Good review. PS5 exclusives continue to leave me wanting. So far I’ve successfully avoided 100% of the FOMO for not owning one.

This was also very much on point:

If you’re much like me you might feel this sort of thing is starting to get a bit overdone - especially within PlayStation’s first-party offerings, which, as I’ve written before, have all started to merge into one. Count how many Sony-developed games in the past five years have grapple hooks, climbable ledges, parries, gliders, RPG-lite skill trees, waist-high grass, ultra-simple environmental puzzles, and a form of rage meter that fills up until you can press L3+R3 or L2+R2 for an ultimate of some kind, and the formula doesn’t so much reveal itself as it does write it on your forehead in yellow paint.

I wasn’t commenting on the DLSS 5 slop filter here, only on the general question “do ‘great’ graphics matter in a game”. I agree that slopifying a game takes you further away from the intended art direction, which I’m not a fan of.

And whatever the mechanical premise of the actual gameplay of Bodycam, the impact of it would be much less with stylized Fortnite cartoon graphics as opposed to the current photorealistic presentation. That’s all.

Are games bad or limited because of poor graphics? No. Are games better if they have great graphics? Not really.

Depends on how you define “great”. I’ve definitely played games before where the art direction and general visual artistry was a huge part of the selling point. But that doesn’t have to be photorealistic - “great graphics” can be something like pixel art majesty (CF: REPLACED).

That being said, some games are certainly elevated by incredible photorealistic visuals. Bodycam has basically built a whole premise on it, and it would certainly be a lesser game without its graphics.

DLSS 5 (slop filter) you mean? Because the regular old upscaling DLSS doesn’t really produce uncanny valley stuff. Only artifacts, and mostly on presets like Performance or Ultra Performance.

And I do also agree about RT. Cyberpunk and Alan Wake 2 both had great visually impactful ray tracing and GTA 6 (as much as it pains me to say it) looks like a fantastic showcase of real-time lighting.

It’s finally out!? It’s been stuck in Steam Approval Review Hell for a couple of days. Holy hell, this may be my most anticipated game of the year. If anyone hasn’t played the first game (Withering Rooms) yet then you should get on it immediately. It’s amazingly good, especially for a solo dev game(!).

I fucking hate it here.

I wonder how much reactivity, interjections and party banter they were able to put together out of repurposed lines from the game files. Those things are the primary reason to take someone with you in an RPG.

Still, would much rather have a silent Mizora with me than a speaking Wyll.

Not sure it’s for me but it looks interesting. Also, what’s with all the moon games lately?

They’re really selling me on this, you know. Man, that sounds fucking enticing.

Well, I’m interested.

The amount of work they’re putting in post-launch is making me more and more comfortable with my decision to pre-order out of support and solidarity. I really hope they pull everything off.

Let’s hope this is “Wanted: Dead but actually good”, because a gun fu game like this has a lot of promise.

Which is a shame. I feel like REDengine was getting so close to being actually good. But I get it, though. Easier onboarding of staff etc with UE. More resources out there. More documentation. Less work on the engine and more on the game itself. I understand the reasoning, I just don’t like the UE near-monopoly.

Looks cool, I almost considered buying it, but I am put off by the long runbacks.

Doesn’t Nvidia have Prime for their Linux drivers built in now? I remember you used to have to fuck around with Bumblebee, now that was a hassle.

I guess if you don’t have an Nvidia GPU it’s still a hassle.

Ah, I had actually missed this. Time to figure out a categorization system, I guess. I too have 200+ wishlist items…

EVE has underrated combat mechanics to be honest, so I’m surprised there haven’t been more attempts to make games inspired by them. Managing your transversal and tracking of yours and the enemy’s weapons is quite fun.

I knew there was something off about the writing in that game from the trailer.

I guess I just value the small and direct positive impact preserved information can have on the lives of others, and in this case I consider it a bigger gain than what the deletion would bring in the tradeoff. Maybe that’s evil, I don’t know.

Voting in elections is the exact opposite to that, at least in my eyes, and I always vote in state, local and legislative elections. In fact, I’ve been looking forward to this current election period for years now as maybe the tides are finally turning in Sweden and we can enact some change. Maybe.

It’s just sort of prisoner’s dilemma. Lot’s of people won’t do it. I’m just being realistic. And in the reality where the percentage of people who are likely to attempt to delete or “poison” their accounts is as miniscule as it is, it will have absolutely zero impact on the traffic Reddit receives. Yes, even if each of those accounts produced hundreds of Google hits. But maybe I am more concerned with preservation of information and helping people than spiting Reddit. What would be great would be for people to replicate the useful answers they made on Reddit on here so we can show up in searches and actually provide a valid alternative. In general I think we would be better off trying to build this place into something better than caring too much about our old Reddit accounts.