This or a loading screen.... ill take this!

This excuse is of course total bobbins; who says you need multiple Battle.net accounts to play local co-op, when you can just have all the local players using different characters on the same account? I mean, you can still have multiple characters per account, yes? So let the local players bring one of them into the…

If it works on console, it’s trivial to get the tech working on PC, so a quick spitball idea:

There was also Angelo, Rinoa’s dog in FFVIII. One of her attacks had her fire him like a cannon at enemies.

Party? It’s a computer controlled and operated escort.  

I’m suddenly reminded of the Lightning Returns dog...

Beyond that, even within videogames they were sexualized long before FF7. I can think of more than a few PC and Sega/SNES games with sexualized skirts that predate FF7. 

Apparently Ashley (the author) has never been to Japan.

For PC players, who previously never had access to a dodge,

So the PC version has a dodge now, too?

I guess that settles it; I’ll be playing Diablo on console for the first time.

My laptop sounds like a jet in takeoff just idling, and sometimes it gets too hot and stutters playing something simple like MTG Arena.

“Games like FFVII recontextualized the skirt as feminine clothing item not only for women to wear, but to be sexualized in.”

This strikes me as an odd blanket statement. Skirts have been sexualized for far longer than their appearance in videogames, and their usage in games is reflective of their usage in reality…

I don’t even know where to start with this. Dodge rolling has always been a dumb, overused mechanic that is mostly the fault of Souls games at this point, and even there, it was limited by equipment weight and stamina.

I’d say the most controversial change is stuffing the game with microtransactions and live service bullshit in an effort to create a perpetual money machine for sex criminal executives.

So you’re fine taking quality time away from your partner for every other aspect of a video game that’s probably going to be 100+ hours long, but you draw the line at spending maybe 10 total minutes of completely optional gameplay if it’s sex related? I mean why play video games at all when you can do literally…

Clarification to my reply: apparently Fallout 4 was listed with sex as moderate impact (but no nudity?) so there might be some truth woven into the article 

This article has a really weird tone. I guess it seems like Starfield will be just like every other Bethesda game. It will contain no explicit sex scenes at launch and go on to be one of the most modded games (and a good chunk of those mods will be focused on sex). Meanwhile, 99% of other American produced media will…

Good for them. These hackers are fucking awful: “Just because our country is literally trying to murder you is no reason for you to not... localize the game for Russians”.

Entitled pricks. Like, sorry - the devs aren’t monkey forced to dance for your amusement.

I rarely side with automakers or dealers, but damn these owners suck and just need to deal with it. This is literally how every consumer product works. Unless there was a contract or documentation stating these would never be made again... too fucking bad? This is what you get for overpaying for stupid vehicles.

Probably too little, too late to make this game an interesting single-player experience with depth and story, like the Guardians of the Galaxy game. To take all of the looter-shooter elements out of the game would probably ruin the whole thing (even moreso).

You feel that Fallout 3's world, which left a green haze over everything as though it was destroyed yesterday... a coouple of hundred years after the bombs fell... was more realistic than the recovering wasteland of the Mojave.

Yeah, fail.