This plus Unreal 5 engine, wow, closer to perfection all the time. I don't think the hardware hit will be all that bad. They wouldn't make it if they couldn't use it. Just my guess.

If only EA could team up with Ubisoft for a Star Wars Game!

Think of the endless grind! Boring cut and paste level design to help fill a world, nay, a universe! filled with samey events and not anywhere near enough activities to justify the overall size. Add in EA's notorious lack of support to create a 'puzzle' aspect to the game as you try to work your way around various bugs. Hell, call them aliens.

Ubi would be sure to include several ways to pay as you play, too. Why buy new games? Spend that money instead on titanium Jedi armor, available soon after release. Or be way cooler than your friends with a dazzling pink lightsaber held out from the initial release so you could pay more for it later!

Endless possibilities....

It's better to burn out than it is to Rust.

Jivaro wrote on Jan 23, 2021, 14:48:

You have zero to feel bad about. Seriously. My family is going through the same shit that many many others are going through. I shared, and continue sharing, because I don't think the media talking about it is good enough for many people. (and I am not sure it should be) They have to hear it from people they consider "real". The politicians talking about affected families that aren't their own means very little to the average person right now because we don't trust our politicians. (Except maybe Bernie, everybody believes he is for real regardless of affiliation.) Even then, they might not believe it, and well...it is what it is I guess.

My step-sister will deserve being held accountable for her actions and my father has himself to blame for our infrequent conversations....as you alluded to in your own post about your dad. We have a very similar family dynamic there, including the step-mom bit.



Thanks for that, and good luck bringing your stepsister back to the fold.

I'm a huge Bernie fan, too. He sometimes is the only one who seems sincere out of the whole lot of them. He takes seriously the idea that he represents the will of the people, and may be the most non-self-interest motivated chap on the hill. What to do about Josh and Ted? It's a shame.

As for family, what are you gonna do? My dad just turned 80, stepmom's 12 years younger, and while she's a nice lady and undoubtedly very good for him, she's pure MAGA. It's weird, I don't hate her or anything, she's very well intentioned, it just makes family feel like yet another casualty of 2020. Here's to a brighter future.

I remember the originals as being some of the best storytelling I've ever seen in games, even to this day. It's been so long, I can't remember if it was KOTOR 1 or 2 that had the fantastic, yet heartbreaking, relationship. I'd say that was the best relationship ever done in a game, at least for how hard it hit me.

Trapped under ice.

Jivaro wrote on Jan 22, 2021, 18:05:

My birth father is that kind of Trumper. He takes pride in the "party over country" philosophy that absolutely terrifies me because, in his mind, the country doesn't exist without his party doing all the things. It's some pretty amazing mental gymnastics to listen to.

When I posted the other night, I'd had too much coffee and not enough sleep, and my words may have come across as too sharp. After, when you mentioned a troubled family member, I felt pretty bad and I'm sorry if anything I said added to the pain of what you're going through.

jdreyer wrote on Jan 22, 2021, 14:44:


I think there's a hard core of millions of Trumpers. But most of the people who voted for him did not because they think Trump is great, but because they prefer Republican policies on business, religion, etc.

You are right about this. My father and step-mother are core republicans. The family wars have been absolutely fantastic. I can get that four years ago, if you are a core republican, you are most likely going to vote for the republican candidate, no matter who it is. What I can't understand is the willingness to vote for a dictator four years later who has so often shown his true colors over that period of time.

Sadly, my father, the same man who taught me rational thinking and to question the surface value of most things, lets my stepmother get the best of him sometimes, and most of their news is coming directly from Fox. I haven't even spoken to either of them since the turnip farmers stormed the capitol, because I know I'll cringe and die a little inside to hear them defend it.

Mr. Tact wrote on Jan 21, 2021, 15:26:

NKD wrote on Jan 21, 2021, 00:30:
Meanwhile, Trumpers having mental breakdowns.

Uh... I'm not sure I believe that. And if I did, it would be sad not funny.

I don't know....you could be Mother Theresa and somebody would try to out-moral you on the internet. I read that article by the game developer about Qanon, and while he makes some great points, I'm not so convinced people are led unknowingly into mind traps like he thinks. To me it seems more like willful self-deception.

Over the last 4 years, I've lost faith in roughly half of my country. Who would have believed that 75 million voters went through the same time period and still thought King Donald was the best solution to lead us into his fictional brave future?

I DO think an idiot crying out for help from Trump IS funny, and not worthy of pity. I'm not saying I'm right and you're wrong, I'm just saying I can picture this same woman holding a torch and screaming 'burn the witch!', and after 4 years of this mind-numbing stupidity, I'm beyond feeling sorry for self delusional fools. Maybe that's a fault in MY make-up, but really, I've had it.

Ah, this must explain the move to $70 games.

1badmf wrote on Jan 21, 2021, 02:54:

NKD wrote on Jan 21, 2021, 00:30:
But His Son's Laptop is the new But Her Emails.

Meanwhile, Trumpers having mental breakdowns.

Thanks for this! Best laugh I've had all morning.
pu-pu-pu-pLEEEZ save us, President Trump!

RedEye9 wrote on Jan 21, 2021, 09:18:
The Anatomy of Autocracy
NPR
A Nazi historian interviewed.

That was good background music while I perused my usual gaming haunts. Thanks for the link!

Just....thank god that piece of human garbage is out of the White House. It's like a weight has been lifted from my chest. I hope all the anti-democratic behavior will die down now, but I doubt it. Some of those hill people look pretty meth deranged. Not the types likely to give up a good grudge. May they die in the Everglades following their Messiah to Florida.

Can't wait for this. Almost don't believe it's real.

Can you dual wield?

@Mr. Tact

Well, there was that one Quake level, I guess...

Mr. Tact wrote on Jan 14, 2021, 08:01:

LordSteev wrote on Jan 14, 2021, 07:47:
It's wild hearing Republicans crying about free speech when they want to disregard the votes of hundreds of thousands of citizens in order to prop up their false god Trump.

What is a better example of free speech than your sacred vote? Each one counts as equally as any other. The gall of these bloated assholes is truly amazing.

Yeah, their calls for "unity" instead of impeachment are so hypocritical it boggles the mind. Where was their desire for "unity" when 139 House members and 8 Senators voted to overturn the duly elected, certified, and upheld by the courts, state electoral votes. There would be no impeachment vote if they had simply stated the truth about the election from the start and called on Trump to do the same. Without any support from the GOP, it never would have reached the point of insurrection. And the fact that some of them are still claiming an unfair or improper election is beyond infuriating, and in my personal opinion treasonous.

I feel queeze building in my stomach hearing things like 'this will only divide the country further', or 'now is the time to put partisan differences aside so the nation can heal' coming from the mouths of the same Trump puppets who backed his lies and helped stir the flames for 4 years running. They tried to make any rational thinking Democrat look like a 'radicle left-wing communist' and just generally went along with every lie he told for four years running. If ever there was an argument for term limits in the Senate and House, these Psychofants are it. The ones who insisted on holding up their false narrative even after the Capitol was stormed should be kicked out of the government and banned from public office for life.

Honored for what, exactly?

It's wild hearing Republicans crying about free speech when they want to disregard the votes of hundreds of thousands of citizens in order to prop up their false god Trump.

What is a better example of free speech than your sacred vote? Each one counts as equally as any other. The gall of these bloated assholes is truly amazing.

How is it that we keep getting caught flat-footed? Don't we have smart people, too?