A lot of Korean-speaking folks have pointed out that the translation is evidently really poorly done, significantly changing the dialog of certain scenes despite a direct translation being perfectly possible.

I’m less concerned about how the game handles it then how the community will handle it. Games like HOI 4 have a lot of alternate history mods and some of them have more than a historical interest in some of the darker paths various nation-states could have taken.

As others have said, a lot of this isn’t really accurate. If you started Destiny 2 tomorrow, depending on how much you played, you could be geared up and ready to run the hardest content in the game within a few days to a week (though I don’t recommend playing that way, as you’ll be too focused on making your numbers…

I think that’s something they’ve improved on a good bit since they started up seasonal storylines. Things like the changes to the tower (Fallen getting their own quarter in the slums, weekly character development etc) make the connection between the plot and the world you actually occupy feel more tangible.

Yeah but every headline at the time (including on Kotaku) said it was the game doing it and nobody bothered to report the actual story, or if they did, to edit their old headlines. So the narrative that lives on is that it was the game.

It’s a Wachowski film, so I’m sure there’s inevitably some wild shit they’re keeping out of the trailer.

I feel this. The first film, at least, is one of those films that sits in my memory the same way my parents talk about Star Wars, as a film that just totally blew everyone’s mind when they walked out of the theater. This article helped drive home how it carved itself a space - 20 years later and I can remember more or…

The “Final Shape” is a reference to the desired end-state of the universe in the Hive mythos, in which the strongest beings have wiped out everything not strong enough to stop them. It’s ultra-darwinism with parasitic nightmare worms.

When I read the original novels in elementary school I recall Raistlin always jumped out to me as the most sympathetic character. As a quiet, lanky kid who read a lot of books in class and on the playground I remember drawing to him as a character and in re-reading the novels later in life I think it’s because of that…

Been thinking about revisiting these recently. I remember the Scholastic Book Fair versions of this particular saga (broken up into more, shorter books) were my introduction to the world of fantasy literature in elementary school.

Honestly, the dream job at this point would be to retire somewhere with legal weed and…

I tried that but found myself having a hard time keeping track of which portal I had most recently deployed in the heat of the moment. Nothing more embarrassing than running away into a portal only to come out directly in front of the guy chasing you with a Big Fucking Bat.

In my first dozen or so games before ELO normalized, I was the only person consistently portaling and it would lead to wacky 35-2 k/ds and clean victories.

Now, it feels like my teammates have companion cubes for brains while the opposing team are all crack Aperture test subjects.

People don’t seem to wrap their minds…

Well, yeah. Why would they do that? They are ultra wealthy because of the same system destroying the global biosphere. The virus doesn’t help you sign up to get vaccinated.

the one guy locally who collects Nazi WW2 arms and vehicles named his auto shop “Third Reich Restoration” but surely he’s not a nazi

It’s Halo with an Aperture science portal gun. The game works because at a fundamental level many of the people playing it will be instantly familiar with the gameplay of Halo and the way the portal gun works in Valve’s portal. It works the -exact- same way, such that you can create infinite portal loops or launch…

Having played a good 12+ hours of this now, it’s a really solid game. I think that if you’re playing on standard difficulty, some of the fights might feel a little repetitive against the AI given the length of the campaign versus how quickly you get new units to try out.

But from a gameplay and presentation…

The two people most often repeating these claims in Los Angeles County are Mike Garcia and Alex Villanueve, neither of whom are reliable sources on anything except whatever the latest conspiracy theory they’ve embraced is.

I’ve dabbled in every publisher subscription pass there is at this point, I think, and Microsoft’s game pass continues to pleasantly surprise me. I’ll frequently forget to check the release schedule and pick up a new title I’m interested in on steam only to find myself refunding it the same day when I realize it had a…

Consider the following: If those scenes hadn’t been in the game in the first place, nobody would be in the reviews crying about how they -almost- liked the game but it didn’t give them the opportunity to point a gun at themselves and pull the trigger. Nobody reasonably would have arrived at the conclusion that the…

One of the best 40k games to come out in the last few years is Mechanicus, a roguelite turn-based tactics game where you play as the tech-priests of Mars against Necrons. Not a single space marine in the game.

The Battlefleet Gothic Armada games are also very good and Space Marines are only a minor subfaction.