travo said:

How is your mother, GG?

Thanks for asking guys.

She's being discharged for Christmas. She needs an operation in 8 weeks as they found other areas blocked. She's a hard smoker and not exactly a healthy eater.

travo said:

Finding the power ups was one of my favorite parts. There were some cool spider ball moments.

I got 100% items today.

When you're playing post credits is the best, its that traditional prime experience, squinting at your map, finding secrets and working out ways to navigate these environments I at first thought were linear.

Whilst I don't mind the voice acting and story bits, the after credits silence and exploration does feel "Miles" better.

I think they could even fairly easily patch the game for people who want a more solitary experience.

Given the ending, does it lend credibility to those Prime 5 rumours? Game concept split into two games, being co-developed?

I tried HDR with FF7 but I didn't bother seeing the in game menu.

It looked wrong, I deleted the demo. Forgot to check the in game menu.

So tried HDR with Cyberpunk and SW Outlaws.

Definitely makes a difference, colours are more saturated and contrast is better, deeper blacks too.

I keep forgetting Cyberpunk is 1080p, I have to crank up the tv sharpeness compared to other games at 1440p and 4k.

SW Outlaws texture update is the real deal, it's flat out better looking than the Series S version now aside from some reduced geometry.

Still the HDR in Prime 4 is transformative compared to the other games I tested.

From the Internet, they say that Zelda and Mario Odyssey, Hitmam and Mario Kart have good HDR, so I'd like to see.

You guys picking anything up in the Christmas sales?

I'm thinking Tales of the Neon sea and Kingdom Come Deliverance.

That Cyberpunk sale price was an error but CD Projekt Red are honouring all purchases made at the error price.

Rockstar examined GTA with Tokyo as a setting, project was later discarded
12/23/25 -

Rockstar Games has considered a Grand Theft Auto game set in Tokyo in the past. This was confirmed by Obbe Vermeij, former technical director at Rockstar North, who was involved in GTA III, Vice City and San Andreas.

Internal discussions had planned to have the game developed by a Japanese studio, which would implement a GTA: Tokyo based on the existing code. In addition to Tokyo, Rio de Janeiro, Moscow and Istanbul were also up for discussion. In the end, Rockstar rejected the project.

Vermeij explained that with the growing economic scope, the series has focused heavily on well-known US locations. With billions invested, the willingness to rely on proven concepts is increasing. In his view, the USA is the cultural center of the Western world, whose cities are familiar worldwide. He therefore considers a move to another continent to be hardly realistic today. Vermeij also considers possible expansions of GTA 6 in the direction of the Caribbean or South America to be unlikely, as the additional development effort hardly seems justified from an economic point of view