Really insightful stuff there.

Friendly reminder that not everyone wants to deal with your nerd box.

If my child stopped playing video games and started going to church, I would be very concerned.

Activision/Blizzard is a massive corporation, and the people in that audience are paying customers. Comparing this to a murder and casting Blizzard as the victim is irrational hyperbole and gross.

I reject that notion as reductive.

Some of the fans are irrationally mad, sure. I can sympathize with the majority who are imo rightfully outraged, but in a non-threatening way. Sometimes raising your displeasure loudly is the only way you can be heard.

When you have to use double parenthesis, you’re probably overexplaining yourself.

People don’t know that Diablo 4 is in development, as it’s not like Blizzard hasn’t taken it’s sweet time in getting sequels out before. Starcraft 2 was in limbo for quite awhile, and we probably will never see a Warcraft IV.

We had a fascinating slack/breakroom discussion about this at our studio, and the take-way was that neither the fans or the Immortal devs are really to blame or deserve scorn. It’s those who made the behind the scenes choices leading up to this past weekend that truly deserve the ire.

You can say this about NPCs from any open world game, though. I’m not sure why the NPCs in RDR2 would be any more off-putting than an Assassin’s Creed, GTA, Watch Dogs, Sleeping Dogs, etc. We’re still a long way off from Star Trek holodeck realism in character behavior

Gran Turismo and any WWF game would probably be mired in endless licensing deals, so it’s no surprise those are missing.

Kirk, this is easily the best game review I’ve ever read, but also the best writing of any kind that I’ve read on this website. I enjoyed your creative narrative prose over the the technical trappings of FPS and other “data.”

So basically, as long as you get what you want, everyone else can just fuck off?

Whale detected 

I mean with Ninja Theory, they have publicly stated they have complete creative control so I don’t see why Obsidian will be any different.

A buyout from Microsoft can only mean microtransactions and Obsidian games being available through the Windows store.

“Unfortunately, we don’t comment on rumors or speculation other than to say that the Rumors album by Fleetwood Mac still holds up,” said an Obsidian spokesperson.

And if you’re at a beer fest with limited (or shit) food, the pretzels-on-a-piece-of-yarn necklace works a charm too.

How old are you? If over 30, this is very good advice, it you can manage. Obviously, in some situations, that’s too much peeing. At a concert, no way. At a beer festival or someone’s house, it isn’t that bad. If you actually drink this much water, you could end up with minimal hangover. That’d let you have a nice day…

Someone that hates hangovers and gets them easily. I chug a camelback or two full of water before I hit the hay after a night out. I regret it if I don’t.