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When buying a console, the only question that matters is what games you want to play on it.

Xbox One X is the last generation model, so it won't run newer Xbox Series exclusives. The line between console generations is quite blurry these days, the Series line has been out for over five years and some games still get cross-generation releases, but even then you should be aware that cross-gen titles may be poorly optimized for older hardware.

If you're only looking to play games from the Xbox One era (2013-2020), those should all run great on the One X and you can save a lot of money by deliberately staying a generation behind. See !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

But if you want to play anything newer, if you want to be future-proof going forward. Series X is the high-end current generation model for current generation games.

You're looking for actual Roguelikes then. That's what the genre originally was before it got bastardized.

I sincerely wish these kinds of grinding games would keep the good name of Rogue out of their mouths. No, it's not -lite, it's the exact opposite of Rogue!

Tetris: The Grand Master is the only good Tetris. Honestly sad that they had a good thing going and TTC decided to throw it out in favor of Guideline.

There are a lot of bots on Steam. If I get a random friend request from someone I don't recognize who has only F2P games in their account, or just no playtime in anything that I play, I ignore it.

But if it's someone you've been playing with, that's a human. A bot would've just gone straight to the scam as soon as you accept their friend request.

I'm guessing they're probably talking about Discord, which is what most people use for voice chat these days (and other social media-y stuff). It's not a virus or anything, but it is another proprietary corporate-owned social media platform, which I'm sure a lot of us here on Fedi might have opinions about.

The death of monoculture comes for gaming too. The sheer number of games out there means you can always find some niche gem that really appeals to you and you specifically, but then you might not find anyone else who knows it and wants to talk about it.

It's how you cut through the prison bars, obviously.

Yeah, regardless of where it came from, the lack of disclosure reflects very poorly on AdHoc.

Unconfirmed, but the rumor I'm hearing is that AdHoc submitted one universal binary for all regions, and it's CERO who won't allow this content in Japan. FWIW, the JP version of Cyberpunk is also censored, but it's separate from the international release.

It's also worth noting that the JP PS5 version just launched alongside it, separate from last year's international version. Haven't been able to find confirmation on whether that version is censored too, but if it is then it's definitely CERO.

How would you define oversaturated then? Since you counted them up and said seven isn't a lot, is there a certain number that's a cutoff?

Oversaturation should be relative to what the market will bear. They're absolutely right that the time commitment is what really matters here. You might not think seven sounds like a lot, but no one's committing to grinding battle passes in seven live services at once.

If we were talking about something like visual novels, seven isn't a lot because you'll finish one and move on to the next. But seven live services is a lot of live services, because it's more than what people will play.

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I feel like hero shooters, and many other genres, have players swearing allegiance to one game and hating on all the rest. The FGC is a unique anomaly for having this shared space where the only way we can make our offline events sustainable is to put them all under one roof and encourage players to support as many games as possible.

That's something you don't see in any other genre, even the idea of a HSC sounds laughable. I think that's why in other genres it's saturation, only in the FGC is a rising tide lifting all ships.