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As far as the Marvel universe is concerned great story telling never wraps up with time travel. Time travel is the pinnacle of trash. Iron Man was only good because it celebrated the comeback of a very troubled man in Robert Downey Jr. Him playing an alcoholic should have won him an academy award for best actor playing oneself in a movie. People were there for that. I was there for that. Media had just come off of Jackass and reality heavy culture and here was a guy being a Jackass with the means to make it all go away. Marvel movies tell the most Cat-In-The-Hat in complexity in their movies and any nuance is mostly impossible in a movie that has less dialogue than a 24 page comic book. It's mostly pictures. But deep! I get it. Marvel movies have been a means to jump start B and C-List actors and basically obscure their original Shakespearean acting intentions for a paycheck with the curse of forever only being known for who they put the cape on for. A Black Widow movie in the 90s would have made about $11.00 Internationally at the Box Office. But for some reason (Disney) this movie will make buckets of money. Disney has made a routine out of watching their movies over the last decade it might have more of an impact on society than the 3rd grade in the grand scheme of things. Beer, blue jeans, and Marvel. Wonder Woman releasing on its original release date (pre Covid) would be political. Post election it really couldn't feel political. When somebody watches the movie 20 years from now and assumes incorrectly that the movie was released in Summer 2020 (the original date probably still on marketing material) and not Holiday 2020 then they could go down all kinds of rabbit holes. Attribute dialogue to this that and the other. It's all political depending on your frame of reference. As soon as you leave the contemporary release you really can't ascribe true intentions. That's why BC is important.. if you do your homework you can make sense of the world.

Politics, religion, and sexuality are already an HR nightmare for a reason. I don't want political games because I feel for the people working in these organizations being forced to work in those conditions. 18 months to 3 years of listening to diatribe after diatribe about the ultimately the decision maker's (and in the hierarchy of management there is no consensus just some chowderheads vision) questionable opinion on topics. Who wants to have a weekly meeting for years of your life for the next Wolfenstein on the merits of nazism from your Porsche driving upper management. Some people just want to work, be left alone, or just make creative content while they build their resume for their next job or for their own endeavors. Certain games shouldn't be made because they are just HR violations, no matter the heart behind them. If you're a 1 man or 2 man studio have at it but be prepared to be dragged and celebrated when not intended. But just like the Mortal Kombat developer's became desensitized and victimized by all the gore research their is a cost.

Games like Far Cry 5 and ultimately 6 are the perfect example of games that I want to play without feeling like there's some underlying message designed for ultimate conversion to one political view or another. If you come to those games with an opinion you are probably going to leave unchallenged and that's okay, both-sideism. Games like Disco Elysium are full on propaganda and I'm okay with that existing but working there if you don't espouse those views is someone's personal nightmare if you are just trying to make the rent. Should it be played? Sure, I guess. Should it have been made? If it's by likeminded individuals that enjoy the process and the people. Too many likeminded individuals gets real sinister real quick, in my experience. 6 Days should exist in media, I love 13 Hours movie way more than I should considering the actual human toll but it's kind of a glimpse into something worth examining and I would have missed otherwise. I don't trust my opinion with the director/writers vision. That's Hollywood for you and I know better. I didn't always know better when I thought movies with dinosaurs or cavemen were stock footage. I built up a callous to movies. But with games and the consumption and all out factionism and warring between tribes games are different.

Unfortunately with media and movements it's possible to go down one rabbit hole followed by another and another and never come up for air. If games start going political it's going to harden people even more into their views. I can watch 13 Hours a baker's dozen amount of times and only come out the other side of it a couple ways. With the ever breathing and living games of today if Disco Elysium locks you in and never releases it's claws you are much more of a puppet than any other media machine than we've ever known. What comes of that? When CD projekt red promotes a game coming out in 5 years about Hitler's journey who is applying for that job? Don't get me wrong I want to play that game but all it takes is one higher up's vision and you've quotable content and a machine ready to leverage the first google search and twitter bread crumb trail next steps.

I hate Marvel movies because it's all rainbow and sunshine and Cinnamon Toast crunch product placement and Iron Man catching 2011 Acura RDXs all over the place. Give me some truth. But crosshairs in 6 Days is just a bit much.

