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I might be of the last generation that knows Foghorn Leghorn.

That's dedication though. If he stays it should be because of that effort, not because we want him. With that said, can't he get IP banned?

Why is this thread still pinned? Is this implicit permission to continue making fun of him?

Giving a speech on menswear today! Excited.

None of them are really like ER. I think that they're really different and I think that there's some validity to the apples v. oranges issue with my comparison, but I think it'd be pretty disingenuous to say that they aren't worth comparing at all. They're made by the same developer who had that same vision that making a game with a great story, challenging enemies, exploration, patience and learning in a specific gameplay loop would be great. And they all are. I think Elden Ring suffers from poorer environment design than in the other two I mentioned, but that the other two suffer from poorer exploration given the scope of ER. The strengths of ER influence its weaknesses, and vice-versa. I just prefer the other games. That's a more serious representation of my thoughts than just, "ER bad!"

There's an indie game that I've really enjoyed playing called En Garde! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1654660/En_Garde/ It's currently on sale, and I bought it at that sale price. I regret not buying it a full price. It's an awesome and short little game that I smiled through all the way to the end. It can be fun to play with a partner or close friends watching, and it's charming way to distract yourself if you're alone too. Please do check it out!

I am on my first playthrough of Elden Ring. This game is worse than DS3 and Sekiro. AMA.

I got a cheap digital point-and-shoot camera, and while it's great for some fun photography, it's secretly really, really good for taking pictures... in the dark... with the flash...

She Pho on my Dong till I scream A

Wall Street dudes are wearing upscale dress shirts with Patagonia vests. Rock what you own with purpose. Do not fall prey to reputation.

I'm sorry, I cannot help but emphasize and overemphasize how unbelievably easy it is to both avoid losing control and saving it once you've lost control. This is terrible driving.

Excellent points! However, have you considered:

My door at home has to be open at all times, and I'm not allowed to speak with an inside voice so that they can hear everything that I'm doing and saying and who I'm talking to. That's why I don't speak much, because I never got in the habit of doing so at home. God bless dorm life, but I go home for weekends and it can be tough having privacy. Not that I have anything to hide, but it's the thought that'd count, right?

@LantisListen to me, and listen well. The people over here are not equipped to teach you how to be a dad. Understand me well. The way to be a dad has nothing to do with providing and nurturing. Do not do any of that. Instead, make sure that the house is dead silent and your child is listening to music in their room, and then knock aggressively and enter the room without permission to see what they're up to, and mask it under the pretense that you were gonna call them for dinner. That is the best way to be a dad and no one here is ready to tell you that. Anything else is your choice, I guess. Congrats! 🎉

I can see your point, and actually, I think I'd turn over and agree with you. The truth is though, most people don't see it that way because they haven't had it articulated for them the way you have me. They will still compare them the way they do, and in keeping with that, I think both you and I are correct. It's true that you can leave a lot to the imagination and have it be just as compelling, but I, for one, would love to weave lightning in combat with how much of a dance Sekiro's systems feel like. I love the romance of combat in that game, and expanding on that with awesome skills and a banger story with even more meat and mystery than the first release is definitely possible in a potential prequel. If they do any more Sekiro content (which I doubt they will), it will probably be in the form of a sequel. Let's be real here. That's just how their games are. I don't know of any FromSoft prequels that aren't minor time-travel sections in their games.

I finished Jedi Survivor and was so disappointed that I went to my little brother's room and poured a glass of water on his head to feel something.

Those Sketchers have a lot of potential to go so hard. Go crazy, sir.

