They could do like Civilization does, and either ignore it entirely and present civilizations who definitely had slaves as if they didn’t, or pretend that they didn’t actually go and make it a *positive* element of the Aztec Civ (cause capturing enemy units and forcing them to build improvements is absolutely slavery,…

Speaking to the switching characters in combat element - so far I’ve not found that to be an issue at all, and there doesn’t seem to be any reason to use one character over except based on combat style preference.

Who the hell said anything about spending ages?

Pretty solid demo available for it - lets you sample all the characters in combat, fight things at varying degrees of difficulty, etc.

On “word salad of proper nouns” type criticisms...

Yeah - when you start up the game, and for quite some time, you see Rena in the background and the moon (Lenegis, apparently) as a spherical moon in the foreground, pretty much wherever you go.

The screen in the article would actually be the second time you’re shown the title, as it would seem. The first time is much, much earlier, whereas this one does contain elements that are definitely on the spoiler side of things.

Mother in law now recovering from it after being hospitalized (not on a ventilator though) - she’s one of the unfortunate ones that got the vaccine pretty early but works in a nursing home environment, so probably dealt with higher levels of exposure from random yokels despite precautions. Gonna be recovering for a…

He’s got like what...1500 years of it from Asgard? I don’t think 6 months in Avenger’s Tower is going to put as big a dent you might think. Especially if he continues to use it.

They 100% could.

This feels like it falls in the “would be nice to have” category, not the “this needs to fixed immediately” category, since you can just click another unit or city or some other option while the unit finishes its movement.

TW3 post-launch content was also not quite as hamstrung by issues (it had plenty, just not to the same degree), wasn’t being developed during a pandemic that has had a definite impact, and also wasn’t impacted by a hack that caused production to be shut down for a bit.

This set of patch notes has each addition summarized (it does this for a lot of the fixes/improvements as well), and then you click on the summary it expands to show more detail.

A company could come out and be like “Here’s 80% of what you’ve asked for, and the remaining 20% will be done in the coming months.”

Hell, even TW3 was kind of a hot mess when it launched. There were a lot of complaints about performance, and how Geralt controlled (to the point where they had to patch in an alternate option), to lack of depth in combat (just parry/attack), to the poor UI design, and of course the main controversy about it - the…

See, that’s the wild thing to me. It IS a lot like TW3. It’s got a heavily character focused main story, with some heavily character focused side quests, and a smattering of less consequential side jobs.

Cyberpunk 2077 is a game folks love to hate.

The sex is entirely non-existent in the scene they are talking about, with either character.

You don’t even have sex in this one. It’s literally, from start to finish, a therapy conversation - and with either choice, one of the best moments in the game. There’s a reason they used dialog from it (Skye’s version, in particular) for the launch trailer. If you pursue the entire conversation, it really digs into…

I’ve watched a fair amount of the stuff she’s featured in, both streams on her own and videos with the rest of the Yogscast, and as near as I can tell that’s just part of her general brand of humor and may not have a specific reason behind it.