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I think a big part of this sentiment has to do with Bungie burning a lot of bridges with their fan base in recent years. I'd played Destiny 2 for several years (from Shadowkeep through The Final Shape), and in that time Bungie had made a lot of very unpopular moves. From things like the "Destiny Content Vault" (where old content was removed from the game to make room for new content), expansions getting delayed by several months, massive studio layoffs, apparent mismanagement of an entire expansion (Lightfall), more studio layoffs... It's just really hard, as a player, to back a Bungie project right now. I no longer feel like their priorities line up with mine.

Meanwhile, I've also been a huge fan of Embark's previous game, The Finals. It's a totally different type of FPS compared to Destiny, yet they managed to capture my interest by doing correctly all the things Bungie did wrong. They nailed the monetization of the game and it doesn't feel predatory, they listen to their community, and they constantly show a commitment toward making The Finals into the best game it can be (and not necessarily the most profitable game it could be).

So while Marathon looks like it's got all the makings for an amazing game, I just don't feel like Bungie fans have enough faith left in Bungie anymore. For a lot of people, myself included, The Final Shape was the "end" of Destiny; not because Bungie stopped making it (they're still releasing content), but because we got the closure we wanted out of Destiny's story and we're just done with Bungie's antics.

That said, I just don't like extraction shooters. I played a bit of Arc Raiders to see how it is, and it's just not for me. Honestly, I hope both games do well, because it's clear that both studios put a lot of heart into these games and I'm interested in learning about both games' stories. But right now, Bungie has to overcome their reputation if they want Marathon to succeed.

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What was Wurm Online?

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I really don't think it was that secret. Every modern Ubisoft game I've played has had multiple unskippable TOS checkboxes that you had to agree to before you can even pass the title screen, which state in no uncertain terms that they're going to datamine the shit out of your entire play session.

It is still nice to see this stuff being challenged, though, even though I'm doubtful that it'll bring about any meaningful change.

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Yeah man we get it, piracy good, laws bad, yar har and all that shit. This guy's still an idiot, and so is anybody defending him.

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It's so lifelike!

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You gotta press the C button first, to ask them.

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There was fine print at one point during the stream that specified that 4K will be limited to 60 FPS.

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It took less computational power to put a man on the moon than it does to make the shadows look 2.03% more realistic.

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Australia's usually really strict when it comes to violence in video games, but the Silent Hill series isn't really known for intense gore. Though, the trailer looked a bit like it was going to be a bit body horror-focused (I got lots of Junji Ito vibes from it), so maybe SH:F will actually be a bit bloodier than other SH games.

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Good! Hopefully more devs follow suit and pull traffic away from Fandom.

Also hopeful that they manage to fix the SEO on the site, as Fandom is still the top result for "Vampire Survivors wiki".

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Anything to avoid discussing TES6.

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I believe it's supposed to be more of a spiritual successor to The Sims.

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That's interesting that they give you the full details like that. Most games will, at most, tell you "We took action against a player you reported", or something equally vague.

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For me, it'd be Prime. The game just oozes atmosphere from start to finish, and has one of my favorite game soundtracks of all time. I still sometimes listen to the Phendrana Drifts tracks because they're just so damn chill.

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when will they tackle loot boxes?

Once loot boxes stop buying yachts.

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Ranked isn't for fun, tho.

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Man, you extrapolated a lot from five words.

1. Pretty much every game with a ranked mode also has casual modes. They're separated for a reason. While you absolutely can have fun playing ranked, fun isn't the point. Competition is the point.
2. Not at all. It's for people who want to compete. It's for people who care about what the scoreboard says at the end of a match. It's for players who care whether they win or lose, more than they care about having a good time.
3. Sometimes yes, sometimes no. If you've ever watched esports players train, they're not logging into the game with the same mindset you or I might have. They're logging in with the same mindset we have when we start our shifts at work. They don't stop playing just because they stopped having fun, they're working towards a goal they've set for themselves. For the hyper-competitive player, the game is a passion more than a hobby.

To your point about Yu-Gi-Oh, that sucks and I feel you on that. But sometimes a game just has a higher skill curve due to the player base being experienced in the game. YGO is decades old at this point (new cards, sure, but the base game is largely the same), and a lot of players have been grinding at it the whole time. In fact, I'd imagine that a majority of people currently interested in YGO are probably longtime followers, who have steeped in the meta for years now.

It may not necessarily be that you're running into sweats or toxic players in the casual modes, as much as it is that the community at large is a bit ahead of you. TCGs are going to be like that a lot, just because they're inherently competitive.

These are all reasons I don't play competitive modes, for what it's worth.

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It's hard not to when the man who just did two nazi salutes at the presidential inauguration is also trying to insert himself into our gaming spaces. We don't want nazis in our communities.

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I'm confused. I've played Genshin, and I don't remember any sort of loot box system in the game. There's a gacha system which seems to be what the article keeps referring to, but that's very different from what I think the average user considers a "loot box".

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I feel like the difference is the loot "box", itself. Granted, I've not played any loot box games since Team Fortress 2, but in that game the box was an actual inventory item you could store and open whenever you wanted, and those items would always be from the same pool.

With Genshin, you're basically just pulling from a singular, infinite loot box that rotates its reward pool. So you can't, as a player, decide to open a Year 1 item when it's not in the current rotation.

