Ian

Ian

@shepcommandr.bsky.social

I'm back. Again.

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Ian
@shepcommandr.bsky.social

I'm probably going out of my way to convince myself that I don't need to pick the game up, which I don't. I have a million games in my backlog, while currently playing 3... and have 4 more games coming in the next 3-ish weeks.

Ian
@shepcommandr.bsky.social

I've never been a big fan of "The Games story makes no sense, and x/y/z are kinda mid... but it's a lot of fun. 9/10" Phantom Blade sounds like an interesting game, but I'm also not convinced that a gameplay first game is going to carry for the length some are saying that game is.

Ian
@shepcommandr.bsky.social

love seeing a recommendation for a podcast episode on YT with "Cuts at Xbox" included in the title... and you can't really narrow down how old that episode is.

Ian
@shepcommandr.bsky.social

People are mad that there were issues with WoW Forever name reservations and you can not convince me that people don't just like being mad. Sincerely, a person who is always mad about something.

Ian
@shepcommandr.bsky.social

I reserved 3 names. All based on sort of silly takes on wrestler names. I am an extremely uncreative person. This is the best I could do.

Ian
@shepcommandr.bsky.social

Will the online retailer that I’ve never used but gets promoted on this site a fair bit actually ship my game so I get at launch. Who knows. This is Canada.

Ian
@shepcommandr.bsky.social

Kneejerk impressions of Minecraft on Sw2 is that it's both better and worse than I expected, which at this point is the Minecraft Bedrock experience.

Ian
@shepcommandr.bsky.social

Jokes aside, Windows Central really should understand why Xbox versions of games would get the least coverage... even in situations where the title is technically first party. It is both an unappealing platform to own, and by extension an unappealing platform for sites to cover and review.

Ian
@shepcommandr.bsky.social

Part of me wants to buy Phantom Blade, mostly because I haven’t particularly been enjoying my time with Control Resonant outside of some specific moments, and I’m pretty bad at Ace Combat 8. After GTA6, I’m probably not buying a PS5 game until Talos 3

Ian
@shepcommandr.bsky.social

All I want from the Indie showcase is S2 versions for Qud, UFO50 and VS. I'm not sure what else I'd actually want at this point.

Ian
@shepcommandr.bsky.social

What the internet has taught me in the past few days; 1. AI is good when it lets you pirate stuff on PC 2. People listened to Ethan Klein talk 3. More than one person wanted to have sex with Ethan Klein 4. Leftist Canadians are doomers and just assume the worst, always. 5. Sports betting.

Ian
@shepcommandr.bsky.social

After gathering up all the flyers for the various candidates at various positions in this years municipal election, I opted not to vote. Because they're all the same candidate, with the same platform built on funding cops, austerity and made up claims about accountability.

Ian@shepcommandr.bsky.social

LOL Municipal election time in my town, and one of the people running for my ward is campaigning on austerity and addition police spending. So instead of spending money on good things for the town, we'll just dump it in a useless pit. Not even a fire. Fire would at least keep you warm.

Ian
@shepcommandr.bsky.social

It's also difficult to have any sort of feels about local gov't, when all the bigger issues are Provincial and Federal. Not to mention that Ward councillors and school board trustees have no real power... because of strong mayoral powers, and the Ford gov't. Maybe if I lived in the City, I'd care.

Ian
@shepcommandr.bsky.social

"But I have to admit that my own shortcomings in game design and planning may have played a part in this unfortunate turn of events" Seems like the additional context here is that his insistence on using AI, might have cost the studio the deal they had.

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Ian
@shepcommandr.bsky.social

I have a couple of unpopular takes about Bioware; 1. I think they would have failed under any of the major publishers. The era of prestige devs, where awards mattered more than revenue is dead. 2. ME could never return and be what it was. Any follow up is trapped in the shadow of the trilogy.

Ian
@shepcommandr.bsky.social

Please don't take this as me being happy about Bioware being closed, or that I think the studio deserved it. What I'm trying to say is that the industry, and the consumers it's selling to, is vastly different than it was 15yrs ago.

Ian
@shepcommandr.bsky.social

AI is going to take away all those pesky tasks you don't want to do, like parenting your child or making art. This will free up your time to dedicate your life to what really matters... INCREASING VALUE FOR SHAREHOLDERS

Ian
@shepcommandr.bsky.social

LOL Municipal election time in my town, and one of the people running for my ward is campaigning on austerity and addition police spending. So instead of spending money on good things for the town, we'll just dump it in a useless pit. Not even a fire. Fire would at least keep you warm.

Ian
@shepcommandr.bsky.social

On replay, I think I like FF7 Remake more than I did originally. I'm not sure if that's due to my general negativity towards Rebirth, or if it's because I'm playing the game again outside of the original hype window.

