Yeah he was my second choice after Boring McGee and His Dour Ghost friend from the Shadows of Middle Earth games. Also since I’ve never really played Gears I can at least speak to Shadows weird treatment of women first hand: plus, Sexy Lady Shelob is always good for a laugh.

Still doesn’t have women like Arkham hates…

Damnit, it keeps coming to all the platforms I don’t own.

The Shadows of Middle Earth games are right there, after all.

I mean if they really need to fill that Arkham void, it’s not hard to throw a dart and hit a game that features tedious over-muscled unemotional dudes and a rampant hatred of women.

I was assuming they brought in 500K and then spent that on Crypto and lived off the profits of the boom that followed.

My apologies if I misconstrued: I thought I was being called a Chinese commenting plant and wasn’t greatly pleased.

Canadian sick of America wrecking my country, actually.

They’d try to squeeze it out of a single stanza of The Adventures of Tom Bombadil.

“America’s ability to enforce laws on American properties stops at America’s borders.”

That’s a very nice fiction that is utterly untrue given America’s economic might and coercive history.

It’s more I have to squint all the time to see detail, and I often have to close one eye entirely, and just the though of having a screen literally strapped to my head for the length of a video game would be hella draining for me.

Changing my... diet?

I eat a taquito once every six months, if that. There are no ‘prepared’ foods in my house beyond the occasional box of crackers, I prepare all my own meals, I roll my own ravioli when I feel the urge, my diet is fine, thank you for your genuine if somewhat misplaced concern. I was just lamenting…

As a Canadian fan of taquitos, our love is tempered by the fact that they’re insanely expensive here.

I think it’s two for five dollars now, pre-tax? Something obscene.

I lost my mind at this sentence.

Yes. Players are not allowed to look at the screen, and are only allowed to input buttons in a pre-approved order with exact timing listed on a page in 30-point font and sans-serif typeface.

Nah, looked it up. The player who is red is at a clear disadvantage because he is more prominent on the screen than white. This is why my game would not use colours of any kind in order to circumvent this kind of overpowered stupid-dev bullshit.

Excuse you, he got three whole games fighting aliens in space.

I was under the impression it was a prequel. And I too hate it’s VR-only nature, as someone with a visual impairment for whom VR will never be anything but a gimmick for other people even if I could afford the hardware.

(Yes, I know there’s much cheaper VR options these days. I functionally can’t justify them either.) 

Going to create a fighting game where there are only two characters, each an identical grey cube with the exact same light attack, heavy attacks, and block. There is only one stage, and it is a beige room ten feet long.

This, as far as I can tell, is the only way to please fans of fighting games, and yet I know the…

Oh, the lore is rd - it’s how I was introduced to the game. It’s just... not IN the game once you actually go and play it, and the game as it stands now took even mroe of it out.

“None of these encounters ever feel unfair though.”

Objectively untrue. Having two brute in the same fight is a joyless pain, and coaxing Spidey to target the right person is frequently a lesson in futility.