The Miscellaneous PC & vidya Games Thread

[Syt]

I admit Jorvik looks quite nice.

[Grey Fox]

EA games joined Gamepass for Console this week.

EA did not release a lot of games this generation. Those release are mostly a bunch of Star Wars FPSes or the usual sports games.

Downloaded Jedi Fallen Order. I don't usually play those games so I have no frame of reference to how good it is. I had to put it on the lowest difficulty because I don't get how the combat timing works. My son is very excited by the game too.

Looking forward to December when the PC version comes out so I can play Titanfall 2.

[Syt]

I'm kinda tempted by the new Xbox Series X once it becomes widely available. The backwards compatibility is tempting to make use of my old 360 games, plus the Microsoft subscription.

I looked at PS5, and the Demon Souls remaster is sold on Amazon for EUR 80, which I understand is the regular price 

[Syt]

Field of Glory Medieval will have the Battle of Bornhöved

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bornh%C3%B6ved_(1227)

[Tamas]

You can get -20% (10 pounds) off the Valhalla game for 100 Ubi points in the Ubisoft store. For some reason I have almost 700 points so there we go.

[Grey Fox]

Wait for Black Friday.

Target will have it for ~40$ in the US. There's bound to be a sale somewhere for the PC version.

[Syt]

Just checked uPlay - 120 EUR for the ultimate edition 

[FunkMonk]

Looks like Tim Stone's column on RPS, the Flare Path, got canceled. It's a shame, it highlighted a lot of great strategy games for me.

[Oexmelin]

Yeah, he got fired.

[Syt]

Yeah, he went quite JK Rowling in a comment section, lamenting the lack of trans-critical voices at RPS and called being trans a life choice. There's currently one or two trans people working for RPS after Sin Vega was let go, I think.

Very disappointing. And I think RPS had little choice there - you don't call out your employer and colleagues in public like that.

[Tamas]

That's the one I have managed to find, was there to more to it, or he got fired for this one?

[Syt]

I believe it was the entirety of his comments under that article.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2020/11/06/watch-dogs-legion-is-booting-a-journalist-off-its-fictional-radio/#comments

Starting with:

Tim Stone
07/11/20 8:28AM

@SomersetVae

"there are diverse voices within RPS when it comes to games, genres, preferences etc but I would say (and i'd be prepared to be challenged on this) there is zero diversity in respect of political views and arguable groupthink and alignment particularly around trans issues."

There's at least one regular RPS contributor who'd like to see the site show a little more respect for the gender critical position in the trans rights debate. Me.

I believe arguments like the ones articulated in pieces like these...

link to theguardian.com
link to ginamaya.co.uk

...are perfectly reasonable. I agree with all those arguing for more constructive discussion and less name-calling in this debate.

[Tamas]

Still, even with Tim Stone gone, you can go to RPS for quality gaming journalism like this one:

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2020/11/13/the-cases-for-and-against-the-two-eivors-in-assassins-creed-valhalla/

[The Brain]

Being a gamer must be horrible.

[Barrister]

I believe it was the entirety of his comments under that article.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2020/11/06/watch-dogs-legion-is-booting-a-journalist-off-its-fictional-radio/#comments

I went through the comments and everyone by Tim Stone seemed thoughtful and respectful.