Stephen_Von_Cloud

There's a lot of singleplayer stuff and genre stuff I wish continued on (Freedom Force, Freedom Fighters, The Warriors, AKI style wrestling [cmon AEW!] to name a few) but I'll answer this in the multiplayer or live online sense.

This one is probably premature and all, and it's kind of insane I think this given my reaction when the game was about to and did release... but I miss Hitman 2016's episodic model and focus on live. 2 is a great game too but surprisingly it was worse for that. I say that as a long time series fan who scoffed at the episodic release and live game features at first.

I know they still do live stuff and some DLC but it's not the same.

Maybe for 3? I know 2 was similar so the response will be diminished but it didn't seem as successful to me.

Also really miss all that GB coverage. It was a shame they hardly did anything with 2 (and what they did do was great). Maybe it was being tired of that, or the non episodic release hurt that idea, or both.

If we are talking single player stuff, agreed. There is nothing that technical in the space. I think most games have tried to move to simple inputs and depth more in systems and upgrades vs basically having it all like NG at its height.

Problem there though is that Team Ninja still exists, they just are not good anymore lol. But no character action has grabbed me nearly as much as NG and Black since then.

I mean I'm not a total MMO expert but I believe the genre has went against that kind of player building stuff hard.

I also loved that feel. i remember just being new to the game and I ended up just happening across a player village and they were nice to me and took me in. I was the medic and handled that part of thing for them. It was a cool sense of community I haven't had in a game since.

It was not a great game technically but that stuff was special to it.

The isolated vocals of Paul Stanley from Kiss on stage is one of the samples (the "all right!' at the start, "thank you Toronto!" among others) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7rilvZwnzM

I'm pretty sure the Culture Jamming one is from this video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUzj_qIts98

I'm curious what the "culture jamming" one is from.

Seriously? Abby has brought lots new to the site. No one was playing the Sims or Nancy Drew stuff before certainly. Ben is willing to play basically any genre, and now has been doing cRPG playthrough on here which no one will ever do. Jan probably has some overlap with say Jason in anime type games but he also plays stuff like Kingdom Hearts no one on here does.

They don't have a more narrow view on games than Jeff man lol. Cmon. The increased breadth of games the new guys are interested in is the only reason it isn't extremely stale on here with game choices. The old GB guard do not really branch out ever, besides Alex and Vinny some. The "new" people deserve credit for that.

Given how dead these forums usually are now pretty amazing so many people come to post in them and don't actually watch GB content apparently.

ehhh.... besides the scale of the visuals that game was a wrote ass game. didn't impress anyone.

Point being console releases are often pretty lackluster.

I usually would get through a good 75%+ or so (at least starting the video and getting a decent ammount in) but right now I skip almost all the solo streams, not something that almost any one here can nail right and its just not what I come to GB for anyways at all, and why I hardly go to Twitch. Sometimes I'm throwing stuff on and listening more than watching as I do some stuff around the house.

I did go from Bombcast as soon as it was released listen for years until the last year basically to hardly listening to the Bombcast though. Its become a pretty boring affair a lot of times which is sad to say. But Beastcast I'm still enjoying (miss Dan though) and I have enough other podcasts to fill that old void.

@thesquarepear: the monks were plenty dickheads also and slaves were all around. Plenty of dickheads around back then on a moral scale.

I wouldn't expect much less than a heroic depiction. Its becoming more and more common to smooth over historical realities in games, beyond the usually desire for simple good v bad narratives, which I think sets a dangerous precedent and often a tool of propaganda and whitewashing.