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BewareTheSuperman 1 point ago +2 / -1

Well between Microsoft and EA being the presumed front runners, I'd go Microsoft.

They're still a monolithic evil corporation, but they've seemingly learned to let their 2nd party studios actually develop games after ruining Rare.

Obsidian, for example, is releasing that interesting-looking 'Grounded' game, and they also purchased Double Fine, which will hopefully put Tim Schafer in check.

Plus, it'll be virtually guaranteed we'd see PC and Steam releases of whatever titles they publish instead of having to deal with any console exclusivity BS.

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BewareTheSuperman 11 points ago +11 / -0

I'm 100% PC myself - built a mid-range system some time last Fall, and with even many console exclusives becoming available on PC in some form or another, I'll probably stick with it, make incremental upgrades as necessary rather than drop a full stack on a new console.

Besides, with the obligatory massive Steam library backlog I currently have, I don't even want to think much about new games coming out.

I just bought the Crash Bandicoot: N-Sane Trilogy from the Steam Summer Sale, and it's a nice bit of nostalgia with just the perfect amount of difficulty.

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BewareTheSuperman 5 points ago +5 / -0

Reddit probably ain't in its death throes, as much as a Digg-esque dive into irrelevancy.

The 'Elites' and foreign influencers got what they needed out of the site, so they'll just hop to another platform to pollute with their ideology and dirty money while Reddit plummets in value and is sold to some company or another for a minuscule percentage of its capped value.

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BewareTheSuperman 11 points ago +11 / -0

Game Pros continuously sucked Druckmann's dick over how amazing the game was, giving it the usual swarm of AAA 10/10 ratings despite it having some appreciable flaws: in pacing; in the repetitive, predictable gameplay loop; and most importantly the sophomoric handling of the narrative.

The Journos' propensity towards like-minded opinions coupled with their fear of being blacklisted by Sony for not giving Naughty Dog the knob-slobbering it demands means you can't trust the lot of them as far as you can throw them.

The Angry Mob may be slinging out reactionary 0s and 1s, but it's not like the more in-depth user reviews are too much better, and what they're saying is completely fair: yes, the game is graphically and technically amazing, but that doesn't make up for a needlessly bleak plot that tears apart so much of what people loved about the first game while repeatedly beating the grade school level meta-message of "Durr, killing is bad, m'kay!" over the player's head, like a half-assed 'Spec Ops: The Line'.