Oh shit, time to dump another 20-30 hours into No Man’s Sky. That went from a game I played 5 hours and dropped for years at launch to quietly and over a few years becoming my 4th highest hour count on steam at 211 hours, only The Witcher 3, Skyrim and Elden Ring have squeezed more out of me. It’s been said before but…

So, I mean, considering the Microsoft deal is probably going to go through, do you think tht the old guard waiting out their payout is just fully dug in, knowing they can stall until they golden parachute out, and then it’s Phil Spencers problem? I mean, openinly refusing the will of the stockholders seems like the…

I thought we agreed to only show photos of Wario for Musk related articles.

I’m saddened that we will not be seeing Dr. Dina Crisis, MD.

I have the same concern, but he also knows like literally everyone in the industry and is generally liked. It’s maybe not great without a regular in the sense of it being more than a solo venture, but I have no doubt he will be able to get guests. Maybe he’ll become the Marc Maron of game podcasts?

Nextland podcast today confirmed that even back during the CBS sale, the three of them weren’t partners and didn’t get anything from either the sale to CBS (at which they were at-will employees) or the one to Red Ventures. Jeff might have owned a piece of GB at the point of the CBS sale and if he did, I think they…

That is true. Whiskey Media made a good product but it wasn’t sustainable on it’s own. The GB folks have mentioned that after a few years distance from that sale. For all the fun startup shenanigans they got up to, my understanding was that the sale to CBS was the only thing that saved the site at the time.

Nextlander seems pretty happy with where they landed. I’m hoping Jeff will as well. It really might end up being the right move. The business is totally different from when he got fired from gamespot and started giant bomb. For one, back then you could get investors to start a brand new website, and that isn’t really…

I definitely think there was some conflict point. I’m just of the mind that it was up the chain in management and not with the other on-camera folks. And I think that’s why both the staff at GB and he were both using very careful language, especially while being visibly uncomfortable talking about it. I think, and…

I watched Jeff’s stream as it happened and Am listening to the Bombcast now. I think it’s probably similar to some of the things that Vinny spoke about in his MinnMax interview, that at a certain point there is a chaffing with management, even if you are technically part of management. That they are theoretically…

I’m gonna pull back my comment. I think GB will be fine. Maybe not for me, or maybe it is, I just will have to wait and see. But it’ll probably last a few more years.

Dunno how my comment about Jeff Gerstamann ended up on an anime page. Sorry, edited to remove

Thinking it’ll maybe still exist past that, but as a fun video site? Not so much.

Please use this sad Wario photo instead of the cowboy hat photo for any future Musk-related articles. Or even better, just include a picture of real Wario so we know it’s it’s an article about Musk but we don’t have to see is fucking face.

Origins is the best in the newer Trilogy. Valhalla buieng a far second and Obyssy close to that at third. I liked all three, but Origins was the one that resonated the best, had the most likable protagonist sine Ezio and it didn’t get too mired in the sci-fi (which used to be my favorite bits but I no longer care…

Not underperformed in reality, just compared to expectation. Squeenix wanted more than just break even profits, it wanted trans-media IP level money. It was doomed no matter how good it may have been.

Disagree. Go back to top-down Zelda style just prettied up. And you know, that unreleased Soul Reaver game from a decade or so ago sorta looked alright, follow through on that. And Then the Witcher 3 Blood Omen. And the GTA: Vampire Avenue! And then Deus of the Tomb Omen! Oh god! My cup runneth over.

Yeah, it’s an insurance thing.

None of that looks anything like Bladerunner. Totally different future aesthetic. Maybe a bit of Ghost in the Shell or Cyberpunk 2077, but not one frame was Bladerunner like at all. Grandhogs day is fair because of the time loop but man, Bladerunner defined cyberpunk but that don’t mean all cyberpunk looks like it. Go…

Yes, yes and yes. Deus Ex deserves to have the loop closed. HR and MD were flawed and didn’t reach the potential of the original by a long shot, but they were still absolutely excellent games in their own right.

Also, and I know I’m pretty alone here, but I didn’t hate Thief 2014. It wasn’t stellar, all the previous…