It’s an outburst, not a threat, and outbursts are pretty regularly part and parcel of angry responses.

That ignores the actual arguments being made.

I can understand the desire to avoid the AO rating though - in many ways, it’s similar to a film receiving an NC-17 rating, meaning its circulation will be greatly limited. It seems you could rate these titles M and accomplish generally the same thing by ensuring younger children don’t (or at least shouldn’t) access…

Isn’t this the root of the problem though??

I do wonder if game publishers allowing resale of loot box items would ease some of these tensions or simply make them worse. It opens up a whole other realm of issues that I’m sure publishers don’t want to deal with, so the likelihood seems relatively low, but I am genuinely curious as someone who doesn’t have a huge…

Just curious, would you be more okay with it if you were allowed to trade/sell items a la Counter Strike?

The internet seriously needs more of these level-headed, well thought-out responses regarding “additional purchases” for games (be it standard DLC, loot boxes, skins, etc.). I commend you for standing and making this argument when most onlookers want to fly off the handle and tell you to kill yourself for even…

I’m not a sports hater, but golf really isn’t my thing. If I wanted to take a long walk, I’d just take a long walk, ya dig? 

Nah, we just throw the pricks who have an issue with back roll the fuck out my house.

Pretty sure the sequel will take place in the Valley of Fitte.

Are you not familiar with multiple factors? You do realize that it can be both things? It’s not one or the other: it’s a confluence of competing demands for my time and myriad options for using the relatively minimal free time I have.

After cancelling my Destiny 2 preorder, I’ve been pretty occupied between Mario + Rabbids and finally getting around to Pillars of Eternity on my PC (I don’t even have the excuse of playing the recently released console version!).

Let me know what you think of Lone Echo - I’ve heard nothing but good things. I got a Rift when they were super cheap on Prime Day but haven’t really done much with it since setting it up. Admittedly, I get motion sick pretty easily so it may not be the best match for me, but I can’t help blowing spare change on fancy…

The weekend is for trying to parcel out a book you’re really enjoying so you don’t finish it too soon and have nothing to read on the subway.

And the tiniest generation since, what, the Bronze Age?

I’m not shocked that the players in D1 are dwindling. Disappointed is a more apt descriptor.

This is awesome to hear. One of the great things with buying now is, even if I don’t get around to it for a while, I know that if they make any significant changes to the game, we’ll likely get them for free similar to the Enhanced Edition content for the first game.

Couldn’t agree more. Kiwami would have almost zero emotional gravitas on its own without 0. 0 just puts so much context there, and you’re absolutely right - Sera, Kazama, Reina, so many folks that get only passing screentime and backstory in Kiwami were fleshed out to great effect in 0.

Having Nishiki as the villain - after never playing the Yakuza games before Yakuza 0 - was such a heartbreaker. He was both your brother and best friend in 0, someone who obviously cared about Kiryu and vice versa. They had such a history together, and to see Nishikiyama’s mind and life get warped while Kiryu was…

Yeah, you’re pretty clearly missing the point. It’s twofold: first, I’d like to be able to play through most of the original Destiny’s story before starting Destiny 2, which now seems impossible, and second, my friends still aren’t gamers, so to the extent Destiny 2 likewise precludes you from being able to beat stuff…