Reading your post and then reading the replies made my chest hurt lol.

Bungies halo campaigns were just something special. I don’t know when we’ll see a co-op fps at that level of quality again. Those titles have lived rent free in my brain for the past decade

One thing you could do, depending on how much you and your friends enjoy a challenge. Is to do the halo 3/ODST Vidmaster challenge. My friends and I did it together twice when it was first released and those are some of my fondest gaming memories

Valve works differently than other companies. Internally everyone works on what they want when they want. You can literally wheel your desk to a new location if you decide to want to work with another team. Because of this though it creates an odd dynamic that isn’t always going to work out best for the developers or the consumers.

This is why it feels extremely random whenever valve releases something new. You would think they would just release banger after banger of hot AAA titles. But it’s more complicated than that unfortunately. This is also reflected in things like fixing cheats in team fortress 2 etc etc.

This video will answer a lot of your questions

https://youtu.be/s9aCwCKgkLo?si=YoE9G-S80xf7JjLO

For destiny, I have no idea. I first played D2 when it launched and that was fine, but I attempted to pick it up again a year or two later and I was immediately lost.

For overwatch I agai haven’t played in quite some time. But for multiplayer shooters like that I try to go into a casual mode or training mode first and just get a feel for everything. Eventually you get the hang of things.

For RPG’s it depends. Some games can benefit from reading up online. For example I’m playing bloodborne right now and I had no idea how I wanted to spec out my character. So I looked up what weapons and abilities are in the game and made my decision based around that. If a game features a respec option, I’ll be more likely to just go in and wing it and change things up when I need to.

Well I guess now is as good as any to finally try the game again. I was one of the foolish people that had fallen for the initial hype of the game. Tried it on launch day and was insanely disappointed. Time to go find a cheap used copy

It was alright. I feel like if it released at the same time limbo did, I would have enjoyed it more.

I remember finding some of those arcade cabinets in a local movie theater in the early 2000’s. I’m not sure if it was a sequel or a spin off but they had the dual joystick control setup. The game was definitely a quarter sink at that theater but man it was fun.

Playing the first game in yakuza was a treat. I would love to see them spread out for western audiences but it probably is a pipe dream.

Being able to still download old purchases is my biggest thing. I’m glad they aren’t removing that

Me too. Teams is the worst for finding old conversations. They might as well be gone after a couple days pass.

Not to mention lately teams will sometimes just not update with any notifications lately. So I’ll go an hour with no messages or whatever and then suddenly teams decides to update informing me that I missed a call and a handful of messages.

Signing out and back in usually helps but man it feels like they took Skype and just Jerry rigged it

I think once my current gamepass offer is up in a year and a half I’ll be using the service similar to blockbuster. Only grabbing a month when there’s a couple things I’m interested in trying.

Thanks for posting!

Daaaamn the pokemon go plus + is like $75 here. That’s crazy!

I heard from a friend that this game wants your screen to be on all night? Is that true?

American politicians don’t need social media to invade peoples privacy. The patriot act sealed the deal a while ago. If they want to spy, they’re going to.

I should also add that the whole tik tok ban is just a way to toss in extra laws that give the America government more control. They say it’s about tik tok, but it’s a scapegoat to get people to vote for invasive laws.

I have only played the first two games so far. Overall I strongly disliked the dungeons in the second game as they felt like padding and a way to kill off your pikmin. They just weren’t executed properly in my opinion.

That being said, there was massive room for improvement. As long as the dungeons in 4 aren’t repetitive and feel unique enough I think they could be fun.

I tried outer wilds on gamepass. I went in blind knowing absolutely nothing. At first I thought the graphics made it look like a generic unity indie game. I didn’t like how the jumping worked. I was so close to closing the game but I figured “I haven’t even gotten past the tutorial. I should at least give it a try.”

Oh man. The second you complete the tutorial and you are set free to play I had the best “oh holy shit” moment I’ve had in years. It’s still not everyone’s cup of tea but I absolutely loved it. I hope they make a second.

I can’t say if it was the best year as I haven’t looked through every year, but 2011 was a pretty strong year that sticks out in my mind

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:2011_video_games&pageuntil=Don't+Take+It+Personally%2C+Babe%2C+It+Just+Ain't+Your+Story#mw-pages

Some notable titles (for me) were skyrim, portal 2, LA Noir, ocarina of time 3D, star fox 3D(do these two count? They were technically remakes for the 3DS), skyward sword, Dark souls.

Other titles that might be notable (there might be more that I don’t list, I’m just skimming quickly) Amnesia, battlefield 3, COD MW3, Catherine, Crysis 2, dead space 2, gears of War 3, hatoful boyfriend, little big planet 2, Mario kart 7, mortal kombat (2011), no more room in hell, red orchestra 2, saints row 3, SMT devil survivor 2, tekken tag tournament 2, terraria, track mania 2.

Again there might be some i missed(especially playstation releases, I think i maybe missed a resistance game or something) but those were some notable ones I saw.

I have only been around the reddit halo community (maybe others are worse) and to be honest I don’t think it was that bad. A lot of the complaints were/are valid. For sure not the worst

The company I work for uses activity watch to monitor our productivity. The program isn’t very accurate though but they seem to take it as gospel. So I’ve had to set up ways to prevent it from making me appear away when I’m actually still at my pc working.

These kinds of micromanaging steps only further the employer/employee divide. In my eyes a good employer would consult with an employee if they aren’t meeting their standards and work with them to improve things or offer other potential solutions.

From my experience they want us to be robots, not humans.

Edit: I also forgot to mention they monitor us with this tool without employee knowledge. They only will reveal this once they feel there’s a need to fix an “issue” (which might not even be an issue)

There’s also been a rumor going around that they are checking our webcams without our knowledge but I can’t confirm if this is true.

It’s not great overall

Is this why they pulled a handful of the games from the Xbox marketplace? I was going to go grab a used physical copy somewhere at this point.

I’ve noticed tactical shooters have kind of sat on the back burner. There’s not a lot of selection at the moment. It’s a shame because they offer unique gameplay