ROI = Return on Investment.

If I recall correctly, at first he thinks he’s just seeing a vision or something, before deciding to just go with it. By the end, Bayek seems to be 100% onboard.

Curse of the Pharoahs is genuinely excellent. Also, I’m just now remembering that the whole thing kicks off with the angry spirits of dead Pharoahs manifesting in the ‘real’ world and just attacking everyone, so there’s an entire other layer of supernatural nonsense with absolutely no connection to the Isu/First Civ…

As a reminder, Assassin’s Creed: Origins features Bayek traveling to the Egyptian afterlife and interacting with actual Egyptian gods. No Isu technology, no drugged hallucinations, just matter-of-factly ‘the Egyptians were the only ones who got religion right’. Heck, you can even meet one of the main campaign’s enemy…

I don’t play Destiny anymore, but I still wish they’d make Fallen playable.

The only thing I can think is that it’s A: kind of SUPER presumptuous for someone not in any sort of creative position on a game or movie or whatever to release a ‘Director’s Cut’ of a work they weren’t involved with, and B: dumb to just shove cut/beta content, much of which may very well have been cut for creative…

I think what Dolsh is saying is that they have different priorities than you, priorities better served by Apple’s walled garden approach than Android’s (relatively) open ecosystem. Is it so hard to consider that different people care more about different things?

Man, I remember the first time I figured out I could cheese the leveling system in Morrowind by tagging Athletics and Acrobatics and just run around in circles and jump everywhere for quick, easy levels... right up until I started running into tough enemies with my combat skills still nearly at their starting values.

Speaking only for myself, when I see ‘From the X that brought you Y’ and (at first glance) it’s not the same developer/writer/designer/director/whatever, my first thought is that it’s someone tangentially, at best, connected to the thing they’re calling back to - I’ve seen too many movies that have been billed as…

Getting some real Torgo vibes from that header image.

I am very excited for this, though it blows my mind it’s not on Switch too - surely the Switch could handle a 360-era game.

In retrospect, it’s kind of funny how much they sanded down the insanity of the novel Shadow Complex was based on.

it should be at least comparable laying down french couture fashion on the ground to be stepped on.

Shadow Complex was great, but it had the misfortune to be based on Orson Scott Card, and not only that but Card at the point where EVERYONE could see what a toxic loon he was.

Mad Max - on the surface, just another open-world game that ripped off the Arkham series’ combat, which is fair.

As Kotaku reported previously, perhaps this is why it’s been up to pirates to preserve old games.

Who knew Microsoft adhered to the doctrine of Total Depravity?

The advantage is that they get to throw a ton of stuff against the wall, game-wise, see what sticks, and then renegotiate with the studios that turn out winners and dump the ones that release unprofitable garbage.

Sadly, sculpting remains outside my skillset. And more sadly, Rogue Trader and its models go for insane amounts on eBay anymore. Really wish I’d bought it when it was still in stores.