a black woman.

We were doing that shit back in the Quake and Unreal Tournament days. This is nothing new.

What a great article about how someone can have a variety of complex, nuanced—and, most importantly—evolving viewpoints about not just a divisive topic, but all the sexist/misogynistic baggage around that character. Thank you for writing this.

Agreed. While it’s all well and good to “Well, actually...” all over everybody about game engines and such, it doesn’t really matter how much people do or don’t understand what a game engine is.

I totally understand your argument (and acknowledge the fundamentally iterative nature of a “game engine”), but for me the issue with Bethesda games, since my last love affair with Skyrim, has been the way they feel not the way they look (I think they generally look good). And I think that aspect is inherently tied to…

While I highly appreciate your reporting and every point you make in this article is sound, that doesn’t change the fact that every Bethesda game since oblivion looks and feels like oblivion and those of us who played oblivion to the ground in 2008 are getting tired of playing oblivion for the nth time in 2018.

Misguided maybe, but it doesn’t change the fact that Starfield and ESVI will both be bug riddled glitch filled messes because Bethesda is really good at creating interactive sandboxes and absolutely horrible at making video games that actually work properly.

Below my reply will be a lot of people generalizing about all players. “It’s all nostalgia and everyone will hate it!” “This is what WoW is!!! The players will come back” without acknowledging, in a player base as large as WoW has had, there’s lots and lots of different types of players.

I mean, you could certainly make the argument that all information serves a public good and that part of a journalist’s job is cutting through the marketing cycle instead of just regurgitating what publishers want said. But let’s say you don’t believe in that argument. Here’s a good example.

There’s an important distinction to be made here between a leaker and a journalist. When someone leaks a document to the journalist, it’s entirely the journalist’s prerogative whether or not they want to report on that. They have not signed any NDAs and have no obligation to protect companies’ secrets. In fact, a…

Correction: there was no harm to you, which is why you don’t care.  

Fair enough place as any to say that we’re here and not going anywhere. And we’re not anyone’s punchline.

Wait what, Sony had Last of Us Part 2, Ghost of Tshushima, Resident Evil 2 Remake, new crazy Death Stranding trailer with gameplay, Nioh 2, and Spiderman. Shit even MS was good with Halo, Ori, Gears, FH4, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, DMC 5, Dying Light 2, Jump Force, Battletoads (!), and a real trailer for fucking…

“You could make the case for having some games run 24 frames as well.”

I see a lot of comments about how matchmaking is completely screwed up or how the devs should have this completely fixed by now and... I mean, I’ve never ever seen a competitive game with a large and diverse playerbase where the players are happy with matchmaking. I think the problem has less to do with poor systems…

I would KILL for an actual, old school rpg on mobile that has zero social mechanics, timers, or loot box purchases.

I’ve been gaming since, what, 1986 or so? It’s true that trash talk has been part of competition (of any kind) likely since its inception—but in the arcades, we had to be ready for physical consequences for our verbal bullshit.

Online trolls don’t have the fear of catching a fist with their face, and so they escalate…

Done. I call it a scroll wheel.