And also, let’s acknowledge the huge fucking trauma that Covid was for kids. It’s one thing to have a “kids these days” rant, but lets remember that, for an 8 year old, a good quarter of life may have been spent with a very real message that outside was dangerous.

I don’t think it was ever about which deserved it more, tbh. It was which game did they think would sell, and sell potentially multiple games in a series.

Um, peaked? CoD still sells ridiculously well. Sure, a few titles have underperformed, but they’re still a massively powerful IP.

Honestly, a ten year agreement was always that. They don’t need to say anything else on top of it - the proposal itself demonstrates their current thinking.

It didn’t bother me that much specifically because Cal is on the run.

And I play it far, far more than my PC or Switch.

frankly, a part of the job.

I gotta be honest that I do enjoy an isekai anime that understands its role as escapist fantasy and just plays with tropes. But I can’t think of an isekai anime I’d include in a best of the decade list. I say that having thoroughly enjoyed That Time I Was Reincarnated as a Slime (having watched the released seasons…

I was really frustrated Woman King got so snubbed. The movie wasn’t perfect, but it was still tight, and the performances, costumes, and sets were all great.

Honestly, I don’t think it was. I really think you might be giving it that to try and make sense of it, having just watched it last week ahead of Mando 3.

Book of Boba Fett has some comedically bad moments (the finale fight scenes are particularly horrible, as is the teen streettoughs cyborg bike chase). But yeah, largely meh.

It’s actually surprisingly good?

... Why are people acting like Wong’s comedy special just came out of a vacuum? It’s not like she got on stage one night and did an entirely new, never before heard or practiced set. It didn’t just spring forth from her brain as an hour-long Freudian slip. I would be SHOCKED if her husband hadn’t heard those entire…

I’ve never understood where the love for IM3 comes from.

Oh. When you first mentioned TDKR I thought you were gonna put it on the “worst” list...

Yeah, that’s the thing. A FEW live service games have had massive success. They were, more often than not, standouts in the field. They have generally offered something unique, accessible, and worth sticking around for.

I mean. If you’re going to say they’re “not really live services per se” then why in the WORLD are you acting like this is a rebuttal to their point?

Honestly, I don’t have a problem for these sorts of collection games existing in general. I think they are far too predatory in their implementation, and they should be more measured in the use of things like gacha mechanics, buying direct upgrades, etc. I also think plenty of them have to respect player time more,…

Part of it is that they also added a lot more systems to make it more accessible to people. Elden Ring has a gentler difficulty climb, and a lower skill threshold to still access. It does a better job of taking people on the journey, where Dark Souls games were historically more about bashing your head against them…

My partner bought me Gloomhaven years ago now and we still haven’t cracked it open.