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This still doesn't really have anything to do with your point about next-gen and cross-gen. Why exactly are we remembering with fondness "attempt to pass off as gameplay?" You've narrowed down the games because you initially brought up games that showed nothing until months or a year into last gen, lol. Much of what you're showing consists of trailers that later showed gameplay after initial trailers (and in FFXV's case, over half a decade later), which is no different than now. Some games showed gameplay, some didn't. Maybe we should be applauding not getting bullshots and noticeably downgraded graphics in the final product instead of holding that up as why the "hype" (which, again, was for consoles that nobody thought were cutting edge at the time that we're going into revisionist history pretending that people thought they were). Because your version of last gen isn't what actually happened. It was all suspicions about the trailers and the consoles being seen as not cutting edge. People who had PCs weren't going "fucking finally" to PS4 or XBO, so I don't see your point? This is a totally different point than you're making now because there wasn't a loading improvement for the PS4/XBO, yet you're holding it up to this weird standard because they gave you fake trailers.

For the 1-4 boss, I kept going back to help people over and over again (after killing myself in the Nexus, of course). Feels good, man. There's just a cool vibe when you play co-op with someone and they do the "THANK GOD YOU'RE HERE!" gesture to you.

I don't understand what trailers have to do with your original point about rushed launches and cross-gen? When Watch Dogs was shown at the PS4 announcement event, I don't think it looked anything like E3 2012, so again, much of the talk was around if the machines could even handle it. And many of those trailers -- UC4, FFXV -- were cinematic. UC4, you saw nothing graphically until E3 2014, and that wasn't even gameplay. It's kind of weird to talk about trailers nowadays being all cinematic considering how many gameplay trailers we've seen, and yet games like Deep Down was revealed via a cinematic trailer. And UC4. And Arkham Knight. You're remembering the past completely wrong. Cross-gen games load quickly. I'm hopping into Miles Morales easy, and Valhalla is noticeably superior to the PS4/XBO versions. I feel like you think what he's saying is laughable because you haven't played anything on next-gen, but he's on-point. No piece of tech these days can be released and be at the cutting edge of everything. Things gets better all the time. Despite that, we have the most significant difference in loading since the days of 2D prior to the CD.

You already have the item. I've done two separate run throughs and builds, but I got a bit into NG+ before switching to Miles Morales since I had the urge to play something different. But I'd be down! Heck, I'd be down to do some co-op in some areas, like all of 1-4.

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Holy SHIT, someone on Twitter just pointed something out and now I can't outsee it. For reference, here's Jason Miller: And:

Losing the popular vote and still becoming president has nothing to do with getting away with anything, imo; it has to do with our system which did the same for a handful of other people such as Bush, and Bush wasn't Teflon. Bill Clinton was impeached but not convicted yet him being a horny disloyal husband stuck and is still the running joke on him two decades later. And I can't remember the last time a president even went to jail. What I've seen -- and whether anyone here took the same approach, I really don't remember -- is that people really didn't think any attacks ever worked on Trump ever, that he was this force of nature that was different than everything that came before him. And attacks meant nothing because his base believes everything (this I know was echoed here billions of times). And none of this ever made sense because it's irrelevant what his base thinks since that's the point of a base to begin with -- they're with you and not persuadable. He barely got into office, he joined 44 others who never went to jail no matter what any of them did, and once he got into office, nobody thought Democrats were going to win anything despite every sign imaginable showing that they were. "Haha moral victories they barely lost, what good does that do?!" People pushed aside common sense when Trump's mental breakdowns were clearly hurting his party. And Trump certainly doesn't think he got away with anything. He's hysterical. His lie of being a great businessman blew up when his tax returns were uncovered and everyone discovered he was a half a trillion in debt. By being president, he entered a world where he couldn't control everything anymore. His actions had consequences in Virginia, and Washington, and Michigan, and Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, and Maine, and Kansas, and Arizona, and California. He tried to stop people from voting but failed. He joined H.W. and Carter as a one-term president, but those two actually could win the majority of the vote once. And he will forever be an impeached president, same as Clinton and Johnson, a tiny trio of people. The one thing I do agree with is that Republicans seem to have to be 100 times crazier than any Democrat in order to have no chance of winning, which is less a Trump thing and more an America thing right now. Fake socialism attacks were more effective this year than real QAnon attacks. And people are so obsessed with "both sides" rhetoric that they twist themselves into knots to make it seem as if both sides are the same. That part continues to irritate me.

