To be fair, there are a significant amount of gang characters who both don’t die and aren’t mentioned in the first game.

Horse auto veers into trees while riding and throw me off and then dies.

No it is snobbery. The OP simply stated that he finds the control issues (which have been commented on as an issue for a decade now with the RAGE software) to be hard to get into and your response being “oh well, you just don’t understand their design” is snobbery and saying they’re too stupid to get it

Or allow me to search an entire dresser? I’m sorry, but the control issue is game breaking.

Are you suggesting that promotions should goto people who don’t work as hard as others? or less hours than others?

That is the status quo in nearly any job, unless you want to start telling people they are forbidden from working harder than their peers (acknowledging that harder can simply equate to longer in some contexts).

Hey, are you the Izzy who’s so good at typing in Penguin Island?

Condescending doesn’t make facts untrue.

Seriously. For as long as I can remember, back into the 90s, games were around 50 bucks. It was kind of a big deal that N64 games were 10-15 bucks more. Now that’s just the norm.

20+ years of stable pricing is a miracle when things sometimes cost two or three times more than they did not that long ago. (I’m looking at…

What always kills me is the total loss of perspective here like, it’s easy to blow through a game’s worth of money for a single night’s experience at a bar or a show or something, but spend $60 on a 100 hour experience and it’s like you’re tearing your own skin off.

I’m very okay with this. Video games have been almost immune to inflation for some weird reason. Developers have to find ways to make up that cost. Games should be closer to $100 buck honestly, but gamers would bitch and cry about that too.

This. Until someone does an Early Access for extra $ but _without_ any extra content, the OP’s argument is moot.

This is a bad take, your last sentence is so hyperbolic. Special editions have always existed, now they just include a few days of early access, whats the problem here? No one is paying an additional $40, or even $20, to play a game 3 days early. They’re paying that for DLC, season passes, and extra goodies, with the…

This pretty much deconstructed every argument I had in conflict with the article. The police in Spider Man aren’t the police in reality. It’s just another part of the setting.

Because shitting on stuff people like by saying “Actually, what you like is bad.” generates page views.

Another cartoonish trope is that you can be bitten by a radioactive animal and gain super powers. Or that you can fall into a vat of random chemicals and come out super-human instead of you know... dead.

Because those really can’t be explained away so cartoonishly, they are completely wiped away in this fictional setting.

On top of that, Spider-man even comments that after he texts the police, that he needs to get out of there because he doesn’t know how they’re going to react. I think it boils down to the fact that while Peter Parker is aware of the issues and corruption in the NYPD, he loves NYC and sees the interactions in a more…

Police are an unimpeachable group in Spider-Man. They show no real flaws and make no mistakes.

There are also several lines where he talks to officers and makes comments like “Tell your colleagues to maybe not shoot at me next time”. It’s addressed a bit, while not being the focus of the game. He helps the cops when it’s the right thing to do. He stops crimes. He’s not raiding people in their homes whose only…