Yeah, just call it TDFDWaL and be done with it.

At least it’s not quite bafflingly incompetent as their movie division.

But Sony has always been weird.

Exactly, and there again the quality beats the quantity.

Playing a niche old game with old buddies beats high digit player counts with randoms.

Neo Nazis didn’t get The Dead Kennedys (a very left-leaning hardcore punk band). It motivated them to write a song titled “Nazi punks fuck off” (the lyrics just repeat the song’s title aggressively) in an attempt to pass the message into their thick, mostly empty skulls.

Sony hurting itself in confusion as it often does.

Making great games is supposed to be the hard part yep they keep fumbling the delivery.

Because they fumbled it all so badly at every opportunity. Shady studio takeovers, disastrous launch, mismatched price…

What a damn shame

Sony was leading with those and that seemed to have caved in.

Or dinner.

Some people somehow miss the over the top, in your face satire of the Starship Troopers movie so I’m not surprised.

No need for pinpoint accuracy when you are doing half a ton of explosives via close air support or heavy artillery from low orbit. Or worst: a mortar turret with no regard for friendlies.

And good of them to patent such a sleezy move.

No, fan is correct. We just forget it stands for “fanatic”.

Definitely not in Japan. Outside the army and police, guns in Japan are an extreme rarity. The best you’ll be able to find is airsoft enthusiasts.

Anyway actual shooting and video games are very different things. Counter Strike is tremendously successful but the animations of gun handling are (where?) hilariously wrong.

The wait is over.

Next in my bingo card, I have “it’s Skyrim with guns”.

That’s why the likes of STALKER and Subnautica stand up in my mind in terms of survival, exploration, and adventure. Hand-crafted worlds and quests are hard to beat.

The army sherpas doing all the actual hard work behind the scenes really nails the metaphor.

1. Overpromise

2. Sell

3. Shut the fuck up during the outrage

4. Update game

Seemed like a winning formula for them.

The way I understand this is not that it’s the worst game ever. It’s that Bethesda should be able to deliver better games.

That’s one brutal delay from the initial “Q4 2023” but better late than a rushed mess.