Lol, no the goal of maximizing profit is not unique to the US. And the idea that America has somehow cornered the market on human greed, and is the only country where corporations break with cultural values, is maybe the most American assumption ever.

Well games are on sale more frequently than ever and will come on subscriptions a year or two later if you’re willing to wait.

No its generally used to describe people who make music.

Yea she's no Motley Crue

Yea RHCP has never made a good album, but One Hot Minute is much better than Blood Sugar Sex Magik.

Let this day be marked in history, for it is the first (and last) time that anyone has referred to Motley Crue as "Brilliant Musicians"

Cookout Style works much better on dogs than burgers.  I wouldn't call it the In N Out of the south from a quality perspective, but the price point can't be beat

Yea I’m truly shocked they didn’t sell their yachts, cash in their VMAs and Grammys, send their dozens of sexual partners home with giant bags of the purest cocaine, sell their courtside season tickets, and drive their Lamborghinis into the crystal clear oceans of their summer homes in Hawaii, because that time they…

No idea who is correct here, but there is a very clear “why.”

See I view the active abilities in those AC game skill trees as more of a gating mechanism than a real choice. You and everyone else are going to get those skills, and at relatively the same time. Its just a matter of exactly when. And the percentage boosts in the AC tree are typically low percentage (3-5%).

Yea bonkers.... Because stuff like this is just all over Assassin’s Creed and your typical open world game...

I often wonder why these devs feel the need to comment on these things when they put out obviously unoptimized stuff.

I think this is mostly spot on. Ubisoft is maybe better with the gameplay basics like traversal and combat (though Starfield may have changed that), but Bethesda is much better with immersion, writing, world building, and environmental storytelling, which critics seem to totally gloss over at this point.

For everyone hoping that Bethesda Game Studios will just do something different, I will point you to TES spinoffs Battlespire and Redguard as the exact reasons why we are better off when they stay in their lane.

Oh he doesn't have to be alive.  That's what Speak with Dead is for.

There are also pockets of light you can stand in. And there are a few unbroken lamps, which you can release a fairy from, who will then aid you.

Should this actually be a surprise? Genuine question, because I wonder if we (and the entire industry) are incorrectly assuming that only new releases should be in theaters.

Im not sure that’s even clear, because when we say AAA developer, we could mean either a worker, or a company like Blizzard, including the soulless executives.

I think part of the issue here is AAA dev vs AAA developer, which are being used interchangeably, even though one is an individual worker and the other usually means the whole damn company (including the C suite who ruins everything.)

How much of this is a semantic debate? It’s correct that criticizing an individual developer (the job title) doesn’t make sense. But criticizing a Developer (the company) like Arkane or Blizzard includes the executives that are the main problem.