Gameplay-wise it might have been a fine idea to have a break. But if the new one isn’t better than the old one it’s hell on retention.

There are no physical copies available (Apr 12, 10:40 AM PST), and the digital doesn’t get the discount.

There are no physical copies available (Apr 12, 10:40 AM PST), and the digital doesn’t get the discount.

The games are riddled with systems that seem like they were designed for the sole purpose of making sure you never feel like the game respects your time.

It’s not oddly named! Laws in the US are almost always named the opposite of what they actually do.

The law is an ass, and corporate lawyers are the most cringey, sniveling, grasping things you’ve ever seen except for school administrators.

They pretty much have to or risk losing the trademark. Trademarks are contingent on everyone knowing it’s a trademark or competitors can argue it’s just a common word and you can lose your TM. It’s especially damning if you can show that the company owning it didn’t even bother protecting it.

This is truly the essence of Real Gaming™. Now it just needs some Real eSports Gamer Bros™ calling each other N*****s, high-fiving their Razr® Ugly Stupid Bejazzled With PulsLEDs Shit™ and downing Gatorade™ - which is, okay, a lot like Castrol®.

Not after Monster Hunter World!

I have a really good completion rate, upwards of 90%... mostly because I’m picky up front. But sometimes you just feel like you’re not enjoying the game, like you’d rather be playing something else... and so I set it aside for a couple days, and if I don’t feel any need to go back to it, it’s gone.

I have hateplayed a couple games to the finish just so I could bitch about them more effectively. That’s rare though.

Sorry to reply to my own post, but I later realized that I was perfectly happy with Far Cry 3's ‘player death’ ending. It was a little bit of a shock, but ‘I’ wasn’t invested in the character and it wasn’t nihilistic. The player did his job and now he was done. All your actions up to that point still ‘meant’…

I finished this game last night, in fact. Was going to then do the rest of the collect quests and try out the arcade, but just quit the game and deleted it.

Whoah, dude, this is just gnarly amounts of righteous late 80s ‘tude... buuud-deee.

What makes it even more disturbing - the horse girls are based on real horses! SO if you’re watching it and find yourself thinking El Condor Pasa is pretty cute you are >this< close to bestiality, baby. And some of the horses are male if you’re one of those ‘no homo’ twits.

“The FTC’s actions have signaled alarm across the Korean game sector, as it could hurt the sales of in-game items — particularly randomized items, which users tend to continuously buy until they get a desired result — that contribute immensely to profits.”

A single read/play-through right after you finish the first time can be much better than the first. Like immediately re-reading Gene Wolfe’s first Shadow of the Torturer series but now knowing what you know from the fourth book and going ‘ohhhhh’.

Origins is the best because they spent about 7 years working on it, and they hadn’t been EA-ed much yet. I’m sad about it, but I wouldn’t count on things getting any better from Bioware at this point.

Just the team names. The player names are something else, something they had before they joined a team - they’re all over the place, sometimes playful, sometimes clever, sometimes just drug refs.

It’s always funny when the eSports juvenile fixation on penile innuendo and macho names (because it’s for by barely pubsescent males, for barely pubescent males) runs into something like this. ‘Hey baby, wanna see pictures of my Uprising? No? Lemme send them anyway - what woman wouldn’t be turned on by these pics of…

To start it, yes. I’ll only drop $60 on a game I think I ‘need’ to have and play right now - otherwise I’d just wait for a sale. So a $60 game gets played right now.