I was surprised he made that observation because I thought it only changed the color of the weapon. I don’t remember seeing any stat boosts.

I didn’t see this in the article but maybe I missed it. How does the shooting feel?

I’ve always believed if a game itself is fun/enjoyable/engrossing/whatever adjective that gets a player on the hook, people will just keep playing it anyway. The Ratchet and Clank remake for PS4 took like 10 hours to beat, yet I played through the game several times because it was just that damn good to me. Super…

A cover so good, Springsteen asked Morello to join the band and incorporated parts of their version into his live shows.

Totally. Although I will say in people’s defense, it does have one of the most patriotic-ass sounding choruses in rock history. That, with the general underdog imagery of the verses and not having an easy way to search for lyrics in the 80s, I sort of get why. But after he chewed out Reagan for using it, you’d think…

Reminds me of 2004, when Springsteen said he received a bunch of packages from angry fans containing a bunch of his records smashed to pieces. Like wtf, how did you not know?

Perhaps this is overly cynical of me, but I think it has as much to do with outside stressors (specifically, coronavirus and coronavirus response) as it does anger over George Floyd. Sure, people find it upsetting - that part is genuine - but that disgust is heightened by everything else. It’s this perfect storm,…

Now just fingers crossed for some balancing. Despite all the different difficulty settings (most of which don’t matter because half the levels lock out lower difficulties), the game really has two difficulties: brainlessly easy or brutally hard. At any given moment - even within the same level on the same difficulty,…

This seems like everything I’m looking for in a game right now: something I can click away at while a show is on or while my five year old watches Cars 2 for the tenth day in a row, and also something I can play with said child that isn’t the goddamn LEGO games (which I like fine, but if I’m going to absentmindedly…

On one hand, until they (and Sony for that matter) show footage being played on the actual consoles, it’s safe to remember the trend of how representative footage usually works in the marketing space.

“It appears that I was was on tour for a year talking about the extreme dark and light for a reason. I was in training for this week...it seems that my life was not rehearsal for my show...the show was a rehearsal for my life.”

It’s been a love-hate relationship the whole time with me - sometimes that’s love some games and hate others, sometimes it’s love part of a game while hating other parts (black flag was the biggest example of that - loved the world and pirate stuff, hated the missions; spent 50 hours in that game, never made it…

It is intrinsically human, but our society (and many, many other societies) tend to push that to the point of burnt out. Even when we don’t want to, we feel like we must, which I believe is his point.

Aw man, I loved the way the DS series felt in my hands. I really hope this feels pretty much the same but it looks like they’re taking a shaping cue from XBOX a little bit.

Other games could learn from Animal Crossing’s rewards system. Many continuously recycling small goals that give small rewards, which feed into larger goals with larger rewards. These efforts later get used to reach another goal that happens farther down the line. And then by that point, players have self-made goals…

Sure, you shouldn’t have stomped on their flowers, but also, is this an IRL friend? They could just have given you the shovel. (This reminds me of an old Titus bit:

This, absolutely. I play it a lot, but it’s nice not being in that typical carrot-on-a-stick mindset of “I’m getting tired but I’ve gotta just push through another 20 minutes to get the next thing.” If I want to keep playing, I play, and if not, fine, I’m not getting the next thing until tomorrow anyway.

This is...wow. If it weren’t for the pop-in you could’ve told me this was real.

VERY good to know, thank you!

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