I can't wait to see what happens to the framerate the minute you try to play this MMO with, you know, other players.

Seriously. I liked the next couple AC games after the first, but I think we're facing some serious AC fatigue at this point. They need to take it off the yearly cycle (well, now they're actually releasing multiple games side-by-side apparently) and start putting some real thought into how they're evolving things. At…

Umm, no. You're still not understanding how profiling works. Profiling is all about jacking somebody up for no real reason other than, for example, the color of his/her skin. Police won't have to "scale back" in black neighborhoods. They'll just have to stop jacking people up only for being black which, by the way,…

The Greed Island thing (which isn't even a video game, really) fits perfectly into Gon's larger arc, because the "game" was made for him to experience, and beating it presented him with the opportunity to find his father. It also fit into the larger theme of the show being about the journey, not the destination.

Why set intervals when you have no idea when a goal will be accomplished?

EQ2 hasn't really failed, though, unless "fail" means not having 10 million players. People love to crap on SOE (including EQ and EQ2 players), but it's hard to question their level of support for that franchise. And EQ2 still does end-game raiding way better than any other MMO out there. I get that the end-game stuff…

I was at my desk, playing the superior EQ2.

Hmm, it seems to me that the story in HxH has a pretty solid progression, actually. I'm not sure why you seem to think it's so disjointed. Did you even watch the whole thing? The arcs do feed into each other, though I'll admit, not in some sort of "grand narrative" sense, where we're constantly chasing down a single…

No one is trying to "force" anybody to update on a set schedule. I'm saying it's the mark of a good Early Access project. Two of the best Early Access projects out there do it just fine (Space Engineers and Prison Architect).

I know perfectly well how development works. You organize the your dev strategy specifically to avoid problems like this. What you're describing sounds like a seat-of-the-pants operation, where the individual bits and pieces you're fixing are treated as separate, even though they have affect one another significantly.…

Yeah, Netero is great. And the thing is, he's fucking great and equally badass from the first time you meet him early on, up until the very end of the last major battle arc.

Oh, I mean, DBZ is just on an entirely different level. Naruto is so much more tolerable. I agree that, for a standard type of shonen progression, it's not bad. I think the powers are interesting, and some of the fights are good. But I guess I just tire really quickly of the formula which puts "powers" and "fights" at…

No, that's not my model at all. You're putting words in my mouth.

Yeah, that's precisely it. There are several times in the show where you see a map of the HxH world, and there are quite a few landmasses. The show isn't trying to be like "Here are all the places, and now let's tell you something about each one of them" at the very beginning of the show. These places aren't coming…

Oh yeah, I hate that too. I mean, these games clearly say they're Early Access. You'd have to basically just be on a buying spree to miss it. That's what's at fault here, not the system itself. We all know that buying shit on Steam is like smoking crack for some people.

Which is why I said that it's too strict to be an actual guideline. This is more just my own personal standard for whether I'll invest in an Early Access project. I'd absolutely love it if most dev teams upheld it, though, because I think it's the mark of a team that has its shit together and has proven itself worthy…

Yeah, I agree. I could sort of put up with it earlier on, though, because there was already so much of the series to watch. I didn't start it from the very first airing, but only caught up after a bit, so I had dozens of episodes that I could devour at my leisure. I also think it's a matter of simply preferring the…

Which is why you wouldn't push that fix as part of the planned update until it was tested and ready to roll. It's not a fix, after all, until it works. Presumably, you'd also have other fixes to package as part of the planned update. Like I said, if the tough fix is the only one you've got going, then you probably…

Me, too. Though, to be fair, I still liked the series itself enough to check back in every week just in case it somehow magically wouldn't be filler this time. I became so fatigued after a while, though, that I just couldn't do it anymore. And once the filler ended, the canon stuff would move so fucking slow, like…

Yeah, I'm still not really getting much specificity out of your response, so I'm not even sure how to reply to it.