Just because one group of people may be offended by a particular theme in one game doesn’t mean that everyone is obligated to be equally offended by some other completely different theme in a different game.

Are you really suggesting the world is complicated and other people should be listened to, whilst making a extremely simplistic generalization of a huge swath of people who didn’t vote the way you wanted?

Sure, fuck the people who didn’t vote the way you wanted. Their opinion doesn’t matter. Isn’t that the mentality of authoritarianism?

I am a big fan of the kind of games Tomb Raider represents...

Maybe because the emulation community has been playing Dr. Mario and River City Random online for years. That’s really where so much of the criticism of official retro ports comes from these days; invariably the official ports are charging you money for a game you already owned to get an inferior version of features…

Yeah, Youtube has not been nearly forward-thinking enough about their growth strategies. They wanted to find a way to get people to pay for YT content, so they took the pre-internet cable TV approach of making over-produced “premium” versions of a handful of popular channels. For the customer, it feels like your money…

eh, crate puzzles aren’t predatory in the same way microtransactions are. Tons of puzzle-based games continue to include block/crate pushing because the trope works well. Gameplay design is based on what’s fun, not on what sounds like original writing. Classic gameplay like Tetris or Super Mario Bros doesn’t suddenly…

Yeah, they’re just sorry they got called out for it.

What a dumpster fire of a game title. What’s the sequel going to be called? Rise of the Shadow of the Retribution of the Tomb Raider: Infinite?

It seems like the N64's processing power was a bottleneck on what could be done visually with disc storage. They originally planned to make Ocarina way more combat-heavy with around 500 mo-capped sword animations stored on disc, but then they realized they couldn’t load the animations fast enough for smooth gameplay.…

Popular music in the early 2000's was sooooooooo terrible. So much of the impetus to dive into “retro” music during that time (like that of the Vice City soundtrack) was specifically because contemporary music of the period was total ass.

Therein lies the problem with games like this (see also: Super Indie Karts)... Indie games are by nature a very diverse scene, catering to all sorts of (often picky) tastes, which makes it super difficult to come up with a roster that pleases everyone. One could even argue it’s against the spirit of indie games to…

On the contrary, I’d say what satisfies both sides is insisting on divisive, unlegislatable rhetoric and alarmist histeria - all of which causes a political gridlock in which nothing is done.

Exactly, it blows my mind that more people don’t understand this:

Yeah, I agree and at this point would really like to see a Halo “campaign” with absolutely zero story; just a series of highly-replayable missions set ambiguously *some time* during the USNC/Covenant war, which scale well according to how many players are involved.

I still wonder who actually reads IGN these days? I don’t mean that as a dig, but as an honest question as to their demographic.

Would rather have co-op.

Yeah, then sometimes trying to explain your niche hobby to a “normie” is even more painful than just pretending to be interested in sports. It’s nice that they’re trying to be accommodating, but if they’re not really interested in the topic, and you’re not really interested in talking about it at the newbie level,…

Honestly the way traditional education expects you to just memorize and regurgitate information, people are practically taught to plagiarize. Maybe on a formal paper they have enough time to “remix” the text to avoid it, but on a test with essay questions and a time limit, it’s inevitable that kids will just spit out…

Is he though? Unfortunately at this juncture it seems the average gamer considers Alucard to be the iconic hero of Castlevania, and all those whip-wielding guys are just a blur of leather and random anglosaxon names.