...does even France go this far with this parochial bullshit? Because holy shit, this is some really vile reactionary crap.

I don’t think it’d be possible for Persona 5 Royal to get a physical release on Switch, at least not on a single cartridge.

We like it because we don’t find the plot to be garbage.

Don’t you mean the bear minimum effort?

Except that these first two weeks are when Blizzard’s marketing push is at its largest, it’s getting the most impact from its word of mouth, it’s the hot new thing getting reviews and attention from all corners...

Oh, it is a failure at all levels, and yeah, it is a failure of the QA department as a whole that it got through.

Here’s the distinction: The primary job of the vast majority of QA testers is to make sure that the game functions according to the game’s design and specifications.

I’d say less “chose not to say anything” and more “too tired and beaten down to bring it up”. QA work is exhausting, and it can really burn someone out who is just trying to do regression tests and making sure everything in the game matches what’s on the sheet.

Did we finally get past the Roguelike Deckbuilder craze too?

I almost didn’t write this blog until I was at least level 60. I’d seen the blowback that my colleagues got for writing about the game “too early,” and I wanted to avoid that fate.

Counterpoint: Artists should be informed when their works run into unintended, troublesome issues, and given free reign to update them if they so choose.

I’d say it’s more about tempering those impressions by recognizing how much or how little has been shown. I have no issues with people judging what’s visible of the art style, my issue with the article is that it feels like its judging the whole of the work based on a teaser with barely any info in it about what the…

Aye, totally true. Visuals are important, it’s just not what I personally look to first (especially since, well, I tend to “watch” a lot of stuff while playing a game or working >_> ).

I don’t hold it against anyone that’s still subscribed to Netflix. Most of my family is, a lot of my friends are who are way queerer than I am. It’s a personal choice and all that, and isn’t always a simple one.

Eh, that’s fair. Dragon Age has such an inconsistent style over the three games (DA1: Low fantasy, color palate of mud, blood and shit. DA2: Super-stylized and fancy, all the colors), I get them just going for the standard style, though.

I mean, personally, I consider 1 to be too high in terms of the number of vocal bigots being supported.

...its a minute of footage with only one line of dialog.

Except you can’t split them apart, really. One of the reasons that itemization in Diablo 3 initially was so crap was because it needed to keep the really fun and great items super rare, so that they’d become more valuable.

We’ll see. It certainly has the potential for that, but Diablo 3's RMAH also had the potential for massive profits that... did not work out at all, because of how awful that system (and everything in support of it) made the core game.

I’d honestly struggle to say that the Summer Games Fest was a AAA show. It had some headlining AAA games, particularly book-ending things, but it was much more of a cross-section of the industry, with most of the time taken up by the indie and B-tier titles that would struggle to get so much as mentioned during one of…