Counterpoint: audiences don’t understand subtlety, so it’s okay for a storyteller to be loud about it. How many people watch Starship Troopers and come away from it entirely missing the point, for example?

I dunno - I am way more interested in watching a Hideo Kojima film than I am in watching a Death Stranding film. If those two happen to be the same film, great. This is entirely divorced from whether or not it will be a good film - I just want to see what a Kojima film looks like. The dude has earned enough creative…

Since it’s Black Ops, and deep in the CIA hole, the player character WILL find the weapons of mass destruction, a whole decade early.

Hunt is great, but it’s not exactly a comparable experience to something like Tarkov or DMZ or the Division’s Dark Zone, in its time. There’s little to no emphasis on collecting loot in the match, except for what you take off dead players if you’re doing a budget run. Your entire goal is to get in, kill the boss (or…

it might be obnoxious but it’s clever marketing. I only remember the name of one faceplate maker. 

It’s going to feature at least one documented war crime carried out by coalition forces and it’s going to attribute it to Russia, Iran, or China. 

These are some of the only people in tech right now who absolutely are not hurting for a job. Salesforce offered full compensation and equity to any researches who jump ship, Microsoft wants to hoover them up, and there are any number of other tech companies waiting in the wings.

Sure it does - ousting Altman has jeopardized the ability of OpenAI employees to sell their shares at an astronomical valuation. The buyers have made it clear that deal is at least somewhat contingent on Altman running the company. Hundreds of people had a sweet payday lined up and now it’s in the wind.

The forge stuff is really cool. It’s a shame the customs browser is utterly broken.

Even funnier: if you pay $15 for Game Pass Ultimate you can technically play Halo 5 too via cloud streaming. You can access and play every Halo title ever released for less than the price of the skin.

Marcus Lehto (of Halo fame) has a studio working on what is ostensibly being touted as a single-player Battlefield experience - I’m hopeful that it’s something in the vein of Bad Company 1 and 2.

This is plainly a bad release but I don’t think we can pin it up as an omen of COD’s decline. COD’s decline has been decreed a half dozen times already, and then a few years later innovate on a feature or two (no more than two innovations allowed per title) and drop a 60 fps trailer on nextgen tech and it’s the COD…

It’s a bummer but it’s not surprising if you consider Destiny’s journey. It launched in disaster mode, plainly riddled with the fallout effects of last minute changes in major systems and plot points. Most subsequent releases - Destiny 1's DLC and Destiny 2 from launch until now - have helped to right the ship but…

I rolled a fresh start character last night and spent most of my time with autorun on. There is just no reason to not have mounts. If it’s a pvp issue, make it so you can’t mount when you opt in to pvp. Its already entirely optional anyway.

It’s a decent MMO if you are looking for something that isn’t WoW/FFVIX/SWTOR/whatever else tab target 123456789 combat. It’s also really nice looking and has beautiful sound design. I don’t think it nails the promises it tried to make at launch about how PvP and the economy should work but there’s an enjoyable game…

The leveling experience consists of a whole lot of running for long stretches of time - so does gathering. Since pvp is optional anyway, there’s no reason to not have mounts. 

I played through the main story, Crimson Fleet, SysDef, and a smattering of side quests plus a little NG+ over around 70 hours. It was fun, but I hit the point where I’m ready to put it down and wait for a hopefully improved experience to see the rest of the game in a year or two. Just way too many baffling,…

If they add move pinning, fix the dumb parts of invasion (I think you can just stand still on all the bullet dodge survival things, for example), fix the UI lag, and resolve the netcode hitching issues in multiplayer, it will be a high point for the series.

I really like fighting games, but I’m really bad at them. I struggle with memorizing lots of combo strings and sometimes with the speed the inputs in many games require. So I always end up picking up a fighting game, clearing it’s meager single player offerings, and then giving it up after a streak of disastrous pvp…

It started working for about an hour last night after they tweeted about improvements but it’s back to utterly broken and non functional.

I didn’t think it would be possible for a 2023 11th hour run on ‘worst launch of the year’ after all the big behemoth AAA titles dropped but here Starbreeze is, really doing it.

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