You would? Nintendo is like, famously dog shit at accessibility.

None of those exotics are currently in common use anywhere, they’re all available from their respective expansions which include a ton more exotics and actual content, and those go for like $5 each currently, and the currencies you get from that, you’d literally get that from one run of The Coil this season. Idk wtf…

It’s been throughout this year. After Lightfall bombed they had kind of a mea culpa and laid out a plan for refreshing the seasonal model (EG, no more annoying upgrade grid thing on seasonal vendors). Subclass verbs affecting champions released in Lightfall, and theyve been adding antichamp capabilities/more subclass…

They have been adding to that, and I guess the stopgap update before Final Shape is supposed to be something in that vein as well, but yeah. As it stands it is woefully insufficient.

I have always been on the unpopular side of “less is more” with Destiny. I loved the D1->D2 reset, and I was a huge apologist for sunsetting. Still am. And I think parts of the community are even starting to come around on that, as power creep simultaneously makes the sandbox balance completely wonky, and 95% of new…

That too. Honestly I think that’s an underappreciated aspect; new player experience is bad, lapsed player experience is abysmal.

I have a buddy who has gotten into a similar loop as you, trying to come back, finding the game actively hostile to any notion of his return (and that’s with a clan of friends helping him to…

I’m not gonna tell anyone to grind out a service game if they’re not feeling it. Literally anything else is a better use of your time. But, the two specific gripes you raise have largely been addressed.

Season stories have gotten significantly more integral and less…

That’s good, but for me personally I’m past tolerating punitively subtractive game design like that. Making playing your game not be a fundamentally miserable experience should not be a progression unlock of any kind.

I think Datto’s rage-y take was pretty much spot on.

For all its in-game improvements, the out-of-game onboarding experience for players in D2 is still disastrously bad, and only getting worse. If this was a value-add to something like the Legacy Collection, it would be a great idea. But as a standalone, overpriced,…

You’re really understating that second bit, though. Skyrim is 12 years old and still has more players than Starfield does currently. Historically Bethesda games remain in the conversation for months to years, not a couple weeks.

Yeah, that’s sort of the issue. It follows the Stardew Valley template to the letter, but with even worse QoL and a lack of tightness in the balance that is pretty much the only thing that makes early game Stardew bearable.

Having a pitifully small starting inventory, and no ability to swap between action bars so you…

The characters drew me in as well but to call it a middling farm sim would be charitable. It’s a bad one. Which is sad, because it seems like everything else is good. I concur that the whole endeavor probably wouldve worked much better as a general dating/life sim style game, because the farming shit is an…

Oh, god no.

I mean... yes they are. That’s like... 80% of most narrative RPGs. Starfield is an ass game, but it’s weird to act like that’s not a positive design feature.

The more RP-ish traits ended up being way more impactful than background, surprisingly, which the game doesn’t make clear at all. I’d go so far as to say I’d recommend everyone playing Starfield takes a place of origin trait, Empath, and Extrovert, assuming you intend to play with companions, which Starfield is very…

Such an unbelievably bad look from them. Not that Bethesda has many good looks, but man. What on earth do they imagine is the value of responding to reviews saying “I dont think this game is fun” with “Well we think its super fun. Maybe the most fun, so, nyeh. -Bethesda”. Genuinely feels like Todd Howard’s massively…

He’s done a couple, but here’s one I could fairly easily dig up:

The aforementioned Derek Guy has done whole threads busting the myth of “only skinny dudes can dress nice”. I’d suggest hitting those up if you’re actually interested, but I suspect you’re mostly interested in going “nuh-uh”.

I don’t think there’s any major property that’s more careless with their license than TWD. You’ll see the scammiest mobile game imaginable, and its like, featuring Daryl Dixon from The Walking Dead™, and it’s completely legit.

Yes, but the downed target has to be in that triangle. The generous part is that if any part of them touches a line of the triangle, they count as in it.