Mortal Dictata posted a comment in another article the other day that really kind of summarizes why people like Spec Ops as much as they do.

Forcing you to kill the dog and than telling you something along the lines that you suck for doing this, is not good writing.

The biggest red flag I saw was when all these masterpiece reviews came up, with highest possible score points.

I assume you saw SkillUp’s review on YouTube? Great, critical review. The comparisons to G0T season 8 and the new Star Wars trilogy were big red flags that helped convince me to cancel that pre-order.

On a side note, I’m particularly annoyed that they lied about not having to kill any dogs except by choice. They intentionally made a misery simulator; why lie about that little detail? The misleading marketing is really baffling to me.

I cancelled my pre-order after I read the Kotaku and Polygon reviews. They confirmed for me that the leaks were true (which was already obvious of course) and that “context” was only going to make the over the top brutality even more pointless. Thank you guys for actually taking a critical look at the game.

So...you folks knew the spoilers were true?! Wow, this game is going to be the videogame equivalent of The Last Jedi. I hope subverting those expectations were worth it for Naughty Dog lol. I hope keeping this under wraps and turning a blind eye to the DMCA abuses to keep your access was worth it to you guys lol. What…

Since I did my literal thesis on this game, I’ll chime in about the Evokers: the entire point of P3 is, according to its lead designer, to give players a “virtual death experience,” wherein they’re meant to “question and think about death from a variety of different perspectives.” One of these perspectives, and…

This is great, I instantly bought it if only to tell Atlus to bring more of their games to PC. While I’m happy it’s here, I’ve had two realizations:

Regardless of the resolution support in the original editions, I don’t find it acceptable to not support a wide variety of resolutions beyond 1080p. Most games can just have their .ini file edited to support it, it shouldn’t be hard to implement. Multi-monitor users especially know that when a game snaps to a lower…

This is exciting. Not for Persona 4, necessarily, but because my multi-year holdout for a Persona 5 PC port may actually bear fruit.

The thing that allowed Overwatch to take the place of TF2 is the fact that Valve decided they didnt want to make games anymore, and no TF3 came out, nor was even in development, after too long of a time. Same thing will probably happen to CS:GO, even though Valorant isn’t as good of a game. Even Smash Bros needed a…

Bebop is mentioned at the top of the article as the show that everyone recommends to newcomers, so I assume it’s the article’s de facto ninth recommendation

Interesting observation: these are all really dark and heavy shows.

I have to say I was surprised and glad to see walking simulator used to describe a game as a positive descriptor. I feel like itchio has done a world of good for gaming as a whole.

No, the guy responsible for the translation itself did an incredible job, considering the insanely small amount of time and resources he was given.

It was really unfortunate this got so many comparisons with Overwatch, when the two games are not alike at all. The only similarity is “some of the people have guns in both of these and fight in first person.”

Yes, but it doesn’t come up as free to play when you search for free to play games. That's a HUGE problem.

Well that’s a bummer...despite 2Ks nonexistent marketing and Pitchford’s inability to keep his mouth shut and sour people on it before it was even out, Battleborn is a pretty damn good game that deserved better than what it got.

I heartily agree. I still regularly play it -and it’s been a huge inspiration to me, artistically. It really is amazing how they got that Star Wars feel with the limitations they had, especially when you compare it to later LucasArts games that...really don’t feel all that star wars-y. Everyone should play this, if…