Damn. Bought it on sale in January. I don’t regret buying it, but I wish I had least played it before it came to game pass 
. That’s just embarrassing 
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Same, I didn’t want to go into it before doing LaD and LaD:Infinite Wealth, I also have to play Judgement 2.
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I think the solution will come when gaming kinda converges in the PC space, which it feels like is happening. The biggest difference between music and movies and video games is that there isn’t just one disc format for games and there’s a lot of proprietary holes to jump through. We’ll be able to see a LOT more third party support, and maybe entire businesses, once anyone can do a disc for XYZ game and that be one and done. More so once anyone can make a detachable disc drive accessory. I imagine Xbox can easily go that route with the next box. They already let third parties make “made for Xbox” controllers and other accessories and that plus the Xbox controller being default on PC is what has made the Xbox controller the default controller in gaming.
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Lmao I’m so bad because I insist on grinding and doing everything. I’m literally at the final FINAL part of Infinite Wealth, but I refuse to move on because I wanted to do all the minigames and side questions (and Kiryu’s memories story chain). The problem is that was years ago 
. If I stop playing a game, I’m very unlikely to finish it and it’s decisions like that that get me to put a game down. The same with Lost Judgment. I got it in my head that I needed to grind EVERY SINGLE SKILL AND UPGRADE…
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What I’ve learned being aware of the big tech companies news, is that they follow a lot of “fads”. Google and Amazon with gaming. Facebook changing their entire company name to Meta for the metaverse. And that’s the thing they’re like all-in at first and make huge deals about it like this big new thing is going to reinvent society within 5 years (or less), but then that doesn’t happen because that’s fundamentally not how any of this works and the company gives up after five years - or sometimes way less - and then wastes money on the next fad.
It’s really fascinating how this is even sustainable. My understanding of business is that companies only really become successful when they have a competitive advantage and communicate some value that no one else can offer (even if that’s just like selling products cheaper because of a solid supply chain and logistics). Regardless, it takes an investment in both time, money, and resources (especially human resources). Big tech companies are valued so high and have so much money and resources, but with how the stock market works they don’t really have all that much time. After they’ve each found their competitive advantage and gotten rich off of it, it’s just become hunts for the new supplementary fad to keep shareholders shareholding (raising the stock valuation). Maybe like one or a few stick, but so many business ventures just get killed off. What’s frustrating is seeing this happen over and over again and how it affects the employees and individual consumers without the big tech company, shareholders, or executives affected in the slightest. Again, meta invested heavily in their belief of the “meta verse”, but now those divisions are downsizing, staff laid off, and entire game development studios closed.
It’s the same thing that happens everywhere I guess. Studios themselves are closed all the time because publishers forced them to chase a fad that was trending, and then there’s inevitable failure because the game came too late or the studio didn’t know how to make that type of game or whatever. I just wish the people on top actually incubated this stuff. Like instead of having to downsize XYZ percentage of the entire company to rush and try to “catch up” in this fad for the shareholders, why didn’t you start earlier and build up the tech? Microsoft is especially frustrating in this area because they were partnered with OpenAI for a long time and should’ve been ahead of the curve. But this is also just Microsoft all the time. They were late to smartphones, gave it a good go but couldn’t penetrante the market, and then gave up and killed Nokia along the way (and then sold the problem to someone else). The same with the Zune and SwiftKey and Skype. It’s crazy frustrating because Microsoft makes good products and services and they COULD really be a disruptor in these markets or even be early in these markets (it’s crazy that COVID happened and Skype didn’t become a household name but Zoom did), but like @Haven said they are really do spread themselves way too thin. They half-ass all this stuff (even when they cost other business units) and then do the surprise Pikachu when they don’t immediately see the success of companies that’s been in the market for several years longer. Then they don’t even buckle down and build a thriving business (which they could do), they just give up.
AI has been a dumb one to see unfold especially, because it’s so clear that the people pushing it don’t actually know what it’s value is. It’s all smoke and mirrors. Not because the actual technology is unimpressive (though in some ways it is (more like it feels poorly defined and like there’s inappropriate expectations put on it)), but because they’re just throwing things at the wall begging that something sticks. What is the actual value in this stuff? It feels like none of the tech bros is saying. The most they can promise, without saying it, is devaluing humans and the work humans do in certain fields. They can’t even market it in a way that really works.
I’d be very surprised if we still see all the big tech companies pushing AI in the next five years (maybe even less). It isn’t even financially stable really and that’s ignoring the toll on the environment. Of course that’ll mean layoffs, wasted data centers (though Microsoft could hopefully repurpose those), and maybe some short term harm to the economy. Yay!
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Let’s go!!! I just preordered it!!
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Gonna be interesting to see how that game runs on the base ally
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Is that pirate Yakuza or Infinite Wealth?
Pirate Yakuza. With amnesia Majima.
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Monster Train 2 DLC is here and there’s a free update with the dlc clan from one
I am finally finishing Final Fantasy 16 Complete Edition, after playing and finishing Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater.
Should I go ahead and buy Power Wash Simulator 2, or should I finally tackle the likes of both Like a Dragon Isshin and Thaumaturge?
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Nintendo report is out. MP4 is absent, which makes it seem like they want to forget about it. Air Raiders was over a million, so they got mentioned. That’s concerning.
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Now this is good! That ending genuinely gave me goosebumps too. See, this is how I want to see a RE movie instead of the cheesy, cheap shit movies they’ve been making, excluding the CGI ones…well, some of them.
There’s nothing to be embarrassed about…you bought a very good game that you will play wherever you want (so no hurry to play this before it leaves GP) plus you got it on sale. Life is too short to be embarrassed or regretful about buying a game you wanted to play on a sale. 
Lost Judgement is freakin’ awesome!
To be honest it’s gonna be interesting to see how it runs on current gen consoles too not only the Ally handhelds…hopefully I will be proven wrong but I don’t have high hopes for it.
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Powerwash Simulator 2 is always great, there’s never a wrong time to buy that. Truly the ideal game to play when you just want to take a break from other genres or just when you only have a short bit of time left before sleeping. Plus it’s superb to catch up on some music too.
You could juggle between that and the other two games.
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https://x.com/insidergamingig/status/2018650927637704962?s=46&t=O_AGT9SEnlptKOF_2SxtqQ
Oh hell ye- wait what?
Game Pass February has dropped. I don’t recall that Blazblue spin-off game being Day One but now it is.
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Metroid Prime 4 tanked, and is arguably abysmal as an original Metroid fan (it literally throws out much of what makes a fucking Metroid game a Metroid game). Nintendo is wholly to blame - shell of what they used to be and only getting worse.
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It’s literally just a new bundle with all the cosmetic outfit DLC included. There was a recent FPS patch but that was released for free.
Feels like the article is trying to be confrontational about it, but it’s not weird for games to get new store bundles from time to time…
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