Anyone else find the love relationship in Syndicate wildly annoying? All the relationship is that game are just not good, but there’s something really annoying about an unbelievable romance.

But other than that I thought they were doing most things right, room for improvement but definitely steps in the right direction…

What’s crazy is this list makes it seem like you are trying really hard to come up with nonstandard choices to show how unique you are, except that these really are just your choices haha

Hahahaha um wow the steam website in actual browsers has done this to me for ages. Guess I probably should have said something, but I almost never use the actual webpage so it didn’t come up often and I didn’t realize what was happening. I thought it was like a sample showing what it would look like if you had an…

Both. Both so much.

She is wearing the ring of my character’s husband haha I just love her flavor banter. Going through a super-mutant gore den full of human body parts and she gasps at their lack of cleaning upkeep, or you loot a corpse and she assumes it is for police evidence haha

Also, I mean... french accent. No need for elaboration.

How is Curie not at the top of your list? Insanity.

Edit* Followed immediately by Deacon.

Haha preach! You get it, Schreier.

True, but many of those employees are non-game making related, they do have quite a few things going on that we know about and of course not all staff of game companies actually make games (PR etc). And as far as the game-makers, of those who aren’t making stuff for tf2, DOTA 2,(2013) or CS:GO(2012), I think a…

That’s a bummer, it doesn’t really pick up until black mesa east. Seems they made a mistake letting the excitement build slowly, not a narrative mistake but when the graphics aren’t up to snuff it doesn’t provide enough incentive to keep playing.

I will say it isn’t just nostalgia hype. Certainly for fans of the older…

Well now I’m more confused haha not gonna make you answer anymore questions though.

As far as redeeming itself; allegedly what would make it worthwhile is world-building. You would get attached to characters and care about the world they were in. The characters would be believable or at least engaging, and you would…

As far as Valve not having the balls to release it or something like that, there’s a decent amount of people who think they are just waiting to release it with VR. Might be wishful thinking but I know Gabe has been really interested in VR for as pretty long time, so it’s not implausible.

I personally don’t feel…

Do you have a source for that? I’m not putting you to trail or anything, I’m honestly interested in the source if you have one. It would certainly explain the vast overhaul.

I was probably a bit salty, but it /is/ a ridiculous assumption. Both that all long-times fans are disinterested, and that all fans are around 30. Don’t really think I need to dial it back though, it was just a small jab. You might be interpreting more negativity than I put in.

Valve wouldn’t spend this many years making a game. If they did they would eventually release an absurdly outdated game, or else have to repeatedly redo step after step as it became outdated. It’s not like you can just slap on new pieces.

Edit* Also portal 2, that happened. And left4dead games.

Yeah that’s definitely true. It’s hard to draw the line when examining your own experience between what is genuinely good vs what you only interpret as good based on nostalgia. I want to say half-life 2’s voice acting and plot is still better than many games’, certainly up to 2012.

I’m not telling you to give it another try, but you did stop in the most boring portion of the game haha not gonna say you should slog through 4 chapters of what you find boring for the chance you’ll enjoy the remaining 10. You don’t have to answer but what weapons were at your disposal? I want to make sure I’m…

I think crapped out is a little unfair haha. More or less every game has been great, regardless of how dated they became.

I considered that heavily while/after playing it myself. It’s pretty convenient that the game I didn’t play until later happens to be the one removed from the others right? But I tried to think it over and decided it wasn’t just that, even if it had an effect. It seems to me that valve picked characters, events, and a…

Hey it is literally his profession and life haha Unfortunately I can’t say he’s definitely wrong.

Certainly, I experienced as much with Destiny. People who dropped in post Taken King weren’t there for all sorts of hardship, little jokes or glitches, and endless other inside moments. But if you are one of those people you should welcome new brothers and sister with open arms, not pretend they can’t “get it”.