And here lies the problem as to why your complaints make no sense. Kind of a weird comparison given that Watch Dogs was hammered for not showing real gameplay and something that looked way better than it actually ended up being, followed by, "Can the next-gen consoles actually handle this?" FFXV didn't really show anything? It was a PS3-gen game that was delayed for PS4 and its trailer at E3 2013 was CG. Uncharted 4 didn't show anything involving characters/environment until E3 2014, well after launch. We knew as much about it as we do God of War at this point, and once again, UC4 went from, "Look at this 60fps trailer, it's awesome," to the 30fps gameplay demonstration at PSX that year, and people said it must have downgraded graphically because his chin looked different or some weird shit. I'm just saying: I don't remember, "Look at the potential!" from early last gen. I remember a lot of people talking about how the consoles weren't a true leap as 360/PS3 were, how they launched with the strength of a modest PC, that the trailers being shown weren't what the consoles were capable of, etc. On the other hand, the tech on these consoles was so impressive that the refrain was, "This is all gonna be so expensive!" yet both consoles launched to good price points.

Second, I think Jake Tapper just made Jason Miller cry.

Couple things I've seen. First, Stacey Abrams is not-so-subtly saying to ignore this for now in Georgia since there's a limited amount of time to get votes in:

I imagine it's the same for Xbox based on what my friends rave about (same thing I do with the SSD ), but with suspend/resume and the SSD, I get into games QUICKER than the cartridge days.

So considering we just touched on several points, I'll work on each point so this sounds less scattershot. Hype Considering how quickly the consoles sold, the hype was plenty there. Same with the PS4. And the Switch despite its biggest game being cross-gen at launch. Rushed for Launch Given how many times games get delayed, it's perfectly reasonable to think that a hard deadline as a new console launch with new tech leads to increased crunch/rush. It's not as if Killzone or Knack set the world on fire (though Resogun motha fucking did, mmm, that damn game). DS certainly didn't feel rushed in any aspect, and neither did Astro or Spidey (haven't played Sackboy yet). But that's also why I feel nothing is rushed about a launch seven years after its predecessors. This was a pretty varied and healthy launch, and BC has been lovely. Maybe people are conflating PS with Xbox or wanting to seem even-handed by taking a both sides approach, but there was certainly a lot ready for a new PS owner. Show pieces Your point about third parties is certainly true in that fewer games released specifically on one platform. But I dunno, while I think of Halo and Mario 64 as those show piece classic launch games (and Rogue Squadron being an example of a next gen look), I feel as if many launches aren't this varied and many of the popular games aren't huge show pieces. Mario World was a great game, but it didn't strike me as something that looked next-gen like Sonic did. The PS2 launch was varied but not heavy hitting, so even Tekken and Ridge Racer didn't light the world on fire. Madden 2001 looked great but was cross-gen, but at that time, cross-gen from PS1 and PS2 was hugely different. I guess Resistance was that showpiece on PS3, but really, nothing quite DAZZLED like Mario and Halo far as I can recall. tbh, the biggest dazzling launch... was PSVR, imo. And that was less graphically and more performance/experience.

He's half a trillion in debt; he's walking away with nothing but being a twice popular vote losing impeached one-term president. They can hang to his every word all they want. Despite Paintsuit Nation and all sorts of "Hillary was right" memes and supporters after 2016, it didn't change that Trump was still president. Hang they will as Biden is president. Every year, Republicans lost, and every year, I was told nothing mattered. Well, fuck the past four years of that nonsense. It mattered. He's going away.

Good attitude going into the election Tuesday.

When they do build next-gen exclusives, people complain that they're rushed. I got a better launch this time despite Demon's Souls and Astro's Playroom being two of the few games not cross-platform. End of the day, there's no need to delay the consoles or wish they came later. The generation was long and fruitful and fun, and now we have powerful machines into the next gen. The cross-gen games will diminish same as they did last gen, especially since there's a good chance the next-gen games that come out on previous-gen consoles won't play very well.

Biden won, so technically, yes, it's the end of "Teflon Don" who is one of the few twice popular-vote losing impeached one-term presidents. But nothing stuck or something.

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Devs got PS5 kits early and the games run great. There’s nothing I’m seeing that leads me to believe the consoles released too early. At least not the PS5, and I haven’t heard anything but the Series X being a really good machine.

It’s a great looking game so I don’t blame you for thinking it has the complete works. I finished my second playthrough recently. Got quite a bit into ng+ but now I’ve decided to shift to Spider-Man for now.

Man, if you think arguing digital vs physical in a random thread is d1p fashion and not just the way of the gaming world, I don't know what to tell you.

Never heard of Pentatonix before New Year's Eve/Day, but they were on NBC doing a capella to Auld Lang Syne, and I absolutely loved it. Unfortunately, some people texted this person during the performance. Boo. Here's the studio version:

She loves Ace Attorney.

While the servers and stores exist, sure. I'm sure if you bought a game on Stadia, you're set for life.

Same. There are tons of great physical sales, and I like being able to play whatever from years past by owning the disc. Streaming has a lot of advantages, but I hate that I don't just own something like the entire Bojack Horseman series on physical and digital.

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