As a PS4 user, all I can say is good on them for allowing the option.

This is sort of past the “logical dissection” phase and into the “pitchfork and tar” phase - I’m riding it like I ride through the the Zack Snyder stuff.  The train’s not going to back up.

Hard disagree.

OK - this can be taken as troll bait but I don’t mean it that way.

That’s not on the industry, that’s on the industries workers.

SAG-AFTRA and the teamsters didn’t “just happen”.

Probably also worth noting, CDPR probably noticed in the reviews how this particular property was falling into the proverbial “hot potato” section of internet commentary where regardless of what they do it’s going to have with them/against them occuring. Once that became the reality and they realized they couldn’t…

Ultimately, at some point the world is going to go back to what it used to be in which “thought leaders” aren’t really accessible anymore. It sucks, but as soon as groups realized that access could be weaponized it was only a matter of time.

The first real visibility of this was usually the Up/Down comment scoring…

I mean if your publisher’s output has a fairly visible stance on Cyberpunk’s publisher, it certainly is.

As they should. If Marvel has taught us anything, it’s that universal acclaim generally consists of a very specific type of output. That’s neither good nor bad, but any art can be designed to do different things.

It’s best to just post the That Mitchell and Webb Look - Apprentice sketch.  Pretty much all Gawker editorial decisions make perfect sense if you understand it.

That’s not very fair though. Witcher3 is essentially the final unwinding of a two game story build which I won’t say is easy (plenty of games and media have missed the mark) but is a great example of doing it well.

Reads the article.

Yes and no.

Unlike The Witcher 3’s fleshed out, compelling sidequests, many of the minor activities that pop up on my map or into my journal are basic and forgettable, fights against human enemies that lack the visual interest or behavioral quirks of monsters in The Witcher 3.

I suspect it’s just the GoT problem. You can get the story points from the James S.A. Corey Duo but serialized television which often borrows liberally from the wordplay/length of novels to cultivate only that which is most desirable to watch often nose-dives when those same show runners are asked to be come…

Wait... Colonel Sanders isn’t sexy?

But you’re actually hitting the point and sort of why I went off in the comments elsewhere. This feels like more like railing against the idea of white male fiction rather than celebrating non-white male fiction.

Yea, it’s all true you can think two things simultaneously. But you can’t have schrodingers time…

These sort of articles remind me why the tribalness of the community is here to stay.

Very rarely does IO9 make me explicitly angry, but as a family member and caregiver to someone with the disease:

Does Luke need to reset in VIII though? Is that arc necessary to tell Rey’s story? To me, this is the big problem with the new ones. It felt it needed to arc everyone and it didn’t. With Luke, Han, and Leia its sufficient for them to simply have mistakes that live on.