TheMightyEthan

I plan to keep playing it, it just doesn't have enough story to keep my full attention so I want to save it for when I'm watching TV or something.

I've got Arceus on my Gamefly queue. I'm not interested enough to buy it, but I'll give it a shot.

Just remember, that's the exact same argument everyone made with Bethesda, but the official policy there is (for future releases) "exclusive to platforms where Gamepass exists". I expect ABK will be the same. So I expect everything that's already on PlayStation to stay there (like Fallout 4), I expect Warzone to stay and continue getting updated (like Minecraft), but I don't think anything that isn't already there when the deal closes will ever come there (like Starfield or TES6), unless there's a specific preexisting contract (like Deathloop and Ghostwire).

I started Nobody Saves the World last night, and liked the little bit I played, but it didn't feel like enough of a game to hold my full attention, so I stopped and will probably use it as a game to play on my phone while watching TV or whatever. Then I started Quantum Break, and I've liked that so far too (though going straight into this game at 30fps was painful after having been playing Halo at 120), I think I'll stick with it. I'm not a fan of the TV show cutscenes, they're too disruptive to the game, but I respect the experiment of them.

I don't think anyone expected them to pull existing one-time-sale games, but ongoing games are less clear because there's more grey area. I don't think they will (especially after that tweet, but I didn't anyway), but they could leave them running but stop updating them with new content, or something like that, short of outright yanking them.

The plot thickens... Probably just means Warzone though, which would go along with the whole "not yoinking existing games" policy they've established with Bethesda and reiterated with this deal.

No game shame here, if you count it then it counts!

The fact that, at least in terms of revenue, Xbox + ABK is still slightly smaller than Playstation makes me feel less concerned about this specific merger, but I am still quite concerned about the trend it represents.

Yeah, doesn't look like he's staying

So Microsoft is buying Activision for $70billion. This sucks big floppy donkey dicks.

Spider-Man: No Way Home First movie I've seen in a theater for 2 years, and it was a good one to come back to. Often on a first viewing I feel like Marvel movies have pacing issues, that for some reason resolve on subsequent viewings, but this didn't have that issue. I'm impressed with how good it was especially considering I also like how they seem to be making Dr Strange take on the role that Iron Man used to have, of being the thread that connects all the different movies. I'd thought I was over the MCU, but between this and Shang Chi I'm getting drawn back in.

I have never heard of that and it sounds like the worst thing ever.

Pokemon Legends Arceus Y'all are on crack, this game looks great.

Also, there's people like me who are like "why would I go out of my way to support Democrats? they won't actually do anything good, their 'best' quality is that they won't actively do the horrible things Republicans want to do".

You give people more credit than I am willing to. So often I encounter situations where people have something explained to them in plain English and completely misunderstand what's going on. I mean yeah, there's another part that feels ignored/is lazy/whatever, but a huge portion are just fucking idiots.

I think the biggest issue is that the electorate are fucking idiots.

I was enjoying it a lot on PC (the original, not the enhanced one with the voice acting) until like 12 hours in I ran into a game-breaking bug that made it impossible for me to progress the story any farther.

Scarlet Nexus Anime kids save the world through the power of nakama! This game was great, it's exactly the kind of Persona-lite game I like. Mysterious aliens periodically rain down on the world, and you are a member of a force of teenagers with paranormal abilities whose job it is to protect humanity, and the plot is exactly batshit enough to live up to that premise. The combat is fun, with a surprising amount of variability between everyone's powers. You can't switch characters, you only ever control the MC (you choose between two options at the beginning), who is telekinetic, but there's an ability called SAS which allows you to temporarily borrow your allies' powers. By the end of the game you feel like a complete badass, switching rapidly between regular attacks, telekinesis, pyrokinesis, hypervelocity, teleportation, etc (there are 9 total powers in the game). It felt great. I called it Persona-lite because there is an extremely simple social sim element, that involves building your relationships with your teammates to unlock higher tiers of SAS abilities. It's obviously not shooting for something on the level of Persona, but it knows that, and doesn't try to be anything more than what it is. I liked it enough that I'm probably going to do another playthrough on the other character. Overall it is quite well put together, with everything working together to create something cohesive. It's not trying to be a steak dinner, but it's a damn good hamburger. Grade: B+

32" was the size of my TV in college once I got my own apartment.

Let them eat crumpets!

Yeah, BotW2 would top HFW for me, but I don't believe for a second it's coming this year.

Oh you just think you're so special. 120 not good enough for you, huh? Not even 144? But yeah, 27 is plenty big for a desktop.

PSVR2 is cool, and I also have some VR games unplayed because I don't want to go through the hassle of connecting the box, but I'm not "excited" for some reason. I also don't have a lot of faith that it will support PSVR1 games, which would suck. My real answer is Horizon: Forbidden West though. I loved the first one, and while there are some other games I'm looking forward to nothing else scheduled for this year even comes close in hype factor for me.