But this is part of a discourse people were having. What, exactly, is the directors vision? Lets put it in completely hypothetical terms. Say, on a scale of 1-10, he wants the difficulty to be an 8.5. That would be for the average gamer. That is the kind of experience he wants to give the player, the kind of difficulty…

The author may have leaned into their personal experience a bit much but I think the points stands. Your situation is valid and does happen but it doesn’t even have to have anything to do with being online. People everyday use irl relationships and their commitment to them as a form of running away, so to speak, from…

It isn’t all of them but it still amazes me that a surprising amount of subreddits continually hate the thing they are supposed to love talking about. They love talking about random things the community has done but anytime anything official comes down the pipe, it is just nothing but venom. I can’t even count the…

Why would they? Those people thought it was worth the price then and bought stuff. It becoming cheaper later doesn’t change that.

This seems to always get me. Ska below you puts it as ‘minute to minute gameplay’ but whatever the change in verbiage (gunplay being the most popular), this has been like the prepackaged, go-to turn of phrase Destiny fans have parroted for like over half a decade now. It was a phrase that may have been in a review of…

I kind of get what you are saying but no one actually enjoys setting these console profiles up. You can call it part of the process or tradition or whatever but the fact remains, Logging in to accounts with passwords you don’t remember, downloading updates, digging out the wi-fi password probably for the first time in…

I wholeheartedly welcome adaptions of anime, books, comics, manga, novellas, light novels, video games, short stories, fairy tales, whatever. I don’t care. If someone believes they can pull it off, more power to them. I enjoy stories and if a story I like has the opportunity to be shared with more people, I am all for…

You lose a chunk of the player base though and for people who tend to stick with Halo for the long haul (like me), that is more important. People love to complain about MTX in games but they still play those games while doing so. People won’t complain about a game they don’t ever buy and play (well, that isn’t true…

I think he means that most people played just to have fun and you can still do that with Infinite without having to worry about daily challenges or battle passes. Like how you could play older titles without ever unlocking a bunch of armor pieces because you didn’t feel like chasing achievements or beating the…

Don’t forget map packs. Anyway, the development budget is allocated based on what you are planning on developing and what you plan to make back from it. Since they released separate campaign alongside a free multiplayer mode, that tells us that they developed and funded the creation of a full priced campaign and a F2P…

The thing is, you say that like it is an inherently bad thing but, with a F2P title, you kind of exist for that Battlepass $$$. I mean, Microsoft is worth a lot of money but they are not a charity and while the devs would maybe love to be much more gamer friendly when it comes to what to give away in the game and…

You are talking about expectation more than anything else. They used to be sold together so they shall be for all time. To talk about the ‘value’ of a game or its components is a fool’s errand. Why does a 60hr JRPG cost the same as an 8hr Uncharted cost the same as a ???hr Skyrim/Fallout/Far Cry cost the same as a…

I feel like it was purposeful. They wanted people to try objective modes. It is kind of like how Halo 5 launched with Warzone but not BTB. If it was available, how many people do you think would have bailed after 2-3 matches because it wasn’t BTB or Firefight? I mean, how much development time do people think it takes…

I don’t think it would be that hard to fix Cowboy Bebop at all. Just give the characters a chance to hang out more. Just relax. Put Vicious on hiatus or whatever. The main characters were generally pretty good and, though you can’t have them make personality U-turns on a dime, spend the first 2 episodes or so of the…

That is true to a point but when the proportions of the MC’s body/armor have changed so much throughout the games and the absurd amount of cosplay and live action Halo stuff throughout the years, that is a disconnect that i think most people can numb themselves to early on. Make them look bigger and let them do cool…

I mean, there is no real way around some of that. You can’t cover someone head to toe in supposedly heavy chunky metal armor and have them move around reasonably without that disconnect slapping you across the face with the fact the they are obviously wearing rubber and plastic suits. I find you can get over it, so to…

Does it? Heavy survival horror isn’t really my thing. Especially 1st-person games. When I hear that term, I immediately think “90% jump scares, rain and incredibly dark spaces with like 10% running from something you can’t see.” I lean towards action-horror because it puts you at a distance from the fear in a way. It…

You are talking about expectation more than anything else. They used to be sold together so they shall be for all time. To talk about the ‘value’ of a game or its components is a fool’s errand. Why does a 60hr JRPG cost the same as an 8hr Uncharted cost the same as a ???hr Skyrim/Fallout/Far Cry cost the same as a…

I don’t see how they monetize it to the extent they want in any other way. The thing is, as far as I can tell, even with games with battle passes and the like, almost every game that releases that use them have pretty shit progression in the beginning. Like, every. single. one. And they always get it to a better place…

The thing is, what is described here doesn’t seem that odd (I don’t mean that in a good way per se). Take away the tone of redditors and the situations described doesn’t seem out of place at a wide number of jobs out there. Long hours, low pay, over-worked staff, inexperienced management, etc... That isn’t so much a…