TheMightyEthan

That's funny, that was the experience I had with Super Mario 64 in that collection. It was groundbreaking for the time, but doesn't hold up anymore imo. Sunshine, on the other hand, held up better than I expected (I loved it when it came out, but was worried it would have aged poorly).

The fact that you left off Wind Waker is an absolute travesty. The correct list: Exclusives: The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker Super Mario Sunshine Mario Kart Double Dash Animal Crossing Pikmin Third party: Resident Evil Star Wars: Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader Sonic Adventure 2 Battle I honestly can't think of any games that I loved on the GameCube that aren't regarded fondly, it would have been Wind Waker but time rectified that mistake, so I just gave myself an extra exclusive.

None at all, very few of the games I've been playing on Xbox are exclusive, so I could be playing them on PlayStation, but since I have both I'm playing them on Xbox because they're slightly better there/available as part of Gamepass. But most of PlayStation's exclusives are must-plays for me, so if I had to give one up it would be the Xbox, because I wouldn't lose access to as many of the games I care about that way.

I've been playing a lot of games on Gamepass, so that's most of it, but some of it is also that Xbox is more powerful so lots of games run better there. It hasn't even been a month and my PlayStation is already turning into an exclusives machine like my Switch.

Oh okay, I thought the PC version was also handled by Sony. Not that that wouldn't mean they couldn't gouge anyway.

Psychonauts 2 I'm only about an hour in, but so far I'm really enjoying it. Hopefully the rest of the game stays this good. Also, playing on XSX and I am so torn between 4k60 and 1440p120. 4k is so crisp, but 120 is so smooth. Also, looking at my gamercard I just realize that none of my last 6 games are Playstation (Scarlet Nexus technically is but that shouldn't be there, I just launched it because I was messing with TV settings and needed an SDR signal to test). That is quite the flip from the last... 8 years? Jesus.

lol, as a customer I'd obviously prefer it if they let us sell it back at retail price, but I can't really say it's unfair that they pay us the same amount they pay their other suppliers.

I think that's the same pricing scheme they had on PS5, IIRC.

We are able to sell it back, but only at the wholesale rate, which is about 1/3 of the price we have to pay for what we buy from the grid, hence the battery so we can save it up and use it ourselves instead. Even so, for about 9 months of the year we should produce more than we use and end up selling more back, but in June, July, and August the A/C will mean we use more than we produce and have to buy. I just found out today though that our city is considering switching to variable rate and charging more during the day and less at night, which would great for us since during the day the panels will cover our usage and then we can run on the battery through the evening and it'll be overnight and early morning when rates are low that we might need to buy.

Finished installing our solar and battery backup system today!

Quantum Break This game did a lot of stuff right, but it just couldn't bring it all together. Overall I liked it, but it could have been so much more. The TV show cutscenes were an interesting idea that just didn't work, but I do respect that they tried. The combat was fine, the powers were cool when everything came together just right, but a lot of the encounters didn't seem like they were designed to really make good use of it. There were also a lot of threads left dangling, and not in a sequel-teasing kind of way (though there was that too), but more in a "we just kind of forgot about this" kind of way. Violations of the principal of Chekov's Gun. I'm assuming some of that is due to the branching paths and the way the different decisions interact, and maybe if I'd made different choices some of those things might have come back, but that's not what happened so it just felt weird. The story was compelling throughout, and the time manipulation stuff was awesome, but it had me going "but what about...?" about several things at the end. All in all, there's a lot of great stuff in here, but the whole is definitely less than the sum of its parts. Grade: B-

Yeah, depending on how hard it is to fix it may be something they can get working again before launch anyway. It's not like it's this week.

Yeah, I'm guessing just disable online

Yeah, it allows someone to run whatever they want on your computer, completely taking it over if they wish.

I plan to keep playing it, it just doesn't have enough story to keep my full attention so I want to save it for when I'm watching TV or something.

I've got Arceus on my Gamefly queue. I'm not interested enough to buy it, but I'll give it a shot.

Just remember, that's the exact same argument everyone made with Bethesda, but the official policy there is (for future releases) "exclusive to platforms where Gamepass exists". I expect ABK will be the same. So I expect everything that's already on PlayStation to stay there (like Fallout 4), I expect Warzone to stay and continue getting updated (like Minecraft), but I don't think anything that isn't already there when the deal closes will ever come there (like Starfield or TES6), unless there's a specific preexisting contract (like Deathloop and Ghostwire).

I started Nobody Saves the World last night, and liked the little bit I played, but it didn't feel like enough of a game to hold my full attention, so I stopped and will probably use it as a game to play on my phone while watching TV or whatever. Then I started Quantum Break, and I've liked that so far too (though going straight into this game at 30fps was painful after having been playing Halo at 120), I think I'll stick with it. I'm not a fan of the TV show cutscenes, they're too disruptive to the game, but I respect the experiment of them.

I don't think anyone expected them to pull existing one-time-sale games, but ongoing games are less clear because there's more grey area. I don't think they will (especially after that tweet, but I didn't anyway), but they could leave them running but stop updating them with new content, or something like that, short of outright yanking them.

The plot thickens... Probably just means Warzone though, which would go along with the whole "not yoinking existing games" policy they've established with Bethesda and reiterated with this deal.

No game shame here, if you count it then it counts!

The fact that, at least in terms of revenue, Xbox + ABK is still slightly smaller than Playstation makes me feel less concerned about this specific merger, but I am still quite concerned about the trend it represents.

Yeah, doesn't look like he's staying