The bar for “recreating” something seems really, really low these days.

Wow. Good on NCSoft. Not sure what their new angle is, given how they killed CoH... but good on them for having a change of heart (for however long it lasts).

Great List! I overall agree for the most part. Reading this list made me feel “GOOD” - I played almost all these games!

I’ll have to go check the context of every line Snake says in MGSV, but I feel like I could replace (almost) every one of them with that clip of Hayter saying “squeeze my hog” and somehow it would still work.

Replacing Hayter was especially stupid considering:

That is in no way a fitting punishment for the crime of “hacking” companies that should already have had better systems in place. Does he not have any family, is house arrest not an option? 

I say this positively: Gayest Best of List I’ve read so far. 

Does anybody want to see the Batman V Superman director’s take on the popular game?

Spencer seems like an okay dude but I would bet money this data is fabricated, either by adjusting backend data or he literally has an intern that plays on his account for him.

Avatar has no cultural impact.

Of course it’s empty. It’s based on the Avatar IP, so it’s going to be marketed and over-commercialized to hell and back.

I’ve worked on a Destiny-like game before, while I don’t want to forgive the Bungie guys for all their mistakes, it is exceedingly hard to keep all of your old content playable over a multiyear game. Just the amount of content alone grows to an amount where you have to develop an entire system for load/unloading…

for a second i was starting to have a panic attack worrying that i wouldn’t have anything important to get outraged over. thank god! now i can be outraged!  this is a hill i’m definitely going to die on.

At this point, these criticisms are just noise. No matter what you do, you’re going to offend someone. If the skins had been kept culturally matched with characters, people would be bitching about characters being pigeonholed with their nationality.

This is such a terminally online take. The notion of bottling up each individual culture such that everyone stays in their respective lanes and culture can only be expressed or shared if someone has the exact same skin tone and nation-state lineage as you is so fucking backwards.

If people have issues with the…

I worried about substance. Many of the adaptations for these kinds of things have looked great but the writing was mediocre. I’m cautiously optimistic though, many because I am curious about how this story is going to work vis-à-vis the NCR.

Americans use the terms “cultural appropriation” and even “black face” so incorrectly they’ve completely lost all meaning. You stupid fucks need to figure out what you’re upset about quick because one day something actually offensive will happen and we won’t have the language to describe it

Sorry, but if Gene Simmons and his estate want to keep milking the increasingly overpriced live-tour circuit while he’s still kicking then he should haul his septuagenarian ass out on stage every night. Otherwise you’re just watching a bunch of music videos but with more expense hassle.

There’s something wrong at the core of Starfield, and it makes me wonder if BGS/Microsoft really understand why people like their games or what gives their games longevity. It’s not the story — most Bethesda games have middling stories that only serve as an excuse to get the player to explore. “Go up the 7000 steps to…