On my podcast last week my and my buddy discussed what exactly a ‘next-gen’ game is. This conversation somewhat extends to AAA games as most people wouldn’t consider anything less / there wouldn’t be enough budget to hit that ‘next-gen’ threshold.
We have a very fixed idea of what a AAA game is and honestly it’s a largely unexplored space. So here I am, playing Monster Train after already having 300 hours in slay the spire and finding it to be an equally amazing game (available for a low low price on games pass!)
Sooo… my point being, I’d love to see an expansion of some genres that indies have found to be successful into the AAA space, rogue-like deck builders in particular have a place in my heart.
Most of it doesn’t even actually get utilized. It’s more just payback to companies like Lockheed, Raytheon etc. for sponsoring politicans campaigns to get/keep them in office. Like when we agreed to buy like 1,400 F35 Fighter Jets. I mean unless Mars Attacks, when the hell would we ever even use a hundred of those things at once?
They’ll just sit on airfields, or in hangers and most probably never even get made. It’s just political bullshit
…not sure if that was meant to make you feel better, or worse
I know you’re joking, but anyone who thinks we keep being visited by aliens hasn’t looked in to how far away even our nearest neighboring star system is, all the things that need to come perfectly in to play to have an inhabitable planet, or all the things it would take to first find us and then to actually get here and how incredibly long that trip would be
The Universe is huge and ever expanding, so of course there are aliens out there. There has to be, just based on the math of it all. But why do we think they can get here?. The Universe is barely old enough to imagine a civilization advancing to such a point yet. Hell we still can’t even get people on Mars, let alone exit our own star system
That’s why I was excited to see Starfield was set just a few hundred years in the future and should be more of a grounded version of sci-fi, not some intergalactic far future tale, like we always get. Will be fun to see someones vision on what the foreseeable future could be like
Wait I’m saying is this: Phil and people from Xbox, whose current message is talking down toxicity in gaming, promoting inclusivity, and “Everyone just have fun” should stay far away from Dealer and his ilk because they engage in the very console war petty bullshit that Phil is trying to do away with.
Dealer has improved alot since the “incident” six years ago, but an average RDX podcast is still childish in terms of console war stuff.
If Phil and crew should go on anything, it’s probably Xbox Two or XboxERA since they’re great podcasts that don’t actively go out of their war to institage console war bullshit.
I’m fine with calling out false narratives and bad faith actors when situtation arise on podcasts and online, but when you don’t have to, don’t feed the trolls.
Dealer and Colt to a lesser extent constantly feed the trolls.
But that’s just me, I would perfer if Xbox people stayed away from these situations where it’s easy to get tangled up in Twitter/Console War drama.
My issues with Dealer is mostly the cutesy voices he does, when he passive agrressively console wars. I don’t know if he feels like “if I say it this way, it’s easier later to deny I was being serious about it” but it’s just friggin annoying
Plus it feels like anytime the other guys get in to something interesting, he has to interupt them with call outs and superchat readings, which he mumbles his way through so I don’t even know half of what the hell he even is saying
I can only listen to that Podcast on replay, when there are timestamp listings, so I can sift through the crap. Not really sure what this incident was, you keep referencing. Care to enlighten me?
Six years or so ago, he made homophobic statements that he apologized for years later, but some people still hold him accountable for that.
While he hasn’t made any statements of such a nature since, there’s still the way he behaves which you encapsulated perfectly. To me, that’s not something Xbox execs should be hanging around with anymore.
Give him inside information sure, that shit’s always fine because it’s anonymous.
But I don’t want Phil sitting there in the call with Dealer, while Dealer goes off on a passive aggressive rant about some Twitter bullshit drama.
: You know how Phil has a Vault Boy on his shelf? I’ve been told that’s because inXile’s new game is a Brian Fargo led Fallout 5.