a strategy game for me is mostly about the mechanics and the replayability. I love good art and design, but function follow form!

This game runs on Flash. Effective Jan. 12, 2021, Adobe (the company that made Flash) began blocking its use everywhere. This is unfortunate, but outside of Kongregate's control.

If you get this game for some reason, it's worth mucking around in for 20 minutes or so, but you probably shouldn't buy this on purpose.

Russell basically points out that if you’re good at one kind of sport (say football), you have certain “ball-handling” skills that likely make you so good at that sport. But if you were to try to apply those same skills to a game of ping-pong or golf, you’re not likely to be as successful, right?

I took the test again soon after playing the game, with mixed results. I showed notable improvement in confirmation bias, fundamental attribution error, and the representativeness heuristic, and improved slightly in bias blind spot and anchoring bias.

Along the way, you’re asked to make judgments and predictions—some having to do with the story and some about unrelated issues—which are designed to call your biases into play. You’re given immediate feedback on your answers.

When the participants in the study were tested immediately after playing the game or watching the video and then a couple of months later, everybody improved, but the game players improved more than the video watchers.

That is, laziness or inertia can be more powerful than bias

In The Value Chain of the Open Metaverse, I wrote about a digital fashion company called DIGITALAX that “is based on a parent-child structure, in which the Parent NFT - the final piece - is composed of child NFTs representing all of the materials, patterns, and colors that go into the construction of the garment.” The NFTs that are all over your Twitter feed today are based on the ERC721 asset standard -- one token for one final item -- but DIGITALAX also uses the ERC1155 standard, used for semi-fungible tokens that represent a category of things without concern for exactly which one is used. In DIGITALAX’s case, a final digital dress might be backed by an ERC721 token, but different color patterns or materials would be backed by ERC1155 tokens, which would reward their creators every time the pattern or material is used.

fromthenormsofagameappealingtoadults.Changingthenormsofagoodgameleadstoadifferentsetofdesignrecommendations.

Becausegameplayersbecometheircharacters,gamewritersshouldconfinethemselvestosingle-person,limitedpointofview.Thismeansthattheplayershouldneverbeshownortoldanythingthatthecharacterhas not experienced directly.

Thediscussionfocussedonwhatisagoodgameandhowtodesignthosekindsofgames.Designapproachesaredrivenbynorms.

It’s about holding on to the idea that the players can control the game, and not the other way around

Prepare Your Supply Chain for Coronavirus It’s late in the game, but there are still steps you can take. by James B. Rice, Jr.

when the augmented reality game Pokemon Go first launched in 2016, the only way to create an account was through Google single sign on. However, this process granted the app “full access to your Google account.

For example, when the augmented reality game Pokemon Go first launched in 2016, the only way to create an account was through Google single sign on. However, this process granted the app “full access to your Google account. That means the developer of Pokemon Go, Niantic, may have access to your emails, Google Drive, calendar, contacts, photos, Chrome browsing history, search history, Maps data... and, well, anything else linked to your Google account”

For example, you might find the perfect app for your students only to discover it works solely on iPads, and your students have Chromebooks. Or, you may come across an excellent Flash-based math game, but it cannot be accessed on iPhones or iPads without paying for a Flash-based browser like Puffin. Or, you might find a captivating geography app, but it isn't compatible with your students' older tablets. 

You can create opportunities for student choice and support flexible learning pathways

technology

turn = 'X' for i in range(9):   ➊ printBoard(theBoard)      print('Turn for ' + turn + '. Move on which space?')   ➋ move = input()   ➌ theBoard[move] = turn   ➍ if turn == 'X':          turn = 'O'      else:          turn = 'X'  printBoard(theBoard)

1990, over 20 million hunters in the United Statesspent over half a billion days afield in pursuit ofwild game, and hunting licensesfinance vastconservation areas in North America.

AlejandraAlejandra Luaces had only worked at Mailchimp for four months when she got a surprising anonymous email. “Oliver* is in an open marriage and is fair game,” the message read, referring to a senior engineering manager. “Serena* also knows so you can ask her to confirm.”

