I’d say PS1. PS2 was a weird radiator. PS3 was a George Foreman grill. PS4 was somewhere between an eraser and someone about to lose a game of Jenga. PS5 is that ridiculous popped collar.

They’re just trying to do the double dipping strategy that worked so well for them for GTA V, and possibly RDR2. The big thing that’s changed even since RDR2 came out though is that PC is now the largest platform for this type of game. Some percentage of people will go buy a PS5 to play this game as soon as possible, but I’ll bet more people will be patient for a PC version this time around. Of course, with a 2026 release date, the next Xbox might be launched or imminent by the time the console version comes out, and that next Xbox might basically just be a dressed up PC.

I can promise you that they do. Often times you can’t solve certain problems without introducing others though.

At the very least, there’s Rare Replay and Halo 5. Plus this was like the very end of the era where some third parties didn’t make PC ports, so I’m sure there are some stragglers there.

Honestly, I’m hurting more for a PvP shooter with LAN, so it’s a pleasant surprise to see the LAN tag here. If it’s got a campaign, that’s just a bonus for me, but I’d certainly like to see one.

That’s possible, but the benefit of the doubt that I’ll give them here is that they’re testing the multiplayer portion of the game right now, so if that’s all that’s in the executable that they’re distributing in beta tests, they can’t say that it’s got it a feature that they don’t have yet.

The Steam description says “single-player and multiplayer”.

With Green Hawk Platoon, we set out to create an FPS that feels larger than life, designed for both single player enthusiasts and competitive multiplayer fans.

I’m about half way through Conscript, which is essentially WW1 Resident Evil. This game has maintained its tense feeling by carefully dialing the presence of save points and ink items to use at them. I’m really enjoying it. Unfortunately, for the same reason, it makes it difficult to find a block of time that I know I’ll have to make progress in the game, so I’ve prioritized playing other stuff for the past week.

I’m coming up on the end of Dread Delusion. In fact, I believe I’m on the final mission. On a much smaller scale, this game channels the same exploration formula of something like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild or Elden Ring, paying close attention to sight lines and making sure that you can use your brain to navigate the world, explore, and find something interesting. The game is certainly wider than it is deep, but they nailed the exploration part of the game, and I’d love to see them hone in on more RPG systems in a sequel or other follow-up.

I’m also a bit more than halfway through Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus. Without spoilers, I got to the part where they let you make a mechanical choice, and I picked the stealth-focused one. This is more of what made The New Order great, and they even cleaned up some of the mechanical issues that I had with The New Order on a gamepad, so they must have had the same complaints that I did.

Campo Santo people completed a phenomenal Half-Life game.

It’s funny, because up until that point, I thought his performance was wholly replaceable; in the first game, I’d call it outright bad. It wasn’t until Absolution that I felt like I saw him really acting for the first time.

I didn’t disagree with you on what they said they were targeting, so I’m not sure why you phrased that way. It’s not lazy; it’s a trade off that you disagree with, but it happens every console generation like clockwork. You can push graphical effects on any machine until it hits 30 FPS, and this is where they ended up on this set of hardware.

So get it on PC. That’s where I’ll be playing it. Early reports from games media I follow have already said they played it on PC at higher than 30 FPS.

They didn’t forget to include reasons that definitely did not cause it to fail, that the analysts they spoke to did not attribute to its failure.

Only one of those two games can be played offline, so it’s no contest.

I’m pretty sure Microsoft invited the comparison by letting people believe this would be “their Elder Scrolls” before they just bought Elder Scrolls.

Targeting 30 FPS doesn’t mean it’s a shitty port.

Though he introduced a new rule against using a term he deems overly liberal: “cisgender.”

I miss when I could buy an FPS and just have it. Perhaps people have been trained to expect a game like this to shut down quickly, which might lead to a vicious cycle where they stop playing it and paying into it, expecting their money to disappear and that they could have spent that time getting better at a game that’s going to last.

They pretty much ripped it off wholesale from Mimimi’s games, which were inspired by Commandos. They even seem to use the same button layout. And I’m not upset about this. Those games were great. If you want to play Commandos-but-feudal-Japan, Commandos-but-Cowboys, or Commandos-but-ghost-pirates, I’d highly recommend Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun, Desperados III, or Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew, all of which have this mechanic and play like great modernized versions of Commandos.

Very true, but in general, it’s a thing that already happens far too often.