Indeed. Divorces can take years and if there’s a watertight financial control order in place, I can’t see it being dissolved overnight.

Just checked the Steam page. Why should they charge for the base game (which was already selling for just $20) if they’re selling shit like “Cats & Dogs Expansion Pack” for FORTY DOLLARS? Get the suckers in the door for free and then tempt them with dozens of way, way, way overpriced DLC packs.  Blergh.

I wonder how much the CEO even knows about actual testing or game development? He’s a businessman after all.

Seriously, what a terrible way to introduce the game’s aesthetics.

I can’t help but feel like with time Bethesdas open world games have gotten simultaneously more ambitious and less interesting. THOUSANDS OF PLANETS TO NOT CARE ABOUT, AND (from the look of things) THREE OR FOUR FACTIONS TO JOIN THAT WON’T MIND THAT YOU’RE ENTERING THE RIVAL FACTION EVEN THOUGH THAT MAKES NO SENSE.

The first half of the Starfield presentation just plain depressed me. You’re trying to sell me on space adventure and...everything is gray. All gray. Plod along. Scan things. Mine things. And the only excitement is SHOOT KILL KILL. I honestly just felt sad. The latter half perked things up a bit, but I’m afraid I know…

the game mechanisms will probably be really well done, but oh boy it look bland to play. these combat sequences don’t feel punchy enough.

Starfield looks underwhelming. I mean it looks good, but nothing groundbreaking like the hype promised us. You can visit thousands of planets but I get the feeling it’s another, No Man’s Sky. Planets with nothing really on them and then you’re bored.

Wait, what? The Tallneck uber-burst has been a major thing since the first game. Hell, it’s even a minor *plot* point in one of the cauldrons in Forbidden West

Don’t mind me, I’m just rolling around in all this sweet, sweet money I get for negging on NFTs, paid by... paid by... um... you know... the anti-NFT lobby!

That’s because there isn’t anything they can be used for that isn’t already being done with simpler technology.  

If this is handled by the writers of 3, then I’m just not interested. BL3 was good despite its atrocious writing, whereas Telltale-like games are just glorified visual novels - nothing but narrative, very little gameplay to go on about. I straight up can’t handle another fucking Ava, more dropped major plotlines like…

Tales from the Borderlands sequel (Hurrrayyyyyy!!!!)... written by different people and starring different characters (...huh).

BL3 kind of butchered Rhys a little, and there wasn’t ever any explanation for why the other characters didn’t show up at all.

I’m hopeful they snag some of the original authors for this, as the original is one of my favorite games and I still sometimes re-watch pieces of it.

“New characters”

REALLY reminds me of the Star Trek Next Generation with Data and a game master once:

It should also be noted the streamer was just banned for 24 hours on the GTA server for toxic behavior as he spammed in games messages over 900 times with such great quotes like

“BETTER TO DO WITH MY TIME? IM ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL CRIMINAL IN THE CITY LMFAO. I GOT LITERALLY 3 MILLION IN BAGS AND UR BEING A COP…

And what I’ve learned from toei’s shitty tactics is that it’s ethically fine to steal as much toei owned content as possible.

Its laughable to believe Microsoft wants anything to do with Bobby Kotick or honestly the vast majority of staff at Activision.

that doesn’t really mean anything, takeovers like this usually keep most of the C staff until the deal has completed then phase them out after restructuring