Have faith, Nathan! The way Solomon talked about this game needing a different fantasy than XCOM gives me some hope this might be pretty good in its own terms, actually.

I don’t know why, but for some reason this comment made me laugh for real. “We want equal rights! And also the right to double-park!”

Question: could it be that you were playing at the wrong difficulty level, or do you suspect there’s something more fundamental at play in the perceived lack of foreboding-ness in this game?

It’s not even about boycott and outrage... I just don’t like giving money to a-holes, and this eats into my enjoyment of the game. Also, there’s a whole world of indie devs that also need money, and a lot of them aren’t even scum! Go give those guys your money (and time), instead of giving it to Grade-A POSs, like…

Issue is, removing Afrasiabi’s presence in the game woud be acknowledging the allegations to some extent, which Blizzard is denying. Just... stop playing the games from this s***hole of a company, even if you, like me, grew up loving the heck out of Diablo 2 and Warcraft 3.

There’s nothing wrong with your mom plopping down 15 bucks on Candy Crush. The issue with gacha games is that a lot of them are geared towards exploiting a few people (whales, in the industry parlance) for thousands of dollars, usually through the use of psychological blind spots and game mechanics that actually make…

To each his own, but I really like Barbatos’ design, personally. I understand that a lot of old-time Gundam fans didn’t like how different it is to more traditional outings, but I feel like the weight they gave IBO’s combat scenes made them feel more grounded, which for me was a welcome change of pace.

Maaaan, I played so much Harvest Moon on N64 and GBA. So sad to see how this franchise turned out.

It’s not a videogame, but there’s a board game called The Big Book of Magic, which is essentially Legally Distinct Magic School kids messing too much with the library’s restricted section. It’s co-op, gorgeous, and I really like it.

Both Elder Scrolls 6 and Starfield got teasers before the release of Fallout 76, so it was actually worse: they were preemptively patching things up with their fanbase because they knew they effed up even before the launch backlash.

As tinyhipsterboy pointed out, you can’t definitely conclude that, but you can, as I said, infer it. Which is enough for unconscious bias to creep in.

If your name is, say, Julia Takahashi, you can infer at least two things about this person, without them having to check [Female] or [Asian] checkboxes.

While I agree with the comment in general, I have seen videos with frame rates dipping into the single digits on base Xbox One at launch, which is just unacceptable, if true. Ugly is one thing, but this would be unplayable.

I don’t like all of their games, but my take is that they seem to be way better creatively than with management, particularly on larger projects. On the one hand, they made the best modern Fallout in just 18 months. On the other, they signed the contract that only gave them 18 months to begin with (which also had the…

Welp, too bad I don’t intend to buy any Ubisoft and Activision/Blizzard games anymore. Pity, though, I’m a really big Star Wars fan.

I think you have a valid point, but I also think this could all be circumvented. V could be put on a fixed slower speed inside his apartment (doesn’t make sense to jog around in an apartment, anyways) and scenes can be written around a smaller space (if you can write a scene in a car you can make a scene in a small…

The game has been improving a lot with patches, but I still see the ocasional car clipping through the ground every now and then, and I frequently see stuff spawning inside other stuff. I also encountered a few quest breaking bugs that required loading a previous save. One of them was right in the begining, too: in…

My take on it is that it kinda feels like Fallout 4. On paper, I shouldn’t like it that much: the story is ok, but not anything too special; combat feels sort of uninspired; I finished almost all quests and am still not on the level cap; even on PC, there are a lot of bugs (though the patches have already alleviated…

while those of us who were leads and lower were slowly picked off one by one.

Yeah, I get the same sort of discomfort, but it’s always with irregular holes, not orderly arranged ones. For me, lotus pods are the worst, and the small imperfections in a natural honeycomb are enough to make me feel a bit sick, but stuff like man-made grates and vents are ok.