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Regular But I did hold a lite the other day and it’s pretty sleek.

I love what MS has done. I’ll never have to buy an Xbox again.

Is Path of Exile worth jumping into?

Holy shit what a lame presentation by EA

The Outer Wilds was like a college project a long time ago and was pretty much fully conceptualized long before BOTW existed. It was influenced by Majora's Mask, however.

I guess what I’m saying is though that none of those felt so novel or unique to BOTW that I would ever encounter them in another game and think, “oh, like in BOTW!” I’m not trying to poo poo the game, it’s one of my favorite games of the generation.

I guess I just don’t find what it does to be something that devs are going to copy? It does a lot of things great, but nothing is terribly novel...so if they’re going to make it feel like BOTW it would be like making a carbon copy of the game rather than borrowing any novel mechanic it does I guess. Like Dark Souls has some very distinct characteristics and systems that it may not have invented necessarily, but it certainly made them into a thing that many other games copied. I don’t know what couple of things BOTW might have that makes me think it was going to have games obviously inspired by it.

To be honest I don’t feel like Breath of the Wild was terribly unique as a game among games, just as a Zelda game it was vastly different from its predecessors. I certainly never got the feeling that other devs were going to start making games with BOTW as a template.

They have changed the way I think about so many things just by the way they speak and write.

Same site, but when Rob Zacny and Austin Walker choose to write it’s usually pretty damn good.

I think it's totally reasonable for Schreier to have that reaction. I think a man in his position should temper that initial reaction though and go about making a response just a little bit differently. I don't know, maybe it's because I have a traditional journalism background and maybe that just isn't how things are anymore. Twitter just sucks I guess.

Some more context as I was following this a bit yesterday too - Schreier subtweeted Cannata yesterday by screencapping his hyperbolic tweet and then passively aggressively saying like "don't do this" type of thing. That pissed off Cannata and played into the subsequent arguments. He apparently has some kind of at least acquaintance status with Jason and took it personally that he wouldn't just reply to him directly. For whatever it's worth, my take: Jason does great work and has an incredible network of sources, but he creates a lot of this drama needlessly. His argument for screenshotting the initial Cannata tweet I just don't buy - he said it was to not bombard Cannata with replies but we all know that's not how twitter fucking works. And just like...what he's implying in his initial tweet isn't some casual criticism, he's accusing the man of making light of the Holocaust. And it's at least worth discussing, but in my opinion doing the subtweet thing in that context is a REAL shitty way to do it, especially if you have some kind of personal relationship with the guy. Jason's subsequent responses just get a little obtuse and sensitive for no reason as well, like accusing the attacks on perhaps Druckman didn't like his recent reporting and whatnot. It's just like... Jesus Christ dude you could so easily own this discussion but you're botching it so bad, it made me want to fucking side with Colin Moriarty, a dude I happen to despise. To be clear, I think Cannata is kind of, I dunno, a really bad critic? He's the dude that said God of War was basically a combination of all of the greatest games of all time and was some monumental achievement. But he doesn't strike me as a guy who needs to be drug in that way, and I get the sense that if criticized in the correct way he would probably have backed off of digging in so hard and been like "oh I see how it could be construed that way, that's not what I mean, here's what I meant, my bad" sort of thing. Anyway like Jason's work, think he needs to cool his jets.

I’m pretty excited about it. Keep staring at DOS2 and just can’t justify another super long RPG at this time. I just restarted Dragon’s Dogma on switch lol.

Oh nice.

How much is it?

Persona 4 on PC is cool.

Need to play the first.

You know I was never a huge fan of Ratchet, but damn this game looked very good. I have that Ratchet Remake, maybe I'll give it a shot one of these weekends.

Love Demons Souls and think Bluepoint does excellent work. This maybe made the PS5 a launch purchase for me.

I forgot to add that a remaster of 3 is absolute nonsense, unless they are privy to some kind of data that I can’t fathom right now. I just highly doubt this is a legit thing. Which probably means it is.

.........I like battlefield 3 but I don’t want a remaster lol

Diablo 3 is probably the one for me - but then most I can multitask is listening to a podcast or talk to friends. I can’t do anything that requires additional visual input.

There’s a few chances in Sekiro where it either clicks or it doesn’t click, and if it doesn’t I just don’t see how anyone could even come close to beating it. I cannot beat the final boss though. I probably haven’t given it a genuine enough try, but fuck that guy.

Something seems off about Dark Souls 2, especially if you play it back to back with 1, but I quickly adjusted to it and never noticed after the adjustment was made. I fucking love Dark Souls 2.

Easy Demon’s Souls Dark Souls 3 Dark Souls 2 Dark Souls Bloodborne Sekiro Hard Honestly all but my easiest and hardest I don’t feel particularly strong about it. I did find Dark Souls 3 pretty easy I guess.