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I've got all three of these, too, as well as the arcade stick. I always recommend this brand whenever someone asks about 3rd party gamepads.

Got a little over an hour in yesterday, char creation and tutorial, mostly. So far, driving is terrible, stealth feels a bit janky, both melee and ranged combat are fun, hacking is a bit confusing, the story seems interesting (playing Nomad lifestyle), the game is very pretty, no bugs encountered yet.

Good question. I was just making an observation, not sure why you're taking it personally. I just find it odd, is all. People can light bricks of money on fire, for all I care. I just think that people that are careless with money and people that have a lot of it are few.

Well, yeah. of course. There's a sucker born every minute, is P.T. Barnum quote, and he didn't say that yesterday....

It's a open world game. That's not surprising. Then again, apparently Skyrim was full of bugs and glitches, but I don't remember anything much from my 400 hours of play.

XB1 A Plague Tale: Innocence (299 min) NHL 94 Rewind (23 min) PC FUSER (103 min) Oculus Quest Beat Saber (466 min) Tried to get A Plague Tale done this weekend, as Cyberpunk (which I'm pre-installing as I type this) is out Wednesday. Not quite there, so hoping to finish tonight. I scored in the top 25% of the weekly challenge in Fuser last week (not sure exactly where, they don't really tell you, but it wasn't top 10), so I gave that another go this weekend. NHL 94 Rewind was a free perk for NHL 21 preorders, but it's now available on Game Pass, so I played a game of that, too.

Idiots and their money are quickly parted. It's one thing to jump on a purchase for something that is limited in stock, but spending that much money so a new shiny can sit under your TV until there's something decent to play on it some day is quite the flex.

Way ahead of ya, there, lol Preloading the game as we speak. Unlocks locally a half hour after I get home from work on Wednesday. Looking forward to it!

Right. Apple products are for people that want to turn on a thing and use it. The alternatives are for those that like to mess with both hardware and software, make changes, build units themselves, etc. I won't make a sweeping statement about who's "smarter", but Apple products are for the masses (well, the masses with extra disposable income, anyway).

If I want to play a game that's bleak and full of grey, I'll turn on the PS2.

Doesn't really counter what I said, but that is true, just saying it's worse than usual this year. Demand is always highest at release. Dragon Quest's release in Japan was probably the first time that happened. More people want a thing than is available. It's not a difficult concept. If I make boxes, and I think I'll be able to sell 10 boxes right when I release them and then 1 box a month after that, should I facilitate creating 10 boxes a month so everyone can have one at release?

Keeping hype high comes from releasing good games that can be played, not by frustrating people that want a thing. As I mentioned before, the lack of supply is hitting all forms of hobbies this year, not just gaming.

No chance they aren't manufacturing as many consoles as possible. Demand is just higher than supply, as is always the case on release. Just because demand is higher for a few months at launch, they can't just "make more". There isn't a magical console fairy that waves a wand and creates them from nothing. And if the manufacturers create the capability to put out enough to keep up with initial launch demand, the other 99% of the console life, that manufacturing capability is wasted. As gaming becomes more ubiquitous, the demand increases on release consoles. And this year is the perfect storm, where demand is higher than normal, and supply is lower than normal, so it's pretty tough to find one. These are big companies. All they care about is the bottom line. The bottom line cares a whole lot more about actual sales than potential hype.

Yep, jumping on this day 1, been looking forward to it for a while. Picked up Cyberpunk Red, too, and am currently reading through that. Basically, Cyberpunk 2045 TTRPG. The lore of this setting is pretty deep.

XB1 A Plague Tale: Innocence (133 min) Sea of Thieves (213 min) PC FUSER (120 min) Oculus Quest Beat Saber (390 min) Not a lot of minutes again this week. Watching a lot more tv than usual (Queen's Gambit and The Boys, mostly), mostly biding my time until Cyberpunk releases in a couple weeks. Started Plague Tale, been meaning to play this one for a while and it should fit in nicely to two weeks along with some more Fuser and SoT.

Yeah, not only electronics. Every hobbyist consumer item is both in higher demand than usual and lower supply than usual, thanks to the pandemic.

PC FUSER (172 min) XB1 Sea of Thieves (216 min) Oculus Quest Beat Saber (373 min) Not much gaming this week, too exhausted during my down time during the week. Just some more of what I played last week. Not quite done the campaign in FUSER yet, and my SoT group started the in-game story quests. Hopefully my energy levels are a bit better this coming week.

Nothing is being limited on purpose. Manufactured items are of all kinds are both higher in demand and lower in supply due to the pandemic.

