exactly, look at sea of thieves, it would have sunk after launch if not for gamepass pumping up the player base and keeping people hopping on when the content updates come out. risky ventures become less so when revenue is going to come whether a single title flops or not.

Coming to the A.V. Club in six months:

Have they done everything else? Because everything Star Wars feels pretty similar and often features the same characters or their family.

I like to think that Taika is sitting at home, wasting time reading about what I’m doing right now.

He’s the same age as me and I’m like “A sandwich for lunch?  That seems like a lot of work.”

Aging? He’s 28. Christ, movies/music/TV really think people are old at 30. That’s not even the halfway mark, people.

I’m being a little bit of a jerk with the picture...so I want to say I absolutely don’t doubt that the tool was made/greenlight in good faith, and I think that people doing their best to try and identify all the unknown biases they have is an admirable goal, but *goddamned* this is the most Silicon Valley-ass solution…

It always pissed me off. “We have determined that organics and synthetics cannot coexist peacefully.” Bitch, I just spent years busting my ass getting the Quarians and Geth to broker an agreement, and if they can make it happen FUCK YOU if you think it can’t. I deserve another option because of the natural 20s I roll…

YES!!!!!

Well, why the infatuation with “Shepard” then?

I’ve been playing Dragon Age Origins (still great), and it really surprises me how little they actually did with Shepard (the character) in Mass Effect vs Dragon Age.

ahh, that makes sense. It’s like they went with the exaggerated look of late 80s action figures (with more exaggeration the longer the series went on). When I played them I would use whatever bat suit made Batman look smaller, because in most of them he looked like he was being played by Dwayne Johnson. To me, Batman…

I want to thank WB Games for posting this gameplay demo. As a fan of the Arkham games, I was moderately interested in it. After watching this video, I’m now pretty sure I can skip it. The combat looks boring and weightless, and I have zero interest in number crunching and loot grinding for the “best” builds.

Totally forgot about this and recently went back to Arkham City because I thought I might let my oldest kid play it, and 10 minutes in I was like...oh, right. That led me back to being annoyed by the grim-dark “realistic” tone of Batman in general.

I would love a zany Batman game where none of this stuff is taken as…

Oof. Yeah, that looks really awkward. The old Arkham games had that same issue, but I think it looked even weirder there since that Batman was built like a linebacker yet had the agility of a ninja (I’ll never understand or like that character design). And it’s not like Spiderman, where it makes sense that he’s…

just seems a bit weird for people to be going “hey red hood, you’re the best!”, is all.

Any word on if they’re bring back important Arkham series features like being constantly called a ‘bitch’ while playing as a female character modelled like a sex doll?

Man this game looks rough. Combat is super sluggish, visuals seem on par or worse than Arkham Knight. 2 player co-op is a weird choice as well for a game that seems set up for a live service model.

watched about half the footage, and dunno? the combat looks a little clunky, not sure I want to be hunting for gear drops in a batman game, and why are random Gotham citizens cheering on Red Hood?

That Nightwing gameplay feels weird. He seems to rarely hit the same enemy twice in a row, constantly sliding twenty feet to the guy behind him to hit him once and then slide back. It felt kind of disjointed. The Batgirl and Robin stuff from like a year ago felt a lot more fluid.