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seems cool but I cant tell if the style is for me or not.

seems like survival horror meets old school lucas arts adventure.

Be careful.

The official positions on this board on legacy series are either:

A) It doesn't live up to my warped sense of nostalgia so it's dogshit

or

B) A content creator that purportedly aligns with my belief system but is actually grifting said it's woke and gay. I didn't even consume the content, but I'll make a value judgement on 20 second clips out of context. Big Brain time!

Nuanced opinions? Nah. Everything sucks. You enjoy something? Must be stupid, woke, gay...

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Been having fun in horde and versus off and on for a few days.

The entire board has decided to hate it so your mileage may vary.

Doesn't help that this latest term has brought us a ballroom, a war nobody asked for, and the promise of $5000 buyoff if we vote Republican in the midterms.

All the crybabies can do is point at trans flags or annoying women represented in media and cry. Don't worry about what the assholes in entertainment are doing ideologically. worry about your own team and how they can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

All anyone has to do to print money via content creation is make well produced videos about how every new game or movie is 'woke' and sell it to a bunch of terminally online chuds who cannot do a goddamn thing other than complain. A captive willing audience.

There are objectively 'woke' pieces of trash that have been released. subversions of once great franchises. I hated what Disney did to Star Wars, for example.

However you cannot apply that to every modern release. It's counter productive and loses anybody whose IQ is above 70 or whose entire identity isn't built around vindictively lashing out against the left.

The tranny flags get included in every online slop game. COD does the same shite.

Didn’t know one of the lead devs was a troon but aside from the lesbian chick (Mags) being avidly anti corporate and anti COG and being just a stick in the mud, I can’t point to anything that might be considered “the message”. Most civvies hate the COG and gears due to bad optics and the world going to shite so it’s not like she’s saying anything that hasn’t been said by the stranded in previous games.

The scarred up captain lady was amusing but she doesn’t really play much of a role in the campaign gameplay so whatever.

Control Resonant and E-Day

I'm looking forward to Lucia and Jason's toenail maintenance.

Ingrown nails would really adversely impact their ability to rob the corner store.

Rockstar are such pompous figs. :lol:

Think that most popular comics got overrun with heavy handed social justic themes, but I haven't purchased a comic since the 90's so I wouldn't know.

I think X-Men was left out in the cold whenever the fox movies fell out of favor and the Marvel studios films became red hot. X-Men has always felt like a second fiddle marvel outfit ever since.

I consider all comics to be mostly shlock at the end of the day. it's nice when you can elevate it to something greater because some of the storylines are cool when done well, but I rarely go into it with high expectations so I suppose a mid Wolverine adaptation didn't rankle me too much.

So long as they don't go hyper heavy handed into social justice and can keep the story somewhat grounded in the subject matter at hand, I'm largely fine.

I beat the game. It was fine. 7/10 experience.

There was enemy variety. Mostly humanoid, but each faction had unique enemies and the combat had some degree of variety.

Combat had some level of depth, but we aren't talking a ninja gaiden or a sekiro level combat system. You can likely get lucky with dodging and mashing square but there is more depth if you want it.

The story was fine. I don't know that I enjoyed every choice made and I think I prefer the movies/comics in terms of how the world is set up, but I didn't find anything appalling here. It seems like it serves as an origin point for mutants. Essex was trying to force mutants out into the open and I think it sets the stage for a larger mutant presence in this world. The way they handled Jean and how she factors into Logan's life is very different than what we have seen before.

Most of the nitpicks are largely superficial. weird facial animations being clipped and made fun of. single lines of dialogue being taken out of context. The motorcycle sections were bad and deserve mockery, but most of the other 'critiques' were overblown.

Anybody universally praising this as excellent and anyone trashing it as a 3/10 disaster are clowns. full stop. so tired of culture war/impotent nerd rage over dumb shite. Just feels so insincere. The internet and social media feed off of outrage, so everyone's looking for a hot take. Exhausting.

It was a fine albeit average comic book action game.