I mean, the idea that companies only exist to make money isn’t exactly a great argument - I think a fair number of people would suggest it’s a major flaw with the way we’ve structured our society and economy, particularly in an industry that’s at least somewhat artistic.

I wasn’t able to watch much last night, but I’m glad they didn’t send anyone home the first episode. So many shows do that and the audience doesn’t get a chance to see what the contestants can actually do once they’re settled in.

Fire Emblem also usually has the double gut-punch of said OP old knight character having bad stat growth so not only do you wind up with most of your roster being underleveled, the person you’ve been overleveling winds up being mediocre at best.

A deep cut, but a good one.

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.