I think maybe part of the issue people are having with what I wrote is that people think I’ve got some long list of mindblowing games out there with incredible writing. I don’t. The VAST majority of video games have absolute shit writing or mayyybe generic mediocre writing. Most of the good writing I can think of off…

yea you’re right, i’ll go email some nobel laureates a youtube video of Geralt staring at his naked goth girlfriend and ask them why they don’t write as well as this game does. I’m definitely delusional. Best writing, not generic at all, never seen a game where a hot lady stereotype loves a gritty white dude.

you have a PhD in english lit and you can’t understand that I wrote that ‘i’ve played up until X, it’s really bad so far’ doesn’t mean that all the writing in the game is bad? and you equate the first 20 pages of a book, which takes about 20 minutes to read, to the first several hours of a video game? did you...pass…

i honestly might read the first one and see, i read a lot and a lot of it is SF/F. I wonder how much the writer oversaw writing in the games?

It definitely seems overhyped. I went in assuming it was overhyped but that I would have a fun fantasy experience and was immediately bored for hours. Also the clunky menus, combat, tinyyyyyyyy text, and frustrating looting (I just spam X on PS4 to not miss that tiny looting window) make it consistently annoying to…

I think the writing in most fantasy games is pretty terrible, so compared to that yea it probly is one of the best. I’ve already a lot of fantasy books and it just doesn’t even remotely compare to that.

my overwhelming feeling (so far) is - I’ve already play Skyrim, ran around being uber powerful, reading tons of generic fantasy nonsense, collecting everything, doing a billion quests and in retrospect that game is pretty mediocre. I had the big generic open world fantasy experience once already, if this game doesn’t…

I hope the game proves me wrong as I play longer but so far he just walks around smirking at people, saying shallow philosophical one liners before killing them or he tries to have sex with his naked goth girlfriend. It reads like a 14 year old boys fan fic.

lol I know plenty of people who study writing and have even written real actual books! So far it is objectively average and often bad. I think gamers just need to read an actual book to see what real writing is, the bar for video games is VERY low. People always talk about “good writing” in games and it’s often not…

I doubt it’ll be my favorite BUT i’m trying to stick with it and see how it goes. I’m just surprised at how generic it is when we’ve already played several of these big fantasy games, considering how people rave about it. I played Bloodborne first and fuckin loved it and I was like “damn fans were dead on” now I’m 5…

yo I had no idea this was a thing - I have been playing primarily indie games for the past 10 years. I decided to catch up and got a PS4 pro and WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON? every single game is unreadable. How is this a thing? How are people not constantly rating every game failure? It’s unbearable. I have a huge TV…

I’m playing Witcher 3 for the first time now and I was excited to start it and....I am bored out of my mind. It is bad, generic, the writing sucks, the characters are shallow, the combat is mediocre and extremely easy, I completely do not get the hype. I don’t read anything any more I just accept every question/notice…

That movie and Joker were so unbelievably horrible and pathetic. Two of the worst movies I’ve seen in a long time.

great list! Baba and Outer Wilds are 2 of my fave this year as well. I haven’t played Disco Elysium yet but I’m sure I’ll enjoy it. I continue to find it hilarious that people keep saying it’s not really or barely a role playing game when it is likely the MOST close to an actual role playing game a video game has ever…

another fucking incredible year shaping up for the indie gaming scene. Support independent devs!!! they are CRUSHING it!

OH MY FUCKING GOD HELL YEA 2020 JUST GOT MY MOST ANTICIPATED GAME

that ad is painful to watch

Honestly I think the bigger story is Outer Worlds getting a GOTY nomination where it’s pretty universally being called good but nothing great, instead of Outer Wilds where everywhere is saying it’s amazing. Particularly cuz everyone confuses them constantly...I genuinely thought they wrote the wrong game when I saw…

as a first time Pokemon player it blows my mind that “fans” are mad about this game. Reading all the QOL improvements over old games i’m like “holy shit people used to play like that?!” cuz even sword/shield are still kinda janky. It’s just so much fun though, I don’t get why anyone who claims to be a fan wouldn’t…

Way too many people have no idea what the word political means. Everything is political. It’s impossible not to be political ESPECIALLY in our world now where everything is more interconnected than ever before.