No spoilers, but Fate of Atlantis goes pretty crazy with the landscape too. Elysium is beautiful (as it should be) and Hades is kind of drab (as it should be), but they both have a whole lot of crazy vertical terrain.  I’m not sure what’s next (Olympus?) but it lives up to the Origins stuff.

Ezio certainly has a better story arc, I just liked Kassandra better. She purposely (I think) embodies the attitude of a lot of players (certainly me) of being a tourist on a giant romp - willing and eager to help anyone but also kind of jaded about it.

Yeah, it definitely worked. Kassandra’s my favorite ‘assassin’ yet (that one gigantic DLC misstep aside, I’m going to pretend that never happened), sorry Ezio, and it’s probably my favorite game, though Syndicate’s Jack the Ripper DLC’s fear based combat is also a hard contender.

Basically, being a popular streamer is like being a CEO.  Once you reach that level you can do no wrong, and even completely fucking up just makes you even more employable.  They also share the sociopath thing, and a large cadre of sniveling bootlicks who will defend anything they do.

The bar for common decency on twitch and youtube is in the cesspit.  And these fanboys will forgive anything by whatever mental gymnastics are required.

Hey now, don’t forget Star Citizen is using Lumberyard *snicker*

I would buy that in a heartbeat.

I think I love you.

Unfortunately management loves open offices because

I don’t think that’s quite as bad in the long run, because as long as the assets exist somewhere they can be excavated eventually... but in the short run it is sure f@#$ing infuriating.

This is just normal though. Nobody thought games were worth preserving, and before persistent internet there was no place safe to put them all. Most game companies that have been around before 2000 have lots of ‘lost’ games, and if they’re really f@#$ing lucky some employee still has a copy of the source code completel…

Oh Jesus Christ no, that is not the biggest annoyance about open offices.

Oh for gods sake, what a stupid kneejerk word. ENTITLED. Yes, if they want to sell me a product I am ENTITLED to see any value in it before I give them my money. And this looks like an absolutely terrible deal. They’re not giving me anything, they’re selling me something (badly). But how about you just send me $1000…

They’re claiming they’ll do that in the future - assuming it goes anywhere and they don’t get bored of it. Until sometime in 2020 you have to subscribe (and pay in advance). And still buy the games.

So you have to pay $10/mo, put up with the streaming lag, and you still have to ‘buy’ the individual games?

Yeah, and I like the console version better but, I’d really like that console version on my PC! I know, that’s probably never happening.

If you’ve ever done nerf herding on Gestron and driven your truck through a herd of 5000 pissed off nerfs you’ll know why you need nerf bars on your truck.

Or reading a lot of porn!

I haven’t seen the movie and have no desire to due to the previous. My point was it’s not entirely the movie’s fault if it’s disappointing - it’s just got devalued source material to start with.

Yeah, I’m not gonna defend DC on that front either.