it's not that bad though maybe it was cause I was lost in the rush of outstrafing all the Flood in the area

Valve is just aggravatingly slow to update their actual core infrastrcture.

they want the challenge and the action aspect but hardly want to contend with the fact it's RPG nature means there are going to be certain systems and builds around excel in tough situations

I feel like this hit peak insanity for me right around when Elden Ring first dropped and people would absolutely flame clips of people who are still enjoying the game but using the "wrong" playstyles

there was an fair amount of Westwood ports to SEGA systems

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwqH... this games music is so fucking funny actually. love the Night at Bald Mountain fakeout here

Earthworm Jim used GEMS by the way www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxlD...

besides Reach trying to satisfy Microsoft's five game deal alongside ODST it definitely seems like part of that games intent was setting the record straight one one of the most pivotal events of the series backstory displacing Fall of Reach in the process

the closest to something like that during the Bungie days is Joseph Staten personally writing Contact Harvest in the interim between Halo's 2 and 3 and even then it's supplementary for already sequential stories. the novels were otherwise something they weren't too keen on.

next to the very original of course

it honestly probably does have the highest overall batting average of the NES games in overall design in retrospect

oh god their applying RPG arguments to arcade genres

not discussed enough how that game did numbers in Japan

(Wokely) this group of people I don't like is less valid than the others

there are certain types of people that never took back their own executive control from their impulses and the environment and then want to blame others for it