Can someone explain to me why loot boxes in Overwatch aren’t similarly controversial? Or is this just a “frog in hot water” situation where we’re used to that, but Battlefront II is new?

So if I’ve never played Call of Duty and haven’t played Madden since the Sega Genesis, I shouldn’t pass this up? Will six months be enough to finish all of them?

The only thing I wanted to do with Curators is the ability to mute, ignore, etc. any curator that I know I don’t care what they think. There are lots of curators like “Games that aren’t 60fps” or whatever that I simply don’t care about as well as ringleaders for the very worst of “Gamer” behavior that I’d prefer to…

I will not rest (not really) until all of my favorite genres get improbably mashed up with rhythm games. Between this and Necrodancer, now I’m mostly waiting for some kind of rhythm-stealth game.

If you hadn’t said “Lawful Good” in the title, I would have thought “Redeeming D&D’s Worst Alignment” would have been about Chaotic Neutral i.e. “The DM said I can’t be CE so I’ll write CN on my character sheet instead.”

I got “Alive Peeing” which I sort of understand (not that it’s explicit but that it exists.) The open-world Bethesda style game I have enjoyed the most by far is New Vegas, in part because the Hardcore mode really clicked with me. I get that people find “having to eat, drink, and sleep regularly” is tiresome but I…

This probably shows my age, but I sincerely don’t understand why anybody would want to watch someone else play Minecraft. That’s like watching someone else assemble LEGOs; sure maybe they’re better at it than you are but actually playing the thing has to be more fun right? It’s not like the difficulty or complexity…

The vaguely amusing part for me is that “Garbage Human” is just such a gentle insult, that seeing the “I’m un-PC, I don’t care who I offend” crowd getting up in arms about it shows some pretty clear hypocrisy or at least “can dish it out but can’t take it.”

I’m pretty confused about the corner of Youtube that feels that it’s their right or obligation to “debate” everyone that happens to annoy them. To me it seems fairly clear that debate is productive provided two things are true:

On paper it probably looks better than trading prime Kevin Garnett for Al Jefferson, Ryan Gomes, Gerald Green, Johnny Flynn, Wayne Ellington, Theo Ratliff, and Sebastian Telfair at least.

I really don’t like first person shooters (they give me motion sickness), but on the other hand I really hate Nazis. So I’m conflicted as to whether or not I would enjoy this game.

I do not have a 4K TV and it’s practically unthinkable that I will purchase a 4K TV until I move to another place. I literally do not have room for a screen that’s more than about 44" in the living room area, and 4K at that screen size basically makes no sense unless you sit <5 feet from your screen.

I feel though, it’s a different kettle of fish to make a new studio to make an MMO than it is to ask a bunch of people who made Mass Effect to make an MMO (while at the same time asking a new studio to make a Mass Effect.)

I mean, it’s my experience that every online-only game I’ve ever seen tends to get dominated by “rude white guys” so making a *Bioware* game always online is just bizarre to me when Bioware has such a diverse group of fans (which Bioware ordinarily appears to want to cater to) many of whom gravitate to “single player…

Here’s how to tell whether or not Mr. Soret is sincere. Right now, in his defense, the usual suspects have started harassing old Gamergate targets because Zoe Quinn is apparently responsible for someone else entirely digging up the dumb stuff that Mr. Soret said on twitter or something (that lot was never good at…

Number one feature request:

My real question is: If I don’t have a 4K TV and I have no particular interest in acquiring one, then there’s no real reason to pay attention to the XOX, right?

I think, unless the change of heart has been public, sincere, and actually includes a direct attempt to make amends to the people harmed by that particular sad chapter in the history of gaming culture, there’s absolutely no way I’m buying or otherwise supporting your game no ifs, ands, or buts. Nobody who had…

I mean, the reason I love Bioware games is that I don’t like playing games with other humans who aren’t in the same room I am, and Bioware makes things that are “like playing D&D but you don’t have to coordinate when everyone is free.” I had never seen a game that appeals to me *less* than Destiny until I saw Tom…

I mean, the basic premise of the game appears to be “If society were to meet everybody’s basic needs, humanity’s drive and creativity would stagnate.”