[0.4] Controls & Training & Help[0.2] Menu & Settings[0.2] Sound & Music[0.1] Graphics[0.2] Game Design[0.3] Game Story[0.2] Game Content[0.4] Time to complete feels ok? (& if the Game can be repeatedly played again)[0] is it Enjoyable & Fun?[0] Could it hold a spot in Favorites?[0] BONUS point: Multi-Player related[0] BONUS point: Review for VR

Do you have collaborators who could have generated keys and sold them on their own? DIG's Steam keys and other stores' Steam keys must have some source, after all. Keys don't generate themselves, and only your accounts should be able to request them.This particular game was in Bunch Keys Indie Wizardry Bundle. I assume you had a proper contract for that. Maybe DIG or an intermediary bought 50-200 copies of it?

It isn't stealing because you or an associate must have generated and given them the keys in some way or another?Ideally you would ask a DIG bundle buyer to show you their key for your game, so you can figure out what key request batch it came from, and then you can scratch your head and wonder who you gave those keys to and what journey they took afterwards.

So, where did J.C. Penney go wrong? Well, while we admire their attempt to change, they attempted to destroy over a century’s worth of price conditioning consumers have been through with department stores and pricing in general. They weren’t completely off base, as consumers with more and more access to information (comparison shopping engines, consumer reports, etc.), are beginning to realize that the value of products is determined much differently than a sticker would suggest. Yet, assuming that most soccer moms (and dads) wouldn’t fall prey to the colorful print ads tucked within the comics section in the Sunday paper, overlooks how much the majority of consumers value “winning” the retail game. Simply, deflating the perceived value causes customers to value the actual product less.

The men in Group H (for hyperculture) are different. They have no access to professional sports, though they also enjoy American football. Twice a week, they get together at a park and actually play touch football with each other. After a hard game, they go to the pub together and down beer and nachos.

I went by the reviews and now i am seeing a pattern on STEAM where even good reviews are bought and paid for and not really player revews and that actuallly watching game play from google will be my best option in the future. AGAIN don;t trust bought and paid for reviews from STEAM....I just learned and realised this now

Manipula-tion of edges is used to enhance the abundanceof game species such as deer, pheasants andgrouse (see Box 1.1). In England, open linear“rides”in woods may be actively managed toincrease incident light and early successional habi-tat for butterflies and other wildlife

Manipula-tion of edges is used to enhance the abundanceof game species such as deer, pheasants andgrouse (see Box 1.1). In England, open linear“rides”in woods may be actively managed toincrease incident light and early successional habi-tat for butterflies and other wildlife (

We investigate the evolution of epidemics over dynamical networks when nodes choose to interact with others in a selfish and decentralized manner. Specifically, we analyze the susceptible-asymptomatic-infected-recovered (SAIR) epidemic in the framework of activity-driven networks with heterogeneous node degrees and time-varying activation rates, and derive both individual and degree-based mean-field approximations of the exact state evolution. We then present a game-theoretic model where nodes choose their activation probabilities in a strategic manner using current state information as feedback, and characterize the quantal response equilibrium (QRE) of the proposed setting. We then consider the activity-driven susceptible-infected-susceptible (SIS) epidemic model, characterize equilibrium activation probabilities and analyze epidemic evolution in closed-loop. Our numerical results provide compelling insights into epidemic evolution under game-theoretic activation. Specifically, for the SAIR epidemic, we show that under suitable conditions, the epidemic can persist, as any decrease in infected proportion is counteracted by an increase in activity rates by the nodes. For the SIS epidemic, we show that in regimes where there is an endemic state, the infected proportion could be significantly smaller under game-theoretic activation if the loss upon infection is sufficiently high.

Impacts of Game-Theoretic Activation on Epidemic Spread over Dynamical Networks

"Never pluck a single plum from this bush, my child, for its roots are wrapped around an Indian's skeleton. A brave is buried here. While he lived, he was so fond of playing the game of striped plum seeds that, at his death, his set of plum seeds were buried in his hands. From them sprang up this little bush."

I think one thing would have been a solution to basically everything here: Player created maps. As Im involved in many modding communities, I know for a fact that player created content can be vital in making games last so much longer, and the quality can shoot for the stars, Player created maps would have been fantastic for this game.

Bertilak de Hautdesert I am in this land, through might of Morgan la Faye, that dwells in my house, and is mistress of magic, by crafts well learned the mysteries of Merlin, many has she taken, for she has dealt in depths full dearly sometime with that excellent sage, and that know all your knights at home.

if my cry be not comely, let this court be free of blame.

