Can this guy just “retire” already?

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I can remember many years ago when I was much younger than I am now, and when I was still following gaming news, being a gamer at that point of my life, as most boys of that age at that time were, hearing one of the funniest jokes I had and still yet have ever heard and one which I repeat anytime I get the opportunity, which was that “Nothing says ‘final’ like ‘Final Fantasy 13: Part 2’.” I believe it was the presenter Jovenshire from Smosh Games but have never been able to find again the source

… how have you made it this far? I wish I had your life

See: usenet. No seeds, just constant maximum DL speeds

Saved but also “half hour downloads” are a thing of the past with gigabit fiber and usenetting

Indeed. And even delayed fulfillment of the original promises is impressive given how vast the scope of the original pitch was. I’m just happy to have it, even if it took a couple years longer than expected to get.

Take a look at Star Citizen if you want to know the alternative, OP

I love seeing people say “downtown Tokyo.” Like, which town? Tokyo is about 10 full cities and a few hundred towns crammed side by side lol

I thought that was Sam Neil from the thumbnail

Fuck Neil Druckman, Naughty Dog, and Sony, in that order. Amy Hennig carried the whole PlayStation brand identity and got couped over some good ol industry sexism so that N.D. could opine about how hard it is to be a white man

Oh okay my bad I got confused

It’s simple: Boomers grew up in a world where money was handed out for free just for being white. The ideas of hard work, financial responsibility, or the value of a dollar were lost on the whole generation. They don’t think twice about sending $25,000 to some random person because that’s how they got that money in the first place (50 years ago, which they used to buy their first house (now their fourth rental property)).

Hope this helps

Its gonna happen bro

Half Life 3

No, no, I think I can take a vibrating strap-on device. Seriously.

I understand what you’re saying (I think) but you know that… you can kill everyone, right? The worst the game does is throw a few more enemies at you (to kill) and some moral characters say mean things to you. Pretty standard RPG mechanics, IMO. It’s just a choice and like I said, the narrative framing sets you up to be a highly-trained stealthy assassin, not some mass-murdering juggernaut. But you can do that if you want

Similarly I could not use the tools the game gives me

Offers* you. There’s even an achievement for completing the game with just a sword and pistol, no upgrades or powers ;) Choices!!

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IIRC you still get the low-chaos ending if you only kill the targets. It’s just by going wild and killing everyone that you get high-chaos, and I think this fits in the moral framing of the game.

I do agree with your gripe that D1 gives you a lot of fun ways to kill people and challenges you not to use them, while at the same time giving you very little nonlethal tools. They addressed this well in the sequel IMO, but I did also love the challenge and the temptation knowing that these enemies would be so easy to defeat with a rat swarm but I just shouldn’t. Like I said, keeps with the moral framing about the slippery slope of mindless revenge IMO

My poor bookshelf…

Wow that looks like a blast. I just finished my ~fifth playthrough of Bioshock: Infinite last week and that game looks like it would slot in right beside that. Thanks for sharing!