If they can create an impossible warp drive for this game, then they can create some more interesting habitable planets with alien life of some sort.

I think the difference between Cyberpunk and NMS and Starfield is that Starfield… kinda delivered exactly what was promised? It just turned out that what was promised wasn’t all that exciting in practice. That’s substantially harder to fix than redoing a skill tree or fixing bugs.

it’s almost like the current system of games being relentlessly hyped by gamers and uncritically covered by major game media sources desperate for clicks based off of early cinematic or obviously scripted trailers isn’t working very well.

Baldur’s Gate is just chocked top to bottom with really memorable characters. Larian is so good at creating characters that are immediately memorable- whether it be design, characterization, their quests, or a combination of all three. Even when the characters are archetypes or tropes, there’s something about them…

Comparing Cyberpunk to Mass Effect is a bit weird here. ME is all about you and your crew- hell, the second game is literally structured around building your crew and then becoming close to them. You’re all on the same ship for the same purpose- a lot of them over the course of three whole games. You have an…

It’s kind of weird to write an article in praise of a game and then include no screenshots or art from the game.   

“Are we so out of touch? ... No. It’s the players who are wrong.”

The only animated movie musical about a wishing star I care about is Wakko’s Wish. 

A remake getting criticized for both being too faithful but also not being faithful enough. Shocking.

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…