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Really, it's how you define it. Does AI stand for artificial intelligence or artificial idiocy.

OK, having read your post, I realise that I may have got it bit wrong. When I said it was good that Americans elected a human being into the White House, I was wrong. What I should have said is it's good Americans elected somebody who knows what the fuck they're doing. Donald Trump is a businessman, and offer him his due respect, a damb good one, but the lesson here is that being a damb good business leader does not directly translate into being a good political leader. I'm fully prepared to admit he's an intelligent man, but not a moral man. That's what it takes to as successful as he's been. Selling his Presidency like a pitch at a board room is what got him elected, but a political leader is not supposed to be out there for himself, and that was is downfall.

I am not an American. I do not live in America. I just wanted to make that clear before I go any further, but I still don't feel like I'm out of place for casting my opinion, so I'm giving it out straight. Having spent the last four years being represented and led buy a barely sane, xenophobic, homophobic, power mad, racist, sexist lunatic who had no room in his life for criticism, now America has a human being. So, despite a brilliant inauguration speech whare he truly said all the right things, Joe Biden has proven nothing yet, especially considering the low bar set by his predecessor. He spoke calmly, yet passionately about unison and cooperation in his speech and I hope, as a member of the rest of the world, Americans actually prove to be as gullible as we think you are for once. Listen to this man. Maybe four years is not enough to undo the damage Trump did, but electing an actual leader instead of an ego is a good start.

Despite what the "Soul's" community says, multiple difficulty options are a good thing. It forces game developers to consider story, characters, plot, athstetics, creativityandchallenge that extends beyond crippling the player and/or cryptic combat solutions taking a challenge from those who want it. In other words, difficulty options are a good thing.

There is no beauty to be found in graphical quality. Graphics are the practical and mathematical elements of a game's anesthetics. It's all about the visual clarity of the user interface and how closely the art design is expressed on the screen. If graphics were the only thing to consider, we would all judge games based on how real they look. Sadly, some people do, but not me. Berfore I move on, let me make it clear, there are exceptions. In any game them emulates real life, the quality of the visuals is entirely about the graphics and their quality because there's no design they to aspire to other than emulating something that's real life. The beauty comes from accuracy, and it deserves to respected when it's done well. However, in any other game, it's all about the creative design. The colour palette, the creativity, the imagination and the detail. Don't get me wrong, high budget graphics don't hurt, but it's about so much more than that. Anyone who disagreeing with that, stop playing fucking FIFA and try Child of Light.

I really have no problem with any of this. CDPR are a good developer and publisher, they really are, but they have let the Sainthood gamers grant them go to their head then pushed their luck too far. I just hope this leads to a new realization among gamers that no company is worthy of blind trust. They want all of your money with no care if you die tomorrow. That goes for all of them

EA's problem isn't that they aren't the same company they used to be, it that's they're same company they always were. I think it was Will Smith that said, "Racism isn't getting worse, it's being filmed." and it's the same with EA and their business practices. The only thing that has changed is that the modern world has helped people see them for what the are.

A Switch that runs at 4K, at least in handheld mode, is utterly pointless. The current Switch runs at 720p in handheld mode and trust me when I say that's plenty for a screen that size. When docked it dose make more sence to run in 4K, but I would still rather any extra horsepower a new version of the Switch gets would be utilized to make it more compatible with newer, 3rd party titles rather that satisfy the vanity of sadly loud group of idiots. So, would would I suggest for a new Switch? More reliable Joycons, 4K media playback while docked, 1080p (max) gameplay in handheld mode and improved performance while docked at 1080p.

I'm locking this topic and removing links, basically because this is a promotion of a stream organisation service that has nothing directly to do with gaming. Even if this isn't a deliberate affiliate on your part, you could at least place it in the correct section of the forum.

This is too good an opportunity to not post this.

I hate to break it to you, but that's a mixture of promotions and allowances that are very indigenous to specific games and some wishful thinking on your part. There is nothing there to suggest a meaningful collaboration between the two brands. What you're describing is more about a third party that working with both console brands more than anything else.

If it wasn't for Nintendo, the PlayStation wouldn't exist. And it's not's like Sony wanted to "get in" on Video Games to compete with Nintendo so have Nintendo to thank for trying, I mean that even more literary than that. The Nintendo PlayStation was develped as a CD based add on for the SNES, but the project fell through at the hardware test phase. The was also how the CDi was born, except Nintendo was working with Philips on that one, but was far less successful despite the advantage of having permission to use some of Nintendo's franchises. That's why the world was cursed with Hotel Mario and the now infamous Zelda CDi games, but getting back to the point. If you look hard enough, you'll find connections between these companies everywhere, especially with hardware, there is little point in reading anything into it. Still, I have to ask @Kane99, when did Microsoft work with Nintendo is the way you describe? I just don't recall that happening.

