Pretty much this. At no point have I ever felt a sense of urgency to complete the main story quest in an RPG. Well, except for maybe the original Fallout which did have an actual time limit. But a modern AAA, open-world RPGs? Nah, there’s no urgency. Hell, more often than not, the side-quests are more interesting than…

With all due respect, who the hell plays an RPG like this? All those quests you mentioned were doable way before the end of the game. I know this because I got to the point where that bodyguard guy said we had to survey a parade route and I did like 40 hours of sidequests instead. Seriously, I’m dumbfounded here that…

I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt here and guess that you didn’t just intentionally insult my intelligence. If that’s the case, and I hope it is, I just want you to be *aware* of the fact that it could very easily be taken that way. “Read any/most books.” is a sentence that really tempts me, in a knee…

I’m also totally surprised by the negative feedback about the urgency of the story. It’s something every other RPG does. Meteor is coming, Reapers approaching, Wild Hunt is chasing the girl, blah blah blah! In comparison to other stories the chip thing feels harmless and obviously the supposed urgency won’t impact the…

Who mainlines the story in a CDPR game? If Witcher 3 taught us anything, it’s that the meat is always in the side stories and extra content . I spent a good 50 hours before the parade mission doing every thing the game had to offer. And unless you’re using mods or grinding like a mad man, you won’t get V leveled and…

Maybe because I’m a long-time Bethesda player who’s used to ignoring the main quest to go exploring; maybe because I’m not a CDPR fan (only played Witcher 1, didn’t like it, can’t stand Geralt) who didn’t have any “Witcher 3 but with cars” expectations; maybe because I didn’t watch all the hype reels they put out...…

Dude the COD community doesn’t just do that for women, they do that for EVERYONE. That community is so insanely toxic. Never in my life have I ever been angry at anything more than I get angry at that stupid game. I had to quit it. Not because the gameplay sucks. Solely because the people on there suck.

Idk how she does it. That brand of toxicity definitely stopped me from playing competitive online games with open voice chat + randos and she’s getting it way worse. Heck even LoL text chat was a bridge too far. I’m already subjecting myself to the grind of ranked play. Why do I need to also bathe in whatever sexist/r…

Just gotta laugh at these pathetic incels that had their mommies make so many sandwiches that they think it’s such a difficult task that it’s an insult to tell someone to make a sandwich.

I like the Harry Potter franchise, as does my wife. We’ll probably buy this game. Am I doing it to support an alleged “transphobe”? No. I don’t give a shit about trans people because I don’t give a shit about people period. To each their own.

There are still a ton of good Lego Harry Potter sets, stuff for adults even! In both complexity, size, and cost that kids can’t afford. Like the $500 Hogwarts Express Collectors Edition which is rated 18+, has over 5000 pieces, and is a whopping 4 feet long.

This game is not shovelware. 

Come for the weirdoes insulting actual children, stay for the weirdoes doing a capitalism to needle trans people.

Or maybe the thing to ask is, how much of CoD sales has been responsible for the funding in developing Sony’s first party line up?

TLoU was developed in-house by Sony, by an in-house team, from scratch. Halo was stolen from the people by Microsoft, and now they want to steal even more IP/franchises too. Fuck them. Don’t let them.

Scope is absolutely a key consideration in anti-trust concerns. For example, Epic has done a ton of flagrantly anti-competitive bullshit since they launched EGS but FTC hasn’t said a word about it. Why? Because Epic doesn’t have the dominant share of the PC software distribution market. Sony’s argument is that CoD is r…

Microsoft really doesn’t want to make the “company big” argument.

It should *NEVER* come as a surprise that someone with wealth or power is a shitty person with shitty ideas, attitudes, and behaviors. They get that wealth/power specifically because they’re horrible people, not because they were honest, fair, ethical, moral, etc. Wealth and power — by the positions in and paths…

I came in here expecting some absurdly Activision-Blizzard-King level of homophobia or something and instead I got ...this?

I mean, people are going on homophobic screed rants about this show and this is supposedly the most egregious thing.

God this line of reasoning is so irritating and desperately reliant on people not understanding that anti-trust complaints are not about “company big.”