Fair enough, see my other reply at https://kotaku.com/1837485019 - basically cheap, badly written, FF kiddie style wallowing in aaaangst for its own sake is what I hate, which is what we usually get because that’s really easy to write. And understand.

I know why tragedy is appealing, like fat in food is appealing.

The battle system is not the greatest, but Trails has that sensawunda and relentless positivity down. And unlike Grandia, so far it hasn’t died a slow agonizing death of mediocre games. These types of game are rare, I take what I can get.

The big thing I love about RPGs like Grandia, Lunar, Trails in the Sky, Skies of Arcadia, Trails of Cold Steel, and Wild Arms is that relentless sensawunda and positivity - even when the plot takes an eventual tragic or downward turn for a bit your hero always knows what s/he has to do and you’re always off to new…

Nothing in Fallout 76 has ever worked as intended.  They know this.

You can’t really complain too much, because the glitches are an integral part of the game. Okay, you can complain but everyone knows it’s hollow and meaningless. Like golfers complaining about sand traps.

This is the ghetto way to get paddles on your controller.

I can see only one use for this where it’s not a deathtrap - tethered to a calm lake shore. Now you’ve basically got a waterbed, you’re not going anywhere, your big risk is missing the step for your nighttime pee adventure.

Casinos and water parks have those ‘infinite’ circular track setups, so that’s what she knew.  He got one of today’s kids who are never allowed out of the house except to carefully controlled settings. And then (probably) she went to college and briefly escaped the bubble.

It was supposed to be a Facebook beater - obviously it came nowhere near.

I don’t know about ‘much’, given how dark that all is, but we can hope.

And Minecraft is all about giving up realism for fun, so not a great match.

it felt like an unimaginative robot’s idea of socializing.

Chik-fil-a’s chicken sandwich was never good. It’s purposely boring stuff for nervous yoga pants moms and guys who think paprika is the devil.

This... looks terrible. As soon as they switch the raytracing on everything gets much darker, blurrier, and less readable. It is literally a lightswitch - the off switch. This is going to make it much harder to build and dig, which is only the core game loop *koff*.

Two problems with that...

The accidental fentanyl risks are very overstated (panic of the month). The American College of Medical Toxoligy recently took a look at it (see http://www.acmt.net/_Library/Fentanyl_Position/Fentanyl_PPE_Emergency_Responders_.pdf ) and concluded you’d need about 200 minutes of airborne exposure. Similarly, you’re not…

Design for sure. Ideas are like a@#$holes... you know the line.

Sounds like you should shoot Josh Rivera a message. Win win.

First one I always think of is Rico from Just Cause... but he is a total stereotype.  As you might expect from Swedes doing a Latino guy.