This game is going to be taken out behind the barn and shot within 18 months, max.  The buzz for Avengers was better than this, and look how that turned out.

The game was definitely hit and miss with its depiction of slavery. It definitely managed to depict some of the horrors of slavery, with the section where Clive is approaching the Empire’s capital pre-second timeskip as a particularly memorable area with side quests that were real gut punches.

That wasn’t the altruistic act it you make it out to be. He could’ve paid for the surgeries & not made it public, but he just had to bring the cameras with him, so everybody could see him doing it.

I went with Final Fantasy XIII.  I’ve never finished XIII, and after XVI, I felt like XIII was like the critical opposite of XVI in many ways.  Haven’t gotten too far yet, but so far I do feel like the characters are better written.

You’re arguing that if murder is on the table, then rape should be as well. I guess that you’re using some sort of ‘badness point’ framework, where if Murder is the high score, anything else can’t be ‘worse’.

I can’t imagine why Blizzard thought this was a good era of the timeline to revisit.  WoW definitely doesn’t have the type of tone to successfully navigate such a story.

And the series didn’t learn its lesson after it, either, as Final Fantasy XVI deals with the same fuckery.

Have we ruled out Peter as Venom?  With Miles as co-protag, it’d be a neat twist for Peter to fall and have to be saved by his apprentice.

Look, this is all academic, and I really am not invested in this as a debate. Though I have to say that you started your comment off with ‘if you don’t take it personally’ and ended with accusing me of licking the boots of capitalism, that’s sort of a mixed message.

You bring up some good points, and I’m not saying my argument is infallible. Obviously service, subscription, and microtransaction games all skew the financials. When I think $70 game, I think of a AAA game that is finished and has minimal if any MTX. Like Jedi Survivor is a game that is finished. Maybe it’ll have…

Look, I’m all for consumer rights, and for telling corporations to **** themselves. But it is honestly stupidly amazing we’ve managed to hold the line at $60 for so long, and $70 is probably honestly overdue.

Man, the Hood is like the worst character.  Every time he pops up in the comics he’s even worse than he was in the past.  He’d be a fine mid tier jobber, thug with a magic cape, but they always want to push him as the super powered Kingpin of crime, but he has none of the necessary characteristics.  

Aren’t the latest mainline games 3D, which might make porting Spinda over more complicated?

I feel like your version of the analogy makes Sony a whiny kid at a table, where my version emphasizes that capitalism is a game where all the participants try to leverage everything to their advantage.

I can’t say that I really blame Sony. It’s like in Monopoly, when someone offers you like three monopolies at the start of the board so that they can complete boardwalk and park place.  Why give the other player the game for short term profits?

From the clip I think they thought they were in the clear to just jump in and drive the car off, but only discovered the dude was in the car right when they opened the door.

Is she rich? Sure.

We’re almost 30 years too late for that!

I don’t know, as long as a bridge doesn’t fall on them... the actors are all drawing social security so I can’t be really too upset if they get an on-camera end since the odds of us seeing them again diminish drastically with every appearance.

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