I see. You’re likening it to ‘automotive’ while others are taking the ‘automaton’ approach. Crazy how just the title of the game is part of its personality.

I’ll bet someone could write a pretty good book on Japanese fiction titles from the tame Voltron and Robotech, to the odd Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, to the…

Auto-mata sounds like the food of the future. But you get to decide whether a delicious hearty vegetable with many uses or a processed fortified Soylent Green-like wafer.

Where in fact are the strikes/raids, deep leveling system, etc. that made games like Destiny so great? Where is the feel of a milsim that Op Flashpoint/ Arma gave us, minus the hurr-hurr Sergeant Bro vibe?

The Division had very, very little staying power and while I think this is potentially a better game, there’s so…

It wants to be Op Flashpoint? I wanted it to be Op Flashpoint. Straightup somewhat-more-casual milsim with a big place where you can do anything and wage campaigns against an equal foe.

But the bromachismo jingoistic gungho military bullshit, complete with “A Seal, a Ranger, and a Delta walk into a bar” jokes, is…

My fight would be like this: [other people]: It’s pronounced PRIMER, like CLIMBER.

[as opposed to “primer” like “skimmer”]

Yeah, I’m with you there. I’m not good with phonetic approximations of the schwa, etc.

I’m going with “Aw-TOM-o-tah”——am I right? Do I win?

Hmmm, I can hack all cyberpunk-style and then ride a giant boar?

Japanese action RPGs, where have you been all my life?

I was on a Sega-sponsored demo crew and they’d loaned our cable company these ri-frickin’-diculous Mitsubishi tube TV’s that were 40-50" big (with accompanying lore of allegedly being the largest CRTs ever made) and I with three other large men were required to haul this thing out of a van and set it up at high…

Dynasty Warriors is pretty mindless, but at least engaging... the cheers of your army, the pronouncements of your defeated opponents, the progression through a fortress. I’ll give For Honor the better fortresses and better models, better mano-a-mano armored duels—-but as I was running through the castle in a raid it…

^^^ Take note of this writing. The final part is called a “kicker” and this one’s a doozy.

Oh, for everyone wondering:

I mean. Yeah, for your sake and my sake we never like seeing “Video Game Did ‘X’!!” in a Jack Thompson kind of way. And you’re right: here’s smoking man who probably ate greasy food and drank and wasn’t unfolding his treadmill when he wasn’t playing Destiny.

Yeah, thanks for taking it as what it is: someone knowingly or unknowingly bending his/her life out of shape for entertainment and taking risks in the meantime. While the internet can reduce this to “well he was a sedentary smoker who knew the risks and died as a result,” he was also a man who died for his own and…

Knew after Korea, China, Japan, it would only be a matter of time before America had its own death-by-video-game victim. Sad.

The spice must flow.

So you’re saying this scavenger hunt’s depth is about par for the course in Battlefield 1? Not surprised. Absolutely great game. Abysmal customization and unlocks.

I knew Patches O’Houlihan. Stripey McOveralls was a good friend of mine. And Dick Bruna, you’re no Boba The Fett.

Seriously though, while never having heard of Dick Bruna, R.I.P. Dick Bruna.

Hhahaha, this is PIIIIIMMMMPPP. I must reduce this to JIFF form.

Skullface. What a prick.

The hand ball part was pure brilliance. I was like oh, he scores on a wide-open net... Then an awesome Maradonna kick.

I have a friend who plays regularly with his family. Quote: “I hate Gamestop.” Later... “Got three of these Bluetooth Pokemon controllers from Gamestop.” Way to stick to your guns. Heh.