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…

Could have kept this one in the drafts.

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 appear to have very strong feelings about this. Perhaps they would be better served by you sharing them somewhere other than an article solely about an artist who just happened to work on that game, among many others.

You’re confusing compelling and righteous

Wait until you find out about development in the HD era.

“Writers only ever communicate exactly what they explicitly intended to communicate” is a hell of a take.

This notion that you can take highly political situations and just opt out of making a political statement means you’re not being political is eyerolling. It doesn’t have to be a grand political statement. No one is arguing they should be putting out some sort of philosophical treatise or anything. But when you make a…

Seriously. Can’t a company make a game about overthrowing a fascist government in Not Cuba without people asking if there are any statements about the real world. Not Cuba isn’t even a real place. DUH!

Well, no shit?

I 100% agreed with this blog until last week I finally got a PS5 with Sony Direct (the store I tried to buy from after the first two months of adding to cart hell).

Except for the very obvious difference between the two situations.

But what’s that I hear... oh it’s the complete absence of outrage at corporate censorship from those who’ve spent the last how many months decrying “cancel culture”.

Womp, womp. There’s clearly a worse side. And that is Israel and the US. 

It’s pointless if you don’t care about international law, human rights and historical record, sure.

The ‘both sides’ argument isn’t quite valid when one side is holding the other side in an open-air prison often without water or electricity. The longer Israel oppresses people the harder they’re going to fight back unless you just kill them all, and taking the centrist stance on this sounds just like saying ‘eh, i…

If we only had a president who had some backbone none of this would be happening now.