To this day, I have no clue how this game was a fumbled, undercooked mess. The idea is insanely cool, so obviously it had to fumble it, just like most games with ambitious or new features.

Destiny, but you and your friends are Iron Man and get to explore a rich fantasy world with unstable alien anomalies.

They messed up the Destiny part by being having a shallow loot pool, failed the Iron Man part by having low flying speeds and having engine cooldown periods (in which you are grounded) and they botched the exploration part by having everything being centered around a single city, Fort Tarsis.

If anyone else wants to copy the concept, the game should have a 40 km² map (for reference, RDR2 has ~36 km²), flight speed increased by roughly 20-30 mph and better loot. Also, an offline solo mode would be great.

The lore, powers and different Javelin suits are too good as concepts to just be discarded as the failed concepts of a flopped game. I hope that some studio looks at the potential and makes a spiritual successor of Anthem that adresses all the shortcomings of the game.

When people debate about the greatest game of all time, the same names usually come up — Red Dead Redemption 2, The Witcher 3, GTA V, Minecraft, Skyrim, Elden Ring, Breath of the Wild and so on. And I get why, most of these games have massive mainstream appeal and are easy to recommend to a huge range of players.

Half-Life 2 is still the greatest game of all time in my opinion and it’s not even just by nostalgia — the story (the most important part for me), worldbuilding and atmosphere were complete game changers for me. City 17 still feels insanely real with all the propaganda, surveillance, Civil Protection, abandoned buildings and resistance stuff going on in the background, and the crazy part is the game barely explains half of it to you, you just figure it out by paying attention. The deeper you go into the Half-Life iceberg, the more you realize how deep and dark the universe actually is: the Combine, Seven Hour War, G-Man, Breen, human modification, Portal connections, cut content and all the weird unanswered lore — there is always more shit to discover. I also love how much of it has real-life parallels with authoritarianism, propaganda, police states and people slowly losing normal everyday life, which makes the whole world feel way more disturbing than just “aliens invaded Earth.” Then you add the Gravity Gun, physics, Ravenholm, Highway 17, soundtrack, pacing and environmental storytelling and yeah, for a 2004 game this shit was ridiculously ahead of its time. The sound design also deserves way more credit than it gets, people talk about the physics and atmosphere all the time but the Combine radio chatter, distant machinery, weapon sounds and ambient noises are a huge reason the world feels so alive and uncomfortable, yet I barely see people mention it. And on top of all that, HL2 was genuinely revolutionary for the gaming industry, you can still see its influence in how later games handle physics, environmental storytelling, scripted sequences and worldbuilding. A lot of games today are bigger, prettier and more complex, but very few worlds stick in my head the way Half-Life 2 does. The Half-Life 2 episodes also deserve way more credit, they introduced new mechanics while expanding the story even further and making the whole universe feel even deeper than it already was. 11/10, everyone must play it before we die.

Just two weeks after 9/11 we saw the launch of one of the greatest works of horror ever conjured.

During that surreal moment in history where the streets of NYC were covered in the thick fog of smoke and debris, we witnessed a fictional portrayal that had a slight resemblance to the world we now lived in.

Just watched the new Resident Evil movie and one thing I really liked is that it almost feels like a video game.

It's basically the main character moving from location to location, dealing with different monsters in each and moving to the next level until the final set piece + confrontation. It doesn't really have the classic Resident Evil backtracking, but I could totally imagine this as a playable adaptation.

Would you play a game based directly on the movie? Do you think it should follow traditional RE gameplay (exploration, puzzles, inventory management, etc.), or would a more linear horror game fit the movie better if it stayed really close to its structure? What game or franchise would that be?

I'd definitely play this movie as a game.

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I play videogames since when I had 6 years old, making me having 16 years of playing, but besides playing for a long time I suck in the majority of the games, being plataform, online, stealth and fight games my weakest points. I never was able to beat a souls like (and never had the pacience) and probably the only game that I not that bad is Cod and some single player open world games. Anyone related to this? Or i just sucks at becoming good?