Granted if you don’t consider norms around being polite in an audience to be a societal/cultural norm it would be subjective. I posit though if you wouldn’t text in a theatre, you shouldn’t roll golfing balls (products that incidental or not are marketing materials for your product that you “snuck” past security (in…

So... that’s a shitty thing to do.

However, people don’t freak out when their facial data is being mined by the company that makes the app.

I get it. My kids play too much online games too. I don’t think they’re nearly as unprepared as your nephew and they’re far more prepared in other ways than average since they’re foreign service kids but, yeah, there’s going to be a reckoning when they go off to university. And Mrs. Fever-Dog and I are scared for them…

But then, if I watch his stream, I just think “How hard can THAT be?”. There’s streaming, and then there’s sitting in front of a camera playing a game and screaming like an idiot.

Not everyone cooks with avocados and that’s because sometimes they’re just mushy fuck fruit that people add to mac and cheese eat for no discernible reason.

What a world we live in, when a 28 year old man child can become a semi celebrity from streaming a video game in front of a web cam. Meanwhile, those of us who...ya know....work, will likely struggle just for a pat on the back. Crazy.

I hope they’re fuckin SCSI drives.

Yeah I like all of these suggestions. I do think one of the things I like is that the game isn’t infinite. I think that has improved the quality. So I think that will be trickier to balance. Fans who liked a horter game, vs Fallout fans looking for a “full package”.

I definitely want to see around 30% more…

To be more accurate, the author of the Witcher books was salty because he sold the videogame rights to CDPR for a pittance. He’s openly admitted to thinking the first game would flop so he took whatever they offered. Now that the series has sold millions of units and gained far more recognition than his books, he’s…

“ I would isolate sections of the map/level in my mind, and I would do sweeps of each zone, going from boundary to boundary, searching and looting everything. As a result, I am filthy rich and super powerful but also pretty tired now that the game has opened up so massively.”

This does seem to be at the heart of why…

I’ve really enjoyed all the comments in this thread and am replying generally here on various topics.

Fully disagree, and I loved F4. One of the things that I found interesting about TOW is having multiple companions, and having them actually have conversations in the background that didn’t affect game play. They just chatter to each other, and the dialog is very character development, and a nice touch that was…

It does a couple of sneaky things well. I just finished my second playthrough, making this the first RPG i’ve played twice in immediate succession.

“As for pricing, I find the game pricing today bonkers. They offer so little for so much money.”

It almost seemed like it was a short game to begin with, then MS (who unfortunately owns Obsidian now) told them to cut out some of it for DLC.

I always say if something was truly good, it’ll hold up today.

When you said you were going to start RDR2 again and finish it, I took that to mean that you had already finished it and were going to do another playthrough. I’d only do that if I really liked a game so I assumed you loved RDR2.

What a strange world we live in. You seem to love RDR2 which has extremely dated gameplay and mission design. It also has incredibly slow pacing. Mechanically, Rockstar has been making the same game since GTA3 and it’s painfully apparent. You also praise Fallout 3 which is easily the worst of the mainline Fallout…

I agree completely with everything you said and I’m in exactly the same position. If my comment made it seem differently then that’s incorrect. I disagree with all the hype around this game and don’t believe it is the “game of the year” (not that I agree with that concept itself entirely either). But that doesn’t mean…