Seanan McGuire's October Daye series is fairly high fantasy set in the modern world, mostly in the SF Bay Area. It's very readable, although by late in the series (16 books currently, I think), the protagonist has become so powerful that not much threatens her anymore, which takes a lot of the edge off the narrative.
Yes and no. There's definitely male-written/focused urban fantasy (Jim Butcher, China Mieville, and Tim Powers all come to mind as recent/popular examples, although Mieville and Powers are both "new weird" as much as urban fantasy, and we could get into the overlap/distinction between those two but I think they're close enough for our purposes).
I can't think of another either. Hitman 3 is one of the most fun times I've ever had not playing the objectives of the mission and just screwing around, but the sneaking and infiltration elements of the game are superb.
II was somewhat dramatic to make a point. The problem I described was real though.t some Comic-Con or something similar some of the writers admitted why the books failed.
I've been meaning to make this comment for a few days as I've watched this conversation; just been too tired. The books are fun (though I burned out reading them sometime around 6 or 7). But it's what came to mind when the urban fantasy topic came up.
Funny how often that is the case. Maybe you just needed to come at it fresh?
I understand that. Hollow Knight is punishing if you suck at it. Gotta git gud!
That's true in the general sense of course, but certain genre labels like Urban Fantasy or Military Sci-fi also have a whole bunch of specific baggage and "requirements" and whole communities and expectations. So you can have a novel in a modern setting with vampires that won't necessarily be considered Urban Fantasy, or a novel about a war in the far future that isn't necessarily Military Sci-fi. There's no genre police that will come and drag you away for getting it wrong, but it does create a whole lot of confusion and misunderstanding when people who don't know the difference are discussing things with people who do.
Seanan McGuire (she's also Mira Grant and A. Deborah Baker) is the most prolific "always makes it good" writer currently working IMO. For the 15 years she's been active she has come out with 3-4 books a year like clockwork and currently has like 6 series running simultaneously, all of them managing to keep their own voice and not just blend into generic urban fantasy. All of her stuff is good. One of her series even has a made up Alice in Wonderland type book series that's a major plot point in the story and world building, and she just ended up writing that series too and releasing it for real.
That's where tagging comes into play, as I noted above; Rather than limiting yourself to one (or an arbitrary 3) genres, you build out content filtering based on tags. So, for example, "Present-day", "Fantasy", "Magic", "Urban" would be a broad-strokes filter for what I'm looking for (toss in "Open World" and "1st/3rd Person" for additional filters).
Physics PhD here. I doubt there is a single person in this world that truly understands how a cell phone works. From data reception/transmission, to battery technology, to semiconductors, to circuits, and then displays. I feel confident I wouldn't have to move the goalposts adding the OS to the list.
I feel that game ends when you want it to end. I made it through Shovel Knight and Plague Knight, no issues, but about halfway through King Knight I realized I was playing it just to play it, and wasn’t really having fun anymore. I definitely got what I wanted out of it.
Time Crisis is my all time favourite arcade game series, and my hopes were so high until I opened that article and read that it's design utilises AI powered cameras to figure out where you're aiming, which I can assume they've only done so they can call it an AI product. I know they'd never work the old way on a modern TV, but Jesus Christ. Over it already.
Check out the Sinden Light Gun for a way to play emulated games like Time Crisis on a modern TV. There are others like GUN4IR that you can build yourself for a bit less than the Sinden (but you'll need IR LEDs on the TV for it to work).
The CPU alone might be beyond any single person's comprehension. Modern x86 chips are that complex, some of the most intricate machines ever made, and while ARM isn't as large, it's still likely to be ferociously difficult to figure out.
Re: Urban Fantasy lol
...Kentucky Route Zero?
Drewski just did a video on Squadrons and commented on how janky that game is now. That era of EA games seems to have that
