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  • That’s true for virtually every game. Diablo IV: hated by many, considered a major downgrade, Blizzard bad, gets boring, doesn’t handle live content updates right… yet go watch the videos with the team that designed the dungeons and the assets, they’re extremely passionate, they are proud of their work, they explain how they spent a looooong time just working on little details they thought people would appreciate.

    It’s super unfair to raise Helldivers and Baldur’s Gate to this elevated “worthy passionate developer” status and disregard others while, at the same time, being selectively blind about the issues both of these games had and still have. In fact, Baldur’s Gate straight up required months of Microsoft intervention to finally (partially!) fix CPU affinity issues.


  • Eh, there’s a lot that could be said about Helldivers, at least as a PC port.

    Great game, nice content delivery, very cool. No DLSS, no modern FSR (it straight up uses an horrendous implementation of FSR 1.0), very bad usage of multiple threads, quite a few bugs - the armour ratings literally did not work, as in, a crucial feature of the game that changes the entire balancing of gear and enemies did not apply, meaning you could have a party of a heavy gear tank and light gear medic and both would take the same damage from the same enemies.

    Again, the game itself is very fun. But I’m absolutely not going to praise this port and claim it’s a shining example of developer quality.





  • I get the appeal of the “best of the best” but a few years ago I decided to only buy components and tech in general with efficiency in mind, and I’m so happy.

    My RTX 4060 Ti runs everything but stays surprisingly cool for a GPU, gets by with my 500W PSU with power to spare, is stone silent, and everything fits in a nice small form factor case. My computer is silent, cool and wastes very little power. This is also how I’m choosing phones and many other tech gadgets nowadays.

    Having your product be so demanding you need to create a new connector to retrofit into old style power supplies, and then having it melt because even your own adaptor can’t handle the power, is not a good idea at all.