Death From Above

Man, imagine if the Freelancer mode in Hitman was actually good

I've spent most of my time in Helldivers 2 fighting the bugs, went over to the automatons for a bit and you really do have to play pretty differently against the two enemy types. I tend to run shotgun/attack drone backpack on the bugs, but against the robots my play is the Ballistic Shield and the one handed SMG you get on tier 3 of the requisitions. Beyond that, I've dumped my first couple ship upgrades into turrets since those are pretty much always good anywhere.

I for one am shocked to learn the company that has run a 9-digit con might have a toxic workspace

The bigger thing that bugs me about Kevin Hart in the role is that Roland is the stoic straightman in an otherwise absurd universe. Hard to think of anyone that is less of a stoic straightman than Kevin Hart. Otherwise, whatever. It's a video game movie I hope people enjoy it.

So yeah, Helldivers 2. The jump in how missions feel when the difficulty goes from Medium to Challenging moves the game from "this is okay I guess" into "holy fuck this rules". That concludes my day 1 experience. I'm level 5, I stink, but this game is fun. Playing solo sucks but luckily I haven't hit any toxic idiots in random matchmaking yet.

I bought it but haven't played it. The fact it's by Some Bioware People was enough to make me at least curious.

I got bored with MK1 relatively fast compared to 11. If you're not a lab monkey there's just nothing to do in single player by comparison. Online died down to the same 3000 people that ruin every fighting game within the first month. A studio of that size launching a multiplayer title with no cross platform in 2023 is just insane.

Time for me to disable ad block by the sound of it

I've never played Helldivers 1 but I just saw a review of it today, and honestly it looks like Remnant and Starship Troopers had a baby, which is fucking awesome. Added it to my wishlist.

I've gotta say, as a super latecomer to the modern Hitman trilogy, I expected it to be good but not this good. I haven't had this much fun with any game that used stealth mechanics of any kind in years. Almost all the maps having several different "stories" you can go through gives it a ton of replayability, and that's not even getting to if you play on the hardest difficulty where you can't load back mistakes. Almost all the maps are genuinely fun to explore. It's wild how the game can alternate between extremely serious and deeply unserious based totally on how you feel like playing at the moment, and both absolutely work within the same space. If IOI's next game is supposedly the liscenced James Bond game I'm all in on seeing what these people do with that, because they certainly have all the tools already to make that completely sick.

I'm in for well north of $100 on several games including DLCs, it is what it is.

I'm really not prepared to deal with a reality where Butterbean weighs less than me. I've made some choices in my life.

A list of Darby's most dangerous bumps would probably make Spike Dudley go "what the fuck, brother"

Never fight anyone named Geezer, that's just common sense.

I mean, they gave us said fish. And the Flamingo Suit. The blessed, beautiful Flamingo Suit.

Fantastic game.

I hear you but the thing that fascinates me is how I strongly feel that's also an intended playstyle, just a less serious one. I would LOVE to be a fly on the wall during Hitman's team developing a map.

Yeah pro wrestling is fucking awesome. WHITE SUITS~ https://youtu.be/IqWKRduNr-0?si=OOM9YJcXLVyAaZtg

Sting is actually out of his fucking mind doing balcony dives at 64 years old like 4 weeks before his retirement match. It's reckless, stupid, all that. I fucking love it. The true spirit of pro wrestling. That Darby tope/side slam bump was so fucking great. I swear to god Darby is made of rubber. I think he's probably my favourite current wrestler.

Hitman 3 World of Assassination is on sale so I grabbed it. One of the strangest, most confusing store pages on Steam in terms of figuring out what the hell you're actually buying. I had to ask on the forums to make sure I was buying what I actually wanted. Anyway, man, this game is really fucking good. And I'm not good at it. I think I'm too stupid to be a secret agent assassin in real life.

Borderlands 3 has more (and better) endgame than Borderlands 2 but it still didn't stop nerds bitching about the story so I have to admit I'm worried what lessons the studio will learn from that.

Has anyone played Portal: Revolution? It's some Portal 2 mod that's supposed to have like 40 new chambers and it's free so obviously I'm going to play that.

Just another reason to hate the switch, as it once again delayed the inevitable of the Nintendo catalogue being actually available on PC

Pretty fair (but long) review https://youtu.be/reQKHNg0jh8?si=vqVmYyI77BbHlQ07

Spotify decided to give Joe Rogan another $250 million Anyway, I downloaded TIDAL today no reason