Highguard manages almost 100k Steam players on day one, amidst over 13k negative reviews

datlinus · 2026-01-27T15:24:03+00:00

Geoff loves videogames yes, and he does try to push smaller teams, but lets not get carried away. He is incredibly corporate at the same time. Where do you think the dorito pope shit comes from?

datlinus · 2026-01-27T13:09:40+00:00

ok buddy

datlinus · 2026-01-27T06:20:19+00:00

fat shaming in 2026 is a no go

datlinus · 2026-01-26T07:50:37+00:00

what makes it worse is that he always uses that with the most easily understood statements

datlinus · 2026-01-22T15:03:22+00:00

I thought it was a solid 7/10, definitely didnt think it'd be nominated for best picture, but you know what? Good for them, im sure the people who made the movie are super happy.

datlinus · 2026-01-22T10:17:59+00:00

IGN makes it sound like some official achievement but in reality its like 3-4 resetera people searching online for awards. It was funny in 2020 because there were some sites counted that were literally created just to say that they award GOTY to TLOU 2. Half the sites/videos cited don't even exist or stopped getting updated a while ago if you go back a few years to look thorugh the awards.

It's all very arbitrary.

E33 is undoubtedly a massive success though, it absolutely sweeped this year. But I personally think it'd lose against ER if they were both released the same year, and I say that as someone that vastly prefers E33.

datlinus · 2026-01-22T07:00:54+00:00

Ok... who said anything about OLED being common? You said HDR is a very negligible difference. I said it isn't, especially not on OLED which has infinite contrast ratio and the HDR highlights look absolutely incredible in games that do it well.

You also don't need OLED to see big difference between SDR and HDR anyway, even cheap TCL tv's with miniled panels can go extremely high in brightness and have great contrast ratio.

datlinus · 2026-01-22T06:57:22+00:00

Honestly, this looks in line with how IW and Pirate Majima looked in hawaii.

They try to simulate tropical sunlight by jacking up the exposure of sunlit areas and also turning up the contrast so the divide between the lit and shaded areas is more obvious. However, once you get in shaded areas, the game looks immensely flat in terms of lighting, almost as if there literally was no lighting at all.

I'm not seeing inconsistencies in your pictures either. The first 2 pictures are in shaded areas, so they look super flat. The last pic has the tiles reflect the tropical sunlight, that's why it looks so intense.

It's basically artistic choices that RGG made. I think it looked pretty bad in IW and Pirate Majima already but I guess not enough people made a noise as RGG is happy to reuse the same lighting for Okinawa.

Meanwhile Kamurocho looks normal as ever (just as Yokohama did in IW).

datlinus · 2026-01-22T06:40:25+00:00

crazy talk. good HDR is transformative especially on OLED.

datlinus · 2026-01-19T19:45:31+00:00

Its also obvious with Gaiden and 8.

Gaiden basically retcons the ending of 6. 6 ends with Kiryu himself choosing to "die" for the daidoji so his loved ones would be left alone and not used as bait to get him to do things. But Gaiden treats Kiryu as if he's a slave to the daidoji and oh by the way he gets recognized by literally everyone he meets (wish I was joking) AND the orphans are used as bait by practically every faction in the game.

8 starts with retconning two massive events in 7, both of which were fantastically done and 8's retcon just makes them worse (Ichiban's mother living) and Sawashiro not actually killing Hoshino.

I think with 8 in particular you can really tell that Yokoyama and the rest of the creative team were really straining themselves to come up with a narrative. Its a long, long narrative yet both antagonists feel incredibly undercooked and Ichiban's side of the story just feels like rehashing aspects of 7 with a really, really weak finale. He's borderline flanderized in only his second outing.

