Oh look all the people who didn’t watch a tv show flooding in to let the world know that they didn’t watch the show.

I haven’t watched it yet but it would have to be a hell of an episode to make up for the rest of the meandering, wishy-washy season so far.

jesus christ no one gives a fuck martyr

Except they’re being secretive about this game specifically when they haven’t previously.

sure, I agree. But it’s in the public knowledge base for people who stumble upon it or want to find out. If anything, the press is just bringing attention to the question and putting more attention on that fact, whereas any acknowledgement of the developer would otherwise probably go unnoticed.

It seems like the type…

I’m generally with you but not in the case of Vanillaware games. They use the technique correctly. It isn’t a “development shortcut” it’s a technique that can be used poorly or well depending on implementation. Most indie/mobile games I see using it are awful to look at because the art style is generally cheap or…

Always those people who can’t deal with a singleplayer game being singleplayer...

NO

Multiplayer would ruin it.

I’m convinced that film execs and producers don’t know the difference between a good film and a bad one, they simply see them as the sum of their parts.

Chuckled about Oppenheimer not making the list of blockbusters with taste, but got the point. Also a Hell Yeah about including the Batman there as that film needs more credit about the sheer guts it did with certain choices.

Yeah I’m sure the corporate real estate company who owns your buildings are seeing plenty of “tangible benefits” from you forcing people back in. And your middle managers whose only previous contributions were watching people actually work and whose value is being questioned, they get a lot of “tangible benefits” from…

I don’t know. Do you think a sports writer who covers predominantly football needs to have watched a Yankee’s game to be hired? Not any baseball game. Specifically a Yankees game.

I mean that’s a dumb litmus test but it’s especially dumb when you’re talking about Final Fantasy and Halo, two series that are not nearly as popular as they used to be.

Honestly, the best thing about Helldivers is that within like 2 weeks of release we’re getting stories that read like things that came out of Eve Online without having to play Eve lol.

It’s worth pointing out that Game Freak are known for having abnormally low employee turnover for the industry. Maybe they want sustainable growth for the company so they don’t follow the “pump and dump” model of ramping up on projects, maybe they’re hiding those cuts as “contractors,” maybe they’re just extremely…

That’s not so odd: the side characters tend to have weaker writing (many of the SEES team are replaced by ‘literally who’ as links, which was fixed in later titles,) the stats tend to require less aggressive planning, and the “monster of the week” style that goes on until the big twist really causes the game to drag…

I tried so hard to get into Reload, but it just seems like a less exciting version of Royal, i can’t explain it. i want to love this but it isn’t anywhere near as fun for me as p5r. 

Enjoy what you like, but the writing and humor in the borderlands series is trash. “Lol random” humor had grown unbearable by the time the second game came out. Trash can be fun sometimes and games don’t need a good story to be good games. But will a film about games with a trash story be terrible? Of course it will.

Yep, in the long long ago... She left in 2015. Eventually became Editor-in-Chief at IGN. And now she’s “Director of Xbox Broadcasts and Events Strategy Lead” at Microsoft.