The Division as a franchise has always existed in a weird place between it’s contemporaries - Borderlands, Destiny, and Anthem (RIP). By being a semi-realistic third person shooter, it’s constrained by reality in a way that the other games don’t have to be. Anything in Destiny can be handwaved away with “space magic”,…

Or maybe journalists could stop instantly coming to the defense of publisher and developers because they have personal relationships with them and insult the intelligence of gamers in the process?

And you’re more than welcome to criticize that! (Personally, I loved Skyrim to death but was realllly disappointed by Fallout 4.) I’m just hoping to explain to people what an engine actually is and why there’s no reason to panic when you see headlines like “Bethesda won’t change its engine for TESVI.”

While I highly appreciate your reporting and every point you make in this article is sound, that doesn’t change the fact that every Bethesda game since oblivion looks and feels like oblivion and those of us who played oblivion to the ground in 2008 are getting tired of playing oblivion for the nth time in 2018.

Great article! I learned a few things.

Except the writer of the Forbes article actually is gaming press, even if the site he writes for is not. He doesn’t write about anything other than games. If anything his article is an example of gamers not understanding the games they play.

Hi Kirk, Hi Ethan. Gonna chime in my thoughts. I hope you’ll indulge me.

honestly would fucking love that.

Far cry 6: Fallout

The greater internet bandwagon has chosen to hate this game, so be prepared for lots of aimless butthurt from people if you choose to like it and talk about it.

There’s a lot legitimately wrong with it. But even so, I’m loving it. The combat is mostly fantastic, the exploration is good, the crafting and building of the space station is nice, most of the bigger sidequests have fine stories (they’re not W3, but nothing is).

Starting to think this game might not be so bad after all.