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They will have a Hearthstone-equivalent within a year I bet.

The original Activision team were goddamn rockstars. They (and to a lesser degree iMagic) forced the issue of 3rd party software development for gaming systems and set the stage for true competition in the marketplace.

The shipping thing is... woof. I'm not accustomed to paying money for shipping at this point.

HeroQuest Game System linked in the boardgame thread too

Its what Hasbro does for products that they want to make but which aren't guaranteed enough sales via market research to be absolutely viable. So weird fan stuff or outrageous things like the Star Wars Jabba Sailbarge etc. In this case they can use the format to potentially enable all sorts...

Note that the bios of the 'guest designers' betrays their bigger aspirations beyond the listed goals. One of the designers is for the Druid character which doesn't even show up currently as a stretch goal.

https://hasbropulse.com/products/heroquest-game-system Its amusing that Hasbro is running their 'lab' as a crowd funding enterprise, but I suppose it allows for more crazy moonshot ideas with expanded offerings so why not.

Xbox Just as much as a clusterfuck as PlayStation. Special award goes to the Microsoft store itself which buried the link to actually order the thing behind 3 interim pages of links and 'configure' options which led to a static link for the only actual 'configuration' available.

What the... after all the work they did in Legion and BfA to create scalable content that let people scatter to the winds and pursue the content in whatever order they wished (and thus reduce congestion) they reverted to a set order? Whose bright idea was that??

The series was crazy expensive to produce so I'm sure when it wasn't an immediate smash hit the Netflix eyes wandered elsewhere looking for their next great franchise.

Yeah you can get a hint of that with the "operations" toggle on the map whereby you can switch between (right now) the Avengers Initiative and the Campaign. Its clear they put that in to allow for very extensible campaign-like additions.

Yeah she has definitely levelled up... Surely they must be linking her and the whole Dr Strange multiverse into finally doing the mutants.

They clarified that Exotic gear can only drop the first time you complete heroic activities each week. They did say that the drop percentage would increase soon once the Last Avenger Standing was working properly.

My bad, it's a normal heroic hive but the mission is to do 8 of them in a series of parts. After I did the one last night I'm on part 2 of the 'quest'

Did the new Heroic Gauntlet1 after the patch, the hero rotation thing is working in that if you get downed you have to switch to another character so long as that other character meets the power requirement. It says it's 8 floors, but it was actually 6 and not too bad so long as I played super...

That may not be a fair assumption. I remember when PS4 and the Xbone launched that there were a couple of media apps that were not updated for a few months. It was very annoying.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/dc-universe-rebranding-as-comics-only-platform-in-january This came with the natural sunsetting of DCUniverse as a streaming service.

I wonder if all this will cause retailers to rethink their bot-defense mechanisms? Obviously its been effecting shoe collectors for awhile, but I don't think they are numerous enough for it to be a news item. People are starting to talk about how hard it is for a human to place a preorder.

Yeah it is odd that its a game that is actually available at launch, wont be on PS4 / Xbone and they said nothing...

Digital Editions seem to sell out super fast, much more so than the full version

I am getting a twinge of FOMO and a desire to make Cyberpunk 2077 look as pretty as possible....

So Spiderman Miles Morales and a bunch of PS4 'classics' are the true launch titles?

The discless at $399 is very compelling. It certainly compares favorably to the 'wtf-level' Xbox Series You-just-fucked-developers-with-a-min-spec-S

Yeah I saw that blurb and immediately thought of this thread. Consider also the whole Black Wall Street massacre in Tulsa OK and how completely unknown it was to most people until just recently. If you have an active disinformation campaign fostered by the Empire's control of interstellar...

Note that the story does continue after the "Campaign" is over. Think of the single player campaign as a very long tutorial / intro. This is similar to Destiny/Division/Anthem, but in this case there does seem to be genuinely an ongoing story that has had thought put into it.

His education has come solely from these people who are in exile. Its entirely possible that, despite his parents being killed in the Clone Wars it looks like, they never made mention of the Jedi as part of his upbringing as a foundling. Its clear he has no idea what the fuck the force is and...

It wasn't even his body most of the time. The melee stunt guy and the marksman stunt guy were in the suit far more frequently than he was.

50% rejection rate on the system-on-a-chip core sounds abysmal. Doubly so when you realize they must have relaxed their testing criteria a bit to even get it to that point and so its likely that somewhere around 10% of the units shipped will have underperforming cores.

Would make for good support superstructure for a goblin/gnome highrise. It is weird that they didn't even try to address this part of the plotline. I can only assume that it will be integral to the post afterlife plot

Make sure to do the Priority Mission each week. The first time you complete it you get stuff like 50 upgrade modules. Right now I'm starved for upgrade modules so this was a godsend.

I'm enjoying these animated previews they have been doing. They make it sound like Shadowlands is pretty cool with a compelling plotline, so good marketing there.

I think the Heroic Elite Hive was broken (the last Avenger standing mechanic doesn't work) and so they needed the exotic drops with the patch. I noticed that each time I did it tonight I got a level 1 item as a reward...

What are the expectations with respect to day one backwards compatibility for this? Now that it looks like both PS5 and Xbox Series X will be out before the release date will people who boot it up on their brand new console get a better experience owing to the superior hardware even before the...

Note that if you get a bad daily or weekly challenge you get one 'mulligan' whereby you can refresh it. This is helpful if you get one which is either bugged and doesn't get counted or which is just really hard to pull off (like defeating a big bot with a takedown...oftentimes it's not quite...

I think painting would be faster on a PC with keyboard mouse setup. The 'pan speed' once you go into paint mode on the controller is awful.

Captain America is fun as a glass cannon stacking precision for +ranged damage, but often at the cost of sturdiness. I have him kitted out for all sorts of procs on range hit and range crit including an invulnerability buff which is what I try and keep rolling to keep him from dying if I miss a...

Adult Swim had already greenlit season 8 back in 2018, what made them go back on this I wonder? From the sound of it the scripts were not done despite the 2 years since the end of production on S10, so maybe that was a factor? I would have expected the 8th season to have been in...