It sounds like OWL hero pools will be randomized. I don’t follow the league, so I don’t know if they all play the same day, but if so, I can’t imagine a day or two (at most) would make a huge amount of difference versus either having some bench players to fill out a roster for the day Symmetra is just absolutely…

Man, I got almost halfway through the video before I couldn’t take it anymore. The worst kind of nerd pedantry that confuses knowledge of one thing (sword combat) with authority in a related thing (stage combat), contradicts himself several times, and complains about character motivations being shown instead of said.

I actually didn’t get the Renfri = Snow White thing until I rewatched the episode with my dad and happened to count her henchmen.

I mean, if developers want their games to only be examined and critiqued once they’re totally done, they’re free to wait until said game is totally done to release it.

It’s certainly a little jarring to think the the whole thing happens over the course of a week, tops, compared to the year or two in the original story, but I think that’s probably a necessary compromise for a modern-day setting. People are just so much more mobile today than they were in the ‘20s or ‘30s, so it’s a…

They don’t really. If anything, they kind of compress it, in the sense that the original story takes place over several years, while the movie takes place over a few days - a week at the most.

I saw Color Out of Space the other night, and it was really good. Felt like a fun fusion of the original story and John Carpenter’s The Thing, which makes sense since there’s basically zero action in the actual short story and what there is is all weird and in the past.

Gotta be Emerald Hill Zone. I played so much Sonic 2, it’s crazy. Honorable mention probably goes to, like, Undead Parish or something from Dark Souls.

Man, I want to buy this if only to play out my personal headcanon that the City that Garrett calls home is just the most backwater part of the Empire of the Isles.

Why are the girls battleships? Or vice versa? I don’t understand this.

Man, I loved Slave Zero. So much fun. We need more games where you get to stomp around a city in an enormous mech. My only rule is that if you cant go through buildings accidentally, the mech’s too small.

I don’t think so. To the extent that DOOM has a canon anyone really cares about, the Doomslayer is clearly an entirely different thing than Doomguy/The Marine. For one thing, he’s not a marine, he’s a mythical figure of demonic legend wearing magical (?) demonic armor that’s been slaughtering demons for eons.

Obviously they COULD. Equally obviously they don’t want to, likely because they have no interest in promoting the one single mode of play the hardcore community has decreed the only way to play competitive Smash.

Because if they start sponsoring tournaments, they competitive scene will be upset if it isn’t their preferred (some might say boring) style - see the way certain vocal segments filled their diapers when Nintendo DID sponsor events last year, but without the pro community’s preferred rules - ajnd if they do bow to…

I’ll be honest, I thought Ubi’s excuse was marginally (marginally!) more believable, if only because AC games generally have stunning animation and Tarkov is an FPS that could literally get away with just slapping women in as skins if they wanted to.

I THINK I had the Enhanced Edition, but it’s been a while. Maybe I’ll see if I can’t dig up the box when I get home.

It was something that got talked about a fair amount during the early development blogs. Just one of those things that seemed like an interesting direction to take their fantasy world at the time that wound up backfiring and being abandoned.

I honestly think it’s fascinating to look at Dragon Age’s changes - when the first one was in development, it was a deliberate design choice to make all the different races look very close to humans to really embrace the Low Fantasy aspect - obviously, they took a hard turn away from that from DA2 on.

Honestly, using potions during combat makes a heck of a lot more sense than being able to apply whetstones and weapon oils mid-fight, both of which Witcher 2 is fine with.

Couldn’t you drink potions mid-combat in the first game? it’s been a while, but I could swear you could if they were on your belt, which is why upgrading your armor was so important, as it added potion holders.