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    They fired the Escapist's editor, and the video team, Yahtzee resigns

    Woah. This isn't the headline that I expected to read. Yahtzee has been the biggest draw of this site for well over a decade, and he has stayed through just about everything that has happened through this site's history, so him leaving now just goes to show the new culture that Nick created...
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    Why have game developers struggled to make amazing space sci fi games during the 2010s?

    This unironically looks just like the CoD Infinite Warfare campaign Otherwise, I guess one of the major issues of space games is scope. You can either reach for the stars, and have thousands or millions of planets (like Starfield and No Mans Sky) but developers simply don't have the time or...
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    What are you currently playing?

    Yes, I should have qualified my statement with "the multiplayer is in a decent and healthy place". The campaign is a whole other can of worms. I too definitely have my questions regarding the future of the story. Namely that the voice cast is frankly getting quite old (Steve Downes is 73) and...
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    What are you currently playing?

    Fair enough. I obviously have nothing against them on a personal level, and I do hope that they land on their feet, but on a professional level and a fan of the franchise, I think it was very clear that they were not the right people to have led Halo after the Bungie era, and it was under their...
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    What are you currently playing?

    Ah, the tale of woe that is Halo Infinite. The development of Halo Infinite was incompetently managed, the game launched in a barebones state, the team wasn't agile enough to resolve early critical issues, and development struggles continued to impact the release of post-launch content for...
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    What are you currently playing?

    Yes, of course. I suppose I should have been clearer. When it comes to Battlepasses in most games (and Overwatch 2), everything you unlock you keep forever, but once the season expires, so too does the Battlepass, and everything else that you haven't unlocked is effectively gone forever (unless...
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    What are you currently playing?

    I've been playing some Cyberpunk. The gunplay is... fine, but the world, characters and story have so far drawn me in. Im currently playing as a Netrunner, throwing hacks at everyone I see, but I find that whole mechanic to be a bit clunky, so I might respect into something else. Otherwise...
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    What are you currently playing?

    Finished off the Borderland 3 DLCs. Some were definitely better than others (Bounty of Blood/Fustercluck > Tentacles/Jackpot), but overall, the DLC experience was much superior than just playing the main plot. Its a good thing that the character creation screen just lets you skip the prologue...
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    What are you currently playing?

    I've dropped Divinity: Original Sin after the first act. I had stopped playing it for a little while, and now I have just realised that I can't really be bothered to pick it up again. I did enjoy the first act, with the town surrounded by the undead that I had to slowly liberate, but after I...
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    Discuss and Rate the Last Film You Watched

    I watched The Creator yesterday, and I really did not like this one. I thought that it was derivative, predictable, full of idiotic characters making stupid decisions, and full of plot conveniences. I didn't care for the action, and I didn't buy into the character relationships. A real stinker...
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    Discuss and Rate the Last Thing You Watched (non-movies)

    To be clear, Thrawn was first introduced, or at least popularised (im no expert of Legends era Star Wars) in a trilogy of books written by Timothy Zahn in the 90's. As you say, Disney decided to completely scrap basically all Star Wars lore that wasn't a movie, or The Clone Wars, when they...
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    Discuss and Rate the Last Thing You Watched (non-movies)

    After finishing the final season of Rebels, I am now all caught up with Ahsoka. And so far, I am enjoying it. But with that said, I feel like a very large amount of my enjoyment stems from the fact that I have done my Star Wars homework, and I have watched all of The Clone Wars, and I have...
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    GOTY (and PGOTY) Discussion

    Well looking at the reviews and general reactions, despite the very strong competition this year, im pretty sure Baldur's Gate 3 is most likely going to be cleaning up at this year's Game Awards (and other associated awards ceremonies). With that being said, the only 2023 games that I have...
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    Discuss and Rate the Last Thing You Watched (non-movies)

    Im still watching Star Wars Rebels, and I am having a fantastic time. I came in with basically rock-bottom expectations, because I didn't really like the art style, and I had rarely heard good things about the show, but I have very happily ended up binging three of the four seasons in just a...
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    Discuss and Rate the Last Thing You Watched (non-movies)

    I'd quite like to watch Ahsoka, but it really looks like Rebels Season 5, and I've never watched Rebels, so im doing just that. And so far, its pretty decent. Very kiddy though, which isn't unexpected. Just a couple of tangential discussion points though: First of all, whilst I think that...