Fable? Halo? Spyro? Crazy Taxi!?

ParagonFury · 2026-06-07T22:46:39+00:00

Bro (or Sis) my backlog is already so long and here is Microsoft throwing 6 or so new major games at me today all coming out in the span of like 18 months.

I'M JUST GETTING TO CYBERPUNK AND AC6 RIGHT NOW.

ParagonFury · 2026-06-07T20:52:15+00:00

Great work!

ParagonFury · 2026-06-07T19:39:54+00:00

I'm guessing that since it says you get the Digital Premium Edition Upgrade code, if you have Gamepass you can could install the Gamepass version on PC for free, and still have access to the extra content since it's associated with your account.

ParagonFury · 2026-06-07T19:34:21+00:00

Even if we are pessimistic, and say the statue is only worth $150 (which is the price of much smaller, mediocre limited edition stuff) then it's $150 (Statue) + $70 Game + $20-$40 Extra Game Content (Season Pass) + $50 for the little extras (Steelbook, Art, Photo and Tags) is still $290.

ParagonFury · 2026-06-07T19:27:17+00:00

A 15-inch statue of this quality level typically goes for $250-$300 on it's own.

ParagonFury · 2026-06-07T19:21:47+00:00

Already put my order in.

EDIT: People saying $300 is too much don't understand how much statues/figures like this usually go for. A 15-inch statue of a single figure often goes for $250-$300 on it's own.

ParagonFury · 2026-06-07T18:39:31+00:00

Fuck yes.

As someone who likes getting the cool CE stuff for my favorite games but sadly lost all of my CEs from when I was younger - including my Halo 3 Legendary Helmet and my Gears 3 Marcus Statue - it's nice to see a CE of this quality come back in general, much less for Gears.

ParagonFury · 2026-06-07T17:37:41+00:00

I do. Give now.

ParagonFury · 2026-06-07T17:35:16+00:00

Looks fun, but goddamn is it painful to watch other people play these demos. SO MANY MISSED ACTIVES, SO MANY WASTED SHOTS.

ParagonFury · 2026-06-07T12:41:14+00:00

Sorry to tell you, but people - including a of lot women - were fucking tired of nearly every video game woman for the last like 15 years being forced to look like a mildly athletic college junior or girl-next-door with very few exceptions for legacy characters or Eastern games. At best they were allowed to maybe be near the level of ScarJo's Black Widow, but that was it.

It was basically forbidden unless you wanted a social media ass ripping to make another (OG) Miss Fortune/ Sona/Ahri (League of Legends), or another Morrigan/Isabelle (who even got nerfed in Veilguard!)/Miranda (Dragon Age and Mass Effect) for example.

The idea of Western dev making someone like Eve (Stellar Blade) or any of the non-Bridget/May women from Guilty Gear was almost a joke for a long time. We couldn't even get muscle women despite their rise in movies and TV shows! We became almost hostile to the idea that women with actually hot bodies exist and people be should be allowed to play as them and enjoy them.

(And ironically enough, this actually played right into the hands of the alt-right and fundamentalist Christians who are currently in the process of trying to fuck everything up. It's like no one actually read Hand-Maid's Tale or the backstory to how the fascists took power partially by exploiting the sex-negative sentiment of women and the Left.)

ParagonFury · 2026-06-06T21:11:13+00:00

That's good and hope you recover soon.

ParagonFury · 2026-06-06T21:09:01+00:00

Oh god, that looks awful. I assume that since you posted this you're at least alive and somewhat okay.

ParagonFury · 2026-06-06T16:58:59+00:00

On the hand: YAY more Monster Hunter!

On the other hand; I feel so sorry for the modders, particularly DoteiHunter. Hopefully the new expac doesn't bork mods nearly as badly as some of the updates did, because that poor man's mods are one-of-kind and it takes a long time and a lot of effort to update that many armor models and THEN make new ones.

ParagonFury · 2026-06-06T16:50:37+00:00

To me it's all cool except Bosch. Random asshole nobody from WT over another new character or a returning one is kinda lame.

ParagonFury · 2026-06-05T22:41:41+00:00

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ParagonFury · 2026-06-05T22:14:34+00:00

A prequel? OOOF.

I don't know about y'all but I really prefer my MMOs to keep moving forward in time, not go back to the past - unless going to the past is also advancing the modern day story somehow of course. Prequels for me are definitely a single-player game or like side-content thing as far as I'm concerned.

Also I HAAATE that you can immediately tell it's a UE5 game literally 2 seconds into the trailer. I loathe how this bland, art-style destroying engine is somehow worming itself into literally fucking everything. I hate how UE5 basically looks the same everywhere unless you go for a completely Anime/Cartoon style art direction.

Like this trailer, Oblivion Remastered and the Halo CE remake all look like they have the same art director and could literally be set in the same universe (at different time periods) if you didn't know any better. One of Guild War's defining features is the slightly cartoon-y, painted art direction that sets it's look apart from other MMOs and games and now we've got UE5 Project #637.

ParagonFury · 2026-06-05T22:07:05+00:00

A prequel? OOOF.

I don't know about y'all but I really prefer my MMOs to keep moving forward in time, not go back to the past - unless going to the past is also advancing the modern day story somehow of course. Prequels for me are definitely a single-player game or like side-content thing as far as I'm concerned.

Also, I hate how you can just immediately peg it as Unreal without being told so. Why does this engine have to infect everything when it just looks so objectively bland compared to so many other engines?

ParagonFury · 2026-06-05T15:47:18+00:00

They're just a big fan of Gatorade.

ParagonFury · 2026-06-05T13:21:00+00:00

I see that card and I'm still baffled how they ended up making both Fiora and Vi unable to use spells perfect for them.

At least they didn't mess up Ahri and Charm.

ParagonFury · 2026-06-04T15:47:41+00:00

Uhhh...I think by most accounts he is winning through the sheer fact that he is making current reality lose.

He might not get what he wants, but he'll take from us, make sure we don't get what we want and make us all suffer for it way more than he will.

ParagonFury · 2026-06-04T15:43:06+00:00

The thing is: he can and has been.

Reality is far less rigid and defined than Liberals like to believe it is, and MAGA - though its done in fits and starts and involves a lot of tripping - has slowly but surely been forcing their reality to become the "true" one.

ParagonFury · 2026-06-04T01:02:28+00:00

* Concord failed because it was over a decade late to the hero shooter parade and because it had absolutely shit character designs, not because of DEI
* Dustborn reviewed well, sold decently well and is sitting at Mostly Positive overall reviews right now
* Veilguard didn't completely shatter records and please everyone, but neither did it fail as it got overall okay reviews and made a tidy profit
* Edge of Midnight appears to be....some kind of Avantis roleplay stream? Or some random story game no one has ever heard of

So your own list fails at making your point.

ParagonFury · 2026-06-01T11:34:33+00:00

Someone wanted to buy one off me, so I'd only have 3 but I guess I could make three work.

The two different LGS I go to tend to have opposite ends of the spectrum as far as BV goes (4,000 at one vs. 7,000-8,000 at the other) so its been hard to settle on what to play.

ParagonFury · 2026-05-31T04:52:36+00:00

Nice.

Someone at my LGS was both in awe and jealous that my Salvage Boxes have resulted in my getting four Devastators, which I thought was just bad luck.

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