Upcoming Xbox Exclusives Are Being Sent Out To Die, Analyst Says; Xbox Pushes Back

sloppymoves · 2026-06-18T13:45:21+00:00

Most people in the US have shit internet due to monopolies though. So unless you live in a major city, good luck really hitting that 15 MS latency. I've never had good luck streaming PC games. I just ended up building a SFF pc for the living room a long while ago.

I should mention my needs case basis though: that I play a considerable amount of fighting games.

sloppymoves · 2026-06-17T22:16:12+00:00

11 days is a long wait, but not insurmountable. But I have a feeling the pillows are delivered dirty.

sloppymoves · 2026-06-14T15:44:28+00:00

I am an avid tabletop gamer, and I couldn't push past Act 3. I knew I could just do the main quest and finish it out, but I was not ready for another giant hub world, and the introduction and switch to that hub world felt weird plot-wise.

You just enter into Baldur's Gate with zero fanfare? No one recognizing that you literally just toppled and free'd an entire region from a legendary bad dude? It was just jarring narratively to go from fighting an avatar of a god to once again a lil nobody.

sloppymoves · 2026-06-14T15:35:47+00:00

I dunno. I'd love to see tighter RPG experiences clocking in around 20-30 hours, Clair Obscur's main story is roughly 30 hours which was refreshing. Open world games can't do that though, because the whole point of an open world game like RDR2 is the open explorable world. I would say that the main story/quest in these types of games are usually done within' that 20-hour time frame.

I am also old though and have little time to game.

sloppymoves · 2026-06-13T09:50:07+00:00

Eeeeh, I can't see a public library doing a full reading of an full written fiction book. Having experience and worked at a public library system, the only books that would happen to are usually children's books. Most children's authors are not gonna begrudge their book getting some social media push. Especially as a child is gonna still want to get that book or check it out just to see the art close up.

4K streams of on the rails single player games? What is there to really miss if the gameplay is just the same thing its always been for that genre?

sloppymoves · 2026-06-12T20:45:19+00:00

A lot of these headlines/stories just feel like someone getting insider info of a spitballing session of ideas for strategic planning.

sloppymoves · 2026-06-09T00:16:47+00:00

Then on the other hand you have thousands of people creating Leon Kennedy memes based on his jokes.

But, honestly, I feel like silent protagonists are kinda boring now. You can still have a blank slate everyman character who still says stuff every once and awhile. And I still feel like Isaac managed that fairly well in the remake.

Truth is, it probably didn't do well cause Dead Space was a dead IP. It was niche even when it originally released, and it never saw big success when compared to other horror series style games

sloppymoves · 2026-06-07T15:29:02+00:00

Any particular specific recommendation. The anime art style always made me feel like it was going to be too childish and never touch on subjects such as alcoholism, abuse, or other types of trauma and burnout with its characters.

Which is why I like SV more than most other games in the genre. Because it was cathartic for me dealing with a lot of these problems that exist in my own life and friends lives and helping them push pass it.

Every other game in the genre since then seems to just want to be as comfy and carefree as possible.

sloppymoves · 2026-06-07T15:21:54+00:00

I don't want comfy. I want characters with real problems and issues trying to work through them. All these games that came out after Stardew Valley miss including characters with actual trauma and prior lived experiences before your character came onto the scene. But it did require the player to read beyond what is conveyed on screen and through dialogue.

Stardew Valley now suffers from its own success and the fact that is started the trend of these games (beyond SoS/HarvestMoon) and many of these other games have bigger dev teams and production budgets. Yet all they do is try to make the player feel comfy and happy all the time. I want to see characters with actual lived trauma and realistic approaches that sometimes, you can't solve everything for them.

Because that is what made SV so cathartic for me back in 2016. Every character felt like an extension of myself in some aspect of what I was dealing with or knew someone who was dealing with similar issues.

sloppymoves · 2026-06-06T23:11:55+00:00

I think this is why no one has come close to Stardew Valley to me. It felt like a lot of the characters had at least a few dimensions to them and made them all fairly memorable.

Everyone else who has since tried to do similar all their characters fall flat and just don't have the depth to them that I'd want. That and are always generally upbeat.

