The Old Republic was made by a different internal studio in Bioware. Apparently, said internal studio told them that the way they were doing the story in Anthem wouldn’t work in a multiplayer game.

I feel like a lot of these genres are a) social games and b) really time consuming to get into. So you want the game that you’re joining to have a large player base and most people only have the time to get into one, so you might as well get the one that people are already actually playing. Hence why we tend to get…

One correction for myself: I meant “rom hack” rather than “mod.” I got about 4 hours of sleep last night, so I’m not at my sharpest. My broader point still stands.

Mod is short for “mod hack,” so no one is under the impression that this is anything other than a “hacked modification” of a game (hence the term). They aren’t pretending to be anything that they aren’t, usually. They aren’t using the term as “justification” for anything. These terms are generally understood to be…

I’m guessing that both of these cases were examples of someone from Universal taking assets from the internet thinking that they were official Nintendo assets and not checking first. In the case of the mod, thanks to EULAs, Nintendo probably technically owns this cactus design anyways. And I don’t think Nintendo…

Mods are actually a really common way to get experience at using development tools and designing games without having to make a game completely from scratch (which is, you know, really hard, especially since even most basic indie games require at least a small team). A lot of the up-and-coming game designers cut their…

I wasn’t vibing much with the rest of the game either to be honest. I’m really lousy at games that require you to shoot in a three dimensional space like Mass Effect does, and the story, setting, and characters weren’t interesting me much either. I was assuming that they’d get better since so many people seem to love…

You get a lot of coins and bragging rights. Nothing more.

As somebody who recently graduated, it hasn’t gotten quite that bad, and I was in one of the pricier majors textbook-wise. I don’t believe that I ever spent more than $1,000 a semester, and if I had to guess it was usually under $600 in most semesters.

As somebody who literally quit and never resumed playing Mass Effect because I found the Mako section to be unplayable, I strongly disagree. 

Yeah, Alice Cooper has a similar stage schtick, and he is by all accounts a decent human being in his private life. Just because someone has a creepy stage persona doesn’t mean they’re a monster in their personal life.

It looks like there is no Tails mini-figure, which is a crime.

Rise of the Resistance also opened late and had a ton of technical issues, and the finale apparently didn’t even work half the time when they opened.

From what I’ve seen of the mod, their whole approach to storytelling is “Yeah, that’s cool. Let’s put that in there. What do you mean that that doesn’t make sense in this world or story? Who cares. People will be so blown away at how awesome it is that they won’t question it.”

I have never seen a video game that looked so much like it should be my sort of thing, but then failed to actually be enjoyable to me on any level like Celeste.

This seems overly petty to me unless there is more to this story.

As long as a celebrity has a take that the AV Club disapproves of, the clickbait will find a way. 

Considering that Hanson have also revealed themselves to be awful people recently, that line is becoming more and more prescient.

We should just get Gregg Alexander to beat him up. He’d probably even do it for free.

Oh, yeah. Google Stadia is a thing that exists.