No, you could not, because the loot you got from just playing was noticeably worse than you got from D2, and more to the point was mostly worse than the equipment you were supposed to have at a given point in the game. So you had to at least go to the AH (if not the RMAH) or do a hell of a lot of grinding.

This is a terrible idea. The game is much better as a game sandbox than it is as a game.

That is specifically and explicitly why Elmo bought it, so no big surprise other than he didn’t fail at this too.

First, it’s an amazing game, and you really should play it at some point.

Now now, I’m pretty straight (not proud of it, it certainly limits my options, but that’s just the way it is) but loved Night in the Woods just because it was hilarious.... and LGBT doesn’t threaten me since I’m not a White Nazi Trump Voter who secretly thinks about dicks all the time and hates myself for that so…

Well think of it this way - these days the game you got on your physical disk is a 80 GB install that needs a 60 GB first day patch to be playable. Games (except from Nintendo, and not always then) are hardly ever shipped in the state they should be in, so years and years from now just having a physical release…

I’m good with this, given the $10 price savings. And these days, there’s really little point in having a physical disk with the 80 GB install when you then get a 60 GB first day patch (followed by more).

A recording of some of it (koff koff):

Well, after they strangled both PSP and Vita in the crib with their lack of support, I guess it’s good to see that Sony finally realizes they don’t have the attention span to support another handheld that needs unique content.

I blame a couple things which are hitting nearly all industries:

You’re missing one of two qualifications. You need one of these:

Yeah, it was a product of the time. May be hard to remember from the far future of 2023 where every game/show has a LBG character (sometimes most of the cast) but there was a time, like 2013 when Gone Home came out, when explicit LBG chars were extremely rare in games. The Chilluns might play games and learn about Teh…

‘Open Roads Team’, whoever that is - presumably the people actually working on it. Anyone can produce a game (to various degrees of success)! And then Annapurma will publish it.

Ugh. ESPN is completely useless unless you really love seeing sweaty men in tight pants go back and forth pointlessly, and it always egregiously jacks up the price of everything it gets near. It’s mostly to blame for what happened to cable bills over the years, at least until the point cable execs realized from ESPN’s…

It was mostly a fun game (except the bosses), the shrines were mostly fun, and the climbing mechanism was brilliant no question, but I’ve played much better games, even open world games. Buuuut I can certainly see how ‘first 3D open world Zelda game from Nintendo’ when the critics already skew stan Nintendo wins the…

Only if you’re taking it entirely too seriously.

And now the clunky ancient Switch is holding back Tears of the Kingdom. Seeing the TV ads for it I’m quite amused by how lo-res and lo-fi it looks even in the commercials - though I’m sure it will be a lot of fun.

Or to put it another way, most major publisher games are headed to being EA games. This has been happening for quite a while, but with Redfall MS just released an EA game with a disastrous EA launch. And they’ll do it again.

The worst part, and the part you should be most ashamed of, is that you made an EA launch of an EA game.

I’m still waiting till it works well.  $60 instead of $70 doesn’t fix that.