They were actually actors on Squid Games season 2 and just didn’t know it.

Nostalgia for this game, if you ask me. Never played it when it first came out, but did play Perfect Dark. And even though Perfect Dark had some enhancements over this game, it was enough for me to find 007 unbearable when I played it finally a few months later.

Well put, and the other thing about this I don’t get: why do we expect celebrities to be perfect people but not everyone else? People will actively come out in droves to cancel a celebrity (essentially, try to get them blacklisted from any future work) over the slightest slight, but that guy in accounting who got…

Yeah, that’s absolutely fair. I do think you should take pause though to think about what that really means.
As a very far-reaching real-world example, John Lennon was an abusive, woman-beating, piece of shit. If I disassociate myself from everyone who likes the Beatles, which of course includes musicians (whether or…

I mean is the guy a piece of shit? Probably.
But can we at least wait for a verdict to decide whether to can his ass or not? (And I know the answer is “no” because shareholders are afraid of the court of public opinion, and in that scenario I really can’t blame the shareholders.)

Yeah I’m just replying here in regards to the thread, not necessarily the OP in particular.

There’s a huge difference between deciding that someone’s beliefs or behaviors are sufficiently intolerable for YOU to no longer support their work, and deciding that someone’s beliefs or behaviors are sufficiently intolerable…

I would argue all of them do, to some extent or another :)

10 years ago I probably still would’ve been hyped but I frankly can’t even remember.
Sequel should have been easy: carry on the narrative from the first one, improve & expand on the Zelda stuff, improve or can the stealth bits, and evolve the overworld more in the proto-open world manner it sort of resembled.

No reason…

JK Rowling’s a piece of crap. So are a lot of artists.
If you’re willing to give up on the Beatles and Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the massive impact they’ve both had on popular culture, I’ll give up on Harry Potter.

Okay, zero sympathy for anyone involved. There has been no proof yet whatsoever that NFTs can create a sustainably profitable ANYTHING, so even proponents of the tech should be skeptical and conservative in their investments, and:

“Helicopter Bob explained that the passive income, the project’s core mechanic, ‘never…

Burger King burgers at least taste like they once saw a cow, whereas McDonald’s taste like you described beef to a foreigner using Google translate and then asked them to do the best they could with whatever they had lying around (which wasn’t beef.)
They’re tasty and they hit the spot sometimes, but that’s not what…

I have a similar problem, mainly coming down to time and patience. When I was a kid it took me an entire year to beat Castlevania III. There’s no doubt I cracked a hundred + attempts on certain sections. Certainly I played other games while working at it, but I had the time to devote to it.
Tons of elements of the…

My bad.
They share so many irritating qualities in game design it was easy to forget!

It honestly aggravates the hell out of me. I got into raising competitiv(esque) Pokemon during XYORAS and while the EV training games took forever, at least I could visualize them. But I had to use Serebii’s IV calculator to figure out what those stats were, and it was all very time-consuming. I’m not opposed to…

It’s absolutely not analogous at all.

Autotune in the manner you’ve described requires someone to create the initial input, someone who is presumably paid to sing or whatnot (I’m not going to get in-depth into how the music industry works, but at the very least, what they do is their job.)

And then the producer, using…

Pretty much always was a DM, and I’ve sunk low thousands of dollars into books for 2nd and 3.5th edition. (3.5rd? 3rd.5?) I never played 4th or 5th so I can’t speak to them.

But I love how a lot of what became 3e and 3.5e grew out of the 2e DM and Player’s Options books, including a true tactical battle system.

If cheap…

I think we kind of hit this homogeneity where almost every AAA game that’s primarily single player action but not sports decided it needed RPG mechanics and an open world.
I love RPGs and a good open world can be great, but not every game needs them. One of the things I loved about Jedi Fallen Order was that it did…

I remember the time I used Cheat Engine to fill out the inventory with all the bullshit stuff like this like the invisible chest that has a 1/255 chance of appearing or getting enough duplicates of what I considered the best-per-character setup armor instead of resorting to some pots with an abysmally low drop chance…

At this point in the game you’re primarily paying for asset development. 4K viable games with high poly meshes take a lot of manpower to produce. Much longer games that look this good tend to have DLC and microtransactions out the ass to offset the fact that the game “only” cost $60-$70.

I had a very pointless argument, er, discussion, with someone online one time about what constituted an RPG in video games. My take was that it was a game design that at its barest included a statistic system and a way to change those statistics. His take was that “no it’s only an RPG if you PLAY A ROLE” and went off…