PC FUSER (912 min) XB1 Sea of Thieves (591 min) Oculus Quest Beat Saber (472 min) As a fan of music rhythm games, and Harmonix in particular, I've been looking forward to FUSER for a while. Pretty cool DJ sim, and a lot more in depth than I expected and really good mix of music. Started playing Sea of Thieves this weekend with 3 other friends and I'm really enjoying it. We're all new to it, so we got our butts handed to us by a veteran crew, but otherwise had a lot of fun.

PC Mini Metro (86 min) Planet Coaster (266 min) Portal 2 (165 min) XB1 NHL 20 (246 min) Oculus Quest Beat Saber (413 min) Not a lot of gaming this week. Finished the NHL season by winning the Stanley Cup. Didn't expect that, but the team was pretty good. Completed the off season, but I'll probably set the game aside for a while. Played a bit of Mini Metro and Planet Coaster this weekend, plus played a couple more levels of Portal 2 co-op with my brother.

PC Portal 2 (133 min) Terraforming Mars (112 min) XB1 Descenders (24 min) NHL 20 (510 min) Oculus Quest Beat Saber (505 min) Still doing my NHL playoffs, beat Tampa 4-3, beat New Jersey 4-1, then the Washington Capitals gave me a scare, but I managed to beat them 4-3, so my expansion team is in the finals against the St. Louis Blues. So I'll see if I can out do the real life Vegas Knights, who lost in their expansion year in the finals to the Capitals. Played Portal 2 co-op with my brother. Played some co-op with a friend in this game on the XBox 360 back in 2011, so I don't remember any of the puzzles and we're having a good time with it. Descenders is try-it-out game from the aforementioned Game Pass, and I wasn't really digging it, which is a great advantage of the service; I can try stuff I'm not sure I'll like, and either find a hidden gem, or not care if it isn't my cup of tea. The Terraforming Mars game went poorly, I had a bad initial set of card draws, misread some cards I drafted, and tried an unorthodox style of not doing much terraforming in a game called Terraforming Mars. I came in last.

PC AVICII Invector (36 min) XB1 NHL 20 (729 min) Switch Horizon Chase Turbo (69 min) Super Mario Bros. 35 (17 min) Oculus Quest Beat Saber (384 min) More Franchise NHL20, my Nords are in the playoffs, up 2-1 on Tampa Bay in the first round. Finished 1st in the division and 4th in the league. The NHL definitely made expansion teams viable with their new expansion draft rules. Of course, the game AI is not as smart as an NHL GM, but it also doesn't let me get away with much, either. Avicii Invector is a rhythm game to Avicii songs, of course, pretty cool. Turned on the Switch for the first time in a while. Horizon Chase Turbo is a fun arcade racer, and I tried a few rounds of SMB35. Interesting concept. The highest I got in the 5 games I played was 8th, so I need to brush up on my SMB skills.

Sounds like some confusion. Owners or the OG Quest before October are grandfathered for 2 years before they have to connect a FB account to the device. So the Quest 1 "won't work" anymore in 2 years...if you refuse to make a FB account for it. Not a problem for Quest 2, as you can't use it without the FB account from day 1.

PC Creed: Rise to Glory (34 min) RimWorld (236 min) XB1 NHL 20 (1062 min) Oculus Quest Beat Saber (674 min) NHL 21 came out last week, but I had a copy of last year's version that I got on deep discount but hadn't played yet, so I built an expansion Quebec Nordiques team using the Vegas Knights strategy and they are doing very well at 21-7-1 a third into the season. Picked up RimWorld, a sandbox/survival/team management sim, on as big a discount as I've seen (-15%) to give a try. I have a friend that has logged over 4100 hours in this game (not a typo), so I though I should give it a go. It's pretty cool. One of my settlers is a pyromaniac, meaning some days he'll decide to just start fires around the camp. He's also a cannibal, so he can eat any invaders that show up. But he also has a cute dog and is good a building stuff, so we keep him around. Good times. Creed is a VR game on Steam, more boxing than rhythm compared to FitXR, so it's not rough on my shoulders. The story mode roughly follows the movie. Beat Saber got a major update with a new UI and multiplayer that completely broke mods. Luckily, I could keep playing without updating, as it took almost a week to get the mod working again.

Pulled the 2600 out for the (Canadian) long weekend and spent some time with it. Atari 2600 Chopper Command (10 min) Frogger (6 min) Frostbite (7 min) Phoenix (9 min) Pressure Cooker (29 min) Robot Tank (10 min) Seaquest (11 min) Solar Fox (7 min) Spider-Man (6 min)