“the game has been held up as a shining example of what the AAA machine should be in terms of creating a huge, high-quality game without microtransactions and other predatory monetization schemes”

Huge trolling potential. These abilities aren’t gonna stick.

“we are so conditioned by games" speak for yourself. Most people aren't or shouldn't be because there are a lot of games that actually respect the player's intelligence. If hack fraud AAA devs wanna keep having play testers who never played a game before they are welcome to. It's a game, anyone with a brain would at…

Here’s an example as to why I really hate this kind of game design: In Halo 1/2, Bungie (the developer) would put piles of guns and ammo into certain corners. Not hard to find, just like, if the enemies are through the next door, they’d put them to the side of the doorway... and in playtesting for Halo 3, they found…

Here comes the asshole response!
I need to know who the hell these gamers are who literally need their hands held. Like, let’s just pause for a moment and look at what you can and can’t break in basically 99% of games:
- small wooden boxes with different textures: It is smaller than giant crates you might find? Does it…

Crazy how many people out here shilling for MSFT like the gaming world will somehow magically be a better place if they can buy ActiBlizz. 

I have literally never seen a Mr. Beast youtube video. I am only aware of him because he occasionally crops up in news (I think youtube knows enough about me to know I’m not the target demo for Mr. Beast - I can’t imagine the algorithm usually feeds his stuff to people over 35 unless we seek it out). This is a dumb…

Everyone that’s complaining about “free labor” and “big millionaire exploiting his fans”, let’s break this down a bit...

Relax lol. 

Art also requires intent to have any meaning.

How is he “obviously” a right wing troll? Unless the Support Hong Kong movement is suddenly a conservative political point? Sounds like a confused and manipulated kid to me. This is a perfect example of getting to the root of how someone can be manipulated as a child for a political mouth piece. Which I would argue is…

Was Fallen Order actually good or just good compared to the rest of EA’s Star Wars output? I thought the gameplay was a passable souls-like, but the story was like watching paint dry. Cal has to be the most bland video game protagonist in recent history and that’s really saying something.

Which is a pretty big mistake since I count 21 non-portable Call of Dutys and only 13 Battlefields.

Can we address the CCP-size elephant in the room and look at the draconian control the party in place put on everything internet and computer related? Video games VERY much included.

The League thing is pretty funny because he turned the toxicity onto the toxic users and was immediately banned. You can employ the same tactic in any toxic online game and quickly realize it’s only okay to be toxic in certain ways, usually punching down.

Yeah, how dare Dunkey have a sense of humor? Who does he think he is?

My problem with your last article was that you misrepresented what Yoshida actually said by quoting him out of context and constructing your own context around those quotes. You even included the part where he said they were incorporating ethnic diversity in the game before immediately pretending he said there was a…

The truly baffling American desire to police other countries.

Yeah, but context doesn’t make rage bait articles!!

Trust me: even if Jeanne was endgame, it would still be poorly received. Bayo3 is incredibly repetitive with its cutscenes and segments - what Isaiah described is literally the formula for every level. Its tone flails all around the place - the very prologue switches between grim tragedy and black comedy in a way that…