Ian
@shepcommandr.bsky.social

I'm not sure why, but as we get closer to the GTA6 release date... I'm feeling less enthused about the game. It's not that I think it's going to be bad. I think GTAV, and despite some issues with the writing I liked RDR2. I'm just having a hard time hyping myself up for another 40hr open world game.

Ian
@shepcommandr.bsky.social

Little over halfway through my FF7 Remake re-play. I have until April to get through this, the Yuffie DLC and a Rebirth replay.

Ian
@shepcommandr.bsky.social

At the risk of getting dragged, I'm going to say that the issue is not the tech. It's the people using it. Rich folks see it as a shortcut to higher profits, because they don't respect their own product or their consumers. Poor folks think it's a shortcut around talent and time. It's not.

Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃@caseyexplosion.bsky.social

It always comes back to this for me; if AI was so good, such a disclosure would be a selling point. If AI was everything these slop jockeys said it was, they should be proud to let people know their game was AI made. But the proof is in the pudding, and they can't stand that people don't want it.

Ian
@shepcommandr.bsky.social

I don't think I understand the appeal of Deadlock. It's sort of "what if a MOBA was a shooter, and thus more chaotic and less fun to play"

Ian
@shepcommandr.bsky.social

I like the attention to detail on animations, and the character designs are great... but... the game... it just doesn't feel "fun"

Ian
@shepcommandr.bsky.social

Oh no. I ordered a video game from an online video game store and now they're sending me 16 emails a day about their store promos. Dawg, I'm not sure who's interested in buying Croc on S2, but I assure you that person is not me.

Ian
@shepcommandr.bsky.social

Spamvertising has always felt disrespectful to me as a consumer. I don't need you to tell me all the things you have. If I want to buy something, I will look for it.

Ian
@shepcommandr.bsky.social

lol freeing up space on my Sw2 by uninstalling KH 2.8 and 3, since I have 5 games to get through before I start Dream Drop Distance and then KH3. It's funny that the console won't let you remove them, if the Key Cart is in the console.

Ian
@shepcommandr.bsky.social

It always feels like pro PC discourse is fully disconnected from reality when it comes to the cost of components and games. Like…cool, I can safe $4 buying from a grey market reseller. If I buy 500 games, I’ll make the money back I spent on a GPU.

Ian
@shepcommandr.bsky.social

Maybe it's a Canada problem? xx60 GPU costs as much as a PS5. xx70 GPU is more than a Pro. 230CAD gets you 16gbs of mediocre quality ram. Right now a gaming PC costs about 3x what a console does. At the rumoured pricing... it's still about 2x the price. Let me just pull out a spare $1000?

Ian
@shepcommandr.bsky.social

This talking point always feels super weird because a comparable PC is still going to cost twice as much as a console because they’re just as screwed by the AI price inflation.

Chris Person@papapishu.bsky.social

Sorry still thinking of $1,200-$1,800 dollar console just conceptually. Those are Real Computer numbers. You can just get a real computer for that kinda cash. The entire premise of the console is “this is a baby computer you don’t control but it’s standardized and affordable” but they can’t do that.

Ian
@shepcommandr.bsky.social

Our current gov't seems to want to sell off all our public resources to US private equity for short term gain... but Carney is also our Regan/Thatcher and will end up doing irreparable damage to the country through austerity policy and capitalist bootlicking

Ian
@shepcommandr.bsky.social

Definitely both a Kingdom Hearts and PSP game, with all the good and bad that comes with that. 3 characters repeating the story to see it from different perspectives was an interesting idea, unfortunately Terra's run is kind of mid, and while Aqua is good you tire of the world. 7/10

Ian
@shepcommandr.bsky.social

Took a little bit of work, but I unlocked the final episode. Then proceeded to get absolutely blasted by the boss because I guess I'm horribly underleveled... even for easy.

Ian@shepcommandr.bsky.social

I have once again reached the Keyblade Graveyard in Birth by Sleep (for the last time... I think).

Ian
@shepcommandr.bsky.social

As I grind out levels in a pretty mediocre port of a sort of ok-ish PSP game, I'm reflecting on the fact that I've never finished a game published by Atlus, or developed by FROM. Or a single game in the RE franchise. It's moments like this where I wonder what I'm doing with my life.

Ian
@shepcommandr.bsky.social

Everyone remember when Epic wasn't embarrassing. When Unreal was a cool engine that didn't have a ton of technical shortcomings. When the team made games where the entire premise wasn't EXTRACT RESOURCES VIA FOMO MXT. Those were the days.

Ian
@shepcommandr.bsky.social

I have once again reached the Keyblade Graveyard in Birth by Sleep (for the last time... I think).

Ian@shepcommandr.bsky.social

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