Brian East 🍐

I think the Hilarious part of all this #gearsofwar drama is that this won’t even be the worst of it We’re only hearing from the people willing to spend extra to get it early The real fun starts on Oct 6

I guess I insulted his favorite platform, so he called me a Floridian and blocked me.

I'm noticing a small pattern in some PC gamers over #Wolverineps5 / #Wolverine "Oh man! This game is getting trashed! This is so bad...." "I wonder if Sony will give up on exclusivity and port this to PC over such poor sales"

Took me a minute to find it, but yeah... seems like every #insomniac game pre-launch gets these "fun" troll posts. Guys, reviewers want your clicks. To get that, they need to put a review that stands out from the expectation of a good game. So they nitpick the details to make the game seem worse than it is. You have good-faith gamers who post their take when they happen to get their hands on something early. But others just want to put something out to engagement farm. Not hating on it: it is what it is, but you gotta recognize what the game is. We're getting it now for #wolverine

You know I had a thought on this There’s been a trend of reviewers who are not great at games and down rating games due to basic mechanics and traversal going over their heads It would be really hilarious to me if a remedial build was given to reviewers and a patch was done at launch to give the common gamers more credit to their capabilities for observation Not saying it’s that, but I’d laugh if day one none of this is baseline in the game

If I trusted an aggregate meta score on movies, I would be missing out on a LOT of REALLY good movies. Don't judge @insomniacgames #Wolverine based on a collective opinion, where many of those opinions have been influenced by controversial decisions the publisher has made. Just watch a few reviews from people you know are reviewing in good faith.

Friendly reminder to everyone trying to glaze the 60$ cost of Ocarina of Time over GTA 6's 80$ A completionist run of Zelda would likely take somewhere in the 60-hour range. A completionist run of GTA6 will likely take over 200 hours Have a nice day

So a lot of people on #gamingtwitter are trying to talk like 60 fps on #gtavı /#gta6 is an absolute impossibility for the PS5 pro due to the limited CPU. And while Rockstar just might ship at 30 for both consoles still, I thought it would be best to see if I can get a fair conversation about it on ChatGPT. Got some interesting results: GTA VI Pro Modes chatgpt.com/s/t_6a999caff35c… TLDR: So let's revisit GTA VI with all the pieces together This is actually the version of the argument I think is fairest: Evidence AGAINST Pro 60 Rockstar appears to be designing GTA VI around a 30-fps console target. The CPU architecture remains Zen 2. Dense NPC/traffic/world simulation is exactly the kind of workload resolution reductions can't fix. A genuine 22–25 ms CPU frame would kill 60 regardless of the Pro GPU. Evidence FOR Pro 60 being technically plausible Pro CPU can clock ~10% higher. The GPU is dramatically faster. RT is disproportionately faster than ordinary rasterization. PSSR can dramatically reduce the rendering cost required for acceptable image quality. Some graphical pipeline work is handled more efficiently in specialized hardware. Rockstar can potentially scale CPU-heavy settings like crowd density, traffic, update distances, physics fidelity, etc. And, crucially: we don't know whether GTA VI's CPU frame time is 15 ms, 18 ms, 22 ms, or 30 ms. And here's the threshold I'd watch If GTA VI is around: PS5 CPU: 17–19 ms I'm suddenly very interested in PS5 Pro 60. Because between the clock increase, optimization and potentially slightly reduced simulation settings, Rockstar has a realistic shot. If it's: 20–22 ms 60 becomes difficult but potentially achievable with meaningful CPU-side reductions. If it's: 25+ ms Forget it. That's 40-fps territory, because 25 ms fits perfectly inside a 40-fps frame budget. And that circles right back to why I think 40 fps on your LG C4 is significantly more plausible than people give it credit for. So you weren't hallucinating our earlier discussion. 😆 The correction I'd make to what I apparently conveyed before is: PS5 Pro's specialized GPU hardware doesn't broadly take GTA's CPU work away from Zen 2. It removes enormous amounts of graphics work that might otherwise prevent high frame rates. That means if the CPU is only a slight obstacle to 60, the Pro has a credible path around the combined bottlenecks. If GTA VI is deeply CPU-bound at 30? Then no amount of PSSR, RT acceleration, or giant GPU is saving 60. And unfortunately, only Rockstar currently knows which of those two realities we're actually dealing with.

Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse - Official Voice Cast Reveal Trailer youtu.be/eux4Tzkk_Fg?si=LOEB… via @YouTube

I really can’t help but laugh at all this #wolverine nitpicking Its obvious to anyone that bothers to pay attention that they’ve barely touched on the very start of the game Come on! Storming an anti mutant facility? Fighting a prototype sentinel? Fighting some basic guards with CLEAR pause moments to show what buttons do what? Everything @insomniacgames revealed is likely the first 1% of the game And you’re judging it by comparing entirely complete games to a tease? There’s going to be a lot of embarrassed trolls here once real gameplay drops because you know receipts are being kept

So just to paint a picture here. Imagine an anime like Food Wars, but instead of a clear happy-go-lucky character like Soma, you get someone like Yujiro Hanma, who wants all the smoke and wants to fight everyone to prove he's the best cook. That is the best short description I can give of the manga #IronWokJan. BTW, it's an anime this season, and if even half the things I saw in the manga make it in a direct translation, it will be as unhinged as Baki. youtu.be/tqS0MhAb3-4?si=X8b5…

Not the best decision from @PlayStation , but money talks.... If they lose more money than they intend to save by stopping physical media, then they'll probably reverse decision the same way closing the PSN store was considered very unpopular for older consoles and handhelds back in 2021 and they reversed that decision.

Ok, I’ll try to be a little constructive @valvesoftware The biggest hurdle that affects the cost of the Steam Machine are storage/RAM costs Sell a barebones sku, no ssd no ram, give purchase options and drive guidelines We know this is effectively a console shaped PC and its modular Many PC heads will be more than happy to install their own drives and RAM

If it is true, Gears E-Day is exclusively an Xbox/PC game: You need to understand, it will need to be a flat-out amazing game of the year contender type of game in order for it to do what #Xbox wants it to do. Cherry-picking reviewers pre-launch to artificially boost the meta scores won't work. That trick has been overdone, and gaming Twitter will easily see that coming. Real FOMO comes from games universally recognized as must-play.

If you didn't put PlayStation off with the lack of sales on PC, you could have had this in GoW:Laufey just saying #godofwar #godofwarlaufey

Have a big trip coming up at the end of June This came at a great time

I appreciate the reference #jjk #jujutsukaisenseason3

I don't know who needs to hear this, and I don't know what happened behind the scenes, but all the episodes of #HitoriNoShita #TheOutcast have dropped on crunchyroll on Jan 1st. For some reason China restricted viewing of the show, but that seems to have changed. Great start to the new year

Had a great run, looking forward to the next season @adhocstudio

I know we're just in the first half of #Dispatch (@adhocstudio) right now, but I'm already contemplating a follow-up run and making different decisions once the season is over. I truly hope you guys greenlight a second season to continue this story. The characters are way too good to end in one season. Also, guys, DO NOT sleep on this game... even if telltale styled games aren't your thing, the characters and storyline is just that good. It gives the feeling of Invincible X The Boys with a slight hint of Pixar in the best kind of way.