That sucks.

Apex was the game I played with my friends to keep in touch long distance. Guess I gotta find something new now. Sure as he’ll ain’t installing Win11 for it.

I guess it’s been a long time coming. The dev decisions and priorities the last few years have really made it feel like I’m the last person they want playing their game.

I have a feeling they’re looking for more revenue streams and need to generate more user engagement

The extra 20 minutes telling you to buy shit and like and subscribe is necessary I hear.

Nah you gotta play it IMO.

Just go and do it now and don’t read anything else.

Me personally I’d rather have the loading screen. It’s being honest about what’s happening rather than trying to hide it.

I don’t find constantly moving through tight corridors immersive at all.

Xbox series X Elite controllers. I’ll never go back. They have a good weight and feel.

Sorta on topic, what do people use for N64 emulation? I can’t find a 6 button controller that I like.

It’s explained in a battle but it’s easy to miss. I completely missed it my first playthrough

I think Avowed is the only thing I’m kinda excited for and that’s more of a “This sounds kinda promising” than “Oh shit I can’t wait!”

Yeah it’s why at later jobs I advocate for complexity points and don’t do consulting anymore.

Tying money to hours spent on a task just encourages all the wrong behavior.

I just don’t work at places that do time tracking like that anymore.

My favorite was getting reamed because you put 30 minutes over the estimated hours on a task.

It made task accounting a nightmare as you’d have to dump hours onto unrelated task whenever something inevitably took longer than expected.

Yeah like the default is 1 dollar for 20 or something pathetic.

And there’s a mandatory humble bundle tip that used to not be there.

People that advocate for presentation naming haven’t endured a major company rebrand.

Waterfall is missing the part where the customer realizes they didn’t actually want to go to Mars they just wanted to view it out of a telescope.

But now they can only travel to Mars and the telescope is out of the budget because you spent so much money on the rocket

10 years ago it was copy/pasting from stack overflow

The .NET rebuild they did on steam is actually pretty solid IMO.

Especially if you mod it to use the AI upscale backgrounds

It also has a 20 times speed mode that makes the chocabo mini game bearable.

Was just about to cancel gamepass and then saw this dropped. I can hold onto it for one more month to check this out.

Yeah that’s fair.

IMO a lot of the subtlety comes from the imagery and symbols around you as you progress through the game. The vibrant tree that you pass that burns up when you look back, etc.

As far as gameplay goes it is very linear. The only “choice” is to stop playing. If I remember correctly the development behind Spec Ops was very rushed so they didn’t have time to so any of those branching paths.

I appreciate it like I would a visual novel more than I do an interactive game.

I think you can patient gamer it but it only works if you’re heavily familiar with that time.

I was really into COD4 and grew up during the Bush administration so I knew exactly what Spec Ops was critiquing. If you don’t have that experience though I agree it does not land.