If you don’t mind going really ancient and trying to play a Dreamcast title, there was a Record of Lodoss War ARPG that was a lot of fun. I don’t know how it holds up as I finished it 20 years ago. The progression system involved hammering runewords endlessly into your gear. No real limit besides your resources.

A few things make it obvious for me. First is the perspective problem. This is most obvious in the right gun. Its lines don’t agree on a direction, it twists and melts. An experienced artist would have sorted that all in the rough sketch. Then the legs don’t seem to be able to decide if they should be blue jeans or…

While the systems in the game are interesting, this is the clunkiest ARPG I’ve ever tried. Too often I’m trying to click on one thing, and its speeding off to attack/loot another. Also skill charges AND mana? This led to skills that felt like they should be main attacks running on empty all the time even as my mana…

I suspect Keller is simply taking the public-facing hit for the executives that have been making these decisions. Making a PvE game in the first place struck me as a Bobby Kotick decision to get Blizzard to sell something in a box. However the market has changed completely by now, and forces in Activision Blizzard—poss…

It’s fascist gaslighting. It’s how Republicans have long operated even before Trump. I spent an unfortunate part of my youth watching Fox News and caught in that alternate reality they create with their constant lies. It’s amazing how different the world is if you escape that.

I know I only bought a few things on there with those $10 off coupons they used to have during sales. The sole exception was Evil Dead the Game because they had a year exclusive on PC.

That defeats the intended purpose to entice users to make additional purchases at a future date.

Epic will never be a serious competitor with Steam. They’re the rich kid throwing money at everyone hoping they’ll be popular as a result. However they’ll still never be liked because they failed to develop a personality.

I had long figured the PvE mode was mainly an excuse to try to sell boxed copies of Overwatch 2. That there wasn’t much passion behind it. Activision Blizzard has a long history of forcing sequels to the detriment of their properties. It’s part of why Bungie left.

In hindsight, the genre proved too risky for most indies. The very nature of the typical 1v4 format means that not only do you need a healthy player population, you also need one that is balanced in regards to the two roles. One of which has no option to play with a friend or two. I could see 3v4 avoiding most of…

That Resident Evil criticism is not at all accurate. The only reason Raccoon City is fresh in our minds is that the 2 and 3 remakes aren’t that old. Otherwise many of the games take place a decade or two later.

“Community crossed a redline.”  Ahahahaha.  This is so fucking precious that anyone can actually think this way in regards to corpos.

Dragon Age Inquisition upset me so much that I hard quit. My character was an Elf and as part of the mission table requests at one point my character’s clan is looking for a place to settle. So I trust the wrong people and the game later says “oops, your clan was all murdered.” You can’t just casually drop genocide on…

I’m still determined to finish Persona 5. I bought it on the PS3 when it first came out, I started into Royal last year when it hit PC. I’ve put over 100 hours into the game over those two files, but yet to progress past the 5th palace. It does feel like the game might be too much at this point. I fared much better…

This stuff about machine learning not being AI strikes me as a really bizarre semantics battle that is really not useful in any shape or form. The field of AI in computer science has traditionally contained all the baby steps that we’ve developed on the road to maybe someday achieving an actual general AI. This…

I would say Mickey was actually at the peak of merely being a corporate logo back in the 90's. For the longest time the Disney Channel was a premium pay channel. They were hardly making anything new with Mickey, still showing the old theater shorts. Disney at the time was Duck Tales, Rescue Rangers, Little Mermaid,…

The guys running this studio didn’t leave voluntarily. They were fired. From a union job in a country with strong labor laws. I have a lot of doubt if there’s any good guy here worth supporting.

The reasonable conservatives already made that choice and are out of the GOP. Natural selection has ensured anyone left are either true believers or cowardly opportunists.

That’s just another symptom. What we’re seeing now is the mainstreaming of the Christian Right combined with a global fascist movement. Republicans have been completely devoured after flirting with such factions for decades. Conservative media didn’t cause this, though it’s certainly been a useful tool for…

I actually just started Vox Machina season 2 today not knowing that. Hearing his voice really caught me off guard in light of the news. One of my favorite actors.