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I'm glad they finally cleared up what watch Leon was wearing.
Fable always felt more like a proof of concept for whatever goofy fantasy shite that Peter molyneux had in his head in a given development cycle rather than a fully formed product.

He always over promised and mostly under delivered. I could appreciate the charm of what he delivered but it never left me wanting more.

This new offering doesn’t excite me based on what I’ve seen so far.
New Vegas borrowed heavily from a scrapped van buren/fallout 3 interplay sequel story.

Multiple factions that you could align with. Depending on how you played and what factions you supported/fought, the narrative would shift dramatically.

The themes, the quests, and the open ended nature of it more than made up for the horribly buggy state of the game, IMO.

Bethesda’s fallout 3 is just “find my daddy” simulator with some cool environments to roam around in. I appreciate Bethesda for resurrecting the franchise but 3, 4, and 76 aren’t as good to me as New Vegas was.
Capcom has been on a nice run with their string of sequels and remakes for the resident evil series.

They aren’t universally making A tier content but I somehow manage to enjoy everything, including the fumbles despite their shortcomings.

3 remake was criminally short and was missing quite a bit of content but it was still okay. I wish they’d have fleshed that out better.

8 was kind of a letdown as a follow up to 7. It’s almost like “what if we remade 4 with fairytale elements?” But it still had charm.

50 year old action hero Leon is hilariously cheesy to me, but I’m not expecting high art. Keep it coming.
People like to fear monger about the price of computer components. Hoping this doesn’t come to pass and the other price issues ebb and flow back to sanity.

Glad I upgraded my GPU last year, tho.
I went on a nice binge whenever hitman 2 came out and I kept up with it through Hitman 3's release window.

I would like to eventually get my hands on a VR headset and dust it back off to see how VR changes up the gameplay. I think I may pick up a steam frame at some point if they aren't completely outrageous price wise.

I appreciated how open ended the gameplay was. I felt like I barely scratched the surface of what was possible. I assume that this 007 will have some of the same game design DNA. sucks that they feel the need to virtue signal about this title but perhaps it will be worth a play after a deep sale.
That's a shame. IO did a good job with their recent Hitman trilogy.

Why not make a 007 that is recognizable to the fans of the series and plaster a big gay disclaimer that "the content of this game is from a different era and does not reflect the faggotry that our studio believes in."

That way they can make a game that doesn't suck shite and they can still virtue signal.

Everybody wins.

re: How was 2025 for video games?

Posted by CornDogCologne on 12/29/25 at 7:52 pm to
upgraded my PC with a 5080 and I have a backlog I'll never hope to get through. It's a great year.

Just wish I had more time to play relative to my other obligations.
I lost interest after they shat the bed trying to predict the 2016 election cycle using serialized storytelling. I've watched a handful of episodes in the interim, but nothing has made me a regular viewer since.

It's hard to be edgy and subversive when you're damn near 60. Retire. Enjoy the fruits of your labor.
Without clicking on the video, the part that I always found amusing is that they took a seemingly attractive model to use as the basis for the main character and put on a master class in how to ugly that lady up. She didn’t even look human afterward.

I am not against a female protagonist but having to look at the freak they stitched together and knowing what the woman actually looked like would always take me out of the game.

It’s so funny to me how as women have become a more integral part of the development process, their innate jealousy prevents them from depicting women as anything less than a cave troll. Yet somehow the “male gaze” and misogyny is the problem? :lol:
I can appreciate dunking on Naughty Dog, but life is too short. I don't care.

I just won't buy their products anymore. I can see all the hallmarks of their usual nonsense in the trailer. Why argue online? Just no. Focus your energy on something else.

Ideally enough people do that and Druckmann can pursue his true passion of issuing truckstop handjobs. Simple as.
I laugh at the missteps and the veiled admission of failure, but it brings no comfort. Outside of a hostile takeover, there will be no course correction. And even then, would another owner provide something of value?

It's only getting weirder from here. You think any of these studios have the capability to learn a legitimate lesson? they're all overpaid corporate suits. They don't have a fricking clue what's going on. Best you can do is starve them of capital.

It's gotten so goddamn expensive to produce anything. Boardrooms can't produce a thing that isn't focus grouped to oblivion. And all these entities truly care about is a fricking shareholder. We, as consumers, are in hell. Enjoy.
Disheartening but unsurprising. I hope I can actively ignore the bullshite and enjoy the gameplay, but I’m getting tired of mental gymnastics to channel out “well that just happened!” Level dialogue.
Shooter campaigns are nostalgia bait and filler. It’s been that way for a long long time. It should be surprising to no one at this point.

Every so often they’ll come up with an interesting gimmick or at least one mission will be memorable, but I keep my expectations low.

Zombies has been circling the drain even on Treyarch titles.

The competitive multiplayer is the only reason these games are still relevant. It will likely be a down year for them in terms of online market share due to bf6, but I’m sure the mp will be largely passable and the zombies will be fun for a few rounds.
Just seems like R* would just avoid the controversy instead of presenting it for the player to decide. That feels like an old school PS2 era GTA decision. They already removed some references to LGBT in GTA V due to cultural sensitivity.

They'll end up patching this out or patching in auto-death if you engage violently with any rainbow clad NPCs. All it will take are a few chud highlight reels of barreling through parades or crashing planes into them, etc.

The screeching about hate and bad optics will result in some form of action being taken.

re: Doing a ME2 4th play

Posted by CornDogCologne on 11/9/25 at 10:11 pm to
I'm Commander Shepard, and this is my favorite thread on tigerdroppings.
Did the smoke assist challenge earlier this morning. Not exactly the most refined method but I played breakthrough and spammed the objective with smoke. Really worked well on defensive positions.

Getting enough damage at 75 meters to unlock the first challenge with that peashooter dmr was godawful. At least the second phase lets you transition to a sniper rifle.
Modern AAA game development just feels like an elaborate troll on the consumer base at this point.

GTA dev: alright guys, it’s still coming. *snorts suppressing laughter* Just a few more months!

I’ve become indifferent to it at this point because im an old curmudgeon, but I’d hate to be checking days off for this bastard. Agonizing. :lol:
I only had one left to get last night. It took FOREVER to trigger. I was blind firing into mobs and it finally gave it to me. :lol:

I had 9 suppressions prior to that, through just random gameplay. I was so relieved to see 9/10 on that counter, post-nerf. I cannot imagine having to get 300 of those cocksuckers.