Posts published by “Paul Tassi”

Yesterday, without trying to, apparently I put on my “Bungie defender” hat when I wrote an article titled “ Destiny 2’ Players Should Manage Expectations For ‘The Final Shape’ Showcase .” Most people reading this title assumed I was saying that we should excuse any sort of underwhelming presentation at the showcase or even underdelivery

I’ve written before about my previous chronic addictions to Diablo 2 and Diablo 3, which were like, genuinely impacting parts of my life I was playing so much. I was concerned that I would get sucked into the vortex in an unhealthy way with Diablo 4, and while I did feel that old pull right

Rockstar fans were starting to get excited about some new announcement in the Red Dead universe, teased a little while ago, but now that the end result has been revealed, they’ve flipped a switch into being quite annoyed about it. The project is…a port of Red Dead Redemption for the Nintendo Switch and PS4/PS5. Not

I’ve been thinking a lot about Destiny 2 and loot lately . As I’ve said before, things are kind of split into two halves right now, guns with almost too many options in a season, given how many are actually worth getting. And then legendary armor, which drops all the time and is effectively useless

While a month ago, Square Enix said that Final Fantasy XVI sales were “extremely strong,” after selling 3 million copies of the PS5 exclusive in a week, that momentum appears to have…trailed off significantly. As of Square Enix’s latest earnings report, while net sales increased, operating profit dropped 79% from ¥14.4 billion to ¥3.0 billion.

Earlier this year, I said it was pretty clear to me that with wild, universal acclaim and boundless creativity, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom would likely be a shoe-in for Game of the Year in 2023, even in a year full of strong contenders. That…may have been a bit premature. I was

In the wake of Bungie’s State of the Game last week , talking mainly about why they weren’t diverting resources to places like Gambit or Crucible, and why it’s not worth it to make things like free ritual armor sets, the community has…started doing math. There are a number of interesting and disconcerting totals here

Diablo 4 always said that they were trying to blend Diablo 2 and 3’s methods of buildcrafting. As in, mess up a skill point or two in Diablo 2, and your entire build would be wrecked long-term unless you started a new character. Then Diablo 3 was the polar opposite, where it was free and

Blizzard has enacted its first Diablo 4major ban wave now that the seasonal “live” model has begun, and it’s for an exploit that surfaced a short while ago . It allowed players to play their Eternal characters on the Seasonal realm, which opened up a range of possibilities like gear and gold transfer from the

If I had to summarize the State of the Game from this past week , it would be a few neat, minor changes to Destiny 2, with enormous, glaring oversights and a refusal to address some of the game’s largest issues. Either by directly saying they’re not addressing them, or simply ignoring them altogether. The