Well speaking for myself I was still in elementary school when the PlayStation released lol

Has Sony bought a game series that was available also on Xbox for almost 20 years and made it exclusive? Not arguing, genuinely curious.

Are you saying that Microsoft shouldn’t be called out on flagrant bullshit just because Sony also bullshits?

The company also points out that the last Elder Scrolls game was released in 2011

The unmentioned backstory is usually that the 20-something in question is a trust fund kid whose parents have an 8- or 9-figure net worth and a network of influential relatives and business contacts. But by gosh it was all hard work!

what im getting from this is that in order to see more behind the scenes footage of game development and a better understanding on how triple a games are produced, we need to generate takes so nightmarishly bad that developers will have no choice but to dunk on them

What has surprised me most about this leak is the number of fanboys who’ve seen the leaked footage, replete with placeholder models, temporary animation, and visible code superimposed on top of the gameplay and gone “WTF, Rockstar?! This doesn’t look like a finished game! What a clown show!”

Again, difference being self-aware dumb. Saint’s Row III takes place in a world where Burt Reynolds is randomly a Mayor, there’s a TV show where people in cat costumes are murdered, and is from a studio who an entry later for the sake of just absurd humour had Keith David play Vice President Keith David.

The dialogue is structured in that really annoying Borderlands style that’s used to mechanically inject “comedy” into every single interaction. You have a “wacky” side character or 2 who gives you the mission or relevant information, then spends a minute or 2 talking about some cuh-razy quirk or hang-up or argument,…

And they decided to make her a white skinned tiefling... with literally the entire spectrum to choose from... they made her a white person. Honestly, I wish they let the fantasy races be fantastic for once.

For my money I think Critical Role, Harmonquest, and Deborah Ann Woll’s several various games, and of course Stranger Things, did a lot more to bring it to the forefront of people’s brains again, and introduced it to a bunch of people who’d never played before. Wife and I watched Harmonquest and I ended up having a…

Yay, I guess? It's GTA. I'll gladly play this game with a female avatar, but I'm not really sure I'll enjoy corporate-branded sensitivity. Let's see what happens.

“punching down” applies when you focus only on marginalized targets that can’t fight back. What GTA does is far different, they come out swinging like a drunk in a bar brawl, they’re punching up at the government more than they’re punching down, but they’re throwing punches every which way. I don’t know how you can…

gotta say not a fan of them being “more culturally sensitive” because game studios really don’t have a great track record when it comes to attempting to do that, plus that’s not why fans play GTA, myself included. It’s supposed to be offensive, that’s the entire point.

I hope she’ll end up as equally bad, horrible, and morally compromised as other GTA main characters. The kind of character that you know should be sent to jail for a lifetime, but you still kind of like nonetheless. Wouldn’t be GTA otherwise.

“I don’t think civility politics works when I’m engaging with people who don’t even view me as human,” she told the Washington Post earlier this year. “

Yea, Silence of the Lambs got under my skin for a while after I first saw it. Some of those book adaptations (Misery) where elevating horror back then in the some of the ways originals are doing now.

John Krasinski and Emily Blunt were great in A Quiet Place, but I think Toni Collette deserved an Oscar for her work in Hereditary.

I wish people would just leave Jake alone. He's had a hard time in life… what with being mentally ill and getting molested as a little boy. Just leave him be!

Eh. I legitimately feel sorry for this kid. He was cast in a terrible role in a terrible movie at an age when he couldn't possibly understand what he was getting into. I'm sure it ruined any shot he had at a real acting career. And if he makes a little cash by attending Star Wars conventions, I'm not gonna fault him…