SHORTER GAMES

games industry is still so fixated on being like other media in an effort to prove themselves somehow. I’m sick of it. I actually did my filmmaking grad thesis on this shit, on how lots of ppl praise the most movie-like games, as if they sole purpose was to elevate the audiovisual experience of film. games can be so…

Outside of the living wage, Taylor vs. Kamiya debacle, which I don’t have much to add to, her jabs towards Hale felt unnecessary and, quite frankly, rude and egotistical. She should have been offered fair wages for her admittedly tremendous job as Bayonetta thus far, but seeing her behavior towards a colleague like…

quite frankly, Hines’ response only seemed ‘rambling’ because of your decision to transcribe each one of his manners of speech. sounded fine when I heard him say it, but all those little moments where you say “like”, “sort of”, etc, stick out all the more when you’re reading.

ah, it’s region-locked. pretty much North America and Europe only.

the ‘a’ in Sada probably comes from gendering that word’s inflexion. words are gendered in latin-based languages, and a single letter can represent that change in gender (for example, ‘profesor’ and ‘profesora’ are, respectively, the words for a male teacher and a female teacher).

one more curiosity to add to the professors’ clothes: they’re likely named after the spanish words “pasado” (past) and “futuro” (future). Sada and Turo.

I guess the strategy is to use those exclusive games as a gate into their ecosystem. It goes like this: you first decide on which game system you’re gonna buy, probably basing your choice on the things that are unique to each system and comparing them. Exclusive games go a long way into making people choose one system…

you’re on point, I also just don’t think I can blame the nostalgics. The fate of any ‘-punk’ genre is to become retrofuturistic, by design. Maybe whatever ‘cyberpunk’ media feels presently made that adresses concerns of the present are more aligned with new, soon-to-be-old prefixes for punk.

this a boss-ass move. Been playing the hell out of this game in the past few weeks btw. fantastic game.

what’s the podcast? As a young game designer I love hearing that type of thing.

Vasco

maybe not directly, but the overall culture is that of being overtly proud of *not* getting that kind of help on souls games; therefore, players become less likely to (openly) ask questions or get help.

There’s elden ring wikis, videos, streams, written guides everywhere... manuals still exist, they’ve just been outsourced. And it’s a real bummer that there’s a bunch of hardcore nerds ready to shame you for even thinking about getting some help for something in a videogame. But you can and should use those tools.

That’s cool! I would’ve loved to have discovered this as I was playing the game when it releases.

this the type of info I save on my brain for when I have a kid, and that kid asks me about all the annoying, unnecessary things in life that I couldn’t possibly know the answer for.

was thinking the same thing. were they dressed up as some thought-up version of those actual cultures, seems to me the outrage would have been bigger.

that’s... boring as fuck.

ACKCHYUALLY, the GoT Night King has nothing to do with the aSoIaF Night’s King. They’re completely separate entities and the Night’s King is not mentioned in the present of the books. The creation of the Night King on the tv show was, I believe, solely for the purpose of making the enemy more tangible and…