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  1. Wombat

    E3 2018 Hype and Train-Wreck Thread (Place your bets!)

    For once, Ubisoft couldn't save E3. Which ties into the running theme: unless the project has had a troubled development for years or is the last sequel out the door this cycle, everyone seems to be moving on to next gen in their minds.
  2. Wombat

    Fallout 76

    Honestly, I don't think anyone will be playing this by March 1st.
  3. Wombat

    E3 2018 Hype and Train-Wreck Thread (Place your bets!)

    Well, my big question was whether devs would admit this gen was winding down, and depending on how you interpret that phrasing, Starfield is the beginning. Also, I guess Wolfenstein is a side game, but how do you write 3 then? Is that even this gen?
  4. Wombat

    E3 2018 Hype and Train-Wreck Thread (Place your bets!)

    I can't say anything there would make me go Xbox over PS4, but a far stronger showing than they've had in recent memory. Still not sure how Fallout 76 or Cyberpunk play, and does Cyberpunk even make Holiday 2019? Eh, them buying studios is a PR win at least - "Tired of Halo/Gears? We've got...
  5. Wombat

    Destiny 2 - Clan Link 1st Post

    I'm up to faction rally level 25 I have yet to see a class item drop, so I can't even start working on half these goals. Am I missing something or is RNG just hosing me?
  6. Wombat

    E3 2018 Hype and Train-Wreck Thread (Place your bets!)

    Just think of the Street Fighter 2 minigames someone would put in, where you get bonuses for the next game depending on how hard you whip your child or punch your fiance. Or the Metal Gear Solid stealth mission to swap your weed-positive urine sample!
  7. Wombat

    E3 2018 Hype and Train-Wreck Thread (Place your bets!)

    I don't think Anthem looks bad, but it does look like a indifferent Destiny clone with combat arena sizes larger than what Destiny usually deals in. I can't imagine it will hit the sales even ME: Andromeda did. And if The Force Unleashed sales could only warrant an underwhelming mid budget...
  8. Wombat

    E3 2018 Hype and Train-Wreck Thread (Place your bets!)

    To be clear, EA hasn't put on a good show in arguably a decade. Not sure if carving out their own day will make people forget how disastrous they are by the time Nintendo finishes or make the games press even more pissed off they needed to show up an extra day early for this mess though.
  9. Wombat

    E3 2018 Hype and Train-Wreck Thread (Place your bets!)

    I'm such a jaded bastard I need my snark in real-time, so it's the Giant Bomb live streams for me. As spronk said, their Late Night Talk Show streams can be one of the high points of the year, depending on what collection of games luminaries and insane press people they have in a given hour...
  10. Wombat

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    RNG is a fickle bitch - I had an alt get Invincible and the Ragnaros mount within an hour and haven't gotten anything since in months, despite doing all 4 MoP bosses a dozen+ times a week.
  11. Wombat

    Legion

    https://news.avclub.com/fx-renews-legion-for-a-third-mind-blowing-season-1826492651 I haven't been as big a fan of Season 2's higher episode counts as it seems like they just gave themselves far more time to spin their own wheels, but I'm glad it will be back next year. As for the year after...
  12. Wombat

    E3 2018 Hype and Train-Wreck Thread (Place your bets!)

    1) Don't screw up Starfield. 2) Show us how Cyberpunk works in what we assume (incorrectly?) is a Witcherian framework. Standard question: Now that Nintendo used all their powder on Swtich's first year, do they have anything through Christmas 2019 other than Pokemanz / Metroid / a Smash...
  13. Wombat

    Fallout 76

    Even an Obsidian-made Fallout would get E3 stage treatment, so this is some non-entity that would get buried at E3 otherwise: Metal Gear Survive Fallout? Fortnite Fallout? Hard pass. But if this non-game means the A team is on Starfield, all the better. TLDR: Don't fuck up Starfield and I...
  14. Wombat

    Destiny 2 - Clan Link 1st Post

    Patch game yesterday, play today, 340+ in all slots, only real option for progression already is praying to the RNG Powerful Loot Pinata in future weeks, memorized new planet already, "New" Strikes are missions I did earlier today. I actually wish the shooting didn't feel so damn good, then I...
  15. Wombat

    Legion

    I wish they hadn't included that shot of flashback David halfway in, ruined any mystery in the episode.
  16. Wombat

    Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

    The Homecomings are Sony pictures and wouldn't be part of that. RDJ, Evans, etc. had separate contracts with Sony to appear in those. It would put an interesting twist on whatever the Phase 4 mashup will be though (assuming Spidey is in enough of A4 to count).
  17. Wombat

    Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

    Like everyone else, I sat through the credits, and I was utterly befuddled when they credited Arrested Development. "Was there a TV on in the background on Earth?", I thought. Then again, the guys (who directed the AD pilot, remember) also did this...
  18. Wombat

    Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

    Well if we're just going full on discussion:
  19. Wombat

    2018 NFL Offseason Thread -- Philadelphia Burning Edition

    Yeah, the heel speeches are predictable, but I still enjoy them.
  20. Wombat

    Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

    God damnit I can't stand that ending. The only announced Marvel or Marvel-related movies after Avengers 4 are New New Spidey 2, Strange 2, Panther 2, and a Guardians featuring Groot and Rocket - and that ending invalidates every one of them. NO ONE IS GOING TO BELIEVE THIS STICKS. Now, if all...
  21. Wombat

    2018 NFL Offseason Thread -- Philadelphia Burning Edition

    Heh, Pack gonna Pack and trade down regardless of who's in charge.
  22. Wombat

    2018 NFL Offseason Thread -- Philadelphia Burning Edition

    I think everyone had the Cardinals having to settle for Jackson. So now what/who? Jaguars? Someone in Round 2?
  23. Wombat

    2018 NFL Offseason Thread -- Philadelphia Burning Edition

    Miami has to take Rosen, right? =
  24. Wombat

    2018 NFL Offseason Thread -- Philadelphia Burning Edition

    Also, how much did the Jets give up to have the same QB options they would have had anyway?
  25. Wombat

    2018 NFL Offseason Thread -- Philadelphia Burning Edition

    Heh, Barnwell's review: "It’s hard to believe that the Browns couldn’t have traded down and still grabbed Denzel Ward. Really hard to believe. Like maybe their phone lines are down."
  26. Wombat

    2018 NFL Offseason Thread -- Philadelphia Burning Edition

    Who did the Browns think was going to take a CB that they couldn't have traded down, at least until SF?
  27. Wombat

    2018 NFL Offseason Thread -- Philadelphia Burning Edition

    I havent heard the trade alert. Are they Brown really keeping Chubb over all the picks they could get in trade?
  28. Wombat

    2018 NFL Offseason Thread -- Philadelphia Burning Edition

    When Bill Barnwell preemptively writes a piece saying how dumb that pick will be, you know you dun goofed.
  29. Wombat

    2018 NFL Offseason Thread -- Philadelphia Burning Edition

    So how much do the Browns get for the 4th pick?
  30. Wombat

    2018 NFL Offseason Thread -- Philadelphia Burning Edition

    The Giants would be absolutely fools to think Manning will cover them for years more (especially when you see what the Glennons of the world get paid, much less Mannings). Everything suggests the Giants are so beholden to Eli for getting them SB victories that they will be fools. I'd love to...
  31. Wombat

    Legion

    Actually no, not in the least. The 'facts' are: Benny was a chubby dude that fingerbanged some gal, stole her oven, did drugs with David, and got in a fight with David's sister (speaking of which, what ever happened to her or her husband?) "Lenny" was a person with Aubrey Plaza's physical...
  32. Wombat

    Legion

    I hope this season was written with a firm ending in mind, because considering the ratings trajectory, that premiere will not win any new converts. Also really fuzzy on what Plaza is now. If she's SK, how can she be trapped in SK's mind (the pool)? Is she just his id or negative aspects?!?
  33. Wombat

    2018 NFL Offseason Thread -- Philadelphia Burning Edition

    That noise you just heard was the entire NBA saying "THIS". Seriously, the Jets' meaningless (in the long-term) 3 point wins against the Browns and Jaguars pushed them from 2/3 to 6. Each of those wins essentially cost then 1.5 second round draft picks. If ever there needed to be a defense...
  34. Wombat

    Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

    Well, the set shots from Avengers 4 are reportedly filled with people in old outfits. Whether Thanos nukes the timeline, the heroes give up on beating him in the present and try to alter the past to do it, or it is some weird montage where Stark gets the gauntlet and tries to come up with a...
  35. Wombat

    2018 NFL Offseason Thread -- Philadelphia Burning Edition

    Holy crap, I'm drunk and confused.
  36. Wombat

    2018 NFL Offseason Thread -- Philadelphia Burning Edition

    If you somehow couldn't understand why Garrapolo got the contract he did, $15 Mil guaranteed for 1 year of Bradford says it all. As for Cousins, smells like Elway's feeling the heat - how Cousins turns out will either end Elway or get him another decade in the job. I doubt the contract will...
  37. Wombat

    Grottino 2017: The only awards that matter (to me)

    I'm game: My Top 12 (All) Movies of 2017 One of the weirder aspects of mass market entertainment in the 21st century was watching Action Comedies not only morph into Comic Book movies, but then turn into the dominant movie genre, then become so popular they've started morphing into other genres...
  38. Wombat

    NFL 2017-18: Watch athletes destroy their brains

    I don't see him making top money, but I could see someone (especially a Brownsian situation) giving him Tyrod Taylor-eque money and drafting a rookie this year.