Hey guys. Wow I haven't been following this thread, but it sure has a lot of posts! So what's going on?
*reads the 3 most recent posts*

Ok well, I'll just go back to my gaming news. Have fun.
(literally what just happened)

Beamer wrote on Jun 30, 2020, 15:30:
Is it different]

Ok, at the ship I see differences. Watching on a tiny laptop screen so hard to compare. My question wasn't rhetorical.

The only thing that seems to be remastered at this point is the multi-threaded support which should help performance greatly. That trailer was ass.

I did notice one comment stating this is the remaster of the X-Box edition, which may not be reflective of the PC's new look. I'm going to remain skeptical.

Be that as it may Doomcock did accurately leak the ending of Rise of Skywalker about a month before the movie's release (verified retroactively personally). His sources have been spot on in the past.

For me, Force Awakens was passable. It didn't fall flat on it's face, and was a decent jumping off point. I didn't like the whole hyper space through the shield frequency, blah blah blah Star Trek bit though.

Last Jedi just spit all over the lore. Fin suddenly knows how to pilot ships. Hux goes from being Kylo's peer amongst the first order to a complete comic buffoon. Then there was the real world parallels; prank cell phone call joke, war profiteering and animal rights worming their way into the plot. Ugh. Plenty of other issues.

Kind of a waste of the new actors as well. I thought they were all great, just trapped in this horrible story arc.

I don't expect them to do a hard reset, but if they work it into the plot that all of this happened in an alternate time line I'm good with that. Favreau and Filoni have given us the excellent Mandalorian, Clone wars and Rebel series. Would love to see what they can do with film.

*Inception Soundtrack*

One of my favorite Jeremy Soule soundtracks.

jacobvandy wrote on Jun 25, 2020, 21:24:
Not me, I saw enough when they debuted gameplay at E3. I think watching and reading every bit of pre-release info on a game like this ruins some of the fun of discovery while you're actually playing it.

I can do this with most things. I'm not watching any previews of the new Dune movie until I actually see it.. For some reason I'm having a super tough time making my saving throws vs previews when it comes to Cyberpunk. At least in terms of videos.. I'm skipping the articles.

RedEye9 wrote on Jun 25, 2020, 17:56:

MoreLuckThanSkill wrote on Jun 25, 2020, 15:30:
For a modernized version of Heavy Metal, aka Western made, adult oriented animation, check out the series Love Death and Robots(or something close to that) on Netflix. Some very good animation and storytelling there, some from Blur studios notably, but almost all the episodes were great.

LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS
Thanks for the recommendation.

Yes awesome series. David Fincher produced.

The dislike for Steam baffles me.

The company who gives unprecedented mod support for their games (HL:A included). Hires from the community. Brought the digital game store front to the masses. Gave office tours to fans. They seem to get blamed by some for their success. Like they forced some imaginary monopoly on gaming. Everyone was free to compete with them, it just took this long for another major player to enter the fray. And compare that company's tactics, and features focus to Steam's... so weird.

Was surprised I was only missing 2 ArmA III DLC, I haven't played it in a while (no shade M. Beaver). Snagged those on sale. Interestingly one of those 2 was in a bundle, and the bundle was at a higher discount. Since Steam lets you buy bundles with only charging you for the titles not already in your library I got a further discount than just buying it separately.

Also grabbed Into the Radius from wish list. A STALKER'ish VR title.

Kxmode wrote on Jun 25, 2020, 16:57:

jdreyer wrote on Jun 25, 2020, 14:42:
Hide yer wallets!

...hide yo wife, and hide yo kids too, cus they savin money out here!

Beat me to it, lol

True, I think the "claim" was he helped secure a good review for her game, but Kotaku stated this was untrue. I was just clearing up where people got the idea for all this.

Beamer wrote on Jun 25, 2020, 09:56:
Why is it always the most fringe conservatives that endlessly repeat easily disproven fake news? Do they not know how to Google? Or do they just get easily misled by storylines designed to outrage them and stroke their biases? Why do they turn off their ability to detect truth from fiction?

Due to a typo, people thought Zoey slept with a game journalist in March before a review of one of her games came out. It was corrected later by the BF (they were taking a "break" from each other) that it happened in May, after the review.

...with their floppy heads.

Clicked the link before I read any of the remaining text. Got it, whatever it is.

Bummer, and a little surprised. Mixer had some better tech going on. Plus it had the potential to become the more go-to for game watching, while Twitch seems to continue to grow more popular for... er, yoga pants.

I think the collective...

Interesting that this is the day before the day Amazon France had listed the PS5 to be released. Hmmmmm
Germany invaded Poland in 1939 and France in 1940. The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, which at the time was not a state. The PS5 was made in Japan. Amazon is an American company.
...and today's a Thursday. Hmmmmm.....
And "Thursday" gets it's English name from "Thor's Day", Thor being a Marvel movie that starred Chris Hemsworth who is Australian. Australia was a part of the British Empire and as a part of the Allies were at war with Japan (That makes the PS5) after the bombing of Pearl Harbour.

COINCIDENCE?

...theory still holds.

eRe4s3r wrote on Jun 21, 2020, 04:50:
Let's face it, it's the most ill timed game release of the decade.. HEY, let's make a depressing game about a virus pandemic that turns most people into plant-zombies and the other half into drizzling retards..... how about NOPE? Already see that in the meat world, minus the plant-zombies of course, but maybe that'd actually be an improvement....

The first game garnered a huge fowling, not to mention the studio's own name. I doubt the premise is much of an issue.

Cutter, there is definitely going to be some people (potentially A LOT of people) who are genuinely unhappy with the plot. I've seen reactions from streamers who avoided the leaks, and one who outright stated he was completely happy with any characters in question until the leaked moments started going down (which happens way earlier than expected), but the number of reviews after X hours of release are way too high.

Edit - Like Peeeling I don't own a PS4 (because the geniuses at Sony decided no on giving them a 4K Blu-Ray so I have an otherwise useless X-Box S), so I'm playing vicariously through the internet.

This comment was edited on Jun 20, 2020, 21:46.

The Half Elf wrote on Jun 19, 2020, 02:25:

ForgedReality wrote on Jun 19, 2020, 01:57:
Look at all the Karens in chat. lulul

Relax. It's coming out. Be glad they are about to release the best game ever made. Again.

I'm not worried about the game being made. I'm worried that we all won't be around to see it with all the shit going on this year!

If they would have released this in April think about all the world peace there would be? All the people at home playing this instead of rioting? THINK BILL AND TED MAN!

Duuuuude.... we gotta go back in time and help CD Projekt get the game finished! *air guitar*