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@tothenines: I tend to prefer it as well but the first game wasn't like that at all so it would be a change. I love making a whole party though too, when a good gameplay system is at the core like these games have, so I'm mixed. With the last game I didn't give a shit about the story because I found it terrible so that's my thinking right now anyways. Unless there's a change, it'll probably not be a party/companion focused game at all. It also has a focus on co-op so that's another knock (although, Baldur's Gate come from the same place actually interestingly enough, it was supposed to be all co-op originally and the party was an afterthought to appease solo players).

Personally I also think party focused RPGs have been incredibly stagnant. Bioware just focuses on you being able to fuck everyone in weird shallow wooden relationships and calls it a day for the last several games now.

It's a thing in America and probably everywhere else... honestly I think it's a weirdo thing. It's a kiss on the cheek yall.

That's how I feel about this whole thing for sure. I'm not sure people get how designing sci-fi bullshit is. You just throw letters together. I'm not being totally naive that it's possible, but I think jumping to say oh it's definitely a flag or symbol who I, who is pretty informed I think, had never seen before is a stretch and kinda gross to me.

Waypoint can be good at times but their methods and stuff sometimes... really off putting and not as dead on as they certainly act like they are. They do no journalism in this case but are telling you exactly how it is in the post for example. I really like Rob Zacny but his tweets about this were bad basically saying he knows 1000% it is intentional because he knows other times hate symbols are used intentionally. Then, when there's doubt, you say "Oh well it was something else/means something else" and that's a racist defense for this stuff... You're putting it at there is absolutely 0 room for a mistake or coincidence. Okay dude that's iron clad.

Taking it down ASAP was the right move and good on Bungie.

Interested to see how much party members are fleshed out like some other RPGS, because right now I want to (with a workaround that still works I think where you literally launch the game 4 times and join a local multiplayer match) make a whole party because I'm crazy like that. I love the control and sitting down for hours to make a party. I know I'm sick. But if the story for party members is well integrated and they are fleshed out, I may bail out of that plan.

They've put out little videos introducing each character with dialogue but I'm not sure how much it goes beyond that.

Totally agreed.

With sims, I wish they got NBA 2K levels. That game lets you adjust practically every single thing with a slider. It'd be cool to see that in XCOM.

mark as played, my man

Yes. I feel bad for them that they tried to get rid of it and it became worse than ever.

lol this would be amazing.

Yup.

Looking at Family Guy now I totally feel that way with Brian and it's kind of pathetic lol. I just imagine how old Seth really feels put into that dog.

I'm with you man. Nintendo tho.