Some other good responses to this, and I do get your point (and agree that it can be very frustrating when random chance messes up story beats). Personally I’d be interested to see more “diceless” non-random RPGs; the only one I can remember is Amber and it worked really well in the context of that setting.

The really destabilizing thing about Black Lotus was that it could be used to win on the first turn of the game before your opponent even got a move. Use it to get three green mana, tap your mountain (has to be a mountain) to get one red mana, use the green card channel (costs two green mana) to get 19 colorless mana,…

One major feature this is missing: a predefined list of targets that you’re working your way through. (Present in AC1, AC3, AC:Syndicate and AC:Origins.) Definitely lends those games more of a structure than the others.

But unlike in Origins, you can whistle for the horse while running, and it’ll run beside you and let you automatically mount your horse without slowing down.

It’s worth noting that British comedian Robert Llewellyn (Kryten from Red Dwarf) had an almost identical show called Carpool two or three years earlier than Seinfeld.

The level cap in Origins is pretty soft anyway - once you hit it you keep gaining “levels” and getting skill points, but your level number doesn’t increase and neither do your base stats. (Or the amount to gain a level, so increasing the level cap may actually make maxing your skills out more difficult.)

Cited wikipedia as source on paper, automatic F.

DLC set in a full Rome map for Origins would make perfect sense, especially since they already have a lot of Roman assets in the game. Follow Aya’s adventures in Rome during the civil war after Caesar’s death. (And throw in some Cleopatra closure as well.) The ancient mechanisms in this game (and a sidequest way back…

It’s also explicitly a reference to Grant Morrison’s The Invisibles. There are graffiti tags for Barbelith, King Mob and Tom O’Bedlam in the gang’s hideout. Probably more I didn’t spot, too.

The Heists system in the single-player felt very underutilized as well. You level up your NPC buddies, but never really get to use them much, and there’s a lot of stuff that is way to expensive to buy without severely gaming the stock market and the assassination missions. It seemed logical to me that there would be…

The last two trials in 2 are utterly amazing, and well worth persisting to get to.

They are making a huge amount of money out of it and the player base is showing no signs of eroding, so they’re going to keep on riding that money train for a while. At least it should bankroll some nice new games (like Red Dead Redemption 2), though I’m a bit worried they’re just going to plough it all into another…

Two of your heroes (plus one of the preorder/timed DLC characters) are returning characters from the Saints Row franchise. (Though this being an alternate universe, they aren’t exactly the same people.)

Yep - beta version of SKSE 64 bit is due to be out mid-March. The good news is it should then be a straight port for mods. (The better news is that the SKSE team are also porting SkyUI over, so you’ll get better menus and the Mod Configuration Menu.)

I like the Morrowind take on the Empire, where they’re basically the British during the days of the Raj.

That ties into the gimmick - they all were commissioned to create an original song, but all of them had to be called “Let It Die”. Also a nice nod to Suda51's own comments about game dev and punk aesthetic, and into Grasshopper’s company motto: “Punk’s Not Dead”.

Some more good debunking of this here. And a picture for good measure.

Does this Joy taste like crab rangoon to anyone else?

The Hitman Bonus Episode is out on the 19th - new missions set in alternative versions of Sapienza and Marrakesh. (And possibly of the Paris stage as well, I’ve seen conflicting reports.)