I still maintain that to call it a remake it needs to be different enough to consider it a new game. Redoing all the assets is a lot of work and can produce impressive results, but it’s not game-changing. On early consoles, different versions of a game could look very dissimilar and even have entirely separate…

Let me tell you children of the late 90s. I once saw GWAR play a small club in Chicago. Captured by Robots opened for them and Wesley “Fucking” Willis did a surprise set. It may have been the greatest day of my life

16 minutes of content crammed into a 37 minute timeframe.

Indeed.  Modern writers forget that its way better to give you a slice of a world rather than explain every corner of it.

I agree with all of this. Milius definitely created a culture that felt pre-modern in a way that a lot of other ‘80s and subsequent sword and sorcery films really didn’t, just by leaving out all the quippy dialogue and letting Conan and his friends express themselves with their physicality.

There’s a lot of tossed-off bits that work the way they did in Star Wars (‘77), hinting at a larger, full-of-weird-shit world without making you have to stop and parse it out to orient yourself. Like “just another snake cult”, I love that.

I have little to say, except that I could not agree with you more. You nailed it!

I feel like fighting games have always been ahead of the curve in nonbinary representation, at least implicitly. King, Ash, Testament, Bridget, Seth, Benimaru, Poison, Leo...

That’s not at all what happened?

Sobeck was obviously more important, but she didn’t have the ability to turn her genius into actual results all on her own (and certainly didn’t have the leadership qualities to drive such things)

“Before Zero Dawn and the Faro Plague, the Earth was on its way to baking itself to death. Sure, he was more of a spokesman and financier than anything, but his efforts were instrumental to solving climate change.”

tl;dr the games are a social and political commentary on our current world (something people have demanded games explore for years now) hiding behind a futuristic sci-fi adventure where you shoot robo-dinos using bows and arrows. After the brilliant bittersweet first game that set up the world and now the fantastic…

Really don’t get the criticisms of the story of Forbidden West here as though somehow it’s a sudden leap from Zero Dawn when almost all of it is set up in Zero Dawn (what happened to the Odyssey, what was the signal that turned GAIA into rogue AIs, what is Sylens trying to obtain from HADES), or the idea somehow this…

Analysts are already predicting a minimum of a 40% improvement to the smell

If a legion of men had reacted to a few dates/dating app text conversation not working out the way the women on Tik Tok have reacted to West Elm Caleb, they would be called incels.

Yeah no duh. I don’t think anyone was seriously stating this was a monopoly such that you needed to mansplain what a monopoly is.

I don’t think anyone (serious) was arguing that this was the final infinity stone for Microsoft to snap away the rest of the gaming industry. The issue is that its an anticompetitive move among a flurry of anticompetitive moves in a contracting industry. You don’t need to even have majority market share, you just need…

So stop caring? I honestly don’t know why you or anyone should be emotionally impacted by people on the internet criticizing the business practices of one or another multinational mega corporation, regardless of whether you play Xbox or PlayStation

Oh, I can blame Microsoft, it’s their own fault for their major lack of first party games.

Which fucking sucks and we should all be unhappy about it.