It should be noted that today’s Escapist has basically nothing (except Yahtzee) to do with Sterling’s Escapist. That site had become a breeding pool for reactionaries during Gamergate, and then promptly imploded. It’s been a corpse for years. This recent iteration has been resurrected by (I think?) Russ Pitts, who…

To be fair, satirical nazi-chic made a bit more sense before 2014. It’s hard to fathom nowadays, but at the time, if you squinted real hard and were white enough, you could almost imagine fascism as a thing of the past.

I’d say give it a year. Riley isn’t wrong, but he seems to have been comparably lucky. I came to a threshold where the jank was so strong that even the more immersive parts of the game suffered - animations glitching out, cars flying through the air, random deaths, dialogue overlapping, being unable to pick items…

I don’t see us getting a mainline offline FF with stylized visuals anymore - they have to push the graphics, and using this expensive new tech to show stylized characters makes it look like a portable/mobile game, i.e. cheaper. Even though I’d argue the Bravely games look better than FF XV.

I get this. I find MMOs (especially theme-park ones) to be a skittish genre, always worried about losing players to “inconvenience”. Sure, it’s difficult for one to maintain a level of engagement with these worlds as living, breathing places after they’ve sunk in a few hundred hours; the sheen of immersion kinda falls…

AC2's “Italian-accented with random Italian words thrown in”-English dub can be a bit cringy for Italian speakers, but overall it’s fine. Besides, given that the characters are supposed to be speaking in the 1400s version of the Tuscan dialect (which really isn’t that bad, as far as unintelligible Italian dialects go,…

I didn’t get the sense that she’s their new leader. Why would Cap abdicate the role, because she’s powerful? So is Thor.

It’s shaking off slowly. The only people I hear referring to games as “igrice” nowadays are my parents. I don’t see the term crop up in advertisements or on croatian gaming news coverage much. A few more years, and it might become the equivalent of an old person calling every console a “super nintendo”.

Most likely, it’s because few systems match D&D in accessibility and global appeal. Another possibility is that D&D is naturally “crunchy”, i.e. it relies on a lot of specific, idiosyncratic effects, not broad simulationist rules.

You’d make a Destiny GURPS campaign the same way you’d make any other GURPS campaign -…

His way of addressing an “annoying person” is by using a slur burdened by the weight of decades of horrific injustice and violence. He and your “hilarious musician’s joke” get to rot. It’s not hateful, it’s the next worst thing - flippantly dismissive of the experience of those whom the slur was intended to make less…

Nothing can happen to Fahey before I learn how his surname is pronounced! >:(

Man, I forgot how good those facial animations were for the time. You mostly play jaw-less, caped Raziel for a large portion of the games, but whenever Kain is on-screen, he engages in these delightful, long-winded monologues. His emoting was a bit wooden on the PS1, but here...? When did this come out, 2001? 2003?…

I didn’t see where it says that they can’t discuss other games at all. They just can’t endorse them on stream. It curtails what they can say, but I’m sure they’d still be able to stream it and talk to their viewers without saying “10/10 go buy this now.” They are brand representatives now, so this is hardly surprising.

That struck me as the least crazy part. They *are* public personalities with large followings, on Blizzard’s payroll. Any endorsement they make can be construed as the company’s stance.

The game’s premise, plot and systems are already ludicrously ahistorical. It is a medieval reenactor’s wet dream, and by that measure, pure unadulturated fantasy. The fact that you’d settle for such sloppy historicity and then demand it be unreasonably stringent elsewhere, reveals your concern for “realism” to be fake.

I wonder if anyone who buys into the Death of the Author has ever actually tried to create something. Because, if this is truly a “labor of love,” as you say, then Mr. Vávra has probably poured his heart and soul into it. The game didn’t plop out of the ether in a pristine state, fully its own thing, just riding the…

I’ve seen a lot of people praising KC for its “honest, uncensored historicity,” and “subverting fantasy tropes” but I don’t see it doing either. For something so focused on historical accuracy, it tells a thoroughly modern rags-to-riches story, something that wasn’t particularly popular pre-enlightenment.

As a big Dragon Age fan, this is all worrying. I don’t mind the stuff BioWare usually throws in as a “live service” in ME and DA games - those horde modes seem to earn a tidy sum and aren’t half bad usually - but the “lifestyle games”-attitude scares the shit outta me. I’m playing “live service games” already,…

Now now, Guild Wars 2, which is a one-time-purchase MMO, offers free content updates between expansions in the form of Living World episodes. And it’s not the only MMO that gives free content without charging a subscription. Let’s not sugarcoat it, Destiny is trying to pass something objectively worse than anything…

Ugh, new PC player here. If I understood this correctly, then I’m not liking what they’re trying to normalize here. By comparison, there have been many MMOs (and D2 is one, whatever they prefer to call it) with vertical progressions, and they all operated the same: you buy the game and play vanilla content; the game…