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Given how long it's furiously been rumoured, it's kind of weird to just randomly confirm that Xbox is a PC in a tweet. I don't really expect there to be many next gen exclusives for this, I think developers will just make a PC version and call that the Xbox version. It's going to be weird, but nag will get to mod Resident Evil now.

Alex is banjaxed, spine issues, my condolences. I am with him on the settings menu being kinda bad and the tight FOV, though I got used to it eventually.

It's such an annoying game that it wraps around to almost feeling like an artistic statement about game design cliches from its era. I'm not the biggest fan of REVII, tbh I don't like it much at all, but talk about a turn-around. They realised with that game that survival horror actually does have wide appeal.

Apparently the steam store got its butt kicked by this releasing

I saw that, mfnick should click your spoiler cause it sounds like his struggle is real

Fuck sake, fair play to devs shooting it down (context if you don't click through, Activision pressured Infinity Ward to make a CoD about Iran invading Israel) https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/call-of-duty-co-founder-alleges-activision-pressured-infinity-ward-to-make-game-about-iran-invading-israel/

Early Access is today, it's "out" in a few hours. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2868840/Slay_the_Spire_2/ Even with it being an EA, I can see it doing high numbers. Especially with this new MP mode

I find RE like this pretty chill tbh, it becomes a bit of a routing and item usage puzzle. Compared with something like Silksong it's basically stress relief. Depending on whether I enjoy Leon's section more on this mode, I might consider looking at what the S+ requirements are for a third run (especially as a RE6 playthrough is just not happening, I find it too stupid). Think you have to beat it in 4 hours or something, which sounds tight, but I did RE4 on this and the planning seems simpler in this for some reason. Leon's section might be more annoying to plan cause I get so confused by how similar things look in Racoon City edit, apparently this doesn't even have a ranking system. I don't get why, it must be the first RE game to drop this system.

Silksong on cloud gaming sounds like some despicable nonsense, imagine doing that Mount Fay platforming with variable input latency As a non GP user tho these past few months seem like they've had some bangers, with both HKs, KCDs and Cyberpunk

Xbox's strategy is cause their hardware strategy has failed, so they don't get to make Sony's choice here on getting a cut on all third party sales. But honestly the pivot to Xbox being a PC feels like a slow paced exit strategy by them. I don't think gaming will continue to be that important at Microsoft.

I've learned that you can die from full health with Grace on insanity. From 'Fine' condition to no longer having a throat, game has no chill. The lesson is that the charm that helps survive fatal damage is essential, and it's a really good idea to have a knife so you 'only' lose half your health instead in the struggle. I have a infinite knife which I got in bonuses, but I want to try without the bonus items first. My last death was trying to run the stairs up to the upstairs typewriter, past the two zombies just chilling. Threw a bottle at one of them and pushed the stunned into the other. But then I had to leave the office and fight my way back out as well, and that didn't go so well. One step at a time

Resident Evil 6 Yeah, no, I'm not that brave. It has me playing DDR on my keyboard during cutscenes, feck off game, you'll always be a meme.

As a fan of the book, I think the parts you're describing are great tbh. Although at the same time I don't remember much about it, other than it's not really about plot. I'm fairly sure that the John Huston movie adapts an absolutely tiny proportion of the novel, because the novel isn't really all about the action of hunting the whale, all that much. What I mostly remember about it is it's kind of a fake encyclopedia and philosophic treatise, question of 'does it get better' really depends on how much of an appeal any of that is I guess, and how unbothered you are by the recognisable plot (as in, what gets adapted in film) being mostly in the last 50 pages. I think for me a lot of its appeal is how really fucking well written it is, Melville knew how to use words, I don't agree that it's verbose though going off memory tbh

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