That was more or less my experience with it.  It was well-made, and in every respect a competent video game, but there was never anything special that helped it stand out in a sea of open-world games.

It doesn’t help that there are a million zombie games out there, and far fewer good samurai games.  Also, Days Gone suffered from a drab, uninteresting brown and grey world, and GoT was more visually interesting in every respect.  

They sold comparably, but Ghost of Tsushima was just a better game.  

I will not wear a mask forever for a disease that will be little more than an annoyance to how I feel every year.

Can we just please be done with mask mandates?

Probably 8-10 weeks ago. Be sure you have your PSN account set up to send notifications, and be sure the emails aren’t going to spam.

They’re on a boat, floating down a river.  

Apply through Sony Direct. Took them about six weeks to email me a link to purchase, and I had a PS5 a week later.

Why is no one, least of all yourself, ever able to articulate even a single one of those benefits? NFTs are a technological “solution” to problems that don’t exist, or have already found more efficient solutions.

I actually liked the ship controls, but yeah, I feel the same about the rest of Outer Wilds. On paper it seems like something I’d be into, but it just did not hook me.

Ken Levine is a fine writer, and a terrible creative director. He works people to the bone polishing his turds until they shine, then when someone finally forces him to ship a product he takes the credit and fires the staff. The results his previous studios put out are despite Ken Levine, not because of him. Even if…

Why come after me 6 months later when you have no shortage of straw men to fight?  You are bizarre little man.  

Look at you struggle trying to justify voting for Biden

But what about all those promises you made at E3?

Imagine a world where you can buy a game on Steam and then sell it or trade it to someone else later. That isn’t a bad thing.

Being a great writer is all well and good if writing is your job. Unfortunately Ken’s job for the past decade and a half has been managing the creation and production of large, incredibly complex interactive software projects.  And he fucking sucks at it.  

Jason Schreier did the reporting, and he is a capital “J” Journalist. You’re falling into the same trap that the video game media did a decade ago: thinking the quality of Levine’s previous projects are because of him, rather than in spite of him. Every single one has the same development history: Levine dicking…

Setting aside whether the label truly fits Levine, the only way to get art out of an auteur is to give them a budget and a deadline and stick to it. If you do that, you’ll get art. It might be good or bad, and it might even be great.

I really wish 90% of the top-quality VR projects weren’t horror games.  

“As a very smart person who knows lots of things, let me tell you about how smart I am and how many things I know. I am very smart about things that you are not smart about, but no, I will not explain how the smart things I know are actually smart or useful, you’ll just have to trust me about how smart I am.”