Masayoshi Soken picks Alan Wake 2. Real recognise real.
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It we're judging them as RPGs then I think it is absolutely fair to say New Vegas is miles better. If we're judging writing and world building likewise.
I think an argument could be made for Fallout 3 having more interesting environments to aimlessly roam due to the signature Bethesda world design and clutter. But that's more or less it, in my opinion.
Whether that makes it a better game is up to individual preferences. I definitely have heard of people who prefer FO3, but I also know the modding scene of New Vegas is magnitudes stronger (though that doesn't necessarily have to mean it's the more popular game, granted).
Nice read, Sam Lake is a treasure.
I think I do agree with him about questions versus answers, though it is a careful balance. It can easily backfire, but a mystery laid out for the reader/player to uncover and piece together themselves is more engaging than a neat bow type finish. You just have to make sure to not only provide sufficient clues, but also actually have an underlying structure to uncover. I think JJ Abrams style empty mystery box stuff is garbage, but I don't think that is what Sam Lake is advocating here.
I can't say exactly why but after watching the trailer I got the impression this game will end up being atrociously bad. I'd be surprised if the story mode ends up being finished before the game is permanently shelved due to poor sales.
They're finally adding a functioning Metro system in patch 2.1, along with repeatable car races. It's been improved a bit, but don't expect a Rockstar level open world.
That's more or less true. NVIDIA knows they're holding aces with DLSS+Frame Gen which is just strictly superior to FSR and so they'll probably try to bully the market into accepting current pricing. Better Ray Tracing performance for NVIDIA cards might also be a factor if we'll start seeing more and more games where it really makes a difference, like Alan Wake 2.
What they end up doing with the rumoured Super series coming next year will be a good indication of where we're at I think.
I find the terminology of Kbin confusing and it's one of the things putting me off it, personally. I don't think referring to a shitposted meme as an "article in a magazine" makes a whole lot of sense, and from an onboarding perspective it seems more intuitive to work with familiar terms like "community" and "post". Especially with the microblogging integration: if you want to make a thread somewhere you have to click "create article" because "create post" will have you make a microblog instead.
Are they still calling communities "magazines"?
Discoverability is something that could definitely use more work. Right now I recommend the site lemmyverse.net/communities, which is searchable and shows subscriber and active user counts. It should help you find where the most populated communities for your interests are located, if they already exist over here.
Your front page has three feeds. All is just what you'd expect. Local filters to only show posts from your home instance (lemmy.world in your case). I find it's mostly useful if you're registered to a smaller instance and want to keep up with local concerns.
Home shows updates for all communities you are subscribed to.
You can block communities at user level but not whole instances yet, it's been requested as a feature I think, though.
By sheer user count allowing them to federate would mean the end of non-Meta content on the All feed. Threads is already much bigger than the entire combined Fediverse so the total engagement would drown any Lemmy content, unless of course driven by Meta comments itself. This would no longer be Lemmy, it would be Threads that you could use your Lemmy account for. Maybe not if the algorithm was changed to filter out posts from Threads from the All feed, but you'd still get your communities flooded with Facebook comments.
This is in addition to the rest of the problematic issues with Meta as a company.
The big PlayStation exclusive wins almost every category in the official PlayStation Blog GotY? I'm shocked.