Old man yells at cloud

There’s a huge difference between references that can exist in-universe (eg. characters read books and watch movies and meme them just like real people), or even referential gags like calling random NPCs “Wedge” and “Biggs”; verses straight-up “here’s a skin you can buy that makes you look like Sonic the Hedgehog,…

I loved Death Stranding, I thought it was a triumph of a game that tried something different and really succeeded at it. I thought the loneliness of the overworld was an amazing feature, and the ability to communicate with other players through building infrastructure — ‘bridges’, if you will — and leaving messages…

So you didn’t read the article. He already acknowledged the old-man-yells-at-cloud thing. He also said he doesn’t care. Thirdly, the issue isn’t just that the cosmetics are available for purchase, but that in most games who have them, you don’t have the option to turn them off. So no, even if you don’t buy them…

That’s all well and good, but when they start pulling characters in from SP only games and other properties, they’re cheapened. Tantamount to stapling great pieces of fiction onto a dancing puppet fueled by pure greed. It’s gross and sad at the same time.

Man, I remember when you didn’t have to pay extra to play as, say, Doomguy in Tony Hawk’s.

You think people playing WoW or Destiny don't care about the story? Where did you get your degree in what most people want studies?

Access to computer graphics is greater than ever before, and cheaper than ever before.

Good god, Todd Howard really is the least personable person in the industry

Their Tracer looks like another boring standard sexy woman. Yawn.

Market trends basically dictate that all AAA games retail at $60, not to mention they have to make back their money on development, marketing, and licensing costs.

I think it’s because you have no idea how game development works.

I disagree. It clarifies their position. Too many devs cower and wouldn’t say a thing. I like that they’re actually sticking to their guns here, and saying something that did need to be said.

I’ve never really been too tempted to play the game, but I was really, really happy to hear that from a developer of something as popular as LoL. The game always seems to have a reputation for being toxic as hell, and to see a dev say something like what’s posted above is a major step forward. I love that they’re…

This actually looks pretty exciting, at least for someone who plays COD mainly for the single players stuff. Certainly more exciting than imagining myself in a frozen forest.

You know, it’s so damn easy to hate on the CoD games. I feel the urge to do it myself.

It’s an expansion, if you didn’t want anything changed in regards to a 17 year old game then you wouldn’t be buying this expansion in the first place. This is no more shoehorned than any other bit of new writing being added with this expansion.

This is Baldur’s Gate we’re talking about. The game that had all of those jokes and pop culture references in it from the very beginning. Right?

Wait, are people trying to tell the developers of a game what the characters that the developers created should be doing?