I think it is quite funny how 'Americans love their FPS' comment from Kojima is both right (because CoD will be again #1 in sales this year, with even Days Gone selling more than DS) and wrong (because honestly he just comes as salty).
Should I get a heatsink for my M.2 NVME Drive?
Hot take: Kojima has absolutely a point tho. His games always carry a message, which cannot be said for the 90% other mainstream releases in any given year. By message I mean Kojima wanting to teach something to the player, not just have a compelling story.My favorite thing about his comments is everyone working themselves into a frenzy over the like, most goddamn stereotypical auteur comments possible. It's like Scorsese and Marvel all over again (not that I think Kojima is on the same plane of creativity as Scorsese).
Shocking news, dude who likes making weirdo shit that tries to comment on the American military complex might have some salt over games funded by the American military complex selling better than his.
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He's probably talking about reviews like Giant Bomb and IGN, doubt he even read that Kotaku review. It seems Kojima is always in one controversy or another when it comes to the game industry, lolWhich is to say, Kojima is being an ass to suggest that it's American critics in particular who are too dumb with their shooty-shooty-bang-bangs to "understand" his game. But he wouldn't be wrong to say that a lot of critics seemed wholly unequipped to dissect what they liked, disliked, loved or even hated about the game.
Anyone played Ashes of Oahu? Looks promising but reviews are mixed...
Hot take: Kojima has absolutely a point tho. His games always carry a message, which cannot be said for the 90% other mainstream releases in any given year. By message I mean Kojima wanting to teach something to the player, not just have a compelling story.
YES.
My MB came with one. My NVME sits at around 40-50 °C. Without the heatsink it would easily reach 60 °C
Any recommendations for a heatsink? I plan on buying a 2TB Intel 660p and I have a Asrock Taichi X470 mobo. Are all heatsinks rather similar or is there the issue that some may not fit all drives?
I am feeling the same way. Sometimes I feel like I am stupid or something. Suddenly a new topic is being discussed, but there is no context on the first post that started the discussion.Please be aware that this is not an attack on anyone, because I love you all but I have a minor pet peeve these days on Meta : context.
Regularly some controversy happens and people react to it here. Normal. But no one takes the time to give context as to what prompted the reaction, there is no 'summary' of the original issue. And I have to go elsewhere to get the full thing.
My point is that discussions here should be self sufficient and I shouldn't have to go elsewhere to 'get it'.
By the way and on a tangent, I'm arguing for self sufficiency, not isolation.
Any recommendations for a heatsink? I plan on buying a 2TB Intel 660p and I have a Asrock Taichi X470 mobo. Are all heatsinks rather similar or is there the issue that some may not fit all drives?
My MB came with one. My NVME sits at around 40-50 °C. Without the heatsink it would easily reach 60 °C
Im curious about this too. Ive ordered a M.2 drive so will install it this weekend, looks like my Mobo already has a heat sink attached for one of the M.2 slots. Anyone know any reason not to just use it?
Also the drive i bought is PCIe gen 3 but i think my mobo would support a gen4. Im assuming i just wont get the 4 speeds but that shouldn't really matter should it? I mean, its going to be pretty fast anyway and fine for just gaming use right?
YES.
My MB came with one. My NVME sits at around 40-50 °C. Without the heatsink it would easily reach 60 °C
Did you read the RPGCodex review of DE? It's certainly different.I don't think that should be a hot-take since I agree, but yeah.
Honestly, it's probably not something a creator should really talk about since it usually makes them look pretentious or salty. But there is a really virulent strain of anti-intellectualism in video gaming that can rear its head even in games criticism, which is supposed to be "better" than the average nerfherding forum poster.
Very few of the reviews I read seemed to be equipped to deal with the game thematically, and that goes for both critics that liked and hated it. Even a game that had far higher reviews (Disco Elysium) seemed inundated with reviews and impressions from people who understood that they liked it, but seemed (to my pretentious ass) unable to elucidate why they liked it. It kind of sucks, but video game analysis is like a toddler compared to modern film criticism.
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This is without heatsink lol.
Definitely. Putting dozens of hours into a single game is a lot of work. This is why retrospective reviews are more interesting to read, they aren't wrtten under time constraints, allow more exploration and there's no pressure on the reviewer due to the hype surrounding the game, just a more relaxed experience that allows you to breathe.The style of videogame critique we see most is probably at least partly attributable to games being long compared to a lot of other media. Most of the best content that really dissects a game (that I’ve come across) is released post-launch. Stuff like Errant Signal, Watch Out for Fireballs, etc. If you have to keep up with several releases per month, that’s a lot of work I imagine — assuming the site targets a relatively mainstream audience. Waypoint tends to put out solid content on the regular, but they also don’t cover everything and they’re not a huge operation either.
Is Before the Storm grabbing? Deluxe? Wait for a bundle? Lemme know
Buying little by little the parts for my new PC build. So far, I got me a Ryzen 3900x, Phanteks P600s chassis, an open box Asus ROG x570-E Gaming mobo, and a Corsair TX850 80+ Gold PSU. Just need some RAM and a CPU Cooler. I already have my 1080 Ti vid card.
As for games, been playing Lonely Mountains: Downhill. It's a bit tough to handle but I do like that it's a mixture of Descenders and Trials HD. Short impressions so far gives me that "one more try" kind of vibe.
Hmm.. They forgot PvE![]()
Hmm.. Maybe they are...Isn’t that the same as Co-Op? Otherwise, what is Co Op?
Online-PVE without co-op would just be single-player with forced online, wouldn't it?Hmm.. Maybe they are...
Maybe someone can enlighten me if there are differences between co-op and pve?
IT'S OUT!!! BUY IT!!!![]()
How did you even come across this?
He definitely needs an editor.The problem is that Kojima is attempting to deliver that message through terrible, terrible means. His writing is at film student level. Maybe not even that.
The What's New shelf is gone in my home library. Someone know how to get it back?
They better not remove it like they did with the home button and then add it back againthey seem to be testing something ... or breaking something
it just randomly appears and disappears for me every few hours
They better not remove it like they did with the home button and then add it back again![]()
Is Before the Storm grabbing? Deluxe? Wait for a bundle? Lemme know
Good intentions and artistic value aren't everything, the execution matters too. Not saying this is the case with Death Stranding (haven't played it nor watched any gameplay apart from the reveal a while ago), but something being different or weird or artsy doesn't mean it's good. Case in point: Undertale, which I think is a terrible experience gameplaywise. I get why many people like it, but I'm also not surprised that I hated it so much. Likewise, I could understand someone thinking Super Paper Mario is trash (it makes you fight 20 enemies in a row in the most boring way, and that's after you were forced to run around in a hamster wheel for 5 minutes straight), and yet I love that game to death.Hot take: Kojima has absolutely a point tho. His games always carry a message, which cannot be said for the 90% other mainstream releases in any given year. By message I mean Kojima wanting to teach something to the player, not just have a compelling story.