“sexual harassment online in VR”

I mean, “back in the day” is admittedly a dramatic turn of phrase. It’s been sixteen years though and gaming years are a bit like dogs years...

I love me a good video game UI and this looks genuinely great. Much prefer clean and concise to cluttered and confusing.

No I agree. Standardized hardware would definitely help VR grow. They should be approached as nothing more than monitors with tracking sensors. Now its just a bunch of walled gardens. Oh you want to play that game? Sorry you need this VR headset and this one for that game. It’s like owning a TV that can only…

Playstation VR is already a cheaper alternative, and a pretty decent one at that. It has also managed to outsell both the Vive and Rift during one week of sales.

You know Valve doesn’t do threes.

Nice response. I present an artist’s rendition of their mind afterwards.

My knuckles are hair-free from all the dragging, so I use my blow-dryer to melt faces.

Well in some ways it is better than a review, because you get a live moment to moment experience of someone playing the game, and can watch for a longer period of time to assess various elements of the game. Reviews are a summary, summaries that can leave out information you might want, or focus on areas you don’t…

Aubrey Plaza.

I’m curious--what, exactly, do you find lacking?

The folks mocking the game? You’re going to get that anywhere you go—and while you might find it “classless,” I can suggest other, less Sisyphean pursuits than attempting to correct the various failings, foibles, and follies of Internet commentary relative to pop culture…

Hey that’s a shame, can we have L4D3 now please?

We live in a time when we don’t need to make blind purchases yet publishers still want to act like it’s the 80s and 90s.

The hype train is real. As much as people crow about NOT PREORDERING on every website, a lot of people do preorder. Publishers can just hand the game to some guy on Youtube who live streams it with absolutely no critical commentary and a lot of gamers think that is *better* than a review. Companies really have no…

And if we make them, they’ll pay dearly for these decisions. I barely buy any games without reading review coverage from several places to see if it’s worth $60. I definitely don’t preorder games anymore. We need to really, actually vote with our wallets. It’s the only thing they truly care about.

Even more reason to not preorder.

So then stop buying at release date. It’s not a hard concept.

I think a lot of fans today simply don’t see games media as a trustworthy source of information on whether or not they should play a game. Word of mouth from like-minded individuals plays a bit part, YouTubers obviously play a huge part.

When movie studios do this, people rightfully assume that the product is crap and that the producers are afraid that bad reviews of their shit movie will turn people away. I guess game studios have really grown up and learned from their elders.