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Metal Gear Solid V My guys are sick. Nearly 300 dudes in quarantine. I don't want them all to die. But I might waste a little time changing my loadout to nonlethal. The shotgun looks sweet.

Is the Mad Max game that good? Because I'm surprised to see so many people talking about a game that was, up til release, only viewed as a movie tie-in shovelware.

Finally got Quiet, just can't use her as a buddy yet.

Metal Gear Solid V, Danganronpa: Another Episode, and Stein;s Gate should all be arriving today. I'm so enthusiastic that I can not conceal it.

Played around with Until Dawn's final chapter. Turning off vibration makes Don't Move easy.

To hazard a guess, I think the main quests were done internally at Edmonton. The open world parts might be the result of those job postings we heard for EA Shanghai to work on Dragon Age. This is why there's such disconnect between the two.

Only way I can push through replaying that game is by sticking to the main questline as much as possible. The side content, by and large, is incredibly boring. I still don't know how they came to the decision to make it "open world" and thought those quests would be good. Said it before, I guess it's time to say it again, that game is simply weird because it seems like two games taped together. There's the big open world and then there's the actual plot quests. The two almost never interact! Like going ahead with some plot quests changes what enemies appear in the first open world area, but that's as good as it gets. The plot quests are actually pretty fantastic. But the fact that they chose to not do anything important in the open world really makes it feel like you're wasting your time running around, only farming points to access the next plot segment.

Finished Until Dawn last night.

I like Until Dawn. Feels like a solid teen slasher flic. It's good a bunch of cheesy jump scares and I like them. But I'm mainly propelled along by the mystery of what's going on.

I bought Until Dawn today. I also found out two more games I was looking forward to come out next week, so I'm set for a while. Danganronpa Another Episode and Stein;s Gate PS3 in addition to Metal Gear Solid V. Poor Planetside 2.

I'm missing the old Planetside. Pre-BFR at least. Planetside 2 is fun, but there's no real base sieges. I miss sitting at the bottom of the base, waiting for the back door to open. Now there's just chaos. There's no doors, the bases are all accessed from a million directions, two or three entrances, a bunch of windows, stairs to the roof, and we end up just fighting over that single room and then going back to spreading out through the entire base. The game needs a good fighting in hallways base, at least.

Catch-a-ride!

Feargus is on the advisory board, whatever that is, for a new crowdfunding platform. Alongside Tim Schafer and Brian Fargo. https://www.fig.co/about

Lots of Planetside 2. Today that might change with Tales from the Borderlands getting a new episode. Real excited for that. Trying to decide what class I'm going to start improving next. I'm an Expert Combat Medic who's almost an Expert with Assault Rifles. Got my Magrider where I want it, too. Might go SMG Infiltrator since that was my old PS1 class, but I wouldn't be able to C4 AMS. Might go Light Assault so I can get on rooftops and C4 AMS

I'm more curious what Obsidian is doing after MCA. The tank game, an expansion to PoE. Anything else? Seems like ages since Obsidian made a game I was looking forward to (that wasn't Kickstarted). Brian Heinz is the lead designer/project director on an unannounced RPG, per Antony Davis. What is the history of this Brian? WHat projects he had a notable role in the past? Project New Jersey/Seven Dwarves

Clearly this is just a ploy to increase ratings for a season. He's still going to show up as an ascended being from time to time until the next ratings slump and they can advertise that they're bringing him back full time.

Slaves.

I'm either a really ballsy Planetside 2 player, or really dumb. One of my recent escapades involved defending a Biolab from TR attack. I'd accidentally spawned as Light Assault and camped on top of a building to shoot the gallery as they came up. They seemed to entrench well and I couldn't find any good targets. I'm not used to LA, so I thought "what kind of grenade does this have? got to be explosive, right?" and just hurled it into the middle of the TR horde. Smoke blanketed the area and I thought "well, crap." The TR must have been as surprised as I was, because they stayed exactly where they were. So I lead the charge. Worked out boffo.

Only if I get a fully featured Dreadlord pet. I'll love him, and squeeze him, and name him Varimathras, and pretend he never betrayed us.

I feel nothing. But maybe that's because they've revealed nothing to appeal to me. No Warlock artifact, no Warlock heroes who aren't evil, but even the bad guys they have are dull. Ooh a Satyr boss, a lieutenant of Azshara, and something called a drogbar. I guess Gul'Dan is kind of cool, for a puppet.

Loving Planetside 2. It's not pre-Bending Planetside, but it gives it the ole college try.

Isn't that true of all the Mission Impossible films? I've pretty much forgotten every single previous Mission Impossible film, recalling just a hint of Ghost Protocol. Which I think means yes.

Saw Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation Felt like I could have watched any other spy action movie and I would have had the exact same experience, but with some different stunts.

I may have wasted the weekend playing Planetside 2 for the first time. I also may have decided that I hate my teammates because 4/5ths of them are too busy sniping to do their frickin' job.

Life is Strange: Episode 4 Squirrels are cool...