XBC2 is hard to recommend imo because it’s just full of a lot of the most obnixious immature anime bs. It feels like someone wanted to create a proper jrpg but then halfway through the development process, some higher-up was like “okay but we need to actually sell copies of this, so throw in a gatcha system for the…

XC 2 is kind of the best example of ‘more isn’t always better’. Too many systems, way too much time explaining them, too much terrible dialogue, too many bland characters, and way too much boob.

I’m hoping this one is closer to XC1 than XC2.  I played XC1 switch version and loved it.  The easy mode was a great addition since I don’t really have a lot of time to play games.  XC2 on the other hand I heard had a lot of time wasting bs like the different blades or the skill check system.  

The entire point of that 99 cent initial pack price is to help start slowly acclimating the player to the idea of spending money in the game, so that later on, as the prices slowly start to increase later and later in the game, the player thinks less and less about it and it just becomes the “default” action.

Does it…

I mean, the “solution” is to not have the lowest vaccination of any developed nation besides Russia and maintaining protocols until cases are next to non-existent instead of the rollercoaster of giving up the fight right as we’re turning the corner like firefighters that start packing up when they’ve got the open…

So if I understand this correctly: these comments were made over 13 years ago and since then the person who made them has become progressive and their turn towards progressive politics has been made apparent in their work on video games since then, so much so that it’s caused friction within the community and likely…

I honestly can’t tell if you’re a troll, an op, or a bizarre person who is constantly missing the forest for the trees. 

So it’s sort of like a mini-offshoot of the James Gunn situation, correct? Seems pretty shitty that he got fired, considering that it was a bunch of bad faith actors who specifically targeted him and went digging for dirt. It seems like he’s changed and grown up since then (though it is ridiculous that someone would…

It should be pointed out that DZK was the lead for game balance, and because of that he was the perennial scapegoat for Apex’s meta problems. He interacted a lot with the community and often had very blunt and combatitive ways of putting things, to put things mildly. Basically he was hated by a huge chunk of Apex’s…

Wait. It INCLUDES FFXIV? That includes a much more impressive set of achievements: Mentor Roulette and A and S Rank Hunts. Not only do you have to get mentor by getting 1500 commendations (which is semi-grindable, but a pain), but you also have to subject yourself to the Hell that is Mentor Roulette (basically new…

Save some of that dislike for Palmer

I love how games like this—esp. the Uncharted series—have you playing as these characters that love history, love treasure, and profess time and again to be good people...while absolutely never once thinking about, or showing a shred of remorse, of all the black and brown people they murder to make their money.

Not a day goes by when I’m not entirely relieved I gave up on trying to be a game developer.

I’ll admit, when I first read about this game I would have been willing to defend “Savage” in the name without blinking. The game’s main loop really seems to be less “explore” than “exploit” and gameplay description makes it sound like any other life is only present to be killed. I seriously thought “Savage Planet”…

Years ago I had a friend say that “savage’ was offensive to her and her fellow indigenous people for many of the reasons Paul outlined above. So I stopped using it (not that it was really a regular part of my vocabulary anyway).

Gaming got popular, and a subset of people who built their identity around gaming being non-popular are hostile of anything that gives it wider appeal.

You can’t believe it because you’re privileged enough not to have to deal with the actual issues that the people who are made to wear these sorts of uniforms in real life have to deal with, and you’re also not empathetic enough to understand the perspective of another fellow human being, and how such a thing might…

Just started Control a few days ago, and I was really struck by how Jesse doesn’t have to run through the usual “Chosen One” rigmarole. There’s no burden-of-responsibility “I can’t do this!” before learning to accept the responsibility of the position, and her subordinates aren’t sneering and saying “Rawr this is…