So are there potentially large swaths of the game where your skill points (in sneaking, shooting, talking, etc.) have nothing to do with anything since you’re just walking around some alien woods that stretch hundreds of miles in every direction?

Wasn’t Sea of Thieves also in rough shape for a while? I guess the question is whether Bethesda (or somebody at Bethesda) actually cares enough about Redfall to see it through until it’s something they can be proud of.

It’s eminently reasonable to charge more or less for an expansion based on how much stuff is in it (since that probably correlates more or less directly to the work that got put in it.)

They did include some older games like Sea of Thieves, Overwatch 2, and Cyperpunk 2077 but all of those were trailers for larger bits of new content than “a patch that makes it run better.”

So it’s obviously not going to be a fully open galaxy, since that way lies madness. What I’m wondering is how much of the “landing on a planet” is going to follow something like the DA:I/ME1 model where “you can only choose to land near something interesting” (since we didn’t bother to seed content in the other 190…

To date every Fable game (except for the Kinect one, which I have no experience with) was a pretty likable game.  Absolutely failed to live up to the promise, but a good time nonetheless.  So I’m looking forward (but not too much) to this one.

Pusser’s is a blended aged rum, so acceptable substitutes are things like Appleton Estate Reserve, Diplomatico Reserva, Doorly’s XO, Mount Gay Black Barrel, and Plantation 5 Year.

So a hypothetical to people taking issue with this. If a local Columbus restaurant signs an NIL deal with Marvin Harrison Jr. to appear in a local advertisement and endorse how good their brunch is. Should the restaurant pay Harrison the millions of dollars he will eventually get paid for being incredible at football,…

I think the community was afraid that the South Park guys would work a bunch of South Park references into it, put “chocolate salty balls” on the menu or otherwise make a joke out of it.

Fairly compensate them for what they are doing for EA, which is like “sign a waiver” and “maybe send a headshot”. Not “fairly compensate them for playing college football” which is not EA’s business.

Really, “spending a bunch of money updating and renovating a restaurant that has value to the community” might be the best thing the South Park guys have done together.

The people who need to be compensating college athletes are the institutions themselves. It’s not reasonable to expect EA to make up for the NCAA’s failure to appropriately compensate its athletes.

I’m reminded of Fable, where you could unlock various titles that affected how NPCs referred to you.  One of the first ones you unlock was “Piemaster”, and I was never anything else in that game.

I clicked on this thinking “am I going to have even heard of any of these games” and the first one is blaseball so now I’m going to be sad for a while.

Isn’t the use of the Multiverse in the Flash basically so they can remove whatever aspects of the DCEU they wanted to from continuity (e.g. now Henry Cavill has never been Superman.) It’s always been part of DC Comics DNA to do explicit retcons through time travel, a Crisis, Hypertime, etc. Whereas Marvel generally…

The history of professional wrestling in America is sort of invested in a sort of “low grade nationalism” in a way that is sometimes turned up to “incendiary” by the performers. In recent days, it is somewhat better, but for a *loooong* time in wrestling heel performers (who are trying to receive derision from the…

How do we figure out what the correct amount of money for the NIL for a 20 year old scholarship athlete who isn’t particularly noteworthy? Particularly when that guy would rather be in the video game than not be in the video game, and “nobody who was going to buy the game won’t buy it because it says “Ohio State WR…

I’m pretty sure that there are people outside of that who would *pay* EA money to get into NCAA. I’m pretty sure the initial offer of $500 is just to sweep through everybody who is more excited about being in a video game than “maximizing their NIL income” .  Then they’re going to start offering more money because…

I mean, it would cost $6.8m to pay every college football player $500. A lot of these people would take “a free copy of the game” and no money because being in a video game is cool. There are lots of players who have so far never been offered *any* NIL money, so I wouldn’t fault them for taking this.

I mean, there are an incredible number of college football players (significantly more than there are in professional leagues.) There are 130 programs in the FBS (the highest level of college football) and each of them gets 85 scholarships and a roster size of up to 105.