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Hell, I'd be happy to buy 1440p again, provided it's both OLED and affordable (because I'd likely want to buy three of them at the same time).

Yeah, for Americans for which the Super is a price drop it's just boring. But for the rest of the world, it doesn't even have that to fall back on. A quick look locally show the 4080S at $1800, the 4080 at $1600. Yeah, it's less than pointless, buyers who come in after the old stock dries up will potentially end up worse off overall in terms of frames per dollar. It's not even a matter of local stores price gouging on the shiny new release, nVidia formally set the MSRP to $1870. The refresh serves to interrupt the natural price drops of the old card and is in effect a price hike to prop up margins between now and the release of the next gen. To be fair, I'm not currently following the market in any meaningful way. When in this mode I only read the conclusion page or watch the last 5 minutes of a couple reviews and don't care to dig any deeper. I built my current system in early 2021 and yet three years it feels like only yesterday. 20 years ago, that kind of time period would have had seen me upgrade at least once, if not twice. I'm probably golden until something like The Witcher 4 releases in what, 2026-27 at the earliest?

Will the spacesuit be made out of the same material as those "canvas" bags were?

Last year I built a 5700G-based system in a SilverStone Milo 10 case, half for the novelty of it. This was after finding that my NUC8, which features Iris graphics better than the NUCs that came after it, was still incapable of running fairly light games like Rogue Legacy 2 - a side-scrolling platformer. It was basically the best I could do in a case of that size, which has absolutely nil support for a standalone video card. Hell, in the "short" case configuration I'm using, most CPU stock coolers don't even fit. So yeah, I guess I would be the target market for something like this.

Based on the photographic evidence, it looks like some sort of Kinect revival game is on the cards.

To be honest, as someone who's put 1000 hours into XCOM 1, I immediately disregarded Midnight Suns purely on the basis of it being a superhero game. I have no idea what the gameplay is actually like.

I have 3h 25m logged apparently, all on (fake) launch day. With every passing day it becomes less likely I'll ever come back to it. I like Skyrim well enough, and have in the order of 150 hours in it. I gave both FO3 and FO4 more of a chance than I did Starfield, but even then I'd had enough after 20-odd hours. And I absolutely despise Oblivion. Even as someone who had used vim extensively, using vi was a harrowing and arduous task. (For context, after a year of using vim for all my regular coursework, exams were conducted on machines which only had plain vi)

SoZ is the only form of NWN2 I played with any seriousness, though even then I quit just at the doorstep of the final dungeon because I didn't feel like I needed closure. I have very little memory of the original campaign, I couldn't even tell you if I got out of the tutorial because I don't remember anything other than something something village attacked, standard Obsidian temporary tutorial companion dies, then who knows. For MoTB I very clearly remember I quit the tutorial dungeon because a dungeon full of backstab-immune enemies is just no fun.

I'm not a fan of Legendary Actions in principle either, though I sort of get why they exist to even up the action economy when encounter designers insist on designing an "epic" fight against one big bad who thinks fighting 1 vs 6 is a smart thing to do. But I think it's more reasonable to not design fights in that way in the first place, and Larian seemingly agrees judging from how they've approached their boss design where the boss never truly fights alone. (Granted I haven't seen any of the Act 3 bosses yet)

Ironman feels a bit arbitrary in a game like this, because (I'm assuming) it's game over if your active party of four dies, but totally fine if three die and a fourth gets away and pays to resurrect the other three at camp. But for most of the game you have two other characters at camp anyway, who could easily pay to resurrect the four active members who did die.

As someone who mostly traversed Night City by combination of bus and foot, that sounds right up my alley. I know some people feel that effectively teleporting around with public transport can be immersion-breaking, but for me it's nowhere near as bad as leaving my car in the middle of the road whenever I get to my destination.

Some of the potential endings are pretty notable in how much scope they've seemingly been given to change the established Forgotten Realms lore. So why not conquer Hell itself?

There's a demo available which contains the first chapter and saves carry over to the full game. Probably going to go play that myself once my eyes recover properly from laser eye surgery.

I'm still half asleep and with the way the embed displayed, I read the title as "Dine Hard". Now I'm disappointed it's not that.

The gang have already set up their YouTube channel in preparation for tomorrow's announcement, so likely not.

Having a semi-abandoned zombie website always did look a bit unprofessional and "small time", so to speak. Glad they're addressing it.

Huh, so WoW Classic isn't actually old WoW content anymore, but is actually getting brand new exclusive content it seems? So it's more of a fork of WoW than anything then?

My default character name just happens to be the name of one of the saints in Elder Scrolls lore which has caught me out more than once. And the corresponding last name caught me out in Fire Emblem leading to more confusion.

They played themselves a bit with the constant delays as apparently the bulk of the mo-cap work - certainly the ones with the big-name actors - were done as far back as 2015.

I always preferred Privateer to the mainline games so perhaps not so much for me, but it does look very nice if you ignore the framerate on what I imagine is a system around twice as powerful as mine. In all seriousness though, there are a lot more gameplay elements than I could have imagined, and the atmosphere seems right such that slow-walking through a capital ship seems pretty immersive.

VIA C7 CPUs are seven times the speed of light.

I actually fired up PoE last week. On loading, I saw that four of my six party members (who I'd completely forgotten their names) had a level-up pending. I went through the level-up process for one of them after reading a bunch of spell and ability names, after which I couldn't be bothered doing the other three and quit. BG3 and Solasta co-op controlling two characters each feels right to me. I have a parallel BG3 single-player run which feels right at the edge of what my brain can track, which is helped by pre-existing knowledge of the D&D rules. Micro-managing six characters with completely alien classes and abilities to me is just overwhelming and I can't handle it.

Only the true Messiah denies his divinity, and I delivered my denial in the strongest possible terms.

I fairly recently tried a new save, telling Virgil to bugger off at the start of the game. It did not go well.

I tried my first non-tutorial brawl ever after 2.0 at level 30-35ish, and got absolutely destroyed. Granted I suck at it mechanically, but even when I got the counter timing right and landed a few punches, I would say they did about 0.25% of the opponent's HP bar per hit. I looked it up just now and welp, looks like I just happened to choose the hardest fighter of the bunch, what with my 4 body and zero relevant skills/cyberware/gear.