This is something happening on top of whatever else is being done with the franchise...

I wasn’t expecting it would be a total jerkaround like a Zynga game, I’m just saying it was a quicker and easier way to cash in on the license and the concept to churn this out as a mobile game than it would’ve been to develop and market it as a fully fleshed out console release - less risky, easier to see a healthy…

I have an idea why

Not a Kingdom Hearts guy (or a JRPG or Disney guy) but this is fucking hilarious - and a pretty brutal indictment of fandom in general. Bravo Tim.

Even though the way that we’re discussing it here makes it sound like the Pre-Disney canon was a total shitshow, it actually was pretty consistent 95% of the time - that Death Star plans story I cited is probably the most famous example, but there really aren’t a whole lot more I can remember.

I could tell the website was fake when I realized I didn’t have click “Open in incognito window” to read the articles

You’re right, and to expand on your point about micromanagement, I think this has a lot to do with the way Disney now approaches Star Wars canon - everything video game, novel, TV episode, and comic book are just as “true” as the films are, where in the Lucas era, the tie-ins were “less true” than the films.

I was to understand that Sega was the publisher for all Alien(s)/Alien vs Predator games since 2010, but yeah, maybe that contract expired or doesn’t apply to mobile or something.

Okay, look. This is an emotional moment for all of us, all right? I know that. But let’s not make snap judgments, please. This is clearly an important series we’re dealing with here, and I don’t think you or I or anybody has the right to arbitrarily exterminate it.

You know Sega, I don’t know which species is worse. You don’t see them fucking each other over for a goddamn app store sales percentage!

Ever played a Halo or Mass Effect game and gotten to know the backstory a bit? It’s more or less the same thing - remnants of an advanced ancient civilization being fought over by different factions, though in AC it’s left vague as to whether or not they were actually extraterrestrials.

Assassin’s Creed just doesn’t know what it wants to be anymore - and I think your main review and the #7 entry here articulated perfectly why that’s actually a great thing, because with Odyssey we get this wonderful, well-made, multilayered mess that can be approached from all sorts of different angles.

It’s be interesting to know what they did when they were losing, since obviously you can’t angrily flip over a board that’s part of the floor.

I just dabbled a bit in Hitman (actually played the exact mission where Luke’s GIF is above, which is not Hitman 2) and am with you 100%. Where that GIF is I was very much in disguise and very careful to toss that target over the railing and into the river - I guess it’s kind of an OCD for immersive roleplaying-type…

Ummm, to what lack of new games are you referring? This Fall I bought Red Dead Redemption 2, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, and just ordered Just Cause 4 on Amazon - all 3 are great new games which are optimized (I think) to have nigh-PC graphical specs on the Xbox One X. If you mean new exclusives then well yeah, I think…

I also have an X... Didn’t mention that part because I haven’t gotten around to upgrading my TV accordingly (still have a 1080p). Runs very smoothly otherwise though, haha.

Sometimes I feel like a guy who’s broke trying to rationalize why having money actually sucks when I defend my choice of Xbox One instead of PS4 (I actually also own the latter, but game almost exclusively on my XB1) - still some ugly feelings left over from the Great Console Troll wars of 2013-14.

I’m with you 100% on that, but I think it’s just the nature of the beast.

I think that might take away from the challenge of the missions though, with the way it seems they’re all designed.

Yeah if you live in Arkansas I’m sure it’s the best you can get.