First Inaugural 'What Are You Playing This Month' thread

[Ben]

was was your favorite joke? was it when they said boner?

my complaint about returning characters was not that the characters were boring and therefore even more so boring, my complaint is that youre on the second game and already relying on references/nostalgia instead of just making a new package free of old shit

i don't see why returning characters is such a big red flag or means theyre 'relying' on it

no one cared about those characters in the first game anyway theyre just faceless goons

because it's lazy. really, really lazy

they started to make a new story. new characters, new stuff. they could have kept going but didnt? youre right, they are faceless and BL2 could have just had even more brand new characters to fill the roles that the old characters did. why not?

i dont believe it to be too cynical to say, because it's something people are familiar with and recognize. and that's lazy. if your brain is wired to meme-status and cannot handle new information (and thus you rely on repeated stimulation of the same thing over and over) then go watch the new alvin and the chipmunks movie