Did they play several games of Monopoly as research or something?

Every single person he annoyed had something better to do than help him make more money.  Fuck this guy.

Um...I don’t know how to tell you this, but this IS the porn.

I mean, could they just remake the original game’s Factions MP with Last of Us Two’s modern gameplay and call it a day? A full live service game with years of planned content did seem too much, why not just give us a modern way to play the MP so many people found surprisingly good from back in the day?

This is such a disappointment. I know the first ones online is still there but man I love this gameplay for LoU2 and was excited about how it could evolve in online. Wasn’t expecting a Live Service. Sad to read that is the factor that killed it. Damn.. 

It’s the same as sports games. Madden has been doing minor incremental updates for decades and still always is in the top 5, and you can bet that many if not most of the people who buy it don’t buy any of the other games in the top 10. The game itself doesn’t matter much in the long run for titles like these - the…

you’re shocked that they did the thing they do every time?

BG3 is an eminently replayable game - there are hundreds of moments where more content is gated behind branching decisions. I haven’t played Starfield, but if it’s anything like standard Bethesda fare, you can probably do everything worth doing in one fat playthrough.

Can only speak for me, but... I enjoyed it. I didn’t “hype” (I’ve grown out of that, I find that I enjoy games a lot more if I’m not expecting The Greatest Game EVAR!”), bought it at launch, and played it for 170 hours. And then I moved on to one of the many other big releases that came out at the same time. (just…

Starfield is a lot of fun! I liked it quite a bit and put over 100 hours into it. Most of the stuff noted in this article are normal for RPGs or open-world games, but the real problem is that it needs additional DLC or systems to be fun over the long term.

Some of the BIG timesinks (bases) aren’t actually useful and…

Because it’s a single player game and over time people become done with them and move onto other stuff? And it also didn’t review as well as their previous games and less people are into it.

Not everything is a live service, it’s ok to be done with a game.

That happened to me as well. After reading this I felt like a weirdo because I thought L4D was a much better game than L4D2. If it wasn’t for this article I’d be none the wiser that L4D was a broken mess. 

the release of L4D2 really did spell the end of my group playing. Partly due to not liking the changes, partly because not everyone would/could buy the new one... It was really unfortunate.

I mean......not playing it and simply ignoring it is a perfectly acceptable option. I am a big fan of these games too-I don’t often play games again once they are finished, but TLOU I and II are two of the rare exceptions. But I don’t want to shell out for a remaster so soon, so I’m not going to. Whether the franchise…

Having recently acquired a PS5, having to read through the various terms of PS4 to PS5 upgrades has really made me appreciate how simple Microsoft’s approach to cross gen compatibility is; just buy it once and the correct version will install to the appropriate console.

Speak for yourself, I'm excited for this

I don’t understand the argument here. TLoU P2 was the fastest selling playstation game of all time for the ps4 at release. Whether folks enjoy the story or not - it was a cultural event. As was the TV show.

You know you don’t have to engage with content you don’t want to right? Maybe those remasters aren’t for the fanboys with posters of the characters on their wall, but instead for those who weren’t into it last time and now have another reason/chance to get into it.

The last of us might be art for some, but it’s a videogame for most. As a product made by Sony entertainment it is subjected to the scrutiny of the consumer market, that will decide if they want to and how many times they’ll pay, for a game and it’s iterations.

I still don’t really understand why the game wasn’t this popular at release.

I played thru the main quest on PC at release and didn’t really suffer many bugs outside of cosmetic/superficial stuff, and the game still felt kinda mid at best; it’s a Fallout game with a visual glow-up. The dialogue and story is “meh” at…