As hard as I tried to like it, and as forgiving as I tried to be in my judgment of it...this is basically how I felt. Obviously, a demo is a demo, but absolutely no aspect of Anthem’s demo felt enjoyable to me or hinted at this game being something I’d enjoy long-term.

My reaction, basically.

Sounds like my impression of the demo itself: “So...that’s it? We’re done here? Alright...*log out*”

I like Bioware, but this game feels like a free-to-play Destiny clone with a ton of graphical sheen, but not much else.

Hoping the attention is because he’s going to be a big part of the storyline. Always seemed weird to have a faction leader with that much potential and backstory be utterly unused in the game. With Sylvanas basically being like, “Later, Quel’thalas, I’m out! Good luck being the only Horde capital, cornered by a…

This was well worth the read.

Personally, I’ve having fun with the game. I was huge into R/B as a kid, and I memorized everything about the original 151. Coincidentally, my six-year-old became obsessed with Pokemon this past year, so it’s like a nostalgia trip for me, since he includes me in everything.

Pokemon Lets Go Pikachu has been a ton of fun…

I like it more than I dislike it, for sure. There are still a lot of really lazy issues with the game. The progression and leveling is really drawn-out. This never really felt like a huge deal in past CoD games, but the disparity between what you have to work with early on compared to later gear feels much bigger in…

Yeah, the loot/unlock system is garbage. Part of what made COD so enjoyable was the continuous, balanced, and understandable stream of unlocks for progress and achievements. Now, it feels like a boring, pointless mess of unlocks.

And when I saw the 1100 COD Points awarded for free, I thought, “Cool, some free stuff to…

I kinda felt the same way at first, but after rewatching it, I softened up.

Dracula’s war is sourced in grief. He began in S1 with his anger and internal bargaining, in the sense that he felt that the only thing that could answer for Lisa’s death was the extermination of mankind. In S2, we see anger fade into grief…

Marchand logic:

Opponent celebrates after scoring a goal = kill him for this offensive insult and display of egotism.
Marchand taunts hell out of everyone in the arena after scoring a goal, licks faces, etc. = clean, good-natured sportsmanship that no one should take personally.

Ha. I see what you did there.

I live in AZ and during the summer, we get the weather alert every single day because of the heat. Not sure how it works, since “hot” isn’t a weather type and “Sunny” doesn’t normally trigger a weather warning, but it does.

Wow.

What a scary place the world must be to these people, to be so insecure and confused that they respond to something as innocuous as female generals in a TW game with Youtube rants and sanity-bending threats to the developer.

That’s always going to be a challenge. They’ve got a thousand plotlines in the works, and Dean and Hank are less - as weird as it sounds - important lately compared to what’s going on with the Monarch, Rusty, and the Guild/OSI business. With Doc and Jackson, the good news is that you know that even the most filler-y…

That explains why it’s going to be delisted from Steam.

Yeah, that whole scenario was just laughably lazy writing. The escape was almost mockingly half-assed. The worgen, one of the fastest - or THE fastest- race on foot basically slow-steps toward you as if they’re just screwing with you. And Jaina, the super-mage who can command space and time apparently, decides that…

Exactly. Depending on when and how you beat Lavos, you can get a bunch of different endings. Most of them are more for comic relief or fun than a legitimate/serious “ending” outside of a handful, though.

What’s funny is that this whole series has constantly had these themes of how easy it is to go good or evil in a world where doing so is a cultural norm thanks to superheroes and supervillains being relatively normal. And more often than not, it happens in twos between brothers. When JJ became wildly successful,…

No one’s defending his ‘jokes’. They were tasteless, crass, and offensive - because as he admitted, that’s what his career was at the time: shock content. He moved away from that, distanced himself from it, and matured as a person. As Selma Blair pointed out, what does this teach people about forgiveness? If a person…

Must be location-dependent, then. I went into Gamestop when they opened, and the employee asked if I had a pre-order. I said, “No, but you guys announced there would be stock for walk-ins available.” He said, “Nope...pre-orders.”

Went to Wal-Mart nearby, same thing. The lady said they barely got any stock and it sold…