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Chaos Dwarves are great. Easily the best thing about WH3.

I think we are, or rather they are past that. Nobody of value would climb onto that sinking ship. That's probably why they only have a team of bluehairs, interns and fresh grads for a project like D4. It's all they can get.

AI interacting here can only hasten the coming of Skynet. Looking at the world, that's probably a good thing.

Is this not a retelling of the animated series with some extra DEI on top? The series had 3 seasons with a pretty definitive end, so that's what I expect. There's no value in the current gen of writers trying to do their own spin and extending a show past their source material, that's just going...

I'm gonna say it's obvious that Blizzard wanted a big piece of PoEs MTX pie, and while a box sale gets you a feet in the door, a game without retention won't have great numbers for MTX month after month.

It's really at least 15 years too late to use Blizzard as a comparison that sheds a positive light. Especially in this genre. Although I don't personally think it is that big a deal, tbh. I logged in, saw the shitshow, and simply went back to wrap up a Morathi campaign that's ongoing before...

D3 is basically maintenance mode anyway, did you mean D4?

PoE is fine, but I've played it for a dozen years now. Sometimes you need to switch it up. I figure such a time frame is enough time for some other studios to make similar games. But as I said, the list is somewhat short. My three candidates for the next year are hoping that I come around on...

I've played a good part of those, certainly everything up to the Diablo mods (except Wolcen which for some reason I don't like without a grounded reason). That list gets really muddy once you are past the mods to Diablo section. Not gonna claim I know them all for sure, so maybe there's a gem I...

Is that multitude here in the room with us right now? Last I checked there's only a handful of Diablo clones. If you skip the mods to actual Diablo1/2 you can count them on one hand. The term "ARPG" means nothing these days since rpg elements are being added to everything that's newer than...

Don't worry, just 5-9 more seasons and they might arrive at a passable game here. Only if you dutifully purchase the expansion and battlepasses of course.

I remember having some trouble getting into PoE based on looks and feel. Of course, that was their closed beta a dozen years ago. Glad I stuck with it, has been quite a ride so far. I tried twice to get into Last Epoch, but so far it just didn't click with me. People generally relate positively...

Is this worth full price? On a scale of "40K license cash grab" to BG3, where does it stand?

Are you familiar with Total War and like it? If not, I would suggest to just get TWWH2 on a sale, maybe Christmas. No need to buy the more expensive title first. If it clicks with you that means triple digit hours of play already, and you can expand your collection later on. WH1 is just showing...

They can have my attention and maybe money after they actually do everything they mention there in a satisfactory fashion. Definitely a case of talk is cheap, and I am sure they do some follow up just to cover their asses, but I'll wait and see if they can deliver enough to convince me to pick...

I've been playing since launch, but a lot less often these last weeks because the weather here wasn't great. I like it well enough, but it has terrible monetization. I suppose that's normal for Niantic, but I never played any of their games.

I am pretty done with any kind of multiverse/time travel shenanigans coming out of Hollywood. Maybe they've done that too much in the last decade or two and it's just superhero fatigue, but I think the lack of tangible stakes is exactly the issue. They just expand the theoretical threat level to...

That doesn't change the fact that Blizzard is the small, retarded sibling of Activision Blizzard.

I don't think they are buying it for the Blizzard portfolio at all. Either way though, if it gets that studio disbanded, it's a great side benefit.

I would see Gamepass as the peasant choice.

You mean a marketing/sales fuckup? Because they've had design/productions fuckups left and right.

My guess is they are following Bioware's foot steps. I'm just glad they got all three WH titles out before going to hell.

You realize it can be both fun and disappointing, right? I had fun for as long as I played. I stopped playing when the fun dwindled. (70ish hours, played until mid-June, haven't touched the game since). I also think the game is a colossal disappointment, judging from what I think it could've...

Rerolling items used to cost a mountain of gold too, you know. I assume that's still the case though., since I dropped this in June.

Perhaps not enough bear fucking for a modern US audience?

Oh, it isn't. It's just the rookie devs trying to save their Titanic.

Retention is probably shit, and early info with things people ask for might make some of them bite down and endure the current season, since "it gets better soon".

I reckon it works once per decade. Because we've all been at this point in 2013(?) with D3. Old people like your example aside, you simply get a load of new players through the passage of time. Let's see who of us fall for D5 in 2033. They can't fuck it up again, right? Third time's the charm!

That's "really fast but feels attainable if they work hard on their character" for the kind of players they have left after these two months of bullshit. They're just playing to their audience, even if it is unintended.

Evans Captain America is great. Origin movies are slow, but even that worked, but the character just got better and better from movie to movie. On the other hand, Ironman started high but stagnated or even slipped. My MCU favorites would be Thor, Cap and Loki. I've always liked the Asgardians...

Sales price is likely going to reach the $15 range which is the price most WH2 dlcs had. So they are getting their previous full price revenue even on discounted sales, and early buyers pay a hefty premium.

Are you serious? Ask again in a year or two.

Well, that explains a lot.

We spent days in BG1 multiplayer figuring out how to kill npcs that weren't meant to be killed. In that one expansion the first town had some mage you wouldn't normally fight, and when you attack him he puts up an invul spell and starts lobbing fireballs right at his feet. Hilarious.

They wouldn't even know just from the game. It's basically single player, it's easy. If the kids wander out into the internet, then yeah I guess. But just from the game, it doesn't really push for sales like many mobile games would.

The campaign is fine, pretty much D3, and the post-campaign game sucks. So same as D4 really, just different reasons for why it sucks. It is good for a few weeks if one hasn't played it yet.

BG 1 topped you at a certain amount of xp, a characters actual max level varied according to their class choice(s).

The problem is that they'll have a lot of lifers on board who don't care about the quality of the season. D3 seasons were shit until recently, but still sparking interest for each season (maybe not from you or me, but in general). They just were not monetizing that burst of interest every three...

Probably a few more years because this is a live service game, they can easily milk that. I'd even cast minor doubt on there ever being an actual sequel. WoW basically killed the Warcraft RTS series. Without it, we would have at least one more Warcraft RTS game now.

I don't think it delivers. Kind of shallow is putting it lightly. I've played until like 1.5 weeks ago, and I did enjoy the campaign, but it turns into a one-dimensional slog after that. The game is too raw and lacking in too many areas to accept it as "finished". This is fucking Diablo 4 and I...