There’s definitely a learning curve to it. I started just by spraying some water to get a feel for how it works, then practiced painting some plastic spoons. There are plenty of tutorial vids you can find to get started and to use whatever brand(s) of paint you decide on.
You can be masculine and also play female characters in games.
I uninstalled Epic Online Services right after installing the game, and the only difference now is I get a warning screen that it’s not installed whenever I start the game up. It’s still BS that I should have to manually uninstall something I never wanted, though.
Overall, the quality was good. I did notice a couple small gaps between pieces and 1 or 2 mistakes in the manual, but didn’t run into any fitting issues. The build experience was good, and also different for me. The kit comes with a prebuilt die cast frame, so most of the building aside form the weapons and backpack is putting armor on the frame. The frame is both a blessing and a curse when it comes to posing. It helps negate the added weight from the backpack, so it won’t fall over backwards, but also the hips can have trouble supporting it in some dynamic poses. The stand was included, so it’s easy enough to mount it and use whatever pose you want.
It’s roughly halfway between a MG and PG in size. I posted a pic in another comment with HG Gramps next to it for a sense of scale.
HG Gramps for scale
Counterpoints:
Describing the graphics/art style as broken or ugly is highly subjective. A lot of WoW players like the art style as it is. I would’ve preferred the graphics got updated when I played, but it is what it is.
Updating assets and textures takes art resources, which means taking designers off of working on new projects. Blizzard’s allocation of resources is another discussion entirely, though.
A lot of WoW players play WoW and nothing else, and a lot of them play on hardware that’s barely able to run the game. Check the forums whenever the system requirements get updated with new expansions and see all the people complaining about not being able to afford new hardware. Now, Blizzard definitely shouldn’t support everyone’s dinosaur PCs forever, but they risk cutting off portions of their playerbase whenever they raise the system requirements, so I’m sure that’s taken into account.
WoW’s engine is built in-house and OLD, and started as a heavily modded Warcraft 3 engine. They most likely face significant challenges whenever they want to add or update anything, including graphics.
Note: Take my post with a grain of salt, as I stopped playing in 2018 and haven’t been playing the closest attention since.
It’s mostly noticeable in the menus for BL2. Navigating with a mouse is kinda jank, where it is much snappier when using keys.
About that… those Labor Day sales were a bit rough on my wallet.
That’s unfortunate to hear about the stock. I went to the one in Chicago, and was able to get everything I wanted.
That’s unfortunate. I was kinda looking forward to this one.
Sadly, clickbait > actual information
Nice! I have that one in my backlog.
Anthem.
I loved the premise and the gameplay. I’m disappointed (but understand why) EA didn’t greenlight the project to revamp the game.
This game is a prime example why I avoid early access games. I liked the premise and aesthetic, but they had a rough start. Looks like they’re going in a good direction and I’m looking forward to see what they do next.
There are mountains of great games out there and no one has the time to play them all.
It will be releasing on Steam and Xbox on the same day.
A lot of these Playstation trailers are borderline misleading. I don’t expect Sony to advertise for other platforms, but the way they present things make it look like a PS5 exclusive.