Benny

This looks very tempting indeed. Alas, my backlog!

The scariest thing about Drake is that at least Lara looks a bit tortured about it at first, before she really embraces the killing.

But Drake just mows brown people down, then puts on that Tom Cruise smile and heads back home in time to play Crash Bandicoot with Elena in cutesy domestic bliss.

Terrifying.

Tell me you're talking about Nathan Drake without saying you mean Nathan Drake.

I used that scene in Valerian to calibrate the colours on my TV.

So you're saying it's basically Tom Cruise's smile in film form:

Beguiling, flashy, manufactured and insidious.

I'm not sure there is anything to be gleaned from user reviews like that. You get them for nearly anything that isn't the same old bland CODswallop.

"Sometimes I’d miss plot points because I’m staring at a Pandora fish".

To be honest, I don't see that as a positive.

It's a free update - the devs need to sleep sometime. It's hardly Halo Infinite.

2 hours ago, Spacehost said:

Do I need to subscribe to Crunchyroll to see Diamond Is Unbreakable and Golden Wing in the UK or do I need to use methods some would find unsavoury to get them in the UK?

I watched them both on Crunchyroll, assuming they are still on there. Didn't need a subscription.

As expected, every fucker in them was proper sweaty with all the twinked out shit . Lots of fun though, even with the ridiculous spirit summons matches.

Of course in typical From fashion, it's not clear if anyone using a password has to also select the same duelling setting and options, because that would be a pain in the arse to get matched and is probably how it works.

I'm playing on PC now, checking out the colosseum stuff. Password will be rllmuk if anyone is about and fancies a duel or some jolly team ups.

Very yes.

Some bikers just don't have the requisite charisma.

I predict that this film will be an overwrought and relatively mediocre but enjoyable and lavish sci fi spectacle, like the first film, but that it will also do absolute gangbusters at the box office. But despite that it will also still not make anywhere near enough money to break even.

I still think added ray-tracing tends to make existing games look all wrong. It's this generation's bloom lighting.

That looks extremely suspect to me. A 3090 is not twice as fast as a 3080.

EDIT: ah I see, they haven't optimised the RAM usage.

Nice try Nvidia.

Hmm yeah I'm not sure I like the sound of that. Not keen on micromanaging my difficulty levels along with everything else.

27 minutes ago, Garwoofoo said:

Hit a roadblock in Act 3 where I just couldn't seem to progress no matter what I did. Eventually I solved it by methodically walking round the entire village and talking to absolutely everyone, turned out I'd missed one person in a house somewhere that I needed to talk to in order to advance the plot.

 

Real shame as it kind of soured the momentum a bit and made it feel more like a game than the naturally-flowing interactive story it's been so far. But that's the only time it's happened, everything apart from that has been wonderful.

When you check the map the game does show you little stars showing your goal for where to move things forward. I actually found myself ignoring it most of the time as I was checking everywhere anyway.

26 minutes ago, BadgerFarmer said:

I think it's a great way to emulate the pace of that rural life, in contrast to the digital nature of the game. Most games, even investigations games, are about instant judgements and logical clues that snap together immediately. This is about generating time to mull over the details of characters, using processes such as craftwork as a background to let the mind wander and formulate ideas.

I think the game it reminded me of a lot of the time was Shenmue.

You have an inciting incident, but the way the pace of it all unfolds is very similar. The life going on around you shares Shenmue's attention to detail in its setting. You also have the same sense of not always having enough time to do everything, though in this case through triggers rather than a real-time clock. And also just in the way different rituals are observed: saying grace before meals or Ryo taking off his shoes before entering his house every day. Even the daily job aspect.

I absolutely loved that part

The fact you can use Spirit Ashes in the arena is genuinely quite exciting. Some potential for truly unbalanced and yet fun matches.

The distribution of that suggests it's not entirely to do with the films themselves but more about when the critics and directors picking things were actually born.

If this forum does one it'll almost certainly be heavily weighted to 70s and 80s or 80s and 90s.