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Fucking awesome

This is great, thanks

Man I love potato skin

If I peel potato skins, I usually keep them to make a vegetable stock.

Yeah, after Reddit died (as far as I’m concerned) I set up a tracker for a load of RSS feeds. A lot of them are, as you say, updates concerning walkthroughs and guides. Predominantly Baldurs Gate 3 at the moment.

Which is fine I guess, but it is very obvious what they’re pushing…I’d rather just have news.

Never heard of Yahtzee but that sounds great.

A lot like Digitiser here back in the day…might write up a good post about Digi when I get the time.

Yep. It’s Dark Souls 4 as far as I’m concerned

I miss the days of N64 Magazine and C&VG in the 90s. Those were reviews you could trust.

If a game was shit, they literally called it shit and gave it a review and score to match.

For example: https://gaminghell.co.uk/images/n64tribute-carmageddon64b.jpg

Review summary: “If you see Carmageddon 64 in the shops, take it off the shelves, rip up the box and throw the cart repeatedly against the wall until it breaks”.

Classic

Edit: fuck me, fourty fucking quid for that game back then. That’s £70 with inflation!!!

Edit edit: I’m looking at the prices of the games I got in the 90s…fucking hell, we have it good nowadays. Of course literally everything else is more expensive but eh

I ran a gaming store at the time, with rentals. I remember when brink came out and I had the exact same experience when I took it home to try. At least I had no anticipation and didn’t pay anything for it.

He’s utterly wrong.

When the GameCube was out in 2002, I remember buying SNES games from the retro section. That was just 6 years after the launch of the N64 and 11 years since the western launch of the SNES, 12 since the Super Famicom launch.

We are now 12 years since the launch of the 3DS.

It’s the same…

Yep, keves arts don’t take an age to recharge now for one thing

Have a look on gamebanana for a good few options

Best to play with the rebalance mods. I’ve played through Xenoblade 3 and the DLC a few times with it both on my switch and on my PC (4k 60fps HDR with my switch pro pad on my TV via Yuzu emulator). They make the gameplay so much better.

Yep. And the console itself looked like a Wii, out of focus in all promotions to begin with too.

When the console was announced at that E3 back then, I was on a live chat somewhere I think, thousands of active users, most obviously well versed in games and consoles and tech in general. Everyone was fucking confused. That was when it was obvious it would not go well.

I don’t play my switch anymore, I exclusively use Yuzu on my PC.

I can play games like Xenoblade 3 in native 4k 60fps with HDR on my TV using a pro controller. No way am I going back to using the switch docked. Ever.

Edit: also 4k mario kart deluxe with mods. Shrek, Peter Griffin and homer are perfect additions to any race

No, the Wii U’s issue is the name is nonsensical. What the fuck does the U mean? It sounds like an add-on or health title.

No one had an issue with identifying the Super Nintendo Entertainment System as a successor to the Nintendo Entertainment System, or the Super Famicom as the successor to the Famicom.

Less. I got a Crucial 2tb for £70 a couple of weeks ago. 5000mb/s too

Edit: Samsung Evo 970 is actually £73 on Amazon right now for 2TB

Yeah same, it was madness

These are still being released for many games. Xenoblade 3 was released as a full 100+ hour RPG with basically zero bugs and no microtransactions at all - the DLC included a full new story expansion worth 40+ hours, new characters, battle system changes, an entirely new world to explore, etc. They could sell the fucking thing separately and it would be fine as a standalone if it weren’t for it bookending the series in plot.

Releasing a good, finished game, with a good, finished DLC campaign that respects the player should be standard and expected. It’s not something that should be considered unique to Larian - but we need more like these and I’d love them to bring a Xenoblade 3:Future Redeemed size expansion, like the ones you mentioned, to BG3.

Edit: the old fallout 3 expansions were great too iirc

Sanitized crap compared to the originals. The fun and excess were part of the joke, and all of that was removed.

Remember the Wii craze in 2007? There was a radio competition called Hold Your Wee for a Wii in which the contestants had to drink throughout the day without going for a piss. One died.

Yep we did a massive battle yesterday, went to long rest. Got stuck in the camp with us lying down on the floor twitching with our heads in the campfire itself. Couldn’t quit, couldn’t save, couldn’t leave the fucked camp sleep animation. Tried everything.

Had to reload and redo. Fucking bullshit.

Edit: photo I took. See. What the fuck are they doing. https://i.postimg.cc/bYxvsZvj/IMG20230828203550.jpg