IDK, I feel like we’ve gotten quite a few “bottomless” single player games the last couple of years. Elden Ring was one of the biggest success stories of 2022 and we’ve already got Tears of the Kingdom this year. I only have so much time for open world games that demand multiple hundreds of hours to complete. But this…

I know it’s extremely uncool to like Ubisoft open worlds, and I understand that they’re formulaic. But man, there aren’t that many devs out there just putting out games with bottomless pits of content (for single player games). And I really like a space where I can just kind of turn my brain off, maybe throw on a…

Nonsense. 

At a time when corporations are making their back-catalogs inaccessible and removing/restricting access to old games, piracy becomes a form of media conservation.

Sure, but to your point (and as explained by VGHF but not really addressed here) there’s still a barrier to entry for the average person to play an unofficially emulated game versus just finding it in the same place they find any other game.

not unlike the film industry before the move to digital. Half of all American films made before 1950 and over 90% of films made before 1929 are lost forever, because it wasnt seen as an important thing to preserve until film became respected as an art form and not a sideshow distraction.

Hoping gaming starts preserving…

the AI-powered robots of humanity’s heyday roam the wasteland and continue to do their jobs.

tysm for enjoying the read, badprenup ! i appreciate that. and you know what, that’s a fair position: this game (and the studio more specifically) is dead. so this review is kinda like kicking someone when they’re down but because i didn’t play it before this review i was curious if gollum was as bad as all the…

It was absolutely the DVD player that was the Sword of Damocles over the Sega Dreamcast. The DVD format war got so toxic, it chewed up and ate Circuit City as they got too close to a handful of distributors who thought that expensive, online-required, disposable rent-a-DVD’s were a good idea. (Divx)

I think it’s hard for people who weren’t around at the time to realize just how big a deal it was that the PS2 had a DVD player, y’know? (And, to your point, apparently hard for people at Sega to realize it either.)

One of the game’s strengths is its humor- there is some very amusing chatter between enemies, and quite a lot of variety of it (can’t recall overhearing the some convos even twice). And the cast of minor characters are all funny weirdos. It’s really helps to balance the tough fights and the increasingly dark plot.

I’d venture a lot of the viewers are kids too, or at least teens. I don’t allow my kids to watch YouTube unsupervised in my house, but my 11 year old has lots of friends who don’t live in houses with that rule, and almost all of them want to be streamers, it’s wild.

This is devastating news for people who enjoy watching other people do things.

RMS Titanic. Not HMS.

Sorry. Didn’t know that you bought it. I guess that means it wasn’t a horribly marketed commercial flop when it first released?

This is one of those “sucks to be a games writer, I guess” problems. For us normies, we might buy/play one or two of these at launch and then pick up the rest over the next few years at a fraction of the cost, or on a subscription service. Same as it ever was.

I save the box on expensive electronics like this for the inevitable day when I sell them.  Showing pictures of the item all boxed up in original packaging gives more confidence to a buyer.  If I bought something used, I’d feel better if it came in the original box than if it was just encased in bubble wrap and sealed…

Does Variety normally do gross puff pieces like this?

Fixing the bugs won’t change the fact that the game itself doesn’t sound playable, fun, or worth anyone’s time.

Just keep the high quality first-party single-player experiences coming and I’ll be a customer forever.