TheMightyEthan

I think it counts, since that's also why I came in here. So good. The music is great, the play is great, everything about it's great. The worst thing I have to say about it is that the first half is better than the second.

Is there a way for me to buy that version?

I got nothin. That's all just insane.

That sounds like something I would either absolutely love or absolutely hate, and I can't decide which is more likely.

Wow, it had never occurred to me that alt-tabbing and putting PC to sleep wouldn't break the shit out of the game... Like, I'd thought of doing it but just assumed the game wouldn't work right after waking and I never actually tried it... oh my God... Like, it's probably still not usable for me because Windows doesn't like it if I put my PC to sleep with my TV as the primary display, and games don't like it if I change displays while they're already running, but I fully understand that's very specific to my setup. *Edit - I still think console gaming is the way of the future for me, because I can sit back and just enjoy them without screwing with settings every 5 minutes to get them running just right, but I also understand that's a personal failing of mine and not an inherent problem with PCs.

Okay, but you still have to leave the game and PC running. I'm not talking about just switching to another program, I'm talking about "oh, it's time to quit playing for the night".

God damn, playing two console games back to back has me questioning why I ever switched back to PC as my primary platform. The ability to simply put the console to sleep in the middle of gameplay, without having to either lose progress or keep going until you get to a place you can save, is worth all the graphical bells and whistles and mods and anything else PC gaming offers. That's not even mentioning the fact that it saves me the headache of messing with technical stuff. I feel like TLoU2 perfectly exemplifies this, despite actually being a console game, because it allows you to adjust both brightness and contrast, instead of just brightness, and I spent a frankly ridiculous amount of time playing with those settings trying to get it to look just ?? on my HDR TV. It was the exact same experience as messing with stuff on PC, where each adjustment makes only a tiny tiny difference, but because I could in theory get it perfectly optimized I feel compelled to keep messing with it until I do. I thought I had it where I was happy with, but even just writing this right now has me going "well, but maybe I could turn contrast up one more notch..." If it had just been brightness like every other console game I would have messed with it once to get it where I wanted it, and then completely forgotten about it for the rest of my time playing it.

Oh yes, I also preordered GoT at the same time I bought TLoU 2. My hope is to get through TLoU in time to trade it in toward my GoT preorder (I only put down the minimum $5 to secure the prerorder).

Copyright law is so fucked up.

The Last of Us Part II I haven't played much, about an hour and a half, and so far gameplay/story wise it's about what you'd expect. I wanted to comment though that I'm confused about all the gushing I've been seeing about the graphics. Like, it's just not that impressive to me. There's nothing wrong with it, it's actually one of the better looking games, but it's not amazing like everyone acts. The natural environments look great, but all the character models and human made objects (clothes, furnirture, books, etc) just look meh. They all look like flat surfaces with textures pasted on, and not especially sharp textures. I suspect, though I am not sure, that this engine is not using physically based rendering, and that is the problem. I think that would explain why all the materials look the same in terms of the way they interact with light. At a fundamental level they all look like they're made of the same material, just colored differently, not some things being wood and some cloth and some skin, etc. The characters especially honestly look like the PS3 game, just with higher poly counts and higher resolution textures, etc, but not actually any better rendering/lighting tech. Another thing is that the far-distance vistas (mountains, towns in the valley, etc) are really obviously paintings on a sky box, rather than actual physical models in the distance. Again, not something that looks bad, but it keeps catching my attention because of how everyone hyped up the graphics of this game so much. None of this actually detracts from the game, graphics are not all that important really, it's just confusing to me. Like, Death Stranding looks way better*, and that game came out last fall, so why is everyone acting like this is some graphical masterpiece? P.S. I do want to give it one shout-out: the snow deformation when you walk through it looks amazing. That actually does look way better than the same effect in Death Stranding. *I do understand that comparing it to Death Stranding is apples to oranges, since that game only ever has one or two characters on screen at once, and doesn't have all the vegetation and stuff, I'm just talking about the visual impressiveness of the graphics, not the technical impressiveness underlying them.

The Last of Us Part II I traded in some games, and it's kind of complicated, but due to promotions I ended up coming out ahead by buying this. So let's see how it lives up to the hype.

I really liked that game, never beat it though. The slow mo stuff was super cool at the time. I also liked how the enemy barks were very accurate to context, and gave you actual useful information about what they were doing. I just beat Death Stranding. That game was super weird, and super boring, and completely amazing, and I can't even articulate why. The cutscenes at the end did kind of drag on too long, but that's basically my only complaint with the whole game. It was exactly what it was, and it excelled at it. 5/5

Man, the world is a dumpster fire.

Yeah...

Weird how much can change in a year. I don't even remember being this excited for Infinite, and can't imagine why I was. I'll still probably get Infinite, but I'm sure as hell not getting a SeX, nor am I going to upgrade my PC for it...

I'm hoping for Halo Wars 3.

Who is Ovidio?

RIP (I honestly don't know how I'm still holding out)

Officially confirmed that Forbidden West is a 2021 game.

Hells to the yeah!

Okay, I measured and I actually can fit it horizontally with about an inch of clearance on either end, or I could take out the shelf and it would easily fit vertically.

Jesus tittyfucking Christ this thing is huge... I'm going to have to measure, I'm not actually sure it will fit in my entertainment center.

SCOTUS just ruled 6-3 that federal sex discrimination laws protect LGBTQ employees. Gorsuch of all people wrote the opinion. "An employer who fires an individual for being homosexual or transgender fires that person for traits or actions it would not have questioned in members of a different sex" Finally a ray of light in our dystopian system.

Yeah, really what I want is for them to take FES and add in all the stuff they added with P3P, I don't want them to start with P3P as the base.

God, what I really want is a version of P3 with all the Portable enhancements but not the presentation limitations.