Dreams are an escape (for me, at least) from the inanity people on the forums parade as independent thought these days.

Came in here to post this. Also, it's not just the difficulty of playing these games with a controller (I describe it more akin to writing a letter using a quill while being submerged in a vat of honey), but also connectivity issues that come with dedicated vs ad hoc servers. When all of the yolo weedsmokers on…

Was that rhetorical? ^_^

I'm late to the party here, since I just woke up. Am I dreaming, or is this insane fucking conversation actually happening?

Actually, those weren't.

It was for university non-English majors that subscribed to a monthly magazine with supplemental audio disc. We tried to tell them about the grammar and spelling problems, along with the multitude of non sequiturs, but they wouldn't listen. After my six month contract was up, I told all of my former students and…

I can attest to this. I used to do spoken recordings of written articles for a university in Beijing, and tons of the articles had pretty glaring Engrish problems. When my coworker, also American, and I would tell them how badly written some of these articles were, the professors would tell us, "no, it's okay, just…

I have a feeling this boils down to just a total distaste towards hipsters, or anyone perceived to be a hipster, of which Phil Fish exudes in spades. He seems like a condescending dickhead, but Fez looks really fun and I've been waiting for it to come out on Steam. In the end, the only influence he has on your life is…

As long as we're being disingenuous and looking to start fires where there's no smoke, we also need to expand this issue to the violence in games issue and the amount of brutal, vicious kills enabled by game mechanics as a correlation to real-life gun violence and endemic of a person's propensity towards violent…

I think it's mostly the title of the article that's problematic, from the all-encompassing "Game Developers" down to the indignation. This isn't the first time we've been treated to preview material for Dragon's Crown, and it's nothing new. Anyway, I thought the consensus was that Japan is no longer relevant in game…

Jennifer Hale's talents are most evident in the Mass Effect series, to me. In games with extensive dialogue paths that allow various emotional states, I imagine it's almost nightmarishly difficult to sound tonally consistent throughout an entire conversation without sounding dry or disinterested. So yeah, she's…

I feel like people on this site do this weird thing where everyone is allowed to point out the creative inadequacies of modern triple-A games EXCEPT for prominent developers who have one or two missteps. Why is the gaming community more qualified to talk about these kinds of things over someone like Hecker who's…

I'd like to see some of those Elseworlds versions of DC characters, specifically Batman. It'd be cool to see Gotham By Gaslight steampunk Batman or the Cthulhu-hunting Batman from Matt Wagner's story.

This is surprising, considering the number of memes that have appeared since BL2 released last year

That cover art is gorgeous and surprisingly subdued, considering the kind of drek that passes for covers in North America.

I'm talking about the incendiary nature of that statement, as I'm pretty sure he did say "all game designers suck" the first time around. The hostility of that sentiment, regardless of its deeper intent, was blatantly obvious in how reductive it was.

Yes

It wasn't taken out of context, because that's literally what he said. It's the intent of his comment that's been lost in a wave of noise.

This livestream of Tropes vs Women is getting out of hand

Right, but is that an indictment of game developers or the audience? Both sides of the camp know that typically, sequels are better mechanically because they're iterative products that fix what is broken while improving on what works. We keep getting reminded that games are a business first and foremost, and I'm…