Gawain, concerned for his lord’s honor, steps in and agrees to the contest.

The Reddit amateurs may be gloating about their victory over elite hedge funds now, but in the casino of Wall Street the house always wins, and many Redditors may be flirting with financial catastrophe.

In the past fortnight, two vaccine stories made headlines around the world. Novavax announced spectacular results for its phase 3 trial, while preliminary data suggest the AstraZeneca vaccine is ineffective against the South African variant. These two vaccines comprise the bulk of Australia’s vaccine portfolio, and the results should prompt an urgent rethink of our vaccination strategy. Australia won’t reach herd immunity with the current plan.

Herd immunity is the end game for the pandemic, but the AstraZeneca vaccine won’t get us there

We’d better believe China is in this game. They are competing aggressively,” former Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm, Biden’s nominee for energy secretary, told a Senate hearing on Jan. 27. “Without a federal partner to make sure we can get these jobs in America then we will be losing globally.”

“This could be a game changer when it comes to jobs, but we have to find a way to ensure we keep the technology in the U.S. and incentivize companies to produce it in the U.S.,” said Venkat Srinivasan, a top battery expert at Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Ill.

And, I’ll warrant her, fun of game

And, I’ll warrant her, fun of game.

The game seems perfectly balanced, what is so rare for an assymétric game

The author will offer presentation/game sessions on Tabletopia, in French and English. In addition, the game will be freely available for players on Tabletopia as soon as the written rules are available.

This is the perfect game when you are not wanting something with stakes or stress.

Difficult enough to prove a worthy challenge, with an over-complexity that might have benefitted from a little self-restraint.

It seems like such a beautiful little visual novel and while I wasn’t expecting a masterpiece of localisation based on its low price, I was expecting to be able to read it. But that just cannot be done. Developers from Japan, China, Taiwan, Indonesia, and every other emerging game development centre through Asia-Pacific, listen to me carefully: You can have the most beautiful aesthetics and a heartwarming concept for your game. If the localisation isn’t going to be good, though, do not bother with an English release, because it is going to get reviews like this one. Make “invest in proper translation” your big resolution for 2021. I do not want to play any other games like Lily in the Hollow - Resurrection ever again.

The cars handling can be best explained as "its like steering a drunk sailor on a boat."

This tedium would be unacceptable in an action game, but Windbound is a survival game. In survival games, death is supposed to mean something. Loss of progress represents the stakes; repetition is the barrier of entry.

Indeed, if Maisie defies the conventions of childhood, her parents just as ironically do not—at least when it comes to themselves. The word “game” appears no fewer than twenty-five times in the novel, and only rarely does it apply directly to Maisie. [End Page 101] Rather, it typically identifies the sinister amusements and strategies of Maisie’s parents and of Mrs. Beale. So accustomed to the “frolic menace” of adult games (53), of being played back and forth between her parents like the “little feathered shuttlecock,” or of being the center of a “frightening game,” a flirtatious “merry little scrimmage” between father and governess (53), Maisie “from her earliest childhood, had built up in her the belief that the grown-up time was the time of real amusement” (69).

Ideias de nomes para videolocadora:

the two envelopes.

There's a lot of anger gets you nowhere

Our kicks were mere coquetry.

Training to fill skill gaps is increasingly offered online and on a just­in­time basis. As part of its new ap­proach to learning, The Walt Disney Co., for example, has implemented a platform that offers video, mobile and digital content to employees as needed. “Three or four years ago, learning at Disney happened in class­rooms,” says Steve Milovich, senior vice president of global human resources and talent diversity, Disney/ABC Television Group and also senior vice president of employee digital media, The Walt Disney Com­pany. “Now we offer content such as TED­like talks featuring Disney executives that allow employees to seek knowledge when and how they need it.”Just as important as developing talent is reducing the risk of losing it. On average, nearly 80% of respon­dents say they want to work for a digitally enabled company or digital leader. The sentiment crosses all age groups, from 22 to 60, nearly equally. “The myth is that digital technology is a young person’s game,” says Scott Monty, the former executive vice president of strategy at Shift Communications, now principal at Scott Monty Strategies. “At one point, women over 55 represented the fastest­growing Facebook demo­graphic. This is about how humans interact, not just about how Millennials do.” (See Figure 5.)

