Ah, yes - Marvel Heroes (and then Marvel Heroes Omega). F2P Diablo-style grindfest. With a really badly managed company.

DeSantis stated that requiring people to wear masks impeded on personal freedom.

Propaganda broadcasts spinning “wokeness” up into a “plague” and a threat, is a plague on our country and does nothing but create more division, hate, and animosity.

I feel like FF games seem to always come out a couple years into a new systems life

I bought my PS2 and 3 for Final Fantasy games (or at least, when they came out was when I bought the consoles, plus the previously released games I’d been interested in). Maybe the PS4 as well, don’t recall exactly.

Yeah, the first Tomb Raider & Mortal Kombat movies were cheesy fun. The second movies of both series, not so much.

Seems reasonably typical for Arts grants, honestly. They go to all sorts of off-the-wall things.

I’m not talking about the generally-young-seeming facial structure of adults. (like those idiots who say that all the characters are underage) I’m talking about the ‘little girl’/loli characters who have pre-teen/child facial & skull structure. Distinctly different than all the other faces in these games. (and I’ve…

It frequently seems to go by childlike facial features/head structure. Even if the model is 48-24-38, put a kid’s face on it (and a height under 4-5') and, well...

Starfield, CP2077:Phantom Liberty, maaaaaayyyybe Diablo 4.  And maybe Dead Island 2 when/if it wanders off Epic this year. And if it sounds good by then.

Yep. Didn’t play any of those, nor do I plan to. Every year I see these “best of” lists, and wonder if I’m a bad gamer or something because 95% of the time I have no interest in that year’s Big/Important Releases.

playing a role... a character that is not “yourself” in a game.

Isn’t it funny how they’re all for “unfettered capitalism” until capitalism starts selling something they don’t like?

Yeah, the answer is Game Pass. I only play through games once, so 120 dollars a year to play 24-36 games is... *shrug*

Gamestop, Best Buy, et al take 30% of the sale price, or $18 for a $60 game, whereas a physical copy costs about $2 to manufacture.

Or made-up fantasy hate. Like Harry Potter for example (ooh, Harry’s a parselmouth, they’re all evil! And all the ‘pureblood’ bigots who want to kill the norms and muggleborn.)

Was mostly talking about PC games.

It’s the same argument video games went through over a decade ago—and which we have collectively just shrugged and moved on from—when people found out the DLC they were buying was already on the disc they bought.

Right? Considering that Skyrim was successfully ported/released on virtually every platform of the last decade, you’d think that would count as “mass market audience”.

Honestly, the “and some of them aren’t really foreseeable” thing just came across as annoying. Ten hours later, something completely random & invariably bad happens, and you get told “see! Your actions have consequences!” But if they’re totally unforseeable, then the only lesson you can take away is “don’t do…