A remake getting criticized for both being too faithful but also not being faithful enough. Shocking.
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I also agree that it’s fine for a player character to be straight, and that not every video game should give the player perfect representation of themselves (in the form of a character creator, wide open romantic choices, etc etc). I think Kenneth’s fixation on the lack of same-sex or queer romance options obfuscates… Read more
I devoured Persona 5 Royal and Persona 4 Golden last winter and found them to be both remarkable, intelligent, compelling games with so much to say- but yeah, as a gay man, I was also let down by how they seemed to draw a line at queerness. Persona 4 is a bit more forgivable- it came out in 2008, after all, and I… Read more
I love Mass Effect. I even think Andromeda is fun and was unfairly maligned even if it is the lesser entry in the series. But I cannot bring myself to be excited about these teasers. They just seem like a desperate attempt from BioWare to score easy fan points and to distract from the fact that Dreadwolf is still in… Read more
Yeah, the lack of any concrete details about Dreadwolf - a game that certainly seems like it should have been released years ago- is disconcerting. BioWare’s managed to burn through much of the trust and goodwill of the public over the last decade and doesn’t seem terribly concerned with winning them back.
I frankly think this is not saying very much at all and BioWare needs to start putting up or just shut up entirely until they have a game they can show us.
You probably are more familiar with DnD mechanics than you think! They’ve been used in video game RPGs for a long time. The first time I actually played DnD, I found it easy to understand thanks to years of being unknowingly exposed to a lot of the mechanics in video games
I keep seeing people using the photography example as a counterargument here but none of them address the fact that photography eventually did off commercial painting and illustration and make it substantially harder to be an artist.
…how are the Gith’yanki fantasy Nazis, exactly? They’re more like fantasy Spartans.
Yes. Unless you believe the ends justify the means- which, again, involve a lot of murder, betrayal, and deception- that isn’t particularly relevant to what I was saying. Sorry people are being mean about your murderous twink.
As an “experiment” this kind of fails by virtue of the fact that the results are at best sideways moves from the original and nothing new or surprising. They look like any sort of face generated from IG filters or other quick novelty AI image generators- weirdly smooth, lacking texture, imperfection, and asymmetry.… Read more
Gamers have access to basically every game without having to leave their home. And there are better places to buy collectibles. Where does that leave GameStop? It’s a zombie business at this point, only kept alive because of a truly stupid stock craze that is now over. Independent game stores cover the niche far… Read more
I’ve lived in NYC for 15 years, moving here out of high school. All the things you seem to be longing for are here, especially for queer folks, but they do not come to you. This is not Night City or any other video game setting, worlds that are explicitly designed to dump opportunities and relationships in your lap… Read more
Bethesda puts in so many minor things to do in their games- quests that are effectively just chores or fetching, fiddly side diversions like outposts and whatever. It’s all relatively irrelevant, but it’s a lot of stuff to do. For folks who have the completionist inclination, or just find that sort of task completion… Read more
It does make it easier by bringing everybody closer (and you can start conversations with most of the party from a further distance), but it’s still a weirdly inefficient way of doing such a vital function.
I’m glad Larian is so responsive and proactive with these. The last patch greatly stabilized Act 3 for me. Read more
This is a ludicrously optimistic argument that seems to assume Microsoft will simply largely just let Nintendo do whatever it wants. It won’t. We’ll see layoffs, we’ll see more deadline pressure followed by delays when those deadlines can’t be met, we’ll see fewer risks taken. Your argument is massively overstating… Read more
I can’t really imagine what a Dishonored 3 would be, but the series has one of the most compelling and richly drawn worlds in video games and we’ve only seen a small part of it. Read more
For a few bucks a month, I’ll keep subscribing to Dropout, which manages to produce great content by engaging, clever people and is exceeding union minimums and thus permitted to keep producing during the strikes… and I’ll just read recaps of any notable stuff that ends up on Max.
This at best only really applies to the very early game. Otherwise, the game gives you more scrolls than you’ll know what to do with. Also Gale only needs to consume like... 3 magical objects in act 1 before plot-mandated changes kick in and eliminate that mechanic entirely.