I’m so glad to see someone else thinks a lot of Dread was gimmicky.

looking forward to getting this game in 4-5 months when it is 40% off. I just don’t like Ubisoft enough to pay full price for any of their games. I also don’t have much of a connection with PoP except for Sands of Time (could never get past the 2nd level) and the 3 JAVA mobile games (I loved those)

I feel like I go insane when I keep saying Metroid Dread is a disappointment when Metroidvanias have moved so far ahead with Ori, HK and Bloodstained.

I had thought “maps that automatically mark places of interest when you reach them” were already the standard. Some games have manual map markers, but even that seems better than a bag of screenshots.

They already tried in September with Saw Patrol (Saw X & Paw Patrol). It didn’t work but they’ll keep trying, I’m sure.

It’s going to be fun watching studios attempt to make this happen, especially when one movie is clearly superior to the other.

Pretty much this. It also doesn’t account for marketing. Maybe indie games get cannibalized harder than AAA games. We don’t know.

1 game selling well doesn’t prove anything. It needs to be consistent and it needs to not be widely available elsewhere. Let’s be honest, the Steam crowd isn’t going to jump ship to GamePass for 1 game.

I think this has to do a lot with the fact that people want to mod Starfield and that simply isn’t possible with the gamepass version.

Chu hasn’t been in the Top Ten in awhile. But your point still stands.

A person who shares a cultural background with the culture a story is about might have a better grasp on it. Shocking insight, I know.

After seeing his Call of Duty skin that was just pulled and some of the imagery on his Twitch stream, his shit opinion and doubling down are not shocking at all. The whole co-opting of Spartan lore and Spartan imagery is a dead giveaway that this asshole is at a minimum, right-wing militia adjacent. He probably has a Μ…

*uses van Gogh painting as shield*

Ron doesn’t care. He has his eyes set on the Presidency and all this bullshit is just to rile up Trump base so they switch sides to him. He doesn’t plan to be governor of Florida when all these lawsuits settle. He is doing this for the theatrics.

DeSantis fucked up when he called for special investigations into Disney property, such as their monorail, from an outside group, that all other theme parks are exempt from. He made it personal and a political attack against Disney, which is why they brought the lawsuit. He keeps digging a deeper hole and they keep…

That’s his point. There’s no way the finished product will be the exact same as the finished script in which case some “writing” would be happening on the set, resulting in Tony Gilroy having not stuck with the strike and the union.

Good. God. Fuck Nintendo. They are so good at the art of game making and fucking terrible at everything else. Their PR? Terrible. Online services? Terrible. Ongoing game support? Terrible. I well and truly hate the company, I just love the artists behind the games.

I wish Nintendo treated content creators like free advertising instead of treating games journalists like free advertising...

I’ve seen more news about them going after leaked content than I have leaked content itself. I think Nintendo should look up the Streisand Effect because I  never would’ve known about the artbook if it wasn’t for the attention brought to it from them going after it.