the hard part is that they are partial investors in so many things. I believe they own the PUBG studio, which is the same studio that published Callisto Protocol, and that game had one of the largest budgets of all time. That’s the most obvious link I could find, but also that game came out a couple years ago so who knows, maybe they are steering the ship away from big budgets as we speak.

Shawn Layden, the titular “Ex-Playstation boss”, is currently strategic advisor for Tencent. Would we say that Tencent is currently adhering to this strategic advice?

in Putin’s Russia, the dogs sell YOU the weed!

this is so funny to me just a robot dog walkin around like “hey kid…you wanna buy some PCP?”

If you listen to this it will make your day at least 10% better: Playstation Startup

hell yeah, MVG is the MVP of the retro game scene on YT. Glad to see him here, and glad to see him shouting out ShadPS4, which y’all know i am excited about. Mostly because i want to play bloodborne enhanced on PC, but preservation of other games like Last Guardian is also so important.

i love those things. don’t use em so much these days, but the snap-on trigger extenders were ESSENTIAL on PS3.

wait you mean that isn’t how you use a stick shift? i guess that explains why my truck was making all those weird noises…

Tldw: fromsoftserve is a well known modder in the Dark Souls community. Shadps4 emulator is having some tremendous breakthroughs, and FSS reports that he has played through almost the entire game on the emulator. This video is not about the emulator progress, but instead is about how FSS is modding the game within the emulator to make the game even better looking than it was on PS4. 60fps, uprezzing, 2x upscale textures, and fully dynamic lighting are discussed in this video.

thank u I was pretty proud of that one 🥲

This approach is so common in RPGs it’s like dwarves with Scottish accents; a better question to ask would be whether there’s an RPG that doesn’t do it - one that hurries you up instead?

I mean…Dark Souls is the obvious answer, but that’s almost a different subgenre of RPG. Dark Souls does have side quests, but they are obscure and often incidental to the main quest. They also skirt this problem by having “time” be a loose concept in the lore - in every game, the world is in the process of slowly ending, in a literal way that fucks up the flow of time.

In fact one of my favorite RPG has the player characters being the ones trying to end the world as they know it.

Which one would that be?

Time sensitive but you can start the time line over at any point?

that’s what i’m saying! I hope the quests are more dense with writing in the final release. Well-designed quests with clever writing are the entire appeal of an Obsidian RPG!

This preview is pretty positive. Here’s a hands-on preview from Remap that is a bit more mixed: https://remapradio.com/articles/avowed-preview-xbox/

remember when the full version of Fallout: London came out and Bethesda had a sale on FO4 on GOG specifically because of this issue? I’m not saying “oh you’re such an idiot for not buying the GOG version back then”. just bringing it up because i think it’s neat, a rare W for Bethesda/Microsoft.

yeah tbh this seems like just a few patches (and mods) away from greatness. just like STALKER of old.

I go back and forth on this. Clearly there are downsides to a service being provided by a government agency. But someone has to be in charge of it, and every option has downsides. Obviously a for-profit private venture is the WORST option. The current system of volunteer/nonprofit is great, but lacking in stability, funds, and power to push back against copyright. You could argue that the benefits outweigh the drawbacks, I just think it would be nice if my tax dollars supported vital services like Internet Archive or Wikipedia.

I hate that we have to live in this world where something as vital as archiving the internet is a volunteer-based operation that requires permission from copyright holders. In a better world, the Internet Archive would be an international enterprise funded by mandatory contributions from UN members, and IA would have open license to archive everything. Maybe they wouldn’t allow regular users to access archived items that have active copyright, unless the items become inaccessible.

it doesn’t appear that PSSR (which I cannot help but pronounce with an added i)

I’ve taken to pronouncing it as “pisser”