I’m still proud of myself for having not played Anthem at all after seeing the direction a studio was going and deciding I was not interested in it. When Fallout ‘76 calls it quits, maybe I can add another game I get to feel un-righteously smug about.

I’ve already ordered a copy, of course. But from some of the people that had the chance to play it previously, it looks like this is a game with the investment of a full evening.

Published ‘expected play time’ is more than 45 minutes, but some of the people reviewing it said they had put two hours into the game and…

I have some mixed feelings about this game. I thought it was initially awesome (with minor caveats), but the novelty burnt out super quickly.  It was released at a time where it was really easy to pick up another game and just not come back to it.

Fuck me, right?

Part of it, I’d assume, is just how hard-pressed you are to find this on the Xbox digital storefronts unless you dig a little. It doesn’t help that on Xbox, at least, it is plastered with big, bold “this doesn’t run as well on Xbox One”.

I thought about your post and about that sort of character...

Dark... uh... poison?

Look, I loved the game and despised the ending of the game.

Just guessing, but a mix of a much larger amount of these devices going out and a larger amount of those people having immediate access to share their experiences with the device?

Hell, even the actual rants about why it sucked were vague because that was the ending. A vague color-coded choice that was missing any real conclusion that many were expecting.

Hey, now... you only need to exclude me once.

Is Bucky the lagamorph?

Unless you are playing Until Dawn. Some of the most fun I’ve ever had was controller swapping between four people. Some of our favorite in-jokes come from it.

Pedantic, but ‘fellow Sailor’, not Soldier.

Doesn’t this mean you can’t get that apartment with the high value weapon seller thing?  I’m trying to remember the rewards from finishing it.

“I like that the company is buying lots of ‘little’ developers because we can use the funding. I don’t mind that we are being brought under an umbrella group because we are all doing different things in different ways. Some of those have to succeed, right?”

Damn. The amount of times I made up *policy* just to avoid taking in obviously stolen goods walking in from the Walmart behind my store (and the amount of super uncomfortable conversations my GM had with me about increasing trade numbers, and unless they tell me to my face it is stolen...)

And it was so hard to tell people the truth, because you needed to have rotating cast of people because they were only going to be getting at best 10-12 hours a week.

GameStop was always hell to work at because of the looming threat of how easy it was to replace you, as there was always a long line of people who’d love to work at a place where ‘all you do is sit around, play and talk about games...’

This tends to be answered with ‘any game with a new game plus feature’ or ‘multiple romance options’.