As the design process itself takes place in its own context as well, designers additionally need to be aware that values of their own design context may become part of the game design.Therefore, a critical view towards the design choices and underlying design assumptions needs to be taken.

Considering the possible contexts in which the game will be played during the designprocess, requires the designer to investigate and form a model of the intended user.

The game designer is in direct control of establishing the mechanics, whilethe aesthetics that players perceiveare separated from them in time, space, and context. Reversely, the player directly perceives the aesthetics while the me-chanics can only be experienced through the dynamics of gameplay.This conceptual-ization of game design as a second-order design problem emphasizes the complexity of predicting how design choices affect the player experience.

We will do so by pointing out a number of different, and often opposing, perspectives. From a user perspective, we will start with the different views that designers and users haveof the game.

Consider-ing this context for which a serious game is designed is therefore an important step of the design process: from this context stems an important set of specific design require-ments for the serious game.

I was aware of the mixed reviews but "mixed" to me could be a game that's perfectly suitable for one person's taste and detestable to the next.

game

VRsimulationofanonexistentsportsgame

But location is just as important. To that end, buying into beachfront property (or as near to the beach as you can get) almost anywhere in the world… or into a top touristed city can put you ahead of the game.

me on the priest discussion boards is spent assessing how choices in one area of the talent tree affect outcomes elsewhere and debating which poin

In other words, transplant gamesactually have changed the gameplay that is relied onby the original games, and there is surely not absoluteguarantee that new designed games can be successfulin new platforms

The present interaction ways have great lim-itations, which not only make the properties ofsmartphones not be used fully, but result in that theentertainment experience and playability of directlytransplanted games are far less than those installedon computers or professional game devices

In this trend, smartphone-game seems to bepopular overnights, and how to use the characteristicsof the smartphones plus the advantages of the networkto improve the attraction of smartphone-games is cru-cial for the smartphone-game developers to makesuccess in the fierce market competition

The interface is the only∗Correspondingauthor. ZheJi.E-mail:rckr515119@126.com.way for users to have interaction with smartphone-games, so the games’ interface interaction design willfinally define whether the game will be successful.

due to the limitation of interactiondesign, users always feel the gameplay experience onsmartphones is weaker than that on the personal com-puters or game consoles

This study can provide technical support forthe analysis of smartphone-game interface design.

this study focus on how to provide better experience for users and make up for the rapid prototypemethod in designing user interface to provide some references for smartphone-game interface designers.

It seems clear that the growing complexity of the real world will pose a growing challenge to game designers, which reshapes the way we need to look at game design even now.

This article offers another look at the complexity in simulation game design and implementation.

A video game is just a set of well-designed problems to solve, where the very design of the game teaches and mentors players to solve the problems, using good prin- ciples of teaching and learnin

Observation is a crucial first step for learning how to fully participate in any activity, and digital games are no exception. Caregivers who look closely will see that children who appear to be merely observing a game are also asking questions, strategizing and hypothesizing, or posing “what-ifs.”

In-game caregivers can also help young gamers consider how women and people of color are represented – or not represented – on screen.

Observation is a crucial first step for learning how to fully participate in any activity, and digital games are no exception. Caregivers who look closely will see that children who appear to be merely observing a game are also asking questions, strategizing and hypothesizing, or posing “what-ifs.”

Minecraft, a game in which players build protective enclosures against monster attacks, encourages collaborative problem-solving either in person or online. Playing with another gamer means having more resources to build with and more strategies to employ, since different players bring different expertise

Mourinho has averaged 1.65 points per game in 49 matches as Tottenham manager.

I N D I E V E R S E @indieVerse_aeAn event that gathers artists, gamers, game developers and content creators to celebrate all creative indies! .. Register in our website!United Arab Emiratesindieverseae.comJoined December 201848 Following221 Followers

i dont know why everyone wants to **** on everything that is not a "AAA" game, its not in its perfect state, but far from deserve a 3, i will give it a 9 so it counters the "just hate

teacher

Create a video game that lets players explore the Red Planet with a helicopter like the one going to Mars with NASA's Perseverance rover! Use Scratch, a visual programming language and think like NASA space-mission planners to design your game!

