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Fun fact: I never ever even heard the name Toshiro Mifune.

I just can’t… why do people wear ignorance as a badge of honor nowadays?

I’ve never paid more than $20 for a game.

And I wouldn’t play Borderlands 4 for free, TBH. If they pay me my hourly rate, I may consider it depending on contract length. Other than that, fuck off, Gearbox.

Hmm… sure, but ima die on the hill Mad Max should be a linear game with sole focus on vehicular/melee combat. I don’t really think it needs to be an open world game.

Assault Spy comes to mind.

And Mad Max maybe?

Running on water in NG2 is super fucking cool.

In The Wonderful 101, you can dive under water when you carry a hammer (heavy weapon), otherwise you swim on the surface.

Looks like you’ll to need to wait and see what the GrapheneOS team will recommend until they come out with their own phone. Maybe Pinephone for now? Or older Pixel, perhaps.

playing as V it felt like the winning strategy was just buttonmashing

How are we still making these criticisms in 2025 😔 This is why discussing action games in mainstream spheres sucks balls because half of the criticisms are as lazy as this. Y’all should do better.

Agreed, but extend that to cover action games in general. One playthrough is not enough to understand why everyone else is praising them.

OK, so I’m gonna say this about action games: if you approach them like you do every other game—one playthrough and you move on—most are gonna disappoint you. DMC5 in particular is possibly the worst culprit; however, if you’re willing to commit to exploring their depth and play on the highest difficulties, holy shit some of the best gaming you’ll ever experience.

This is why I cannot take casual reviews of action games seriously because any action game fan knows the first playthrough is the tutorial, while for most people it’s the whole game.

I can’t really fault people for wanting to move on after one playthrough, but when they say stuff like “I played DMC… and it’s not that good” I just wanna say: yeah, no shit, because you didn’t stick around to explore why everyone else is praising it—you played the tutorial and moved on.

We could argue whether this is bad game design, but the truth is not only does it work, I don’t believe there’s any way for a game like DMC or Bayonetta to feed all of its combat depth to players in one playthrough. Hell, it’s not enough for the muscle memory to kick in to get even close to mastering everything, so I cannot really blame devs that much.

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