Look, we’re clearly not going to change each other’s minds. All I was trying to say from the beginning is that I’m impressed Sean Murray swallowed his pride and is really trying to make NMS into a good game. It’s not quite the game that many initially hoped for, but he and his team are working to make it into…

You’re still looking at this as if we made bold claims. He didn’t. As I said before, he communicated poorly, but in many of his statements, he wasn’t technically wrong. It was mostly vague, which gave so many people false hope. He never released any clarification about many of his statements. He never corrected…

1) Can I play Zelda: Breath of the Wild with my friends? Of course. Does that mean it is multiplayer? Nope. haha.

We keep going in circles, but that’s exactly what I’m talking about. How do you communicate “multiplayer features” without ever directly saying there is multiplayer or not? Most of his answers were so vague and weird that the internet community had hundreds of pages of theories as to what he was talking about. When…

Rewatch his interviews if you don’t believe me. Don’t just read the Reddit posts with the compiled list of “lies”. Watch and listen to him. He almost looks terrified each time he’s interviewed, and when he answered a lot of questions, you could easily see when he was comfortable with the answer and when he just didn’t…

There were a lot of reasons people didn’t like NMS, but I personally think if Sean Murray had been more clear and direct in his communication prior to the game’s release, a lot of the problems could have been ironed out quickly. But because he was so vague and weird with his answers, everyone began over-analyzing and…

Again, that was the problem. He never actually said it, but he also never not said it. The problem was he never actually directly said anything. He spoke in circles and gave really weird generic answers that didn’t actually answer anything. I’m not defending the guy, really, but I think gamers put a lot more into this…

It was not a shell of a game, because “games” are not limited to certain confines. No Man’s Sky is an exploration game, and that was its main promotion. They didn’t focus so much on anything else, because they wanted people to see that a game could carry itself based solely on being curious and exploring.

I agree with you strongly that the price tag was way too high. However, “3 to 4 hours of content” is incredibly subjective. I played it for about 30 hours before getting bored, because I really did enjoy the exploration. Playing alongside my son was awesome, too, because he was so curious about the different…

In retrospect, he didn’t really lie about the multiplayer. He just didn’t tell the truth. He avoided the questions with the most bizarre responses, and often time, it sounded like he was confirming multiplayer. But if you go back and watch them, he never outright says it. It’s really strange, and he did a very poor…

Say what you want about Sean Murray, but he’s really come around and proved that a team can really turn a turd into a diamond with a lot of genuinely received feedback. No Man’s Sky was a decent game upon release, but wow, did it lack a lot of stuff that many people were expecting.

The Order: 1886 was, in my opinion, an incredibly underrated game. Sure, it was not perfect by any means, but it was a risk Sony didn’t have to take at all and it opened up a wonderful new world, as you pointed out.

That thumbnail, though. hahaha. That play button couldn’t be placed any better.

Agreed. With the amount of indie games jumping on board, I’m just patiently waiting for Gang Beasts to show up on Switch. It will be an immediate purchase from me!

I feel like Duck Game and Gang Beasts are perfect indie games for the Switch, as Nintendo platforms still scream local multiplayer. Both of those are hilarious multiplayer madness, and with the Switch being so easily portable and able to link with other Switches, these seem like no-brainers for me.

That was my problem, too. I thought they turned him up way too high and way too fast. Killmonger could have been a great return villain for a second Black Panther movie where he could get more fleshed out and become more and more evil in the process. But in this one, I feel like the pace just went too fast given how…

It’s not really a matter of the games you like, but the personality playing the games. Personally, I don’t like speed running, but I enjoy watching it. There are some speed runners that are BORING or annoying as mess, but I find GrandPooBear to be a lot of fun, since he usually talks about other interests that I also…

It’s really hard to tell, honestly. As you said, Mario and the like will definitely stand the test of time. The fact that Mario has been around as long as he has and still pumped out top-tier games is testament to the franchise’s strengths.

I felt the same way until early last year when Kotaku talked about GrandPooBear. I actually really enjoy watching speedruns, but was unaware of the Twitch speedrunning community. I started watching GrandPooBear’s videos on YouTube of him trying to beat Super Mario records, and he was just a fun personality to watch…

Super Mario Maker is too good to have stayed buried on the Wii U.