Um, the last Fallout game before Bethesda took over is literally called Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel.

I mean, you’ve gleaned a lot from from one trailer. You may be too old and crotchety to remember, but Power Armor’s always been front and centre, even back in Interplay’s days. Just have a look at the covers for Fallout 1 and 2

Okay, fine. Let me rephrase: “if you already are paying for GamePass, then you will not have to spend any extra money to play Starfield”.

It’s free if you have Gamepass

BG3 is an eminently replayable game - there are hundreds of moments where more content is gated behind branching decisions. I haven’t played Starfield, but if it’s anything like standard Bethesda fare, you can probably do everything worth doing in one fat playthrough.

While I bounced off this game after the first month, why are we using Steam stats exclusively, when this game was also a major player on GamePass?

I remember when a friend in highschool first recommended Scott Pilgrim with me with the caveat that the characters and story was ‘kind of shallow.’ And while enjoyable, her assessment ultimately proved true, it was pretty shallow. That’s why I was so delighted that the anime zagged instead of zigged. I went from “Meh,…

This is a hilarious instance to get upset about what you’re claiming though. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is already a deliberate attack on the straight white male protagonist. Scott Pilgrim is not a likable character (that was a big part of why I had mixed feelings about the movie). The point is that he’s a selfish…

I agree. I wish they’d just acknowledged that the original Scott Pilgrim text was a shitty loser character that deserved to get buried in the past and let the losers who liked and identified with him unironically to rot along with their original copies (as you yourself called them, they’re angry white guys who hate…

The original series was about a guy fighting his girlfriends seven evil ex boyfriends who were all given the personalities of pop culture archetypes in video gamesesque battles.

Nah, it was actually great, and a majority of the criticism comes from people who can’t process stories they don’t immediately relate to.

People incapable of character growth hate character growth. 

We have had CoD on an annual release for longer than that, and during the same period we had 7 Assassin’s Creed games, 5 Far Cry games, none of which really came close to being GoTYs or anything like that, while both games in TLOU series did.

The Last Of Us Pt 2 was less of a too soon.

Mario Kart Deluxe is not what I would call a remake or a remaster. It is a port with the DLC included.

If it’s a single console generation (ps4 to ps5) it should be a free texture pack, if the console has backwards compatibility.

Normally I would have given a timeframe but it’s no longer about time, it’s about the expectation that these HAVE to happen.

Too soon to me is inextricably linked to cost and backward compatibility. If it’s a free/cheap upgrade for existing owners, go nuts. If you’re bringing it to a new platform with graphical enhancements, sure. If it’s for a new console that’s not backward compatible with the last generation, fine. But we’re already at a…

Two console generations seems like a good starting point. Or, if say the jump in power of the console is so significant that it can warrant a remaster/remake. But if you’re going to remaster an older title that has outdated play mechanics and you’re not improve them for the modern era, then don’t even bother.

I would love actual remasters if they are reengineering of the original games. The problem with recent things like the GTA “remasters” I learned too late (and I guess it was known before I spent the $60) they were ports of the software on mobile and the games weren’t great.