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Spoiler for Raid ending cutscene (apparently)

The Destiny franchise is just mystery boxes stacked inside each other like a Russian doll. The original developers had a plotline and when that got nuked a year before Destiny 1 shipped everything went sideways. Its quite sad as the gameplay itself has been and continues to be quite good.

The N-1 Starfighter is also a product of Naboo and we've seen that the Naboo are very much thought of as high end aesthetic engineers. All their shit looks fancy but also is premium quality under the hood. I always thought of them as being fancy Italians ala Ferrari / Maserati / Lamborghini...

Game has some serious bugs. There was one section I had to repeat 4 times due to various errors: crash, stuck on geometry, trapped in never-ending elevator. There are also plot elements where it seems as if the protagonist is just not paying any attention to what little dialogue they actually...

When I was a poor grad student I embraced the skull and crossbones but vowed that when I was able I would make sure to compensate content creators in order to ensure that they continued to make stuff. I am perfectly fine with paying my $10 or whatever a month to have Trek year round... but I'm...

Interesting that they are ending it with season 5...and that said season is over a year away. With Picard's final run currently airing that leaves Lower Decks and Strange New Worlds carrying the torch. I know I only subbed to Paramount+ for Star Trek. I can easily see dropping that entirely...

For some reason I thought this week was the finale (probably since Mando is now back). This was a nice call back to existing plot lines. I am getting tired of the 'adventure of the week' format. I don't mind the concept but the adventures in question have been 'meh'

Interesting opening episode for the season. Metric fucktons of foreshadowing, not the least of which is Ezra/Thrawn. I dig the plant dude pirate captain and his ship.

I smell a group hate-watch heckle session coming on

Occasionally I'll go back and watch the original trailer for Destiny and imagine what a cool grand space opera it could have been. Then again I do the same with The Division and Anthem too.

I really thought Jack Crusher was gonna end up being a clone she made of her dead husband.

I like how the bigger story of how they ended up here is teased out in the recordings you find all over the place.... just like it was in BioShock. A buddy of mine thought this was just Russian Quake and knowing he's a huge BioShock fan I threatened him with bodily harm if he didn't at least...

Is the development of this thing ever going to end? I mean sure the guy has deep pockets to fund all of this and got a lot of extra funding from the Battle Royale thing they put out but good grief.

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Pyro as a Ferengi was nice

Owlcat was a Russian studio started up to make the Pathfinder games as a subsidiary of some megatech Russian company. They left Pathfinder because the rights to the IP remained with that parent company when they split off to become a totally independent studio. Like a fuckton other Russian...

KFC and Diablo are an interesting pairing... Would have thought something like a Flaming Hot Doritos Loco Taco from Taco Bell would have been more thematic.

SovietShock is pretty good. The intro is very atmospheric but then the first chunk of actual gameplay is a bit clunky until you get a bit into the facility. After that intro things settle into a very Bioshock-y situation. Its missing that extra layer of polish that Irrational gave to their...

It definitely has a Bioshock feel. The controls and FOV aren't nearly as fluid nor are the abilities as nice as the Bioshock ones, but the setting certainly evokes that same general flavor.

Ummm. So I played this AM on Xbox GamePass and abilities were active only so long as I held the left bumper in. As soon as I let up the ability would start to recharge back to full. Just now I logged in and there had been an update and when I hit LB it uses the ability and continues until it's...

I'm honestly more uncomfortable with the house elf stuff in this game (and Wizarding World in general) than I am the JK Rowling or Goblin=Jews business. House Elves are incredibly powerful sentient magic users that are kept and traded as slaves and there's really no way to redeem this aspect of...

I'm digging the 'we haven't talked in 20 years...' but. Too many times in things like this you have people that seem to maintain anchored to the people they knew over the course of the the series and seemingly next-to-no connections to anyone else in the intervening decades. Those of us past...

Yeah she was. Well technically 'Thief' is what he calls her in the intro.

The rest of them come in August it would seem. Presto does indeed come with a d4. Shiela, like the basic bitch she is, comes with a d6

It really is a shame that this hasn't been a commercial success. I would love to see many more characters / battle scenarios

Finished the main plotline and the primary House Buddy quests (dunno what else to call the 3 pseudo-companions). The main plot was your typical RPG 'messiah' thing but pretty much just existed as a reason to have lots of fighting and puzzles and whatnot. Sebastian's House Buddy quest was by...

Is it different for different classes? Some of them don't really have a 'riding a horse in the middle of buttfuck no where' theme.

That was a terrible cinematic. I've seen better work by high schoolers.

I did like that they officially moved into the 25th century with this episode. It really does feel like they are using this season of Picard to set up a 'Next Next Generation' style exploration of Starfleet in the early 25th century. I'm somewhat different in that I like the jump that...

The 'office culture' bullshit is a farce used to prop up the people who schmooze their way into success without doing any real work. The office provided them with a better theater to perform their nonsense pantomime in and they are worried that people have realized they serve no actual purpose...

I mean... Taron Egerton is amazing so this is absolutely a must watch.

The way the whole environment changes between seasons / parts of the school year is great. Not only the major seasons, but there are subtle changes during a given season. Fall starts out looking like generic autumn but then more leaves drop and you see the jack o lantern decorations come out...

So as we knew its Flashpoint with bonus nostalgia

The pacing of levels and quests seems to be all over the place. I feel like I'm perpetually unlocking features a long time after I should have already been using them. For example: by the time I unlocked talents I was already level 15 and had a whole mess of talent points to spend right away...

The umbrasyl fight was pretty badass. Good job balancing comedy with dramatic tension and the overall feel/pacing of D&D combat

Action Figures from the D&D Animated Series (celebrating its 40th anniversary and made to merch the fuck out of the upcoming movie). That pic is from Target. They were out of the Hank and Diana figures. I'm guessing they will do Shiela, Eric and Presto as part of a second wave at some point...

Nostalgia. Though they didn't make a Presto figure, so fuck em.

I'm on a PS5 playing on fidelity with everything on and gameplay is fine...

I think it might be hard to get into if you aren't familiar with the universe...

Reading responses here it seems clear there is a lot of variation in terms of what happens and who says what etc. My walk to Hogsmeede didn't provide me with the same info as mentioned above.