Good grief, I don’t doubt you meant it sincerely but the whole “criticizing racism is racist against white people” line is not a great look. I’m not trying to be an SJW or anything, just pointing out to the OP that the article is correct that Indiana Jones’ schtick is troublesome when it comes to attitudes to…

A 2010 study suggested 89% of museum visitors were white. In 1938 (when Last Crusade is set) I can’t imagine it was much better.

No-one is taking up pitchforks about it, but yeah much like Tomb Raider it kind of sucks to glorify travelling to other (usually poorer and non-white) countries, steal their artifacts of cultural and historical significance (often from grave sites) just to put them in your museum to be gawped at by white folks.

It’s…

I see what you’re getting at but I think you’re reading too much into it, and that like the OP says t’s more about risk aversity. Much like movies, games operate not necessarily to solely make bags of cash, as there is literally no way to cast-iron guarantee it’ll make money. They are inherently a risky undertaking,…

Yes on both counts. I shouldn’t have to wait 30 seconds for Eivor to sober up every time I load a game. And I live in Maine, I’m desperate for an escape from snow.

well-made missed opportunity

That is the best summary I’ve yet heard of the whole series. Huge fan of the books, and think the show’s been pretty serviceable on the whole but never quite doing the source material justice.

Did I do something wrong or did the game fuck up?

Oh man, Valhalla has my favourite of these - I spent an hour looking for a hoard map, only to look online and find out that in the clue leading you to the treasure they got east and west mixed up. Yup.  Sure enough, went the other way and found it in 30 seconds. …

I had no idea he was called Doug Bowser, that’s incredible.  He was literally born for the role.

Much as The Golden Compass shit the bed, Sam Eliot and Daniel Craig were perfect casting. Especially Craig, he just oozed the kind of sheer force of will and physical presence of Asriel in a way McAvoy has tried admirably to replicate but doesn’t quite get.

Much as The Golden Compass shit the bed, Sam Eliot and Daniel Craig were perfect casting. Especially Craig, he just oozed the kind of sheer force of will and physical presence of Asriel in a way McAvoy has tried admirably to replicate but doesn’t quite get.

I’ve been playing since launch, and still jump on semi-regullarly. It definitely isn’t bad. It still looks great for a seven year old game, and although the hackers are bad it’s pretty easy to guarantee a solo session. What there is is a great deal of freedom in a really cool world, and a looot of content. Especially…

Personally I think they’ve been resting on their laurels too long to really innovate. It’s noteworthy that despite being master world-builders the core mechanics of R* games haven’t changed since GTAIII, nearly twenty years ago. It became very apparent with RDR2 (which I adored FWIW) - the world was remarkable, and as…

Firstly, those patch notes have funny little asides which I don’t think I’ve ever seen before.

Also, they fixed this one: Addressed an issue that caused Tarben to follow Eivor everywhere when The Baker’s Plaint wasn’t completed. Your watch has ended, Tarben. I didn’t realise for two hours that he was following me until…

On your point “I don’t know why this review expects the game to “say” something about diversity or trans culture or the world”, I think its a fair expectation when the game thinks it is being meaningful. Like, GTAV makes many jokes about contemporary society but always toungue in cheek and satirical (if slightly…

I’d throw in Freezeezy Peak from Banjo-Kazooie and some of the puzzle areas of AC: Rogue.

An interesting point re: bugs, but actually can be considered more widely. For example, No Man’s Sky, where the devs have literally revamped the entire game for free over several years, is still plagued by all the reviews when it came it.

This has the potential to be very Time Trumpet, something I am always very much down for.

Having watched the whole series, my personal issue with Space Force was that it wasn’t the show I wanted it to be. I was hoping for a surreal farce, ala IT Crowd, with the cast getting in zany hijinks that escalated in absurdity and chaos by the conclusion of the episode. Instead it was a pseudo feel-good drama with…

Yeah I took the chance to familiarize myself, turns out I put a few dozen hours into it! I played solo and it got stale, and it looks like the devs moved on to another project. But a great example of what’s possible with the Pirates! DNA.

The world is sorely overdue a modern version of Pirates!. I played something that came close to hitting the spot (Windward IIRC?) but that fell somewhere by the wayside.