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Ian
@shepcommandr.bsky.social
Canadian, Dad, Comics, Games, Hip Hop and Wrassling

Current games - https://backloggd.com/u/shepcommandr_/games/added/type:playing/

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Again, what if we just didn't buy or talk about the shiny new game from the dog shit trillion dollar publisher that's trying to drive the industry into the ground while also actively supporting a genocide.
That would be super cool.
There's rumours/speculation that the Steam Box is going to be to be ~$800USD, and that will be a hilarious unforced error on Valves part.
November 21, 2025 at 2:49 AM
The questionable purchase maker in me is looking at sales on PSVR2, and considering it... because I genuinely like my Quest 2, but since getting my glasses the res is too low.
I don't really want to invest further into the Meta ecosystem to get a 3.
November 21, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Made some more progress in E33.

I'm not sure I get the hype... outside of the music.
Story is still a bunch of pieces, w/o any meaningful connection. The "dungeons" feel linear, but also difficult to navigate due to a lack of map. Every character has oddly unique rules to combat.
November 20, 2025 at 7:43 PM
It's actually sort of funny how bad support for Switch 2 has been, specifically when it comes to smaller devs.
It feels like such a bad look for this console, that you go on the eShop and almost everything is Sw1 (and mostly slop)
November 20, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Who is a re-release of NES Mediocrity Bases Loaded for?
Why are we doing this.
November 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I see Elon is continuing to be the most divorced man on the planet.
November 20, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Did I just have to fight a Mime in E33…
This game might actually be too French.
November 20, 2025 at 2:22 AM
I’ve made it to about where I noped out the first time in E33. Playing on Story difficulty to offset the fiddly combat. Might end up with the Persona problem tho, where on easy the combat is too easy.
I’m going to persist though.
November 20, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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November 19, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Mario Wonder did one thing.
It made me wish that Nintendo would actually do Mario Maker 3.
Give creators more power to do non-standard stuff.
Keep all the art styles.
November 19, 2025 at 9:25 PM
The big appeal of native Sw2 games right now is being able to isolate those games from all the weird AI, asset flips and Hentai puzzle games that populate the eShop.
If you're releasing a Sw1 game in 2025, I'm never going to see it.
November 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Also, don't support Embark Studios.
Fuck Arc Raiders and it's AI bullshit.
November 19, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Don't support MSFT.
Pirate, if you must play this stuff.
Activision Black Friday Sale on Steam https://buff.ly/DUiynmE
November 19, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Man... why the fuck does Acrobat Reader have an AI assistant.
November 19, 2025 at 6:59 PM
lol Merit Styles getting ejected for saying the Ford Gov't is corrupt.

It is.

Doug should spend the rest of his life in jail for what he's done to the province. Him and any of the people that went along on this ride.

Embarrassing ass province keeps voting him in though.
November 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I don't think I realized that the Xbox Series X was $80CAD more than the PS5...
November 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
It's starting to feel like every second game announcement is just a re-release and it's getting to me.
November 19, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Why no sw2 native.
Picross S Capcom Classics Edition & SNK CLASSICS & NEOGEO edition announced for Switch (out Nov 27)

Capcom www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y7u...
SNK www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD4h...
November 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Guys...
Stop playing games from AI-first devs.

These games might be "good" now, but the more we normalize AI usage, the more likely it is to make games worse in the long run.
November 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM
For people considering this;

The hardest part is picking the "right" distro.
If you have Nvidia GPU, I'd personally recommend the more traditional desktop distros like Ubuntu or Mint.

With AMD, if you're gaming... pretty much anything should work. Bazzite seems best if you want min management.
November 19, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I restarted E33 on Story mode, and it does make some elements of the combat less obnoxious.
I’m still not a fan of how the opening hours just throw a lot of narrative ideas and game play systems at you in quick succession.
Still a pretty game tho.
November 19, 2025 at 3:37 AM
In the same way that I don't think anyone should really care about the Game Awards, I also don't think anyone should care about what a washed up eSports dudebro turned streamer has to say about the Awards.
November 19, 2025 at 12:23 AM
A port of a 12yr old game, that his fine... but being handled by one of the worst port studios, is not something I want on Switch 2.
And honestly, this kind of nonsense is the exact thing I'm frustrated with the game industry about.
This doesn't need to exist. It's for no one.
November 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The biggest sign that the AI bubble is about to burst is that the billionaires are divesting from AI, and the legacy corps that traditionally don't invest in tech are jumping on.
November 18, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Part of me hopes that the last minute delay of Forestrike on Switch was to accommodate for a Switch 2 native patch (almost 100% not happening)
November 18, 2025 at 2:56 AM