And artificial scarcity! So the average person will still be confined to a crappy apartment in the virtual world while the wealthy players will have mansions. Even though everyone should be able to have unlimited size properties in a virtual world.

It’s such a nebulous, meaningless buzzword for shit that’s already existed in other forms for years. I hate it. 

Sony started releasing their stuff on the PC some time ago, including Horizon, Days Gone and the like. It is more than likely going to continue to do so after an exclusivity period on their console. So see the sequel to Horizon on Steam in 1-2 years. 

All it is, at least as facebook et al envision it, is.. facebook but with more shopping and in VR. Just another ad dollar mediated platform where every interaction is poised to become a transaction. Picture an online game that’s all microtransactions and no gameplay. They keep selling it to us like it’s “inevitable”…

It's such obviously buzzword nothing.

I don’t know why, but anytime I hear the ‘Metaverse’ mentioned or hyped up, I instantly lose all interest.

true, but that is the nature of our species. we are imperfect. we are always struggling. it’s one thing to fuck up and shrug. it’s another to constantly be learning and trying to do better. 

I don’t understand why her response wasn’t, “I made a joke, obviously I don’t mean it because that’d be horrid and dumb. I went too far. I’m really sorry.” (Formalized up for Japan of course.)

It’s an interesting take to see a sunk-cost-fallacy of a media empire be defended as “another style of storytelling”. Insinuating that mystery boxes are the only other kind of storytelling shows how wrapped up in popular media the average person really is.

I haven’t played Forbidden West, so I don’t know on which side it falls, but to me, there are mysteries that need to be addressed in sequels (“Who is Darth Vader really?”), and mysteries that should not be addressed (“Who is Yoda really?”).

“Some people like to see an interesting world deeply realised”

*stares at gun hazard*

“It’s been seven years since OlliOlli2: Welcome to Olliwood, Roll7's 2015 skateboarding platformer.”

We gamers can be so ridiculous. In the absence of news, we seem to decide that there has to be something and then start making things up out of whole cloth and then get disappointed (at best) or even angry (at worst) when the stuff we made up in our heads turns out to be wrong. I include myself in this because I’ve…

I think it’s sort of an apple to oranges comparison. There may be a larger quantity of games in March, sure, but the crazy thing about February was that all the games were batting at the same players. Elden Ring, Horizon, and Dying Light (and formerly Saint’s Row) were all AAA, open-world games with serious narratives…

im very excited for both bayonetta 3 and splatoon 3, and i assure you that splatoon 3 will be really awesome

Lots of good things to look forward to next year!  However, the one I care about most, which is absent from this list for whatever reason, is Bayonetta 3.  Considering the first 2 are some of the greatest action games ever made, I have no doubt the 3rd entry will be a total banger.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge

Bethesda games might not always be the most stable, but when it comes to big worlds filled with interconnecting things to do and places to explore, few studios are better. I mean, look how many times people keep buying, playing, and modding Skyrim a decade after its initial release. Starfield is also Bethesda’s first…

Happy New Year!