Anthem is probably the most content-free game released in a long time. I think people might have given the sparse end game more slack if the lead up to it hadn’t had so many obvious time sinks (meta achievements to progress the story?) that didn't actually add content,, and the open world hadn’t just been some fairly…

I like ‘caster’ sorts, and while fire is one of my least favorite ‘elemental mage’ types (as you mention, been there, done that so many times) the general kit of the pyro seemed my style so it’s what I’ve done the most of.

The “damage” of cheating in a small group co-op, with no pvp or other such, is super overblown though. It only affects people who are trying to play the ‘non-server’ characters with complete strangers in pick-up games, and even then it’s still a coop experience - you just go to a different game.

All I can ask is “Why?” It’s a pointlessly stupid phonetic joke that isn’t the least bit funny, and, how does it even make sense in-universe? I didn’t think MH was set on a contemporary Earth.

I appreciate folks are realizing dev time and resources are not infinite in this particular topic, and that there’s always a give and take between executing on a vision “for me” and creating a consumer product “for everyone”

The somewhat recent Star Wars comics had a computer hacker from the outer planets talk about the worlds “forgotten” by the old republic and basically being space gang turf for constant territory squabbles between petty warlords, and that when the Empire first came, they deposed the warlords, stabilized local…

Yeah this is what it always felt like, and still sounds like, to me - a ridiculously extended draw on the word “long” for “Mario Accent”, not a word in and of itself.  That is, that the sentence was just “So long, Bowser!” and the voice went way crazy on trying to make “long” sound funny.

Yeah, there’s definitely a lot of ‘gamer entitlement’ BUT (and a big BUT) there is also definitely a lot of blatantly false advertising, bait-and-switch tactics, deliberate misleading etc when it comes to games marketing that is equally unacceptable. Consumers shouldn’t have to parse through review bots spamming fake…

I worked with an Air Force recruiter. He could not erase his phone messages fast enough... most years there just isn’t the need for raw number of bodies that the Army and Navy desire in comparison.

As others have remarked, the alternative is often to never be published on an accessible platform at all.

What kind of paint and finish/varnish did you use (if any)?

TL;DR: I’d prefer good hard games and good easy games to mediocre games that try to spread themselves too thin, and similarly, I’d rather see more diversity in POV characters with real narrative to their experience than just visual-only changes that don’t affect narrative in a meaningful way. I do believe games can be…

I think what was meant is that Sekiro is much better about getting you back in the fight at the same state compared to Demon Souls and the punishment for loss mechanism is also similar in that it really doesn’t matter if you take 1 or 100 deaths to beat a boss, whereas in Demon Souls it did.

I liked it okay, but honestly, the pacing, if anything. If I could fix one thing it’d be that.

I was at Blizzcon and I think at least personally there’s some props to be given to how the protesters handled things on their end. None of them were rude or aggressive towards me or anyone in my party; there was no sense at being mad at us for attending a convention (that for many of us was a yearly excuse to get…

Sorceress has mana. I had health pots but did not see mana pots. Ability use was gated by mana and cooldowns - blizzard was relatively low mana but high cooldown, so easy to weave between other abilities but only sporadically, whereas meteor was low cooldown high mana, I could use it much more often but at the…

The overworld is a big expansive map populated semi-mmo style with other players, world events, world bosses,  etc.  But any progression/story content is instanced.  If you are not partied up, you only see other players in the towns and main overworld areas that you cross on the way to objectives.

His shapeshifters are triggered by abilities but are not just for the duration of that ability.

Another thing that’s a useful reminder:

All this comes from prior outcry that good, finished games were far too hard to find amongst a sewage tide of dreck, muck and early-access dross. And before that, the problem that we had no indy games at all. Algorithms that favor positive reviews push review-buying and fake reviewing scams. Favoring finished games…