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  • I have been spending a bit of time enjoying the Nords in Race Room Racing Experience, the game is a lot of fun and really enjoying their new ranked races.

    I have also spent some time in Le Mans Ultimate, but have had a bad time since the last update, which had been turning me off it. Turns out the update broke something so it no longer matched the driver for wheel rotation, and manually setting the has fixed everything. Bring on the 6hrs of Monza this weekend.

    The Finals has been my go to multiplayer game and is amazing fun. Love the 3v3v3v3 capture and hold with all the destruction.

    I also picked up Escape from Duckov in the sale, that has been a lot of fun and has been very satisfying to chill out with after racing or a few rounds of the finals.


  • I don’t know, makes a lot of sense critically to me.

    If you think about the last few big games they were behind, Hogwarts Legacy stands out, Mortal Kombat I guess, throw in what ever the last Lego game was.

    But you also have Suicide Squad, Gotham Knights, Multiversus these massive games that just have an awful reputation.

    Arkham Knight is nearly a decade old, Middle Earth series is around that same time. Back for Blood is newish but that never exactly set the world on fire.

    My gut reaction was pretty shocked, cause I have amazing memories and fondness of some WB games, then I remember that was 10+ years ago with MK9, Batman Arkham Asylum and City, Mad Max, Bastion, Scribblenauts…




  • Game pass isn’t going to come to steam deck. Not as a native app that installs games locally. You can already stream games through the web browser that’s all you will get.

    The fact they are making changes to windows and partnering with Asus on releasing Xbox hardware in the same space is more than enough evidence, but also, the steam deck is a tiny part of the market(it might be the best but it is still tiny).

    Linux as a whole is also nothing for Microsoft to worry about, it is slowly increasing in market share, sure. But it is nothing on the scale of windows, and won’t be for years at the current growth rate.






  • As someone who liked FF7 a lot as a kid,and a bunch of other FF games, I really like remake.

    I think 1 thing you have to know going in, is it isn’t FF7 just in a new engine with updated combat, and I think remake is a bit of a bad name for it.

    Reimagining might be better.

    You are correct that it isn’t the whole game, but it takes Midgard and makes a handful of setup hours from the first game, a good 40 hours of compelling story and world building(with some side stuff as well). It is very clearly a different story with changes that are interesting, but could very easily go off the rails if it isn’t properly managed.

    It also has some incredible improvements to certain characters and even to areas of Midgard expanding on what was a very small part of the original games.

    Combat is very good at mixing turn based actions(skills and spells and items), with action based combos. Dodging is a bit of a bait and is more positioning because you don’t get i-frames to actually dodge, blocking is important but doesn’t feel great(I heard it is improved in rebirth). The ability to switch characters and how unique they all feel is really enjoyable to me as well.

    I am eagerly looking forward to Rebirth on PC cause I ain’t buying a PS5.

    Remake in my opinion is significantly better than 16 which I think is pretty mid, and I would recommend it as long as you don’t expect a 1 to 1 of the original.