Don’t forget the outright deception in their marketing prior to release, in which they stated explicitly there would be unlockable armor.

If you purchase the $60 halo infinite you do not receive access to a single piece of cosmetic armor for your purchase - a first for any Halo title. There is not a single piece of…

you press a button and look the direction you want to fling yourself

It might because it’s still relatively fresh in my mind but I can pretty vividly see the first squid monkey ziggurat room in my mind. It looks like it was designed to be used as a firefight arena down the line, as do a number of other spaces in the campaign.

The opening sequence on the Banished ship had big Titanfall 2…

There remains, as always, a sizable population of Halo fans and the company behind it has what we call “fuck you money”.

See again: Eternal Empire arc. It’s in a whole other galaxy if I’m not mistaken. The Sith Emperor (the amorphous being of force power ostensibly dispatched by Revan) realizes his dream of utopia is a failed experiment and decides he might as well just start over with some other humans somewhere else. It’s neat.

The closest thing we get to an Imperium that genuinely tries to be better is the Angels Resplendent on Malpertuis, but in true 40k fashion, even their attempt to imagine the Imperium as it should have been ends in tragedy. Check out The Reverie if you’re interested in it.

SWTOR is still chugging along. They’re not doing the Eternal Empire narrative anymore but that’s all still there and playable and it’s arguably the most original official take on Star Wars we’ve ever got out of a game.

Talk about a nice surprise. Space Marine was a genuinely great game that knew exactly how to lean into the setting with gameplay mechanics that reinforced what the space marines are. Remember this is a game that came out at peak Gears of War chest-high-wall-cover-shoot-mania. For a AAA shooter release to eschew that…

They’re fascists lol

I enjoyed the first two missions. You don’t know what’s going on because the Chief doesn’t know what’s going on. The pilot doesn’t get a name because the Chief is fundamentally broken and incapable of thinking about most people beyond the scope of what they mean to his ability to accomplish his perceived mission.

The…

patricia read the names and flavor text, these items are literal warcrimes references lol

Their contract under Activision granted permission for a small portion of the team to work on a project dubbed “|\/|ARATHON” but I don’t think anything from that ever saw the light of day. It’s a shame - I was really hoping for a remaster at a minimum.

I always interpreted the unique styling of the name, particularly…

I think that to get the good will of Microsoft’s business department when they scored an extra year of development time, the business ghouls took their pound of flesh in the form of the absurdly stingy MTX shop.

This sucks. I know they probably think it’s fine since Destiny gets away with it but it sucks in Destiny too. No level will ever again attain the iconic status of Attack on the Control Room or other iconic FPS missions as long as this is the trend, because people have to jump through hoops to replay them. 

Yeah, but it doesn’t really add to my experience to spend a few extra hours setting up repair towers and making sure there are no critical wiring links exposed. It’d be nice if they added an option to disable or reduce weather damage to wires for those of use who’d prefer it.

I followed this game through beta after trying to Demo during the steam indie festival and fell in love. It’s really a great game. Controls are tight and easy to use, combat has oomph and is a spectacle. Base building invokes the feeling of old Starcraft or C&C. Great amount of content at launch.

My only gripe was the…

I really wish we could get a new Armored Core title. There are no games like AC V or Chromehounds anymore. It feels so weird that we’ve gone as long as we have with little to nothing coming out in the AAA mecha title department.

I don’t think I claimed it was an original idea. There is a very popular pseudo-RP blog and there were a number of corporations devoted to minerbumping and permit sales when I last played. Most folks find out about the practice from the blog, which features leaderboards etc.

I would argue that if you are repeatedly…

Forza won’t be removed from the gamepass until they offline the servers. It’s a first party title. I don’t know how it’s doing post-FH5 release but Forza Horizon 4 has consistently maintained a huge player base. The franchise is immensely popular - it is the Madden or FIFA or NBA2k of driving games. It’s the game…

Fans have compiled a list of more than 80+ features or options that existed in prior titles in the series that vanished in 2042. Some are tiny things like menu options, others are more significant gameplay elements like this.