Please, do not buy this. I am really tired of "games" that are given critical praise because its cool to praise or because its political correct to do. I will break up my review in points so its clear why I dislike this "game" : 1) This is not a game. This is a short story, like an interactive book. 2) This game is so short, that I completed it in a 3 hour bus ride. It was boring. 3) Its a story of a girl that have to take the reigns of her life after divorce. WOMAN EMPOWERMENT. Now you know why this game is rated so highly 4) This is a MOBILE GAME. I paid $3 to play on an iphone (after watching a gaming channel give it GOTY contender. Needless to say, I never watched that gaming channel again). I FELT I WAS ROBBED OF TIME AND $3. Imagine how much I hated this game to feel like I was robbed even though it costed me only $3. 5) This game costs $7 on the eshop. You could buy CELESTE for $9 on sale on the Eshop. That is a great game. I recently bought Hollow Knight for $7 on Playstation. This interactive novel should not be sold as a game. Period. It is a waste of time and money.

questions. (i) Is there discrimination (differential treatment) based on ethnic affiliation? (ii) Does the discrimination reflect a group bias in that each player favors players of his own group, or is there a systematic discrimination against one, or several, ethnic groups? (iii) Is this discrimination based on a taste for discrimina- tion, or is it the outcome of ethnic stereotyping that affects the players' assessment regarding their game partners' strategic responses or relevant characteristics? (iv) Are the ethnic stereotypes accurate?

Without any available effective commu-nication tool between designers, artists and programmers, it has been achallenge to conceive and deliver a cohesive concept of a virtual en-vironment into a digital game.

The interview participants pointed outthat without any clear design methodology, the quality of result greatlydepends on a few senior designers’experiences.

Amongthe 106 responses collected, the answer to the lack of universal designmethodology was most repeated 36 times. The second most frequentlycollected answer with 34 answers is issues of communication betweendifferent teams and individuals.

,itiscritical to establish a precise design methodology to develop a digitalgame.

Choi[1] mentioned that de-signing a virtual landscape requires the same amount of effort as creatinga digital game itself. Therefore, designing a virtual environment require agreat amount of manpower and usually is the most time-consumingprocess within game designing.

Contrary toother areas of game design such as designing characters, UI, rules withinthe game, designing a virtual environment of a digital game requires acomprehensive consideration as well as extensive editing of the variousdigital game components.

Objective: Some gambling product messages are designed to inform gamblers about the long-run cost of gambling, e.g., “this game has an average percentage payout of 90%.” This message is in the “return-to-player” format and is meant to convey that for every £100 bet about £90 will be paid out in prizes. Some previous research has found that restating this information in the “house-edge” format, e.g., “this game keeps 10% of all money bet on average”, is better understood by gamblers and reduces gamblers’ perceived chances of winning. Here we additionally test another potential risk communication improvement: a “volatility statement” highlighting that return-to-player and house-edge percentages are long-run statistical averages, which may not be experienced in any short period of gambling. Method: Gambling information format and volatility statement presence were manipulated in an online experiment involving 2,025 UK gamblers. Results: The house-edge format and the presence of volatility statements both additively reduced gamblers’ perceived chances of winning. In terms of gamblers’ understanding, house-edge messages were understood the best, but no consistent effect of volatility statements was observed. Conclusions: The return-to-player gambling messages in current widespread use can be improved by switching to the house-edge format and via the addition of a volatility statement.

Objective: Some gambling product messages are designed to inform gamblers about the long-run cost of gambling, e.g., “this game has an average percentage payout of 90%.” This message is in the “return-to-player” format and is meant to convey that for every £100 bet about £90 will be paid out in prizes. Some previous research has found that restating this information in the “house-edge” format, e.g., “this game keeps 10% of all money bet on average”, is better understood by gamblers and reduces gamblers’ perceived chances of winning. Here we additionally test another potential risk communication improvement: a “volatility statement” highlighting that return-to-player and house-edge percentages are long-run statistical averages, which may not be experienced in any short period of gambling. Method: Gambling information format and volatility statement presence were manipulated in an online experiment involving 2,025 UK gamblers. Results: The house-edge format and the presence of volatility statements both additively reduced gamblers’ perceived chances of winning. In terms of gamblers’ understanding, house-edge messages were understood the best, but no consistent effect of volatility statements was observed. Conclusions: The return-to-player gambling messages in current widespread use can be improved by switching to the house-edge format and via the addition of a volatility statement.

it's just a shame that there's no online or split-screen multiplayer, which seems like a major oversight to us; local play between Switch system is possible, but could prove to be a logical nightmare.

logical

Игра лютая дрянь, MX unleashed лучше в 100 раз. Физики нет, трассы дрянь, трюки вырвиглазны. Я заплатил за игру 150 руб, она даже копейки не стоит.

