Basically every single player game I've beaten, including ones I've not touched in ages I tend to check in on communities for out of curiosity.
When it comes to PVP games, only games where I put at least 250+ hours into where I feel comfortable making any kind of meaningful post.
SBMM on its own sucks, but I agree ranked can be fun. Where you have SBMM but an actual indication of your skill level/growth represented by rank. So the sweaty matches don't give you an existential crisis but instead make sense in context of trying to rank up.
You are spouting absolute nonsense. I don't have a current gen xbox nor do I have any interest in game pass. I don't even give a fuck about CoD or Blizzard's games. My reasoning is mostly wanting to see Bobby Kotick removed and this is the most likely means of seeing that happen.
Secondarily Activision seems content to sit on a mountain of IP and never use it and instead milks a small handful of IPs into burnout. Microsoft has its problems but they're generally the lesser evil in this respect and have explicitly stated their intention to bring back a lot of IPs that Activision has let languish.
This merger benefits most people who are into video games, not a "very specific subset of consumers". If anything the consumers this "hurts" is a specific subset, people exclusively interested in Sony hardware. Since Xbox, Sony, and Activision all release games on PC anyway.
As for anti-competitive, Xbox's been in "3rd place" for ages. I even have my doubts that after having bought Activision that they'll turn out a significant gain.
What? VR is fantastic for games. At least for first person games.
I played the original Doom's hardest episode (Plutonia) entirely in a VR mod. It was fantastic.
Its ok to be a newbie but if you aren't at least going to give a good faith effort to try and win, don't play team based PVP games. Go play a single player game.
I know people dislike mergers for good reason but in all honesty I've been wanting this to just go through just so I can know whether they boot Kotick out. If they don't... boo.
I don't have any interest in CoD anymore. There are a few IPs I'd like to see explored though that Activision has been sitting on and ignoring. And some that Activision "might" own that they've been too lazy to check but still threaten to litigate if it turns out that they do own (No One Lives Forever).
Good, Fandom's wiki's are garbage.
I heard that because of the overwhelming popularity the devs have had to react to the server strain and focus on mostly fixes. I'm fine with the focus being on "under the hood" improvements with these updates for now. There is a lot of content to explore for brand new players so atm they can easily take their time on the content updates.
I mean, technically a trigger could be pulled while vaulting, its just your aim would be terrible, though perhaps less bad with a smaller firearm like a pistol.
Portal can be decent fun, but the problem is that the devs did a poor job integrating it into the rest of progression so very few people play it unless its 1000% damage HC servers.
The regular modes are generally a lot more rewarding IMO and at this point the content for it is reasonably fleshed out. The biggest issue is that now the new content that is coming is very much a drip feed.
Future Cop L.A.P.D.
I've seen like, maybe a singular youtube video essay on it (And I think it was by by a very small channel).
EDIT: Also WASTED: A Post Apocalyptic Pub Crawler.
My problem is a smaller Lemmy/Mastodon/fediverse means no niche communities. For example, I want to chat about all the individual specific video games I've played and I can't reasonably do that if there aren't sufficient people on Lemmy to do that with.
As for integration vs no integration with corporation's bittersweet pill I don't know my stance in that case. I seem to be getting conflicting information on how healthy this would be for the fediverse. Whatever gets me my niche topic chats, in a solid and usable UI, while avoiding corporate data harvesting, advertising, and political manipulation is what I want.
I feel like avoiding a corporate trap for instant growth for the sake of protecting more sustainable long term growth is still in essence a focus on growth.
I agree with the decision to try and dodge this poison pill, but I disagree on the ideology that we shouldn't try and get as many people on board the fediverse as possible. I want federated social media to have revolutionary power, and you can't have power without leverage.
I like that its federated to prevent hierarchical abuse. I dislike the seams of that federation reducing ease of use and reducing population growth, thus reducing the size of niche "Communities" (as Lemmy generically calls them).
I need my <specific video game> subs so I still visit Reddit begrudgingly if only for those. Once those more niche communities grow even slightly big enough for a common back and forth though I'll probably fully abandon Reddit.
I dislike and distrust short form video based social media. But that seems to be the common response.
IDK if I even consider that an "old person" trait though because there are lots of Zoomers that seem to hate it to. Though I wonder if that's because generational cultures are melding together more because of the internet.