They shipped a product they KNEW didn’t work. They purposely prevented reviewers from seeing X1/ps4 footage despite those being the consoles it was announced for. They also said the last gen versions ran ‘surprisingly well’.

This isn’t releasing a game in a new genre and botching launch like a looter shooter. They knew…

It’s nice to know that a corporation can lie to consumers for years, abuse their employees, allow bigotry to run unchecked, make attacking other companies into their advertising strategy, promise entire game modes that will instead be carved out and sold separately, release a knowingly broken product a good 2 years…

This whole article seems an overly desperate stretch over and around the weird hollowness of the first Avatar movie and its lack of resonance in pop culture despite its box office success. Titanic gets referenced far more in pop culture than Avatar, and it came out 25 years ago. Toys and other Avatar merchandise…

So I was one of the like...six people on the planet who didn’t hype themselves to Mars prior to the release of this game, never pre-ordered it and got to watch the *WILD* fuckin’ fallout of the game. And I have to say after watching the Anime I did kinda feel myself going “you know, what if I bought the game now?”

And…

It’s truly hard for me to imagine looking at a world full of busy people going about their lives and think that something’s wrong with them because they’re not paying more attention to me.

Sure Moore’s Law is dead. Does that mean that it’s impossible to engineer a better card that costs the same as the previous generation did a couple of years ago? Hell no it doesn’t.

That’s just the thing, though. It can only reproduce, and as a bit of code in a computer. You’ll find science will continue to require a huge human component, same goes for psychology or business. These things require something AI can’t reproduce, because the reproduction would be based on inferior data that can’t be…

These AIs that create these pictures are fundamentally limited in many ways. In some sense, they can learn statistically but not causally. Strong AI is a another matter altogether, but it is difficult to say how far away it is.

Yah, you just had to wait a couple years (even for something as basic as NPC’s). Even then, it doesn’t look like all that much these days from what little I care to look at. I’m tired of these “redemption” stories. If you can’t release your game in a workable state and you’re clearly just shoving whatever you can out…

“In other words, it seems like Cyberpunk 2077 might be the game everyone wanted it to be.”

When Andromeda was just known as 4 I was all for moving to a different Galaxy, moving away from Shepard to dodge having to make an ME3 ending canon.

*searches entire review for the word “micro” Phrase Not Found.

Long touted as a series in which players’ choices mattered, Mass Effect 3 notoriously wrapped up the trilogy with three endings that were largely similar in appearance save for different-colored explosions

And it just happened to come from a game published by Amazon.

I don’t disagree with the notion that the attachments and deck-building make it less pick-up-and-play friendly than L4D, but I also think that’s kind of a silly criticism to make. L4D would drown in a week if it were released today.

For better or worse, we just don’t live in the world of static arcade shooters…

I grabbed the game and am enjoying the hell out of it, it’s just more Far Cry, but if you like Far Cry there you go.

“We didn’t patent the Among Us mechanics,” tweeted co-founder Marcus Bromander at the time. “I don’t think that leads to a healthy game industry.”

Huh. Is it bad that I thought “At least it wasn’t another pedophile?”

New and interesting games are all well and good, but you can barely give someone a primer on a campaign world and expect them pay attention to it. These worlds maintain such a high population of players because you only need a basic passing knowledge of what generic fantasy is, and you can roll up a character.

One of us, One of us, welcome aboard the wonderful, heart pounding, tear jerking, shouting into the air with joy world of One Piece. I too see One Piece as a modern masterpiece up there with the greatest manga stories ever told and Eiichiro Oda as a legend among mangakas. This is a series that I have loved for over 15…