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welllllllllllllllllThe tutorial is that bad ?
It's like a coding tutorial, kinda
you learn how to do A, learn how to do E, learn how to do H,
but when you try to make all of that into a coherent codebase, suddenly you ask yourself why the toaster is leaking water.
At least for double clicking, I'd go with something that has optical switches. Even Logitech has a couple nowadays. My Roccat wired mouse has been double click-free for 20 months which is a far better result than my 2 previous Logitech G305. My first one of those was double clicking out of the box, Second one, less than a year.
News - Epic Games Store
https://investors.remedygames.com/announcements/remedy-entertainment-plc-remedy-announces-sales-information-for-alan-wake-2/ Alan Wake 2 sold 1 million at the end of December and 1.3 million at the beginning of February (all platforms). About 400k on Epic.
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It is notable that people claimed 100M less free games.News - Epic Games Store
https://investors.remedygames.com/announcements/remedy-entertainment-plc-remedy-announces-sales-information-for-alan-wake-2/ Alan Wake 2 sold 1 million at the end of December and 1.3 million at the beginning of February (all platforms). About 400k on Epic.
And Mythical category of games is basically identical to last year except Dead Island 2, it was Tiny's Tina Wonderland last year.
Me with my 6 year old Logitech G502 still in perfect working order.I've stopped buying Logitech mice because they always end up double clicking and/or having deteriorated rubber grips after about a year.
Planned obsolescence GARBAGE
The best mouse I've ever owned, and one I still use even after 10 years of use, is the Mionix Naos.
Razer products though. Those go straight in the rubbish pile. Never had a Razer product last even a single year.
I was watching the People Make Games documentary and it goes to show how important is to have competent people managing resources. The OG ZA/UM guys got outsmarted by a venture capitalist because they weren't very good administrators.The last person that actually worked on Disco Elysium got fired yesterday.
His statement on the matter
“It's the people on top – the motherf*****s in sailing shoes and bowties – that f****d Harry, f****d Kim, f****d Robert, Rostov, Helen, Olga, Cash, f****d Elysium, f****d you and me too. They are not artists, they are professional f*****s,” he said
Last Disco Elysium writer laid off by ZA/UM speaks out - Video Games on Sports Illustrated
“The fish starts rotting from the head,” says Argo Tuulik.videogames.si.com
Basically it's somehow worse in every single aspect than Black Flag.
Devs are deadly afraid of people getting stuck even for a minute in non-puzzle games.
All the yellow paint talk that surfaced again with Final Fantasy, and for example the yap yap from Aloy and God of War NPCs is the current "solution" which sucks. Shadow of Tomb Raider is still the only game as far as I recall that gave players actual proper options with this stuff and it worked great I think.
My Razer mouse has been pretty good so far, and it makes me a real Gamer™.
Regarding mouse debate I am still using my LogitecG502 that i got in 2017 without any issues XD
It's a spin off from To Heart 2 visual novel, hence the 2 in the title.
But yes, it's the first game in the series, followed by Dungeon Travelers 2 and Dungeon Travelers 2-2.
Can you imagine that we may live in a World in the not too distant future where Sony puts their library day 1 on PC before bastarding Rockstar
Crazy times
Crazy times
News - Epic Games Store
https://investors.remedygames.com/announcements/remedy-entertainment-plc-remedy-announces-sales-information-for-alan-wake-2/ Alan Wake 2 sold 1 million at the end of December and 1.3 million at the beginning of February (all platforms). About 400k on Epic.
Yes, Dungeon Travelers started as a spinoff of the To Heart 2 series, then the sequels Dungeon Travelers 2 and 2-2 dropped the To Heart 2 from the title. I guess it's a similar situation to Shin Megami Tensei and Persona.
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I have a Logitech g305 which I bought in 2020. It has already started to double click. Been thinking to buy another g305. But if the infamous double click is still a problem I consider to buy from another brand. Which brand is recommended? I don't want to buy too expensive mouse
My G502 lightspeed from sept. 2020, still hard at work, remains the best mouse I ever had.
Before that, I had a Razer "DeathAdder" (no relation to a famous character by Rowan Atkinson, sadly). The pads started peeling off after a few months. The one before that didn't last much longer. And that's why, tough i rather liked the mouse itself, I don't touch Razer anymore
Before that, I had a Logitech.... something... that lasted for many many years, and still exists, somewhere, in full working order.So, as far as mice go, Logitech is in my good books.
Now, as for speakers, I could go into a colourful rant about the sheer unadulterated stupidity and hubris that is the Logitech Z407, an otherwise nice 2.1 set.... whose volume can only be controlled by a slow, finicky, capricious, fragile little dongle that gobbles AAA batteries like... like... something that gobbles a lot of batteries. As a bonus, there is a 2 second delay whenever sound starts, because the unholy thing needs to wake up, somehow.
