This has become the most interesting and watchable part of GBs annual coverage. Jeff and Phil have a pleasantly direct and 'real' dynamic... it comes across as genuine mutual respect.
@octaslash: I do too, on some level. But last time they were kind of rushing through some games, and coming off as pretty dismissive (Pirates in particular, Jeff basically said he didn't like the idea of that remake, and just as he started realizing the game is still pretty faithful to the original, and cool, they moved on).
Had they gone through all 19 games, each wouldn't have got much attention past tutorials. Taking the time to show what is cool, or playing more of what they enjoyed, isn't bad. I'll probably buy Blinx (thought it aged well graphically, and is interesting enough) and Breakdown (just so weird that I have to take a look).
(already got Mercenary and Orta)
Rorie playing Morrowind for 8 minutes was the worst showing. Thought the game was released for 360, though no autosave was due to BC. Didn't show or talk about what was good about the game. Brad and Jeff at least got in comments about 60fps and fast loading times, otherwise they might as well have not turned on the game at all.
I think this a balanced take. Especially the Rorie on Morrowind part. That segment was really not very useful in terms of actually seeing the game, or in terms of providing accurate statements. Saying things like 'hasn't aged well' or 'you can avoid' are pretty definitive things to say when you've only spent 8 mins looking at something as massive and deep as Morrowind!
Overall though, I think the problem might have been that there were so many titles to look at (which is a commendable thing as far as microsoft is concerned). As you say, if they'd looked at every single one, then they'd all have had as much screen time as Morrowind did. I like that GB are doing these but definitely would prefer taking some time to look at titles and getting some info on what has been updated about them on the One X versions.
Lol at the 'aged the worst' and 'you can probably skip' comments r.e. Morrowind. For someone that wrote 80 thousand words on the sequel to it (which disappointed him), Rorie's take made me chuckle and raise an eyebrow.
@ames: oh shit yeah... I forgot about fishing village. No offense intended to Dan or Abby but if the Exquisite Corps are going to survive that mission they're going to need an Alex playstyle... and even then... I predict casualties!
@bluubeetle: vanilla XCOM 2 was slightly broken in terms of balance and less than adequately helpful to new players when it came to understanding how to prioritise with resource allocation. It has improved over the years and much in the same way Enemy Unknown was improved by Enemy Within, XCOM 2 has been hugely improved by War of the Fallen. I think War of the Fallen is the best among the modern XCOMs for sure.
Give Dan some credit about things though. He turned right around on Destiny, so he might turn around on XCOM 2 since it has been updated and improved also.
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