In short, I have examined the evidence for the merits of each generation, and reached the dispassionate conclusion that mine is

true test

positive

spending my childhood in a darkened room staring at a screen in preparation for a career

boomers’ ruination of the planet

More and more, Im seeing this "retro graphics" (aka - lazy cash in.) money grab titles that are completely broken or absolutely terrible.. and they're RAPIDLY flooding the Switch like flies to horse dung. With no real reliable independent reviews of Indie titles available (Even MetaCritic is blank for at LEAST 70% of these indie garbage games..) players are left with no recourse but to flush hard earned cash on what is essentially a non-refundable gamble.

hill [country unbound by the sacred prohibitions on carryin. arms, molesting game, fighting, etc.].

 THE BEUTIFUL GAME

THE BEUTIFUL GAME                                                                                                          Emmanuel

THE BEUTIFUL GAME

It makes a strong public commitment to invest in and improve the women’s game—not only as the right thing to do, but from the very practical standpoint of tapping into its massive revenue-generating potential

its content roadmap,

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So far, these things—new armor, guns, and exotic gear—seem pretty cool, with interesting new perks to make them worth chasing. But I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t already feeling daunted by yet another set of artifacts, upgrade nodes, and season pass rewards to rank up.\n\nThe villains du jour this time around are remnants of the Red Legion, a faction that now controls the Cabal and is loosely inspired by the Roman Empire. Empress Caiatl, daughter of year one raid boss Callus, wants you and the Vanguard to pledge allegiance to her, but of course Zavala, Osiris and co. aren’t having it. And so the two sides are at war (again), providing a new reason to shoot legions of lumbering space Goombas in search of new rewards and lore dumps.\n\nI’ve played around with the new content for about three hours now. So far most of my impressions are pretty positive, though I’m less hopeful about the larger existential questions swirling around Destiny 2 as it passes the halfway point of its fourth year. Here’s a quick rundown:\n\nThe launching area for Season of the Chosen is called the H.E.L.M., which is an acronym for Destiny gibberish that exited one ear shortly after entering the other. It’s a big space full of hallways and closed doors that seem likely to open up later in the season or sometime further down the road. In the meantime it’s kind of empty and lonely, though I do love the Star Trek: The Next Generation-style polished wood surrounding the war table.\n\nThe war table is where you grab seasonal bounties, upgrade seasonal nodes, and cash in seasonal currency for new seasonal engrams. It seems modeled after Variks’ upgrade nodes from Europa, which were nice and streamlined compared to seasons past.\n\nThe H.E.L.M. is also where the Prismatic Recaster, brought back from Season 11, is now located. Here you can refocus Umbral Engrams, which have also returned, transforming them into Season of the Chosen weapons and armor or into random gear from the rest of the game’s current loot pool. It appears to be currency-based, rather than upgrade-driven like the original version, which is a relief, since grinding that thing the first time around was painful enough.\n\nThe highlight of Season of the Chosen is the new Battlegrounds activity. It can be accessed from the surface on Nessus and Europa, or from the Strike Playlist after completing some initial story quests. You fight waves of enemies in a patrol area, then head deeper into one of the nearby underground caverns, fight more waves of enemies, and eventually end up at a Cabal boss in a small arena filled with still more waves of enemies. It’s short, varied, and a breezy way to burn through bounties—everything you’d want from a seasonal activity you might be running dozens of times a week.\n\nAt the end of a run you get your normal Strike Playlist rewards chest, followed by a second Battlegrounds chest you can smash open if you’ve charged up your Cabal hammer artifact. This Hammer is like Season of Opulence’s Chalice. You insert gold coins you earn throughout other activities in order to unlock the extra chest, and the way you upgrade the hammer will affect what rewards are inside. Opening treasure chests is fun. Smashing them is even more fun. Again, nothing new here, but this loot loop feels better optimized than many of Destiny 2’s past ones.\n\nThe Crow has finally left the Tangled Shore and is ready to hang. He’s even got a Phantom of the Opera mask Osiris makes him wear so that no one else in the Last City recognizes him and goes “Oh shit, you killed Cayde-6, aka Nathan Fillion.” It’s a nice touch. Hopefully he becomes more involved as the season progresses.