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Yup, they should absolutely do that. Make Stadia deader than dead.

Who even knows if DF got to play it yet.

A "typical" Sony and Microsoft console launch lineup is basically garbage. Middling is too kind. Microsoft's not even crossing that low bar this year without a brand new 1st party game at launch. The PS5 line-up is the first time since the original Xbox that either company has a launch list I'd consider 'reasonably good.' You wouldn't even need to spend $70 on a 6 hour game, because you get one packed in with the system. Plus, Spiderman MM is discounted. If you took Destruction All-Stars out of the picture entirely, the PS5 would still have a 'reasonably good' launch line-up. I have no idea what's with the fixation some of you have with it. The only thing to discuss is how little there is to discuss. I'm still disappointed by how few actual next-gen exclusives we're getting, across the board. But I'd take Sony's PS5 line-up over another Killzone/Knack or Resistance/Genji kind of launch. It's not even a question.

Oh and the dialogue is terrible. Bad jokes, and the accents sound more scottish than greek.

I played a little bit. It's alright. I hate the jumping and double jumping as much as I thought I would. But the boosting around feels fun, and they're very generous with the stamina meter. Combat is surprisingly fun, I like what they're going for. It's the least janky feeling part of it. Stadia lag is Stadia lag. It worked better in the AC Odyssey demo where it wasn't as fast paced.

It's still a problem a majority of people playing games online will experience. Tempers flare. Doesn't mean that people automatically resort to bigotry, but I do think that toxicity is common enough, especially when blame is involved. It feels just as good to them to fuck up someone they're trolling, or someone who is telling them to be more sensitive. I don't really think we disagree then on the basics here.

Matching their insults with your own does absolutely nothing. Again, this is just giving them what they want. They know they're not among friends. Or in some cases, their friends are in on it and trolling others. Best thing to do, IMO, is say you're muting and reporting, and follow through. Puts the question in their head if they'll be punished, and leaves it at that.

Leaving a game because the community is too toxic is the answer.

I think we'll never see toxicity stop being a problem in online gaming. Even if the words and insults change, the bullying, aggressive blaming and backstabbing will continue. It's really more about trying to enforce certain forms of insults being off limits. Ideally that weeds out the most problematic people who push things too far.

Part of the reason, sure, but definitely not the entirety of it. With gaming, it's likely most about trying to drive a wedge between troll culture and racism. No easy task. People can be optimistic about change, or feel outraged that we aren't taking as strong of a stand as we should, etc. But trying to tell some random person on the internet to stop taunting and jeering is also giving them what they want. Bullying 101. Most of the change, culturally, isn't going to happen with you shouting down a racist stranger. IMO

How Microsoft brought Gears Tactics to the Xbox Series X and S WWW.THEVERGE.COM "There’s just so much hardware on PC." Series X: 4k60fps Series S: 1440p60fps One X: 4K30fps or 1440p60fps One S: 1080p30fps All still begs the question why the Series S doesn't have a 4k30 mode. If the GPU was capable, it'd look better than the One X that way too.

For a newly localized NES title, I think it's fine. Nintendo was selling NES games for $5 apiece 15 years ago. Heck, Mother Beginnings was $7.

4chan The greater the impression of anonymity and lack of moderation, the more likely these things are to fester.

Sony needs to show the damn game already. We've seen plenty of Sackboy, Demon Souls, Spiderman MM, Astrobot, etc, to get an an impression. But this is a new IP and there's no legitimate gameplay cut 3 weeks from launch. I don't think I've ever seen a major publisher be this cagey, even with a launch title.

That's actually a pretty good write up about launches as a whole. Series X currently has more games confirmed with next-gen upgrades, but the PS5 has more launch day new releases. They got Cyperpunk 2077 wrong, technically. It's coming out a week after the systems launch, and won't get a true next-gen console patch until later. It's mostly just a PS4/XBO release with future insurance this year.

Arkham Knight would look incredible with auto-HDR if the resolution was higher. 1080p + HDR looks like a recipe for disaster for it on a 4K TV. The aliasing looks even more pronounced.

I think Microsoft and Amazon will both run into issues of Apple trying to lock things up within in their mobile browser. We'll see how it plays out.

HoB (PC/PS4/Switch) I love 3D isometric puzzle games. They fulfill a fantasy of what an otherwise 2D game could look like with polygons, vertical puzzles, camera pans, etc. HoB at its best perfectly encapsulates that, in a way I don't think other games have. Traditionally, this sort of game is designed on a grid. You may get full analog movement in some cases, like in Zelda: ALBW, but the world design doesn't match. HoB throws all sorts of curvy, windy pathways at you, then tells you to leap off them. So it's really more of a 3D platformer with some light puzzles. You're expected to aim your jumps, and the camera does a decent job not making any of those leaps feel blind. Landmasses are stitched together in a a way that flows organically from one to the next. None of the puzzles are very hard, but they do force you to go explore and think less about obvious routes. It's much more focused on overworld puzzles than dungeons in a Zelda-esque way. The main flaws are in the controls. The game could have benefited so much from letting you control your jumps mid-air. It feels a bit finicky as is, with some deaths not feeling totally deserved. I have no idea why they made that decision. Combat is also nothing special, but gets the job done. It's a bit buggy too, I noticed, but nothing too bad. Overall, I'd recommend it if that all sounds interesting to you. Not a must play, but with how cheap it gets these days ($2 or less on PC), it's worth picking up. 8/10

Apple dug in their heels and won't allow cloud gaming services unless games are released as individual apps and they get a cut. There was even a 3rd party browser that tried to get around it for Stadia that was just shut down. The iOS app Microsoft just released two days ago, which I think you're referring to, focuses on directly streaming games from a device you own. That seems to be the only thing Apple is okay with. As for a PS5 hack to run streamed games from off-PS sources, that'd probably take a modded PS5 (whenever that's possible). Same is true for Switch. It's a niche audience, and one that opens the door to piracy anyways.

I'd love a new light fantasy RTS that's actually worth paying attention to. Genre needs a comeback.

We've seen publishers pull out of cloud-based Steam game streaming with GeForce Now. Streaming a local PC seems to not cross any boundaries. As for an Xbox hypothetically running all Steam games directly, Sony could leave the platform same way that EA once did. It wouldn't make Horizon unplayable, but would probably damper their desire to put games on Steam in the future.