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#11

Off-Topic News Discussion / Re: Trump to release the alien...

Last post by kitler53 - Yesterday at 01:08 AM

it's just a distraction from Trump's many failures and the Epstein files. 

#12

Gaming Community / Re: The Gaming Community Threa...

Last post by kitler53 - Yesterday at 01:07 AM

he was a huge failure.  not as big a failure as Sony's GaaS initiative but a huge failure all the same. 

#13

Off-Topic Community / Re: TV Show Thread

Last post by Legend - Yesterday at 12:48 AM

@kitler53 maybe you'd like landman. You also might hate it. Idk, one character made me think of you 

#14

Off-Topic News Discussion / Trump to release the alien fil...

Last post by Legend - Yesterday at 12:47 AM

Lol

Will this be really cool or just more, nothing?

#15

Off-Topic Community / Re: Happy Year of the Horse

Last post by Legend - Yesterday at 12:46 AM

Dragons > Horses.

Fire horse=~dragon

#16

Off-Topic Community / Re: Happy Year of the Horse

Last post by BasilZero - Feb 20, 2026, 11:57 PM

Dragons > Horses.

#17

Gaming Community / Re: The human eye can only see...

Last post by BasilZero - Feb 20, 2026, 11:56 PM

Playing Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade at 4K 120 FPS after failing to change my refresh settings from it being stuck in 4K 60 FPS for the first 25 hours of the game taught me 60 and 120 is night and day lol.

#18

Gaming Community / Re: The Gaming Community Threa...

Last post by BasilZero - Feb 20, 2026, 11:54 PM

https://ign.com/articles/phil-spencer-retiring-sarah-bond-out-matt-booty-promoted-as-microsoft-ai-exec-asha-sharma-named-new-xbox-boss-exclusive

Its Xbover.

#19

Gaming Community / Re: Pi's hot take

Last post by BasilZero - Feb 20, 2026, 11:51 PM

Blueberry pie is the best.

Dont @me.

#20

Gaming Community / Re: Pi's hot take

Last post by Legend - Feb 20, 2026, 11:15 PM

If Horizon 1 was a failure, Sony could have came to the conclusion that people don't want a woman as a protagonist.

I think Aloy was smart for a few reasons, but one of them was that she was a departure from the studio's past work. Horizon changed as much as it could from Killzone and that really helped it feel unique.

Like you said with superficial aspects, other games come in and say "well horizon had a female protagonist, why isn't our game selling?"

Kind of a corollary to this, is that if there was a template on how to make successful or critically acclaimed products, companies would have an easier time. For example, Sony wouldn't have had a Concord failure.

Don't know if Concord is an example of that lol. I imagine a ton of voices were shouting "wtf don't do that" and Sony/the devs kept doing it anyway. Which oftentimes is smart, it's the only way to make something really groundbreaking, but Concord was just such a predictable failure from my point of view at least.

I think it's a big reason why the industry has a very superficial view on budget. Bigger is just better.

Preach. I remember us talking about this back with Nier Automata. Now we have Expedition 33 which is another example.

Big AAA games cannot guarantee they will have better stories, better characters, better pacing, etc. But they can have more content and that seems to be the thing they're doubling down on.