I disagree, I think it’s funny as long as this is all theory.

If a player was actually serious about wanting to do this as more than a meme, and was arguing this hard for it I’d be mad as hell. In this context, though? It’s fine. I think it’s amusing how hard people can stretch the rules. It’s similar to the peasant railgun. Hilarious concept. I’m still not okay with someone trying to actually use a peasant railgun.

Yeah, sure. I’m not saying the epilogue was too long, just the game overall.

Consider it: did they really need every scene in the game? Are you honestly gonna tell me that every. single. mission. was plot critical or would’ve made the game lesser in any significant way?

There was a lot they could’ve trimmed down or removed.

Which, to clarify, it’s not like I think the length is a great crime or significantly detracts from the game. I just feel like it would’ve been better if it was a bit shorter. I’m not trying to compare it to something like Assassin’s Creed Odyssey where it’s a 100+ hour game and 70hrs of it is narratively irrelevant.

Yeah kinda my take.

I would’ve been fine with RDR2 being a bit shorter, frankly, I was kinda dragging along by the end.

That’s irrelevant. You can’t patent fantasy creatures. That’s a copyright issue. If they were suing for copyright infringement I might think they had a point, but they’re not.

then they made it free and introduced DLCs. Such a slap in the face.

The part that got me is that they made it free and reset my light level.

Suddenly I was on the same light level as people that had just started playing. The only difference between us being that I had some exotics.

Going F2P was shitty from my perspective, but going F2P and removing all the content I’d paid for already… yikes.

What absolutely killed it for me is when they started including important story information in battlepasses. I stopped playing for awhile, and then started doing a new expansion only to find out that my light had been reset, half my favorite guns were literally useless, and on top of all of that I couldn’t really follow the plot anymore because they had introduced an entirely new hub area I’d never seen, and several new characters that they just expected me to know.

What ‘whirlwind of changes’ has happened to Destiny 2?

Maybe I’ll actually consider playing it again if it’s major enough.

I doubt it, just from this article, because most of my issues were with the monetization and ‘running destiny 2 like a business’ doesn’t make me expect they’ll fix my issues with it lol

I don’t really think it’s ever been a Pokemon knockoff in anything but the monster designs. And they’re not going to change all of those, so… it’s just as a much a Pokemon knockoff as it’s always been.

From my understanding, this was extremely overblown. They apparently have a pretty standard privacy policy, and the concerning parts only applied where they legally had to- like China.

Pirate Software has a whole video where he goes through their privacy policy and talks about it. Personally, I trust that more than I trust Steam reviews and randoms on social media.

Frankly, I just kind of assume all Chinese games/devs are going to have privacy concerns and that disregarding your privacy is a requirement for engaging with them.

I wouldn’t consider it worthwhile if I didn’t have an Xbox Series S though. If my main gaming device was a PC then I’d stick to being patient and waiting for sales.

Why?

I do the same thing you do, just on PC. What makes PC different, to you?

Kinda reminds me of a few Sci-Fi settings- Altered Carbon has people that enjoy murdering people, and since people can swap bodies freely that sort of thing is easily done. There’s an explicit difference between ‘sleeve death’ and ‘real death’, even legally. Killing someone’s sleeve- or body- is a crime, but it’s not murder anymore. If you actually destroy the lil chip that actually contains the person, that’s ‘real death’. Man I love that show. S1, at least.

Alternatively, Cyberpunk with it’s braindances could cater to an extremely similar audience.

I also found that weird juxtaposition interesting.

Ingame, he’s totally chill and reasonable. Outside the game he’s… a fuckin nazi? Huh?

I think nothing inside a full priced video game should cost real money.

There’s plenty of examples of F2P games that have reasonable monetization in the form of mtx.

There’s so much potential for a Halo game that isn’t just a shooter.

I think a survival horror game based around the Flood would be amazing- something Dead Space-y but Halo. That would be incredibly difficult to make, and it’s never going to happen, but it would be cool.

one of them is a librarian/protector of knowledge kinda cleric.

Is he/could he be associated with the museum somehow? Maybe if his Cleric (order? temple? organization?) is a major sponsor of the museum or something similar they might trust him with those items for that reason with the caveat that he brings them back for scheduled viewings or some sort of thing like that?

I unironically wanna play this campaign now I’m not gonna lie.

Ten sessions later and the party has complete control of the diamond market. The Barbarian names their mine after his favorite thing, and that’s how the My Beers Mining Company starts.

let’s see that smile” or “where’s my hug?”

either creepy stalker or annoying wine aunt energy

Yeah, fair enough. Casting it enough to make it permanent would be 26,500gp. Which isn’t a tiny amount in a general sense, but by level 15 it shouldn’t be a major amount of gold honestly. I’d be more concerned with finding that many diamonds frankly.

It’s an interesting idea to explore, but also something I think should probably be explicitly mentioned and discussed beforehand as a character flaw that you intend to be fixed.

Not something you drop on the party offhandedly and expect them to be chill with.