\n\nThere’s a new exotic bow called Ticuu’s Divination that reminds me of Gears of War’s Torque Bow. Fire it from the hip and three homing shots will whip around corners to hone in on a target. Hold down and fire a precision shot at that target and it will explode with a detonation that is both satisfying and perfect for ripping through Cabal mobs. I don’t normally like bows, but I like this one. The rest of the new exotic gear looks similarly powerful, which is good for providing new loot to chase but also makes the older stuff I already have feel boring by comparison.\n\nThe new patch is live, and seasonal challenges have replaced weekly bounties. As someone who almost never finished weekly bounties, I’m looking forward to this change. In a game that feels increasingly transient, having season long challenges is both easier to keep track of and feels more substantial. Swords have been nerfed too, but I (and everyone else I see) are still using them just fine in Battlegrounds. Meanwhile, rocket launchers were buffed, but I’m still not sold on them. Bungie also boosted recoil for PC players ahead of the cross-play update planned in the near future. I imagine this will suck for PC players, but I don’t play on PC so I can’t say at the moment.\n\nSunsetting is more of a bummer than ever. As some of my favorite weapons get closer to their power cap (I’ll never let you go, Gnawing Hunger), Bungie’s current approach to loot sustainability and sandbox balancing feels more misguided than ever. Philosophical disagreements aside, it is still completely bonkers to me that players have to grind for new versions of re-issued weapons rather than being able to infuse up the older but otherwise identical versions. Also I got another Long Shadow sniper rifle in one of my first few Legendary drops this season, and it’s still at an older cap than the current season’s. Why is this loot game wasting my time with arbitrary expiration dates?\n\nThe Devil’s Lair and Fallen SABER strikes from Destiny 1 are back and I missed them. The more time marches on, the more I long for the comparatively simple and straightforward pleasures of the first game.\n\nThere’s a lot planned for Season of the Chosen according to its content roadmap, including new versions of Battlegrounds and a new strike based in the Last City called Proving Grounds. Based on my first few hours with what’s already live, Season 13 seems like it will have as many good reasons for Destiny players to keep playing Destiny as any previous season. But so far it hasn’t shown any signs of doing anything bold to change up the game’s underlying formula or how players interact with it. At times that’s enough for me, but increasingly I find myself hoping for something more, and disappointed when it never quite materializes. \n\n\n","articleSection":"Impressions","keywords":["destiny","windows games","multiplayer video games","cabal","heroes of the storm","grinding","video gaming","games","video games","first person shooters","role playing video games","playerunknowns battlegrounds"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","@context":"http://schema.org","name":"Kotaku","url":"https://kotaku.com","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://x.kinja-static.com/assets/images/logos/amp/logo-kotaku-amp.png"},"sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/kotaku","https://www.youtube.com/user/KotakuNYC","https://twitter.com/kotaku","https://instagram.com/kotakudotcom"]},"video":[]}Ethan GachTuesday 7:00PM411

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Yes, you do face difficult choices (moral) but you don't care about it. All you care are the reputation bars. So... Let's kill this guy, who cares if he is innocent, but this faction needs it or I'm dead. Sounds great on paper but to be honest... you just sit there and do whatever for these reputation bars. If you won't, then you lose

The press will tell you that "the concept" is great but the execution is bad. What should I tell you? The experience is shallow. The game is mediocre. But listen carefully, when a game is mediocre and can't even make you feel something then it's the worst kind of gaming. I will give it a 4 out of 10. You know, if this was a test in a school then this game should be marked D (someone answered a few questions, but overall missed the point). I understand that many people care about the "concept" of this game, but why if the experience is just... not here. I'm talking about the experience becaus We. The Revolution tried to be an actual experience. And it fails so badly.

the gameplay is meaningless and the devs just missed the point.

The filthy casuals write positive reviews on steam and it's clear that true gamers won't even try to review such a shallow game.

I'm grieving over the concept which was wasted. That's the feeling you get.

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