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  1. I still play and really enjoy GW2, it has the best open world content of any MMO and it's not even close. That said, I'd be very down for a Guild Wars 3. They were clearly trying to move on to something new as GW2 was dying down, it internally failed, and they sort of had to reinvigorate themselves to work on more expansions. They've been doing real good but I imagine you really need a new project to keep the passion up.
  2. Hey it looks like you can do a lot more than basic attacks in this! Very nice! Looking forward to it. Trials of Mana, on the other hand... It had a bunch of active ability slots, but hours into the game I had like 2, and they were like weird conditional use things, I think? I just remember the vast majority of the game being this basic ass combo shit. Did that ever change? I really wanted to play more but the repetitive simplistic combat bummed me the hell out, and no one ever talks about that game.
  3. Yes that is exactly what it is. Just like the first game! Except this time the world and characters don't suck as much, and that's most of what I needed. The other thing I wanted was actual co-op, maybe mods.
  4. If it gets chunky, just shake it up until the chunks dissolve. If it starts to smell, add some baking soda.
  5. I've never in my entire life understood the "I'm gonna be looking at my character's ass this entire game" arguments. When the fuck are you looking at your character's ass in any game?? I mean besides when it's made front-and-center and you're "supposed" to look at it, like here.
  6. Skyrim. I really loved it for the first few hours. I remember laughing my ass off thinking the giants killing you and sending you a thousand feet in the air was a glitch, then realizing it was actually intended. How fucking cool the fire stream spell was, and how double cool it was using it in both hands (even though the damage sucked.) That kind of thing. But man, I don't think I've ever soured on a single player game quite as hard as Skyrim, it was so bad it actually greatly damaged my opinion of Bethesda as a whole, whom I had previously liked. While a lot of issues in Skyrim I could've attributed to that single game and accepted for "pushing boundaries," (when it was actually reigning boundaries in, in hindsight) -- the fact that their later games showed absolutely ZERO ambition completely floored me, and that has culminated in Starfield being this complete gaming black hole in my memory, just the vague blur of the passage of time while lots of nothing happened. Ugh. Another would be World of Warcraft. I adored it when it first came out, but I've never been big into playing one game for extreme periods of time. So I'm always a fairweather MMO player. I enjoy the content, and happily leave when I get bored, coming back when I hear something interesting. But with Wrath of the Lich King, we were raiding on a schedule (I can't fucking stand gaming on a schedule, quickest way to make it feel like a job and suck the entertainment out of it. I don't mean "hey let's go do this Destiny 2 raid on Monday," I mean "hey let's do this WoW raid for 4 hours a night twice a week for 8 months") and dealing with the drama (not nearly as bad as others I've seen) and the complaints and people dropping out and whatnot over and over and over, casting the same spells and using the same abilities week in, week out was absolutely destructive to my enjoyment of the game. Then came Cataclysm, which I was initially excited for, and enjoyed right up until we started raiding again. In the very first month I realized the game was now actively miserable to me. My head started to feel a little funny any time I even looked at the UI. Like a pulled muscle, but for my brain. I honestly have no idea how to describe it besides maybe base revulsion? It was a stronger negative reaction to a game than I've had before or since. It wasn't until years later, near the middle of Legion that I'd give it another shot, and found that whatever damage was done had finally worn off, and I could appreciate the game on its own terms again. And I've been very happy to go back to being a fairweather player. BFA and Shadowlands sucked? No problem ducking out. Dragonflight is fun? Hey great time to roll a new class! Can't think of anything else off the top of my head, those were the standouts for me, though I'm sure I've got one or two more if I keep thinking about it.
  7. No idea if it was just someone joking or not, but I saw someone mention that he's "making a Bioshock about cancel culture" and that sounds fucking hilarious to me.
  8. Looking at any amount of footage for this, my brain just goes "Yup, that's Bioshock" and I immediately move on to something else. I thought Bioshock was kind of dated and unfun when it was new. To "build" a new company (gut and replace, same thing right?) and then just spend 10 years to rebuild the same exact thing is super lame to me. Was there like... really nothing else they wanted to do? Was Bioshock the best he could ever envision?
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