They did to me too, but maybe it's one of those things where you can't talk about the deal for X, Y, and Z reasons, especially since it might not go through.
ampersandrew
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If this deal went through in time to save Tango, as the press release states, this just must have been how long it took for the paperwork to go through.
In consumerism it's known that there's overreach, and I won't buy their bullshit when a company has far too much control over my machine just because I want to play a video game.
Fighting games, as a genre, are already designed in such a way that reduces cheating. Every action you take makes you vulnerable, and cheats are usually built around automatic responses. Cheaters can often enough still lose just because the cheater wants to press buttons too and not let the computer do literally all of the work. Cheaters exist in games like Guilty Gear and Street Fighter, but they're so rare and obvious that they become fodder for YouTube content.
I may be preaching to the choir, but if the tradeoff you're willing to make is to defend against cheats by installing a rootkit, that won't even make cheating impossible as some kind of consolation, you should go back to the drawing board and try again.
I don't think I've ever once looked at Halo 2 and thought it looked worse than Halo 1.
I haven't played Forbidden West yet, but I had a very different experience from most with Zero Dawn. I think a lot of people view these games as Ubisoft style open world checklists, but if you turn the difficulty up a few notches, it really forces you to engage with the mechanics. A game where you used to just charge headlong into a fight you were surely going to win changes into one where you need to pay attention to weaknesses, lay traps, and pick off their deadliest weapons. Plus, you end up actively hunting certain machines for their upgrade parts, because those upgrades become more crucial to your own success.
“Splitgate was much more of an arena shooter, fast-paced, very circular motion,” Proulx adds. “With this next game, it's much more of a class-based shooter or arcade shooter where it's still fast-paced. It's still about shooting people and portaling, but it's a little bit more thoughtful, it's a little bit more strategic. The angles are a little bit more intentional and less chaotic.”
Oh, cool. So they're making it worse. Bad enough that they patched LAN out of the first game, they're also patching out the gameplay reason I'd want to play it.
Absolutely not correct.
Feel free to price out the build that beats these things by a wide margin.
All of which you can run on an ATX...?
Try carrying around a dozen ATX machines while I carry around a dozen of these. You'll see why TOs prefer the smaller, lighter machine.
This is not complicated.
It sure isn't.
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What’s cool about spending ridiculous amounts of money on needlessly small products?
$550 is ridiculous? You're not getting much more power in an ATX build if you're only filling a 1080p display anyway.
Like Minesweeper tournaments?
Skullgirls, Guilty Gear XX Accent Core +R, basically anything retro and emulated, Puyo Puyo. Take your pick. This thing can run Street Fighter 6, and let me tell you how many problems there are with running it on a PS5, even if it outputs a better image...Sony really made things harder for everyone.
Because it’s doing a tenth as much work.
Exactly! Now you're getting it!
And also, most game-playing time worldwide is spent on games that are over ten years old and don't need a lot of power. If you want the form factor more than power that you don't need, you may as well lower your energy bill and the amount of space this thing takes up in your home.
The form factor is why this thing is cool though. I know a handful of tournament organizers who love how much better these things have gotten. (Also, this is using about a tenth of the energy that your ATX build will likely use.)
Seriously, this thing looks awesome.
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The community updates for these sorts of things never seem to be interested in controller support and split-screen, so when those things are well supported, that's when I get excited.