I feel targeted

Haha same here, backlog is not going well. I made a bunch of folders in steam to organise it though so there’s that.

Crash Nsane trilogy and Stanley parable were cheap so I got those too.

CP2077 now feels like it’s what it was hyped to be before that awful launch, so I’m glad to have waited 5 years.

Oh they’d know. Everything at square when it comes to sales expectations is about ROI and E33 cost very little to make something better than FF7 Rebirth.

Same here. It hit my <$60 AUD buy point for the ultimate edition.

Urgh… I thought perfect dark was looking good

I think about as angry that Square Enix is that they couldn’t make an Expedition 33.

n****r-man was the name of one of Lovecraft’s family cats when he was growing up.

Two solo devs crushing the first two spots. Love to see it.

And typically the boycotters weren’t even the sort of people who were buying a switch 2 to begin with. Maybe there’s a subsection of them that will result in some loss of sales but it would be in the fraction of a percent. There’s no surprise to me when gamer boycotts fail.

With that said, the sales were unexpectedly high. Maybe people trying to get ahead of potential future tariffs were the reason. I thought cost of living was fucked and nobody could afford anything.

I’ll be waiting for the inevitable OLED refresh anyway.

Everyone has different cutoffs for what performance is acceptable to them. I thought TOTK was fun but the low resolution and regular FPS dips made me realise I’d rather wait for the switch 2 to experience it properly.

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I played the first 3 after the 2018 reboot, then Ragnorak on ps5 on release. All are great IMO.

GoW3 was pretty special. I played the remaster on PS4 and and it is a big graphical jump from the first two after my eyes had got used to ps2 graphics again.

The sex minigames in all 3 are so very early 2000s and I loved them.

The reboot is a pretty good continuation of the combat formula, but there does feel like there is more variety in the originals.

Ragnorak stretched on a little too far, and I was fatigued by just how amazing everything looked eventually, but it was still a fun time. Just a less tight package than the very enjoyable 2018 Gow.

Thanks for your response! Makes sense, I had not heard of Low Framerate Compensation.

I wasn’t aware that high refresh rates were beneficial for VRR? I’m not an expert, my assumption was that if games are needing VRR, they are likely running mostly around the 30-45 FPS, like cyberpunk. At which point a 60 Hz VRR display would be equivalent to a 120Hz one in so far as the VRR functionality is concerned.

I think it keeps cost down which is important for any console release, and the 120Hz VRR display is a good marketing sound bite. Cheaper LCD display means the OLED will come out as an easy mid-gen upgrade.

Like the OLED switch, the OLED switch 2 will be more expensive than its LCD counterpart when it comes out.

I found it interesting that all LCD handheld PC displays tested except the ROG ALLY X had poor response times on the display, including the LCD steam deck.

None were as bad as the Switch 2 though. The 120Hz refresh rate doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense if frames can’t even transition at a rate that keeps up with it.

Yep, waiting for the cynically released OLED version halfway through the gen in 3-4 years.

I think ESL could be a factor. Definitely LLMs have better English prose than this. I’m so used to seeing long running AI slop articles answering basic questions in 1000 words (rather than 10) and this reads similar.

Definitely pumping up the word count. The paragraph used to come around to the fact that Metacritic (not steam) is the site where SMKW is being review bombed gave me visceral feelings of anger.

Is this article written by AI? Some long running, poorly phrased sentences here.