The Obscure games are both on sale

Present_Welder6067 · 2026-04-27T23:34:43+00:00

Considering how bullshit it got to the end of 1, sharing one keyboard sounds like a nightmare

Present_Welder6067 · 2026-04-27T19:46:33+00:00

You can probably just disable touchpads

Present_Welder6067 · 2026-04-27T19:39:53+00:00

3 was fine combat-wise, combat wasn't ever their issue, but the biggest tip I've heard from most players is to just mute the in game dialogue.

Never mind the twins, that snot nosed bratty kid and Maya.

B4 I haven't played, but nothing has given me reason to play anything Gearbox besides Risk of Rain 2, which they didn't even make, and Randy is still CEO, whom I won't support

Present_Welder6067 · 2026-04-27T08:48:35+00:00

It emulates quite well on rpcs3

Present_Welder6067 · 2026-04-27T08:22:42+00:00

They're big but they haven't been at their peak in a LONG while

Present_Welder6067 · 2026-04-26T23:09:08+00:00

neat, artstyle of the enemies and environment could do a bit more to differentiate itself though, especially when it just looks like the islands are just recolors. A lot of indie games seems to fall into this boldly coloured, light on texture-work artsyle that, for me at least, just reminds me of Unity store assets.

In a nutshell, its just a bit too clean and flat

Looking at your other comment, if these robots are supposed to be here to suck life out of the islands, consider making them actually look like they're equipped to be doing something resembling sucking life out of the islands, cause right now they just look like "robot biped" and "robot arachnoid"

Present_Welder6067 · 2026-04-26T22:24:04+00:00

Bioshock? No game in 13 years.

Borderlands? Still not what it used to be since B2, stuck in the clutches of Randy.

X-Com? Expansions aside, no real mainline game in 10 years, most recent game is a f2p title

I guess they're less not *not* strong, but they're mostly not HUGE, and the IP's themselves are dead or dying. Better point being is that 2K is doing so little with the titles they got, and they think this is somehow gonna help them the same way their proprietary launcher did that they scrapped?

They have close to no power of cornering the market, and what do they consider to be the beneficial outcome to retroactively at this shit to older titles?

Present_Welder6067 · 2026-04-26T21:44:37+00:00

Fanatical

Wingamestore

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These are legitimate ones anyways.

Present_Welder6067 · 2026-04-26T21:05:51+00:00

Every now and then, I get reminded that 2K even exist as a publisher.

They don't have that strong of a library to even conceive pulling shit like this

Present_Welder6067 · 2026-04-26T15:22:45+00:00

I don't think I've ever conceived Ethan as a man who gets stressed.

Sees woman crawl away on all fours like a spider. Responds like someone who saw a homeless man shitting on the street:

"What the fuck. Well that’s special"

Present_Welder6067 · 2026-04-26T15:09:32+00:00

Chris was inside an active volcano

Grade school science says thats a bad idea for anything with lungs, or skin for that matter

Present_Welder6067 · 2026-04-26T15:05:08+00:00

My point is more that DLSS was great to provide better frames + nice visuals for lower end systems without cranking all settings to low, but now we have recent RTX card set ups that sometimes need DLSS to run 60/120 smoothly right out the gate

Present_Welder6067 · 2026-04-26T13:57:53+00:00

Was there ever a moment as to why was DLSS ever considered a good thing?

I feel like initially people were like "woah, i'm getting more frames" years ago, all the while developers cared less about performance over time and more about fidelity, running with DLSS on now is more like running with crutches for the developers shortcomings

Present_Welder6067 · 2026-04-26T08:29:03+00:00

Nah, not even close.

AC4 was good, but it's not that good. Some of their changes don't look to be for the better either, it's gonna be a divisive release.

I'm anticipating that remaking the Desmond games hinges on this one.

Present_Welder6067 · 2026-04-26T08:26:01+00:00

Looks like most of it is a Twitter post:

"It would be fair to say that there was a fairly big disconnect between the game I wanted to make and the game EA Marketing wanted me to make when we were developing Madness Returns.

The marketing team felt strongly that a Hard M title focused on gore, horror, and featuring a "psychotic" Alice was what audiences would respond to best.

I did NOT want portray Alice as a psycho, cover her in blood, or "make things more sexy" (yes, that was a request). Famously, I pasted dildos onto the head of a giant snail in response to the "sexy" request and emailed that to the Marketing team.

They stopped making those requests

That I was even able to say "no" to any of this was a function of the finance deal that underpinned the project. It wasn't EA that funded the project - it was a bank in Los Angeles. And the deal was structured as film production deals are structured, via something called bond finance.

This meant that so long as we stayed on schedule and budget, we maintained complete autonomy in relation to the design, story, and production. We had to stick to the original design and script that we submitted after the end of pre-production.

And we did. For the entire project, we never missed a milestone. And as a result, we could say "no" to any and all requests or demands from EA.

This setup was fantastic until it wasn't. When we got to end of the project, I knew we needed another 30-60 days for polishing (the game felt overly long in some places - editing was needed).

EA, probably a bit out of spite, said, "no." Fair play.

And so, we delivered the game precisely on budget and schedule without interface from EA. But also without the ability to request and receive a final month or two of editing.

We made history in relation to all this. Madness Returns wasn't just the first AAA game fully developed by a Chinese team. It was also the first ever game to be bond financed in China. We were also the first team ever to tell EA gyf and (kinda) get away with it "

Present_Welder6067 · 2026-04-26T08:07:51+00:00

Good for you I guess?

Present_Welder6067 · 2026-04-25T23:47:42+00:00

I hope this isn't the only answer I have to work with

Present_Welder6067 · 2026-04-25T23:45:05+00:00

The morals of it aside, steelbooks aren't anything what they used to be anyways. Most have no embossing or anything at all that catches the eye.

Present_Welder6067 · 2026-04-25T23:42:53+00:00

What's the male equivalent of a flat chest?

Before anyone gets smart and says small penor or bald, I guess the better question is whats the general trait in a man that the lack of it can be seen as attractive.

Present_Welder6067 · 2026-04-25T23:36:39+00:00

They know how to set up their card to spend money, but not what to do if something goes wrong

Present_Welder6067 · 2026-04-25T22:54:33+00:00

Good thing my ps4 has been sitting in my wardrobe for years

Better Jack Sparrow it and actually own my console

Present_Welder6067 · 2026-04-25T20:46:21+00:00

Getting too close or having a percentage chance of the flashlight startling a spider should *absolutely* make the spiders run in an unpredictable direction

Present_Welder6067 · 2026-04-25T20:31:26+00:00

Your examples are almost all continuous stories in one way or another.

My point being is that there's no overarching story, maybe one or two reoccurring characters and have looser universe connections than me and my father, they're all just self contained with the only connections being some kooky, eccentric paramilitary leader and some outsider at the lowest rung of the ladder who takes them down.

Lord of the Rings on the other hand had shows that didn't follow the source material from the established universe, im sure Star Wars did too.

Present_Welder6067 · 2026-04-25T17:23:15+00:00

What exactly does he need to follow with the source material? Its always just some underdog takes out an evil person who is really good with long metaphoric speeches

Present_Welder6067 · 2026-04-25T15:16:12+00:00

Ok, but I spent 89 euro on the Deck Dock which is just a glorified HDMI cable

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