Don’t get me wrong, as a whole MS and XBox definitely lagged behind their competitors in sales and market presence. But like I said the past couple years they’ve obviously tried to set themselves up as best they can for the Series’. Not much that they have personally entices *me*, and gamepass seems great but I’m not…

My worry is what it really means for game performance at the high end, and for devs. I can’t imagine what it will be like to balance builds for all SKU’s and PC. 

Really curious how much of a loss they’re selling this at, for all it’s touted power. Sony’s discless ps5 will at least be cheaper, I’d imagine. But MS’s series S seems like a great value and entry point for next gen, at least for a few years.

Definitely one of the strangest leadups to a new gen, obvious circumstances…

I honestly don’t see how Sony has been shitty or over-competitive; I think it’s that Microsoft has been overly eager to narrow their gap in console sales and performance by layering on the offers and practices. “Pay us 1 dollar and get a bunch of games! Cross-play with anyone, we don’t care! Please, play on Xbox!”.

White nerdy boys also shoot up schools and churches and run their cars through crowds more often, too. But a black man with a possibly counterfeit twenty and a panic attack? Eh...

Thank you for sharing that story. I keep hoping family members and friends I talk to will eventually share a similar experience like yours. To look at Obama’s presidency, and to not - all things considered - at least acknowledge his strengths as a leader as well as his constant opposition, is just incomprehensible to…

“Additional extra content” remains to be seen. They’re really setting expectations high with what they’ll need to deliver after removing half the content of the game. If the content isn’t satisfactory, which few expansion campaigns/additions have been in Destiny, and the D1 returning stuff is a larger portion…

I also hate Destiny because I love the idea of Destiny. Something about that universe's feel always intrigued me and pulled me in. Now I wonder if it was just all the rushed, patch-job story and environmental elements that let me create a grander narrative in my head that what was ever really planned. 

Sure, in other instances. But absolutely in the cases of Mass Effect and Tomb Raider, teams who made widely respected single player experiences went on to make middling live service games, hence their point.

I’ve quit a few times, but haven’t touched it for over a year now. It just doesn’t respect the player’s time. Looking back on all the amazing games I’ve played since then, I really wish Destiny didn’t spread itself so thin. 

I honestly believe, with how buggy raids and trials have always been, that they think having a premade team will alleviate a bit of the frustration since you had to form that team and you’re more pressured to stick with them since there isn’t another option. Otherwise I’m sure people would just leave raids and trails…

10 minute lunches??? That’s just ridiculous. It’s not healthy to shove food down like that. But then again, not much of schools plans are concerned with student health. 

Damn, I went there in 2017 but didn't step in last December. Really cool multi floor arcade, and yeah the design on the outside helps set the vibe of the strip. Shame.

Kenji definitely grew on me!
**Spoilers, anyway**
After the death of Taka, Kenji has a few lines over the course of the ending that shows he misses the kid, and the game really humaizes him in the end. Really, all the characters get such great sendoffs that I loved them all in the end. 

To me, there’s only one true ending. Jin commits to what he told his uncle; that he’s a slave to honor. It would literally be the death of him (and many of their people) when faced with an enemy who doesn’t care about that. Jin sparing his uncle is his last pleading request for him to see where that blind honor would…

I... I think I want to ask Slippy out on a date.

What strange performance art is this? lol

Dang, I just got the platinum! If they do NG+ eventually I'll try it out though. I loved the variety of the combat but there's no doubt that even on hard you could 1 shot an entire camp pretty easily. By design almost, reinforcing your ruthless lethality as the Ghost. Absolutely loved the game though and really liked…

For me, rather than whether or not it succeeds and creating actually good poetry or haiku (with which I don’t have the experience to discern, anyway!), I think the haiku exercises were a fun addition for Jin’s sparse characterization. It did a good job of putting you in the shoes of someone who loved his home so much…

I really am curious how open-world games evolve. Simply getting bigger and bigger isn’t the answer, and yeah Cyberpunk seems to be striving to make it’s world more dynamic. I said in another comment, but personally I would much rather a game world be more reflective of my actions merely than have more stuff. Okami did…