I saw someone make the case that the Switch is the best console to buy multiplatform releases on because it’s portable, while completely ignoring the fact that most games have to be heavily dialed back to run even average specs. Why would you want to intentionally downgrade your games, escapes me.

This is what happens when you use a underpowered tablet as your console.

The framerate has me worried...

Wish they could have used the BotW engine as well though. This almost looks like Zelda is a console generation ahead.

Breath of the Wild is so much prettier looking, though. I always wanted an open world Pokemon game but from what they’ve shown it looks so dingy and plain. 

Nintendo Cease and Desist in 3... 2... oh wait.

“sweat and curse and jerk off and fire a gun and slide a needle into his arm,” known colloquially as the “Florida lunch break.”

“Well if letting women vote wouldn’t be any different than letting men vote, why bother? Oh right - because it’s the right thing to do.” Well first of all I never implied that and you also made the mistake of using a metaphor to prove a point rather than showcase it, third is also a false equivalence, fourth just…

We don’t need counterparts to Aloy and Lara because they have compelling reasons to exist as they are outside of identity quotas. We have more and more games with compelling female leads, and it’s a great thing when they are strong stories the creators are interested in telling. And it’s a shame in a game like AC:O…

Right, we don’t need a male counter part to Aloy or Lara Croft, because we already have an abundance of male protagonists. We need more female protagonists because they’re massively under represented in video games as actual human beings and not just eye candy.

This seems like such an intentionally dishonest reply. The comparison to women’s suffrage is far outweighed by the contrasts - namely that one concerns a fundamental bedrock right in a democracy, and the other is a creative choice. The struggle here is trying to frame the developers as sexist because the Doomguy, a…

Well if letting women vote wouldn’t be any different than letting men vote, why bother? Oh right - because it’s the right thing to do

lazy representation is not good representation. it’s like if a game put in a customization option for your character to be gay but it doesn’t change anything. is it easy to do and technically representation? yes. is it good representation? hell no.

In many scenarios, I’d be inclined to agree. Mass Effect is an easy example, since the player was given the idea that Shepard was “their” creation (which was all smoke and mirrors, but regardless, that was how the avatar was presented to the player).

It’s the right mentality for the creative director to have, so I support it. Hugo has been a great director imo and I like that he’s given this thought and doesn’t want to put band-aid solutions on the idea.

Well if wouldn’t be any different, why bother?

They really, really botched the storytelling in Eternal, imo. Doom 2016 had this perfect, beautiful elegance to it where ALL of the slayer’s characterization came through his hands, and you just totally understood the guy from the get-go. The whole gag of there being this big, high-stakes plot going on that the slayer…

Basically, it’s FF7 as you remember it, not as it actually looks. Cool.

Look at Phil Harrison’s history:

A real quick catch-up for anyone who feels behind on this: