I mean, they did, they just never dipped into magic and mysticism like Star Wars did. There’s plenty of hand-wavy bullshit science in Star Trek (apparently nearly any technical issue can be solved by reversing the polarity on something or other) but they always tried to keep it “sciencey.” They never tried to get…

This is a reasonable take. 

Star Wars may have fewer good films, but the good ones it has are better than any of the Trek films.

No.....no, it’s really not.  Nothing going on in Tolkien counts as “sci-fi.”

Honestly, Star Wars barely counts as sci-fi. Most of the “science” involves tech powered by magic crystals, the space warfare is just naval combat in space right down to the battles typically playing out in two dimensions and fighters acting like airplanes and not obeying the laws of momentum in zero G, and nowhere in…

From stillhouse’s comment above:

Genuinely, who the fuck cares?

Maybe people expected more than passable, but passable works just fine for me given I never thought this company would ever try something new

As a first entry in a new series, of course it will take some growing into.

I’m very much in the “art direction beats graphical fidelity” camp, but this game doesn’t really seem to have much of either. And the level of pop-in I’ve seen in some of these videos goes beyond a graphical issue and becomes a gameplay issue.

For most games the upgrade option is in the actual game menu. You don’t upgrade via the Playstation Store. You have to start the game and select the upgrade option. That’s how it worked for Spider-man, anyway. So you won’t be able to perform the next-gen upgrade until you have the PS4 game installed and launch it.

Do I have to preorder or can I buy it at launch and then upgrade?  I’m strictly in the “no preorders” corner.

Yet another person touting what NFTs “can do,” without giving a single example of what NFTs can do.  

NFT is the future

But think about how jaded and traumatized these people are that a Mr. Mime just minding their own business is grounds to treat it like a menace.

The talent that developed and maintains one of the most successful non-MMO live service IPs in the world.

Seems pretty simple to me. Sony sees live service games as a major, lucrative trend that is only going to get bigger in the next decade, and they want to acquire someone with extensive experience developing and maintaining live service games.

Same here, but I think we’re in the minority. Or at least, the number of people who do play live service games is large enough that our complaints don’t amount to much in the face of their $$$.

Sony is buying Bungie because Sony sees live service games as a major revenue source that is only going to get bigger in the coming decade, and they need to onboard a bunch of talent that has experience developing and maintaining live service games.

The problem is thinking of “companies” as monolithic entities. There are plenty of people close enough to the ground to see these things for the dumpster fire they are. But if you tell shareholders and board members “there’s a technology out there that will allow you to sell an idiot nothing, and give them a .jpeg as…