Season 4 was a pretty good mystery, a lot more straightforward than the sometimes pretentiously convoluted seasons 1-3, although character development def. suffered from the short 6 episode length - some plot points were just too sudden and/or revealed hastily at the end and seems like bits were cut out.

Cool! I really liked that Ice Cap Act 2 music, such a good tune and definitely icey and wintery.

“It is unfortunate but it is also extremely cyclical and is just capitalism working as intended.”

This just further confirms what the DC-movies already suggested and that piece of garbage zombie-heist movie implied: that Snyder is a charismatic hack who can’t make movies with compelling characters or storylines.

The supporting cast in BG3 was indeed killer, my personal favorite being Alfira with her Disney moment song. Fuck, even the animals had more character than most of Bethesda’s main characters.

Well put. I’m with team Lae’zel as well. She had probably the most solid story arc and her personality was interesting as well once you got past the aggressive stance.

It’s a fantasy game - a rabbit mount could probably jump there with some magic shoes or something. It’d be just a cool little extra world - like if you could visit “Hell” from Earth, say like a place where there can be constant PvP battles on a high level with less gravity. Or just something different...…

Seems like a reskinned No Man’s Sky using all the features from the recent updates to that game. Considering their small team it’s a good idea to re-use the code for a fantasy game.

Yes, Golden Axe! Hope it has couch co-op still.

Corporate executives are so out of touch regarding reality sometimes.... people will play Skyrim and Stardew Valley for decades after 2023, but probably not Starfield. (I haven’t made up my mind yet)

I too think the Fallout setting is very cinematic (“richly drawn” as you put it) from the get-go, so just taking the Mad Max -wasteland crossed with 1950's alternative Nuclear-robotic USA -mashup vibe makes it very easy to understand and adapt.

Well, I don’t care about the technology that much either and nowadays play purely on couch with PC/Steam :) It might be just that consoles were distinctly more cartoonish/childlike - nothing wrong with that, of course - that computers spoiled for me when LucasArts adventures and complex RPG’s and fancy looking 3D…

Not a bad choice, and highlights the difficulty of choosing between A) biggest *improvement* or B) best *current sequel* in the franchise... I like Vice City a lot more, for example but it’s just a small evolutionary step from GTA3.

As a computer gamer guy I’ve never gotten into Zelda-games at all. I bought Zelda: A Link to the Past for my GBA but never thought it as captivating as Golden Sun or Advance Wars, for example. For the 3DS I have the Zelda games in shrink wrap still...

Apple makes a good profit on the hardware too, consoles might be sold with a different idea in mind so in that regard Sony being overly protective and discouraging jailbreaking makes sense...

Sounds totally similar to the App Store... although maybe Apple is defending it self by saying that consumers have a choice - they can buy an Android phone. Playstation could just say that “consumers can buy an Xbox instead, then - we’re not a monopoly”. So interesting to see if it is the OS that matters or the type…

You probably won’t be living in downtown Tokyo with the starting salary, no... but it’d be interesting yes, to have an actual comparison which takes education, healthcare etc. into equation and see what kind of living you get with Japanese game dev salaries in general. Salaries in the US always seem sky high from my…

Ah yes, that’s true... seems like the internet protected people a while there when word of mouth about bad games spread more quickly but perhaps the time is right again for quick cash grabs for some reason?

All I want is that map! And patches are always nice, I wish all games game with their exclusive patches (sort of like achievements). I do miss the big boxes somewhat, sometimes the manuals were funny to read indeed.

Seems like a legit K. Shepard article: for some reason he just put horns and Robbie Williams -hair on his regular alter ego.