My two main issues with Beyond Light so far are more general issues with Destiny 2's current state: 1) I hate that everything is gated behind power levels; I understand that it’s important to MMO-style games to have progression each “season” or whatever, but as someone who plays/played a fair amount of D2, it feels…

I mean, you can literally say $$$ is behind any decision any corporation has made, ever. So yes, if we’re getting entirely reductive, this stuff is probably done with $$$ in mind, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t secondary motivations, and it doesn’t disprove the idea that some of the execs in gaming (Phil)…

“Someone still tell me why I even need an xbox when my pc can do all that shit better.”

Phil Spencer, the guy who was all-in on letting Smash Bros. include Banjo Kazooie? The guy who greenlit Minecraft on non-Xbox consoles, and included the Nintendo Switch in the “Better Together” update (allows crossplay between Xbox/PC/Switch)? The one who went on an Animal Crossing talk show, who said he’d be open to…

It is 100% this for a lot of the fanboys/girls out there. There are other variables, but for a lot of people it definitely just boils down to “this is the one I have, so I have to tear the other one down to make myself feel better.”

I don’t have Valhalla, so obviously I can’t test that out, but I’d imagine it’s something the game’s devs will need to patch. For the rest, Quick Resume has worked great for me; I’m not going to play more than a few games at once, and the ability to boot up the system almost instantaneously and then ALSO boot most the…

Ah, that’s good to know then, thanks. Better get back to grindin’!

Does Stasis act (in crucible) like it does in PvE? I could see freezing an entire team as being OP for sure, it just doesn’t feel *that* good to me in PvE so far, so I’m (as always) unhappy that PvE and PvP are sharing nerfs. I haven’t spent a lot of time figuring out the class yet though, so while I didn’t have…

I haven’t played enough yet to get a feel for Stasis (I haven’t even tried it in Crucible), but so far it has felt clunky to me, and the fact that Bungie wholesale nerfed it does not inspire me to feel confidence in the class. I already was skeptical of the class vs Titan and Hunter when I saw the individual…

Well, I’d argue that this isn’t much of an exclusive either, then. It’s a game that already existed 2 generations ago, and was just given some cosmetic upgrades along with some minor QoL updates.

So you don’t really like a ton of Xbox exclusives, have a gaming PC, preferred multiplayer on the PS4 (that one is...interesting to me) and weren’t interested in the XB1's ability to control your TV...Yes, I’d say that’s a pretty pointless purchase as well. I played my XB1 probably 100x more than my PS4 (honestly…

BotW was only a few years ago, so that’s really not saying anything controversial. Also, that a remake of a PS3 game is potentially one of the better launch titles says more about launch titles than anything else, really.

There have been a million iterations of gaming PCs of varying power for decades, and it hasn’t really held back PC gaming, so power by itself is not enough to assume success or failure.

That sounds right, even if it’s partially based on my own anecdotal play-style lol. There’s a reason Rockstar’s games (for example) are such huge-sellers, and they’re obviously the exact opposite of exclusives.

Can’t wait for this. As many issues as I had with 3's ending(s), it’s still an all-time favorite of mine, and the trilogy as a whole is one of my favorite videogame properties ever. Very excited for a refined version of all 3, and even if the QoL changes are pretty light, I’ll be grabbing this day 1.

While I disagree about their previous ideas being “dumb and misguided,” my main point of contention is that you’re criticizing the XSX for essentially doing for Xbox what new generations of hardware (and software/Windows, of course) do for PC. Plenty of people already think the Xbox controller is the best one out…

I say this as a huge Souls fan: If Demon Souls were an XSX exclusive, all the fanboys would be mocking MS for their big exclusive being a remaster. You’re right though, their play is software (has been for a while, but the current state of Game Pass really drives that home). They’re probably not happy about the Halo…

I gave up caring about exclusives personally, because I took stock of what I played, and so much of it was 3rd party (although it probably helps that I have a Switch). At this point I’m looking at consoles from an “overall games I’ll play” perspective, and Xbox has...Game Pass, which is now adding EA Play. I played a…

This. I’ve been screaming this for years, lol, apparently no one wants to get it. MS’s gameplan has always been to create a shared ecosystem, and now they’ve extended that ecosystem to include Game Pass and EA Play (not all exclusives, but a huge value proposition on Xbox and PC).

Honestly, I’ve always hated the power level thing. It’s an artificial gate that I don’t really enjoy, and while I absolutely understand that on some level it’s probably necessary to keep players invested, there have been some instances in previous seasons where the level gate just stopped everyone from being able to…