Another of EPIC’s shameful deceptions exposed as Apple’s shining beacons of truth and justice reveal yet more of Tim’s dirty little secrets. I feel betrayed and used, as if Sweeney himself had strolled up and spat right in my face. At this point there’s no other recourse but to uninstall EGS and cleanse my PC of it’s…

I mean it’s Randy Pitchford. Anything he says has a 70% chance of being a bald faced lie, a 20% chance of being a half truth and a 10% chance of being a bald faced lie.

Wow, the comment section is a real shit-show huh? Not bad for a 200 word article.

That the punchline isn’t that Tim Sweeney couldn’t correctly identify the PS5 hardware is a bit of a shame tbh. 

This isn’t the same situation as something like, say, Sekiro where people complained it was too hard and needed an easy mode.

I don’t even see the need for a “safe room”. It should be possible to save/quit your instance whenever you are not in combat and be able to resume wherever you left off; essentially the same behaviour as the crappy workaround gives you. This would give no strategic edge to the player whatsoever other than not having…

If Jonathan Swift were around today, and had this misfortune to find himself reading this comment section,  I reckon he’d agree that this article probably won’t be the catalyst that inspires a generation of hard-line backlog extremists.

Are you saying that the author should have considered the extreme outcome you describe before writing a semi-humorous article about gaming backlog definitions? Should such articles should be forbidden, henceforth, lest they trigger this decent into dogmatic lunacy? Since we’re dialling things up to 11, why not discuss…

Were you under the impression that the article wasn’t supposed to be kinda silly? I’m I wrong in thinking that lines like “These rules are written in stone. So it is said. So it shall be.” doesn’t set the tone of light-hearted banter? Maybe it’s just me, and we’re actually being commanded by the author to follow these…

I downloaded it without knowing about the constraints only to be greeted by a 17 hour timer. It’s intensely consumer unfriendly, not only the windows you can play it but the 30/60 minute timer itself that has you rushing through the demo in an unnatural way. Just release the whole demo; no timer, no schedules. If it’s…

The idea that the platforms that only market & sell the games they publish would not like to cut Steam, Epic or any other store, digital or otherwise, out of the equation and have you buy directly from them is fatuous. EA famously tried it with Origin and failed while Activision-Blizzard still retains exclusivity of…

All of the other launchers I mentioned have storefronts for the games they develop/publish and ultimately they all would like you to visit and buy games from them. We can call them platforms for the sake of arguing semantics, the point doesn’t change.

That’s kind of the point, mostly they don’t. Who wants to spend any amount of time in the Bethesda launcher? Or the Rockstar one? UbiConnect perhaps? Battle.net? Origin? Probably nobody, but none of them are in any position to directly compete with Steam.

Getting players to visit the store by enticing them with free games and exclusives is all well and good but Epic seems in no rush to make their launcher a place that people want to spend any amount of time in. There are basic, well established features that any would-be Steam competitor should have had at launch.…

Joel definitely had something coming his way. That’s one of the great things about the original story. We understand that he’s someone who has made inexcusable choices in the name of survival or whatever but because of the relationship that develops between Joel and Ellie we start to forget or overlook those things…

Putting aside the fact that Sony likes money, I’m not sure what they want to achieve from an artistic standpoint here. Anything at all? Improved visuals and TLOU2's new mechanics are a given but that isn’t remotely interesting enough to warrant a remake. We have a remaster that looks just fine and runs great thanks. Wh…

Who else would I be speaking for? It’s called an opinion, you just gave one of your own. 

Oddworld is a pretty uneven series in terms of quality. Odyssey & Exodus were great examples of the cinematic platformer popularised by games like Prince of Persia and Flashback. Back in the 90s the incredible cinematics, audio design and idiosyncratic art style were something to behold and there was real synergy…

There is a lot of trash on mobile; it’s a platform conducive to games with shallow mechanics and insidious business models. Still, a chosen platform doesn’t define the quality of any single game. Plenty of great mobile titles have come and gone over the years.

My takeaway is that Niantic are just a little bit more savvy at disguising what this is. I still see the possibility to pay for a solution to a carefully manufactured problem. If they eliminate that, then we can talk about fun surprises.