No, you’re right. And combined with the easy refund you get from Steam for example, which would make it basically a trial period, there are a lot of possibilities.

I was thinking more about very long games that you’re not sure you really will be convinced after only 2 hours. On a Persona for example, 2 hours is nothing, you’re not even going to pass the tutorial.

Of course a demo is not forced to be at the start of the game, but some games are hard to showcase 😅

On the other hand, I’m just realizing that we are talking about an actual rental model, which we don’t really have at the moment. Gamepass is a subscription model, which is quite different (and not in a good way)

So yeah an actual renting model could be cool, depending on its pricing of course.

Of course, the prime minister of Japan: John Japan

It’s not just that. It’s also that the second hand market is really not there anymore. There are a lot of games that I know I’m only playing once, in this case it makes sense to buy it, then resell it. But it’s not really feasible on PC.

In this situation, a rental market does make sense. And it also allows more easily to test games you probably wouldn’t have bought. I played Persona 3 this way for example.

To be fair (and I used to like the gamepass. I recently started to change my mind on that) the PC offer for gamepass is better and less expensive than the XBOX

Oh, oui ok c’est exactement le système que j’avais en tête, j’aurais dû vérifier avant de parler, merci 😅

Après oui, comme tu dis, aucune idée de si c’est vraiment une taxe adaptée au coût réel. (et on va pas se mentir, vu à quel point l’aérien est en fait subventionné par les états, j’aurais tendance à dire que c’est peu rentable, sans certitude)

That was actually my first FromSoft game, before I fell in love with Elden Ring and went with the other games.

But yeah, it really doesn’t look at all like a Souls. I would actually compare it to an Ace Combat game, but with boss fights. It’s really fast, there are tons of enemies in every direction, and you really fight in three dimensions (you can jump and fly). Your standard enemy is also really not a big deal, there are a lot of moments where you destroy them many at once.

And finally there’s no leveling system really. You build your mech with parts that you can buy (the more you progress in the game, the more you have access to powerful parts), and you can sell the parts at the same price you bought them, so you are free to experiment.

That depends. If the protection is good enough you wouldn’t get any damage (it can be 3/4 times as powerful as the normal guard power of the shield)

But in essence, Armored Core is not really a game you can do hitless, you mostly mitigate damage instead

Tiens c’est marrant, le ferroviaire a un système de péages pour l’utilisation des lignes. Pourquoi pas faire la même sur l’aérien? Après tout y’a une infrastructure à financer (contrôleur.euses, ainsi que tout l’équipement).

There is a shield which kinda behaves this way? The more you hold it up, the less efficient it is. So raising your shield just before being hit will protect you the most, kinda like a deflect. There is no impact on the opponent though.

The dodges are also different from other FromSoft games: there is no i-frames, so you can only dodge by physically dodging the attack, not just dodging at the correct moment

Yeah, her husband shared it when he announced the news on Tuesday (or Monday?).

Dear Ann.

Sorry about that

Yeah. i absolutely suck at art. I don’t have the imagination, the skills, nor the perseverance to do it.

But using “AI” to do that? It would make me feel even worse because I wouldn’t even make anything

Don’t forget about the commune of trans girls who will also weirdly be into Hearts of Iron and Warhammer 40k

And the restaurant is basically randomly putting food from other restaurants in the plate instead of cooking.

That’s only for RyanAir

Yeah I’m French, and during the game there are several moments where I’m hearing part of some lyrics where I’m “wait a second, is the music actually spoiling the plot?”

You can go from France to Germany by tram in 20 minutes tho. (If you live in Strasbourg of course)

And to be fair, most of these games would still be challenging at a lower difficulty. I expect that the late game bosses of Lies of P would remain difficult in the second difficulty setting (maybe not as much in the first setting, but for now we don’t know what to expect)

The bigger focus on the roads would make sense. It was a big weakness of the previous game, and they had a big rework of the driving AI recently.

If they manage to make the passenger transportation and road flow mechanics inside the cities interesting that would be fantastic.

Okay yes I see it now, that would have been so much better