Honestly this is a good thing to me. I know people will say “Sony is leading in sales, they don’t have to do this!” However, my arguement is that if I can play with my Xbox friends from my PS4, then I have no reason to buy an Xbox and will more than likely want to play on my PS4 since it has better exclusives. 

This just made my day! I’ve always loved this franchise.

Couldn’t agree with you more. I like the more casual approach than PUBG and the fact that it’s a smaller map and faster paced action. I also like destruction. But I just can’t stand the ability to build things.

I was saying that other countries combine restaurants and sexualizing women...

Yeah, I’m not really sure that’s an even remotely correct statement. There are definitely a LOT of other cutlures out there willing to take advantage of attractive women. 

Yup. One of my worst memories of TPP is when in the middle of a mission your helicopter gets shot down, but then it ends and you’re somehow back in the ACC and can do other side missions and whatnot, but then when you start the next main mission you’re recovering from said helicopter crash.

Yeah, exactly! Semi-open world works better for a MGS game. Less “recruit a highly skilled soldier” and more smaller open areas that were similar to GZ where you can have multiple objectives but do them however you want or even ignore certain ones.

I loved the moment-to-moment gameplay of GZ and TPP. What I disliked was the structure for that gameplay to exist. I think it would have benefited from some more linearity and a much better story, similar to MGS3. But the controls and mechanics of sneaking around and the AI were pretty great in my opinion. 

Wow. This is surprising and pretty awesome. I loved the first game and can’t wait for the next one.

I’m not gonna lie, I did the third section you didn’t mention first and really enjoyed it. It’s all about witch-hunting.

Yeah, and people quickly forget that Valve forced everyone to use Steam, and way back when it was pretty bad. Like how I had pre-ordered Half Life 2, picked it up at Best Buy, then went to install it but had to wait like 8 hours because the servers were so backed up. All when I had a physical copy of the game.

I agree, I typically use Discord for that now anyways, that and the Win10 Xbox App honestly. Both of those are just too easy to use. I actually can’t even think of the last time I even opened my friends list on Steam. 

Oh man, you’re right XD oops

Yeah, that’s the point I was trying to make, don’t think I phrased it well enough. There’s just TOO many games on the platform and I’d say probably 85% of them are things like story novels, ripoffs, fakes, or just garbage. I like the intent of greenlight, letting novice game makers get their games out to the masses,…

I’ve been doing some thinking on this matter, since theres a lot of rage over AAA publishers all having their own launchers, but honestly, I think I’d prefer that. I like BattleNet because it only has Blizzard games, I don’t have to worry about there being hundreds of games that I won’t even spend 5 seconds looking at…

I think Steam’s biggest success is it’s biggest failure. Each and every day there are just hundreds and hundreds of games that I could just care less about. A part of me just wishes Steam had kept Valve only games on there.

I think subscriptions are becoming the way of the future for games, similar to the way movies and TV shows have mostly moved that way already. 

It’s pretty simply for me, and you kind of nailed it on the first one. If the demo makes me want to play just the demo over and over, then I know I want to buy the game. Perfect example was Max Payne 2; I must have played that demo a hundred times while middle-school me saved up money to be able to buy it. 

Thank you so much for this article. I’ve always thought clothing was one of the things in games that’s so hard to do and was always curious why there weren’t more animators/graphic artists somehow just modeling a 3D character and having the clothes be a separate model that goes on top of them (which I naively thought…

I don’t think they can avoid refunds. Valve didn’t want to offer refunds either but were forced to because of some weird legal junk.