Much needed. I finished the game before this latest huge patch dropped and had to use console commands three times just to fix progression locking bugs in the main story.
It’s still a must play for fans of the franchise I would say, but if you can wait it’s probably a good idea to do so. They still haven’t gotten A-life working.
Was my answer too. Absolutely phenomenal game. Don’t really have anything else to add to your points other than to encourage people to play it if they haven’t already. Great story, great gameplay, just an absolute classic.
If Warren Spector is actually involved I’ll give it the benefit of the doubt but I’m not thrilled about the competitive multiplayer aspect and the trailer presentation made me think “hero shooter” more than Deus Ex/Thief spiritual successor. Also Spector’s track record over the 20 post-Eidos years isn’t exactly glowing.
I never understood the “don’t nerf things, buff other things!” argument. Power creep is a very real issue and much more tough to deal with than players getting upset briefly.
Ragebound sounds about right. I had Ninja Gaiden on my original Xbox back in the day and while I loved it and played the shit out of it I never beat it. These games were fucking hard.
I’m starting to really despise this franchise, studio and/or publisher. Fuck off with these remaster cash crabs two years after a game is released. Are we due a The Last of Us: Part 1 Remastered - Remake too soon? Get out of here.
Didn’t the remake rip out all the amazing period songs from the original OST? I remember vibing to Django Reinhardt as you’re driving was a huge part of it for me.
I was praying for Letho even though we all knew it was going to be Ciri (for better or worse, we’ll see).
Leaning into the moral grey of the Witcher world with Letho would have been awesome, he says (in one of the endings to his story) he’ll head out east over the mountains so we could have gotten some all-new environments and it would have been 100% CDPR IP so they could have done whatever they wanted without trampling over lore too much. Plus Letho is just an amazing character with huge protagonist energy. Oh well.
Deadlock killer?
Well, no. The “multi-year” part of the headline is fairly clickbaity as GM will provide its own engines from 28 as planned and Cadillac will be a full works team. But Ferrari will provide engines for '26 and '27 which is technically “multi-year”.
Ah you’re right, I remember now.
It would have been absolutely hilarious if they managed to fumble both championships, but on balance this was probably the fair result (they’ve had the best car for the majority of the season).
It’s been a rapid ass decline too, if memory serves they came out swinging in '22 and were pretty rapid during the first half of the season. Didn’t Bottas finish like 5th in Bahrain?
Definitely struggled to keep up development pace and direction this rule set, sort of felt like they just got lost. Progressively gotten slower and slower.
I think the hair looks terrible aesthetically, but the look kind of wraps around due to the pure no fucks given and I end up actually loving it for him. I respect it. I couldn’t pull it off, that’s for certain.
He also had a quite impressive second half of the season I thought. Hope he’ll have a better car next year.
How is this something they are able to enforce?
FFXIV: A Realm Reborn is a fantastic trailer but it’s almost cheating because Answers is such an unbelievable Uematsu banger that it carries it on music alone.
Assassin’s Creed: Unity had one of the best trailers of all time, and it will take something truly special to dethrone it from my personal nr 1.
The puzzles are hardly impossible but the YouTube game requires a choice amount of clickbait I suppose.
I still really enjoyed the video, and the ending was very cute. Maybe crosspost it to !crows@lemmy.ml ?
I’m wracking my brains trying to pinpoint the moment but it was so long ago it’s a bit of a blur. If we don’t count playing (and attempting to make) custom maps for StarCraft: Brood War or Counter-Strike I think it might have been for Diablo 2 back in the day. Though truth be told those were more like cheats if I recall - map packs with pre-revealed maps and the like. And I think there was an auto-loot?
Proper modding I think was installing early WeiDU mods for Baldur’s Gate 2 back in what, 2004 or so? Would probably have been the old ease-of-use mod at the time plus stuff like romance tweaks, the “happy patch” and bonus merchants. Plus a ton of modded voice packs and portraits.