I was honestly expecting the third episode to end in a defeat, with the Living coalition in retreat and Winterfell falling to the White Walkers (it’s in the name!). That would have lead to a much more interesting final battle where Cersei has to own up to her selfishness in refusing to fight the first time, the threat…

I’ve seen these a few times, and I’d be more interested in trying them if they weren’t a painfully brief 60 seconds. They already have ~5 minute segments, they can’t reserve 5 minutes in the rotation for one of these games? That’s a decent chunk of time for a goofy little arcade level and might be more entertaining…

Completely understandable. Hell, Vay Hek’s drop table has changed 3 or 4 times now, I’m surprised anyone can keep track of what you get from him.

Warframe’s definitely a game that can be a little slow to get going in the early hours (thankfully they’ve mentioned recently that they want to work on the new player experience) but you can move things along by focusing on goals:

Quick important correction: the Hek weapon does not drop from Vay Hek, it’s a standard buy-blueprint-and-craft. Vay Hek definitely not a boss newbies should be trying to fight when they don’t have to.

You seemed to forget the best Joker.

Well see, here’s the thing. The above talk I came across a few months ago really crystallized my view on this and similar issues. First, let’s not split hairs: Dark Souls did amazingly well, made From Software a household name overnight, and every game in the series they’ve put out since then has been wildly…

I think you might be making the “correlation and causation” error here, because a lot of this evidence comes alongside several other factors that affect the situation:

That brings up a very problematic issue though, is how much of the original formula do you remove to cater to the waifu crowd before it stops being Fire Emblem and becomes a dating simulator/visual novel? Don’t get me wrong, I love the characters and support conversations, but the tactical RPG side of it is also…

Yeah, basically. It’s just not a reliable source of information, the same on the opposite end of the spectrum with someone who is just already head over heels for it and can’t look at it objectively.

The WoW patch notes were on point this year, I particularly loved the recurring gag of Demon Hunters stealing “Soul” abilities from other classes, complete with the Priest’s “Demon Hunters didn’t know what to do with half of the ‘Body and Soul’ talent, so now it’s just ‘Body’.

Technically yes, but you’d be hard-pressed to find a genre where every developer gives zero fucks about curbing bad behavior. They might not do it well, but credit for trying, you know?

That’s pretty much what I’m getting at: compare a game to its direct contemporaries in terms of “game X did feature Y better or worse than game Z in such and such ways” rather than “game X has feature Y. That is a bad thing because I don’t like it.”

Having never played them, I’ll take your word for it.

So the weird thing about the permadeath situation is it does actually have a purpose, but you’re right in that it’s no longer the main draw a lot of the fans.

I mean, would you like to go over a summary? You:

You’re not even listening to me anymore, you’re just pissed and shouting in my general direction. You’re slinging arguments against positions I don’t hold, which I told you I don’t hold. You’re trying to argue against logic with emotion and veering way off course. I’m not the problem you’re railing against, reality is…

Sorry, but logically speaking, that makes absolutely no sense. I should like to think that with the events of the past couple of years, we’ve learned the dangers of “my ignorance holds just as much value as your knowledge”. No, it doesn’t work like that. Disagree with and dislike it all you want, the expert’s…

Good lord, the Yikes factor of this just kept climbing and climbing.

Let me rephrase, since I don’t think you understand what I’m getting at. In my original analogy, you could technically say that Person A and Person B both saw the movie; they know the story, they know what happens, if this was a part of a greater series, they would both be caught up on current events for the next…