Diablo Immortal annoys me for much the same reason as every other game franchise’s multi-media projects, the biggest example being Bioware’s Dragon Age, where big chunks of story and lore are suddenly segmented off into formats I have no interest in, like comics and terrible novels. In this case, it just happens to be…

The core problem: The people thinking up the pricing and distribution models are completely separated from those responsible for making it work.

While I’ll admit it’s a pretty sweet shot, and a cool use of compositing, if you hadn’t specifically mentioned that this was supposed to be Toga Himiko, I never would have guessed, since nothing aside from the vaguely similar hairstyle really matches the character. For reference:

That is seriously random - wonder if he had to pitch in to clean up all the fake blood?

So, they are actually using PCSX instead of some fancy-pants first-party emulator that uses super-secret Sony Sauce for the ultimate experience?

That’s the way it should be - no one has a right to tell us how to dress our virtual Barbie dolls, but at least have the clothing make sense; when the coconut bikini gives you a million armor, but the male see-through loincloth gives you five, it just feels like there is a bit of an agenda at work.

Man, this pisses me off - I’m not even a huge fan of FF XV (My save is still sitting at the point where you unlock the northwest corner of the map, and that hasn’t changed in... Years?), but when you spend a century making a damned game, and then announce expanding it over the next 20 years, I at least expect you to,…

The system really chose a terrible point to cut off your comment 😉

“Heavy armor is generally not as good looking simply because it is not going to be as “ornamental”

So, I’ve essentially abandoned AC since Black Flag, and am thus bit entirely on the up and up, but, is there like a reasonable explanation for how something like a Cyclops suddenly ends up in what I thought was supposed to be a semi-realistic (for games) historical epic?

I was thinking more along the lines of this:

My dominant hand is in a cast, so this is the best I could do, but I picture him looking something like this:

If they let you play as an actual (furry, not football-y) bear, I would actually be tempted to give Fortnite a try; no guns, just tooth and claw... or, maybe, riding a tiny unicycle and having a minigun turret strapped to its tiny party hat. That would also be acceptable.

I had to go on Wikipedia to confirm there were really only 32 teams in the NFL - that’s less than one per state! I know very little about professional football (very much intentionally), but that seems like way too few teams for all that media attention. I mean, that’s only 4 sets of games before you’re down to the…

I wonder if even the developers have any clue as to what it all means, or if they're just kind of making it up as they go along? I'm actually not sure which I'd prefer...

Much like Eve, everything I see and hear about Fortnite always seems awesome and like it would be so much fun... If it weren’t for all the other people.

Maybe they’re just very religious, and look down on looting corpses... but not killing or robbing...?

Some games are really brutal in the way they portray human deaths, too - I’m thinking Fallout (lots of dismemberment), or that one sniper game series with the X-Ray kill cam (Sniper Elite, maybe?), Where you can watch your bullet explode someone’s testicles or something.

Oh, my sweet child...

Before reading this, I had no clue any of these people aside from the last one existed; now I do.