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Oh man, that's a real shame. I really like Ben and he's involved in a lot of great shows (Going Rogue, Mahjong, Ben&Breakfast, The Aftershow). I was afraid something was up, after Going Rogue just stopped deadin its tracks.

Very sad to see him go, hopefully he doesn't part because of bad eggs in the community, cause fuck them. Anyway best of luck to you, Ben. Hopefully you'll make a couple guest appearances in the upcoming years.

Under the series' current rules on what constitutes a "run"? No chance, sorry.

I'd love for this series to go longer though, because with more time, Ben can definitely get it done. Also it's very entertaining, of course.

I thought it was pretty great, not every animated movie needs to be "family friendly" or for young kids in general. I can definitely see ages 13 and up enjoying this one for what it is.

Also it reminded me of The Good Place in parts, and that's always a good thing.

Stuff like that should be absurd to anyone and if people believe big-scale marketing campaigns without even thinking about it, that's on them also. Just in general the marketing of every single game/movie (or just company) etc. promises it to be the best thing ever made - that's just how it is. I'm not saying this is a good thing, far from it, but it's how this shit works, thus you can't blame CDPR's marketing department for doing their jobs.

Not handing out console copies to the press sucks, I agree. These practices need to change, but that's also something that's not unique to this case but something a lot of other devs have done in the past.

I'm not mindlessly trying to say "it's not CDPRs fault", because that wouldn't be true. But everything happening now is just partially their fault - that's a fact. Not one dev team in the world wants to ship a broken game, but business realties, investors etc. don't care about this, and often force devs to do just that. I've also read an interesting comment by some other dev (can't remember the name), mentioning that testing for bugs while working from home would be extremely hard, so the entire covid thing should also have proven a huge problem here.

Minor bugs/jank is to be expected, in big open world games especially, and people making arguments like "Oh god, I couldn't get out of the water at every single point where I think it should work, this game is fucking terrible", just sound as if they've never played a video game before.

Again, it's fine (and encouraged even) to complain about valid points, like the hundreds of bugs and the performance, but damning the game for completely minor stuff is just dumb. Especially since I'm sure loads of people aren't doing this because they are actually frustrated or whatever, but because they just want to shit on something (doubly so, since this game was hyped to high heaven before). And, yes, it's the internet in 2020, but come on. All I want is fair discourse on this game, that's not the best thing ever, but also not the worst.

I'm 23 hours in and after some initial reservations I have to say that I really, really like it. Solid 8/10 so far from a gameplay and story perspective (I'm not all too far in yet, since I've done a ton of side stuff, but I really don't get why people complain about the story so much).

I wish the guns felt a bit more varied, the driving felt better (boy do those cars feel heavy) and the difficutly didn't feel all over the place, but that's just about it with my complaints.

Haven't hit any serious bugs yet either (playing on PS5), just one random enemy goon doing a T-pose and, one quest being stuck for a while (which got solved with a quick reload) and a cutscene where a character had a gun stuck to his face (looked like something out of Persona 3). Let's hope it keeps like this.

Overall it feels like a different and somewhat more modern take on Deus Ex - which is what I expected this to be (I'll never understand why this is still getting compared to fucking GTA, just because you can steal and drive cars?).

I'm really not liking all the general discourse on this right now, which comes down to shitting on every minor problem in the game (not bug related - the bugs are understandably frustrating) and shitting on CDPR without end. I can't tell you how many "Cyberdunk, hur hur" memes I've seen in the last couple days. It's duumb. And, yes, it sucks that it's this buggy for mostly everyone and that the old console versions are bad, but that alone shouldn't completely suck the life out of this (and CDPR).

Bugs have never really bothered me much in games like these, so I'll still get it day 1. Also with Christmas coming up, now is the only time where I'll have a couple days off with nothing else to do, but play games all day long.

The edginess is par for the course for the cyberpunk genre, it's not cool, but also doesn't bother me. The trans issues are the only thing that I think a really a shame here, hopefully some of the more egregious stuff will get patched out or the subject matter will be better handled in the future DLC updates.

The dev crunch also definitely sucks, but boycotting the game will not change anything, except for the devs probably getting paid less. So that kind of reaction from gamers, I just don't understand. The culture needs to change, but not buying the game is the wrong way to go about this.

The "I haven't played this game yet, but fuck you for saying it's not perfect." crowd is just... dumb? But then again, it's 2020 on the internet, what can you expect, really? Not playing the game because of morons is another thing I don't understand at all, it has nothing to do with the game or devs themselves and everything with our culture in general. That's, again, where change needs to happen.

Bottom point: Get active in your community and educate people that don't know better (for LGBTQ, crunch etc.), donate to worthy causes if you can and just try to be a good person yourself. Don't project stuff on generally unrelated issues like a videogame or "gamers" (most DON'T just fucking suck).

Kinda sad to not see Vendrick on here, since he also feels so weird and different to other boss fights.

I'd have placed Artorias higher also, probably, since to me he's the quintessential "basically just a dude" boaa of the entire series.

I'm truly sorry for your loss. And for the other shitty stuff youbare going through.

You'll beat Covid and you'll beat 2020, though. Next year will be better, you'll see.

A real shame to see her go, but I'm sure she will do well with whatever she's going to do next.

I just hope it was really her decision to go and not part of those damn sale lay-offs. I'd hate for GB to get destroyed by this.

Anyway, best of luck to Abby. Thanks for your great work, you'll be missed on the site.