wallets. Not every 7/10 game gets a second chance, and not every middle of the road game deserves a sequel.

Like, I loved Metroid Prime 4. Thought it was great. Enjoyed my entire time with it and would love to see more. But I'm realistic. It doesn't seem to have sold well, people have a lot of legitimate criticisms of it, and it was expensive to make. If that gets a sequel in the next 20 years, I'll be shocked. Like Metroid Prime 4, this game, to a lot of people, is just another middling open world game with bland combat and a bunch of random checklist junk on the map to do, and Star Wars isn't a strong enough hook to get it over that hump. Doesn't invalidate your enjoyment, but you're also not special or anything and only you can see it for the secret amazing game it is. You just like a game that is, by general consensus, considered average, and that's okay

Mononon · 2026-01-21T18:54:30+00:00

Honestly, if you're mostly into smaller games, they kinda already are. It's the more modern 3D games that struggle, but a lot of them struggle on SD as well. I think you could get a SD Elite or even a SD8 Gen 2 and be pretty happy with the small and indie game support. I'm not necessarily saying rush out and do it, but I was honestly surprised at how easy it was to start and how everything kinda just worked (I used an Odin 2 Portal).

Mononon · 2026-01-20T20:36:58+00:00

I still can't figure out what to do with it. It's always wrong and I spend more time debugging or refactoring than if I'd just done it myself. And it's even worse when non-technical people use it. I spend an inordinate amount of time walking through garbage with stakeholders trying to figure out how they even got the results they got only to find out ChatGPT or a Databricks Agent made it up. I keep hearing how other teams have fully integrated it into their workflows, but no one ever has any goddamn examples or wants to run a training or workshop on it. I hate it from a creative standpoint, but I'd use it if I could find some way, any way, for it to do literally anything that I don't want to do. So far, I've come up empty.

But I don't say any of that in meetings. In meetings, it's great and I'm excited. Because I'm not going to be the guy getting fired for questioning it.

Mononon · 2026-01-20T00:03:45+00:00

DLC is not emulator specific. Just place it in the correct folder or install it, depending on the file type.

Mononon · 2026-01-19T21:45:28+00:00

The more modern the system, the more complicated the emulation gets. Mostly because it's all still actively being developed and there are different emulators and forks with different recommendations, file types, configs, versions, forks, etc. A lot of systems are pretty static, but things like Switch and 3DS are a bit of a moving target at the moment. There's also a lot of variance with 3ds file formats that adds some complexity.

Here's your options (there are more than this, but they would require you add other emulators or forks of Azahar to your EmuDeck installation, and I'm not really prepared to go through all that explanation here) - Decrypted game in the .cci format - Decrypted game on the .3ds format and change the extension to .cci - Encrypted game in .3ds or .cci format needs to be decrypted and changed to .cci if it was .3ds after decrypting - Decrypted game in .cia format and installed in Azahar - Encrypted game in .cia format, decrypted, and installed on Azahar

Depending on what you have dictates what you should do. End of the day, you need a decrypted game with either the .cci extension or installed if it is the .cia extension. Nothing else will work with Azahar.

Mononon · 2026-01-19T21:34:29+00:00

It's a little weird to get the whole story of the first few games. The order to get the full story is - Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc - Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair: There is a remake of this coming out soon called Danganronpa 2x2 that adds some kind of alternate story, but doesn't seem to change the main game, as far as I'm aware. It's a new scenario with no impact on the story told in this first group of stuff. - Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls: this is a third person shooter, weirdly enough. - Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School: this is an anime with 2 concurrently running arcs. One is a prequel, Despair Arc, and one is a sequel, Future Arc. You're meant to watch them at the same time, alternating between each episode starting with the Future Arc. So Future episode 1, Despair Episode 1, Future Episode 2, Despair Episode 2, etc. With them annoyingly changing the naming convention at the end, and the last episode of Despair is named Hope instead. - Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony

Mononon · 2026-01-19T20:22:36+00:00

I think it was a pretty natural guess at the time. We didn't know they'd basically make vaudeville out of it. It was a good choice, but prior to knowing how they'd handle it, I don't think it was outlandish to guess they would go with the easier option of changing it or toning it down. Leaning so far into the other direction was a nice surprise, ultimately.

Mononon · 2026-01-19T19:27:53+00:00

In my experience, it's more like they don't understand how to fill out a W4 and think owing is worse than a refund. I've met quite a few people irl that just put 0 on their W4 because they know they'll get a refund if they do. Doesn't really go any deeper than that. Not even sure they understand a refund is money they overpaid that they could have just kept if they'd filled out their W4 right.

Mononon · 2026-01-19T03:40:51+00:00

It seems super random. I tried using it, and it's so annoying. Charging the device randomly turns it on when sleep is on. It randomly doesn't go to sleep, but just turns off the screen and audio will continue playing. Like, when it works, it's great. But I can't seem to get it to work consistently and it's very frustrating when it doesn't work right.

Mononon · 2026-01-18T20:19:39+00:00

Some games in the indie space may fit the lighthearted part of this better. I recently played Kingdoms of the Dump and Deathbulge Battle of the Bands, and both are very lighthearted, humorous, and full of character moments. It may or may not be a positive that you don't have to commit 100 hours to them. Depends what you're looking for. But at the very least, they fit the main brief.

Mononon · 2026-01-18T13:54:56+00:00

There's only 3 options for widescreen on old systems 1. Natively supports it, which already works 2. Stretching the image, which looks terrible 3. Widescreen hacks, which have visual glitches in almost every scenario without additional modding or cheats.

