No. Nobody asked for “character crossovers” between pretty much any of the characters who have crossed over, and the events they’ve been choosing have been absolutely dire idiocy.

No not really. It shouldn’t be objectively worse to take the stealth approach - if anything the opposite should be true.

Sure, and as someone who has read comics for over 30 years, let me just say - that’s one of the worst and most boring aspects of comics, where they tend to vanish straight up their own arse, thinking they’re extremely clever but providing but being extremely dull.

“Also, who the fuck greenlit that shit?”

“Off the top of my head: Deus Ex: Human Revolution/Mankind Divided, Dishonored 1&2 and Prey. Combat in those games is entirely viable and really not all that difficult (and I finished them all on their highest difficulties, as I did Cyberpunk). By the halfway point of those games, you’re pretty overpowered and…

Sorry, you’re really stretching and you’ve completely overstretched.

I don’t think many people pretend it’s perfect.

I feel like slightly bad re: Marvels because I like all the characters individually and Monica Rambeau will always be “my” Captain Marvel (because of the original Secret Wars), but I just absolutely could not envision myself going to see that movie on the basis of the trailers. It just looks absolutely like it plays…

Yeah there are several fixer/gig missions where there is are genuine immersive sim approaches available, but like, there’s usually nearly zero incentive to do them. You don’t get all the loot and XP you’d get from shooting your way in. The cops aren’t going to come just because there’s a gunfight (which is not…

I mean, absolutely, but I think there’s a little more to it than just “stretched thin” being an issue - which does weaken it. It’s more like, about 30% of proper missions are genuinely well set up to be approached in a clever, thoughtful, multiple-real-solutions immersive sim kind of way, and about 70% (and this is…

“I imagine we’ll see some sort of Force Awakens-type nostalgiafest bringing back Downey and Evans before the decade is out. Probably whatever Secret Wars evolves into (I assume the Kang storyline is getting heavily retooled for obvious reasons).”

“That’s like calling Fallout 3 Oblivion with guns.”

I mean, you don’t have to patch if you have an unfinished playthrough. Depending on the platform you might even be able to play an older version.

Yeah it’s a bit of a half truth. It’s now a genuinely good game with a bizarrely underrated story and characters, but on launch, it was a buggy, glitchy mess even on PC, it’s just you could play through it if you wanted to.

My decision to unsubscribe from Disney+ a few months ago just keeps both looking better and better, and more and more like it will be a very, very long time, before I resubscribe, even temporarily.

Oh wow okay, you wanna talk about Destructoid?

Fuck. Damn. Shit. So angry at myself right now I should be the one called Mr. Furious!

A lot of games go pretty hard on it - and MS-backed games normally do. It’s a bit weird that Starfield thus doesn’t seem to really care.

Everyone loves a conspiracy theory.

There’s some truth in that but there are also a lot of reviews who are absolutely in love with that kind of game. It won’t usually get you 5/5 at Eurogamer (I mean, they gave BG3 4/5!), say, but it will get you 10/10 at a ton of smaller review sites which nonetheless count on Metacritic.