From what little I understand about the topic, Crysis 1 runs so badly even today because it was designed under the assumption that CPUs would remain single core and keep increasing in clock speed over the coming years. They didn’t anticipate that clock speeds would plateau and processors would instead add additional…

It’s technically true, depending on how “English-speaking world” is understood. There aren’t that many countries where the majority of speakers are native English speakers, and of the people living in such countries ~64% live in the US. There’s a lot of English speakers, but mostly as a second language in countries…

I don’t understand your criticism here. Avengers: Endgame is made worse by the fact it doesn’t have anything of substance to say about anything of importance. And that’s why it’s mindless popcorn entertainment: completely disposable and all but guaranteed to be forgotten in a decade or two. And saying as much about…

I think you overestimate how much interest those projects drummed up for the Conker IP. I think the confusion and incredulity displayed by nearly every comment responding to your post shows that. It’s fine if Conker is the IP you most want in Smash and Steve does nothing for you. But don’t try to claim that somehow…

I somehow doubt that Project Spark or Young Conker for HoloLens did much to increase Conker’s visibility in the under 30 crowd. Project Spark was largely seen as a failure, and HoloLens isn’t even available to consumers last I checked. I think you’re projecting your own gaming interests onto the rest of consumers.…

I hate to break it to you, but nobody under the age of 30 has any idea who Conker is, which means a huge chunk of Smash’s audience has no idea who Conker is. When was Conker’s last game? 20 years ago? (and I don’t count Live and Reloaded) Even then, Conker was in 2 games, one of which was never rereleased and the…

I can’t speak for other fields, but in my own (philosophy) there has been a reckoning in recent years, at least of a limited sort. Peter Ludlow, Thomas Pogge, Robert Hanna, and Colin McGinn were all quite big names who were forced out of the field entirely. This may also be a result of coming from a somewhat…

Being in academia makes all of these complaints seem quaint. Any area where people use phrases like mutatis mutandis, sui generis, prima facie, and salva veritae without the slightest hint of self-awareness is often insufferable. I’ve heard the latter three in casual conversation within the past week alone.

That’s how I feel about Morrowind personally, which is easily one of my favorite games: I love everything about that game except actually playing it. The combat is wonky as all hell, the progression is completely busted, and it’s generally a glitchy mess, and that was all true even by the standards of the time when it…

What if I think soup is a concept with prototype instead of definitional structure?

I’m guessing you’ve read some analytic philosophy then haha.

As someone getting a PhD in philosophy, this made me want to die. Mostly because this is frivolous even by the standards of philosophy, but also because it’s just bad philosophy of language.

For me, XII stands out primarily because of its aesthetics, story, and tone. Everything past VI (with the exception of IX) feels very disjointed and unfocused. The stories became so so meandering and incoherent that it puts even the worst of anime to shame, and the world elements and characters designs are often so…

Yeah, but the problem is that there’s no reason to get the original Xbox over the similarly priced PS4 or the Pro. Many people were seeing the Xbox One X as Microsoft’s push to take market share from Sony. If the strategy is to have the majority of the market buy a Xbox One S, the system that consumers have already…

Your complaint misses the point entirely; it’d be akin to complaining when an analyst said a $300 unlocked iPhone would fail in developing markets. Sure it’s a great deal, but that’s not the point. If it’s priced out of what consumers in that market are willing to pay for that type of product it will fail, pure and…

Playing any game or doing anything in a game I won’t remember in a year’s time. Getting older has made me realize how precious my time is, and how much of an absolute waste spending it on inane collectathons and grinding is. When the choice is between, say, playing something like Shadow of the Colossusm, which I still…

I had a roommate who once laid a ton of plastic shopping bags on our dorm’s living room floor like a tarp and proceeded to smash a bunch of live crabs to death with a hammer.

Everquest and World of Warcraft (along with a few random MMOs over the years). It took years to realize that the only thing keeping me playing was pressure from friends and the addictive nature of incrementally upgrading my characters. The gameplay and the experience generally was dreadfully boring and repetitive in…

The problem is that even taken as an exploration game No Mans’s Sky is underwhelming. The planets are all far too similar, both in general aesthetics and in what populates them. Once you’ve gone into a single cave in No Man’s Sky you may as well never enter one again, because every single cave system in the game is…

Aren't the comparisons with things like the 32x and the Sega CD apt? The problem with both those addons is that they split the user base, and it never made sense from the developer’s perspective to make a game that could only be played by a small subset of the hardware base. The same thing happened with the New 3DS,…