I’ve had games purchased for me, but I’m not really into first person shooters, especially competitive ones, and especially especially on a console where I’m stuck using a controller.

So Black Ops III and the Master Chief Collection may be awesome for lots of people, but that’s not my jam.

If it looks like a cobra, it’s a cobra, and if it looks like a viper, it’s a viper.

Turtle with a runny nose.

“I’m a lone wolf.”

OK, so you’re too useless and/or immature to pull your own weight among your group and they kicked you out?

Odyssey counts, right?

Is that a research grant I hear calling?

Teachers: You can’t divide by zero.
Nature: Hey guys, check this shit out.

In other news, sales of the caveman fad diet books have cratered.

Must be an angel with wings, so they can also have a flying fuck.

What’s the worst that could happen if we eradicate all the rats, flies, mosquitoes, and sparrows?

They were living in 2025 when they posted that in 2023. I don’t think the stats software is the biggest story here.

Absolutely essential for the full experience in a retro roguelike.

Usually repetitive and boring in 3D.

Yep. “1” is 12:00am on 1-Jan-1900

Numbers less than zero just give a weird error. Between zero and less than one give a nonsense date-formatted non-date.

Might be too late. They changed the policy a few years ago when they introduced mod packs. They didn’t want entire packs to fail if one person pulled their mod, so total deletion was disabled.

Folks can still hide their mods and make new individual downloads impossible, but it’s still there in the background.

(All this is from memory. I hope I’m wrong)

I’ve always maintained that the first was a fine game that was tanked by the price. It was priced to drive gamepass subs, not sell the game. At $35-40, it would have been received much better, imo. Years later, now that it’s more appropriately priced, it seems to be more well-reviewed.

Unfortunately the second is going down the same path. It may take 5+ years for the game to be appreciated to its fullest (assuming no glaring issues), through no fault of the devs.

Which came first, the plant or the seed?

Bungie is a lot like Bioware in that regard: Some real bangers on the resume, but none very recently. It should serve as a reminder that companies don’t make games, people do. If the right people aren’t involved, or too many of the wrong people are, past successes are entirely meaningless.

Yeah, I don’t remember all the details myself, so you’re probably right. I was basically trying to support your thesis that Bethesda getting nasty over mods would be something entirely new and out of character. The only example someone could even try to point to had a bunch of other (better) explanations than “mod bad, Bethesda mad.”

For all their faults, Bethesda may be the most mod-friendly AAA studio out there right now.

I can vaguely recall a single instance where they shut someone down, and that was over re-used audio assets from an older game. That was almost certainly about contractual licensing obligations to voice actors.

Especially with a company that once decided they owned “scrolls” in any video game title.