My chilies are ripening and I'm looking forward to trying out some new hotsauce recipes.
Sadly, due to an aphid infestation killing all the new flowers, it'll be the only harvest this year.
But with a bit of luck, the plants will survive the winter and bare fruit again next year.
Yep, all those arguments about Bethesda sucking at everything. The response used to be that they're really good at environmental storytelling. But this is what it amounted to... Bathroom Skeletons in funny poses.
Don't feel bad for them. Firewalk Studios may only have Concord to it's name, but the Devs are all from Bungie and Activision. That should already ring some alarm bells.
They knew exactly what they were doing. They are the ones that sold the idea of Concord to Sony. For once I doubt Sony had to push for any of the bad decisions.
They didn't waste $100 mill+ and 8 years development time on a random passion project. This was designed for a single reason, to make money in ridiculous amounts. To squeeze every penny out of kids and their parents.
I can't feel bad for anyone that worked on something like that when it fails.
Only after I started doing it myself did I realize how much our parents/older siblings were messing with us by mispronoucing the shit we cared about as kids.
Well, the Dev Studio is made up of Bungie and Activision crew.
So yeah, I don't think anyone got their arm twisted too hard. Concord seems very much in their wheelhouse. A rip-off live-service game with massive mtx potential.
No no, I just see "Underrated" used a lot about things that really aren't underrated. It's become a bit of a pet peeve for me.
(Like when someone calls REM an underrated band. Like, they are world renowned. They're just old and broken up.)
And I'm also pointing out a likely reason for them not being talked about as much as other titles in the same genre. Aside from going through the game with different roles, the first game just doesn't have a lot of replay value. Not a lot of 'Choice & Consequence' or things to discover. There's your Char and what God you choose to side with in the end. That's kinda it.
That's what Tolkien told us anyway.