Seriously, for the last decade+ this site has been primarily where I go to learn about new games. And I'm mostly not getting that anymore.
News about New Games seems like kinda the thing that stagnated over time but I kinda blame that on modern games getting samey as time went on. Giantbomb kinda grew up in the era where every game was either a modern military first person shooter or a cover based third person shooter and now it's an era where every big game is either and open world game, roguelike, or Battle Royale. There's a load of indie stuff that kind of falls into those categories but I think there's sometimes a rare egg popping up every now and then. Abby was kind of the indie darling that would talk about some of the smaller stuff coming out so I think the current crew is kind of missing that. I think just having them talk about games in general, which is kind of what Danny O'Dwyer's Guilty Treasure show is, is a good starting point.
I don't even understand why Blizzard keeps making these kind of unforced errors. If there's a 1% possibility that you can't / it doesn't make sense for a game in 2021 to have the exact same features as the OG game from 98, why would you make such claims to the outside world? Is this some risk-calculation where it's more profitable to be able to say 'it'll be the game as you remember it!' when you have millions of eyeballs on your product, that it doesn't matter if you have to backtrack on a feature in front of 100k eyeballs later?
I'm sure that there are risks involved by making players directly connect through TCP IP, but hasn't that always been the nature of a direct connection between players? If you don't want to have that kind of connection between players online, then why does it take until late in the remaster process to realize that you don't want to support that feature any longer?
I think the real reason people are speculating on them removing TCP IP is that it basically allows for people to play multiplayer if they've pirated the game and this is just Blizzard's way of making sure pirates can only play Singleplayer since Multiplayer is always-online.
All this sort of stuff makes it just seem like Giantbomb is becoming a curated version of Youtube or something. At the end of the day I'm here for personalities like Jeff G, Vinny, Brad, Ben and etc. talk about video games and none of this seems like my kind of deal. If this is an indicator of the type of site GB's going to be from here on out then I'm not sure if being able to watch a backlog of stuff about video games is worth the yearly subscription for me.
I may end up coming back to this game for this update, which I guess is exactly what DE plans for every now and then. It's been a minute since I've bullet jumped my away around some corridors.
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