Kinda my experience too, except for me it was that joyless Battle for Azeroth expansion. I was thinking about playing the newest one back when it came out but I just couldn’t push myself to do it. I feel like my MMO days are over, but then I see this and get curious.

I’m annoyed that people are finding all of this cool shit and I’m still sitting here trying to make heads or tails of the atrocious map.

No, I don’t really trust aggregate point-based review systems but they exist despite me not relying on them and no doubt influence a lot of buyers. Which is why I maintain that to distill a development team’s years of work into a 1-star review because the servers don’t work right on day one is profoundly unfair. It’s…

Pre-CUNGE SWG remains one of my most memorable gaming experiences.

That’s not what a review is for though. 12 months from now if the game is amazing and there’s 40,000 1-star reviews from the first day, is that really fair? Especially when I would say the vast majority of these online games have tremendous server problems on day one because of the sheer volume. These things tend to…

You’re famous! You should try to parlay this into a writing gig at Kotaku.

I feel you on that. I would maybe try it, even though I feel like my MMO days are long over, but I ain’t paying no $40 for it when I’ve already been debating buying Deathloop and Kena for a while.

I mean, there’s no way anyone could review an MMO of all things after one day so you have to figure it’s mostly just people complaining about queues and other stupid shit. The only reviews dumber than these are the ones you see on Amazon where people one star something because it arrived late or the ones on Best Buy…

Consider us even since you called me a “gross human being” based on five words.

As readers I don’t think we get to say “You should cover this and not that.” What interests me doesn’t necessarily interest you, and vice versa. I’m glad this was posted because I have a friend who wants to try Avengers and I can tell him he’ll have his chance to do it for free this month. It’s also seemingly a…

And you’re the self-righteous moron that comes on a video game blog and tells the writers what they should and shouldn’t write about.

Right here. Me. I do.

I don’t know that your bronze/silver/gold ranking correlates to your skill in a game like this as much as it would in a one-person multiplayer game like a fighter. I don’t know the hard numbers, but you still get decent XP even when you lose, unless you get completely rolled. The ranking is really more a function of…

He’s probably wanted in multiple systems and is an exile from his home planet

Remember those Tales from the Cantina and Tales from Jabba’s Palace books that actually fleshed out some of the background characters in each of those locations? I found that stuff unnecessary and boring even when I was at my most Star Wars-obsessed when I was a teenager in the early to mid 90s. Does the Weequay on…

Oh trust me, I’m not a big fan of Chris Pratt. I absolutely agree they could’ve done something more interesting here. I love Danny DeVito. I’d be so on board with that, and imagine the chemistry with Charlie Day.

You probably don’t want to listen to Martinet’s Mario for 90 minutes. It wouldn’t work. He’s amazing at the stuff he does, but that style wouldn’t work for a film where he needs to talk a lot.

You’re tacitly co-signing a church’s agenda/belief system if you belong and don’t say anything. He’s never come out and said homos are gonna burn in hell, but to my knowledge he’s never disavowed any of their mission statement either.

Artemis as Wendy Koopa. We’ve got to find a spot for Pondy too.

Avengers was overall a miss for sure, but I thought the last Tomb Raider was a snoozy slog as well and I loved the first two.