I liked the Mandarin twist...but the menace that replace the eventually-non-existent Mandarin was very boring.

I’m less interested in that distinction, same as Beth in her reply (she didn’t even bother with that point); she’s under the impression that the division between ads and herself doesn’t make her implicit under any such scenario.

cool story bruh

I accept your point: the distinction isn’t intended to save them from looking like hypocrites, they’ll simply accept that title outright. Cool.

What a predictable response

Well I guess they get to take a break from stressing about poverty to stress about their next fix? lol Gotta switch it up every once in a while.

pssst hey buddy, you’re not deciding anything when you’re an addict.

lol I’m sitting here trying to figure out how that fact at all affects my experience as a consumer.

How misguided.

For the same reason people throw dollar bills at strippers.

Neither entry really benefited from its open world elements, they were really unnecessary. With the second one doubling down on that concept and enlarging the map, it sucked up development time and money that could have been used to add some variety to the encounters and enemy types (even more interesting stuff could…

You wouldn’t need more than two hands to count the number of games (which includes BOTW) that have actually benefited from open-world formats; yet thousands of them have been developed.

I’d read that review if it was an honest attempt at understanding the steak (and, you know, they gotta eat the steak at least for the review) lol

Can I ask an honest question without being rude?

It’s also optimized pretty well, I found! Compared to a lot of stuff I’ve tried running on my low grade PC. :)

Now and forever: series’ that go open-world just to stay relevant are almost always a downgrade from their original.

Just came here to remind you Nathan that objectively none of that matters and twitch is a stupid thing to report on, objectively.

Counterpoint: I don’t want to anime to be considered mainstream because that jeopardizes the existence of my fucked up fan service anime.

lol wut? you consider that a reasonable attempt at job creation?

I could use some sort of tutorial space with unlimited supplies for practice...