The recent resurgence of Lain kinda bugs me because a LOT of extremely online weebs seem to view the show as some kind of cyberpunk show about a cool hacker girl. If anything it’s a bit of a condemnation of our overly plugged in world (which, btw very prescient of modern internet for a show made in 1998!). I love the…

I was a little shocked that Nintendo would even allow for a day 1 patch. I don’t mind, but I always thought they felt themselves “beyond” that. When the most conservative Japanese developer is doing stuff like that... Gaming is really in a different era.

not to be TOO hard on game developers but as somebody who went to university for it... there’s just ... a lot of aspiring game developers who LOVE what’s popular. I knew so many dudes who thought it would be the coolest shit in the world to make a first person zombie survival/shooter game.

wait, but I use discord for both chatting with friends and fetish porn servers. Can I still keep those names separate tho???

It’s funny. I can remember when the PS1 launched and how I thought that Sony’s first party games always felt a little too “calculated” as a brand. I still still feel that to this day. At the same time, Yoshida isn’t wrong. Sony is making some of the more interesting AAA games - it’s just that everyone around them got…

Why not just make it some cop-show-esque premise about busting a drug cartel? Like, I get that TV cops are still obviously copaganda and usually there’s some subtle racism if you dig enough in the show, but it would still help to take away any real world ambiguity. You could be a special cop that only deals with high…

This man is a true cyberpunk

The depressing thing is that this is at all notable. Some have already pointed out that Blizzard uses bittorrent for their software downloads - the only difference is that Blizzard has its own client that hides everything from the user. I’m sure nobody would even take note if this company wasted time and made a…

Honestly, before hearing about this, I held MiHoYo in pretty high regard. I know Genshin Impact is a gatcha game that can seriously siphon people’s money away, but it really does feel like they tried to make a real high quality game. There’s a full story and constant updates and a pretty cool world. I felt like some…

I’m in my pro-crunch era >: )

I’m gonna put aside ethics arguments about AI for a sec. I have my views and feel pretty strongly about them but I want to give a more cut-and-dry take:

Man I was excited by the headline, but I’m not impressed. They test it out against some dinky little super soaker. I don’t know where waterguns are at right now, but this is nothing compared to the super soaker arms race of the 2000s. The auto loading is very cool, but what about the insane bazookas of yore that left…

imo the Steven Universe toxicity is a little more nefarious. Rick & Morty is cynical and ironic, and the fans are just as cynical and ironic. They’re still annoying, but at least they know on some level that they’re lame and stupid. They’re still toxic, mind you, but at least they’re honest about being toxic. Steven…

“copying capcom’s homework with Okami” “unabashedly referencing?” 🙄

Ugh, I just got trauma flashbacks being a fan of jrpgs at this time and having everyone online describe the stories using 10 year old cliches that weren’t even relevant anymore - as if western games were any less hackneyed in their storytelling.

From a straight up quality standpoint, I must confess: I don’t think this video looks as dogshit as everyone is saying. That said I also don’t think that it looks incredible or like animation. The article puts it very well in saying that it’s AI assisted rotoscoping - except animation on a rotoscoped project still can…

In the early days, before JRPG was an “accepted” term, I sometimes saw “CRPG” which still (very rarely) gets used, for “console RPG”. Honestly, it’s probably a better descriptor for that type of game, as plenty of westerners are making games inspired by Final Fantasy.

I know lots of people have already replied to dunk on you, but CoD actually had a pretty healthy multiplayer scene on Wii. Also, an IR pointer takes a little bit of getting used to, but you’re basically playing with mouse and keyboard once you get good. The skill ceiling was such that controller players would complain…

The whole thing surrounding this game kind of weirds me out. It seems to me like there’s extra scrutiny on them just because they’re Russian. There’s been a huge Russia-bad circlejerk online ever since the war started that basically equates to “You mean I can finally be xenophobic??!”. Yes, war bad Putin bad ect. The…

I wouldn’t worry too much. As they point out, the game was originally built for the WiiU. Also, it’s been 6 years (wtf??) since the first game. That’s plenty of times for new discoveries and optimizations to be made. Consider that the switch version of BotW was most likely developed largely on a spec that hadn’t been…