Buying me breakfast is okay though.

I’m not that curious about the MT model in Warframe - but it does seem like we are getting close to agreement. The endgame in Destiny is weird. The raids are really interesting, but they don’t have much replay value. Well, not enough to keep them fun for as long as you have to play them to get all their drops.

Emphasis on “good core mechanics”. There are lots of good games with microtransactions in them; it’s not an inherently bad thing to do. The basic gameplay of Warframe did not appeal to me enough for me to want to find out much about their MT model though.

Touché. The way I see it, Destiny is a game with some value that a fair percentage of the game-playing public can get something out of. It has some well-publicized problems, but is not without merit. It won’t be for everyone, but I understand what people like about it.

Yeah, but so are some fun games.

The main difference is the core mechanics. I don’t enjoy the moment-to-moment gameplay of Warframe, so the greater economy doesn’t matter. I do enjoy the moment-to-moment gameplay in Destiny, so the issues with the greater economy are relevant to my interest.

The Witcher 3 and Bloodborne are both worth it by themselves. Also good are Sunset Overdrive and the remaster for The Last Of Us (although I guess you’ve already played that if you went with Sony last time around). Destiny has exclusive PS4 content, so if that’s important to you, then PS4 is the better Destiny choice.

Warframe, but with good core mechanics. And no microtransactions.

Right. I work at a games developer, and I know better than to ever name them on any online forum, or talk about them in any way that might identify them. They’re not even nearly as secretive as Nintendo; I just know that my speech is unvarnished, and no matter what I think about how Marketing are doing their job, I…

It is also sorely lacking in Grace Jones. At least they sorted that out in the sequel.

Speaking as a man, I was a little disappointed I didn’t get to take part in that - but then I remembered that I don’t work in any of the relevant industries or have any of the relevant skills to have been involved anyway. Or even know to whom I should have sent my CV.

Right - and how was he supposed to make “That wizard came from the moon” not sound stupid?

Look at the rest of the cast - Bill Nighy, Peter Stromare, Gina Torres, Nathan Fillion, and more. All of them were terrible (except perhaps Lance Reddick). Nighy in particular was awful, and he has done great work with shitty writing before (Pirates of the Carribean, for example). When you have that many dependable…

Candy Box is the first one I can think of - although Cookie Clicker codified the tropes a great deal.

WHO CARES?

Why are these animals perceived as more valuable dead than alive—when in fact, if we’re strictly talking monetary value, the lion that was killed for $55 grand would have brought millions of tourism dollars to the nature reserve?

Not something I saw, but something I smelled. This was a transatlantic flight, LHR-LAX, and I was sat next to a developmentally-challenged man who soiled himself upon takeoff. 10 hours of sitting next to that shit-stink.

Now that’s good old-fashioned Catholicism as I recognize it!

When I was a teenager living by myself, in 1999 and 2000 or so, I used to get in pointless arguments about lore on Bungie’s Marathon and Myth forums. I’m pretty sure I used all sorts of immoderate language and hyperbole. Pretty sure I never threatened anyone or purposefully trolled, but I was still a jerk.

When I was a teenager living by myself, in 1999 and 2000 or so, I used to get in pointless arguments about lore on Bungie’s Marathon and Myth forums. I’m pretty sure I used all sorts of immoderate language and hyperbole. Pretty sure I never threatened anyone or purposefully trolled, but I was still a jerk.