Nice. Seen a few people here from the forum rate this game quite highly, so consider my interest peaked. I've started playing ME (remaster) recently so all for a game with a good narrative and interactions between members. Something to add to the Christmas wish list I think!

My personal GOTY so far is Metroid Dread, but that could all change within a few months with Halo Infinite (campaign) releasing soon and others like GoTG which I have not played.

If all (some) the crypto miners and scalpers just bought Nvidia stock. They would have ended up at same kind of profit.

Edit: Year to date return is 160% on the stock. So, math is pretty close. 

Yea it's a lot better than I would have expected. The trailers and such certainly didn't do it justice and I am glad I got it as a gift. I did hear a lot of good things about Metroid Dread so that's also a good choice. We will see how Halo ends up. Maybe 343 will finally redeem themselves but I am not gonna give them the benefit of doubt until I see the reviews.

Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if the cryto miners have been using their mining profits to buy Nvidia stock to get even more rich.

So they took them off Steam/GoG to get folks to buy the DE, and when refunds were demanded, they decide to give them back, but only on their always online shitty client?.

R* don't learn very fast do they?.

Even if someone buys them from that client, it's going to be tied to it and when those servers go offline again, you won't be able to play the  games. People tried to play RDR's SP mode and when the servers went offline, they couldn't even launch the game. 

They should just return the classics to Steam and stop making things worse. 

Only 1% of Let's Build a Zoo Sales Came From Epic Games Store
https://techraptor.net/gaming/news/only-1-of-lets-build-zoo-sales-came-from-epic-games-store
No More Robots' Mike Rose has revealed that only 1% of Let's Build a Zoo sales came from the Epic Games Store and that there were several issues with the game's launch on Steam.

Sounds like EGS continues to be shat for gamers and developers.

Imo graphics is plenty important and there have been several Halo games that looked quite good for their time. I am not saying it's more important than gameplay but for a flagship series that's on the box of a Series X, it should give me that wow factor in every front. There's no reason why we can't expect a franchise like Halo to deliver on both Graphics and Gameplay and there's no excuse for it to look as meh as it does.

Sure the gameplay could be excellent and if it does, then I'll commend it but 343 hasn't had a good track record so there's plenty of reason to be down on it as they lost the privilege of having the benefit of doubt a long time ago.

"Choose Wisely Bundle" with Steam keys for Heavy Rain & Beyond: Two Souls (and a few other games) for ~9 Euros:
https://www.humblebundle.com/games/choose-wisely-bundle

I already had these games in the Epic Store (and the PS3 and PS4 versions), but I want to try them on the Steam Deck in February... should be a good fit. With the voucher of that bundle I also got the Steam version of Detroit: Become Human for ~15 Euros.

And I bought the Ultimate Edition of "Life is Strange: True Colors" today, which will include the delayed remastered versions of the first two LiS games... so I have to make a lot of decisions in the next months.

Think a lot of us felt that way especially after Avengers. Unfortunately, the game might be overlooked thanks to that. But I do really like the Marvel Universe and stories so I'll be definitely giving the game a go. And Dread is pretty great, can get a bit unfair like an old NES game though worth checking out particularly if you like Metroidvanias and 2D games.

As for Halo yeah I'm cautiously optimistic 343 have yet to make a Halo campaign that really pulled me in (I played and completed 1-3 to Reach). I can say the multiplayer is decent from what I've played several matches and we do have some good first impressions from a few outlets from IGN. But yeah I think its best to wait for reviews.

It certainly doesn't look awful but to me, it doesn't look that great either. It just looks meh in my eyes. I have been seeing positive previews about the campaign but I generally wait for the final reviews to tell the entire story. The online is fun but the post you quoted was in regards to the campaign and not online as that I treat that as a separate thing entirely since the gameplay experience will change between online multiplayer and campaign.