I thought “hang on, didn’t this come out years ago?” and I was thinking of Omerta: City of Gangsters, a mob-themed XCOM clone from 2013 that also ended up being pretty bad. Weird.

How great would it be if they just dropped the modern stuff completely? No explanation, no wrapping up loose ends. Nothing. Just completely discard the Animus. Now go run around the past and kick people into the ocean.

Yea I had checked out of the series around Black Flag. Then picked it back up with Odyssey. I was playing happily through it, and got excited when I found my first artifact room.

I think that’s fair. But I also think that if the series wasn’t shackled to, and more interested/invested in, the modern day narrative and trying to make it work, that the stories in the individual games could have had more room to shine. The templars v. assassins context doesn’t really have a historical story arc…

Whatever genius thought the game needed to be anchored/shoehorned by a *very* high concept modern day setting having to do with hyper advanced ancient alien magic tech woven throughout history is, without hyperbole, the person responsible for pinning this entire franchise firmly and forever to mediocrity. The modern…

That’s one of the things that pissed me off the most about Odyssey. It’s 99.9~% super dope Ancient Greece stuff with Kassandra (I refuse to recognize Alexios, he suuuuuuuucks so bad). I think I put 40 or 50 hours into it before I hit a point where, like I said before, they literally pull you out of the badass Wonder…

I’ve commented on this before and I find there are some people who really like the modern-day stuff. For me the game creaks to a massive halt whenever I have to do the Animus shit. I think it’s boring and unnecessary, and in a game where the period-era story can drive the narrative entirely I don’t really understand…

“Or you can just ignore that stuff and focus on the standalone stories told in each game’s historical sections.”

What life force? They were unfertilized and thus had no young frog kids growing in them which means there was no life force for baby Yoda to sense.

I don’t live in Abigail Spanberger’s district, but close enough so that I saw her campaign commercials, and if those were any indication, she struggled because she was a garbage candidate who had absolutely no message except “I used to be in the CIA and I’ll stand up to my own party sometimes.” That just doesn’t…

This opinion was so wrong that halfway through I had to scroll up and see if Joan wrote it.

The double whammy of not being able to pre-order being tied to also not getting a free game would be especially brutal.

I would be absolutely shocked if this was not the case.  As everyone else has noted, I built a huge library of the free games before I ever owned a PS4 or Vita, and made the decision to get them much easier when the time came.

Im also confused! Like, if I see someone dumping boxes of kraft dinner in the ocean like a crazed Exxox Valdiz incarnate, but I can’t or won’t do that, am I a dolphin? If my brother eats a plate of unpasteurized cheese at a dinner party, despite his known lactose intolerance, and then takes an uncontrolled dump on the…

There’s an easy solution here people. Stop buying 2k games.

not a lawyer, but no, the copyright act pretty clearly states that you have to pay to use someone’s music (or likeness, etc.)

If PS5 is your first Playstation console it’s a pretty sweet deal.

Maybe not safety in terms of Epic, but safety in terms of any random developer putting direct purchases in their apps and funnels those charges through shady eastern European merchants with no accountability. There can’t be two sets of rules, one for ‘trustworthy’ devs and one for ‘untrustworthy’ devs so to speak. We…

When the LA Times published, “It’s ‘The Bachelor: Campaign Trail.’ Which of Biden’s veep candidates deserves the rose?,” they deservedly received a lot of backlash for publishing such a sexist piece. They even apologized. I’m disappointed to see this trope used again here.

their concern about being confronted for not wearing a mask in public has led them to avoid going going out: