After that, there are people who just really want NewCompetativeGame™ that they can nolife and have picked Marathon to be that game
games
Saturday, March 7, 2026
I really did want Marathon to be good, I like Bungie well enough and don't hate that they took an old IP and made it a MP game
But their entire game direction was scuffed from the start, they did minimal improvements after delaying it, and then pushed it out to die
Fundamentally, they don't want the game to be social nor do they want the solo experience to be good,
which is a wtf sorta mindset to take when making a MP game
And then every layer on-top of that is just bad:
no ability customization for each hero (and numerous anti-fun abilities), scuffed loot/equipment, nothing meta progression, shitty quests, extremely limited pool of maps/heroes, no real visual character/weapon customization (paid recolor skins only), and a lack of interesting interactables on each map
It has the sole benefit of being the only real AAA FPS that feels new to release in a while
The Finals (2023)
XDefient (2024) was shutdown
and Delta Force (2024) sorta
Sunday, March 8, 2026
Monday, March 9, 2026
Thursday, March 12, 2026
Nakwon
what a name
Polu, since you're the playtest king
this one goes live in a couple days
Saturday, March 14, 2026 7:00:00 PM
I will be there and also be perhaps square
Saturday, March 14, 2026
Polu
we are so fucking in-sync
Servers are open 8 hours daily:
🕓 PDT: 16:00 – 00:00
🕖 EDT: 19:00 – 03:00
🕗 BRT: 20:00 – 04:00
these devs are retarded
this 100% is just spun up on AWS, and they chose the cheap timeslot only
when configuring their hosting
3/14/2026 7:00 PM
Sunday, March 15, 2026
Monday, March 16, 2026
I think metroidvanias and Zelda-likes tend to be the exception, because movement upgrades are how they gate areas
Every other game I want my full movement kit within the first hour
I think a steady flow of movement options, even if incremental, is good
I think the core, nothing unlocked movement should be satisfying on its own without any upgrades though
The Pirate Take: Any of the options can be good depending on how the entire game design is built around it
wait, do people really say that about the Shrek spin-off movie? that seems like a bit of a stretch since it's more just, the cat experiencing abstract/non-traditional fear and it's not immediately played for a laugh
we watched it a couple years ago, I remember it being REALLY long and the animation quality starting off godly and gradually declining throughout the movie
I liked it though, felt a lot like the first Inside Out Pixar movie
Whoever decided that animating in twos in every 3D-animated movie action scene was cool is a gigantic retard. It always looks like this shit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2F70FK2j9NI
Tuesday, March 17, 2026
Early Access
every game is just going to be 100GB+ now isn't it
no lol
ig that was non-obvious looking back
Death Stranding 2 is 112GB
nvm ,the best game came out today
Wednesday, March 18, 2026
The reverse of the Helldivers problem happened