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Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 618

Markatron84

During the week, I finished up Gotham Knights and slammed through The Rogue Prince of Persia, the latter of which is one hell of a game. As a Dead Cells enjoyer I couldn't put it down. I did end up with a sequence break though, which rendered two of the Steam achievements unobtainable unless I start a new game. You know what though? The game's so good, I'm not even mad and I probably will start a new save file to get them.

So I might do that over the weekend. I'll also still be chipping away at Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp, playing some Helldivers 2 and maybe pick something else out of the Backlog of Shameâ„¢.

Re: The UK Government Shoots Down 'Stop Killing Games' Campaign in Official Debate

Markatron84

Online video games are often dynamic, interactive services—not static products—and maintaining online services requires substantial investment over years or even decades.

I feel like this entirely misses the point of the argument Stop Killing Games is making though. Nobody is asking for online games to be updated and maintained forever, or dedicated servers to be provided in perpetuity; they just want to be able to play a game after it's taken offline. If the groundwork is laid down at the beginning of development, why should this be an issue? If, for example, Bioware had implemented a form of offline play in Anthem from the outset, problem solved; they could still wash their hands of it and let the people who want to still play it still play it.

Re: Marvel Cosmic Invasion's Unannounced Final Characters Have Leaked Online

Markatron84

This roster feels really weird and disjointed to me and I feel the same way about it as I did about the one in Midnight Suns:

If you're going to do a space story, fill the game with characters that fit it; characters whose "domain" is space. Get super weird with it. Go for the super deep cuts. Same with Midnight Suns; if you're going to do a story focussing on magic, fill it with the magic-based and supernatural characters.

Have some balls. Captain America, Iron Man, Spider-Man and Wolverine don't need to be in every Marvel game.