“Emotions play across his face”. John and the Spartans aren’t soap opera characters. Their emotions, sex drives, all those weaknesses were repressed during the procedures to make them what they are. This idea that MC needs to be “human” completely misses the point of the relationships of the spartans amongst each…

fine. I’ll give it a chance. But it sounds like a lot of the bullshit that existed in S1 is still stinking up the show. One of my main sticking points is the treatment of the Spartans relationship with the UNSC. In the established (superior) lore, there isn’t this cookie cutter, boring frustration of the Spartans…

Tell that to sony.

I love playstation exclusives but loathe their controllers and ecosystem.

Imaginary console war? you mean the one that kotaku has helped to stoke and perpetuate? I have no dog in this race, i simply bought both consoles to play the games i find appealing on the respective platforms, but to pretend that Sony’s exclusivity policies didn’t create a contentious market and purposefully stoke…

Chief has always been an actual fleshed out POV character for those of us who love the story enough to actually read the books and comics. You were served a pale substitute for the actual lore.

No. Fuck that. The first season didnt “flesh out” shit. It ignored established canon lore, built up over several great books in favor of a rote “corrupt govt” plot. The covenant having a pet human fundamentally changed the core of their zealotry, and MC was already PLENTY fleshed out in the books

Serious question. Who gives a fuck? And why? Streamers as a whole are grating, irritating people, and it is incredible to me that anybody wastes time watching people play games they could play themselves.

Scar/Vio was the most interesting game Game Freak has ever done. I dearly hope they pursue that direction with everything they have, and continue to kill the tired old systems of the past.

so you just want the literal exact same game that came out in 96? Pokemon needs an open world, with no more bullshit long grass nonsense. It is wayyy past time that pokemon had its BOTW moment and made a game that makes you feel like an actual pokemon trainer.

.....this is not gaming news. this is not even news....

Fahrenheit is clearly superior for communicating weather temp. 0=0% hot. 100=100% hot. like, so easy.

As long as they continue to iterate and improve towards a dense open world with more engaging mechanics (god i’d love to see turn based combat get killed off and replaced with a pokken style combat system) then i’m fucking on board. Scarlet and Arceus were the only new pokemon games since 96. Every other game has been…

I strongly disagree. Every other pokemon game has felt so wooden to me, an on rails, no brain chute that you are pushed down. Dialogue has always been shit, story has always been shit. Paldea did things like having bug pokemon hanging from trees, jigglypuff being blown in the wind etc. I’d take Scarlet over the other…

Genshin ripped off BOTW. Just make BoTW but with pokemon. Game of the year.

Scarlet was easily, EASILY my favorite pokemon game since i played Red back in 96. It was different. And the open world, although flawed, actually felt like a huge step towards capturing the essence of what the anime was about, a big explorative journey.

1000% this. This is my biggest issue with how female superheroes are portrayed, they look like stick figures. Black Widow, wonder woman, captain marvel etc all look more like beauty queens than capable fighters. Wasp was the only MCU gal that looked proper built for a scrap.

This is the stupidest fucking fad i’ve seen in recent memory. A goddamn cup? It’s a fucking cup. A cup. you drink water from it. It doesn’t even do anything interesting, its just a damn cup.

Eh, no customizable main character, pass for me 

wtf are you talking about? Game dev is a complex thing, they try features out etc in dev that don’t make it to the final game. Games get cancelled etc. They’re making a product to sell and what to maintain a good reputation, so i’m glad game developers aren’t releasing fucking roadmaps that constantly shift etc.