Short version: sometimes, yeah. CP2077 wouldn’t have been able to pay their teams that worked on the game well beyond release date without a good initial turnout for buying the game. You can chalk that up to CDPR having good recognition from the witchers if you want, but it’s pretty obvious they shelled out huge to put the game on the map initially. DLC alone could not have saved the game imo.

Possibly one of the most milquetoast dark souls roll steamrolls of the year, with zero replayability and worse build depth than starfield. The story has two interesting beats total. I’m sorry you think this was good gameplay, lichdom:battlemage from a decade ago outshines it completely and the only interesting thing the spells might bring is stockholm syndrome style nostalgia from a wholly overrated children’s novel series. If your idea of good gameplay is flinging things around, maybe see if you can find hit flash game interactive buddy in an archive.

Kentucky, personally. Incest ran so deep it turned that one family blue. The fugates IIRC.

Jokes are supposed to be funny to the audience, not necessarily the comedian, just so you know

good breakdown of the system but it has been a while since textures were the issue at large. You can cut ~1/3 the filesize of starfield by uninstalling language packs you aren’t using because lossless audio is HUGE. Most LoD effects are just rendering a distant model with reduced detail and update rate. Even if you look at “good” lod models they often move in a jerky way in practice because they aren’t at the same framerate as things within the “detail” draw distance (easy to observe in every souls title).