They still abolished Unity Plus and are forcing everyone on Plus to upgrade to Pro which costs $2000/dev/year instead of $500. They also don’t allow mixed licensing for a team, so EVERYONE has to go up to Pro. All this other stuff was smoke and mirrors. They found a way to monetize their wide developer base, and the…

If language was the only way to convey emotion I’d agree, but Samus works better when she isn’t monologuing about her feelings. She reminds me a bit of Emma Blunt’s character from Sicario - she’s focused on what’s going on and doesn’t talk or even explicitly emote a lot, but you can tell what’s going on in her mind by…

So here is where it gets complicated and why the discourse around this stand up is kind of stupid...

Given that the complaining fans now were at one point the kids who didn’t have EXP share or had it as a toggle, it’s probably going to be okay. No kid is going to drop the series because of a setting they accidentally disabled. They may accidentally disable it but it’s not going to lose a fan.

There have been so many articles about the Chapelle special and so many comments and I’m still waiting for *any* of them to make a single mention of Daphne, who had about 1/3 of the special devoted to her.

They did not. They used it as an example of a criteria that made them the butt end of a different Chapelle joke.

It is highly unlikely that is the reason. The Pokemon example is popular, but it speaks more to GameFreaks coding inefficiency rather than some magical super-compression technique Nintendo has. Most studios just do not prioritize it at all. Nintendo has been working with smaller storage spaces for their entire history…

I guarantee you virtually every other company has multiple devs who could compress things way the heck down and it just isn’t prioritized. There are hundreds of good ideas the devs could implement to tidy up the game, but the average manager doesn’t give a rip about hardening sprints. They want features, they want…

“Smash Bros Community Already upset about thing that hasn’t happened yet and may never happen, but also upset because it may never happen!”

Down with Taco Bell, long live Taco Time!

I am not particular pro or anti Chris Pratt. I have zero strong opinions about the guy. All of this is ridiculous.

Right, but even if there is actual bigotry where he goes to church (and there is) it doesn’t mean we need to go after Chris Pratt about that anymore than we should go after you because of the problems at Kotaku.

In the case of Forspoken it is less of a CGI trailer and more of reskin of the Unreal Engine 5 demo for PS5, color palette and all :p

For the record no one started splitting hairs on the distinction between “remake” and “remaster” until FF7R decided they were going to give the original story the fanfic rewrite. When FF7R was announced the assumption (and marketing) indicated it would be a faithful remake of the original... it would be creating “FF7"…

I think we can all agree that the best outcome is the creation of a separate game for every single planet the gang visits so we can buy the remake several times, major changes to the core plot, a thematic rewrite into a meta commentary on the very nature of creating a remake, and a change the genre as well.  They…

When the dev puts in the work to create a game, assumes the financial burden and risks from it, and burns through the limited years they have in life to bring it into existence they earned the right to determine what was in it. They also can’t please everyone, and by extension can’t *not* offend anyone if they are…

“This then extended into an online harassment campaign against the voice actor for the abusive character and spiraled from there.”

Sounds to me like the VA nailed his performance and should be commended. It also sounds like the gamers upset on Twitter are the type that would be upset by something a person did in one of their dreams.

Yep! They accomplished the feat of simultaneously having the contrast too high while still not allowing the colors to really shine through. Getting those details right is really difficult but that’s something the original did really well. And they more or less ignored all of it.

You misunderstand my point. My point is that the devs created a sexist game (I’m just going to use that term for simplicity). I don’t know if that attracted a large sexist group of gamers or created them (and I don’t particularly care), but my point is that by doing update after update of keeping things exactly the…