Actually I lied, I can't go on a colourful rant about that, because each time I try to visualise the meeting where they decided not to put a volume knob on a set of speakers and call it a day, I lose all will to live; and only the living can rant.
I hate this publisher for abysmal regional pricings, but for once I commend this.
Removing Denuvo after major sales window (around 3 -6 months)
They only removed it because someone accidentally pushed an unencrypted exe, rendering the point of Denuvo moot.
Mad props to that guy.
Excellent job, Pinocchio 47.
And that's why I went with the Z623 Speakers.
Going on 3 years with these bad boys and they're the best 2.1 speakers I ever had. Just a bit more pricey than the ones you listed, but not crazily so.
The Z623 was actually near the top of my list of possible replacements. It's just been promoted.
My next problem will be to find someone to whom to "gift" the Z407 and its infernal dongle; someone deserving of the pain and frustration.
My next problem will be to find someone to whom to "gift" the Z407 and its infernal dongle; someone deserving of the pain and frustration.
Well, with two authentic physical knobs and an on-off button, of course it's going to be costly. But that's cutting-edge tech for you.
Why?
EDIT: fuck that I thought they were gonna increase the price and then I saw Bloodborne
I'm gonna TRY to get a 4070ti Super in the coming months. Is it ok that my Mobo only has PCIE 3.0 and my PSU doesn't have a 16-pin (but does have like 4x 8Pin slots)?
Any help appreciated.
Any help appreciated.
News - Epic Games Store
https://investors.remedygames.com/announcements/remedy-entertainment-plc-remedy-announces-sales-information-for-alan-wake-2/ Alan Wake 2 sold 1 million at the end of December and 1.3 million at the beginning of February (all platforms). About 400k on Epic.
I feel like it's inevitable Nintendo will be next. As games take longer to make yealry salaries will quickly bump budgets too high to be able to recoup them with a single platform, especially one that will start with a smaller install base (especially if moving from a 130+ million predecessor). And just like Sony Nintendo won't be able to simply make "faster" games as the fanbase will expect a minimum level of quality (outside of Pokemon fans) especially if games will move to the 70/80 bucks range
Big hitters like Mario, Zelda, Smash and Splatoon (10 to 20 million) will be safe for longer, smaller titles (5 millions or less) will be unsustainable without a big enough userbase and honestly looking at the Steam userbase games like Fire Emblem, Metroid and Xenoblade would probably benefit the most from a pc version
Big hitters like Mario, Zelda, Smash and Splatoon (10 to 20 million) will be safe for longer, smaller titles (5 millions or less) will be unsustainable without a big enough userbase and honestly looking at the Steam userbase games like Fire Emblem, Metroid and Xenoblade would probably benefit the most from a pc version
Unlike Sony, Nintendo doesn't have their development budgets out of control.
Nintendo would make a killing if they start porting their old classic titles to Steam at like 15-20$ each. With Steam cards and achievements they would bring in so much additional revenue because you know Steam/PC community will eat that shit up. And they have hundreds n hundreds of games they can do that with.
But really if Nintendo ever did such a thing there is no chance they would release games on Steam. They are the type of company who will make their own storefront (as shit as it would be) and they would get away with it. They would do really well too unlike most of these other Steam competitors.
For now
Let's see if the same will be true in 5 years
Oh man, I hope this actually happens, but then I remember the future catalog of PS Exclusives and besides Wolverine, there's nothing hype to look forward to lol.
I just don't see it happening unless their audience starts having higher expectations of them. Like outside of zelda most of the games they've released on switch are $50-$60 games that no other publisher could dare get away with in this day and age. As much as we all shit on nba 2k or madden/fifa, and rightly so, those games are content packed. EA wishes they could make a barebones sports game with only a couple hours of content in them like nintendo does with the mario sports games and sell them for full price. Or these simple less than 10 hour platformer games like yoshi/kirby/2D mario. Audience demands across the industry flat out erased these kinds of games everywhere (outside of very low budget indies)...except nintendo for some weird reason (and don't tell me it's because quality because mario tennis aces has a 75 and mario golf has a 71, hardly lighting the world on fire there)
I'm not saying this to troll their games as I do like some of them but the facts are the facts. No other major pub that I'm aware of sits on finished games and releases them months or even a year later because they're just that cheaply made (like the latest fire emblem game). Nintendo is just allowed to do things that no other game company can get away with anymore.
NG+ is kind of the point of Dead Rising.
You might not get the best, or even a good, ending on a run. But you can restart the game whenever, carrying your stats to a new run, which will help you deal with the zombies and psychopaths a lot better.
Last March I bought a Razer Deathadder v2 to replace the Logitech G5 v2 I used for 14 years. Let's see if it breaks in the next 40 days
Completed everything in Grow Home. By the moment I got the QoL movement upgrades and got used to the climbing mechanics there was nothing left to explore in the map unfortunately. At least it's off my backlog list.
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