“You can’t investigate him because he’s my friend, and I’m rich!

Kill it with (ice and) fire.

Whereas I noped right out of the 7R and SoP demos, because of the combat. Just didn’t enjoy it at all, nor could I get a hang of it really.

That’s a shame. Been playing since FF6 on the SNES. New Final Fantasy games have usually been the trigger for me finally getting the new gen of Playstation. But almost none of that sounds appealing. I never finished FF15, I bounced right off the 7 Remake & Stranger of Paradise demos due to not liking the action…

At some point, these executives are going to stupidly put something as bad as Anthem up for sale at $70 and it’s going to bite their ass.

Yep. The difference between “gamers” (the average joe, who just buys & plays games, the vast majority of the market), or “gamers” (the vocal screamers on forums, who think they represent the majority but don’t remotely).

Yeah, that was my thought, too.  I had no problems this past weekend, but was the server actually ‘slammed’?

Wasn’t Modern Warfare 2 $70 last fall? That probably sold a few copies, too. (Microsoft press-released in December that they’d be moving to $70 for their major releases, as well.)

Yeah, this is why I avoid “friend” systems. I have no desire to be tracking the activity of other people, nor do I want them tracking me. It’s creepy. “Appear Offline” ftw.

That was my first thought, yeah. None of the pictures I’ve seen of him in the last 5-10 years, translate into any kind of smell I’d want to be near, let alone wear.

While (of course) bitching about “activist judges” when it’s a ruling against them.

Plus rigging it to happen, by blocking all the appointments they could under Democrat administrations.

Yeah, I learn from history - I enjoyed Morrowind, Oblivion, Fallout 3, Skyrim, and Fallout 4. The latter 2 at launch without major issues (and maybe FO3, don’t remember clearly if I got it day 1). Based on that history, I’m looking forward to Starfield.

As they linked near the beginning, Bethesda stopped giving them review copies a long time ago. So they only got & started playing the game at the same time as we could.

Meanwhile, the Steam forum for it is a bigger dumpster fire than the game, full of idiots screaming “go woke, go broke” all over the place.  /facepalm

But isn’t that just unofficial forums? (I barely read Reddit, only run into it when doing a search for some question about a game or computer thing. Most of what I know about it is that assholes like reviewbombers & the gamergaters organize there.)

It was handy for my small group of IRL gaming folks during lockdown, since it combined chat, video conferencing, and audio chat; with just enough organization to keep things neat on our computer guy’s personal server. We did tabletop RPGs, chat for co-op online games, organized when we’d meet next, etc.

Plus, if I’m ordering a two-sandwich deal, I don’t need a side of fries. The two sandwiches is plenty. (not that I’ve been to a McD’s in a long time. But the same reasoning fits for all the chains.)

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