When I was a kid in the early 90s, games were around $40.

This is emphatically not true. SNES games regularly cost $70 in the early 90s. There were some $50 titles from the beginning, but $60 has been the standard price since well before the 360, and it was in fact significantly more common to exceed that price before that. It was only around then that everything started to…

Games at large almost certainly should’ve ripped off that $60 band-aid sooner than they did. That price holding for over 3 decades was nuts, and brought alllll the other alternative monetization methods, some of which turned out to be infinite money glitches and obviated a sticker price at all. But now that all those…

I genuinely could not tell you the last time I drank a beverage with actual sugar in it. I bet it’s been close to a decade.

Yepp. My number one weight loss tip is to stop drinking calories.

Yeah, I’m not sure the point of that statement by the WHO. Sure, in practice relying on switching to diet soda alone for weight loss will probably fail. But MOST diets fail, and it is an incontrovertible fact that regular soda contains digestible calories, and diet soda doesn’t.

Agreed, although it isn’t a catalyst for weight loss, substitution of diet over sugar will aid in an overall weight loss strategy for individuals who previously consumed the sugar/high fructose... variants.

Its consistently one of the most played games on Steam, and unlike most of the other games in the top of the list, that isn’t the primary/sole place the game is played. Everyone likes to shit on Destiny, no one more so than Destiny players, but it’s pure delusion to act like they haven’t made something work that…

You’ve got the broad strokes right. There’s an annual expansion release with a full campaign, which is also accompanied by a season release. Then every 3 months a new season drops, which generally contains ~6 weeks of story missions that revolve around whatever new activit(y/ies) were created for that season. Every…

I always love it when developers explain the reasons behind decisions because its both very informative, and listening to capital ‘G’ Gamer accusations is exhausting. If you ask Twitter, 30fps is becase devs just need to move the FPS slider on the Engine Screen up to ‘60', and refusing to do so are Devs being LAZY.

Interesting. From my side, I’d played all their previous single-player shooters on Mac (Pathways into Darkness, Marathon 1/2/3), saw Halo’s first promo from a Mac conference (then saw it disappear into being an XBox exclusive, sigh), and then played it SP on as a Mac port. And then I never played Halo 2 because I had…

I might be alone here but I don’t particularly care for exclusives. I’d just rather have a good platform with good games that functions. My Xbox gets more use than any of my other devices that have good exclusives save for the few weeks I’ll play a zelda or a Spider-man. I still have no intention of getting a PS5 just…

Same. I really liked the whole movie, but this scene was incredible.

Same, I loved the first three films and so the 4th film had its work cut out, especially with its epic runtime (if I could level a complaint about 3, it did feel like it ran out of gas narratively by the end). But JW4 stuck the landing in incredible fashion.

I didn’t have a clue what The Veil was, either.

I thought maybe it was because I just started again about a month ago after taking a break around Shadowkeep. Like, what was this suddenly all-important thing that Rasputin just mentions at the end of Season 19 like we all should have known. 

Yeah, I think everyone groaned a bit there. It’s not actually even a moment in the game and was done purely for the trailer. In hindsight I think was done to be somewhat self mocking, but that doesn’t really work when it’s literally the first thing people are ever seeing of your game! They can't tell if it's a joke or…

I had the exact same thought. I randomly put on the trailer and was close to turning it off as soon as I heard the opening line.

Yep, as soon as I saw that in the trailer, I let out on an audible groan. Glad the word is the game is much better than that.

It’s going to be a harsh couple of months when marketing teams attempt to replicate this, but god damn does canning lightning hit good. I didn’t even watch the trailer or Xbox direct and only read word of mouth from others. It’s amazing to play something that I didn’t have any expectations on and no experience in (with…