Q&A: November 4th, 2020

DaCody Asks
With all of the controversy surrounding Halo and Infinite; What is the one thing they can announce that will make you say "Now this game is worth it!"?

That's hard to answer, because I think 343's problem for the last couple years is they've been sacrificing too many portions of the community in the name of focusing their game. This is going to sound really mean spirited and I apologize, but a complete game at launch is what would grab my attention.

Halo 5 was missing Forge and Big Team Battle at launch. Halo 4 was missing all of the social features that held Halo 3 together. Master Chief Collection was... well, the Master Chief Collection.

At this point, launching a game that's complete from day one rather than spending 8 months being patched into oblivion, I'd consider it a notable step up.

Sadly, I'm not confident that will be the case.

Kyle Dieleman Asks
Have you ever considered doing a years later on Modern Warfare 2?

Absolutely! This year, I was debating whether or not to cover Modern Warfare 2, World at War, or MW 2019, however, each game comes with their own challenges in terms of coverage, and I've got multiple other big projects in store for the future.

However, next year, I think I'm going to at least cover World at War or Modern Warfare 2, and I'm leaning towards MW2 because I've talked about the game before and are curious myself what my final opinion of it would be when tested, and I haven't really gotten back to Zombies in years; feel like I'd need to work with someone else far more versed in Treyarch's co-op mode than I am.

MannishGambino Asks
I know you see something about halo every 5 seconds but hear me out: would you consider making a video about the progress and current state of The Master Chief Collection and how you feel about it currently? New progress incentives, the porting of every pre Halo 5 game, the quality of retouching and performance, and the moves to PC + live updating?

I've got my criticisms of Master Chief Collection's PC release, and I might cover those someday, though I doubt it'd be a long video, and honestly, I haven't really been following MCC's progress. I just hop on when a game releases and binge it for a few days.

I'll say right here one of MCC's biggest annoyances is that almost every game runs optimally on different settings, at least for me. Some games run best at locked 60fps and vsync, others no vsync, sometimes unlimited, etc.

It's annoying having to switch settings at the start of each match rather than kicking back and relaxing.

OzarkTempses Asks
What is the one thing that instantly makes you lose hope in an upcoming game?

Cover systems.

Looting.

Leveling.

You can probably guess from this what game I'm not excited about this year.

Dim Asks
feet?

Nope.

Ethan McArthur Asks
Thoughts on CDPR lying to us in April about not delaying the game just so they can release on next gen?

Based on this most recent delay, I doubt that previous one was intentional but just coming down to poor management. I don't see a reason why Cyberpunk wouldn't generate excitement for Next-Gen consoles if it released in April as intended, didn't stop GTA5 from being beyond profitable.

Parker Brown Asks
If a Triple-A studio in the west were to make a game based on Black Lagoon, who would you want to direct/make the game and why?

It's really tempting to just post my Design Doc for it and end this here. Must it be in the hands of someone else, I'd honestly give it to Remedy. I doubt they'd be into it as they already did Max Payne years ago, but in my mind, a Black Lagoon game should be Max Payne meets Devil May Cry, and I think that studio has both the gameplay and writing talent to pull that off.