Notice how I said “AAA gaming”?  That’s the important distinction.  We’re not talking about indie developers increasing the price of their games from 10 bucks to 20.  We’re talking about the companies that rake in hundreds of millions in profits increasing the price of their already over expensive games.  If you want…

I didn’t mean throughout the entire history of the gaming industry. But, around 2002 prices for video games settled around 60 dollars for a new release. Since then the gaming industry has done nothing but explode in popularity and turn into THE most profitable media based business.  The price hike is no different than…

I hate this growing idea that “if the lore gets in the way of the story you want to tell, ignore the lore”. That’s what fanfiction writers do for the 6 people that follow them. A good writer, heck a great writer knows how to make it work for them. They know how to mold the story they want to tell to work within the…

The price has remained the same, but the profits AAA developers/publishers bring in has increased exponentially. FAR more than the cost of development has increased. The price hike is unnecessary.

I finally got around to playing DA2 for the first time last year, and I think it doesn’t deserve the “we don’t talk about DA2" status it achieved.  I get why people were disappointed by it.  The scope of the game greatly minimized compared to Origins, but it also managed to tell a more focused story.  And since Hawke…

*IN the year 2021.

I was surprised to see Dead Island get a sequel in the first place. But it’s always nice to see a developer fail to learn what made their first game unfun to play. Yes ranged weapon use ammo because you have safety at range, it’s called balance. If you don’t want players relying on the same melee weapon the entire…

9S is your stereotypical Nice Guy™, and I will die on that hill.

Grint is currently in a show called Servant.  He’s easily the best thing about it.

2B - YAY.

Victim blaming is still victim blaming and there’s been a WHOLE LOT of “Rockstar deserved it” comments since the hack news was first reported.

I normally despise the people that go “This is a good game but a bad [X] game”, but in the case of Odyssey I’d make an exception.

Very true.  It seems like that comment about Bayek not being a “real assassin” doesn’t hold a lot of water.

I point to Black Flag as the point Ubisoft went “let’s see how many icons we can put on the map”. Also, and this may be nitpicky, but Edward Kenway technically wasn’t an Assassin either when his journey got started. I hated the under water stealth side objectives, and that’s a mandatory mechanic you have to deal with…

I don’t have a problem with video games. I have a problem with people who use video games as a justification for their shitty behavior. They act like death threats and sexual assault is just the price you have to pay to work in the industry. That you just need a “thicker skin” when you’re being harassed day in and day…

Another way Bob eschews the typical sitcom dad trope is he’s not an overgrown manchild that needs to be babysat by the overly stern wife. A wife that is only overly stern BECAUSE she’s married to someone who isn’t pulling his weight in the parenting department.

Yes, sex sells. BUT, there is a world of difference between a woman using sex to sell something, and a man taking advantage of a novice for the purposes of sexploitation. 

And yet these people continue to insist that gaming 16 hours a day since they were 8 years old hasn’t had a negative effect on how they view the world around them.

That’s a hard no on Matt Smith and Tom Holland. They’re both too baby faced and they both lack the necessary gravitas for a role like James Bond.  Smith’s role as The Doctor showed he can have swagger, but it’s a jovial swagger, which again, not fitting for Bond.