AV_Gamer

I agree with you. Diablo III had more charm and personality, not just in the overall world, but each character class had their own personality and backstory. All that was stripped in this game. A pity.

Yeah, I've been playing the new season, and it does seem to be the best one yet. The new feature that lets you add bonus stats through recipes is fun, and I just started on the 3rd Nightmare tier and getting a lot of good loot and decent fights. Hopefully, this brings people back to the game, so we can get more content, and possible new story DLC.

Yes, this is why I like posting here as well. Because, there are only maybe 30 people in total who post in the forums, and maybe 10 who post daily. That's a small number, but like a small town, the benefits are that everybody knows everyone, figuratively speaking, and we know they are not bots. This place also has some of the best in-depth post from users I've ever seen on a gaming forum. I don't know how long Giantbomb is going to last, but I will enjoy this place while it is still going.

The main thing I'm concerned about, is them not bringing the full game to Game Pass. They may have the multiplayer only while you have to pay for the campaign, or zombies mode. This would be a shame, because I play the Black Ops games for the story and zombies, not the multiplayer. And the trailer they released with all the political figures implying that the reasons for the Gulf War were a lie and something else was going on is something I'm all for.

Reading this post, actually made me go back and look through my PS2 collection, and I realized I have some genuine classics, but the PS2 library was so good, you can own over one hundred games, and they can all be classified as genuine, unforgettable classics. It also made me want to replay the PS2 version copy of Splinter Cell I have. No, it's not as good as the Xbox or PC version, with its slightly inferior lighting, shorten and missing levels, but that game holds a special place in my heart.

And I never forget how I turned my PS2 into a monster of a machine, simply using a Pro Action Replay hack. I wonder if the info on how to do so is still available online like it was decades ago. Good times

It would be funny if a mode that original wasn't supposed to be in a game called Fortnite, ends up killing the overall gaming industry, or at least the AAA aspect of it. Many people forget that Fortnite was originally supposed to be a horde tower defense game. Then PUBG happened.

I finished it.

The game was short, but an enjoyable cinematic experience. It reminds me a lot of The Order 1886, that came out for the PS4 shortly after it launched. And this is the interesting thing about the game. Had it come out at launch like Microsoft wanted it to, it would've been a great showpiece for what the console was capable of. Would it have surpassed Miles Morales on PS5? Likely not, because MM is an overall better playing game, that is also a great cinematic experience and a better story. But the game would've left its mark.

The things I enjoyed about the game were definitely the visuals and the combat. Yes, it's the same as the first game, but they did a good job making it seem more immersive and epic, with chaos happening all around while the combat is happening. A huge improvement over the first game. The puzzles weren't necessary, and sadly, neither was the so-called inner voice effect with the 3D audio. While impressive and powerful in the first game, the inner voice of the women being Senua's inner mind dropped the ball. They weren't nearly as effective. They basically just repeated everything Senua was doing during the whole game in different ways. The voice of the father constantly putting doubt in her mind was much more effective.

I give this game an 8/10 myself, just for the visual presentation alone. I played this game on high settings with upscaling turned on. But then after beating it, I replayed some of it on the low setting with TSR, which is the closet thing to a native setting the game has, and it still looks amazing. That game's low settings is most other game's ultra settings.

The game clearly isn't for everyone, but I'm glad to have played it.

Dune II 8/10

Better than the first film in every way. A lot of great action and a lot of good plot direction. Still, it's a little overrated. It's not the greatest action film ever made. That arguably still goes to Terminator 2. But the movie has a lot of nice set piece moments. I'm ready for the final film in the trilogy when it comes out.

Like the others have said, good detailed write-up about how the work and labor laws are in Japan, and that Iwata took a pay cut, not out of heroics, but because he was following the laws in Japan.

But the bottomline between him and Spencer, is that Nintendo is doing fine with their 1st party support from their games, and their current console sales. Spence and Xbox are struggling, to say the least.

When you're winning, nobody cares about how the sausage is made. They only care when you're losing. That's life. If Nintendo was having the same problems Microsoft is having now, these things might have been more exposed. But, Nintendo, has done such a better job with their PR as well, that it would likely not be as effective, as I mentioned in another thread. In business and politics, perception is reality. And Nintendo has done a great job making themselves look like the family friendly alternative to Disney.

It's similar to Mark Cuban, and how he portrays himself as the cool, down to earth, rich business investor, compared to others like him, when in reality, he is no different and just as cutthroat.

The way the whole Amico thing went down, reminds me a lot of Elizabeth Holmes and the Theranos fraud scandal. And while Holmes is currently serving her time in a summer camp like prison facility, she was not convicted for defrauding the common people, only the rich investors.