My work machine has been “upgraded” to a windows 11. Dark mode, The start menu and explorer are still broken as shit, but at least IT removed and blocked all the AIshit.

Sounds more like a Civil Engineer than architect - e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isambard_Kingdom_Brunel who built countless bridges, railways, ships, tunnels etc…

Pause and save during cutscenes.

Company scrip is back lads

It’s been a long time since any flesh reacted to my presence.

I was so desperate to play the same driving and lock-aim shooting missions again with different cutscenes between them too.

I think I need this soon. Can I have it boot straight into Big Picture mode without login? (I don’t use a keyboard until I really need to)

Also, might it be possible to keep the existing partitions so I don’t have to redownload all the games?

Why is it a Penguin stood amidst boulders?

It’s because they’re right wing bigots, Walter Cronkite.

They don’t need humans to write the engagement slop articles anymore.

They’re only saying this because they shut down all their first party studios to generate shareholder value and now have nothing in their release schedule for five years.

X Doubt

He was good at just making a game once, and inspiring the devs around him to realise their ideas fully (though Populous is a bit closer to a tech demo/chore than a game imo). Dunno what happened.

Funny that Peter Polyneux came up with Dungeon Keeper before he jumped the shark, but the actual “we’re going to model the behaviour of individual digestive system bacteria” version of that concept is Dwarf Fortress.

That’s easy when you don’t have any values.

Don’t cry for EA, it’s already dead.

I thought this said “Autism Sale” and got excited.

At least the year of PC gaming!

That’s definitely a rookie amount of time with no progress for this style of game in general.

There can be games that are really unforgiving, and there can be games where you hold down X and point forward to parkour to the next map tower. The market has room for all of it.

I hate that I only completed Frigid Outskirts because all the horses respawned. The bosses were absolute rock there too.

They’re saying your taste in games isn’t valid and shouldn’t be catered for. Instead, theirs should be in every case.

People forgetting that when you ran out of lives you used to have to go back to the start of the whole game.

Trials, Paperboy, Excite Bike, Super Hang On, No Second Prize, Manx TT Super bike, Radikal Bikers, Bikes Of TRON…

The recent situation is like jets where the more arcady takes mostly only exist in open world and mass multiplayer games.

Triple A devs will spend six years building every aspect of a game perfectly attuned to terrabytes of marketing data to have as mass appeal as possible and then quietly turn off the servers six months after release.

Or even better, the tap.

Team Cherry: Make no announcements in six years Fans: Why are they overhyping this game?!

“Feels like we’re going to ruin their fun by releasing the game,” Pellen said.

NowI have a hard deadline for my replay of Bloodborne.

Squueeee!

2028 release date

I’d probably play this if it had a regular tracking camera.

Get on Counterstrike, lads,

Ironic though that gamification refers to features added to games to make them feel more like jobs (quotas, deadlines, milestones, certification etc).

Jetset Willy

They’re mad because they wanted to do that first by releasing Ubisoft style annual instalments.

I figure if people can’t be bothered to develop the games then I can’t be bothered to play them either.

Are you planning to skip AC1, play 2 and then get a couple hours into 3 before giving up entirely?

Creativity Production

The evolution of game design has basically been dead for a few years now, so shouldn’t the process just get cheaper?