Just to be clear, I don't actually want to harm you LOL. Yeah, I know you're on Bluepoint's side. I think - like I said - they could take their learnings and apply it to Bloodborne porting. I've advanced far past High Wall, and I would put it barely ahead of Farron Keep. I absolutely hated the beautiful looking experience I had on the Wall. Undead Settlement was incredible. I loved that. I find that with DS3, I love all of the environments way more than DS1. Even though I disliked the Wall, it was still better than most environments in DS1. Blighttown, Izalith, Darkroot... It's almost all intolerably irritating and is only saved by the lore and combat. What a shit game. Still top 3 on my list! Bloodborne was most people's first Soulsborne experience and they've latched onto it as the peak of the series. I don't mind that being their opinion, but fan demand influences publishers. It won't happen, but suppose we lived in a world where all that outcrying led to a full FromSoft remake of the game and a subsequent port to PC. It would have been a terrible detraction from, say, efforts on a new IP or more Sekiro content. That only matters, though, if I can prove Bloodborne is overrated, which I guess I can't. I can say, though, that the overwhelming love for the game is often birthed through comparison, and I think people look at their first Soulsborne experience through rose-tinted glasses. Read above to see how I feel about Dark Souls 1, for instance. I hate so much about the game, and yet it's in my top 3 favorite games of all time. There is uniqueness inherent to the genre that lends itself well to defaulting to the top of all game lists. It's just that good. In keeping with that, I think that too many people think too highly of Bloodborne in comparison to obvious improvements that later games make to the formula. DS2 aside, all the Soulsborne games (incredibly) not only build on each other, but get better with time, on average. Your opinions on them are what dictate where they land in your rankings, but I don't think anyone can deny that the games get better with time. Sekiro is a better experience than DS1, but the non-linearity and relative freedom that DS1 offers would obviously make some people consider that to be the better game. With that in mind, since subjectivity is all that dictates the ranking of these games, I think FromSoft is better off doing what we both agree on, which is porting and upscaling Bloodborne. A Sekiro prequel would be fucking awesome though. The rise of Tomoe or at least her journey with Lord Takeru to sever his immortality would be an amazing story. Watching her gain power to the level she ultimately reached from Okami woman to Heavenly retainer would be great, culminating in her training Genichiro. The alternate story of her severing Takeru's immortality would do the standard Souls thing of telling stories as cycles, and could set up the lore for the first Sekiro really well. Remember, in Sekiro we did things with relatively little to go off of besides her and Takeru's notes. We have no idea how they discovered those steps, nor what they mean symbologically or within the broad scope of the story of that world. We could flesh out so much more regarding the Divine Realm and the Dragon! The Purification Ending also gives room to more content, like you say. It would actually be highly unique of a FromSoft game to tell a story that wasn't cyclical. Sekiro and Kuro being the ones to break the cycle of constant immortality severance by returning the Dragon to its birthplace would be amazing too, and could develop both characters really well. Both options are great, and ideally, we'd get both. EDIT: I just wanted to add that I play these games in offline mode. I can't stand having soapstones everywhere, I hate random invasions, I hate invading, I hate all of it. SINGLE PLAYER. IS. SINGLE PLAYER.

I want to harm you for saying this, but you are not incorrect. And yeah, I agree that any FromSoft content that isn't made by them would be iffy. Bluepoint did an amazing job with Demon's Souls, and I'm sure they'd improve with another remake. With that said, do we really need a remake for Bloodborne? The gap between when Demon's Souls came out and its remake was 11 years, the gap during which gaming tech evolved a lot. It's been nine years since Bloodborne came out, and I can't say that graphical improvements have come so far as to necessitate that. Arkham Knight came out at a similar time and is still one of the best looking games today. Upscale it a touch or retexture weak points in the game, sure, but I don't see it needing a whole remake. A port would do just fine, and I do think that Bluepoint can make that happen fairly simply. Even if its not them, FromSoft could task the world-famous B team with it. It's not like Armored Core is getting deep, romantic love at the moment. With that said, I think Bloodborne is overrated. It wouldn't be my next project if my daddy worked at FromSoft and chose what games to work on next. I'd work on Sekiro 2, either as a prequel or an immediate sequel to the first (totally not biased here). Dark Souls is over, so if they don't work on Sekiro 2, a new IP could be cool. Bloodborne is still amazing, but I don't see much room for them to make a follow up story, and they could easily dump the porting task to someone else and work on something new. I am currently playing through Dark Souls 3 for the first time, and holy shit, High Wall of Lothric is so poorly designed. Combat is super fun though. I just hate how the shield works in this game, coming right off a replay of DS1. My girlfriend is buying me Elden Ring soon. It was her birthday recently, and she was happy with the stuff I got her. As a reward, she has decided to bless me with more garbage. Thanks, babe.

As a side note, this tweet is deranged.

Imagine what that could do for America. ❌ Imagine what that could do for eastern Europe. ✅

Got myself some flared pants. 2 men have called me homophobic slurs. 5 women have asked for my number. The ratios speak for themselves. Get yourselves some flared pants.

Quake Remake incoming! Been playing The Finals and Rainbow 6 Siege lately. Very fun!

It was a really fun video. It's a pretty good look at what the state of the election should be. Thanks for linking it to me, @Sonichuman

Link in DM?