I reject the term “glizzy”. Call it a sausage like a civilised person. Or a snag if you’re a bogan (no judgement).

My go-to is “What happens when you try?”

To be fair, asking that much for Skull & Bones really is taking the piss…

I am not convinced anything has changed for Firefox yet. I looked over the terms and they just seem to be covering their arses against regulations regarding Mozilla services (e.g Firefox Sync). Correct me if I’m wrong.

I didn’t play much Elden Ring as it strayed too far from what I liked about the earlier Souls games, personally. Demon’s would only give you a checkpoint after killing a boss, though you could open up shortcuts instead. Dark Souls 1 had a few more checkpoints but there was none of this respawning right outside the boss door that you get in ER and some of the later series games (to make up for the overtuned boss challenge in those games).

This meant, at least on your first playthrough, you tended to be doing this slow, tense exploration of hostile areas. Because dying would not only cost you progress, but potentially your next level if you failed to retrieve your souls.

I am mostly joking, but I do remember reading somewhere that the punishing corpse run aspect combined with the lack of checkpoints was a response to how toothless death was in Bioshock and games of that era. Compare a death in Demon’s Souls to Bioshock, where you pop instantly out of the nearest vitachamber(?) with no loss, for example.

Bioshock gave us the Souls series ;)

Imagine 3rd person OTS Magicka…

I legit fumbled my phone and it fell on my crotch, fuck you. :P

I have a friend who plays, and they suggested that maybe putting it right onto gamepass – allowing Johnbro McFuck to download it, get lost in a cloud, crash into the ocean and never play again – during the launch window might not have been a great idea.

Not ready for PSN requirement on DS1…

If they let it cook this time it could be good… human kissing aside.

A laudable goal. Can they pull it off, tho?

I don’t have VR so I haven’t played that one.

Oooo! Thanks! That’s way more interesting.

It feels like we only just recently got the HL1 fan remake done, and now we have what I assume is a HL2 remake?

Streaming the game is never gonna be viable for me because of where I live, even if I wanted it, and I very much don’t. But then I don’t care for the kind of competitive games where what hardware you run on makes that much difference, anyway.

I don’t think we need “the best”. Just to be able to detect and ban the egregious offenders would be enough.

I will say we agree on one thing; competitive games should not be taken as seriously as they are. But then I’m of the controversial opinion that esports made gaming worse.

Client-side anti-cheat is effectively pointless in the long run. The software is running on a machine the devs do not control, and ultimately that means it cannot be trusted. They should be working harder on server-side detection, but that requires work not just buying a product and dusting your hands off…

Yeah, I was all like “Wait, Telltale still exists?”

I’m pretty sure no card can conjure me into existence, no matter how many or few lines of text they have… :P