It's been a few years but I enjoyed White March and felt it was worth it. I'd get it.
LetMeEatCake
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What's the $AUD price difference for going from the 7600 to 7700? If it's not unreasonable I'd make that CPU upgrade.
In the short term 6c/12t will be enough, but I suspect as we get more and more games from the PS5/XSX gen without PS4/XB1 support, CPU requirements will start to jump noticeably. Could be moot if you intend to upgrade again in short order.
In theory any country that Microsoft and/or Activision do business in could make a point to approve or disapprove the acquisition.
The repercussions of that are going to depend on the enforcement mechanism, but in practice I'd expect in most cases it'd work out to being barred from doing business there either de jure or de facto (fined to the point of making it pointless). Large countries will have enough power that major corporations would be obligated to accept a negative decision. Medium countries could possibly leverage a negative decision into a desirable concession. Small countries have no leverage and will be aware of that.
People click on things that are at least vaguely familiar to them. RFK Jr. is propped up by the "K" part of his name. He'd get 1/20 as much coverage and attention if his name was Robert Francis Smith.
That's 95% of it right there. His last name. For the rest, there's an inherent desire in the media to create a horse race even if it makes no sense: competitive-ish elections get eyeballs, eyeballs get advertisers, advertisers give money. Pretending that he's anything other than a pointless loudmouth lets them get more money.
I so wish that Apple and Google would clamp down on this kind of rampant data collection abuse. Users should be able to individually block any data collection point with it only breaking anything that fundamentally relies on it. And it should be done such that the app cannot tell that it's being blocked, so as to prevent stupid attempts to build everything to rely on data collection even if it doesn't make any sense.
Neither Apple nor Google will do so of course. Doesn't change that I wish that they would.
Convenience fee is the best name they can apply to soften a fee, which is really just a way for them to charge more than the list price.
Fees should be universally folded into the list price by default.
Larian says the main issue is with the split-screen/local co-op mode and the XSS.
That suggests to me that this is a RAM issue. CPU power between XSX and XSS is nearly but not exactly identical. GPU power is separated by a big gap but that's more or less worked around by changing the resolution. That leaves RAM as the differentiating factor. Xbox, like most consoles, has a unified memory system with a single pool of RAM for both CPU and GPU uses.
I think that the problem here is that split-screen co-op is forcing more of the RAM requirements to the CPU than is typical for a current gen console game. The XSX, having a larger pool of RAM, can handle this fine. The XSS cannot. For PC they just don't have to guarantee that all these scenarios work with acceptable performance on any specific configuration — if split-screen co-cop plays like shit on a min-spec PC, well, too bad. For consoles that won't fly.
There's no real magic solution to this. They could spend a lot of time trying to optimize their code and assets to minimize the memory footprint, but that's not certain to be enough and would be a lot of work with little benefit in other markets. They could axe the feature for Xbox, but I don't know how well that'd go over with players.
I have some bigger games I intend to get later, but I bought Halls of Torment early. It's a "[X] Survivors" game like Vampire Survivors, with a heavy Diablo theme/atmosphere to it. It has some fun little changes on the genre and I'm having fun with it. Always funny how these $3-$5 games can be so entertaining.
I fucking loved Hollow Knight. One of my absolute favorite games of the past several years. I hope you enjoy it!
They could have had third party apps and kept the advertisers happy. All they had to do was put ads into the API and kill access for any app that didn't show those ads.
This was about user data, I suspect. Way too many apps request and acquire more permissions and data than is remotely acceptable, but people put up with it for lack of alternatives. Reddit's leadership wanted not just the users' data from using reddit, but all the data they could siphon off from direct access to users' phones.
I play the remastered over this winter, first time playing D2 nearly 20 years... Maybe it's the nostalgia speaking, but I found, even today, it's exceptionally strong in the atmosphere department.
The lore was more threadbare than I remembered, and stamina is an annoying mechanic, but neither of those are all that large of a penalty. The atmosphere carries the story, and stamina basically ceases to matter after act 1 or 2.
I'd definitely echo your sentiment and say it's still fun.
Maybe unpopular opinion... Should Halo invert its focus? Currently it's multiplayer first, singeplayer second. If the multiplayer modes cannot maintain a playerbase then its not going to be a main driver of success. The battle royale and hero shooter crazes haven't left much room for the Halo multiplayer format to succeed these days: most of the potential players are focusing on something else.
I think if they could deliver kickass campaigns consistently that they could keep Halo as a successful franchise. If they keep chasing multiplayer it'll fade into obscurity soon enough.