It feels like a lot of folks positing that this game will be relegated to delivering its lore through walls of text, which ironically, would be deeply faithful to the original trilogy.

I dunno, I’m the only diehard Marathon than I personally know and I’m willing to give it a chance. I don’t know how Bungie would bring back Marathon’s original gameplay in a faithful way that wouldn’t be broadly perceived as derivative. As much as I love the Doom revivals and the general boomer shooter renaissance…

It’s worth noting that this game, or some iteration of it has likely been in various stages of development since around 2010. I can’t find the source from years ago, but the deal when they handed the reins to Activision for the Destiny project stipulated that they would be allowed to dedicate a small team to work on a…

Yeah, if you are using a generative model for your NPCs, you presumably also need to allow players to create their own responses/inputs. If you’re using pre-defined player inputs, you might as well use pre-defined NPC outputs. Now, if you’re using player-defined inputs, I’m setting the timer at maybe 10 minutes tops…

The Jedi Survivor character is named ‘Skoova Stev’, not Scooba Stev.

Armored Core V came close but never got a PC release or balance patches for the NA version, so the extremely limited meta saw the community hemorrhage pretty quickly.

From my memories of the original, my biggest gripe was balance and a f2p model that was somewhat oppressive at the time but is now pretty bog standard for f2p titles. The gameplay itself had some rough edges but it felt and looked good. There’s a gaping hole where a thriving mech-themed competitive shooter should be…

I’m not that old but I feel it. I think what makes seeing the corpses of dead games reanimated as shambling ruins like this is the fact that we can’t go back and play the good game. Hawken is gone. There are so many excellent games of the past that could thrive quite happily if they weren’t built around a…

In the context of human history, literal wars have started over less. Don’t underestimate the power of a fragile ego.

Prove... what?...

EL endorsed her before she decided to fuck up her career and also the lives of her constituents, presumably. I’m not sure what your point is. I did not make any claim that EMILY’s List is an organization with progressive priorities - they certainly aren’t. There are pretty obvious exceptions to the…

Ugh, conflicted feelings. I am regularly vocal about the loss of Hawken any time the discord chat turns into “hey, why aren’t there more mech games?”. I have positive memories of the gameplay and the visual design was just stunning. But there is a big gaping mech pvp hole in my heart and a PvE experience will not fill…

I wouldn’t call it careerism - her career is dead now. She might be able to land a position at an NGO or something after she gets absolutely carpet bombed in her next primary by Emily’s List, Planned Parenthood, NARAL, likely the state Democratic apparatus, but she just burned so many bridges that she’s going to be…

It’s not a long con. It’s just the kind of people who all too often seek out public office. I work in politics/campaigns/governments in a different state. Our state legislature is riddled with petty, self-aggrandizing sociopaths just like Cotham. They don’t flip parties because that would consign themselves to…

Yeah. Lightfall was the worst-value expansion in a long time. It’s still riddled with major bugs, including in the raid. And the season did absolutely nothing to resolve the laughably bad excuse for a story.

I’m fortunate enough to be friends with a bunch of engineering majors who have frankensteined the kits together as buttons and wires and drum pedals fail etc but afaik good condition Xbox One instruments will sell for potentially hundreds of dollars. I dunno about the older stuff, I imagine the Xbone version is the…

Between peripheral costs and licensing fees, I understand why we haven’t received another one, and why their follow up release Fuser had to die too (even though it was an exceptionally cool product despite being pretty niche).

It would be neat if they’d let one of these peripheral makers produce third party options,…

Guitar Hero is a good time, but I dream of another Rockband release. Rockband 4 was the centerpiece of every Friday night with my friends in college, and through much of our 20s. We still get together from time to time to belt out bad renditions of Blink-182 but at this point, the drum kit is held together by tape,…

I’m not cheering for Disney’s success, I’m just celebrating Ron’s failures.

It could just be a camera issue but it looks in the twitter video above like the blade flexes significantly with even minor movements. The actors carrying them will be restricted to a very specific set of movements, at a very specific distance from guests, in very specific lighting conditions.

Ellie in the show did not just grow up witnessing and hearing about what FEDRA gets up to - the FEDRA school she was growing up in was not teaching literature and math. It was teaching them how to hunt and kill Fireflies. She exists in a world where violence between strangers is the rule, not the exception, and where…