I’m not even a fan of rogue-likes or lites (don’t hate them, but don’t really play them either), but you guys (Ethan and comment section) got me interested. Gonna check it out.

Perhaps. I have never been a big fan of the output of most of the companies Microsoft absorbed. I am interested in Indiana Jones because, well, I like games that are about having an adventure, but that’s not enough for me to be all “whooh!” when Microsoft suddenly decides to publish to Sony consoles too.

So, any news on the dance scene with 4 other MC look alikes whose singing sounds like every single KPOP idol group ever? Because there is no way that that necktie was a conscious “THIS is what she needs for intense melee combat” decision.

Would be a nice plottwist though. The whole “oh no, evil thing took over, GO KILL” is such a tired trope. Bonus tropy points if lots of those evil things are tentacle monsters of some kind.

Ooh, gimme a source. I didn’t know that, but now I wanna know more.

Incels, obviously.

For me it was cancer. I was also mysteriously wearing a spiderman costume.

Disagree with you there. Final Fantasy XV is not my favorite Final Fantasy game ever but the first part was quite a lot of fun I think even on earlier versions. Certainly, the latter half sucks quite a bit and I didn’t like the part they changed the gameplay entirely to fit narrative reasons, making all the skills I…

Ooooh, that Fallout. I thought I missed some Amazon Prime drama, like perhaps their services screwed over customers big-time.

MONEY.

Yeah, yeah. Dear Suicide Squad bossman: if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.

Wii was entirely sold on motion control. WiiU instead focused on a giant pad. Certainly, it had motion control, but that was just as big a feature of the WiiU as motion control is in the Switch and the 3DS; just something added because that is what Nintendo does now. Basically, it’s only a Wii in name, that’s it.

“critics and audiences had largely soured”

I was more talking about actual features and shit like that, where a game promised the worlds, and delivered a third world country ghetto instead. Like No Man’s Sky, which was released with half of the promised features missing. Or Cyberpunk, which was so broken initially it got pulled from the playstation store.

Promi…

I don’t. For one, the original Cyberpunk 2077 was a massive clusterfuck of broken promises and bugs. It generated so much buzz purely on the negative side that it stayed in the discourse. Improving and fixing the game had value because of this negative buzz, because even the people not initially interested in the game…

“I mean, you could argue ‘Does independent mean the budget of the game?”

Eh, not interested, even considering the fact that those who own the PS4 game can get it for 10 bucks. I liked part 2, but the game went on for way too long, and by the time the game came with the last act I was thoroughly done with it.

Are you sure you are not talking about another game? Star Ocean 2 only had some voice lines in battles, but no actual voice acting anywhere else. And sure, the voice lines in battles weren’t the stuff of legend, but it wasn’t that horrendous either; just par for the course for the time.

Call me jaded, but I am gonna call bullshit until we hear some actual stories from the normal contract workers. CD Project Red has said before they totes don’t have crunch, only to be proven wrong afterwards.

Besides, there are plenty of ways in which companies like CD Project Red can technically claim they don’t have…

Small nitpick and likely something people have already picked up on, but...