“Too much story and character development, not enough explosions!” That’s all I hear when people say “nothing happened”.

Andromeda is my favourite Mass Effect game.

You can’t really blame sony for not putting the effort into backward compatibility. What has it gotten them? With the PS2 it was this huge selling point to play PSOne titles on PS2, they went into the PS3 doing the same thing. They gave us a beast of a machine that did it all. Instead of a flood of customers, they got…

Never cared to try an Apple product but in truth, if you like Apple products, I’d just have some patience, see what gets fixed.

It’s not just disagreeing and I think if you weren’t so determined to see me as a fight you have to win you would see that. The GG connection I made was due to what I see as a callousness towards a position of reasonable concern for how a game whose themes include the fallout of toxic masculinity engages in an…

That didn’t really answer my question though. How does the phrase “insidious kind of peer pressure” imply he has a deep psychological condition? How does that phrase imply that things should never hurt his feelings?

I feel like if you’re basing all of your consternation on 5 words out of 1300+, that’s more on you for…

I don’t think you and I read the same article. You are attributing a ton of malice and emotion to this author and his intent that is not at all described by the article or words he wrote.

Or maybe a game critic sees something in a game that doesn’t jibe with the rest of the game and points it out. And then extrapolates that into a general statement about the way that games sometimes taunt the player. I don’t know that I wholeheartedly agree BUT your antagonism towards the article is fucking weird and…

Yet here you are, SUUUUPER focused on this non-battle.

I’m good with metaphors that work.

You’re as dumb as Joe Rogan, who also doesn’t understand how adjectives work. There is a type of masculinity that is toxic. That’s all that phrase means. When I say I saw a white dog that doesn’t mean I think all dogs are white.

Okay, okay. Hold on. The post you’re referring to did not call for game developers to “take a game option away from everyone.” It was a trend piece. I noticed that two big new Ubisoft games (ACO and FC5) both had compasses in place of minimaps, and saw that as a possible sign that more open-world games in the future…

His point is that it shouldn’t insult you. Especially given the ACTUAL CONTENT of the game, which includes criticism of toxic masculinity. Makes perfect sense to me.

“Sack up, man”

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Did you read the article at all? Do you not spend your time thinking about things? Have you ever given thought to things that others might consider a waste of time?

Did you actually read what he wrote, or did you fly down to the comments after the headline like the OP here?

Speaking of weird insecurities, here you are angrily questioning the masculinity of a stranger because he wants to play a game on easy mode.

It seems clear to me that his point isn’t “I was so offended and hurt by this game insulting me”, but that the difficulty menu doesn’t really fit with the game’s tone and that it discourages playing the game at a difficulty level that he (and presumably others) found more enjoyable.

He didn’t claim to be “bullied”. That’s your own overwrought interpretation of a not particularly angst-ridden article.