Perhaps I've been out of the market for too long, but I find $329 for a case insane.

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I have mixed feelings about the scale of the game. This year, I was looking forward to the new Zelda, and I'm still like 15% into the game. The sheer vastness of the game means that I need to be on a very particular mindset to play it, which doesn't happen often. It might take me a few months more to get to the end. Probably better wait a bit on reviews and other stuff before jumping, but I must say that the game looks great in all the showcases shown so far.

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Quoting: DrNickI was excited when I heard the rumours, but I'm concerned that this is just a re-release of the same content already available on PC. I think a lot of us have been looking forward to a MGS remake for a long time and Konami doesn't seem to be willing to do anything about it. At this point I'm concerned this won't be just a set of emulators with locked down settings providing a worse overall experience.

Metal Gear Solid 3 has never been available on PC. There is also a remake on the making for Metal Gear Solid 3 (perhaps not the remake people wanted), and there are rumours that is only the first of the main trilogy because it makes sense chronologically. The code in the Konami's website apparently* shows that there will also be a Master Collection 2 including the never released on PC MGS4.

I also think Konami is full of crap, but saying things that aren't true won't help anybody.

Last, but not least, I'm always puzzled with the community expecting some remakes, and giving more importance to them that to new titles, like if was the only way for them to enjoy a game. Let's not allow companies dictate when is good to replay a game :(

* I say apparently because a few people said it on a Discord chat, but I haven't been able to find it.

EDIT: I'll be picking it up. Even though I find the €60 mark, in some console markets, very expensive.

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Quoting: ripper81358It is also one of the games that makes heavy use of raytracing once it is enabled. You are lucky if you can get the game running at good quality and performance without raytracing.

I must be very lucky indeed... I can play it at ~60FPS, more settings in high that in medium, and at 1440p since launch day... :O

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I have an RX 5700 (Not sure if XT), that means it does not have Ray Tracing cores, right? Would I lose a lot of performance if I were to enable it on a game? I mainly want to play Cyberpunk with it.

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Quoting: Mountain ManPeople being irresponsible with finances (and, yes, taking out huge loans that you can't easily repay is irresponsible) is not a feature of capitalism.

Capitalism thrives off irresponsible people. It's no a coincidence that day to day finances are not taught in school from very early age.

Someone's mysery is another's profit. Yeah, it is a feature.

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From the article It’s a myth that companies must put shareholders first:

The notion that a corporation’s primary purpose is to look after its shareholders is widely believed and taught, but is in fact a myth with no basis in corporate law. The corporation is a separate legal entity. Because ownership of assets and liabilities are attributed to this entity, corporations are not “owned” by shareholders.

Instead, shareholders have limited legal rights, which do not include the right to directly control directors’ or managers’ behaviour. Indeed, shareholders have no special claim on a corporation’s economic returns. Their right to dividends is the same as a waiter’s right to tips: an expectation that is unlikely to be enforceable in court.

Quoting: F.UltraThere is no way that a public company can give the finger to investors. Remember that the investors, aka the share holders, are the actual owners of the company, the CEO and other execs are only running the company per the will of the shareholders

So, not quite true. Companies decide to allign with them.

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Quoting: F.Ultra

Quoting: BalkanSpy"transform us from our current heavy-investment-mode to a highly cash-flow generative business this year"

Gotta love that corporate doublespeak. Which new gibberish will they invent next?

Not so sure exactly what it is here that you think sounds doublespeak? This just means that they have halted their expansion and will now concentrate on generating income instead.

They could have thought that the lack of funding, or not getting a deal, could happen and start being a highly cash-flow before that to prevent this. They could also give the middle finger to investors and say they won't be returning their money any time soon, and keep the studios and their workers. The high execs could also freeze their super high salaries for an X amount of time to palliate the problem.

But no, they directly prefer cutting costs to the expense of workers.

To me, the doublespeak is undermining the effect of these cuts on those affected, like if it was the most normal thing in the world, and the fact that they lost $2bn investment, by trying to positively say that it will allow them to be highly cash-flow generative.

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Quoting: denyasis

Quoting: Purple Library GuyFrankly, this kind of sounds like their buyouts were leveraged from the start

Well yeah, that's how, was far as I know, almost every industry works... On credit.

When I worked in construction, our company owner would joke "The entire industry would freeze if any one actually tried to collect their bills!!"

Even small business do the same. A deli owner friend of mine remarked how he didn't turn a profit for his first 5 years and how that was the average for his industry/region. That's 5 years with everything on credit and even if he did make some profit, the debt is still there.

I'm some cases, paying off debts is considered a waste of money as you get higher yields investing that money vs the savings from paying early (or at all), especially in during our past decade where interest rates were low.

Of course, that can bite people and companies when expected investments fall apart, as it seems to have done here.

Lovely capitalism.

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I'd be happy to install this on my current Steam Deck, or having someone with fewer sausages as fingers than me doing it. Particularly if a bigger sized battery can also be installed like in the showcase.

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