Yeah, it felt kinda empty and repetitive. I think if the combat was better I might have kept playing.

Yeah, that’s what I was wondering.

Any idea if this is within expected ranges or is there something breaking down. I know that there has been speculation that the way the industry was operating wasn’t sustainable, but is this a natural/maintainable shift or something else?

Yeah I got a Series S Xbox for $250 about a year after release (literally only got it because of the price). They now go for $400.

I don’t think they’ll ever let them sell them at those prices in the US. This is actually one of the times where tarrifs are smart economic policy. Both to protect a critical manufacturing capability and also because there is a lot of evidence that Chinas prices arent sustainable longterm (seems like the car industry may be their next evergrande).

I mean, China is just the latest competition, we already have a lot of foreign cars in the US. I still think the government will ensure Ford exists simply for domestic manufacturing and security.

Sounds like we are talking about different kinds of “access”. My original post was just lamenting that to the general web, discord is like a black hole. Things go there and never come out as you can only access the content through its app.

That’s fair, I guess I was focused more on the bigger players in fighting games which usually focus on fictional worlds/fighters.

A lot of discord content is private, and those that aren’t require you to have discord to search. On top of that, I’m pretty sure you need to join a server before you can search it’s contents.

Since I don’t use discord, there is no real way for me to access content hosted on it. Compared to Reddit or a Forum, I don’t need to be a member of the community to access information shared there.

That’s really weird

What?

Are there fighting games with real people?

At least public githubs aren’t difficult to access and/or crawl. The big issue with Discord is that there is a wealth of information locked behind a proprietary system.

Unlike forums or even reddit, there is not way to get to most of the information posted on discord.

Not sure if you really want to know, but a Google paper is where transformers (backbone of LLMs) were first mentioned (2016 I believe). Google initially used transformers for translations and eventually search, but OpenAI experimented with them for text generation (gpt 1+) eventually leading to chatgpt.

I feel like a majority of tech has been in this rut for a while. CPUs, GPUs, audio, wifi, 4g VS 5g, screens/tvs, etc. all seem to provide the most incremental upgrades each iteration. For a while phones seemed to be making leaps and bounds, but feel relatively the same generation to generation now.

I think the main area I feel like I’ve seen some movement is battery tech. Some new materials and better/longer batteries are making some movement, but tech hardware feels relatively static the past decade or so.

Surprised no one mentioned the Batman Arkham games or Tomb Raider reboot trilogy (2013-2018). Both are third person action games with simple, but enjoyable upgrade elements.

Arkham Asylum may feel a bit dated, but Arkham City and Knight should still feel pretty fresh. And I think the Tomb Raider games hold up well.

I also suspect you’ve played them, but the Uncharted series is also great.

Other mentions that fit the third person, decent-good story, and fast/fun action:

• Sunset Overdrive
• Hi-fi Rush (rhythm game)
• Bayonetta Series (DMC like series)
• Nier series
• Kena Bridge of Spirits
• Just Cause Series (I think the stories are a little weak for this series, more about sandbox play).
• Infamous series (superhero themed 3rd person action game made by the same people who made Spiderman)

If they can make the steam deck for $350, why would the steam machine cost 3x more? Similarly if Sony and Xbox are selling their consoles for $500-600 it would indicate that something a bit more would be feasible. Sony and Xbox get some economies of scale, but most evidence points to them selling at cost or making some profit (from what I recall).

That’s fair, I just pointing out an interesting parallel in Nintendo/Zelda history.

That being said, I agree with you about the switch 2. At the rate things are going with prices, even Sony and Microsoft may be waiting to release the next Gen.

I’ve downloaded some 4k content to do side-by-side with 1080p and it’s a struggle to notice the difference.

The issue is more that there aren’t rules. Given there are billions of parameters that define how these models work, there isn’t really a way to ensure that it cant produce unwanted content.

Yeah, it might be like the Wii leading into the WiiU. Twilight Princess was originally going to be for the GameCube, but turned into a wii launch title and was followed by Skyward Sword late into the Wiis lifetime. That resulted in the WiiU never having its own Zelda, instead sharing BOTW with Switch during its release.

So it’s possible with BOTW released with Switch and TOTK late into the switches lifetime that we’ll see the same thing happen on the switch 2 (and it won’t get an exclusive Zelda).