Andrew POE!

The only notable thing about the WWE 2K games now are the videos of people laughing at the game breaking/alpha copy glitches that show up in a final released game. Vince and co. don't care, they are just counting the money from people buying the game every year. To me, the graphics for the WWE 2K games (with the most recent one I played being 2K16) still look like late PS2/early PS3 graphics. Not what I expected from a video game being released in 2017.

If the WWE cared about their games actually being good, they'll get with EA and use the same engine for WWE '19.

Don't forget, they also did Matterfall recently, which is on sale. My dream of Jeff Minter teaming up with Housemarque will never happen.

BioWare is fucked even if Anthem is successful. For EA, sale projections are completely unrealistic and almost to the point that every man, woman and child have to buy Anthem twice. They don't care how much time is spent playing or even how long, but how much they purchased. So Anthem will get cosmetic DLC + season pass DLC + loot boxes + whatever else EA can think of to get people to spend more.

That's part of its 'charm.' Why fix what's not broken, even though it is still broken?

Sony again has my wallet hostage. I'm excited about Ghost of Tsushima but I want to see actual gameplay. TLOU Part II was a bit much but I trust Naughty Dog at this point. Guacamelee 2 and Spelunky 2 are day freakin' 1's for me. Shadow of the Colossus looks intriguing but considering I haven't played it on PS2 or the PS3 HD remaster (....I know), I need to do those first. And Platinum the ICO and SOTC HD remasters.

It's Buy 2 Get 1 Free (except for Switch) games at Target. I'm probably gonna wait until Friday for Call of Duty: WWII and get that with South Park: TFBW and AC Origins (unless the BF ads come out with AC Origins & South Park being on sale).

Yay, can't wait to replay a game with characters that look like oil paintings from Ghostbusters and collect all the 100 film reels and find the blasted cars again.

I played the demo of Super Mario Odyssey and I was instantly transported to being a middle school kid again. I'll be getting a Switch tomorrow (or this Christmas) for one freakin' game. There goes my Platinum trophy hunting. I beat DmC Devil May Cry on PS3 and....I liked it?

I got my Warlock to 304 finally. Do you need help on Leviathan or Nightfalls? I need to come back to the clan here.

Oh shit, I gotta Platinum Battleborn now.

I'll come back -- I just could never find anyone online to do strikes/raids with from here.

Also, NeoGAF is back up and....it's not the same. The owner reopened the site, denied everything, and expect everything to go back to normal. Eh, I won't post there, much less lurk there. There's nothing now.

I just got Destiny 2 Platinum. I feel like a rock star.

Sadly, the mod culture there was incredibly mean at times. They've gotten better but it does force the posters to turn into groupthink at times. Certain sites (that I won't name) see the whole thing as a 'victory.' Why the mods didn't quit the site when the owner would abuse the admin tools to silence people I don't know. Why a Facebook posting was 'the final straw' I don't know. What's even worse is that there are people who don't even believe the person alleging the abuse. And that kind of shit he did would have gotten him killed too.

I was wondering what was going on this morning. I'm saddened that it's gone but not saddened about EvilLore's behavior. Not to mention that a former moderator of the site was fuckin' arrested for pedophilia and the other site mods and the owner chose to ignore the warning signs. Lately, the site seemed way too political (I'm not going to get into here since DVDVR has wisely avoided it), annoying (if I hear another poster saying they won't AC Origins and Shadow of War due to damn loot boxes I swear I'll...) and there were countless posts about women being sexually harassed, abused, and mistreated and the reactions to it (unbeknownst to many posting the owner is doing the exact same thing). I'll miss having a site to look at during my lunch break -- I would read posts during E3 and see people losing their shit over FFVII Remake, Shenmue 3 and The Last Guardian and it was euphoric. A lot of my love for Japanese gaming was due to NeoGAF. Although I was a fan of it before the site obviously.

Besides Super Mario Odyssey, next week has Assassin's Creed Origins, The Inner World: The Last Wind Monk (point & click adventure), The Mummy Demastered (Metrodvania from WayForward), Nightmare Boy (another Metroidvania), Nights of Azure 2: Bride of the New Moon, Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, and Yomawari: Midnight Shadows. Not sure what's new on Xbox One this week besides multiplatform games like AC and Wolfenstein II.

This afternoon, I got my 93rd Platinum with Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken. The co op campaign requires a second person in order to complete it -- it's impossible to do solo.

Humble Bundle got bought out by IGN. So all the money you pay for bundles will go to a site that will give 9.0 to the latest COD.

Yes, it has. You would have people standing there and camping with a sniper rifle and ability spamming in Destiny 1 but they (quickly) learned that they would die. With this, 4 vs. 4 have fewer players and more chances to have matches slow down to a crawl.

I'm at 300 for my Warlock. Iron Banner has turned The Crucible into even more of a campfest. "Let's camp near a corner THE ENTIRE MATCH." I keep waiting for Lord Saladin to shout "Grow a fuckin' pair of balls and act like a Guardian, not like you gotta take a crap!" Bungie really needs to do something about The Crucible with the next patch. Most matches I'm above 1.50 in efficiency, but just the overall quality of play leaves a lot to be desired. Maybe having burning if you stand still longer than 5 seconds.

Completed the raid last night and just got Titan subclasses trophy and Prestige Nightfall/Raid trophy to go before I Platinum Destiny 2. The raid was decent -- but it's sorta annoying that it seems to be a hub rather than a raid. You basically could join someone who has done all the work, do the last battle, and you'll get the trophy (like I did). Although it took several hours to complete the final battle. And Grow Fat From Strength.

One trophy away from platinum'ing Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken. Problem is the last trophy is complete the co op campaign and it's local co op (no online co op). Pretty damn hard with two controllers and having the second character keep dying from waves of enemies. I'm having to ask a friend offline to come by my place to help me. Ugh.

Iron Banner with no power levels will not negate the camping, so it's pointless.

Hunter for me is made out of paper mache. If your character is nearing death dealing with enemies and you're above the recommended level for a mission, then there's a problem. So basically Destiny 2 is built for Titans and that's it. Destiny had more of a balance with enemy encounters where you could snipe away from a distance but weren't too underpowered (Hunter), be a mixture of close up attacks and further away but the right gear mitigates damage (Warlock) and be a defensive tank that can absorb a decent bit of damage (Titan). Also, almost everyone I talked to that I do trophy boosting with said if you want to complete a raid or a prestige nightfall strike, you use a Titan. If you have more than 3 Titans on a team during a raid, you'll get it done easily.