A ton of people talk down on it for having the aforementioned checklist despite the whole shtick being that it is FUN because it played with unconventional implementations of each checkmark. A lot of people wrote it off because Aloy wasn’t sexy enough for them. Lots dismissed it for being a me-too of Breath of the…

One of the big things that sets Horizon aside from other open world games is that it takes overused mechanics and... Aligns them?

The fiddly bit is that the game literally gives the protagonist more actual romantic chemistry with two guys you can go on multiple dates-in-all-but-name with as part of their social links and not acknowledge that as more than a ‘friendship’ and then turn around and let you sleep with a girl whose Social Link is…

This sounds like a stilted, limited regash of the wedding game in Persona Q, where every party member was an option. Throughout the Date Cafe chapter you’d get asked questions and would be presented with an “ideal” partner at the end, which could be ANY party member among the game’s combination of P3 and P4 heroes.…

I love how you gallantly tiptoe around the fact that Phantom Fury, the follow-up to the much lauded Ion Fury, another Duke descendant, whose demo is also currently available, is kinda shit, particularly at the “shooting at enemies should be fun” part.

Are we seriously talking about her wages from 25 years ago for a niche Japanese game that took a major risk on making full English voiceovers, had most of the cast perform under fake names SPECIFICALLY due to being a non-union job (including Hale herself), one of the best known facts about its voiceovers?

I’m having an uncomfortable flashback to the Symmetra rework back when it was decided the Support class should only be healers so the turreters got dumbed down and moved to Assault. Torb lost the ability to upgrade his turret and Sym had her turrets knocked down to three and her gun turned into a simple…

On the one hand, she did raise awareness and form the discourse and it shpuld be appreciated.

1) New skins cost as much as a crapton of lootboxes used to per one skin.

The demo I played during Steam's Next Fest was nothing short of amazing, and I will be getting it regardless of when it releases.

The rebooted Lara Croft was stopped from being gay by producer fiat, Rhianna Pratchett who penned the first two rebooted games was all for it. Yet still, even after fridging Sam, the second and third games have Lara flirting mercilessly with Nadia, Sophia, Unuratu, Quoryanka and Crimson Fire, and ignoring what few…

As the hackers began publishing the material they stole, this has already backfired dramatically: people starved for information about the game (given how ridiculous the dev cycle for the original was, keeping mum about the sequel’s progress was a semi-stupid decision by the devs) are devouring it, and it will…

That’s outdated by a decade or so. Until the sanctions related to the current conflict, Russia had all of the same indie games available to the rest of the world on Steam, PSN, eShop, what-have-you. Yes, Russia has software piracy, but so does the USA or any other country on the planet. Yes, the Denuvo-killer EMPRESS…

Tymoshenko doesn’t have a patent on what is a relatively common SOVIET hairstyle. She was at various points in her political career ridiculed for wearing such an outdated rustic braid. Wearing it does not automatically make the killer robot ballerinas Ukrainian, and the fact that people have to strawman hairstyles…

Nope, it is literally what you outlined, because making any statement on the conflict (that includes calling it the W word) that isn’t full unbridled support gets you jail time in Russia at the moment.

All of these “recorded memories” harken back to William Gibson’s simstims in the Sprawl Trilogy (Count Zero specifically has them as a major plot point and the trailer park residents that live in the virtual more than the real were literally ripped off by Ready Player One, except it was VR telenovelas rather than a VR…

The original version of the article claimed you could not look up or down just like in Doom, but you could, just using the keyboard, like in System Shock. Now I see it has been edited in.

I am very obsessive about games that redefined the industry (it WAS the first-ever FPS to do a lot of technical stuff like multi-floor buildings, characters talking during missions, objectives other than kill’em all, alternate firing modes and so on), and Dark Forces specifically made a gigantic impression on little…

OP, you just gave away not having played the game? Dark Forces did not have MOUSElook, but it did have “look up” and “look down” buttons and you couldn’t complete the game without them because of how VERTICAL the Nar Shaddaa and Coruscant levels were.

Unfortunately, a lot of people, myself included, find its Newgrounds Flash-style animation a major turnoff, especially when compared to Blasphemous’s gorgeoulicious pixel art.