When I finally hit that last campfire after all the confusion in the plot, I realized the real plot was the last roadtrip for four friends. I’m not saying it excuses the convoluted mess that game turns into at the end, but it gave me a good lens for appreciating it more. 

A friend of mine who is a terrific professor of world lit, com lit, and pop culture has often argued people get too hung up on “plot.”

He only went through his entire developmental period as a pleb? Forgive me, I had no idea.

I should note, by the way, that I’ve not got a thing against you Nathan- you normally come off as a guy with common sense and a slick sense of humour. However, your obsession with this dude’s wealth meaning he lacks the ability to empathise with people in a place he once was exudes... well, something other than what…

This is it. Really sounds like Nathan is stopping himself just short of saying, “People with lots of money are incapable of knowing what it’s like to have little money or of advocating for change, so I wish Mr. Reddit woulda shut up.”

Man, I wish I was born having already created a really famous internet platform and married to a tremendously wealthy tennis player (things apparently some people can do prior to their own birth). Then I’d never have had to deal with being working class the lion’s share of my life. Unlike this lucky guy.

No one tell the people that my wife and I are both women who play video games together to destress.

“What are you going to do when you’re married and stressed? Tell your wife that you need to play Xbox?”

Is it 1992 again already?

As a mid-30s guy who played a lot of games, specifically Animal Crossing and its built in sense of virtual community, during all of this to keep sane and in touch with friends and family, this NYT article can kindly fuck off. I’ll keep sussing my 8-year-old nieces and nephews in Among Us from afar on a weekly basis (be…

I’m still using my original 2013 Xbox One Play and Charge kit with the Series X controller, been good value.

I’m from Ohio and can confirm that there are a lot of racist white people there.

Yeah, I believe now that game is patched to not force multiplayer with the servers off. Some of the best mods (most notably the Expanded Galaxy Mod) address the shortcomings of the war asset system and allow you to implement easy or hard (need like 100% completion to win) modes for it and make it clearer what you…

The odd thing is that when you can play it, the game is actually pretty good. I’ve been having a lot of fun with it on PC.

PS4 Pro player here. The game’s really enjoyable, the bugs are largely just funny, and most crashes (maybe 1 per 4-6 hours play (I’m 49 hours in)) are inoffensive because of auto saves. Only once has a group of bugs resulted in an actual issue, which is where I was permanently recognised in combat, disallowing me and…

It’s supposed to be a roleplaying game using non-D&D rules.

I mean... Isn’t the purpose so you can wear cool-looking shit while also having the armor perks you want?

If you want your reviewers to clap like a seal because the game looks and feels expensive, IGN.com is right there.

I’ve already stocked up on popcorn for the coming backlash against Cyberpunk 2077. Watching everyone work themselves into a frenzy over this was at first mystifying, but now, as someone who was just a bystander watching it all unfold, I’m ready for the highly entertaining train wreck that is likely to follow.

There’s a Grand Canyon-sized gap between a game made by an established studio who made one of the most acclaimed game of the 2010s promising a very good game versus a small studio that’s only made 2D sidescrollers promising the impossible.