Mr_Grey

There's some minor collusion between the Skulls and the Malta Group, so there's some precedent for some of the Skulls to wear dark blue fatigues.

And they're not a death cult... They just have death-inspired themes. They're drug dealers, weapons traffickers, rioters and general thugs. The Hellions are actually demon worshippers, though.

Honestly, I don't know what to think about these outfits. I like the direction, in that I like that NPCs are starting to wear outfits in the same way our characters wear outfits. These costumes, however, are looking more like placeholders than actual costumes. They look incomplete, lacking the iconography and "wear" of the original appearances.

The bright colors are worrying, with crisp, clean, tidy outfits for a group of gritty, violent malcontents whose first answer to every problem is "****ing kill it!"

I can understand the folks who don't like these costumes. They don't have the right feel. They don't seem like Skulls outfits. They look like the gang just hijacked a bunch of Tommy Hilfiger and Hot Topic trucks, threw on the clothes inside, and went "Holy crap! My girlfriend thinks I'm Edward!"

Marrowsnap: "Oh, dear God, NO!"

It happens, sometimes. Sometimes the Strawman has a point.

And sometimes he's got the lore exactly right. Say what you will about Venture's opinions of the game, he's usually spot-on when it comes to the lore.

No game is designed like that. Even "Sandbox" games have tasks that get assigned to you, rigid story structures that they demand you follow, and bizarre, infuriating mechanics that leave players rolling their eyes and looking for something else.Take the ever-classic Grand Theft Auto series, for example. Want to follow the main story through to completion? Nope. It won't progress past a certain point until a certain sidequest contact has been brought up to speed... Or maybe you don't want to deal with the main quest... Too bad, because if you want to complete these sidequest arcs, you're going to need to complete some more of the main quest... Now get a hold of our latest, unwieldy-control mechanism minigame and get it perfectly right, paddle jockey, or you're going to be stuck on this quest for a long, LONG time.Don't want to do any of that? Well, have fun shooting the Hell out of this little chunk of the overall map we placed you in. You can't unlock the rest of the city until you play our dancing minigame and ace it.Enjoy, damn it! We put in the time to design this crap because our marketing department said this is what kids want to play!----------As you can tell, I'm not a fan of the series. But then, I'm not a fan of the illusory concept of "sandboxing." Sandbox implies some sort of ruleless, structureless system, where the story or events are influenced by your actions.The fact of the matter is that games can't do that. There is only one environment like that, and that's Real Life (rated "M" for "Mature"), and if that's enough for anybody, then they're not here.

Last time I made an arc featuring Nemesis gas it was basically me poking fun at the similarities between Nemesis gas from their snipers and Rikti Monkeys exploding into gas clouds upon death. It basically boiled down to saying that Nemesis gas is Rikti Monkey poo.