If they had opted for any genre other than FPS I think they could have actually had a fair shot at a relevant portrayal of events. I was lukewarm on the game but appreciate games rooted in reality (would the French Revolution of Assassins Creed Unity be looked at so negatively if they had wifi shortly after those actual events?). So distance makes your message. If they had chosen to go with a format like Wasteland 3 or Disco Elysium then maybe they could tell a story. Use the dialogue from their exhaustive interviews (yeah right) and actually include some of the authentic journal entries, drawings, and newspaper clippings from both sides. Tell your story. Maybe from angle of the Iraqi's and then a second play through from the angle of the Coalition. As it stands now putting crosshairs on a people that I am wholly sympathetic to IS NOT a good look. I don't care if the guy comes out of the house has an AK once you can put a reticle on him you are basically encouraging score-based murder, no matter how you want to revise or revisit history for his motivation whether it's protecting his family or being an active agitator. The ign.com promotion of the game was gross and i definitely did not click on that site for a couple days in my own form of protest. So yeah, they could have done a puzzle game, text adventure, or even something like FrostPunk. This game is going to live on in it's current state as one of the those terrible youtube thumbnails with radical fonts, cringy catchphrases, and technically attractive people with their "O' face. This historic moment deserves better.

@bigsocrates: idk. Having 100+ million consoles in the wild for the ps4 and the potential to do the same with ps5 should translate to leverage in deal making. A world shutdown for a year should translate to loads of time. The Tony Hawk's and Madden 2011s are obvious no goes digitally. But disc based stuff should have been automatic, even if Sony has to cut a check when i verify my copy of TH: American Wasteland and it's playability is restricted to DRM. Maybe price the all digital PS5 at $499 as well and use the $100 difference to fight all those individual battles per account, there is a relationship there (hell, maybe an email address) if those PS3, Vita, and PSP games are available TODAY. The crap deals they forged with the PS1 Classic are still a % of games. What you can't work out give me an arbritrary store credit for digital forfeiture of a title I "OWN" ($5- PSP, $10- Vita, $15-PS3) and foster goodwill. Right now i've got a microscope on Sony and I dont even have a PS5 in hand. Lack of effort may make it so i never do. That's probably $2k-$3k of dollars i won't begin to spend because i can't get $65.95 worth of store credit for games i didnt want to play until i found i couldn't play. While the general public that doesnt know or care about this is sitting pretty with like 10 games for free over the last year (1 or 2 is a PR move... doing 10.. maybe priorities) that they won't even bother to download. Yes, I'm petty.

Sony has the nerve to send out emails (without reading) with no active current generation solution. All of the PS1 and PS3 titles i have bought on this service could have easily been brought on to my PS4/PS5 account. Am i honestly supposed to pay to keep my PS3 alive through black market and Amazon means? Could i somehow forfeit all of those titles for store credit or something comparable on the current store? If they had played it smart they could have made their Play at Home Initiative as a way for these legacy console owners to feel like they were getting something free and limit the free games available to the general public. I.E. "if you close your PS3/Vita/PSP digital accounts feel free to experience titles like Moss and Rez Infiinite for free. I would at least feel better about their slight. Instead they are giving a bunch of games away for no reason while at the same time bemoaning the struggle of keeping our paid for titles available to us. Sony's rep is in the trash for me.

Pubg was the obvious choice for that year. Twitch came into its own because of it. Fortnite owes everything to that game. Can’t give Hades a shot until it hits non-Nintendo consoles. I was hoping the Xbox indie showcase would have that game drop into gamepass. I’m so glad games like Animal Crossong don’t get the top spot because that Call of Duty and others just don’t change enough and just because you are new to the series doesn’t make it relevant.

Without reading all that. With the shipping issues going on now is absolutely the time to get out the hardware market. This might be what breaks Sony. Ratchet and Clank is not going to have a 1:1 attach rate. I cant imagine there are more than 5 million PS5s in the world right now. The size of the box alone means a shipping container moored on the Sues Canal that could hold 10,000 PS4s might only hold 8,000 PS5s. We really have the means to stream via our tablets and chromecasts to play games so why spend $500 to do something that you are already doing. Even Jefff called out Brad on the Bombcast for saying Killer Instinct was showing its age. Jeff wasn’t having that and Brad defaulted to particle effects. If we are still getting excited about particle effects in 2021 then you completely missed the point in gaming.

I’ve only been anti VR because I don’t like the fact they shoehorned move controller tech into VR like a cheap science fair project. I won’t afford the pc and headset hardware for vive or occulus gaming. I’m pretty sure I don’t have the space for it and might break something in my house. I’m still very physically active in competitive sports and I’m not trying to rewire my brain in a virtual environment that is no longer responsive in the real world in a familiar way. Resident Evil 7 and Rigz is kind of all I want from VR with an ability to inspect more closely an area.

Does anybody trust that the games Sony is giving away today will be compatible with VR2? I don’t and I’m sure it will be a post in a couple months where the assumptions that they would work is lost despite the fact the controller announcement and the free games are within a week of each other.

You might want to label the #1 and #2. I listened to them all but can’t be bothered to do the research.

@lego_my_eggo: I memba when “we don’t comment on rumor or speculation,” was a valid or move. That hasn’t been a thing in a decade. Because the grace period between a rumor becoming true and the leak isn’t an exact calculus and there could still be fallout even if this happens in December.