It's a small difference, but I feel like that's why we have separate terminology for "gacha" and "loot box" games.

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My apologies if I'm getting this wrong, as I don't play Gacha games, but isn't that worse?

It depends. I'm not sure how current loot box games handle it, but with most gacha games, there are determined odds for the prizes, so they have a "pity" system. So after a certain amount of pulls, you're always guaranteed to get the top reward. RNG will make it so that you'll typically pull all the way to nearly the end of that pity timer before you get the top reward, but you'll eventually get it.

I'm not sure if traditional loot "boxes" have such a protection in place. I dunno if it's any better or worse since they're both pretty manipulative tactics, but it's different.

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Was kinda hoping for specs. I like the design upgrade, though.

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Maybe he realized that he bit off more than he could chew and that he's not actually a gaming visionary in the first place, considering that he stumbled upon Minecraft while developing a completely unrelated base-building game, instead. Minecraft was an accidental success, and you can't recreate an accident.

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I dunno that the "Prime" name is that hard to get. If a couple of YouTubers can name their energy drink "Prime" and get away with it, then I imagine Microsoft wouldn't have much trouble using it.

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Sounds like he finally ran out of that Microsoft money.

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I don't think they can do much at all, actually. They're not allowed much wiggle room when it comes to being DMCA-compliant. They pretty much have to take every takedown request at face value, because DMCA requests are a legal process, and I imagine that any intervention on YouTube's side could be seen as arbitration. I doubt they could do much to interfere with an impersonator, since even a falsely-submitted DMCA complaint is still a legal request that has to be processed accordingly.

The DMCA needs to be gutted.

Nintendo can do something, though. They're the ones being impersonated, so they can actually take the guy to court.

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I stopped playing because the story's over. The storytelling was the main thing that kept me playing for the last few expansions, and with The Final Shape being the finale to the main story, I just don't have a reason to go back to it right now. The episodic content is way lower quality than anything Bungie's put out before, and I kind of regret buying the deluxe edition of TFS because of that, as I have no intention of finishing the episodes.

It is still sad to see, though. I made a lot of really good friends through Destiny 2 and have a lot of great memories of times spent playing. Even though I'm no longer playing, it still feels like a pretty big loss seeing the community begin to fade away.

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Agent 47 looks like he's seen some shit.

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Must ship by: 2017 2020 2025 The heat death of the universe

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It looks interesting, though it does feel a little slimy just how obvious they were about making sure all the sponsor logos were visible on screen. Like, it gave me Wayne's World flashbacks with how long they were holding on the logos, it almost felt like a parody.

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I was actually really excited by the pre-rendered cut scene that wasn't cel-shaded. I thought they were going to ditch the cartoony aesthetic and try moving the franchise in a different direction. But then it switched to in-game footage, and it looks indistinguishable from footage of any previous BL game. Something about the art direction just looks like it's stuck in 2012, and not in a fun way.

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Generally, I like cel shading. I think it's maybe the issue I have is more related to artistic choices; a lot of the designs are very chunky and low-detail. It still looks very distinctly, unmistakably like Borderlands, but it doesn't look like there's been any significant improvement since BL1. If you told me this was a DLC pack for the original 2009 game, I'd probably believe it.

The newer visuals in the cinematic had me thinking that maybe Gearbox is trying to do a soft reboot after how poorly the movie was received.

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They tried too hard to be a CoD/Siege clone without offering anything new. I'm surprised it ever launched in the first place.

It really feels like somebody at Ubisoft is intentionally trying to tank the whole company or something lately. They used to be such a competent studio, so much so that it's hard to believe that these major failures as of late are an accident.

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Sure, but pretty much nobody but Valve is using Source 2 for anything, though.

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Epic joke.

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"Monsters? They look like monsters to you?"

-Silent Hill 3

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You don't say?

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Okay, Asmongold.

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He's the one I've seen with the "if you ignore the thing

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Well, the ADL has plenty of details about how and why Pepe is used as a hate symbol, but you already said "Fuck ADL", so I guess you're probably not going to be receptive to their explanation.

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So you didn't read it, got it.

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It does not. Currently, all it does is replace the "PS Remote Play" app you can put on your phone, which is basically just remote desktop for your PS5. Without a PS5, all you have with the Portal is a screen that doesn't do anything.

This update will allow it to stream games from Sony's servers, instead of from your own PS5. But it is still limited just to Sony's platform.

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Pepe was previously coopted by far-right groups. The usage has died down since the creator of the original comic began suing people, but there are still people who put Pepe in Trump hats and shit.

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Warframe is a bit similar to Destiny in that it's built around multiplayer, but most of the main content can be solo'd if you wanted. But that said, the Warframe community is still thriving, so it should be pretty easy to find a group to play with if you want to avoid the in-game matchmaking.

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Not sure why you got downvoted, you're absolutely right. While Nintendo is prolific in this subject, they're far from unique.

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How many of those developers are also hardware manufacturers, though? Because that's what we're talking about.

The Big Three all do this.

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They're usually put in the game's credits. The promotional material is part of the game even if it isn't on the disc, it isn't some separate project that exists in a vacuum.

The author says "think about it", but clearly he didn't.