The Parkour and Fighting challenges were so much fun in the original game and Dying Light 2; it gave me an objective to follow post game, trying to improve my parkour and combat skills. I hope that they do bring them back at some point.

As for running over the Infected, yeah, it’s fun especially when you unlock the skill that increases truck durability! Suddenly stopping and running over virals that fly off the truck is also super fun.

Yeah, I wish they’d almost went with a fast travel mechanic with safe zones, instead of the truck mechanic. Since Safe Zones are sprinkled just right across the map, and grant you access to most of the world. Though, I do feel the driving immerses you in Castor Woods and makes it easier to cover massive distances.

Projectile Retrieval is a mixed bag for me, sometimes I could retrieve just about every crossbow bolt I shot. Other times, barely any of them can be retrieved, especially in stealthy situations you should get more back. I find it deeply annoying and that needs to be tweaked; I also liked to reach fairly high spots and rain hell on the Infected. In most cases Dying Light 1 basically gave you all your arrows back; Dying Light: The Beast it feels closer to 30% of the time, you get a projectile back (I ran a crossbow).

Dying Light: The Beast is a continuation of Dying Light’s story, it’s set a year after Dying Light 2. It was a supposed to be a DLC, but the scope quickly expanded, and Techland decided to make it game instead! There is Co-Op with friendly fire, but there isn’t specifically a PVP mode. Dying Light always leaned towards Players VS Environment, despite having friendly fire enabled during Co-Op sessions.

After the Mamdani campaign, I would be shocked if someone wasn’t at least contemplating it. It would take a very special person to do it though, as you have to be genuine as fuck and act on your ideals. Like Mamdani who went to all the places his constituents hang out. He, a heterosexual man went to a gay bar in the early morning hours and to talk to the men there, he treated them with respect in their own space. I would love to see something like this be replicated more…I have the charisma of a rotten lemon peel so it couldn’t be me. ROFL

I just remembered Ben Shapiro’s lack of comprehension when it came to the saucy exaggerations featured in the song “WAP”. Honestly, I feel this is a bad move for Gavin as inviting someone who lacks the ability to have a meaningful dialogue and just shills the next outrage piece. Not that Gavin has a leg to stand on given his abandonment of Trans Rights…

Eww, that’s the worse trade that one could possibly do. ROFL Given how much of a fail “AI” is at the moment, they could never deliver anything substantial with such a trade.

You’re welcome! Since you were chill, I simply replied in kind. As that’s just what people should try to do!

“Lmao. The AI note was to head off the silly commenter that was sure to show up and make the accusation. It was not really directed at you.” My guess was correct then, so this is fine!

While we do differ on our gaming wants and needs, I feel this is fine as well. As not everyone is uniform in what they want and what they need from a gaming platform.

Personally, I appreciate the ease of consoles, except when it comes to troubleshooting because I can’t change how a game behaves with launch commands or other toggles like on PC. There are times when PC is riddled with issues, don’t get me wrong, but I often can solve them within a matter of perhaps an hour or a few at worst. While I do expect to get a product that just works and doesn’t demand much of my time to make it work; I do appreciate the ability to tinker and figure out how to make something work. Naturally, this is the major difference between us, that is quite alright! The Steam Machine is going to be a marriage of both console and PC worlds because it can be used in either context and just work…Given it has that massive library of games at the ready. Oof, I am so keen about this thing…

While I do love my Series S because it’s a little guy that can perform pretty well…I think Microsoft’s near perfect parity demand between the Series S and Series X was an unhinged ask. Microsoft’s Xbox division deliberately underpowered the Series S, in order to sell it at a price that many could afford. I feel like they should’ve released a console that was more mid-high range, with an optimized as fuck slim version of Windows for Xbox. One that would have enough resources and power to run games with a bit of visual glam and smooth performance, however, Microsoft executives were too busy huffing their own farts to consider this and they fucked their console line instead. As they tend to do, fumble the ball and bag in numerous instances, when making literally any other decision would’ve won them a bit of success. I will say that Sony made killer moves with their consoles, earning new customers+keeping the existing ones because of Xbox Division’s sanctioned blunder.

