Spawn_of_Apathy

I was sort of like these people. Destiny 2 being my most played game every year. I kind of broke free around June/July last year and haven’t played it since. Ive kind of just grown a little weary of developers increasing the grind in games to extend or boost engagement numbers, primarily so they can keep advertising their in game shop of micro transactions. Their community managers may make posts telling people to take breaks, but the way leadership is having the devs design the grinds and fomo they know they have a game that is screaming at players “it’s never ok to not play”. Getting a gaming PC really helped. Expensive, sure, but it has seemingly sparked in me an interest in playing other stuff. If for no other reason to be able to crank up the graphics and play at 60+fps and bask in the beauty and performance. But I have gotten into some smaller titles or playing with an occasional mod to make a game experience better that wouldn’t be possible if still on a console. I kind if feel more like I did in regards to gaming 20-25 years ago.

I think it has been slowly going that way for a while. It also seems to coincide with the gender divide among gamers closing. We are not quite at 50/50, but we are getting closer and closer. There’s also more and more women working in game design and game development. I can’t imagine trying to make characters “sexy” will ever go away. But I can’t help but feel the idea of having to make a character look like an object to lust after as a way to pander to a certain demographic is not as necessary as it once was. At least not in the US. Maybe age has something to do with it too. That being the older you get less you need an exaggeratedly proportioned woman to see somebody attractive. I just saw a statistic that only 24% of gamers are under 18. I don’t know about you, but I have a much more broad level of attraction to the female body than I did at 14. It’s possible the average age of gamers in South Korea is much younger (as an average) than here in the US so targeting the gaze of the 14-21 year old boys makes more sense still.

there’s apparently an outfit made to look like bare flesh that apparently removes your shield for the privilege of making her look naked.

Unsurprising. They had Jedi Fallen Order in gamepass around a year after release.

some publishers seekingly still want a Destiny even though it has been widely common knowledge for a long time how expensive that model is to run to keep players interested, hooked or regularly coming back. PvP only us much easier, but PvE requires so much more.

Kind of reminds me when a whole lot of PS3 owners left their PS3 on running Folding at Home, myself included. This was obviously more involved in player participation, but still a neat way to crowd fund actual research.

I do jot envy whatever studio agrees to do it.

Probably. I got it from the mention of 2mm of added latency when upscaling to 4k from 1080p.

or they have had to pivot so hard and burn the midnight oil to get more things added to bolster this expansion. I mean Bungie is not afraid to promise a feature that the team hadn’t even started work on and takes nearly a year to release. lol They are going so hard on finally delivering everything people have said they’ve been disappointed Destiny has been lacking each expansion Bungie is finally doing it all in this final expansion. It almost makes tou think “they could have been doing this the whole time.” I worry about this expansion day one for people jumping in. I just cannot see where the game isn’t a broken, buggy mess with the amount of stuff they are quickly cramming in at the last minute to boost interest and preorders.

So Sony’s resolution upscaling is targeting DLSS Performance mode.

I guess I never really noticed since the last Ubisoft games I bought and played I did so after all content had released and the complete edition of the game was heavily discounted.

I saw that and almost got pissed, but then I saw that Unisoft seems to be using “season pass” the way the industry did back on the Xbox 360/PS3. Where season pass was just the post release DLC or the post release DLC for a year. that seems less egregious. However I don’t like what sounds like a day one mission being locked behind a higher tier. That is where we start getting into “they chopped up the full game to sell it for parts” territory.

Then it is fortunate for me I rarely ever play Ubisoft games. Years ago I played and loved AC: Odyssey and years before that Ghost Recon Wildlands. This game may not feel fresh, but it shouldn’t feel so played out either.

Not really. That article and I guess associated patch are from 2022. So we already have the “less chatty” Aloy. lol