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Ian
@shepcommandr.bsky.social
Canadian, Dad, Comics, Games, Hip Hop and Wrassling

Longer form thoughts and reviews; https://oco.bearblog.dev/blog/
If we were being honest with ourselves, we'd understand that all of these companies that are "All in" on AI are cooked.
OpenAI will never see ROI, and their spend is unsustainable.
January 28, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Defense is always going to be "it's for the children" but if you're a parent and you hand your young child a piece of technology without adequate parental controls... I have words for you.
January 28, 2026 at 7:55 PM
If these writers genuinely don't understand why people are having negative reactions towards games that use a word salad of adjectives to describe their creatively bankrupt trend chaser game... I don't know what to say.
January 28, 2026 at 5:33 PM
Funniest part of his critique is the idea that reviewers aren't nice enough to games, when in the majority of cases the enthusiast press is too susceptible to hype and the fear of the backlash negative reviews may bring.
January 28, 2026 at 12:11 PM
Probably not great, and not great?
Guess it depends on the person. I was unimpressed with Rebirth on base PS5. Thought Pro actually helped a lot. They gave up a lot for the larger environments. Assume Sw2 will struggle with that stuff. Probably 30-ish fps, with a lot of graphic sacrifices.
January 28, 2026 at 2:49 AM
Tomorrow I'm going to do a test solo play through to see how following my rules goes. It's complete, I just need to make sure it's organized in a way that works for me.
January 28, 2026 at 2:27 AM
I'd never really attempted to do a full rules re-write before, but Sanctuary felt like a good test. Rule book + Glossary is only 12 pages, and some of the iconography covered in the glossary doesn't really need explanation. Ark Nova was very good at this IMO, and this game seems to be no different.
January 28, 2026 at 2:27 AM
...using stock UE5 assets, and writing that came from someone's 5th grade creative writing assignment, probably.
January 28, 2026 at 2:23 AM
I feel like I could skip the step where I ruin a small towns water supply... I could just read my tweets.
January 27, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Game dev cycles are also so long now that we barely have anything that really utilizes the hardware in a meaningful way. Most releases feel like 60fps PS4 games.
January 27, 2026 at 5:11 PM