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Huh, I literally just saw this while browsing Vernissage. Great photo

Only Don’t Nod game I’ve played is Jusant and it was absolutely superb. Loved the world building and gameplay. I’d be disappointed to see them go just off the back of that one game.

Stereotype

The Outfit (2022)

Massively under-appreciated movie that I would highly recommend. Mark Rylance is absolutely superb in it.

Today’s one can absolutely get fucked. Fuming.

Fucking Hartman.

I love Control, but I had no idea I’d actually wandered off into the DLC rather than the main game, and was just enjoying all the Alan Wake references after being a veteran of the first game.

But then that Hartman fight. I just simply cannot beat him. I’ve tried so many times, I just gave up on the game.

Yeah, that was a wildly poor take from the previous commenter. Even if you only had a fraction more than a superficial glance at the film, the roles are very clear.

The original Xbox was fucking awesome, even more so if you jail broke it.

Windows Phone was arguably great too. Absolutely superb interface that really set it apart from iOS and the Android clones of the time.

Because of the flash.

Flash use was a lot more prevalent in the compact camera age.

The title of this comic suggested it would go in one of two ways.

That icon didn’t exist on Piefed on Safari on a Mac for this post when I was trying initially. After cross posting using Voyager on an iPhone, the icon is visible on the mobile version of the site. It shows that’s it’s been cross posted.

No worries, done. I couldn’t see a way to crosspost from Piefed on the web, but Voyager on iOS seemed to let me do it no problem.

Yes they do

How the grass at my house is currently looking

I mean, I literally said it was Bungie making terrible management decisions.

But there’s no way Halo would have had the same impact on Mac as it did on Xbox. The Microsoft purchase was win-win. Leaving Microsoft let them pursue other IP and give greater creative control, but they also never reached those heights they did under Microsoft either before or after their stewardship.

Edit: don’t get me wrong, clearly recent Microsoft game studio acquisitions have been a bad thing for the industry, but I just don’t think the Bungie example is a good one. I think it’s rewriting history a bit to say that Bungie may have suffered under Microsoft.

This is a company that became industry rockstars with an incredibly successful franchise and were given an inordinate amount of money and support at the time. Them believing they’d be better off on their own was partly a fallacy, and only really resulted in going full circle and letting Sony purchase them.

They became wildly successful under Microsoft. As far as I remember, it was Bungie who were the driver behind leaving Microsoft because they wanted to move on to other IP, as opposed to being “The Halo company”.

I can’t blame them for that, but it’s not Microsoft’s fault that what they did afterwards was a shadow of their former glory.

I reckon that’s less about Microsoft and more about Bungie though. Bungie are primarily responsible for their own downfall with some terrible management decisions.

Microsoft were very good to Bungie from the beginning in terms of finance and support, and Halo on Mac would never have had the same impact as Halo on Xbox.

It’s been nearly 20 years since Bungie left Microsoft. In this case, I think it’s unfair to blame Microsoft for what they’ve since become.

This is Portugal’s year (the fix has been in for a long time)

Is it now.

Escape from Butcher Bay was an absolutely superb game. On the OG Xbox, it was astounding how good it looked.

I remember it being, at the time at least, a great example of a video game that’s better than the film(s) from the same universe.

And to be fair, I loved Pitch Black when I saw it in the cinema. Chronicles was a let down for me. The “universe” didn’t need to be expanded in the way that it did, as I thought the character works much better in a compact, tight, structured environment. Something which I guess they realised for Riddick, where they went back to his roots with what I thought was another great film.