abhorrent take

No-one is taking up pitchforks about it, but yeah much like Tomb Raider it kind of sucks to glorify travelling to other (usually poorer and non-white) countries, steal their artifacts of cultural and historical significance (often from grave sites) just to put them in your museum to be gawped at by white folks.

It’s…

Didn’t realize how colonialist those movies are until I talked to non-Americans about those movies in college. The opening scene of Raiders aged real bad. Indy eventually realizes this, too, in Holy Grail, that he doesn’t have a right to take this stuff.

Cyberpunk isn’t a new IP

IMO the best ones were the JRPGs on Gameboy Color, sadly they’re almost forgotten nowadays.

That thing being so fucking zoomed in was my main complaint with the game. By the time you see the map show the turn you’ve already blown past it.

“and is still not in great shape on consoles.” You should really clarify this. It’s perfectly fine on current-gen consoles. I’ve been playing since day one on XSX and have had only minor issues, certainly nothing out of the norm from any major open world game. I’m in the “ok what are they going to add/improve” boat,…

There’s gotta be exceptions for, like, pop culture, right? Like I admit as a white person that it definitely feels like “I’m not supposed to be here” when seeing scenes like this or a lot of other Black media, but I’m not going to not play this game or, like, watch Atlanta when the creators made them and wanted me to…

Lock HER up! Lock HER up!

This feels like important evidence of the denial and double standards operating at high executive levels, making excuses and creating permission structure for sabotage (who is in charge over there? Nunes funkiest? The utterly unqualified Lewandowski?): 

I like how you assume that implementing a polished, fully-functional third-person mode is somehow a trivial amount of work that the developers were just too lazy to do. I mean, it’s not like they were crunching for years just to ship the game with one camera perspective. Nope, gotta be laziness. Damn lazy devs!

“After she agreed to provide evidence that could help confirm her claim that she was assaulted, she stopped responding to CNN’s phone calls and text messages.”

Per CNN: When asked if she’s concerned about possibly facing charges and overall how she is portrayed in the video, she said, “Of course I worry. That’s not who I am. I actually... try very hard to make sure that I am always doing the right thing.”

Godfall sounds like a fake game that a sitcom character plays in an episode where they get addicted to online gaming. It sucks so bad. Easily the AAA champ but for Immortals Fenyx Rising, which is bad in every way you can imagine. Three words that fit together terribly, are hard to parse, and don’t make a lick of…

Warface: Breakout, secretly sponsored by Clearasil.

Except for having to restart it every hour to 2 hours due to crashing, I’ve enjoyed my time in Night City.

“create one of the most ambitious games of all times”

What aggravates me the most is that the vision, capabilities, skills, and imaginations of dozens of people helped create one of the most ambitious games of all times, yet all of that is buried underneath one of the clearest examples of how disgusting capitalism is overall.

“Bloomberg writes.”