Pretty sure the Inquisitor Fortress and its interiors are directly lifted from Jedi: Fallen Order. I am not sure how much design work is actually Cherniawsky and Chiang’s, there, but I haven’t played the game.

This doesn’t even begin to cover the minor yet incredible irritation of having to launch, log-in, and sync four or five different video games in the course of a day, and the inherent instability of trying to get that to work for a large and global player base.

We already have websites that want you to link to your…

That’s a really smart way of looking at it - I should have considered that from the first.

I only EVER hear about this “the Dallas Cowboys meets Supreme meets MTV” group when somebody in it does something appalling.

There is never a headline of ‘FAZE Clan rescues critters from puppy mill” or “FAZE Clan exposed anonymously donating to worthy causes” or ““FAZE Clan act like ordinary people who have to engage…

“Nicer looking” is entirely subjective—and I’d argue ‘we added a bunch of visual ‘upgrades’ that your system will struggle to render smoothly ’ is more of a lateral move.

It’s... interesting, but as someone with a visual impairment I generally only see these kind of improvements with one eye closed and my face pressed to the screen— e.g. ‘oh, so it’ll be slightly hazy with more shadows, now.’ That’s obviously a personal issue, not one that affects all users, but it does mean I usually…

I just picked up the game on sale a few weeks ago. At... what, less than four years old I don’t really grasp what there is that’s going to be ‘remastered’, though I am sure the tech industry can generate yet more pointlessly higher res resolutions for the nine sociopaths who have both the capacity and the desire to…

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I did something recently that I haven’t done in years - I read a bunch of comics, and specifically I read Squirrel Girl and Gweenpool, and was so delighted by the both of them (the latter starts off rough but has this fantastic progression so taht by the end you understand Why It Was like That at the beginning). More…

Also, yeah, when they ‘fixed’ Barbara back into Batgirl it sucked ass, along with minimizing Cassie Cain because let’s be honest DC Editorial dipped its toes into diversity and then said ‘that’s enough” and the last twenty years have seen DC essentially completely ceded ground to Marvel in terms of doing anything…

“ i’ve never played a game i understood less than this one”

Did you ever play Glover on the N64?

It’s a bit tricky to hit the sweet spot because the game breaks-ups its ability across three separate trees—gadgets, suit powers, and skills—and the skills tree itself is ALSO split into three different trees, and far too many feel like they should be things you start with.

But I’ve been thinking a lot lately that…

I mean that really wouldn’t shock me— for all its warm colours and determined characters, the underline premise of Shirobako is that the state of the animation industry in Japan is dire: it’s an essentially unliveable work schedule that leaves you unfulfilled and the only way to make it is to fling out s many…

Oh they’re fun, but I find their fun when you ignore the setting. It’s fun to just fuck around as Batman swinging from buildings and swooping down to punch some bros. It stops being being fun whenever you have to click on a story mission, which are both not terrible interesting as missions but also not good as story.…

I mean if we’re grading on the curve of superhero games, it’s only got one competitor which is the Arkham games, a series that has a very solid combat but even by its second game got completely lost up its own asshole, presenting a vision of a beloved character and his pals (The Bat Family) in a grim, scowly, joyless,…

I mean these are all ordinary Spiderman characters - Norman Osbornes, Doc Octavius, MJ, Aunt May. I think Yuri might be the only new character, though character is a stretch because she hasn’t much to do other than role her eyes at Parker’s Spidercop schtick.

And to be clear I haven’t beaten the story - I’ve just had…

I picked it up on sale last week and I’m playing it for the first time. Swinging around Mahattan feels... perfect. The game has its issues - the combat takes a bunch of levelling before you get the right powers to not feel like you’re a fragile porcelain doll, the island of Manhattan cuts-off dead at Harlem for some…

Maybe something two hours long that completely ruins the mystery and fear of the series biggest threat?

Flirt.