It’s defensive, but I would not accuse it of being weirdly so. It’s hard not to feel like everything is a grift these days - you’d be right a good portion of the time. Consumers have to be very guarded and no doubt there were a lot of preemptive accusations being flung at the studio.

Planned obsolescence is not necessarily an evil. While absolutely I would agree with cell phones the process is maliciously accelerated, this is not at all the case with PC hardware. Considering the wide range of software and games that are still developed with the 12 year-old Intel i5 3570 as their minimum spec. You…

If your computer is significantly older than 5 years old then it’s no longer $2k worth of parts, it’s a heavily depreciated door stop.

While I’m fond of Vampire Survivors, I have put way more time into Brotato. Brotato is one of those games that seems simple on the surface, but the way the stats, items, and weapons work is extremely satisfying. I also greatly appreciate that the action is broken up into bite-sized chunks rather than the oft-30 minute…

Launcher gatekeeping? The hell you on about? If you built a $2k computer within the past 5 years and a launcher is saying you don’t meet the requirements to even launch a game, you did something very, very wrong.

I have a fairly budget level PC I built myself. Less than $1k in parts. It can run the vast majority of games at 90+ fps fine. The only time I run into problematic performance is typically from repeat offenders, such as Koei Tecmo, and those will be problems that also affect the $5k PCs. Otherwise most of the studios…

The EU is fascist? I’m actually intrigued by this thought and would like to know more about which authors, books, etc. would contribute to that declaration. If you know of, say, a video that would break this down I’d be interested. I grew up with and still enjoy the novels by Timothy Zahn, Michael A. Stackpole, Aaron…

I mean it’s likely connected to the fanbase having gone full tin-foil hat conspiratorial over the Spider-Man 2 character art changes from the first game. So yes, their panties are in a twist.

I was willing to look past Starfield’s flaws for awhile and enjoy it for what it was. I managed that for about 30 hours and did have fun with various side and faction quests. Then I decided to get back on the main quest and get some more powers. The game then devolved into go here, mine that. Fly around and grab…

I’m going to pick Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth as I really enjoyed the first go around with Ichiban’s party. So I already know I’m going to have fun catching up.

Yup. Pre-greenlight was absolutely terrible for indies. I heard horror stories of completed games having to fight for two years to get on the platform. Greenlight itself was rife with issues that a game such as The Day Before could easily exploit while more deserving games struggled to be approved.

I recall a survey over a year back where they were asking which features players wanted the most and cross-play was either the top or near the top. The devs said this was something they would take into consideration and only said it wouldn’t happen for Rise/Sunbreak. So I’m hoping the simultaneous release is part of…

My father worked as a machinist from the 70's to the 00's, wasn’t union, and was very well paid with great benefits and a pension. The difference was we still had effective government regulation of industry and labor in the US. That’s been eroded away after decades of calls for deregulation. So no, unions aren’t the…

I’m not sure it’ll be that hard. It already feels like the story is pretending Legion just happened and going forward with plans that had been sitting around for years.

Exactly. The biggest problem with the sequels is there was no plan. Abrams was just throwing on screen whatever he thought was cool. Rian Johnson tried to put an interesting story in the middle, but it was too disconnected from the others. If anything, WoW without Metzen was running exactly like the Star Wars sequels.

I’m frequently going back and replaying old games. Such as I do another Earthbound run every five years or so. Though it does tend to be much older games as in many cases single player games today have just gotten to be too much even the first time through. Most are absolutely one-and-done because I’m already…

I mean if we’re going to question lists here, Twilight Princess and Oblivion were both pretty mid entries for those franchises.

When I first saw the thumbnail I was wondering why the character looked like Moss from The IT Crowd. I figured it’d be a homage or a coincidence, not actually Richard Ayoade. I never played any of the Fable games, but this got my attention.

The explanation that made sense to me is that it became too unpopular to target homosexuals. Public opinion has changed drastically since the days of Reagan. They needed a new target in trans people.

This is pretty normal for Twitch drops. I’ll do these for Sea of Thieves and I’m typically just loading up a second browser window with the stream muted while I’m doing something else.