I came home early to WFH and had to convince myself not to preload the game and screw up my connection.
Fascinating. The IGN Japan reviewer came to the same conclusion as some of the err, Western millennial reviewers, but they focused on the timeless part of the game and found something positive to take away. Our reviewers seem to have been hoping this videogame – created by central Europeans and announced in 2012 – would swoop in with a strong statement about the state of society in 2020.
Hey, that’s their subjective experience as a reviewer and they’re entitled to it. It just seems like a miserable way to live.
Funny, I caught this line in the cnet review, one of the few I felt comfortable reading at work, and this was his take on the bugs:
Don’t you all want to play this game at release and form your own opinion on the floating cigarettes? This is going to be bigger AND less hideous than the floating eyeballs in Assassin’s Creed Unity. Don’t miss out.
Nesrie
3057
That’s a really strange way to view that. I mean… some of the reviewers are woman and trans individuals, groups that were ignored, marginalized, attacked and still frequently told we don’t belong in the space. The misery isn’t there because they spoke up. They have the right to share their experiences like everyone else does.
I’ll let others play test for a bit.
Okay, my only takeaway from this is that IGN Japan sounds amazing, even through Google Translate.
Yep, that’s often just as bad. It’s fine though to clearly lay out the game loop as time constrained, so that a potential purchaser knows that. It isn’t fine IMO to not tell someone that until they are past the point of no return, or to make the hints ambiguous or easily missed.
The ideal is that sweet spot between too laid back and too frantic.
MrTibbs
3060
Be wary when reading pre-release performance analysis takes.
Murph
3061
I haven’t finished Kingmaker, but the first time there’s an IMPORTANT timeline, it’s not a matter of them not telling you that it’s important. I think we’re just all so used to timelines not mattering, we ignored the initial warning. I certainly did.
Weird. I did see an article that said a 3090 couldn’t do 4K60 on Ultra. So I guess that’s TBD.
Well, using DLSS you can.
In BG3 your brain is literally being devoured. But, hey, let’s go help this girl compose a song.
In Skyrim the dragons are returning and razing the country, but I’ve always got time to check out another random ruin.
Little surprised this is 91 on Metacritic. Pleased, but surprised given the reviews I skimmed.
From the reviews, it doesn’t, it just profits of it, just all the brands fakely promoting their alleged diversity this year. And I have doubts it deals with anything else either.
Which isn’t the worst thing in the world, more of a waste, and I still drink Coke now and then, and will probably play this if I ever get to W3 first, but it is an issue where YMWV. Just don’t be surprised when someone calls it out.
I believe that Don’t Nod’s Tell Me Why features a transgender character in one of the main roles.
Last of Us 2 as well, though non-playable.
kerzain
3071
I thought a main goal of the Overwatch roster was inclusivity, are none of them trans? Except for Black Widow I don’t remember their names, but I thought there was a Russian woman with a chaingun that was trans.
Quaro
3072
Rob Zacny at Waypoint really liked the game, despite it being a mess in a lot of ways. there’s a good discussion in the first segment of the podcast this week. It does sound super buggy, but I was laughing out loud at the description of Keanu constantly sitting and standing or how summoning your car will explode a random nearby car when it spawns underneath it.
https://podbay.fm/p/waypoint-radio/e/1607387053
It sounds like if you play on Hard and like doing sidequests it’s a LOT longer too…
Tom’s Hardware has some preliminary benchmarks up. It looks like my 2060 can get over 30 fps doing ray tracing on ultra settings at 1080p, using DLSS.
