Agreed that this is a bad take. Lots of professions work like this, not just creative ones. When you’re in it, it can feel inevitable, or like a right of passage. But it doesn’t need to be this way. If we establish policies (like paid overtime) at the federal level, it cuts the incentives for companies to compete…

This is 100% correct. A corollary of this point is: there are plenty of games that are not good, but none of those bad games are a result of developers sitting around trying to make a bad game

One more opinion: the vita was great, and I love mine, but it failed because it could not fully emulate a Playstation controller. Adding the L2, R2, and clickable joysticks would have opened up the platform tremendously; leaving them out seriously dampened one’s ability to play games like Borderlands 2, which…

No references to the Talking Heads and Stop Making Sense? No? No one? 

I agree! 

I don’t think it’s an accident. Tomorrowland had a similar throughline about the world needing to better respect the talents of the ubermenscian class. Incredible 2, too. Where it deviates from Rand is that Rand thought that charity was a sin, whereas the Bird films (all excellent) all see charity as part of what…

A+ wordsmithing with phrase “architecture -mancer."

The complete collection on PS4 is currently $60 so: yes

This is a very 2018 reaction. You’re not entitled to a perfect product, and the devs are very much entitled to release a product for a set price and then move on with their lives. Nothing will ever be as good as it could be, and one day we will all die

I’m with Strossus, Umfozzles, and Rontanamo Bay, in that I enjoy stringing together lists of amusing usernames.

Trivia: Nathan is 9 years younger than Tom Cruise, whose latest stunt filled action movie comes out in two weeks

This is exactly why I find Nioh more inviting and enjoyable than Bloodborne.

I can see it in my head, the 1940s version of you, confronted with news of the U.S. turning back a ship of 900 German Jews, mostly children, on account of immigration quotas, writing on the 1940s equivalent of comment threads: We have to respect the law, people.

Then how come I only hear Yarncy?

Twitter is always going to have a collective backlash against everything, which is why one must appreciate the more subtle and nuanced takes, like Nathan’s article. You can generally appreciate the idea behind this move, like you might generally appreciate the social benefits from a service like Uber, while also…

See, I’m with him re: on-foot, but I want Fox to control the way he does in Smash Bros.

Fallout: 76, reporting for duty.

The online community is about the same, I imagine. I think Overwatch’s player base is a little better but still frequently terrible. The real joy in this game is playing it with friends; but playing with strangers can still be enjoyable, and I’ll just turn off team chat if my teammates are awful, or if we’re in the…

The online community is about the same, I imagine. I think Overwatch’s player base is a little better but still…

No, this one:

Haha. “Jason’s biased bashfest.” I think you have unreasonable expectations of the critical process. Not every review of a game needs to be written by someone who loved its predecessor, nor does everyone need to have the same opinion of any given cultural artifact. There is no objectively good game! There is, in fact,…