I’m happy for more co-op games styled like this. As I’ve gotten older my desire to play competitive with friends has fallen to the wayside and I like to play cooperatively.

Based on Arkane’s previous games, I’m gonna guess that Redfall is gonna have more in common with Dishonored or Prey than it does with Left 4 Dead. I really hope it does.

Somewhere towards the end of Sims 2, it became apparent that there was real money in releasing barebones entry titles, and selling continual packs for years before moving into the next series of barebones titles.

From what I’m seeing, successor may be a better descriptor than competitor. That said, I’ve never really played too much Sims, so my opinion power is somewhere near the bottom here. I am interested in playing this though.

It was a full day before I even realized there was anything wrong with that demo. In retrospect, and especially after seeing comparisons like this one, I get it - but after the reveal last year I was just excited and thought it looked great, and the first bits that came out about it were similar, at least in the…

it’s easy to see how a separate mode like this [bots] could be helpful in getting newcomers up to speed.

...Because a lot of people prefer to game on consoles rather than PC?

If only there was a solution!

What you just described is Dragon Age Origins. If you haven’t played that before, you should sometime!

Sure, they were put in to pad the game. But those beautiful skyboxes, the vastness of the terrain, and the text descriptions and stories of worlds you investigate add so much life to the game’s world building. Also, when considering the hardware limitations of the time, the terrain could be a lot worse. They at least…

Was thinking about the ME remaster last night, as I’m almost done with 1. I kinda respect the fact that, while they smoothed some of the rough edges, they didn’t remake the game and left it’s existing flaws in place. It’s a good reminder of how far console RPGs have come since then. As far as I can tell, I still can’t…

My issue with Age of Ultron was that it was too short a film. Deliberately so, as revealed by Joss on Empire magazine podcast years ago (along with hints of tensions between him and Marvel).

For me, the first Avengers film hasn’t aged well. Most of the dialogue are one step away from making me cringe. Most scenes seem set up and superficial. That scene between Widow and Loki, especially. Also, Cap’s PSA clown costume. I do remember the big appeal at the time was the team-up factor. It was pretty surreal,…

“A few years later, with Avengers: Age Of Ultron, Whedon had ideas he wanted to explore, and Marvel had plot mechanics that it needed to move forward. Ultron made a whole lot of money, but the film only barely survived the tension between what Whedon wanted and what Marvel wanted.”

i actually somehow got really lucky. After a few weeks of playing around and seeing if I could find one in stock by checking in during a re-stock, the first morning of seriously being in the mindset of “if I get one of these in my cart, i’m pulling the trigger” I found one from Wal-Mart. I actually had the best…

exactly. I got my PS5 in January and, since I never owned a PS4, just the ability to rip through some classics from the last generation was worth the price. Now I’m playing Returnal, and man, that sure feels like a next-gen game. Was it an unnecessary $500 at the time for next-gen gaming? sure, but that doesn’t mean…

On the other hand:

I got it for my XB1, I haven’t played more than a few minutes of it yet but I expect it’ll be fine. Keep in mind that they’re originally Xbox 360 games, they’re remastered but it would have taken a lot of work to make them look so good that only the XSX could handle them.

Would you like to start a Hollywood production company with me?

I’ve always been kinda disappointed that Peyton Reed didn’t get to make his version of FF back in the early ‘00s, which would’ve been an early ‘60s period piece and probably would’ve starred Renee Zellweger and Ewan McGregor, who’d been in his retro-comedy Down With Love.