Couldn’t disagree with you more. Each season is $10, and lasts for several months. The story progression, new gear to hunt for, and new modes easily make for $10 worth of content. Only once since the seasonal model was introduced have I felt like I didn’t quite get my money’s worth, but that was the season that…

Counterargument:

the Ubisoft co-founder said the backlash to the Quartz announcement was expected, and likened it to initial public outcry over previous new developments in the games industry like DLC, microtransactions, and loot boxes.

I think you can draw some fairly meaningful conclusions from this demo. It’s rendering a large, highly detailed open world with global illuminations, large numbers of AI cars and pedestrians, ray tracing, object physics, etc... It’s not a little tech demo of a model walking down a steam filled hallway with reflective…

Reading some other articles about this, apparently the city generation was a lot more procedural than I assumed, including the individual assets. (The tools for that have gotten so good, so fast, and I haven’t used most of them myself, so I keep forgetting what they can do.) Rather than things like overlaps and…

Dark Souls 2 and Sekiro, definitely exactly the same. 

So we live in a world where screwing two screws is considered “complicated”.

Installing an m.2 is not actually that complicated dude.

Oooook, but it literally has nothing to do with Untitled Goose Game. And everything to do with a subreddit joke when Hawkmoon was added into the game in Season of the Hunt. Someone joked they wanted a goose-themed ornament for it making the Honkmoon pun, then someone else created a cursed-looking mockup of it which…

It’s still one of the more popular games around, there’s a lot of positive things about it now and then, like recently when people praised the narrative in the past year:

I pirated games a lot when I was younger and poorer, but now that I am financially in a stable place I make a point of voting with my wallet and making sure a developer gets my money if I like what they are making. Same goes for music and art, I love patreon.

Its just inconceivable to me that people return games after…

The seasonal content has been amazing for story. This past season had Saint-14 getting over his bigoted views of the Eliksni. A robo trump that unleashed the vex in the city cause they KNEW the Eliksni would do it, self fulfilling prophecy. Baby Eliksni are adorable too.

I might get back into destiny for this. I stopped after Forsaken because it felt like they were spinning the wheels narrative wise. Glad they’re finally getting back to the meat of the main Hive/Oryx story. Just need to catch up on two+ years worth of story content...

I’m a day 1 Destiny ride-or-die. And this tickles all my tickle-nubs.

You’re absolutely right, of course; I’m really bad about getting the nomenclature that did change between Destiny 1 and 2 mixed up with the nomenclature that didn’t. (I still refer to ‘Light Level’, too.) I should have said ‘primary’, rather than ‘kinetic’.

Respectfully, I don’t see where I speak as if “the game’s mediocrity was the accepted consensus.” I am speaking about my experience. The “in my opinion” is implied throughout in any impressions piece or review. Though FWIW I also wasn’t a total outlier on GoT, there were others who also thought it was just okay. And…

Obviously I don’t know about his private life, but this guy has been publicly kind of a prime example of “using your privilege for good” over the past few years, often putting himself in the line of fire to stand up for marginalized game devs. I mean he literally got fired from Riot for breaking their “social media…

I don’t know if it’s related but r/tlou2 has been outright banned on Reddit.  My vocal dislike of the game lasted a couple days, and then I moved on as any rational sane person would do.  It’s been WELL over a year and these people still act like Neil came to their homes and killed their beloved pet.  

imo, I think “GIMMIE 4K” is a misleading way to demand better performance. Cuz... you’re absolutely right. 4K in the world of console gaming is silly atm, considering how much upscaling and ai processing that’s needed to flub that most of the time. Want your 4k? Well, enjoy your 30 or below framerate, plus, here’s an…

You’re confusing compelling and righteous