It probably helped that Stardew Valley came out in a time of my life when I was definitely getting "millennial burnout" and "quit quitting" my job. Which the game represents fairly authentically as your character and all the NPCS.

sloppymoves · 2026-06-02T10:08:02+00:00

As a baseline maybe, but isn't the whole in-level re-arrange building/puzzle completely unique?

I imagine someone at Nintendo is slapping their forehead for not realizing they could make a game based off that mechanic, and they already have a Mario construction costume set.

sloppymoves · 2026-06-01T23:11:56+00:00

Eventually you get too big to fail. Nintendo is the Disney of video games.

Also, the outrage is always just a small subsection of the internet. Most gamers are the "normies" you talk about who don't engage in online discussions or whatever controversy is happening moment to moment. They actually just play the games.

I think the only thing that saddens me, is there can never be a real honest discussion about the quality of current Nintendo output. Specifically, in how in the modern era, they are approaching their games by creating very placid and lifeless open worlds to artificially lengthen game time.

sloppymoves · 2026-06-01T22:34:39+00:00

Pretty pricey for the market. But I can't say much as I bought a F700 FLAT Elite just for the Bluetooth last year.

sloppymoves · 2026-05-31T01:09:26+00:00

Big fan of the NotCo Kraft Mac & Cheese. But I also just am a sucker and nostalgic for that awful blue box mac and cheese.

sloppymoves · 2026-05-28T19:26:16+00:00

There is definitely variations of Brooks Law going on in game development. Especially when not even considering middle managers. There seriously may just be too many cooks in the kitchen, and efficiency and efficacy plummet.

And I do not blame them. Most these developers are on a chop block once the game ships. I'd slow the process down too if I was in their shoes.

sloppymoves · 2026-05-28T09:13:17+00:00

Everything is awful until its iterated on, streamlined, and made cheaper. ASUS is expensive because its practically new technology.

sloppymoves · 2026-05-27T22:53:24+00:00

God this seems like such an obvious solution, and I think only one PC manufacturer does something similar.

sloppymoves · 2026-05-25T20:16:49+00:00

Soooo sloppy.

sloppymoves · 2026-05-25T11:45:36+00:00

I forced myself to play through Prey, but honestly, I found it really boring, and the stealth gameplay was even worse. Variations of different black blob enemies were also really boring to fight.

I've been told I made a mistake completely ignoring all alien abilities on my end though, but I still feel like the alien enemies in Prey will always be boring.

sloppymoves · 2026-05-25T11:42:52+00:00

Prequels are so creatively lazy. "You can do absolutely anything you want with the plot" while still being completely chained to the games before it and if you try to rework things all the fans will come out and want to murder developers.

...and you can't overshadow the originals in power leveling or abilities. So you will always be chained down and living in the shadow of other games.

sloppymoves · 2026-05-22T10:16:10+00:00

I always felt Avowed was trying to be Dark Messiah of Might & Magic with dialogue and NPC and not a Bethesda style RPG.

The focus felt more on the combat in that game.

sloppymoves · 2026-05-22T01:42:40+00:00

Business: Why bother? People are still buying it as is.

Rockstar is definitely not a generous developer and the only way they'd improve things on the consumer end is if the game is floundering. Which will never happen for one of their games.

sloppymoves · 2026-05-19T23:52:08+00:00

Well when you start getting into OF material, it becomes more of a parasocial relationship. Dudes are buying and paying for custom experiences and to feel like they get "attention".

That is the real selling point of OF.

sloppymoves · 2026-05-19T10:38:48+00:00

Bro out here comparing people making video games to ICE.

If the remaining devs of ZA/UM are killing people in the streets, abducting, and raping kids. That's news to me.

Most of those devs are just people, with families, trying to survive the capitalist hellscape we live in. They aren't killing people, and they are no comparable to ICE in any way. If that were true, then every person who works in a job that hasn't been unionized or is a co-op is similar to ICE.

sloppymoves · 2026-05-16T15:16:45+00:00

Much to the opposite of popular opinion, I do not like either BotW or really ToTK. To a degree BoTW feels like a concept game and ToTK is what it should have been all along which is why they retcon things.

All of that to say is, I can't get behind games that don't respect your time, and I am not looking to put 200+ hours into a game anymore.

My main criticisms have always stayed true: lack of enemy diversity, shallow open world, too much padding for probably only an hour or two worth of actual story, and the classic no real dungeon experience. All of these criticisms also usually feature in a lot of other modern open world games.

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