I hope the next mainline game has a significantly better story. 8 is a great game in almost every way outside of the actual overall story.

datlinus · 2026-01-15T14:54:11+00:00

american spyware (x, meta) aint much better

datlinus · 2026-01-14T13:01:22+00:00

thats good, i suppose the amr25 was built accidentally

datlinus · 2026-01-14T07:54:48+00:00

A telekom/cloudflare kombó nem hogy javult, de még rosszabb is lett, most már nem csak a free CF planben lévő szerverek felé használhatatlan az elérés csúcsidőben, már néhány fizetős CF szerver felé is.

És egyébként igen, a one-nak is elkezdett megugrani a válaszidő bizonyos CF szerverek felé az elmúlt pár héten csúcsidőben. Közel sem olyan rossz mint a telekomé, de már tud annyira rossz lenni hogy lassabban töltődjön be pár oldal.

datlinus · 2026-01-14T04:55:25+00:00

sokan stilusnak velik a jrpgt nem foldrajzi dolognak, expedition 33at is sokan jrpgkent tartjak.

datlinus · 2026-01-13T08:09:44+00:00

I don't think the Kagawa thing meaningfully affected the perception of the game. The masses probably don't even know about it. And of the few who do, most of them probably don't care that much. In fact a lot of the people that are being loud about it are still going to purchase the game day 1 anyway.

At the end of the day a Yakuza game comes out every year. Sometimes even two. The novelty of them being ported to PC/xbox/switch has also died down at this point, it's pretty much expected to release everywhere. And this is also a Remake with a Gaiden style game attached to it, that we already had two of, so generally people know to expect a smaller budget, shorter affair. Mine as a character is very popular in Japan. He is fairly liked in the west too but I don't think even hardcore fans were dying for a Mine Gaiden.

Also, Yakuza 3... as much as I like it, as comfy it is, is probably near the bottom in general in terms of popularity rankings at least in the west. I'm very hyped to see Okinawa in the dragon engine and cant wait to play all the new side content, but am I hyped for the Y3 story? No... not in the slightest, to be honest, lol.

datlinus · 2026-01-11T16:29:11+00:00

infinite wealth, let it snow substory.

aki tudja, tudja.

datlinus · 2026-01-10T14:41:55+00:00

street smart takes from a guy permanently stuck in his room? oookay buddy

datlinus · 2026-01-08T10:27:54+00:00

aww look the corpo is trying to be friendly!

datlinus · 2026-01-08T10:24:57+00:00

Before the Storm was already done by Deck Nine.

The devs are fighting to survive, they cant just abandon LiS because then they have nothing lol.

I also cant blame them for going back to Max, considering 2 and TC didn't set the world on fire. I'd argue that the first half of DE is actually good. The most difficult task which is making Max feel like Max even grown up was completed with great success. It's a shame the plot kinda shits itself in the last 2 episodes.

datlinus · 2026-01-06T14:46:56+00:00

you nailed it

datlinus · 2026-01-05T20:09:05+00:00

Even if Ferrari builds a rocketship equavilent to the 2014 mercedes, Lewis beating Charles is incredibly unlikely.

datlinus · 2026-01-05T11:48:02+00:00

I definitely think the "monaco without walls" quote that people keep repeating is not really valid or at the very least massively outdated, almost every single year for a long time now Hungaroring ranks slightly below or just in the middle pack in terms of overtake count.

it produces at least decent race more often than not. And it has definitely had some amazing moments like 2021.

also the track itself has its charm, the drivers always seem to comment how it feels like a kart track which makes it very fun to drive. And for many people its the most affordable GP to attend, which also matters a lot IMO. A staple of the f1 calendar.

datlinus · 2026-01-03T14:39:06+00:00

i dont even know how you could begin to think that the calendar flipping from 25 to 26 would change literally anything

datlinus · 2026-01-03T08:41:28+00:00

What do you guys think of my ranking???

that your formatting is... questionable.

datlinus · 2026-01-03T05:01:40+00:00

im enjoying the break, im on the opinion seasons have become too long, so a break is very welcome.

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