As long as you don’t call yourself Harry Dresden while banging on your neighbor’s door asking where their daughter is, I think you’ll be okay.

Welcome to the “didn’t ask to be a mod, but the admins asked enough for us to say yes” team lol. Thanks for taking on the responsibility. Being a mod isn’t a fun job most of the time, but someone’s gotta do it.

Not really when you consider the game is ~3 years old, already released to most of its main playerbase on PC and Xbox, and got a lot of negative press early in its life.

Considering the circumstances, 140k is honestly pretty good.

I don’t play them but I am always happy when something happens and it pisses off Nintendo and Nintendo Fanboys/Fangirls.

I used to love Nintendo, but this isnt Iwata’s Nintendo anymore. Now they only care about money, which isnt a shock considering the CEO has a history in financial, but its still disappointing nonetheless.

The Forza franchise is split into two distinct subgenres (kinda like how Gran Turismo used to have two disks: Sim and Arcade):

Forza Motorsport is the realistic simulator. Tire temperatures affecting grip levels of simulation.

Forza Horizon is the arcade racer. It uses Motorsport as a basis for its basic driving physics, but values are tuned or ignored to maximize the arcade factor of driving.

Horizons driving model kinda feels like Need for Speed, games by Criterion, but less mobile oriented. Its also a little similar to Test Drive Unlimited 2, but the grip is a little lowered to make drifting easier in Forza Horizon.

Its not like Mario Kart, Blur, Split Second, or Asphault. You could maybe try a demo to see if you like it, but you will probably have fun with it.

Dodge Charger Daytona EV really struggling for sales because the target demographic of people that buy these cars doesn’t have a lot of overlap with people that buy EVs. So Chevy is probably not going to want to have the same struggle with their Camaro.

I feel exactly the opposite.

There are plenty of turn-based RPGs and JRPGs that I fell asleep playing that I probably wouldn’t have if I didn’t have to mostly stare at a static screen and menus most of the game. And dont even get me started on random battles.

Turn-based RPGs have repetitive combat loops to me. Same intro, same enemy lineup, same strategy, same music, same victory jingle. Over and over and over. It least in an action oriented game, I can choose where my character is, how I engage with combat, what terrain features I use, etc.

This is why I like Strategic Turn Based games like Fire Emblem and XCOM way more than standard turn based games.

Elden Ring was more RPG-like by avoiding respawning enemies? What RPG are you talking about? Most RPGs respawn enemies right in front of your face, while you are still in their spawn area.

True, but developers from id Software helped Bethesda specifically for Starfield’s gunplay, which is actually fun this time around compared to Fallout 4.

What are the physical dimensions of the Mangmi? Does it fit in a big pocket, like about the same size as the PSP 1000? Or are all these handhelds still too big for that?

EFIT: It is bigger than the PSP 1000.

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.

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.

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.