I first played Destiny 2 when it launched, and it had a clear, easy-to-follow 14-ish hour story, with a final boss and a very streamlined set of systems. It wasn’t the most amazing story, but it the gameplay was as solid as it’s always been, and I had a great time. As someone not interested in never ending MMO grind,…

Heh this is spot on. I’d never watched an episode of Rick and Morty, but that stammering, talking over himself style for Kenny in High On Life was so annoying, it convinced me to continue not ever watching the show.

I really want someone to mod the PC version after this final update to basically feel like Dynasty Warriors, where you wipe out mobs of enemies all at once, then have to work a little harder on the big bads.

Yeah you’ve hit on my concerns with this too. As both an artist and a writer, I’m not all-out against AI creation tools, but there should be regulations around them. Like these things just burst on to the scene with no documentation of where they got their information, what they were trained on, etc. I feel like…

I am back the next day after replaying Blacklist a bit last night and...10 years later, it is indeed still awesome.

I played it a couple times, and it didn’t really grab me, but it’s certainly got a long tail. My kids still play it together and with their friends. I think Ubisoft goofed making Skull & Bones M rated, but maybe it will work out for them.

Penny Arcade mentioned Splinter Cell Blacklist in their comic today and I re-installed it, gonna dive back in tonight. That game was like playing a season of 24. It was ridiculous, but took itself seriously (making it even more ridiculous), and it still had one-off levels not an open world. Sadly, I don’t think we’ll…

Amazon says it’s currently unavailable, but I got this one like a year ago and it’s great. Feels just as good if not better than the Hori split pad I have, plus it has rumble, gyro support, two back buttons, you can use them as standalone joycon or detached as a grip (you can do neither with the Hori) and you can…

I have never watched an episode of Rick and Morty, so apparently that halting, stammering delivery Roiland does is just kind of his thing? It makes it feel rough around the edges, and that is kind of fun for a video game where voice lines are always so polished, but it does get old after a while. The second I unlocked…

Solid list! Vampire Survivors doesn’t make mine, because it totally consumed me for like a week and a half very early in the year and...I feel like I got what I wanted from it then, despite all the add-ons and improvements. Maybe I’ll give it another go on mobile.

A few additions popular in my house (note these aren’t all same screen, as I have a series S and X and a PC, so with GamePass and game sharing, me and my two sons can all play)

-Rubber Bandits
-Goat Simulator 3
-Wobbly Life
-Fortnite (never really leaves the rotation)
-Sea of Thieves
-Gunfire Reborn
-Spider Heck

Yeah I noticed on both my phone and on PC that when you play a card there, it can take a very long time for anything to happen, especially if that card, like Bucky Barnes or Sabertooth, does something after being destroyed.

Heh, this is good to know, and actually sets my mind at ease because I was playing and thinking, “Is everyone in this universe just miserable?” Like even the people higher up or with some actual power and influence seem to hate their very existence along with the existence of everyone else. Now I know that’s the point…

That changes things a bit! Good to know, thanks!

I have played some Warhammer games (Space Marine back in the day, and the recently released Dark Tide), but I couldn’t really glean all that much from the stories in them. In fact, the barks that the characters in the Dark Tide game spew out while playing are so irritating (dumb pseudo-religious fascist space terms,…

Oh man this game already scratches my 90s Marvel card collecting nostalgia itch, if you could flip them over and see an artist credit and a little about the character that would be so cool.

We are in agreement here! As an artist myself I love to see credit as close to a piece as possible. One time Robert Downey Jr. shared my artwork on Facebook and not only did he credit me, he linked directly to my website (despite the image originating on my Instagram, which means he had to follow some links to get it)!…

Yeah those two did a TON of cards for Snap. I’ve always been a big fan of Dan Hipp’s art, so I try to scoop up his variants when I can. The whole reason I downloaded Marvel Snap was because Mike Krahulik of Penny Arcade said he did some cards, and I’ve been on the lookout for them ever since (and now hopelessly…

Heh, you just said what I was trying to say in a thread above in far fewer words. I’d probably do a loading screen for $3k, but I also have a full-time job (getting paid for art is a side gig for me, and I prefer it that way). So yeah, it really comes down to the individual.

You can go in to your loading screens and see an artist credit, it just takes a little digging. I wish they were easier to get to (this is a problem in Marvel Snap too, though I think they have plans to address it). A few times I’ve seen a loading screen that looks familiar and I’ll head to instagram to find the…