Eh the problem with this game isn’t it’s unfinished or buggy.  It’s just lame.  6 more months wasn’t going to turn this into a blockbuster.  Arkane tried something new and failed.  Happens sometimes.

I agree, but is there any indication that this was rushed out? This game’s problems aren’t (chiefly) mechanical (like Cyberpunk), it’s just a bad game. I don’t think any amount of time would have “fixed” it. It’s like a movie with a terrible premise and screenplay. It doesn’t matter how much time you spend filming it.…

Seems to be implying that Redfall’s, erm, “creative direction” was entirely internally motivated. Nobody told them to make a co-op looter shooter, they just wanted to try to flex themselves creatively.

Which is very plausible! A lot of bad games that people wanna pin on clueless executives were actually just creative…

Remember kids:

Lag switching hasn’t been a prominent issue in a fair bit. There’s other, new obnoxious forms of cheating and network manipulation instead!

“Capcom has instead seemingly dug into my brain and pulled out the version of the game I remember playing in 2005”

It’s still one of my favorite openings in a game ever, it was just brilliant.

He took roles that might have been memorable in other hands and made them unforgettable. He was a true titan and clearly so kind. Devastating.

Hol’ up everyone!

While it was maybe for the best it was addressed quickly after the one incident... I think the joke itself wasn’t even that bad? It reads as a joke about transphobic jokes not actually being funny... or could have, delivered by a human. AI doesn’t have that intentionality, no way to wink at the audience that it’s…

“I think it caused trouble for my friends [at Valve], and made their lives harder.”

I played the original PS2 release, and Kanji never seemed gay to me even with his over-the-top Shadow. Rather, I felt like the Shadows didn’t represent a “true self” more than it represented the repressed parts of oneself. That tracks so far given what the game tells us about them.

I get where you are coming from. But implying that 2 dudes being friendly with each other should be gay also diminishes that 2 dudes can also be open with each other and trust each other in a way that isn’t “toxic masculinity”. What I mean to say is they are best friends who care about each other. Atlus definitely…

Konami fumbling the PES series into an early grave has to be one of worst own goals in history. They would totally have been swimming in money by now. Probably would have got Silent Hills too, maybe?!

This actually was Cal’s stance, then he tried to peacefully walk past one of those god forsaken ram creatures, which promptly launched him off a cliff, and since then he’s sworn bloody retribution against any and all fauna that dare cross his path.

Chris Pratt for Link, Seth Rogan as Princess Zelda, Jack Black as Ganon

So... how in the world is this a story?

I got to see Machine Girl at a small overcrowded house venue in Portland just before they “took off” it went something like this: I go downstairs, moving through musty college age students and unable to hear anything besides distortion. I take a look at the set and they are jumping a lot, like compulsively jumping.

Sud…

The amount of butthurt that this review wasn't effusive praise start to finish -- despite the presence of words like "brilliant", "superb", "the best time doing it" -- because it doesn't do anything with its entire selling point mechanic is some vintage Internet gamer stuff. You know John Walker is just his name, he's…