I think Apple mostly gets the “it will just work” down; however, because they control the software and hardware…It gets a bit scary in my opinion. As major bugs will get overlooked or ignored despite getting a lot of feedback from security types. Up until last year, Apple had a terrifying vulnerability that if malicious actors would’ve exploited, could’ve compromised a ton of phones for just some medium effort leveraging. Through Apple’s podcast app and how it interfaced with the web, I cannot put into words how terrifying this truly is. When Apple has bugs, they have the nuclear option kind of bugs in their software.

This is why I am team Android, at the end of the day many people looking at the same code will discover and upstream patches. There is an incentive for Android OEMs to do this, for Apple, in most cases they cannot be arsed until a suitably large uproar happens. As people will buy their stuff if they are balls deep in that ecosystem. For the most part, that works for them, and I don’t object to people willingly choosing that tech fate. I do disparage Apple because they aren’t responsible when it counts to fix long standing issues that could harm their user base at a moment’s notice.

I do agree with the “tech should work for me” approach; we just seek different things in our gizmos and gadgets, thankfully either of our approaches are quite valid! Also, that the tech market can cater to either of these approaches.

To me, if Sony has tried in recent memory, they’ll do it again. They already have an aggressive walled garden approach that is meant to trap users (much like Apple). I can’t realistically support that kind of behavior, until they make the majority of their games multi-platform (like Microsoft has) and PSN absolutely not necessary on other platforms with better online integration and authentication support…They can kick rocks.

While Sony did fulfill promises of hardware capabilities for console, it comes with a spoonful of poison.

I’m also not very brand loyal, so I will flit between competitors to see what’s good (if they don’t have shitty practices). Valve, while flawed in some respects has kept me in their ecosystem the longest. With the support for Linux and making gaming a better experience on my preferred OS…I do use them the most for my gaming needs these days. Which is why I will be buying a Steam Machine, as my needs are met on their platform.

Quick Resume is nice, but, I often never utilized it because I just shut down a game instead of resuming from where I was. It had some quirks, but it is fairly solid.

“NOTE: I didn’t use AI for my response. I’ve been using the em-dash before Google existed and I ain’t quitting.” Eh? I don’t think I ever implied you were a clanker lover and used one to make a response. The other trademarks of generated responses aren’t present in your reply to me. I suppose you were trying to ward off other users in this case…

Good make these fuckers lives miserable, as they fucked around now they get to find out!

I’m glad your happy with this move.

Personally, I despite Sony as well, they aren’t a great company (I lump them in with Microsoft) because of the corpo bullshit they’ve tried to pull but angry gamers made them back down. Their insecure PSN and constant breeches+down time that I was reading about made me real nervous to even consider them as well. You had to make a change and this was your choice because there are so few console makers to choose from.

If I am forced to use Windows 11, then I will begrudgingly do so (my workplace has a PC with Windows 11 installed and it’s so manky). The only other place where I tolerate it is on my Xbox Series S (which might be replaced completely with a Steam Machine). The only reason why I tolerate it on my Xbox is because installing a distro would be difficult and not have any significant payoff as most distros are meant for full on PCs. With Microsoft growing to become the shittiest they can become, I am beginning to not be able to stomach the notion of even having a Microsoft account. I will deadass throw away hundreds of dollars of investment in Xbox if it means being free of Microsoft in my daily life.

Otherwise, I use Linux, have it installed on every computer that I can, also make use of Android and Open Source tools when needed in order to avoid any of their products whenever possible. I am currently transitioning as many accounts out of Outlook as possible. For the time when I choose the nuclear option.

Ew, sounds like a great reason to not buy any Square Enix games…