*Cracks knuckle*

I remember when Mass Effect 2 was released on the PS3 after Mass Effect 1 wasn’t, they had a whole “make the choices you would have made in ME1 in this interactive cutscene and import those choices into ME2" thing, which was kinda neat. But that was an extenuating circumstance.

There were right wingers who thought The Colbert Report was on their side. No matter how obvious you make your satire, there will always be people who think it genuinely agrees with them.

“Most everywhere I look, I see Helldivers 2 fans parroting lines from the game and acting out missions as real-life military operations. It’s undeniably part of the fun and charm of the game to take it so seriously that it borders on parody”

Like the other poster, I discovered Avatar as an adult so I don’t have fond childhood memories of it, and I can confirm that the LA isn’t even remotely close at least as far as Ep 1 is concerned. The writing is night and day.

It’s also why the arts, especially hand-drawn animation need to be respected as they’re good expressions of easily recognized humanity. Those how cast off their humanity in favor of ego or profit don’t usually understand or relate to the arts.

There are things an animator’s pen can do that digital effects simply can’t.

Yes, but you gotta track down the director’s cut. There’s a whole subplot and a ton of story from Takahashi’s point of view that got left on the cutting room floor for the theatrical.

For Madame Webb, no Johnson was pretty far from being perfect casting.  Mirren Helen would’ve been perfect casting for the titular character.

I don’t know, seems like Dakota Johnson seems like the perfect choice for projects like these. Case in point: 50 Shades Trilogy. All you need a photogenic recognizable name who will soldier through an awful script and only seem vaguely embarrassed to be there. She’s your go-to when you’re trying to spin hot garbage…

Maybe all the world-shaking events has screwed with our sense of proportion? Could be? Possibly?

I find it odd how this surprises people.

Yeah, by the end of the PS4's life, games were really taking a long time to load, for one thing. I remember something like 2-3 minute load times for Control. PS5 isn’t struggling with a single thing I’ve seen.

Man, my PS5 still feels like a newish addition to my console collection. I have no desire for an upgrade. It doesn't even feel like games are pushing it to its limits yet.

GOOD. There are too many videogames for my mid-thirties ass. I gotta catch up.

I was recently playing the Guardians of the Galaxy game from 2021, and while it was a pretty good game the biggest problem with it was the number of times you’re left wondering “okay, where do I go next” after the dialogue ends, and the answer was generally “if you turn the camera in a specific direction you can find…

“Do you think games are getting too realistic and, as a result, the worlds are too busy and hard to read?”

What you describe is pretty much what most gamers interested in a BF spin-off wanted. All they had to do was take BF, remove the AC components, add more pirated related stories/activities, and update a few mechanics. That is what fans of BF made clear they wanted the whole time. I’d have bought that game at…

Honestly it sounds like the problem is that it isn’t a copy paste from Black Flag.

I find all of this utterly incomprehensible. FFS, they could have simply lifted all the core gaming components of AC: Black Flag lock, stock, and cutlass, update the graphics and expanded upon all those gaming elements that already worked incredibly well and were well received, and I suspect they’d have had a runaway…