They establish pretty quickly that Earth has more or less been as saved as it can be, and now you’re off on another quest for a variety of reasons. Some of the biome-specific variable quests I’ve encountered have been pretty neat and involved with the story of the worlds they occur in.

Which is a pretty strong deal compared to other full price titles, considering the base version of Remnant II is only $50 rather than $60. At $70 for the most premium version of the game, you’re getting the first year of DLC included with what’s already a great game.

I’m nearly 40 hours in, approaching what I think is…

I know a handful of folks that do this stuff on the side and most of them are professional working artists or else work in film/TV/entertainment in some capacity. But that might just be a side effect of my proximity to Hollywood.

Genuinely asking - do you have any reading material to dispute the assertion? I am about as far as you can get from crusading christian groups and I am all about supporting sex workers but this is the first time I’ve heard anyone dispute it who (presumably) did not have a financial interest in the sporting events in…

I can understand being on the fence about CDPR’s ability to follow through on the commitments their marketing campaigns and pre-launch press hustles make, but $30 for an expansion to a game like that seems perfectly reasonable. That’s exactly the kind of additional content I would be happy to pay $30 for. For the…

Yes. It’s not unhead of for various professional conventions to require offsite conduct agreements from vendors and exhibitors for the duration of the event. If I organize a convention with 28000 people and an exhibitor does an afterparty at the club down the street, people are still only there because I organized a…

I promise the ‘authorities’ don’t care that much. When a city hosts the superbowl, there is a documented and significant statistical increase in human trafficking in that city. Shitty sports fans want to pay for sex along with their game. This is well known and widely documented, but nobody shuts down the Superbowl.

Iron Gate’s idea of “we don’t have official mod support” seems way more generous and supportive than many developers who tout official mod support as a marketing line.

Is it fading? There are more extraction shooter titles being released or in development now than at any time I can think of unless you want to count stuff like dime-a-dozen clones from the DayZ era. None of them have yet found truly mainstream success. Hunt Showdown continues to defy the odds but likely doesn’t pull…

The game has been in some stage of pre-dev since at least 2010, for what it’s worth. 

Tarkov is one specific vision of a rapidly broadening genre though, and to date there really aren’t any AAA extraction shooter executions on the market. DMZ is cool, but it’s 100% a tacked on experiment now being ruined by explicit pay to win content. I’m not going to pretend I wouldn’t love to play a remaster or…

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.