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Riot announced a hero tactical shooter, a card game, and a fighting game last night.

Card game is already available and has started closed beta. Should release early 2020. They make good stuff, so I'm pretty stoked.
The fps game looks like a cross between counter strike and over watch. It has the very short time to kill with emphasis on aim and quick reflexes. The early build looks like they designed it to run a toaster.
 
The fps game looks like a cross between counter strike and over watch. It has the very short time to kill with emphasis on aim and quick reflexes. The early build looks like they designed it to run a toaster.

I think it’s much closer to counter strike though. They’re saying the same thing.

yeah the early build looked rough, but they have no dates or timetable at all announced yet, so that’s expected. The card game is hella tight already though.
 
The Outer Worlds getting some great reviews. Gonna plug it on game pass before it expires on Nov 20. If I really dig it maybe I'll full retail it. But Modern Warfare pops on Friday so that'll be my jam till the new year rolls in, along with some backlog, and Apex Legends.
 
The Outer Worlds getting some great reviews. Gonna plug it on game pass before it expires on Nov 20. If I really dig it maybe I'll full retail it. But Modern Warfare pops on Friday so that'll be my jam till the new year rolls in, along with some backlog, and Apex Legends.

This will be my first Call of Duty game in years, and the first one I've ever gotten for the PS4.

I really, really hope this will be good. I miss COD4.
 
Getting Modern Warfare as well, particularly for the crossplay so I can play with PS4 friends as well as XB1 friends. The beta was a ton of fun.
 
Yeah, the beta of MW was better than the finished retail versions of the past two or three CoDs at least.

If you liked COD4/MW2, you'll probably like this one.
 
I preloaded the Outer Worlds yesterday. I have a few weeks of gamepass left. What a deal that is.
 
The Outer Worlds getting some great reviews. Gonna plug it on game pass before it expires on Nov 20. If I really dig it maybe I'll full retail it. But Modern Warfare pops on Friday so that'll be my jam till the new year rolls in, along with some backlog, and Apex Legends.
Yeah, i'm looking forward to outer worlds. Speaking of reviews, someone forwarded me the Kotaku review, which was cringe as usual. I swear they care more about politics than games.
 
Yeah, i'm looking forward to outer worlds. Speaking of reviews, someone forwarded me the Kotaku review, which was cringe as usual. I swear they care more about politics than games.

I just read it and it seems like you're just looking for a reason to be upset by it. It didn't seem overtly political outside of referencing situations from the game it was reviewing that happened to be political. And given that the game is largely about mega-corporations, class struggle, and labor issues, it would be pretty impossible to review it without bringing stuff like that up.
 
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I just read it and it seems like you're just looking for a reason to be upset by it. It didn't seem overtly political outside of referencing situations from the game it was reviewing that happened to be political. And given that the game is largely about mega-corporations, class struggle, and labor issues, it would be pretty impossible to review it without bringing stuff like that up.
I'm not upset by it. They were disappointed that the game didn't include commentary about race and gender. That's a stupid thing to be disappointed about in a videogame. Let me be disappointed about a game that takes place on a different planet for not mirroring our society.... It's par for the course with these guys who complained about the human cost in their assassins creed review.

" In The Outer Worlds, all social problems are filtered through class. Sexism and racism don’t meaningfully exist even though race does; many of the people you meet across classes are black and brown. Race and gender go essentially unacknowledged from the game’s core narrative to its tongue-in-cheek riffs on PR buzzwords, which was frustrating in a game so deeply embroiled in power dynamics. In our world, class and race are inexorably tied, and a world in which questions of class are more eternal than questions of race strikes me as dishonest. I trust in Obsidian to broach those issues with the same grace as they do issues of class, so I wish they had gone there. "
 
I'm not upset by it. They were disappointed that the game didn't include commentary about race and gender. That's a stupid thing to be disappointed about in a videogame.

The reviewer was disappointed that a game about labor and class struggle completely avoided topics of race and gender. That seems like a perfectly fair observation to make to me.
 
The reviewer was disappointed that a game about labor and class struggle completely avoided topics of race and gender. That seems like a perfectly fair observation to make to me.
Well, it isn't to me because it takes place on a different planet and society that perhaps doesn't have those issues. Why should we just assume those issues exits and be critical of it?
 
Well, it isn't to me because it takes place on a different planet and society that perhaps doesn't have those issues. Why should we just assume those issues exits and be critical of it?

Because those issues are realistically going to exist as long as humans do.

And it was one paragraph of the entire review. It's not like the reviewer spent the entire article complaining about it. It was a pretty glowing review and that paragraph was simply something that he (she? I didn't look who wrote it) didn't like.
 
Because those issues are realistically going to exist as long as humans do.

And it was one paragraph of the entire review. It's not like the reviewer spent the entire article complaining about it. It was a pretty glowing review and that paragraph was simply something that he (she? I didn't look who wrote it) didn't like.
I prefer my game reviews to be more objective, and when we dock a game for not kowtowing to their world views I think it deserves to be called out. We don't know what is realistic on a completely different planet. It's absurd to me to expect games to mirror our culture and dock them when it doesn't. Racism and sexism doesn't exist in this game they decided. Are we to expect a small studio to touch on every social issue we face on earth in a game that takes place on a different planet and then dock them accordingly when they don't?
 
I prefer my game reviews to be more objective, and when we dock a game for not kowtowing to their world views I think it deserves to be called out. We don't know what is realistic on a completely different planet. It's absurd to me to expect games to mirror our culture and dock them when it doesn't. Racism and sexism doesn't exist in this game they decided. Are we to expect a small studio to touch on every social issue we face on earth in a game that takes place on a different planet and then dock them accordingly when they don't?

A review is literally someone's subjective opinion on a product. There is no such thing as an objective review.
 

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