The quest with Arn is the moment I quit the game and quietly uninstalled it. I wanted to give the developers of the game a chance to see if they could get away from the tarnish of JK Rowling and do the right thing and instead we got this white savior colonialist fantasy. I cannot fathom why they decided to make goblin…

And scales up quite well, when pushed by beefy PCs running modified emulators. Similar to how the Dolphin 4k version of Ōkami looks: https://kotaku.com/now-this-is-okami-in-hd-5920943 

The IP and studio have now been sold to another company who have made it clear they want to make new Deus Ex games, without the baggage of Square Enix’s insane sales expectations.

Also, if your Steam account gets hacked and someone steals your inventory, it can actually be fixed by Valve. 

I bought Borderlands 3 (on the Epic store) for all of $10 back in January. It was free last week. In the intervening time I got about 50 hours of entertainment out of it, so I wasn’t really annoyed at all...

completely agree, feels very much along the lines of science fiction revolving around philosophical matters regarding technology and our lives/society vs. being a story with robots and outer space

Insightful comment, and also: username checks out.

I also grew up on Gibson, which I think adds another layer to this, which is simply that the components of “cyberpunk” are kind of amorphous, and different from person to person. My personal take on cyberpunk is that... it was very much a product of its time, in that much of this stuff was written at an age when we…

I like your take. It’s pretty on point for how it is. Another issue the genre has, is that the technological future that was once depicted, is much more possible given todays technology than it was before. At what point (aside from robotic limbs) is it just a prediction of what’s to come? It’s storytelling capability…

Glad I clicked on this post. I was going to try this because bobbi brown discontinued my shade and I figured that this might be similar as she is behind the company. Scented, absolutely gross, no thanks. I wanted to like the Amore Pacific cushion but couldn’t because of the scent. It’s so unnecessary 

Honestly, I don’t think the naming really made any significant impact on the game’s reception. The majority of consumers had never played the original Prey nor seen or heard anything about Prey 2. They had zero expectations for the game. We like to imagine that everyone is a hardcore gamer with a deep knowledge of…

I wonder how much the name thing hurt the game. This is clearly a way better game than the original, right? I wonder how much the history with the name hurt it’s chances for a sequel/series. Or maybe it was just doomed from the beginning.

The team wants the game (officially) to be equally enjoyable by all people regardless of platform. Mods prevent that, which puts them in a tough position, especially considering the large Japanese player base, the majority of which are on console. Even if SE endorsed certain mods, even just the visual ones, console…

I hate that people can change how I look too...which among discussions with my friends (who all use mods to some degree) and other people online, I know my opinion on it is very much in the minority. For me, my character is basically an extension of me, so I don’t like knowing other people can change that. My friend’s…

I think for fans of more niche PC-centric IPs, it’s more like anti-hype. The idea that their nostalgia could somehow be tainted by filthy console pandering is abhorrent to them. We saw it with Fallout, Elder Scrolls, Thief, even Deus Ex. I know this because I used to have that mentality. The idea of “consolization”…

Agree totally. MD could possibly do with a port to current gen though.

Yes- what you are seeing are differences in market expectations. More keenly looking at the past success of a company- 3D Projekt Red coming off of Witcher 3 success, versus WB with Lego DC super villains. To compare these two as the same is a bit simplistic- like comparing a Marvel movie to that of a Steven Spielberg…

The thing is, there really isn’t an industry hard-on for NFTs. Executives are going around saying “Oh, yes, we’re super interested in NFTs for gaming!”, sure, but they say that about every big new tech trend. The only major gaming company that’s done anything in this sphere is Ubisoft, and they got their faces pounded…