PunchingWood

I'm no native English speaker, but "has been" just sounds like it was in the past and is present no longer.

So to me that sentence just implies that the "era" is over.

Probably only watched Monaco, Vegas and Singapore or something.

Some races someone builds a giant lead, or barely any overtakes happen. But overall this season has been a good one.

Is in*

Well at least they put effort in. The next races always feel like a dead crowd, to the point they might just as well not be there.

#NotMyUltimateGame

All kidding aside, I personally enjoyed Helldivers 2 most this year. I had a good feeling about the game before it launched, but it was nice to have it confirmed. I tried Black Myth, but it's really not my type of game, to me it just feels like yet another Souls-like game in a different theme, like so many others that came before in the past decade. Feels like HD2 added something new to the table as opposed to BMW.

That's a pretty insane clickbait title.

Maybe they just thought they found an abandoned Asian kid at the airport lol 😂

His review is certainly most accurate.

I only played like an hour and I encountered so many of the issues he mentioned in his review, on top of crashing to desktop when I first fired a gun in the open world. It also runs absolutely abysmal on high-end hardware, reminds me a lot of Starfield's debacle.

I had hoped the gargantuan day one patch would've fixed some things. But I have no idea what it did.

It's quite baffling how this game got 81% rating on Steam right now. If it were EA or Ubisoft this would've been an Overwhelmingly Negative game for sure. There also were like thousands of positive reviews barely minutes after launch.

Game needs at least several months more in the oven, and then I doubt it would be all fixed still. I wouldn't rate this beyond a 5/10 in its current state.

Some races seem in such a weird order, having to travel from Saudi Arabia to the US to Italy, and Spain to Canada to Austria.

Would've been better to give crew more rest, could've probably dropped like 3 or 4 races. Like I wouldn't mind if they dropped Qatar, Bahrain and Monaco or something.

Yeah the PSN thing wasn't something they had control over, so they got really fucked over by Sony on that one.

But later on they made constant changes and nerfs to fun weapons, which didn't help getting the game back on track. But with the recent updates they finally listened and made a great comeback. As for bugs, it's just annoying that every update we eiher get introduced to new ones, or old issuescome back that were previously fixed. Especially the game crashes were so frustrating that at some point I just stopped playing for a couple of months, they always seemed to happen at the most inconvenient times during a mission, often near the end after a long mission and gathering lots of samples.

Maybe they felt it would have pushed the Keanu introduction too deep into the game?

I was thinking that too. I think during development it might've shifted, since I think Keanu originally wasn't in the game, and they wanted to make him part of the game quite early on.

I would've liked if they had extended the Jackie chapter and moved the Silverhand arc to a later act. It would've meant that people would just be dropped in the game and let them explore the world carelessly before the story kicks up to next gear. But they probably realised that the game wasn't good enough to pull off the open-world part, so they decided to get on with the main story right off the start.