And then he stands around during all of the cutscenes, patiently waiting for them to finish speaking. It's just really funny to me how there's this fanfiction in people's heads about this game.
For the longest time I heard that the Doom 2016 doomguy punches the monitor at the start because 'he doesn't care about the story' or something to that effect, but then I played it and... no? He does it because he's angry at that Hayden dude.
I remember when 'edge' used to mean something was daring or cutting edge (I still use it this way), but nowadays it seems to be used exclusively as a pejorative? It's just a dismissive 'how dare this art push boundaries'. Quite annoying, tbh.
My hottest gaming take is that I actually dislike PC game save systems where you can just save/load wherever and whenever. It feels sort of like the equivalent of leaving a debug feature in a game, except it’s extremely normalized