Eh, I could definitely see the argument that Fallout 4 is probably the best introduction to that ‘Bethesda-style open world RPG’ that’s on the table here. (Then again, I’d also still call it a ‘good’ game, even though I think it’s pretty easily the weakest of that group.) Essentially, I think Fallout 4 is a solid…

Absolutely; I love what they’re doing with Crow, posing a fundamental question of ‘does the Tower actually present a healthy perspective on this world’, and I’m dreading - in a good way - what they’re doing with Saladin, and where that’s headed, too. It definitely feels like Saladin’s gonna be the one to go the ‘you…

I feel like you and I have discussed this before, so apologies if I’m repeating myself, but yeah, I come down in more or less the same place: I play loads of Destiny, to the point where I probably play as much Destiny as I do all the other games I play combined, but the high-end, ‘hardcore’ difficulty stuff tends to…

Absolutely. Even some of the gameplay/game structure stuff I’m not wild about in the current era of Destiny - it all feels very much like ‘what Bungie always wanted Destiny to be’, for better or worse. (It is a little bruising to the ego to learn that Activision probably valued me more as a player than Bungie does -…

And again, you’re just... kind of ignoring the point where I’ve already refuted the notion that playing console games on a PC through a television is essentially just a more expensive way to play console games. Not to mention you’re making massive assumptions about what I do and don’t like: I never said ‘I don’t like…

Absolutely true. ‘My guardian’s coffee has gone cold! A simple act of heat dissipation? Or... Savathun’s vicious manipulations taking dire root?!?!?!’ 

Overall I agree, though I’d give Shadowkeep a little more credit than that: Shadowkeep itself I thought played (within the limitations of a relatively modest expansion) as a nice prologue to the arrival of the Darkness, and I think you can see the lessons they learned seasonal narratives there playing out this year -…

I hadn’t thought about Savathun being behind the attempt - that’s actually a really cool way to build toward Witch Queen (if that’s how it plays out).

I find it fascinating how much more invested I am in the narrative and characters of the last handful of seasons, even as Bungie has made some gameplay/game structure decisions that I’m really not on board with. Caiatl is a far more engaging villain than pretty much any other Destiny’s ever had, Crow, the Stranger,…

That’s all well and good, but I wasn’t talking about playing console games on a PC running on a television; I was talking about playing PC games on a PC running on a television. (You can tell by the way I cunningly called them ‘PC games’.) If I’m just playing console games on a television with a controller in my hand,…

Why is it that a sentence like ‘I don’t find it as comfortable’ invites this level of challenge? I didn’t say ‘you shouldn’t find it as comfortable’; I was expressing my personal opinion on my own comfort level, and the very simple fact that I’m not alone in holding that opinion. I’d hardly call that an ‘excuse’, any…

True enough, though ‘all being gamers’ and ‘all playing exactly the same games’ aren’t the same thing; someone’s still a ‘gamer’ even if they never game on PC... or Switch... or Xbox... or Playstation... or anything but their mobile, for that matter. And therefore we can acknowledge that someone can take part in this…

I definitely find it interesting that PC gamers haven’t ‘warmed up’ to GamePass, despite how many (in terms of ‘people commenting online’, at least) seem to find Microsoft’s embrace of PC ports a net positive (to the point of leading to comments like the one at the top of this thread). Especially given how comfortable…

I mean, he said the Xbox ‘didn’t have a reason to exist’, which feels like a pretty strong stance on whether or not having a PC was the ‘only possible approach’ (at least as far as playing Microsoft games went). Plus, I feel like you might be overstating the difficulty of ‘changing out a new system’ - part of the…

Again, I agree with you in the sense that ‘I want to play Call of Duty/Madden’ rather than ‘I want to play (name your first-party title)’ is probably a much larger factor - but I think that’s also more or less a wash, since you can play those titles on either machine. Cost is definitely an important factor - and was a…

Very true; I tend to forget about xCloud because I don’t live in an area where the internet is anywhere near good enough to make it viable - even for something non-twitch-reflexes-based - but that’s a very accurate point.

I don’t think you’re wrong at all (and obviously, something as complex and competitive as the console marketplace can’t really be boiled down to any one factor, otherwise... whichever company just ‘did that’ would win, every time), but I do think a lack of exclusives going in to the prior generation definitely hobbled…

Again, you’re absolutely right, but I don’t think it’s as untenable as all that (I’m still not saying it’s likely, just possible). Take that ‘subscribers subbing for 8 months’ figure - it’s only 8 months if you’re equating a full-price purchase, rather than a purchase based on some other sale. If the majority of games…

That’s fair, though that tracks to me, since Microsoft also bought the IP when they bought Rare (like Disney buying LucasFilm and then hiring people other than George Lucas to make Star Wars).

Much like... a whole lot of internet discourse, actually... I feel like there’s a lot of PC gamers who see themselves as the ‘underdogs’, up against a monolithic console gaming experience that marginalized, ignored, and mocked them for years, and that’s where this sort of attitude comes from. And to be fair, that…