Lots of places play loosely with the terminology, but in general:

Refurbished: they wipes the dust off

Recertified: had an issue, was sent back to manufacturer who fixed it and checked everything else.

Past advice was always buy new, but drives last much longer than they used to. And lots of business replace to be safe when a drive could last another decade just fine.

They really buried that this is an 11 month old quote…

But yeah, I was guilty of expecting a groachical experience like Seluna’s without realizing the trade off was an N64 level of being stuck on rails.

5ish years from now it could be different.

But it’s not about making the best games, it’s about making the most money.

If you have a propitiatory engine, your hiring base is limited. And studios don’t want long-term employees, so they want generic engines with a readily available labor pool.

It’s insane to me Disney hasn’t bought up game studios.

They had one till 2016, but they closed it instead of buying up talent.

Just not having to pay for licensing fees is huge, it’s not like Disney to not want the whole pie instead of just a slice.

So “cross platform” as in Linux and windows…

Technically correct but for a second I thought they meant Xbox or Sony had taken down their walled gardens.

The issue is if they’re not plugged in all the way…

At least one manufacturer set it up so if the power cord isnt fully seated, an error light comes on and the GPU doesn’t work.

And I have zero idea why Nvidia didn’t do it themselves so it’s on all cards.

Buddy, if you can’t tell this is satire by the end…

5. The Switch 2 runs Mario Kart and I hate Mario Kart because my friend Nathan always beats me at it Why should the best driver be determined by the contents of magic boxes, it’s a stupid game

Lately I’ve used it with is Baldur’s Gate 3

Yeah, turn based CRPGs is the only time I turn that stuff on.

But there seems to be two types of frame generation:

1. A real frame is generated, then it guesses, then real frame is generated.

2. Two real frames are generated, then they “fill in the gaps” with fake frames.

For 1 it doesn’t create lag, but it may guess wrong then have to correct on the next real frame.

For 2 the fake frames are going to be correct, but a lot of latency is added.

Neither is an issue for CRPG, but can be a huge issue in shooters, fighting games, and PvE like Dark Souls.

The problem is manufactures are now counting all the fake frames in their stats while ignoring every issue that pops up from that.

I think the only reason they took off in the first place was it’s free to play.

It’s common sense that PvP and mods don’t mix but because there was a zero investment people did it, which made them popular enough people who do t know better thought it was fine.

Glad to see they just disabled them instead of banning accounts for using them.

And zero moderation!

It’s basically 4chan and OP keeps begging people to join it

Man, I really really really hope the new one isn’t garbage

It’s a good point tho, DC is compact and designed that way with a solid lore reason.

NA should be more spread out lore wise, and it is.

The big mistake was having the navigation pathing direct you to fast travel station to move about the same map. So if you tried to walk places in NA, it was likely to make you walk to the closest fast travel point, even if it’s in the opposite direction. Which prevents players from learning the map and getting lost when they realize what’s happening and don’t want the loading screen for fast travel.

Like, I agree with the guy, but it’s not a design problem, it’s a pathing problem.

And the very top comment was removed for pointing out that account was very bot like with it’s posting…

And in the meantime OP created their account and makes the same kind of posts…

So play something else?

They do it because people like you will keep paying from Day 1.

If it’s 120/year and 50/expansion…

How much money have you given them?

When are you going to do what actually matters and stop instead of complaining while giving them thousands of dollars?

That’s spawn camping

This is as soon as you join the game spawns a player character that just stands there while you load in and pick your first load out.

The fix is just having it not spawn a model till the player has loaded the level and selects a load out.

What’s bad is they’re tweeting about it instead of just fixing it.

They make a good point about this method keeping a game going a decade, but this limits people who want to get into the game 5 years in.

Base game might only be $25, but so are the 5 DLCs since.

For someone who plays that game often and buys as they come out. It’s not that bad

But for more casual or new players, they might not want to invest in the base game if they’re not sure about the mods. It feels like you’re paying for half a product.

I think they can easily get away with selling a new game in a series every 2-3 and retain more features.

The only thing that makes sense in my head as to why Until Dawn is underperforming is the game’s lack of promotion. Aside from a couple of trailers, I have barely seen Sony promote this remaster.

Couldn’t possibly be that people don’t want to keep paying new game prices for remasters…

People live rebuying decade old console exclusives on the next console generation.

Out of curiosity, how old was that drive?

Direct from Seagate wouldn’t be bad, check their store first to see if you can cut out Amazon.

I was talking about random reseller stores. “Manufacturer refurbished” for things you can’t see is almost always a good idea. The manufacturer has their brand name on the line and usually go over common fail points and replace if it looks worn.

Stores/Amazon doing “renewed” means they tried to cover up superficial damage and is completely different. It might look ok on the outside and be complete junk on the inside.

Think of “renewed” as “open box returns” except it might have taken the last user 5 years to return. It’s a much worse gamble.

Depends.

If it’s “buy from Amazon” then you can return it with no issue if shits bad.

If Amazon is just the middleman, than the seller could be scamming and will either fight returns or just close up shop. I wouldn’t buy any used electronic over $200 from a middle man because of that, so this is kind of on the line.

But modern HDDs hold up a lot better than they used to. I tend to “ship of Theseus” PC builds and I’ve got some HDDs probably 15 years old that are still going strong.

I can’t remember the last time I’ve heard anyone say a HDD failed. Just people remembering what it was like 25 years ago. We don’t think of innovation with old tech like HDDs, but there’s been a lot of improvements to the parts that used to fail regularly.

Exos x18 are enterprise drives that came out last than 5 years ago, I can’t imagine they were replaced because they’re all bad, just companies upgrading to newer tech. So should be fine and last you well over a decade.