Is it foolish of me to feel the spark of hope that the “older weapons” thing is suggestive of a return to more of a Far Cry 2 feel that tones down some of the bombast and the low-attention-span, something-every-thirty-seconds design of the last couple ones?

Hey, I’m gonna need you to get alllllllll the way off his back about this.

I think that a version of it could exist that wasn’t so imbalanced, so I’m sad to see it go completely—it had potential if it were something that were extremely infrequent, rather than feeling like a GTA police star system with extra steps. But I’d rather see it go entirely than remain as it was, that’s for sure.

This was my take as well. I love vikings as much as the next person, but at the same time, playing as them in a videogame as the heroes is a little weird. The dude was trying to place it like, “Obviously the Saxons also live in England and they don’t want you to take that land so they’re going to try to stop you,”…

On paper I really like what this is doing. Amassing an army of randos with unique skills is the only way to actually do permadeath in this kind of game, and I like the concept of getting randomly generated missions to keep you always with little things to do. It takes the curated busywork and adds just enough…

God how wild and amazing would it be to hear, “For too long these problems have been running rampant not only in this industry at large, but right in my company, right under my nose, and not only does that make me ultimately responsible for addressing it, it makes me complicit, too. I have allowed profits to guide me,…

My spouse and I are literally trying to close on our first home and a large part of today was spent dealing with an issue where the underwriter needs to know where a deposit into one of our accounts came from even though they have copies of the statements showing it was a check from him to me, one account to another,…

I feel this. I thought it was meh. I’d give it about a 6.5 if I had to put a hard number on it. If you asked me to write a sequel story to the first game (which would get about an 8 from me), I absolutely wouldn’t have written one starring the same characters. But if you told me I had to have them, I absolutely…

Don’t forget the crunch! Yes, condemn toxic harassment of the people who worked on your game when it comes from (definite asshole) fans but defend yourself and your work ethics when journalists are reporting on your practices of... the toxic mistreatment of the people who worked on your game.

Movies and shows need independent audio tracks with separately adjustable volume just like games.

Also, a dog mode, where dog barks, cat meows, knocks, and doorbells are turned off and just subtitled.

I could not possibly agree more with this take. THAT sounds like GOTY material, not this pretentious misery. Your game sounds bold and brave and beautiful and capable of evoking fear and uncertainty and wonder in ways this one never could.

I want one just for the comfy-looking grips. Holding a normal Switch for any length of time leaves me with a major case of claw-hand--it’s just not ergonomic, and holding that not-nothin’ weight basically in your clamped fingertips rather than in your palms is a pain for me.

I like “drives” in some versions of Dungeon World or other Powered by the Apocalypse games. Usually it’s something like a goal or general (or maybe even specific) moral belief meant to guide your play.

One mechanical implementation I like is having these drives as well as stuff like quirks and even species traits…

I watched a full playthrough and I felt a lot of similarities to Red Dead 2, which is to say, there’s a cinematic art thing that’s just a little too up its own ass in there, and there’s also an action shooter that’s clunkier than its contemporaries in that field in there, and neither of those things are really mixing…

“Hey, is Benedict Cumberbatch Khan? Really seems like he’s Khan.”

“WHAT. Nooooo, not at all. Silly, not gonna happen. Definitely not that.”

**Benedict Cumberbatch is Khan**

“What a twist! Bet you didn’t see that coming!”

If your thing has a twist or a reveal or a gut-punch or whatever and everybody sees it coming a mile…

I watched a bunch of footage of this and it looks really cool, but also like it’d really sour without a much MUCH larger variety of ships and interactions. Like, toss in massive battleships with war damage and very specific sub-goals (find the blackbox, for example), cruisers with stories to tell (logs you can find to…

Yeah. I love ME2, don’t get me wrong, major improvement in a millions ways, BUT I was always a little bummed that it became kind of a swanky disco sex party where all the aliens were super hot. I mean, Samara could step on me, absolutely, but we gotta recognize that her open-to-the-belly outfit is pure fanservice—and…

What’s especially droll about this writer’s take is that there was a huge backlash prior to (and after) the game’s launch where a bunch of gamergater-ass incels lost their shit over how allegedly ugly she was—it was all the same gross shit you would expect.

Seeing somebody matter-of-factly “fix” her appearance in a…

I read that this was done because of some legal restrictions in certain countries on how and where guns could be shown pointing that closely toward the audience and while that’s 100% hearsay it *sounds* like it could be true?

Beat me to it. “Fixes some poor character designs” as we see Peebee whose original design was great replaced with a less interesting generic barbie-doll version of herself. Snore.