Yeah I’d argue to say screw it and just buy Yakuza 0 and Kiwami 2. Easily some of the best games I’ve played in years.

Yakuza 0 in particularly somehow manages to be hardboiled, goofy and sentimental, and do it like it’s fucking nothing.

Kinda makes Kiwami 1 and the remasters of the older ones hard to play through.

It’s actually not that surprising. Sony has always been outwardly hostile to its own legacy. They just don’t see why people would want to play old games, especially if they could just sell you a remaster.

What replaced anonymity were likes and retweets.  So now you have a bunch of people stirring the culture war pot precisely to get a certain number of likes.

I mean everything “is” political.

When incel goobers whine about things being too political or too woke, what they’re saying is that they dislike anything that questions there sheltered perspectives.  Add to culture war nonsense from the likes of The Critical Drinker or Joe Rogan, and you have a bunch of morons…

If you want more info, What Happun’s episode on the XIII remake is pretty great.

I think its even simpler than that: People hide into sports/video games/comic books/etc to escape from how awful the real world is, and are incredibly resentful towards anything that reminds them of that fact.

I imagine that the only real answer is “a whole lotta things contributed to cyberpunk’s fucked up launch”

Double Fine’s very pretty (but ultimately awful) Broken Age

Nier Automata is a hell of a game and a defining example of elevating the jrpg genre. 

Oh I know! Like I figured because any conversation that deconstructs whiteness is met with derision because white fragility. White people are allowed to believe that America truly is a meritocracy and that each and everyone one of them are individuals and not that they are part of a wider narrative.

The thing is, I’m…

sigh. 

They couldn’t care less about the paltry amount of money he spent, he grew his own business and profited, and MAYBE it will have an overall detrimental affect on this F2P bullshit.

That’s not really it. GOP has long since abandoned the “family” aspect of Republican politics and have since replace with it a christian masculine focus that borders on cartoonish. And yet, think about the games we regular consume and the type of messaging they have. Before anyone gives me shit, no I am not saying…

And yet it’s true.

So here’s my issue with this....this simplifies the issue so fucking much to be: this is the fault of democrats, and not the problem of wide spread societal issues that makes fascisim attractive.

No, no amount of “messaging” will fix the problem.  The problem is, there is some rotten in the core of America, where…

While always good. I hope that means money and action.

I want to see a world where the characters and stories that I love don’t end after I finish the game. That’s been a dream of mine for several decades. The biggest hurdle to overcome has been that there hasn’t been a meaningful way to connect different entertainment worlds together in the right way. Web 3 will unlock…

Guys. Say it with me now:

It’s why I don’t really bitch about how Bungie deals with Destiny 2.  There’s a cash shop, it shows you exactly what it has, and then you buy it.  No loot boxes.

This is a far better read on the situation than “people who play this game f2p are responsible for gaming addiction!”

Nah. It’s the whales.  It’s always been the whales.  And these games are made precisely because they know that they can be supported by a minority of gamers who put in thousands of dollars a month into…