I’ve played about 500ish hours of fallout 4, like 10 or so characters.

Unless I am blackhole-ing something, you are “forced” to do the base building stuff twice, for a total of like 8 minutes. Once at sanctuary at the beginning and once at the big fort to get into the armory. I don’t really count the occasional times you have to build a single radio tower to finish capturing a settlement, especially because it’s part of the radiant quests that aren’t real quests. And because it takes 30 seconds.

Can’t fucking believe they didn’t just do this, starting with the previous gen:

Xbox S1 and Xbox X1. Then current gen would be Xbox S2 and Xbox X2, and so on forever. Mid cycle refreshes can be S2.5 or X2.5. refer to the generation as generation 2 or generation 3.

. Or if they were really assed about Sony having higher numbers (ive seen this theory floated) then start with S5 and X5, fine whatever.

The current naming convention literally looks like the result of a bet between marketing departments at Nintendo and Microsoft of “hey I bet I can get the CEO to sign off on the stupidest fucking naming scheme”

This “classic tale” you mention has basically only happened once or twice, as long as I’m understanding you.

If you mean “often times scenimatic cgi trailers look nothing like the game” then yeah that’s fair.

If you mean “this in engine trailer looks way better than the game that launched as far as fidelity is concerned” then there are no legitimate examples I’ve seen besides Watch Dogs 1. The spiderman puddle was a complete hallucination, as was every other example I’ve seen.

i dont know that i agree with your second point, the gunplay looks so much less unpleasant from the trailer they just showed off. payday 2 feels almost like a roblox or browser fps, and 3 looks like a more proper modern game in terms of animation and speed. its a really important aspect of any shooter, hell its 99% of the reason Destiny players stick with that game, similar with call of duty. god knows it isnt the actual game design.

It’s fine and worth visiting, unless there are topics related to economics or business and then you can REALLY tell the site is filled with silicon valley bros

Frog suit is such an ass pain to get though, you’ve basically finished the game by the time you get it, unless you literally just focus it down early

I would legit use a mod that changes the master sword slightly: no longer breaks, but the weapon power you get from fusing is significantly lowered, so it’s never going to be the highest DPS option. I know this doesn’t feel great diageticaly but I like it a lot more than “your sword is tired, put it away for a few minutes”

I actually have a mild excitement for it, I have enjoyed the creators past work

I 100% agree with you on all 3 fronts. Especially 3. If they chose the model S to be their more open and experimental option that would be incredible for the more hacky parts of the tech community, just like the steam deck has been