Nostalgia is not enough to get me to go back to anything with Blizzard's name on it these days. Fed up with both them and Activision, so as much as I was looking forward to WC3: Reforged, its a hard pass now.
@Rayzakk: At his point, though, they're not the creators. The visual characteristics and design of the character has been established for decades already. What they're doing is reinterpreting a set of parameters to fit an overall new visual medium - in this case, a live-action film - and it simply looked bad. It's like everyone knowing what an apple looks like, drawing an apple that looks like a watermelon, pointing at said drawing, and telling everyone it's still an apple because "creative vision".
Either way, Jim Carrey has lost most of his credibility for a while now. I rarely take anything he says with any grain of acknowledgement. Carry on, Ace.
Words cannot express how happy I am to see this trailer. I realize a lot of people believe that the series ended with the finale episode "All Good Things", and that the TNG films are rather looked down upon, but they are as important to the journey of the Enterprise crew as the 178 episodes that aired on TV. Picard's journey especially was built upon with First Contact, and so much was left unsaid at the end of Nemisis. And knowing Seven of Nine is involved (even in a limited capacity) has a chance to bring some answers for Voyager's crew as well. Seriously, this series has so much potential, even just being set in the Prime timeline.
I'm honestly going to want and see what we get first before I start spouting off negatives. This could be amazing, or it could be yet another "ho-hum" live service title trying to do too much with a great license. Either way, I'm excited to see what it is - I'm eagerly awaiting some Avengers gaming that *ISN'T* a mobile game. Hell, the best one in recent memory was Disney Infinity (yeah, still have too many figures stored away someplace).
So yeah, here's hoping it's good. I'd be happy with a single-player story campaign experience, but I'd really like some co-op action in there as well. Even if it's a live service multiplayer game, it could be really fun if done right.
As my username might suggest, The Matrix is second only to Jurassic Park in my all-time favorite films. I must've watched it on my Dad's satellite movie channel a dozen times, and it still blew my mind. Reloaded was alright. Revolutions was just... well, it was like trying to tie a shoelace into a knot on top of another knot, then trying to tie another one still on top of that one. You might think "Hey! A triple knot in my shoelace! That's neat!", but then you look at it and realize that it's just a mess. Then you try and untie one knot and it tightens the other, and eventually you just give up, light your shoes on fire, and toss them from an overpass into a fast-moving river and be done with it.
That said, I can still watch all three to varying degrees - the first for the concept and depth to which it still makes me think, and all the way to the third where I can just turn my brain off and enjoy the visuals. Well, maybe just the musical score (that whole Dragon Ball Z fist fight with Neo and Smith was just way overdone). Don Davis did wonders with the varying themes for the soundtrack.
@croxus: "...so they force us to use a paid monthly subscription"
I simply bought it through the Ubisoft Store (since I already have U-Play loaded on my PC thanks to TD1 and AC: Odyssey, I'm not signing/loading that Epic crap up). I still just load it as a non-Steam game in the Steam client.
Also, I've been playing alone for 9 hours right now. So far it's great. I did matchmaking for a couple of the missions, but not once have I thought "I can't play anymore because I have to group up to get past this content". But, to each their own. As for bugs, it's been solid. The occasional Delta disconnect, but nothing that's kept me from hoping right back into the game and playing where I left off.
Suffice it to say I've played 9 hours of The Division 2 and can tell it's already going to be more fun, more detailed, more polished, and keep me more invested than Anthem did for two weeks.
"When I joined the corps we didn't have any fancy-shmancy pizzas. We had two pieces of bread and a tomato for the whole platoon, and we had to share the tomato!- Sgt Avery Johnson, Halo 2 (possibly)
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