After having my youtube homepage filled with psychonauts video essays, I googled the famous milkman conspiracy. Surprisingly there’s a wikipedia page for the specific level. Maybe it’s not that surprising since it’s arguably the most critically acclaimed level of the biggest cult classic in gaming.
For anyone not familiar with the level, have a look at this clip (start 2:33) from a video essay on the game.
The depth and detail I think are still unmatched by any other individual level I’ve played. The use of gameplay mechanics (e.g. no censors, gravity acting up, everything being hostile) and not just level aesthetics to demonstrate the fact that the level is taking place in a broken mind.
Psychonauts isn’t the only one to have their own wikipage but the list is rather short. So, I wondered if there are any other levels that should have their own wiki pages?
This is from GN’s latest HW News article. Newegg is essentially pay walling hard to get components such as GPUs behind their custom PC building service. So you can forget about trying to buy an RTX 3080 from them unless you pay them to build you your custom PC.
Newegg launched its PC Builder Tool in beta last year, in what seemed to be its own spin on a PCPartPicker-like tool. Much like PCPartPicker’s System Builder, Newegg’s PC Builder Tool presents compatible (mostly) parts and SKUs depending on what other components the user has selected.
Newegg’s build-to-order services will cost a flat $99, and will be handled through Newegg’s newly minted ENIAC – itself a direct reference to the first programmable computer that debuted in 1946. The cost seems fair enough, assuming competent assembly, and there’s certainly nothing wrong with these types of services. That said, …
I’ve had a gamepass for the past month, and I just keep coming across games that are broken and abandoned on the platform.
F1® 2019 PC is completely broken on any 30 series cards it seems. With reviews and forums complaining about the issues for months. Unfortunately many of the solutions don’t work because there’s no access to the game files through windows apps.
Snowrunner, another game that seems crash on launch with many reviews having the same issues.
I’ve had further issues with Fallout 4 and then I’ve had issues in the past with Descenders.
A lot of these issues, lay with lazy devs that aren’t supporting their games anymore and are abandoned on the platform. The second issue is that there seems to be 0 quality control on Microsoft part to get any of these issues fixed.
I’m sure there’s many more games with issues on the xbox store, but these are just some i’ve come across.
I was talking to a friend yesterday, and he expressed an opinion I had never considered - that it’s wild to replay single-player games when so many new ones are coming out and when you replay them you already know what’s going to happen. I explained to him that it’s often just wanting to be in the game-world again or loving the gameplay, but he wasn’t convinced.
As I thought about it more, I realized when I sit down to replay beloved games, I rarely finish or get too far in at all. I find that I need my “fill” of doing more than watching a Twitch stream, but with single-player games being as long as they are and having a full life outside of gaming, I tend to move on to other things rather quickly. Upon replaying, I also am reminded of systems or mechanics that were annoying that nostalgia has glossed over.
What about you all? Are you big game-replayers?
You can even make top 5 or 10 list if you want
Mine is Command & Conquer(1995) and i played it in 2000