congratulations hammy... that sure was something

Sorry. I couldn’t stop myself from doing this.

Look at what the faces used to look like in the kickstarter trailer: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ysnet/shenmue-3

Yu Suzuki watched Team America: World Police and this happened.

Except the original game was cutting edge and realistic for its time. This trailer looks like it was produced over 10+ years ago.

The original game was one of the most graphically impressive games on the market at the time of its release. Obviously, this one doesn’t have the sort of funding that the original had, but that doesn’t excuse the stiff animations and the serious disconnect between the character models and their environments. That’s…

Actually, it kind of was. It’s obviously dated now, but at the time, Shenmue had some of the best graphics on the market, and its attention to detail is still impressive compared to a lot of modern games. Compare the Dreamcast games to something like Deus Ex 1 or even some early PS2 titles and it’s like night and day.

The ass in that trailer is all in those models. They look like they’re about 15 years old. That’s fine if that’s what they’re going for, but clearly the graphics that aren’t the characters are worlds better. Honestly, this almost smacks of, “Oh shit we don’t have anything to show,” and they took the assets they had…

the only thing modern about it is the graphics engine. but the animations look robotic and dated.

Dull Surprise: The Video Game

The biggest problem with Iron Fist is how they cast a lead actor in a martial arts series who couldn’t sell a fight if people actually started hitting him. Watching him is like watching Steven Seagal, only not funny.

First of all, Danny Rand is white in the comics but that doesn’t mean he is supposed to be white. Secondly, he is only an outsider only in K’un L’un which we barely see. He’s not an outsider in New York or even in the Defenders themselves. But even if we just ignored the fact that he is white, Finn Jones is a really…

My understanding of it was somehow, apparently dragon bone marrow is literally holding up New York? They mentioned that they’ve done this before with Pompei and Chernobyl, that harvesting the immortal dragon goo makes the cities fall apart. But yeah, their master plan seemed to basically be just securing more goo to…

My gripes with the show are really 1) don’t hire Sigourneu Weaver and not give her something awesome to do

Personally, they’re the only zombies I can even stand.

This. It’s like somewhere along the line people forgot that this behavior is not tolerable. Now they are being reminded that if you want to believe like they do, you’re going to have to go someplace else to do it. Discord isn’t a completely open platform. The internet is. Discord doesn’t have to provide a place for…

“Today, we’ve shut down the altright.com server and a number of accounts associated with the events in Charlottesville. We will continue to take action against white supremacy, Nazi ideology, and all forms of hate.”

It’s amazing what a year of development can do. I certainly hope the industry learns from No Mans Sky and publishers stop forcing developers to release early and then patch it later. There have been a lot of lessons on “what not to do” with the shit show that was the NMS launch.

Did you just equate all gamers with the alt-right?

Yeah, no. Bringing up outlier situations wherein a person or persons either fabricates or brings abusive treatment upon themselves intentionally in a discussion about widespread harassment and abuse of regular Twitch users pretty much qualifies as victim blaming, brah.

It reads as, “Well, there’s this incredibly small…