TheMightyEthan

RPS' impressions seem to be that at a fundamental level it's fantastically fun and engaging, but that they made a bunch of baffling decisions that seem designed to annoy the player, but that in spite of those annoyances it's still fantastically fun and engaging.

My CPU is midway between the two, but everything else I'm set for recommended. *Edit - I really need to start looking at upgrading my CPU/Mobo, but lets face it, there's a not-insignificant chance I'll end up buying an NX despite all my protestations.

Ultimately the Steam refund system is what sold me on a NMS preorder. I really think I'll enjoy it, but if it hasn't hooked me in the first 2 hours I'll refund it. And DXMD is 25% off on GMG, so I went for it.

The plot thickens further. Apparently the European special edition boxes have a sticker showing PEGI 7 and singleplayer, but under the sticker the actual box says PEGI 12 and online play. My speculation is that they've been planning to have the online play, but that there was a problem and so it's currently disabled, and that this happened very late in development (hence the box stickers). Though this still wouldn't excuse the really cagey BS commentary from the dev about it.

If you want the non-alola marowak you have to trade from a previous gen. If you're happy with the ghost/fire alola marowak then you can get it in SUMO.

Is it supposed to actually be scary, or just low-level creepy?

I didn't even know a Styx sequel was in development.

Beyond Earth came out two years ago, but it was made by a different team and wasn't amazing.

I was like you, but having just played Pokemon X I actually think it did a better job of capturing the feeling of the originals than the other ones I've played have.

I'm gonna hijack this thread to ask what games people are looking forward that are coming out later this year. I was looking ahead and it looks like kind of a slow year for me. The only games I'm really excited for are Deus Ex, Civ, Dishonored, and Gravity Rush. Though I also find myself in the weird position of being interested in a Call of Duty game again...

I was actually about to post that I think you're talking about TLG!

Tharsis. Technically I bought two other games too, but this is the only one I actually wanted. I wish Humble let you choose which devs your money goes to, because I'd have given it all to this one.

We've got a camera with a pretty decent zoom lens, I may have to try that...

Apparently claiming the preorder bonus ship can cause a game-breaking glitch. The gist is that the preorder ship comes with a hyperdrive, meaning the tutorial never triggers the part where you get a blueprint for a hyperdrive. Problem is, you can't craft things without a blueprint, so if you sell your ship and inadvertently buy another without a hyperdrive you're stuck in that star system unless/until you happen to stumble across a hyperdrive blueprint (or can find another ship to buy that has one). The solution to this is just not to claim the preorder ship until after you've finished the hyperdrive blueprint tutorial task, but it still sucks for those who inadvertently find themselves in this situation.

The plot thickens: Obviously given it's a random forum poster quoting an unknown reddit user quoting an unknown GAF poster it should be taken with an ocean's worth of salt. I don't actually care one way or the other, I have no real desire to be able to meet up with other people anyway, but it's weird that they would just lie about this (if that's really what's going on). Of course it's also possible that they have the feature turned off for the moment, like some other developer we've heard a lot about recently, due to server load, and that's why it's not sending that data.

Oh yeah, I totally agree, their communication is terrible. And there's already at least two more meet ups that have been put on Reddit where they came up empty.

Oh, neat, I've been eyeing Tharsis but haven't wanted to actually spend much money on it, but if it's just in the pay-what-you-want tier...

But if you post the follow-up tweets too: https://twitter.com/NoMansSky/status/763270760240713728 In context it implies that the "online features" aren't happening right now, even though discoveries are being shared, which implies that there's more online stuff than just the discoveries. Like potentially meeting other players. I'm not saying that's definitely true, and HG is notoriously bad at communicating, I'm just saying it's being implied. It's also entirely plausible that in addition to being in the same place you have to be connected to the same server to actually be able to encounter each other in realtime.

So Hello Games isn't quite outright saying, but is implying, that the reason they couldn't see each other is because too many people are playing right now and the servers can't keep up.

I've always had a stronger attachment to Looney Toons that I have to Disney's characters.

Star Trek Beyond. I agree Yorktown was badass, but I am unconvinced of the need for a megacity in space for what is essentially a supply outpost. Re Krall: My biggest quibble was

Well at least his save will get wiped when the game goes live. That's poetic justice. Apparently the whole "you can beat the game in 30 hours thing" relies on an exploit that gets you infinite warp cells, which is fixed in the patch, which makes the claim even sillier. It's more than just rushing the game, it's rushing the game and using exploits to do it faster than should normally be possible. And having now been reminded that Steam refunds are a thing I'm almost certainly going to be preordering this on Wednesday or Thursday assuming the console buzz isn't super bad.

Rumor has it a group of Republicans are going to back a former CIA officer and congressional aide, Evan McMullin, as a third-party alternative to Trump. I honestly can't decide if I think such a candidate would take more votes away from Trump or from Clinton. My gut says Trump, but part of me wonders if McMullin won't provide another alternative for disenchanted Republicans who might have considered voting for Clinton.

Who is it? I can ban them!

So basically it's like the rest of the DCCU.