I am mainly wary of two things:

Man, I am just so done with the cosplay aesthetic of adaptations lately. This slavish devotion to trying to match stills from your live action thing to rendered/animated screenshots such that it destroys any sense of verisimilitude it might’ve had. That does not look like a suit of power armor, it looks like a…

We don’t talk about Fallout: Tactics or the console one.

As a very old and crotchety fan, all my enthusiasm for the show drained away once I saw the Brotherhood of Steel front and center in the trailer. Once I saw that, it reminded me that the brand’s Bethesda poisoning had become terminal a long time ago, and that the cool image of power armor is what the series is about…

TIL making upper five figures puts you out of the working class. All of a sudden you’re hob nobbing with the top 1 percent.

To me, Best Family Game means couch co-op, so that would exclude Hogwarts. Plus there’s the fact that kids don’t care about that franchise, so it’s only the parents who would be playing it.

Regardless of the controversy, Hogwarts was a pretty mediocre game and it sold because of the IP it was attached to. To imply that it was “snubbed” for awards is to forget that awards are for the actual game delivered, not for the marketing campaign or sales quantity.

It wasn’t misunderstood and there wasn’t any hidden…

No, it isn’t a single article, it is the entire issue. They look at 30 years of their history, call out “moments” in gaming, and the only people they name? Are men.

It’s a marketing vehicle with pay to play nominations in any category not explicitly designed for indie games. So no.

kind of the problem with a VGA right?  To be profitable it needs views, and gamers are beyond pissy about things. But if nominations are made by polling journalists in the field....you could end up with an Indy in GOTY, it would just have to be the one that blew everyone away.  This year, based on my time on various…

So, Game of the Year can never be an indie game, right? Or can it? I mean, could Cocoon or Dave the Diver even be nominated if they were simply, objectively better game experiences than anything else that year? (in the main category, not indie)

To quote the guy from the other thread: “Starfield wasn’t snubbed. It simply wasn’t deserving.”

Influence does not require recognition. The point of the magazine article is to highlight people who you might not recognize, who influenced gaming. It isn’t supposed to be the most popular names in video games.

That’s exactly what it is. No one wants to read good news.

Except that Roberta essentially invented the genre. She absolutely should have been on PC gamer's list. 

Roberta Williams (already been discussed), helped build a gaming company from the ground up.

Don’t threaten me with a good time.

I’m a white man who has benefited greatly from my privilege over the years (even if I haven’t always been aware of it) so I know my voice probably shouldn’t be the loudest on this issue, but my god even I’m sick of how many talentless white men have infested this industry I love.

But won’t incels feel threatened and cornered by the presence of females in any authoritative role?  

Though the GamerGate trolls have lessened in number since 2014 (or perhaps many of them have slunk back to their dank caves to hit their Juuls, wank, and blow the embedded food crumbs out from the crannies of their keyboards),