General gaming discussion

Jaysus that's a lot of posts about nothing since yesterday evening..

I mean. Is it?

Ah, gotcha.

I didn't realise the mixtape was published by same people who published what remains of Edith Finch. Both are games with minimal gameplay but a story that sticks with you.

I don't get why people are angry at it (mixtape) as a game, it doesn't claim to be something it's not.

My recommendation would be if you have 3-4 hours and pay for gamepass, definitely play it. If you don't have gamepass, you should know yourself if it's the type of game you'd play or not.

BS is a niche platform that's hostile to right wing views in general. Twitter at least allows far left/right and centre. You get a balance. BS wasn't the big takeover they hoped for and I've noticed a lot more left wing comments the last while on Twitter, probably from people moving back. Comment sections under the likes of RTE are not always dominated by the right these days. I noticed that under a recent Graham lenihan post. Good to see it though, echo chamber's like BS are boring.

I'd presume if that court case re: Sonys monopoly (think i used it right this time) on the store bears fruit and digital PS games will be available on 3rd party sites as a result, then i imagine it'll be a near given they'd go digital only for PS6. Obviously, I'd prefer a disc option, and willing to pay more for it, but if they lose out because of that, they'll want to recoup it somehow and I can see physical being dropped.

I'm part of the 15% that mainly buys disc, especially for full priced new releases, because the trade in is worth too much. But that second hand physical copy is worth nothing to Sony, so a % of a cheaper digital copy from a 3rd party site is better than nothing. Hopefully with MS looking to keep physical, Sony will be feel compelled to keep it too.

Don't forget at the same time people were saying the Xbox was spying 🤣. The thing was voice activated how else could it work if you couldn't hear you.

I remember getting in loads of arguements at the time. I thought the Xbox approach was great. The problem they had was they were thinking ten years in the future, gamers were 5 years in the past.

Now look at us, pretty much a digital world with voice activated everything.

Started a new playthrough of Satisfactory yesterday and already 8hrs in. It's like a black hole of addiction. Even dreamt of it last night. Why did I do this to myself when there are so many good games releasing at the moment?

I played straight through to the second last phase, over 100 hours. I realised I needed some serious optimisation for that phase, took a break and haven't been back to it since, mainly out of fear of the workload ahead of me. Cracking game though. Probably the best automation game I've played out of the 1st person ones. Except for those spider things. Jump scare feckers!

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I love it, I've not been back to it for a long time. Only playing it on the Steam Deck. Maybe once my Steam Controller arrives, I'll boot it back up.

When I finished my marathon yesterday and "went to bed" I booted it up on my deck (hopeless addiction) but tbh I found the text a bit small for me. Would use it again if needed, but much preferred it on the big screen.

Yes the end phases can be a bit overwhelming alright! In my last playthrough I used a few blueprints I downloaded that I found helped a lot to get my head around what was needed and then rebuilt them myself. As for the spiders, arachnophobia mode is my friend. Little mewing cats is SO much nicer than those no-head-many-legs feckers!

They're more of a nuisance than anything. Like, I just want to build a gigafactory where you live, we can co-exist!

Did look into the blueprints, but even looking at them can be a lot to take it. I also have unlimited resource nodes because managing that on top is a bit much for me. The game remains there in my XMB, waiting patiently.

Yeah it was handed over to GLS on the 6th. It's been on a European tour so far. Starting in Holland, then into Denmark and onto France. It left France on the 12th and I've had no update since. But GLS are like that, it goes quite until it lands in Ireland, then the next morning it is delivered. I'd like to have it for the weekend.