It’s the same knee-jerk cycle every time. Ubisoft makes 15 copy-paste games a year and it’s all shrugs and murmurs from the peanut gallery, but Bethesda takes the better part of a decade to make a true open-world sandbox and they get absolutely blasted for it by the commentariat. It’s not a perfect game but I really…

This was an incredibly well-reasoned criticism of the game, and expresses issues I had with the experience as well. Rest in peace as they will now be coming for you. 

I think that’s a disingenuous take. It absolves the development team for introducing deep ideas they couldn’t —- or wouldn’t —- deal with in any significant manner. The game explicitly sets up a world where slavery exists in mass form; the game is responsible for then navigating that appropriately.

Glory to mankind.

EPIC: “With Unreal Engine 5, game designers can finally build worlds and characters so highly detailed and photorealistic, the player will be left wondering where the game ends and the real world begins.”

Maybe it leads to a cool music video