I think the biggest difference is Bungie truly believed in Destiny as a concept. Anthem and The Avengers were cynical attempts at making a quick buck.

Can’t remember the last game that overly relied on DLC / microtransactions that I bothered with. Tons of great games out there that let you get the entire experience without paying more.

Love that these crazy motherfuckers made a goddamn billion dollars without having to cannibalize their clients.  Just the opposite, really.  From’s next game is probably also gonna be a banger and it will probably also sell like crazy, which is exactly correct.

because it wasn’t cutesie enough in a Zelda sort of way

Honestly, I'd love to get a proper extension for Elden Ring.

I will always have this stance on single player games and the “old ways”. All these “always online” games do not last. Only ones that do are those that get there first and do gameply well enough like Destiny. The suits notice and then get the copy cats like Avengers and Anthem; look how they turned out. 

I’m on my second play through and almost near  the end. Level 201 and I rarely replay games. It has to be real good for me to play new game+

I returned Elden Ring because it wasn’t cutesie enough in a Zelda sort of way -- but I absolutely love the point being made here. I might even re-buy it

It’s crazy how some publisher/dev heads have come out in recent years to say that live-service elements are a must for sales and bottom lines, yet

tl;dr for the idiots in the Board room: good single-player games sell, and sell well. Make more of ‘em. 

wild how i wrote this to specifically call out halo infinite then didnt even need to mention it by name

You must have extremely poor reading comprehension, because none of those things are similar.

Yeah I assume if your dad is a known donor to Trump and other right wing loonies it probably required confirmation. Especially if daddy was paying the bills.

What I took from this is that her objection to alimony was not the financial aspect of it, rather that if she went that route, there would be ongoing publicly available hearings about it. She would have preferred to be able to keep the home that she created, but she wasn’t interested in having her divorce play out…

Is the “Who you marry is not who you divorce” line supposed to be in reference to herself? Because it sounds like she’s the one who changed from wanting kids to not wanting kids. And also, if they split because they didn’t agree on kids, that’s... good? That seems much less dramatic than the headline made it out to be.

Alt headline: Someone You’ve Never Heard of Had to Abide by the Terms of her Pre-Nup 

Yeah, this is not a story about a woman who had to, like, sell her jewelry to escape a spouse like the headline implies it is.

I mean, none of that sounds uncommon for what happens to shared property in a divorce. If the genders were reversed, we wouldn’t see any problem with a lesser-earning woman making a claim for all or part of a marital asset like the house. The law pretty much says that it doesn’t matter if one spouse makes the money…

Not sure where you’re getting a $6000-8000 price range for a full PC rig..... Since literally the point is just you can price it out to how you want to...

Now I have no reason not to get PSVR2 and this sim racing rig. I already have a PS5 and GT7. So it’ll be the perfect sim-racing lite setup that I can just pick up and play without all the associated costs and pretentiousness of hardcore sim-racing.