• Locked at 720p. • "Mouse support" is just emulating the right analogue stick, so there's no mouse aiming (can't aim with the right stick in MGS2). • Keyboard controls are nonsensical and can't be edited. • Selected button prompts get reset to the default Xbox ones every time. • The manuals are web pages that aren't even aware of the above option. • It's locked at 1280x720. • The sound quality sounds worse than the original or the HD Collection on PS3 / 360. • The option to download the Japanese version takes you to a non-existent Steam page which stealthily adds it as a DLC, which you then have to notice to activate, since the game doesn't tell you about it. • They advertised the game as only supporting 1080p, which is already bad enough, but it's actually only 720p. • No windowed mode option, although it mistakenly opened in a window on first run, and the framerate was unlocked. • No video or graphic settings whatsoever. • IT'S LOCKED AT 1280x720.
@hosedandhappy: “Not really much to complain about.”
And nothing at all to complain about if you close your eyes that last tiny bit until they're completely shut. I mean I just made a whole list but we can just pretend that's not there.
An 8/10 ? Without an updated control scheme? Without mouse support? Without any visual improvements over the HD collection release? Without unlocked framerates? Without 60fps for MGS1? Without widescreen for MGS1? Without a sleek UI for choosing which game? Without any resolutions whatsoever beyond a measely 1080p? A $60 release in 2023 that doesn't even support 1440p? Is this a joke? What kind of 8/10 is this exactly?
You need an RTX 2060 to get 30fps at 1080p minimum settings? I mean Jesus Christ...
At this point it just feels like the games are deliberately made harder to run just so the economy can keep on churning. It feels like almost all AAA games in 2023 could look just as good (or 99% as good) with like half the system requirements, especially at minimum.
I mean, minimum, really? You couldn't make your game any easier to run at its ugliest possible setting? Really? I don't buy it.
I never felt an inkling to punch any —well maybe one— of these characters. Most of them are men who have fallen too far into themselves, into immorality, such that all the audience can do is watch them occasionally flail in vain against the near-vertical sides of the pit they've dug themselves. They're almost all pitiful; tragic. I don't know why you're trying to force a round peg into a square hole with this article. Some anti-Dicaprio GameSpot mandate perhaps.
The reason for the cancellation of The Problem with Jon Stewart, the wildly popular, five-time Emmy-award nominated show which specializes in exposing corruption in American society from the AppleTV+ platform, is that Stewart had planned a show on the topic of China for season 3, and another on the topic of artificial intelligence, and when higher-ups at Apple caught wind of it, they stepped in and informed Stewart that they wouldn't let it air, and that he had to “align with them”... “creatively” speaking. When Stewart refused to back down, they cancelled him.
“At Apple, we believe everyone has a right to have their voice heard.” - Tim Cook
Glad to see they're trying to tie real-world psychological issues into a comprehensive story with compelling gameplay (without being totally overbearing). I wish more interactive art would do this outside of Sony. Our media these days is sorely lacking any heart. I think lonliness is probably the biggest threat society faces right now, and it's good to address it as opposed to just temporarily escape from it.
@nilsdoen: This comment is such a mess I honestly don't know what you want or how much of it is a joke or just generally what you're trying to say. You could just talk to me normally you know.
“If you didn't go about it like such a pretentious douchebag, people would probably even listen.” No they wouldn't. The problem is far deeper than its surface symptoms. Sure I'd like to convince people to stop attacking reviewers for the same unfathomably dumb, blatantly egocentric reasons over and over again, decade after decade, but I lack the skill to reach them. So for lack of a more constructive path foward for my frustration, I'm merely venting generally in the direction of people who regularly come to an opinion website and mob whichever individual holds the opinions that aren't their own, despite not yet having the basis on which to even form their own.
Some people come here to read opinions. Others come here because they like to hurt people and here's their favourite place to do it relatively unhindered. They just feel the itch to go be a d***. I would much rather the state of affairs be such that I not feel compelled to write anything here, ever. I just come, read the reviews, and leave. But as it happens I sometimes feel obliged to try and balance the scales just a little, stand up for a reviewer just doing their job, hit back against people who are used to casually punching down on the regular without any resistance, perhaps encourage a person or two in the process, or even just to let a random site visitor know that gamers are not just a uniformly entitled sea of useless, toxic, pre-pubescent sexual angst. Does that make me a douchebag? Sometimes, yeah, probably.
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