Isn't Trump enough proof that eccentric celebrities should not be elected into office?

I was exited to hear EA's Battlefront 2 would have a proper campaign mode, especially when the trailer for it indicated that it would be from an Imperial perspective. The game's now infamous launch and lookbox controversy stopped my buying it, but I figured I'd waif for a sale so I check out the campaign. Then I found out that the protagonist in the story turns to fight for the rebels before the campaign is even half done, which was great because I was now out of reasons to buy that piece of shit.

I'm sorry, what other games charge for HD texture packs? Especially amongst the kind of ongoing games that receive updates all time.

That is literally the first time I've heard a joke about that this century.

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A very warm welcome to VGR. Anyone who lists FFX as one of their favourite games is a friend of mine right away. Very glad to have you here. If there's anything you help with or if you have questions please let me know.

No problem. Note that the word processing tools on this forum include a hyperlink tool that allows you to create a text overly for links in your posts. It sits in between the underline and quote tools.

I addressed the latest issues with PS2 themed PS5 in the previous post and quoted from the same article.

Sending death threats to people is not an acceptable way to behave under any circumstances, doing so over something like a video game just makes it arbitrary and completely stupid. However, that doesn't change the fact CDPR created that situation for themselves, not when the announced the delay, but when they announced the original release date. That was in June 2019 at E3 for a release in April 2020. That's 10 MONTHS earlier. There is no way that anyone at CDPR knew, and I mean knew, the game would be ready by then. Anyone who did was either an optimist, an idiot or a liar, but most likely all three. A full 18 months passed since E3 2019 and game finally came out... completely unfinished. And the worst part? CDPR knew it. That's why they only sent out PC copies for review and is also why reviewers weren't allowed to use their own captured footage. That's as dishonest as it gets. I'm sure there was a lot of pressure to announce the release at E3 so the pre-orders could start there, and goes right back to the point I made earlier. That's what always about. Money. So, even though the aforementioned death threats are not acceptable (And it happened again over PS2 themed PS5 again if anyone is interested. Check the end of this thread.), nobody should offer CDPR any sympathy. They were greedy, crunched their employees, disrespectful to journalists and were downright dishonest to us all. The responsibility ultimately falls to publishers, but you're right, it's not as straightforward as that. Investors are just businessmen/woman putting in cash to earn a return with little care of the ethics or complexities involved, but they can put alot of pressure on publishers. If investors want something included, or even absent from the game, because they think will make them more money, they'll probably get it. The same thing goes for how the game is publicised, promoted and even manufactured. As for the developer, well, I work at a dockyard for a big engineering firm, and we have a saying, "Shit rolls down, but not up". Somebody takes a "dump" of an idea in board room somewhere, it's the people further down that have to clean up the mess. It's doubtful developers agree with even half the ideas publishers and investors have, but still they have to deal with it.

Investors would never ask a game publisher to not open pre-orders for a game, even if it were to prevent delays or a messy release. Investors may even be the reason game publishers have turned pre-ordering into the hair brained, greedy scam that it is these days.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. The problem isn't game developers/publishers pushing games out the door to early to meet deadlines, it is letting greed drive them to be irresponsible when setting those deadlines to begin. Delayed releases and games coming out broken in desperate need of patching would never happen if publishers simply waited untill they knew, and I mean really knew for a fact, that game would be completed to the standard we as customers expect for a certain day. Then, and only then, announce the release date and allow people to pre-order. However, that just doesn't happen, does it? Game publishers need all the money before they even have a product to offer in return, that's what pre-orders are all about. Games offering pre-orders up to a year before the game is supposed to release are commonplace now, and that's the route of the problem. Game companies can't sell a pre-order unless they have a shipping date, that's why release dates for video games are announced so ridiculously early. It just takes game companies, for just one meeting, to value common sense over greed, just once and this problem we all share will be all but eliminated. Game developers wouldn't have to suffer the embarrassment of a game being delayed, game publishers wouldn't have deal with backlash from broken releases and we gamers would avoid the frustration of having to wait longer than we were promised for a game that may still come out busted. Everybody would win.

Why can't the world have anything nice due to somebody's stupidity? This new PS2 themed PS5 sold out almost immediately of course, but mere hours later the company behind it cancelled all the orders and are not proceeding with project due to "credible threats" to their safety. Beit disgruntled customers who missed our whoever it was, this is now not happening. I am so sick of idiots who seems to bulling and threatening people is an acceptable way to behave. An article from tech radar.