which quickly becomes two things, and suddenly you’ve lost track of time outright.

Sounds like the specific itch was limited to the more casual BR games element...cause I’m pretty sure the shooter mechanics of Fortnite and the melee focused mechanics of Rumbleverse are very different.

Tell me you only read the headline and not the article without telling me you only read the headline and not the article.

You mean like using a real life battle royal secretly funded by a rich family that is livestreamed to recruit members to their newly formed gang?

...Have you played Saints Row 3 recently?

Mix of both - there’s quite a few “suitstyles” as they are calling them, that bring both a cosmetic and a stat change, and then “transmogs” that are cosmetic only.

Throw in the occasional reverence for GTA5 and/or some sort of version of GTA6 they’ve constructed in their heads as some sort of benchmark, or some sort of “every open world game has to be innovative and be something I’ve not experienced before” standard (all taken from various reviews I’ve seen the past 24 hours or…

I think it’s partially about dialing it back (though I think most of that is related to the humor...particularly the “haha dick joke funny haha” type that was more common in SR3...alongside the whole blew up earth and matrix simulation and then went to literal Hell in the DLC) but also about what’s a more topical…

Still amused by the whole “this doesn’t look as silly/crazy as the previous entries” based on the trailer when, guess what, neither did Saints Row 3 with its launch trailer or CGI trailer.

Like the previous couple of entries, you can choose a different voice for the main character, so if you didn’t like the one in the trailer you’ve got others that you might find a better performance.

People usually don’t fight dragons or have talking sentient jewelry, either.

As someone who remembers a time before Whedon, I also remember the “Soooo that just happened” quips from before he rose to prominence.

A bummer ending, described as terrible by the ever critical JW, because it didn’t show the cats reuniting?

Add one to the “Can’t put an article about Cyberpunk 2077 without taking shots at the game” column.

Honestly surprised this is as big a deal as it apparently is.

I didn’t get frequent micro-stutters, but I did notice maybe a half dozen total across my entire experience, with pretty much all of them just before loading a new area (though it wasn’t every area).

I am so sad to hear this as I was really scared it might happen this way.

And when those feelings and reactions misrepresent the game?

Seems a bit hyperbolic to describe the criticism of this article as such.

You can have entire articles be clickbait.