Translation: The final DLC for Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla will serve as a blatant advertisement for the next Assassin’s Creed game, introducing at least one major character and/or plot point, ending halfway through the story to push you to continue on in the next game.

Good for them. This is an adaptation of a fantasy novel, diverse casting does not undermine the existing characters, the world-building, or the thematic core of the work being adapted, and people who harass the actors or crew for any reason are assholes who should fuck off.

Good lord, I must be old because a week ago I didn’t know who half of these people were, but now I want them all launched into the sun.

Because $26k is A LOT closer to $25k than $50k

Half Life 3 confirmed!

Budget: Up to $25,000 

“Like driving electric cars to avoid fossil fuels, without realizing much of the electricity powering the cars still comes from fossil fuels”

Folders aren’t even folders, though. They’re only in the library, and in a separate tab in the library to boot!

That’s one thing I liked about upgrading to Series X, that it had the same feature set as Xbox One. A little jarring since it’s new console with an identical OS as One. But I do have to hand it to them for not trying to reinvent the wheel, which they could do a few years down the road.

I’ve played and finished every FromSoft game, and I would love to hear an explanation of the difficulty options.

And conversely I ignore any game that forces difficulty onto me. From Software will never see my dollars until they put an easy mode into their games - which keeps them to being a niche (albeit successful one) genre developer.

It baffled me while playing Bloodborne, how a game that people kept telling me was designed around the need to “get good” was so unfriendly about letting you get back into the boss fight right away to keep practicing. Instead, a boss could kill you in a few moves, then you had to trek all the way back to try and learn…

Sure, you could play those games with 200% health and 50% more defense, but then the game will be boring. (especially because the story of those games is not important)

And we saw how many of the Elden Ring “rEsPeCt ThE aRtIsTiC iNtEgRiTy” people responded when FromSoft “nerfed” Melania after accidentally super buffing her. They lost their shit because for a moment they thought FromSoft “caved to journalists snowflakes that are bad at video games”. This discussion is and always HAS…

“I don’t like games having difficulty options” are saying they don’t want the choice to be there. The choice being there does NOTHING if they chose not to engage it. The choice NOT being there affects everyone else who would have engaged with said options... so its gatekeeping. Who the hell are YOU to dictate whether…

Having an option does not make a game worse.  That’s gatekeeping.  You’re saying that if someone can’t keep up with the difficulty YOU are comfortable with, they shouldn’t be allowed to play the game.  Other people having the choice to lower or raise difficulty has no effect what so ever on the difficulty you play on.

Cue 160 500 hundred word screeds that tldr to fit gud scrub/casuals ruin a game

This comment section is going to be a shitshow tomorrow...

In fairness, so did Oz.

It’s funny.  When he first announced this run, I genuinely feared that his celebrity would give him the win.  Then he campaigned.