Gorgon

Just finished Isolation. On the plus side it looks very pretty. A reason to start thinking about getting a VR kit. The Oculus is still a ways off but the SDK kit is here and supposedly very capable and not that expensive either. The scares get old after a while, unavoidable really, which makes me think they should have stepped things up for the last third of the game and given you a weapon capable of taking down an alien. You only have a very limited pool of weapons even capable of scaring one off. Sneaking around isn't fun if you are forced to do it all the time.

Isn't there still the micron die issue. That is, they are not likely to do any great leaps worth shelling out big bucks for untill all the cards get an architecture bump.

I'd be more worried about the strategically placed black swirly things that appear when she is naked. They appear to make it impossible for her to go to the bathroom. It's only a matter of time before the resulting constipation will prove lethal.

It would be nice to see a few prosecutions to let the rest know it's not without consequence.

I suspect the death threats aren't representative of anything other than the existance of a few people with borderline personality disorder who are addicted to being the center of attention, being in the eye of the storm as it were. Being any kind of celebrity can be dangerous. Stalkers who can't tell the difference between movies/TV/Web scandal and real life can pose a real danger.

How can you get doxxed if you are a public persona. What would be the point ?

lv 40. Might have missed a hub and some related quests as I was forced to wipe out everyone at the Bastion having been attacked by an NPC crucial to completing that area the 'right' way.

I wonder how long the game is going to let me stare at that flamethrower behind the security door before I can finally get to it. Quite a while I should think. Yeah there are some technical weaknesses that get in the way of your complete enjoyment. Being glued to the floor like you said. I must have taken down 10 people with my wrench who all had handguns the model lying on the floor and I'm unable to pick it up. I also miss physics on small clutter, noise when I bump into something. The save points are what create the tension. It would be gone with a quicksave and if detection wasn't hazardous, and in the case of the Alien, lethal. I think I would prefer autosaves though, I find myself backtracking just to reach a save point, which is pretty silly.

Really this would be less of an issue if STEAM had been less greedy and less meddlesome. There likely would have been no need for Origin. But yeah, it's bloat your computer doesn't need. Don't want to install more than one digital distribution program for games.

I checked, all mention of Vram is now gone from the sys rq. Maybe they were worried about sales ?

How much Vram does a new gen console have anyway.

Only an hour in, but I can say yes it's very tense, I had to take a break lol Should really be an animation for scaling small obstacles. Nothing breaks immersion like being defeated by knee high barriers. Otherwise I'm digging the atmosphere.

You would need enough food for the epedemic to run its course. Who knows how long that would take, and what would be left when that was.

Alien Isolation anyone. I want this to be good, I really do. So is it ?

Finished yesterday. The cochise AI won because I apparently forgot one last encounter before I left. I decided to call it a result instead of reloading and running around looking for usable computer terminals.

Charlacter leveling looks path of exile ish with way too many options and no real way of telling exactly what you are buying untill you completed the game five times.

I'm not American, does that mean I'm not immune

Makes sense for thos kinds of features to be included in a test version though. On final release. No. Companies could never live with that. Too much at stake for microsoft.

Every time people write 'studies say' and don't cite it makes baby jesus cry.

I did a google image search, they're gross.

So there are naked Zoe Quinn pics. Sorry I lost focus after Zoe Quinn's photographer for an erotica site hmm..

So how far has the store infiltrated the OS. Can't play a file format and it will take you there to 'suggest' things you could buy. Spam popups for sales like STEAM. Don't think it isn't going to happen.

A bit early to call that battle won.

You are refering to corporations that ensure everybody plays by the rules they pay for to be established? Industry oversigth and regulation isn't always corrupt. It just seems to happen with alarming regularity in the US in particular and other places as well I'm sure.

Idealists tend to forget the predatory nature of capitalism if there is no one forcing everyone to play by the same rules.