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I'm not a developer, but I suppose this is a good thing, right? If it makes that many assets available to anyone using the Unreal Engine, it could only be a positive thing for small devs. I mean, we'll still get our share of shitty asset flip games on Steam, but that's a given.

Microsoft has it down to a science- nay, an art- when it comes to scheduling their Inside Xbox at the most inconvenient times possible. Granted, this one is overseas, but still, an hour sooner or later for me would've been perfect. But no, I'll be listening to the stream over my ear bud instead of watching it on the big screen at home. That said, Battletoads is apparently going to be playable and I'm praying the impressions are positive. This one needs to be good.

I started out playing The Evil Within II, but then I began thinking about how I never beat Shadows of the Damned. I decided to try an finish it since it was the spiritual successor to Resident Evil 4 and the spiritual predecessor to The Evil Within (and it's been in my backlog for ages). Streamed it for three hours and not a single viewer!

One of many from Valve.

Is that the one with all the microtransactions on the front page for the kids to click on? Nevermind, it was last year's.

I'm gonna dig deep here, and i'm not even real sure if it qualifies as a "twist" per se, but it was back in Chrono Cross when... That was just part of it though. The entire third act of that game was a mind fuck.

The real question is, will Airplane Mode have an Airplane! mode?

Stardew Valley is probably the best value, but its pretty deep. How old is your son?

Nevermind, it just looks like Blizzard is gonna take Path of Exile's cosmetic microtransactions and still make us pay for expansions. "Let's see... how do we make people believe Diablo IV is better than Path of Exile? I know! We'll do everything Path of Exile does, but make people pay for it! And when the expansions come out, we'll make them pay for those too! It's perfect!" I'm not saying PoE is perfect, but it's pretty good. And Blizzard doesn't seem to be the least bit concerned with garnishing some goodwill for themselves. They could easily make expansions free, in exchange for cosmetic mtx and ya know, paying for the game in the first place.

Ugh.. trying to remember everything I've played in a decade is impossible. What's crazy is that I started my video game blog in 2010 and was writing about all this stuff, but at one point I tried to migrate the database from one host to another and it didn't go well and I lost everything. Man, I'd love to have had a full decade's worth of my own useless videogame bullshit to dig through.

The ironic thing is that Ghost Recon Wildlands almost out-Just-Caused Just Cause. If there would've been explodable oil tankers everywhere you could've just slapped a new Just Cause title on it and called it a day.

400Mhz Pentium II (with MMX), 128 MB SDRam, 13GB hard drive, 56K external modem, and Sounblaster Pro. Rocking dual iomega ZIP Drives and a SNAPPY jacked into my parallel port for full frame 640x480 video image capture. But I only use that one for my graphics work. My regular PC is a piece of shit.

Also.. I have to be a Gone Home hater... that game was way overrated. I was on board the entire game until the.. i don't know what to call it.. finale? revelation? I don't know. I get what they were trying to do but I feel like a very mediocre game with a lame story got a pass just because of its theme.

You have to admit though, without PUBG, Fortnite wouldve just been a shitty horde mode that nobody ever cared about.

Where's Battlefront II? Surely that had an impact on the industry

JC4 has been on Game Pass for a while and I've tried to get into it a few times. It's just... not fun. Which I never thought I'd hear myself say of a Just Cause game. I enjoyed the hell out of JC2 and even JC1, despite it being pretty basic. I just don't know.. there's something that doesn't mesh well in this game. I don't know if it's the way they re-purposed the destruction, or if it's the fact that most areas are walled off until you expand your resistance and "unlock" them... but the world just feels really artifical and disconnected. Something is just... off... Is it just me?

So.. it's Ghost Recon Breakpoint but without the shooting?

I have the comfort of knowing I probably won't like it. I personally can't stand Kojima's story-telling, and was only into MGS for the gameplay (which honestly, wasn't that great either, but it was entertaining at least). That said, I'll play anything once.

Those four words carry a whole lot of uneasy connotation there. One of the main reasons that Sony's first party games have been as good as they are was because they had the time to work on them. The development cycle of each of their big games were what, 5+ years? This makes it sound like they want to start cranking them out, Ubisoft-style.

I'm interested to hear what actual gamers think of the game. Obviously it's going to be divisive, but practically every review I read was so cagey and ambiguous that they really didn't tell me anything. It was like listening to a politician.

I owned a lot of movie tie-ins over the years. Goldeneye - N64 Batman Returns - SNES Alien 3 - SNES 007: Everything or Nothing (not a movie per se, but used Pierce Brosnan's likeness and they treated it like it was a movie) - Xbox Lord of the Rings movie games - Xbox Die Hard Trilogy - PS1 Robocop - NES One of the Harry Potter games, I think it was Order of the Phoenix - Xbox 360 Total Recall - NES I'm sure I'm forgetting a few. Not all of them were good, but most of them were at least playable. Except for Rambo, which I played at a friend's house. Fuck that game. Strangely enough I do remember playing a Terminator game on SNES but I don't know which one it was. I remember it was hard as hell though. EDIT: It was Robocop vs Terminator!

One of these days i'll be not poor and can enjoy pc gaming again.

I never reload till I'm in the middle of a firefight. That's just how I roll.

That's what I was getting at. If Diablo IV is going to have an online "shared open world," I'm assuming it's going to be very similar to Path of Exile in structure. To be fair, PoE is way better than any F2P game has a right to be, and they've been pretty successful with their setup, despite their mtx shop being probably one of the most passive and unintrusive ones on the market. The question is, will Diablo IV do it well enough to charge $60+ for a game that will inevitably be compared to one that is free?

I'm assuming you could just scratch over the Path of Exile title screen and scribble Diablo 4.