Simon Kinberg? Writer of X-Men the Last Stand, Fant4stic, X-Men Apocalypse and Dark Phoenix? That Simon Kinberg?

Hard pass.

Hasn't SQ42 already had multiple release date announcements? This is a joke, right?

Either people didn't get your sarcasm or they didn't like it. Not sure which is worse.

Honestly I'm expecting a hot steaming pile of garbage given their trajectory. Just another fantasy veneer on the same tired Bethesda formula rife with bugs. My expectations are so low, in fact, my plan is to wait for a good sale to get it, or until I hear that it's released in a playable state but still post release.

This is a fan-made mod.

The answer is racism.

My feeling is that I've fallen off the mcu wagon. I watched quantumania and secret invasion. I didn't dislike Quantumania nearly as much as seemingly everyone else; I thought it was fine. Secret Invasion, however, was the biggest disappointment I've experienced in visual media since Rise of Skywalker (without which the bar would've been Attack of the Clones).

The only other things I'm interested in are Loki season 2 and Echo, but D+ doubled their price and so I canceled. C'est la vie, I guess.

What am I missing here?

I've never heard the term "immersive sim" before, but if Half- Life, Deus Ex and Thief are examples, then sign me up.

Uhh.. today's AAA studios have THOUSANDS of employees, hundreds of millions of dollars in budgets, and huge IPs on which to draw. Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Assassin's Creed, Diablo, Warcraft, Mass Effect, Dragon Age... these studios have VASTLY larger resources than Larian. Like, an order of magnitude larger. This is gaslighting and whining. I'm not having it. Do better, AAA devs. Do a lot better.

I'm sure that, while 17k may be mathematically and technically true, they're going to be virtually indistinguishable. I'm pretty hyped for the game but I also don't care for the obviously clickbait claim.