After looking into z-wave and zigbee and having installed a lot of wifi devices, I also decided to wait for Matter. I’ve been pretty disappointed in the reviews I’ve seen, and the range of devices is really limited. I’m starting to wonder if I should just give up and go with Z-wave.
I think the tutorial for Pikmin 4 is boring and painful for people who already know the deal. And I think the constant, slow interruptions absolutely kill the pacing, at least at the beginning.
I’m there for the gameplay loop, not to read the same recycled trash dialogue that every Pikmin game has, and it’s ridiculously similar to other basic games, too.
The devs seem to think I’d rather watch the UI do pretty things than play the game, and they couldn’t be more wrong. Maybe that crap snappy, let me skim through dialogue at rocket speed, and let’s get on with the fun.
I thought it was going to be an adventure game at first, and was excited. Then I realized it’s a party game. Meh.
That article was posted in Sep 2021 and doesn’t seem to have been updated.
It was really unfortunate that they included that. I continued to the end, but those were definitely the worst parts.
I can understand being underwhelmed if you went into it thinking it was going to be Fallout in space. But I went in knowing it was a space western RPG, and I quite enjoyed it. I’ve been thinking about replaying it, and it was just in the Humble Bundle this month, so that’ll probably happen soon. (I played it on PC Game Pass the first time, I think.)
I’m not downvoting, but wow, that’s a bad article. It came down to “I’m switching because I’m bored.”? Ugh. I expect a lot better from tech journalists, not just a diary entry thrown up on the web.
Because of federation, I suspect they can’t just disappear. But they should lose their content and be marked as deleted, rather than viewable.
I think a lot of stuff could fit their tech, if they were willing to go the extra mile and develop standard game features as well. Pokemon Go could be so much more if they implemented more RPG stuff. Ingress might have reached its limit, I dunno… But everything they’ve produced since those has been incredibly bare-bones and boring. And they all sounded like they had potential.
They want to do the absolute minimum amount of work to support their main mechanic, and nothing else… And it’s killing them.
And you think the people behind Genshin Impact are going to make an offline game? :D
I agree that a building/farming game shouldn’t be always-online, though.
If they just mean you won’t have to create a new account, that’s a pretty low bar. I’ve never been impressed with Nintendo’s online support, but wow, this is pretty weak news.
I can just imagine the craziness that would result if he admitted that exclusives are anti-competitive. That would go so badly for all console makers.
It could be a conspiracy, or it could just be that developers implement those features when they get money/help from nVidia and AMD, and don’t when they don’t. Or maybe AMD’s offering is easy to implement and nVidia’s isn’t. I vaguely recall that nVidia’s is tied to the game more tightly than AMD’s is, but don’t quote me on that.
In the end, I expect we’ll eventually converge on a system that both work with, and this’ll all just be a blip in history, like every other standard worth supporting.
I wouldn’t say I’m a fan of them, but I don’t mind them. If there’s a game from that list that I really, really want to keep playing, I can just buy that game. In the mean time, I got to enjoy all the other games that were fun for just a short time.
I definitely prefer XB Game Pass instead, though, where the whole catalog is available no matter when you started and whether or not you clicked a button in time.
Looks like a gaming table with a screen in it. There’s a lot of custom builds like that on Youtube, and there are even a few companies that sell them, I think.
When they didn’t mention gaming at all, I had a feeling that something about the device made it unsuitable for it. It seems crazy to not advertise it to the current biggest market for that kind of device otherwise.
I suspect this isn’t quite the reason, but that there are reasons beyond it.
It does say it was cross-posted (to 3 places) at the top on the web.