Its probably possible to do that (functional new game plus of the missions). At the same time its probably a lot of work to make sure things work right, the boundaries, etc.

ODST was ‘open world’ in a sense (though obviously on a much smaller scale) and as far as I can remember you also could choose what order you did some of the missions in, you could also go back and replay individual missions through the main menu. I don’t really see why they wouldn’t be able to implement this at a…

Makes sense.

This, to me, boggled the mind. You’re telling me that the strong and smart leader of a savvy militant group would make the stupidest tactical mistake in history—that he’d just presume the death of all-time badass Master Chief instead of, I don’t know, double-tapping, burning the body, and dropping the ashes in a pool…

Because they’ve took active stances on industry issues before - remember when Keighly publicly railed against Konami mid-show for mistreating & barring Kojima from coming, before next year showering him with the limelight and praise when he did arrive?

It’s my view that, if you’re choosing to directly reference real world social issues like that, you have a duty to treat them with the depth they deserve and actually say something about them. Doing otherwise at best promotes a shallow and misinformed understanding of said issues in your audience, and at worst means…

They might be terrible and they might be doing this for the wrong reason but the refusal to accept and acknowledge that they’re on our side for this one is everything that’s wrong with politics

We don’t have an absence of data.

So you’re arguing it takes more than $15 Billion to run just YouTube? And thats Youtube excluding Premium and TV.

This announcement comes mere hours after I staked out the heroic, legendary stance that Halo Infinite’s battle pass is totally fine the way it is.

So your argument is that it takes more than $15 billion just to run YouTube?

Most of the content on YouTube loses money for Google (the service runs at a loss).

That being said, I still respectfully disagree with your take.

I wrote out a lengthy reply to most of your points. But its the last little bit I realize that’s really important.

You’ve ignored basically everything of substance in my own reply to laser focus on a few sentences.

Jayce is completely right that seeing him is dangerous and Viktor doing so gets people killed.

In Arcane though, none of that is present.

It’s an intense story-driven Cyberpunk story

The series deliberately chooses to delve into the complex affairs of class warfare, and then spends its entire running tiptoing around the subject matter, making broad, superficial statements like “violence bad” or “not all bad apples”.

Myself and so many, many others DO reward decent, talented people - just not when they willingly and knowingly get into bed with scumbags.