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Rocket League is a fantastic game that features micro-transactions. Games have always had content cut from them. There have always been shitty ports. There will always be shitty deals. I think games are better than they have ever been. There is more depth, variety and choice than ever. We're a million miles from the days of muddy brown "realistic" shooters and the occasional racing game being all there was on offer. We've got everything from CoD, to Forza, to Destiny, Rocket League, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, Volume, upcoming titles like No Man's Sky and Detroit. Unique games like Don't stop talking and nobody blows up, and TIS-100 that would never have seen the light of day 10 or 15 years back, and all at prices ranging from free to $60. There's so much great content out there that you could play a different game every day and never have to touch any of the shitty content. If all you know of games is watching Jimquisition squirty plays and rants, then yeah, it looks crappy. But bear in mind that he goes out of his way to dig up this crap as it is good for his content. He's not going to make a video of himself where he spends five minutes saying. "This here game is pretty alright." or "This game was free and the microtransactions are inoffensive, I wholeheartedly support this." Same goes for Yahtzee, reviews of games he likes are never as popular as the ones he heaps scorn on.

There was a BBC show called Being Human about werewolves and vampires and such..?

Technically, I started House of Wolves first by mistake.

I'm nearly done with vanilla story and house of wolves. I suppose I should do Dark Below next. Nearly at 200 light now as well.

I think the supernatural elements hurt Beyond a bit. The slow pace and choices are more... suited? To a game (mostly) grounded in reality. I'll be interested to see how it turns out.

I sort of like them, but at the same time, I've seen a couple of Year1 Elitists get snooty at people who don't get the references. They're a tiny minority though so it's not impacting my enjoyment. It's sort of an internet rant, but I really don't get the need to criticise people who are late to a franchise. To me, if I meet someone who hasn't seen a film I love, or doesn't get a pop culture reference, I get excited as I get to share that first time experience and recapture it a little for myself.

Star Wars is space Kurosawa.

The Halloween stuff is boss! Really fun little update from the guys.

This is all kinds of awful The lengths they went to to crowbar in the crass sexism are extraordinary.

If it wasn't intentional, then it was amazingly... Naive? Or just plain dumb. I dunno. As dumb decisions go, it's up there with tearing apart the middle-east and handing it over as "Israel" in '47.

It was deliberate. Trying to cosy up with Germany in the mistaken belief that they don't want to own the mistakes of their forebears coupled with a desire to stir up the anti-muslim far right. Pointless really as Islamophobes don't need any help and Germany as a nation is grown up and doesn't need to sweep its past under a thread bare rug.

National Guilt is the gift that keeps on giving. Kudos to Germany for telling Net to get back in his box.

Sure you can spend the extra £134 if you want. I don't have shares in OP or Moto. Just offering up the invites as I know they are hard to come by.

If anyone wants a One Plus 2, I have an invite to share. Existing members only obviously. Terms and conditions apply. Your home may be repossessed... etc.

He sent himself a message telling him how he was going to have already defeated the monster in the past from the future. I am also not a fan of the glasses.

I thought they were referring to the time he herded nerfs.

China is mostly mobile / Free to Play PC. Korea is a lot of F2P PC as well. Japan is strong on console and mobile. US and UK console+PC and mobile and Germany is Console+PC and mobile with a bit more than average premium PC. Basically mobile is everywhere. Console / PC / F2P PC depends on where you are.

Finished the Shepherd's Crown.

Gotcha. So don't bother with the Year 1 weapons. Hope for better drops from missions and what not. Then worry about Legendary stuff later.

I start to get to grips with it then I go full Jon Snow. WTF are Legendary marks? Why do I have a fancy purple gun with pants stats that is banging on about ascending? WTF is ascending? What is arc and solar damage? Why is none of this explained anywhere???

I'm envisioning seeing a lot of drop-to-ground-in-despair emotes around the cryptarch.

I don't think even the most amazing 8hr single player shooter experience would have swayed anyone who was jonesing for a 100hr plus Fallout 4 RPG experience. Totally different markets.

Just sayin'

Yeah, but I wanna be a dark warlock. Not some sissy MLP rainbow wizard.