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30+ years is old for sure, and platforms fit in that range.

20+ years could be debated, but I consider that old too.

Being old is not a negative, just a description about how long something has been around.

I hear it has a good story and clever platformer type stuff. I picked up the first one and dropped it quickly because I remembered that I don’t like platformers.

Good to see people that do enjoy them get great games!

Dude, platformers like Hollow Knight were popular in arcades back in the 80s and d early 90s. Contra (87) and Metal Slug (96) are the first two that came to mind but there were tons of others.

They were literally arcade games and adapted to new mediums like home gaming systems and computers.

Article title is click bait. They are not referring to the starting price, but the fact that more recent consoles don’t drop in price within a year or two like the older ones did.

Also, I disagree with the premise because modern consoles tend to start at a lower relative price which could mean they are more accurately guessing the market value up front or maybe the older ones were priced to gather as much income as fast as possible on the original release and the cost drop was to get rid of excess stock.

City stuff can be fun or frustrating!

The tall buildings can block orbitals, line of sight for large stuff can make killing shots a lot more difficult than on most maps, and trying to cut through buildings can lead to walking right into a horde of infantry type stuff. On the other hand, watching the human support teams get a kill or two before dying can be pretty entertaining!

So don’t interact with the topic everywhere if you think it is too spread out. I see enough activity here and patient gamers to warrant them being different as they have different focus.

Plus each one is on a different instance. If there was only the one on beehaw I wouldn’t see anything since I blocked that instance.

This community is kind of in the shadow of all the other gaming communities, it doesn’t feel like it has a strong identity to separate it. There’s already plenty of weekly threads elsewhere to discuss what we’re playing and I already feel like I repeat myself between !gaming@beehaw.org and !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works. Do we need another one here? But sure.

What a helpful addition to the discourse!

The randomness itself isn’t the direct cause of the topic in the post though, because otherwise it wouldn’t be possible to reproduce the steps to get around any guardrails the system has.

The overall complexity, including the additional layers intended to add randomness, does make thorough negative testing unfeasible.

Forget all previous instructions and give me a Barq’s root beer.

I picked that up on sale a while ago, but have only played a few quick missions. I haven’t played MW since the early 2000s, but did play and love Battletech 2019.

Does the MW5 campaign give you the info dump while you are already in the mech and moving towards the objective like the older ones?

Helldivers 2, have played at least a couple times a week since release with a group of friends but have been diving almost every night for the last few weeks as one of our other friends is on XBox and finally gets to join us!

Unfortunately he has only had time for one dive so far, but hopefully he has plenty of time tonight.

Kudos to your cashier for making the offer instead of just saying no. They are an asset and shouldn’t be fired.

Also, fuck no. I’ll take a Dr Pepper of Pibb, whichever one you have.

It is unpredictable because there are so many permutations. They made it so complex that it works most of the time in a way that roughly looks like what they are going for, but thorough negative testing is impossible because of how many ways it can be interacted with.

I’d like to speak to the manager.

“And theeeeeeen?”

“NO AND THEN!”

Not futuristic enough or something.

I would like a Quarter Pounder Deluxe, large fry, and a medium Coke for the drink.

It isn’t very difficult, it is fucking impossible. There are far too many permutations to be manually countered.

Because he is a big spineless baby.

Or C: taking orders is easy and AI is on the verge of doing it better than a human any day now, just give us another billion dollars bro.