“I’d probably also add that, maybe I just live in a bubble, but I played a ton of big budget single player games in 2023, without this level of issues”

They are indeed minor complaints - he’s wildly exaggerating about act 3 - especially by implying that most people had similar problems, when in fact almost no-one managed to get any major questlines to break in the way he describes.

“but a literal huge swath of this game is borderline broken, and has been for some time. In act 3 I had to go back multiple hours, multiple times because of completely broken quest lines due to archaically bad quest design that centered around one or two triggers that *may* or may not happen for every player.”

OH FUCK despite your description I was NOT READY for what I saw when I scrolled down that image.

I can only assume you were unable or unwilling to watch the Twitter post linked in the article which had a video of some of the line-reads.

No.

I can only conclude that guy caught multiple Sony execs dumping the body of a child whilst they were caked in cocaine, and got it on video or something.

“Source? I don’t remember that at all. Like you said, that would have been suicidal and regulators would have eaten MS alive so I don’t see why they’d ever make that obviously empty threat in the first place.”

“I’m pretty sure MS’ OS and productivity software divisions have always been more profitable than the Xbox division, even back in 2001.”

There was absolutely a good reason to enter the console space.

I think that’s pretty revisionist. The initial Xbox and Xbox 360 seemed like fairly smart moves in the context of the gaming and software environment of the time, and didn’t seem like curiosities, rather a trend that started with Sony getting into games with the Playstation. The same “all these other businesses that…

Yeah I loved “We’ve been fighting this war for nothing.” - what an incredible thing to say in public. I mean I’ve been in some very stupid arguments on the internet, but that is truly on another level entirely.

“Levine opted to go for an “everyone sucks” philosophy but I don’t see why that’s inherently problematic.”

Let’s be real - no children are getting shot in a Sonic movie.

Exactly, it’s vile stuff, and there was no reason for it. Even if you want to show revolutions tend to be somewhat bloody affairs (though not always), you don’t have to make the only Black character with a real role suddenly snap to being a child-killing psycho. Just have a lot of bodies in the street, and keep that…

“kinda-sorta well-meaning ideologue”

Historical precedence is an excuse.

The sad thing is they probably started development around the same time as Avengers (they had a very long development time), so were back in the horrific era where every game has to be a GaaS - yet in the four years of development after Avengers flopped, they didn’t until near the end figure out GaaS games were…

That’s got to be one of the most insane-person responses to a game I’ve ever seen, which is saying something given how long I’ve been on the internet.

“both politically and personally, guy’s a douchebag”