Im like 70 hours in to Elden Ring and its amazing, but nobody seems to want to talk about the actual problems with it, even if they’re problems that have existed forever in the series.

That “If Ubisoft made Elden Ring” meme is indicative of the entire fanbase and how insufferable they can be. These other devs talking…

I like the old relic model because it relies on game companies investing in making good games that come out when theyre done, instead of one mega company gobbling up every studio it can to play keep away from everyone else so they can force everyone else out and barf up as much “original content” as possible. Its why…

This is the most mild and evidence free accusation Ive ever seen. “All the developers” they interviewed said making disparaging comments was the norm, but the only specific examples in the article are an admittedly context free use of the word retarded and a founder saying “i need a woman”. That hardly paints an…

The existence of this article IS the pressure. What is the purpose of the complaints then? 

Its really on brand, I suppose, but I got through a few paragraphs of this review and was pleasantly surprised at how well written it is, but was also waiting for the rug to get pulled out and some IdPol gripe to get shoved in there somehow. You didnt disappoint. My expectation to eye-roll was met. Thank you. And, as…

So youre saying retention bonuses are... Designed with retention involved? You mean they're giving bonuses so people dont leave immediately and its a "gotcha" they can just get free money and split for nothing? K

I said this to a friend and he was convinced it’d be moronic of MS to turn away all the money COD makes on PS just to make it console exclusive. But MS spent basically the entire worth of Sony on this deal alone. They dont give a shit about the COD PlayStation revenue they could get by keeping it multi plat. Its…

This article basically says nothing, because there is nothing to say, because its been a few days since the acquisition was even announced. “This is a reminded that we still dont know” isnt a great basis for an article, but everyone is frothing at the mouth for information and Im sure this article will get a bunch of…

And when he was a centimeter away from death, i was almost certain the game would bullshit stomp me with a hammer from across the room just to shove my face in the dirt some more 

I one shotted a bunch of bosses/HVTs on heroic, including this one (hes very easy) but the Brute with the Grav Hammer during the Harbinger fight screamed broken encounter design to me. It seemed like there was no way anyone should ever intentionally make a Halo boss need you to spam grapplehook and double dash for an…

I really couldnt be bothered with the story in this game. It just droned on and on. The ending was really hard to get through. So many same-y corridors! So many whispering Cortana voices that I feel like Ive heard in like 3 Halo games now! Can we just be done having to give a shit about Cortana? There were points…

Was he supposed to just be trapped at a studio he didnt want to be at anymore doing projects he didnt want to do because people still needed to be employed? 

“How Sniper: Ghost Warrior Abstracts Head Trauma”

This movie was so bad. 

“For a long time, it seemed the trilogy’s most significant contribution to the cultural lexicon might have been the notion of being “redpilled,” a term mostly deployed by online conservatives and misogynists to describe when a person “saw the truth” and adopted some aspect of right-wing ideology or some tenet of the…

Itll bw interesting to see if this game can have a No Man’s Sky style turnaround with mkre fixes and stuff delivered over the course of time. I still wont touch NMS, because its core gameplay is still grinding and collecting stuff for the most part AND because they also lied to consumers, but Im down to see the people…

The performance and visual boosts on PS5 made me go back and actually stick with a bunch of PS4 exclusives I had jumped off of. It didn’t inherently change any systems in those games, but it just makes everything so much more... Tolerable? All those games have that Sony polish and great direction, but they just didnt…

“its insensitive to people that have been affected in real life”

I mean, he had the choice to just let his own truck roll, and then he swerved into a bunch of traffic and closed his eyes.

So it's still hate speech then?