Recent content by Spockprime

Microsoft will buy a company if it thinks that future cash flows will more than compensate for the present purchase price. They will be interested in buying CDPR under that circumstance. I don't think that M$ could purchase the company unilaterally, because a few CDPR executives also own the...

I don't know how to vote, because the answer completely depends on the type of game for me. A hack and slash dungeon crawler or loot shooter would lose me by about the 20 hour mark. It needs to be very entertaining for a dozen hours or so. A game that I can treat as a fantasy life simulator...

There's a full gameplay rebalance mod available on the Nexus. You can make each part of the game as easy or as difficult as you wish. I think it's very well done.

The settlement did not admit guilt. As to why, there are a couple of reasons, and I don't know which is true. Either, they thought they'd win but the legal fees from winning would exceed a settlement cost. Or, they thought that they might lose, and a settlement cut the dual expense of paying...

I don't think this game lends itself very well to VR, except maybe for people who are immune to motion sickness.

Some months ago on one of these threads, I put that Johnny is my most disliked character. But over time, he's grown on me to the point that he's barely tolerable. On the other hand, the more I've played the game and thought about some of the things Saburo Arasaka has said, the more I'm...

This, I think, is what most people are talking about when they compare the game unfavorably to Skyrim. They want to treat the game world as a blank slate of assets for creating their own story. I expect a lot more of this type of gameplay, and expect it to be a lot richer, over the coming year...

Now that they've got their marketing team under control, I can't imagine them making any big announcement about major DLC until they're sure that the next gen version runs smoothly out in the wild, and until they're sure that the DLC itself is solid quality. Given those two constraints (both of...

Monopoly is probably the worst possible choice of a board game to illustrate your point. There are thousands of variations of the game. Probably tens of thousands. It seems like every school and village has its own version of the game. I'm surprised that there isn't a CP2077Monopoly version...

Yes, that's pretty much it. I don't claim that it's rational. But I was with Steam long enough to develop a healthy loathing for them. I haven't been with Epic long enough for that -- yet.

Currently taking a break from watching the Matrix Resurrections (Matrix 4). An hour into it, and I'm now ready to take back everything bad that I ever said or thought about either the Witcher TV series, or missteps CDPR made in CP2077. Both of those are masterpieces compared to Matrix 4. I...

Well, this is a sad day. --- short rant against Creative Assembly follows I re-installed Steam. I've been boycotting it for well over a year. But I have the next few days off, and want to play Warhammer Total War 2. But Creative Assembly can't get its crap together and so it hasn't gotten...

Year 2, and I still haven't seen a PS5 for sale in a store. It's either a pre-order, or be the first person in line on some random morning when a few show up. Same with Xbox. So as far as I'm concerned, both consoles can take a flying leap into a cold ocean, as well as all of their games and...

Season 3 has already been approved by Netflix. After finishing it, I'm somewhat in agreement. I thought that Season 1 was rough, but I thought that it had promise. I was hoping that they might find their feet in Season 2, with a bigger budget and a year of experience. The presentation and...

Most of the modders who know what's going on with the internals well enough to diagnose something that works but only occasionally, are active on Discord. How long ago did you ask on Discord? Most of the people you want to hear from are really busy, and might take a few days to get back to you.