I am not too fussed about remakes. There are so many games to play, I don’t have enough time.

But, one game I would instantly get, Panzer Dragoon Saga. What an absolutely legendary game, that hardly anyone had the chance to play. Cleaning that up and releasing it on modern platforms would be amazing.

Using the rather fittingly named Dracula theme. Fantastic darkmode theme for qbittorrent

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You will be happy to know there is online for every game in that collection.

Trailer for it here - https://youtu.be/Hl0D5FK3a50

Power stone and PS2 are both coming out next year in Capcom Fighting Collection 2.

This is a great list.

I agree with your points on System Shock 2, I would also highlight that you could wait for the enhanced edition that Nightdive are doing of System Shock 2, and you could play their remake of the original in the mean time.

No he is talking about his own roughly 48km² area.

Ignoring the fact that the earth is just slightly larger at 510,064,472 km²

PAIGE NO!

Phone tech is really boring. Almost everything looks the same, they are all x% faster than last year’s model which still does everything perfectly fine. In terms of hardware, the phone has kinda reached the optimal place.

I’m not the target audience for bleeding edge phones though. I take photos, listen to music(using Bluetooth and wired headphones), browse the web and message people. I don’t really play games or use it for work.

By far the most interesting thing to me is foldable phones. I really like the idea of a flip phone, but I don’t think it would be too happy sitting in my sweaty pocket while I cycle.

Paige NO!

They keep throwing around threats of leaving.

Do it… do it you absolute chickens.

Pretty sure he means a deluxe edition upgrade as a mtx.

Where some games allow you to get the base game, try it out and upgrade if you want. Rather than diving in at the deep end and not knowing if you’ll enjoy the game.

I feel like neither of you have played it with your description.

For those that havent played -

The game has 4 types of currency, Medals, Requisition Slips, Samples and Super Credits. Medals, Requisition and Samples are only rewarded through playing the game(Either for completeing missions, or found in missions).

Super Credits can be bought with real money, but can also be found in mission.

You unlock Strategems with Requisition Slips and upgrade them(Ship Upgrades) with the Samples.

You then have “War Bonds” which are where you unlock the rest of the gear(Weapons, Armour, Boosts and more). This is where you use Medals. The War bonds are most equivilant to a Battlepass, but they are not timed and do not disappear so even if you come to the game a year later you will be able to buy and unlock everything on the very first one. The game shipped with the basic war bond that everyone had, and the first premium war bond, this is 1000 Super Credits to unlock, then you use Medals to unlock items with in it.

As for other micro transactions, there is a “Super Store” that has 4 items in it that rotate ever few days(I cant remember the time it is 2 or 3 days), that has surprisingly cheap items especially compared to what other companies are doing. They are not just purely cosmetic though, but they do not really offer anything you can not already unlock through the warbonds. Armour has different classes(Light Medium Heavy), and they have a different bonus(More Stims, More Grenades, throw grenades further) and so you might find a combination that you can not get on a warbond that you want(Light Armour with more range on grenades for example). I don’t know if I would class it as P2W, no bonus is overpowered or game changing, but it is definitely not just cosmetic.

So this might not be the most helpful answer, but I think there have already been some great suggestions (monster hunter world and dragons dogma are both awesome).

Granblue Fantasy Relink, it is possibly the game that ticks every box. Has a single player story and is full of dragons and demons to kill, you are recruiting your crew and gearing them up for massive fights, it has some fantastic combat(had platinum games help on it).

The biggest downside is it isn’t out til February, but there is a demo on Playstation 4/5 if you have one to try it on, unfortunately PC not getting a demo.

So I absolutely love Street Fighter 6. Almost every thing is done incredibly well(not the cost of dlc costumes though, that is fucking robbery). Has one of my favourite single player story modes, the best arcade lobby with actual interesting side stuff in it, fantastic netcode and on and on.

I also was to throw out a few other stand outs

• Granblue Vs Rising
• Crab Champions
• Baldurs Gate
• Spider-Man and Miles Morales
• Octopath Traveller 2

Have loved every single one of those.

I don think it is that minor. I think even in the screen shots on the op, the “smoothing” is really obvious. There are 2 things to really look at Snake is just not as crisp, but I do think the wall textures benefit from the blur. But the biggest draw back is if you look at it as if you were playing. You aren’t looking at snake but at the enemy and he is really blurred in comparison, he looks almost like he is out of focus.

I think overall that is pretty bad, absolutely everything is smoothed by this filter, and it affects things in good and bad ways. The mini map, “distant” enemies, the smearing on snake are all bad examples. But I do think the environment benefits slightly from it, the walls near snake, looking through the windows in the background.

I personally would not turn it on.

I used to use it a lot. I still have some nice headphones that I like using, but they have become 2nd choice. I have bone conducting headphones that I use daily.

I prefer them, because I can still communicate, ride the bike, and never have to pause the music. But if I have to do anything loud, the wired buds are coming out to plug the ear holes.

They removed the dislike button. That improved the platform right?

I dont think removing the screen complete is the right way around this. Having something that can display maps and more information is good. But it should have never become the only thing.

You need buttons and easy access to functions that are always available in easy to remember places. So that you aren’t spending attention away from the road when you want to change the fan control.

Fuck this bullshit touchscreen only nonsense, actual physical buttons are superior in a car.

It is the single biggest reason why I havent thought about getting an iphone. I have an ipad and it is alright, but I have gone back to using the significantly worse specced Fire tablet, so I don’t have to use Safari.

This is why I am unfortunately back on windows. I use a couple programs everyday, and unfortunately they do not run on Linux. And there is not a usable alternative either.

I was rebooting to windows, doing what I had to, and then rebooting again. But it is just so disruptive and not user friendly.