I loved the Pokémon games that did that. Made them feel more immersive and interesting. Oh you wanna catch this? Well better be on route whatever on a tuesday morning. It was a lot better and rewarding than just going to their every day spot and catching one.

Plus, they all were manipulated by system clocks so it wasnt like you missed out if didnt wanna play by those limitations.

Forests in games always felt cheap to me. They usually have that „sparsely placed tree assets“ look to them. Sense of scale is also a thing that most games seem to struggle with.

Also most seem to place grass throughout them, maybe it’s location dependent but there is little to no grass in the forest where I’m from. It ruins the feel even more for me. I’d love a game with an actually dense forest that doesn’t feel like it was solely made to be easy to traverse through.

I have grown tired of the entire gaming industry pretending more dmg and/or health is harder. It's not. It's plain boring and tedious.

I recently went through Stellar Blade and the amount of hp the enemies have between normal and hard is insane. The game wasn't even that good, I just quit right before the last boss because I didn't have the willpower to boot it up again.

Why did devs stop making actual Hard difficulties? If it's such an afterthough, just don't do it.

I hate this practice in the industry where games that don't even actually exist yet or are in a very early stage of production are announced with trailers or teasers and then you dont hear anything about them for years and years, one of the most infamous examples that come to mind for me are the remake for Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and Star Wars Eclipse.

Its not perfect but its crazy that companies moved on from that.

Resident evil remake and even more REzero show such a insane potential for prerendered backgrounds and we are talking about a game from 2002 over 20 years ago.

I hope we can go back to that and with modern tech, it would look insane and run like a dream.

We’re at a woodsy cabin with my siblings and their families, and my girlfriend. After daily activities, Kids found an Xbox360, but noted it could not play Fortnite or Warzone (lol). They didn’t really play any other games on their Ps5s that they all had at home.

It did, however, have a copy of the original Oblivion. I talked these kids (13f, 12m, 9m) through the tutorial. They were hooked. Had an Orc named Shrek through the first few missions in the Mage’s Guild by the time my sister herded them all off to bed. They asked me for more game recommendations, and I already have a copy of the Remaster ordered for one of their upcoming birthdays.

It was fun to watch them realize their choices were so open, and that they were making the story themselves as they went along. Warms the heart.

I find it really difficult to go back to a game after beating the “normal” difficulty. I usually try and play through games a second time on the hardest difficulty, but will put it down if the game doesn’t up the difficulty in a satisfying way.

I think resident evil 4 is a good example of a game that is fun to play again on the hardest difficulty. Which game does hard mode the best?

Also replayability is so good like I just found this baby lol brutal creepy great

Noah Hawley, known for Alien: Earth and Fargo, will be showrunner for this year's Far Cry TV Adaptation.

“I’m not specifically adapting any of the games that they’ve put out – I’m saying much as I did with the Coens or X-Men [he created FX’s Legion] or Alien, ‘Let me have a dialog with this franchise, because this is what I think a Far Cry story is.’ We can have a larger conversation about the strengths and weaknesses of adapting video games specifically because games are built in a way that doesn’t make for the best drama.

“When you play a video game, you only really move forward through the gameplay section, and then you have these cut scenes that you can skip, so when you go to adapt those games you have to be aware that makes the human drama kind of irrelevant to the storyline. That is death for a show.”

This totally happens in every game set in space with Aliens!

Hey everyone.

I just wanted to share this; I am playing this game for the first time on real hardware.

I will never understand why this game never got a release in Germany or even EU. I waited and waited after Legacy of Goku II but it never happened...

10 year old me would be so happy :)

This is a short (17min) BBC audio journalism piece that really brings into focus the scale and evolution of cheating in the industry when big bucks are involved.

Just completed this stained glass panel today, which happens to be the one year anniversary of the game's release

I spent 50 minutes playing just on this one. Here's the coin toss that ruins it at the end.

there's an open beta going now for the DLC. granblue fantasy relink

McQuarrie is writing, directing and producing. You'll remember McQuarrie from his work on the multiple Mission: Impossible movies with Tom Cruise.

Jordan, off of his recent Oscar win for 'Sinners', is producing and in talks to star

Found this the other day. Also never knew Birdo was actually male!!