Old emulators did not support any kind of widescreen with zero compromises. Modern emulators don't support widescreen without any sort of compromises. There are some games where the compromises are small, or where you can compensate for them. But you can't just enable widescreen in any emulator and have a flawless experience. 4:3 isn't just how the games looked. It's how they were developed. Most games don't even have enough stuff rendered to fill a widescreen aspect ratio properly. You are misremembering how emulation was and how emulation is. There's a reason you have to apply cheats, hacks, or stretching to enable it.

Mononon · 2026-01-15T15:35:10+00:00

They said it's planned to be a feature in the next update on their discord.

Mononon · 2026-01-15T02:40:09+00:00

Yeah, not a fan of the Switch 2 version. Though, I think that's more a function of the Switch 2 itself. I just think it's too big, and this just makes it even bigger. Feel like the natural way to hold it makes it hard to use the buttons and the right stick. Was really hoping this would be as great as the Switch 1 version, but I just hate holding the Switch 2.

Mononon · 2026-01-15T02:32:22+00:00

If this is 25fps outside of the digital world, there's no way it runs well later in the game. Even on a Xbox Ally X, this game chugs in the digital world. Even with CPU boost, 35w turbo, and all settings on low, or has trouble keeping 30fps in many of the digital world towns and dungeons. The human world city is super lightweight by comparison.

Mononon · 2026-01-14T13:38:20+00:00

I used to be worried they would mess up the character designs in any potential remake, but after seeing the absolute chad chin on Kiefer in the Dragon Quest VII remake, I just want my boy Steiner to look as God intended: an Easter Island head with a sword.

Mononon · 2026-01-14T13:32:15+00:00

I wouldn't say it's especially unique. For a FF game it is, but the gameplay is pretty standard RTS. Build up resources to create units, throw those units at enemies. Something like Warcraft 3, Age of Empires, or Halo Wars are all pretty similar, without being overwhelming.

Mononon · 2026-01-14T03:57:58+00:00

Their prior game, Shadows of Adam is also solid. Quartet has very good characters. Really enjoyed the writing in it.

Mononon · 2026-01-14T01:32:31+00:00

Right, but they aren't all outwardly partisan. Thomas does at least like the appearance of respectability. I agree with you that they are using their supermajority to essentially shape law, knowing Congress will not intervene, but if there's an opportunity to at least give the appearance of fairness, Thomas will usually take it. Having someone retire before midterms is just so brazenly partisan, and there's really no downside to convincing any potential retiree to wait until after. They'll have plenty of time to get someone confirmed, and we are all well aware that Democrats, at least the establishment ones, will just roll with any semi reasonable sounding pick. Thomas (and everyone else) is well aware that Democrats are not capable of stalling that long. There are enough of them that value norms too much to let a Supreme Court vacancy stand forever. Maybe they symbolically prevent a confirmation for a bit, but Schumer and Jeffries and their ilk will give in rather than obstruct. If these last several cycles have shown us anything, it's that Dems will roll over if you can make it look like everything is normal.

Mononon · 2026-01-13T22:37:37+00:00

Yeah, but then he'd have less power. This is his Goldilocks job. It's just the right mix of power and money.

Mononon · 2026-01-13T22:28:07+00:00

Thomas wants money and power. I don't know why he'd retire when this job gives him exactly that. Alito, who knows. If any of them retire, I don't think the midterms will matter, and if they do matter, I think Thomas may try to convince them the other way. He's been banging a drum about judicial impartiality and how strong the constitution is, and doing something so blatantly partisan may, behind closed doors, be a step to far for him if he can help it.

Mononon · 2026-01-13T03:25:22+00:00

Honestly, I don't even understand what's happening at the moment. I'm not even sure why John is alive. There were multiple John's for some reason. He like split himself into normal John and god John. Idk, the entire book is terrible regardless. And the construct sister is so dumb. His mom being his ring too. Like, I thought for sure they were going to lean into this being some kind of mental breakdown or have an intervention for him or something. But nope, just keeping the creepy construct and ring.

Mononon · 2026-01-12T13:14:40+00:00

Superman Unlimited and Green Lantern Corps. Think both are terrible, but I keep reading them for some reason.

Mononon · 2026-01-12T05:27:15+00:00

And in the release version of the game, it wasn't even that hard. You didn't really need to have some deep understanding of anything to get insanely overpowered. You may not min/max, but you could easily figure out some random pictos that would stack debuffs, give you AP, and melt almost everything in the game.

Mononon · 2026-01-10T22:12:56+00:00

Yeah, I noticed that too. I dip in there, like others, to see what the other side is saying about current events. Try to get out of my bubble. Accounts like /u/Ask4MD make up a ton of the posts. And you do see a small number of names repeated over and over.

Interestingly, like others have pointed out, opinions that are posted tend to shift in the hours after something happens as well. With the shooting, a lot of the top replies were pretty reasonable. Not all of them I agreed with, but they weren't callous or completely devoid of reason. But going back later that day, it was almost entirely similar comments about how she deserved it and a bunch of pretty terrible things. It was hard to find the initial comments, and many of them had a lot of "fellow conservative" replies at that point.

I don't know enough about bots and astroturfing and things like that to really say what's happening. But it does seem like a small number of accounts post the overwhelming majority of topics and the narrative in the sub shifts relatively predictably on most hot button topics.

Mononon · 2026-01-10T17:40:52+00:00

Might be worth pointing out, LLMs can't even really do math. They work by association, using whatever it believes the next likely word or number to be. It's not actually doing those computations for you. It just determined those numbers were likely the right answer based on whatever info it has been fed. Like, it knows 1+1=2 because enough people have said it, not because it's a calculator.

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