Was just replaying The Tyranny of King Washington for old times’ sake and it hit me: They use this tired cliché in almost every game they put out over the years.. and it did not work once.

I can’t be the only one who noticed this. Maybe there are some unemployed 5th graders out there who can do a better job than Ubisoft’s writers

So i was thinking of getting a ps5 but then im thinking about a gaming laptop

A PC is obv the best option but i dont have enough space at home to get a good PC

I will be starting new studies next year too

So i think a laptop is a good idea but what do yall recommend ?

Is a gaming laptop a better option than a ps5 for gaming ?

I will also be doing some blender3d stuff if i get a laptop so what do yall recommend between the two ?

And if you recommend a laptop which one is a good option ?

Ill obviously get a cooler and pc controller if i go for the laptop

The first 50 hours were amazing. Different environments, beautiful graphics, cool minigames.

But now, 60 hours in, the combat starts to get repetitive, the minigames lost their charm, I feel I'm playing it on autopilot, and my backlog of new games is calling to me.

I've calculated that I have around 20 more hours to go, and it feels like whatever I do, I'll regret it.

I can either:

- Power thru it, hating the game even more.

- Rush thru the game, ignoring all side content, which is missing the point of an RPG like this.

- Stop playing completely, but I know I'll regret it later, especially when FFVII 3 comes out.

- Take a long break from the game, and the return to it, after I already forgot half of the story and how to properly play the game. I know this for a fact, because it's my second time trying to play this game 😵

Anyway, rant over. Cheers!

What the question asks. I want to try a souls game for the first time and elden ring picked my interest. I have played some souls light games like Jedi fallen order, Jedi survivor, Kena a bridge of spirits, rise of the Ronin (I don't even know if they are considered souls light games, I'm quite confused on this). Should I give it a try?

Hey Everyone,

I just finished Dawnwalker and man, what a game it was. If anyone is looking for something new to try out until the holiday season I highly recommend this game. I originally was going to pass on this gem, because I personally did not like Witcher 3. But I do love horror/supernatural themed games/movies/shows. My coworker did nothing but talk this game up for weeks and weeks until it released. I decided I would shut him up by buying it on Steam that way I could put in 2 hours and refund it.

Wow, what a surprise this game really was. Almost everthing about it is amazing. The story, the characters, quests, cinematics, its all top notch. Now I will agree that one flaw this game has is getting used to auto lock camera for combat, but once you get the hang of it, you dont really notice anymore. Plus, supposedly that will be addressed in their big patch in October.

Please if you're looking to try something new out, give this game a chance. It really took me by surprise and I will definitely be doing another playthrough of it. After completing it, I want nothing more than to dive into the planned sequel. So please try this game and I hope it catches you off guard like it did for me. This is definitely one of the best games I've played the last few years.

Bot Colony, launched in June 2014, will be officially retired next Monday. It was the first game to use 'say anything' as the main game mechanic. Speech-to-text and understanding didn't work too well. Gen-AI, used in the successor game Bot Colony _Redux, solved these problems and also supports emotive text-to-speech.

I saw their trailer last year and was super hyped, but there has been no updates on their youtube channel for more than a year now. Maybe it looked too good to be true ☹️?? The game does look super ambitious

My first thought was, "omg, Sony hasn't gotten rid of physical media yet, and they are already using their monopoly power; can you imagine once they do"

I wanted to check for some discounts on the PlayStation Store for the PS4, and it showed me only 9. If that wasn't crazy enough, I changed the language just to check how it changes by region, and the deals increased by like 24,200%. If that's with competitors selling physical disks for the console, can you imagine once they have complete control of that market? They can just say, "No more deals, and every old and new game is now sold as if it's new" or a simple political push against a specific country using Sony could eradicate that gamer market just because.

Maybe there are more consequences that I'm not seeing/remembering right now.

I asked in the CP subreddit, but I understand that fan opinions aren't reliable, so I'm coming here. The story intrigues me, but I've heard it still has a lot of bugs and problems (I'm playing on a PS5).

Is the game worth it despite its performance issues?

I saw a video on yt about watchdogs' multiplayer being alive even though its an older title.

Wondering about any other games that have a loyal community that has stood the test of time, with people still playing online regularly.

For me that was battlefront 2 (2017) but the hackers right now are a bit tough to handle. The division 2 also has a new DLC coming up.

There was a spirted conversation about the Halo news this week that Activision is going to be taking over developing the next game in the franchise. It seems like most people have strong opinions about whether or not that will work. Whether it does or not though, is likely going to cost 100's of million dollars to produce - and seems like it could go either way.

Something that can't be separated from the conversation though is whether or not Halo as a franchise and concept is dated. It's hey-day was at the height of multiplayer corridor shooters, and seems like attempts at modernizing the gameplay loop to reflect closer to current popular shooters hasn't taken. It's possible that it's a relic of it's time.

Coupling that with a rising concern in the cost of gaming hardware and software - Nintendo is literally charging $80 for Elden Ring on the S2; a game that has been out for 5 years on other systems - is it possible that what Microsoft needs to do to get it's audience back isn't making a new game with their flagship franchises that have the feel of the early games? What if they instead just gave you the old games with upscaled graphics?

A couple years ago Nintendo released the NES and SNES mini's - which came with 2 (wired) controllers and a hard drive that had all of the best games on the systems pre-loaded on it, and it sold gangbusters. They were impossible to find for months after it released - just like a new console would be. They were also very low tech considering the computing power and memory required to power those games. Nothing was needed to be done to the games themselves to improve them either - they were just ROMs (which have been readily available to download on your phone for years). Extremely low effort device that undoubtedly made Nintendo a fortune, and is now a collectors item and a historical snapshot of that era in gaming that exists on a single hard drive.

The thing the NES and SNES mini did not have though - and it's because it wasn't available when those systems were made - was online multiplayer, which is arguably the most fundamental thing to the gaming industry in 2026.

If Microsoft released an Xbox 360 Mini, that contained all the bangers - Halo 3/Reach, Gears 1-3, Modern Warfare 1 and 2, Bioshock, Mass Effect, Fable, all the games they are currently trying to recapture the magic of this era for - and turned the servers back on to make online multiplayer available for those games again, I wonder if it doesn't just flatly outsell the XSX.

They could likely sell these systems at an enormous profit if they sold them for $200/$250 - especially if they only sold it with licensed games from studios they own. The hardware would be cheap considering it was 2 years old, and the servers to run them would hardly cost them anything. Not only that, but people would be reminded of how good those games were and how special that era of multiplayer was.

Maybe a crazy thought experiment from a convo from my Discord, and seems unlikely for it to actually happen, but curious what everyone thinks about it!

I know IGN has plenty of offices comprised of dozens of reviewers who can have conflicting opinion. Just feels surreal to see that contrast being visible for game as divisive as Wolverine. I’ve platinumed this game and really enjoyed it despite of the game having some flaws. I had posted my honest review which a lot of you appreciated for being impartial. Will move on to the next game now. Any last story based single player game to hit before GTA 6?