Their methodology also seems a little fucked, reads like this was a survey they offered to gamers. There’s likely a lot of self-selection bias to the responses.

At this point, I’m mostly just impressed it hasn’t been taken to a farm upstate to play with Concord and Babylon’s Fall

I think the record still goes to Amazon’s Crucible, which was cancelled before release after a closed-beta that nobody played.

Really, really hoping this game does well for the team. I’m also hoping it has a smooth launch, because this is a game I’ll be supporting day one.

The real secret? Fried egg. Instantly elevates a burger from good to great.

I think one of the themes of modern Terminator films is that Skynet is kinda inevitable, so in typical Hollywood fashion we just won’t care about it.

That’s basically what was in my mind. I think doing a sci-fi action movie set in the past is criminally underdone.

All of the modern films keep bringing the Terminator forward in time, which often ends up being lame. I think we strip away most of the future nonsense. Skynet has decided the Connors bloodline in 1984 is too powerful, so they send a Terminator back to 1884 to try and cut it off at an earlier date. The Terminator has to fight cowboys in the American West.

Maybe this could work, but I’d put all of my faith on Tratchenberg. Maybe if Fede just directs the action scenes it could turn out alright.

The problem is that to argue this point, you have to start going through all of the facts like case conversion rates, the domestic abuse rates, the rates of racist attacks by law enforcement, and the membership overlap between law enforcement and white supremacist groups. Once you start bringing up that many numbers, the idiots get confused and their eyes roll out of their skull, whereas the centrists get too scared realizing that basically no cop is actually trying to keep the U.S. safe and try to shutdown the conversation.

Then why did you throw him out?

I agree that an item-filter would have been a nice addition, but with Blizzard you have to take a hardline #NoChanges approach. Otherwise you’ll get something like the WC3 remaster, or every Classic WoW expansion. They did add a few small additions after the remaster was released, like Helltides and some new Runewords, but they’re all thankfully ignorable if you want to.

I mean, releasing one of the worst ARPGs of all time isn’t exactly a triumphant launch. I think D4 is fine now that it’s effectively become a sequel to D3, which is why I tried to use the past-tense as much as I could, but D4 was only received well by casuals. Every ARPG fan I know and every content creator I watched played it for like 2 days, realized there were deep systemic issues, and dipped.

It’s really sad that Blizzard has no idea what makes D2 a great game, especially considering they just released D2R so we can relive the glory for ourselves. D4 on release was nowhere close to D2, it was more like a toddler trying to make an MMO.

In D2, you can feel your character become more powerful with levels alone. In fact, gearing basically doesn’t matter for most of normal difficulty, it’s almost entirely level focused. D4 scales content to your players level, meaning every level you gained made you weaker. No shit people didn’t want to go for a long XP grind, who wants to continually grind to do less damage?

I think they’re attacking this problem from the wrong angle.

Part of what makes the release of FromSoftware games such an event is working alongside a community. You discover an item location, and tell your friend; or someone online is having a really tough time on a boss, and you share your strategy. These moments are a key part of playing the game on release IMO, and they kinda require some information to be cryptic/difficult or else the community won’t bother.

The biggest issue IMO is that none of this community stuff really happens in game. There’s the message system, which mostly gets ruined because of trolls, and you can kinda get info from phantoms of other players, but the bulk of the information exchange happens on Discord, Youtube, and Reddit.

I’ll keep an eye on it, but this is by no means the first attempt to get Space Station 13 off the Byond engine. They’re planning to launch into Early Access but don’t have a playable demo yet, this could still be far enough out that it never actually materializes.

The Sims 2 Castaway is basically the proto survival crafting game. It’s kinda cool to see the classic Sim stats get used in such a different way. I sometimes wish EA would return to those days of selling spinoff Sim games like Castaway and the Urbz, rather than just dumping every single new idea they get into one game as DLC.

The original is one of the best WH40k games ever made, easily up there with greats like Battlefleet Gothic 2 and Dawn of War 2, but that’s not what has me excited. Mechanicus has, imo, the single best soundtrack of any WH40k game by a mile, and honestly one of the best electronic soundtracks in gaming. I am so, so excited to hear the sequel, even more than I am to play it.

I’m sorry, your take is that we need to shame people for …standing against a genocide? for deciding that supporting the deaths of an entire culture of people is the line too far for their conscience to support? You think that deserves to be attacked and shamed?

The U.S. has no obligation to participate in genocide, and can start withholding aid at any time. If Democrat leadership has decided it’s more important to exterminate Palestine than prevent a Trump election, that’s going to remain on the Democrats.

Yeah, because Magic the Gathering: Arena has been managed so well.

Expect any first party titles from Hasbro to be incredibly unstable, crash consistently, and never receive any meaningful post-launch maintenance updates, just more things to sell.