Yeah, shit’s baffling. Even gamers are not adopting VR beyond a niche level, but somehow FB thinks putting a Zuckerberg mii into a VR Chat knockoff will convince normies to spend 8 hours a day with an Oculus on their face.

You’re not a real Roman senator if you’re not sending a mob of your slaves to kill someone for passing a law to break up your plantations.

Imagine if you could browse Steam and simply right click>save to play any game you want without paying. That would be a HUGE economic asset to developers and publishers trying to profit from the games they make.

This actually seems to be the default outcome when an industry veteran leaves his big AAA studio to go indie. Think of Inafune with Comcept, Cliffy B with Bosskey, Christian Allen with Serellan, John Romero’s entire history outside of Id, and so forth. It’s a miracle Igarashi finally managed to ship Bloodstained…

I often wonder how ugly you could make a piece of NFT art and still sell it. Some of these people will outright admit it’s not about the art, just the token. So will they buy if I mint, say, 365 “unique” photos of human excrement? Where’s the line between that and bad furry art?

Yeah it’s pretty ridiculous; Halo 3 Cortana was already losing the thread, but Halo 4 completely dropped the act and went full-on porn parody.

Eh, in a team game mode it’s not a “dick move” to have better teamwork via actually using comms. Arguably it’s the “dick move” to play team games FFA style with no mic just hoping to win by luck.

Solo complaining about teamwork is a natural consequence of 2021 game design wherein solo players are baited into team games solely to complete battlepass challenges.

I would agree that every Halo has had the same inconsistency with regards to tone and immersion. It wants to sell you a self-serious space opera creation myth in the same breath as it pits you against an army of Claptraps.

Yeah IMO the episodic first half of Netflix Bebop was reasonably decent and what really sunk it was the final triple strike of over-explanatory flashback arc, followed by Game of Thrones Season 8 plot twist, followed by cringe Ed reveal.

I think the “what if” is just Twilight Princess.

How do you propose we compensate artists for their work fairly? Because if your answer is the current system then you are full of shit.

If it pisses people off to merely suggest that one person might not think a Metroid title is the best metroidvania game of the year, the problem isn’t the headline. That’s just a clear cut case of Metroid fans having thin skin.

I like how the first dialog in the trailer is:

All the other MOBA-inspired, team-centric hero shooters from 2015-2017 crashed and burned so unceremoniously that no one remembers them now. What’s proven a lot more sustainable is sprinkling hero shooter elements into other genres like battle royale (Apex) or tactical shooter (Valorant, Siege).

I’d say the practical necessity of an Overwatch sequel is based on three things:

Yeah, I’ve watched the trailer a few times trying to get into it, and there are actually a few characters (the old guy, the centaur, the bubblehead child) that look really good up close in spite of the motion graphics, but the others look REALLY jank.

Yeah, I was never that enamored of Martinet’s Mario. As someone who grew up with Lou Albano being the voice of Mario, I remember hearing Martinet for the first time when N64 demo units hit the floor of Best Buy, and thinking it sounded silly and out of place. By the time I owned Mario Kart 64 where he talks non-stop,…

It really seems like all of your points are the ones based on half-truths and things that don’t matter.

It took me a few paragraphs to confirm that this was not a review of an actual indie FMV game set at a ren faire.