I heard spinning is a good trick. The pilot should try it.

It starts with the gooner games, then always moves to other non-gooner games. History repeats itself.

I kinda like the look of it, not gonna lie. I don’t know about reliability, but if they keep offering the 10/100 warranty and the price is low, it might not be a bad entry option. Kias and Hyundais are pretty simple, so maybe it will be easy to mod?

When I worked as a tech for a Hyundai dealer, the engines (other than the 2.4L) weren’t really that bad reliability-wise. The most common issue I saw (again, other than the recalled 2.4L) when the cars got older was to me the interior felt cheaper/more worn out than other cars might have given the same wear and tear. But even the '09 Equus was still pretty nice once it was 10 years old.

I do remember I didn’t really like whatever V6 they put in the Azera. At cold starts the timing chain would slap around even on brand new ones. Just bad design IMO, because the timing chain tensioners didn’t have enough spring force to prevent the noise at start up once oil pressure bled out of the tensioner. It didnt really do anything for premature wear, just made noise at cold starts because the oil pressure builds pretty fast. During my time at Hyundai, I only ever had to replace one V6, and it was in a Santa Fe. Owner had replaced it already once with a used engine from LKQ, and that one finally blew up and they wanted me to put in another LKQ used engine. Weird customer, but its their car.

SNOW WHITE HEAVY ARMS THE GOAT LETS GOOOO

But you still play as Snake. Sure, Venom Snake, not Solid Snake. But Raiden isnt Snake, hes just Raiden.

Perhaps Raiden is the reason that the MGSV protagonist is called Venom Snake and not something else.

There were a few MGS games that released between MGS2 and MGSV, and all of them IIRC had Snake as the protagonist.

Just to add some context here:

This rug pull was practically universally disliked by almost everyone that played MGS2 when it released. People that played MGS2 and liked that this happened are like, a super turbo minority of the people that played the game at the time. Only in recent years have people said they liked it.

The negative reception was so strong that Hideo Kojima himself in interviews would go on to say that the rug pull of Raiden was his biggest mistake with MGS2, and that he would never do something like that again.

Recommending NFSU2 is a recipe for disaster. You are starting at peak, its always going to be downhill from there.

Nintendo fans are smooth-brained thesedays though. I dont think its console specific, its Nintendo specific.

~ Former Nintendo Game Enjoyer

Businesses started acting like every product ever is a luxury product and people keep paying the higher prices.

The only way to get prices back down as to not buy them.and hope the little businesses survive long enough.

I will never forgive Disney for what they did to Dark Forces.

I will buy your entire stock of Sleep, please. I only be getting like 3 hours per day, so more is definitely desirable.

I have tried a lot of VNs but I haven’t liked most of them. Most of the ones I did like happened to be eroge on the PC98, ironically (yes yes, “I read PlayBoy for the articles” “I watch hentai for the plot” and all that, but actually unironically).

YU-NO is probably my favorite, despite some of the content being pretty disgusting to me (it was a different time and culture and I ain’t the culture police, its just offensive to me). Its pseudo-science techno-babble approach to time travel was super interesting to me, and the Epilogue was so crazy its like I got to play a whole second game after beating the game. Peak art and music as well.

I also remember liking DESIRE on the PC98, though it too had content I am not a fan of. It also had an interesting story, and the art style and music is peak as always.

I also liked XENON Mugen no Shitai, but I didnt get to play the whole thing because the English translation was incomplete. Still, the story was pretty cool to me.

Policenauts and Snatcher were both amazing too, though I played Snatcher on the SEGA CD, and Policenauts on the SEGA Saturn. They both incorporated lightgun controller shooting parts, which was pretty cool. Hideo Kojima worked on them too, which never hurts.

Danganronpa is maybe borderline VN, and I liked those. Well, except for V3, that games ending was trash, and some of the cases were meh.

But I also tried VNs I didnt like. I guess it just comes down to how much the story can hold your attention.

Anyone remember when a season was 27 episodes? And if the show was popular it got extended to 36?

It doesn’t because the game ends up selling poorly almost always.

The shareholders THINK it pleases them in the short term, but they almost always end up displeased.

Good thing it was cut. The vehicle sandbox doesnt need another UNSC tank beside the Scorpion. The heavy vehicle slots are filled by the Scorpion and Wraith, and the light vehicle slots are filled by the Warthog, Mongoose, and Ghost. The flying slots are filled by the Banshee and the Falcon. New additions are not needed, the sandbox already has everything it needs.

It had a timeline and each converging path was displayed just like the one in NIKKE. But in YUNO one of the game mechanics was that you collect gems that act like save states. You leave a gem at a point in the story, and then later on you can instantly teleport back in time to any gem you left in the story. Then once you collected all the gems you beat the game and got the epilogue and true ending.

The “map” it was called only ever showed what you unlocked, but divergent paths were obvious.

Honestly, I think you should use them for anti-piracy DRM. Steam’s DRM is easy to crack, and so when we were thinking about how to make our game unpiratable, we just decided to use the Steam Achievements system like a save file. The game just loads the game state based on what achievements the player unlocked. You know, I never talk about this, but I used to work for Blizzard. I was the first second-generation Blizzard employee. But like, I never talk about it, so having worked there really taught me to think outside the box. So yeah, use achievements as DRM. Makes your game unpiratable.

A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of this World YU-NO did it great on the PC98 back in the 90s.

I guess its just that NIKKE isnt a visual novel game.

People here really love pouring cold water on this, don’t they?

Starfield wasn’t my favorite, and I was disappointed with quite a few things about the game, but I still enjoy it. At least it isnt permanently tethered to a server that Bethesda can shut off at any moment. Its good to see them.not completely giving up on Starfield, but I do wish they had listened more to feedback and given the game a true 2.0 update that improves it more.