It was an obvious sarcastic comment. “/s” isn’t required. Maybe, just relax and laugh without being promted to, sometime.

This smells of a Colin Moriarty pivot. It is really easy to grift the right.

Exactly; there’s a way to balance action gameplay and horror, and that series pretty much nails it. (Even the third game, despite its problems, did some fascinating things with ‘co-op horror’.) I think, as much as the conversation around the Alien franchise devolves into ‘the first film is better as a horror film, the…

They just need to reskin Dead Space 2 and replace the Necromorphs with the Xenomorphs, especially the 90's toy variants.

I dunno man, I have a hard time writing off the entire company working from home during a pandemic (for basically the last year) as an excuse, given the fact that there are a ton of productivity and logistical issues that come up from extended work-at-home. 

Makes sense, and I appreciate the fact that Bungie has been fairly clear that they’re not going to demolish their employees’ lives to get this stuff out asap. 

Uh, I mean Anthem is following directly in the footsteps of Diablo 3 and Destiny, which both launched in pretty sorry states and eventually expansioned themselves into success. (D3/Destiny haters, please save your breath, I promise I do not care)

Yea I was somewhat skeptical the first day of Season of the Chosen but between the exotic missions, lost sector grinds, and battlegrounds playlist I’m having a really good time at the moment. I think it’s shaping up to be my favorite season since the rebooted model. 

I’ve said for forever that I would love a Destiny based tactics game about the Collapse. Let me play out the battles of Twilight Gap and other key lore points we only hear about. Let me see the world before humanity was stuck in just one city. I want to see how we were so badly beaten that we basically had to give up…

The notion of novels and comics and whatnot in the Destiny universe is... fine, I guess? (To a certain extent, I never got into the Star Wars EU, and so I’m a little wary of that sort of ‘IP expansion’ in general.) What I’d really like, though, are ‘Destiny Universe’ games that feed back into the progression of the…

Origins was my jam. I did literally everything I could in that game. I loved Bayek’s story, I was engaged in the overall plot, and the Egyptian setting just really did it for me. It didn’t hurt that I’ve always found that particular backdrop of Rome and Egypt during Julius Caesar to be some of the most fascinating…

It’s too damn big (and we haven’t even got to DLC yet). The sheer size dulls any of the good parts, and it does have some good parts, its just there’s so much content you can get lost and stop caring. I loved Origins because of the story but it was also a tad too big. Odyssey was bigger and suffered because of it, but…

Agreed as well. I was a particular fan of the Interceptor, especially with Spark Dash. The hit-and-run-with-godlike-speed-plus-a-shotgun gameplay was spot-on, gave me all the good biotic charge feels, all wrapped up in a mobile, metal, acrobatic combat gremlin package.

The flying was so good (even with the cooldown stuff, but then flying through water just added to the strategy of it) and the world really was beautiful - but damn if the story wasn’t good and the world just way too small. The prime/detonate abilities were awesome as well and really lent themselves to some interesting…

Agreed on all of this. There is some special stuff in Anthem, they just didn’t put *enough* in for it to be the “Destiny-killer” they clearly wanted it to be (despite not wanting to even look at what Destiny does well).

Warrior Within was cheesy as fuck, but the gameplay was excellent. I wouldn’t mind seeing more games like it.

Some people just legit hate women that much. It seems exhausting, agreed.

I think the problem is that there’s no LOVE for games by the decision makers and no room for any deviation from business projections. “Here’s your $50M, here’s your 100 headcount, and you have 18 months.” They hardly ever take into account the that places like id, Blizzard, etc all have a ‘It’s done when we finish…

I’ve read that some of the firms/corps that were shorting Gamestop and getting fucked over now are the ones we bailed out back in ‘08. The funds that bankroll some sports teams are involved too. I say good. Just another crack/hole exposed in this stupid system where the “economy” is booming, but people have no money

More people need to understand this (and apply it to more games). If the main criticism you level at a game is “after 9 million hours of playing it, it just isn’t that fun anymore,” then that sounds like a win for the game, to me.