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It’s a line that says “time that has not yet passed” and then a line above that says “doin’ stuff”. It’s kind of impressively terrible.

What do you expect? They’ll likely be leaning heavily into the Blizzard approach to release dates from now on.

“This represents the entire expanse of time between now and the end of days. And right about... here... we will update this game a few times."

“multiple updates in this 9 month black bar”

Did yall see that roadmap? That is the funniest roadmap I have ever seen. "As time goes by, we will likely do some things BEFORE others. Thank you."

I think you might have missed the sarcasm in parksonian’s comment.

Well, I can’t think of a single reason to doubt anything this guy promises.

I’m sure I sound like a broken record, but it’s my favorite Mario game. Perfect blend of the 2D level design, with the freedom that 3D movement allows. Great difficulty curve that combines accessibility with legit challenge, and some of the most ingenious level design ever. Read more

Judgmental for sure, because the art in Double XP is normally at a noticeably low quality. This is better than usual, I hope it trends up and they have better art all the time.
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I’m personally glad that pixel art has never gotten old. You can still make fresh pixel art games. The playstation aesthetic certainly manages a certain nostalgic appeal but I don’t think it’s as broad as pixel art.

The sad thing is, we all know this is the easiest thing in the world to make free and a tickable option in the options menu. Whats even sadder is I will undoubtably get kickback for even attempting to call out needless, senseless microtransactions.

Ubisoft sells ability to have to play less of their game because they know the grind will be too much for some people. Of course they’re lying about not designing it like that. Read more

I don’t understand why you’d want a waterproof power strip. I always thought it was good to keep water away from electricity. Are gamers spilling that much Mountain Dew that it’s required to keep them alive?

Just in case anyone isn’t aware, ray tracing is far from a new concept - it’s been around for decades (including in the SNES’s time), years ago I had to write a ray tracing algorithm in school as part of an introductory class to computer graphics in a computer science bachelors program. It’s actually a much simpler… Read more

This struck me as odd too: Read more

Given that the whole piece is introduced specifically as the result of partially-formed impressions of an incomplete experience, I’m not sure what sort of focused message you were looking for.  

In 2019 the movie industry made $41 billion and the music industry made $19 billion.
Video games made $152 billion. Read more

The “mixed feelings” in the title come off more as overwhelmed ambivalence and fatigue in the article, than like you truly have had a mixed experience with good and bad game elements. Again and again and again you bring up things that seem subjectively good, and then qualify that by saying they left you cold,… Read more

All PS1 on PS3 is emulated. Read more

I liked Event Horizon and uh... nah Event Horizon is the only movie he made worth watching.