I agree, with some games content will always be locked at the start - for example, racing games will always tend to keep the best cars until the end. However, for something such as ‘Star Wars Battlefront 2‘, I think you would have to agree keeping people like Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader‘locked’ and having to grind…

You got it! It’s a great bit, and his ‘Metal Gear Solid’ rant is fantastic as well!

This is a feeling becoming all too common in AAA gaming. All the best content locked behind hours of tedious grinding. “You can graft on superfluous bull for 18 hours... Or, buy this bundle so we can stop wasting your time!”

For me, the most erroneous micro-transaction I’ve ever come across was one similar to this. The ‘Fable’ series on XBox was all about character customisation, shaping the character to look how you want. If you put points into strength, your character became more buff. Acted immorally, you would look demonic. You could…

I keep on thinking there’s no way these people can twist this game any harder, squeeze anymore time out of it. But once again, these insane bastards (and I mean that as a term of endearment!) have smashed it.

There may come a day, my friends, when the glitches of speedrunners fail, but it is not this day my friends!

I think it suffers form the same problem a lot of modern sandbox games face, where they try to make their worlds so big, it means what fills that world is sparse and non-engaging.

God, this reminds me of the good old days where games gave you cheats. With Tony Hawk’s, you could put some in to make you a perfect skating machine... Many an hour was put into the cathartic pleasure of just raking up those points, or putting together combos without having to worry about the balancing for grinds and…

I’ve been to the London ComicCon, the Salt Lake City ComicCon and the San Diego ComiCon. I can’t for the life of me reconcile what you’re talking about with reality. There isn’t anything more or less geared toward white people at these cons.

In a word, it’s all about one thing: equality. The point of equality is that everyone should be able to have the same experience when going to a convention; to feel safe, secure, and respected, around peers. As someone who is white and fully-abled, I can generally take that for granted.  

Thanks for this post, and I mean that sincerely. Looking at the images and video up above, I briefly let that stupid voice in the back of my head go, “well that’s just silly, he’s just looking undignified!”

I could even forgive Overwatch if it wasn’t for the fact that you can’t just directly buy the outfits and such you want. You either have to put in an unreasonable amount of time and have good luck, or have to pay an unreasonable amount of money and get lucky, especially with the holiday exclusive outfits!

Oh God, that takes me back! Cheat codes! Used to get whole little books of them on the front of gaming magazines!

I’ve said it before about other microtransactions, and I mean it especially in regards to buying cars in a car game.

I would love to know why Kinja does this in general. You get these weird articles popping up from 3,4,5 years ago seemingly apropos of nothing. Like, not even anything that happened that day related. 

Oh wow, I remember distinctly one of my favourite Twitch streamers playing this and thoroughly enjoying watching it! The aesthetic and charm of having the circle always recede into the same point every game, a sort of little arena, cut away the randomness of getting bad luck in things like PUBG.

Is the problem ultimately that watching a facsimile of something real is just not that interesting? There is nothing in our real world like Overwatch, like Dota, like Fortnite. That’s what makes them so interesting, as there is literally nowhere else on Earth you can watch something like it.

Looking back, Portal definitely feels a bit like a watershed moment in gaming. Proof of the concept that you didn’t need a studio hyper-budget to make a good game, but that a fantastic, creative idea and a great passion can go a long way. That a game could be enhanced beyond the sum of it’s parts by its atmosphere as…

What’s going on is that England fans have rediscovered a dopey single called “Three Lions (Football’s Coming Home),”...

Oh, as a lass from Scotland, I can assure you England has never forgotten that song. At any international match they will play that bloody song! Chant it in the crowds! I’ve spent over 20 years…

They have different modes where you can play in duos or as a four man team.

I should have clarified in my original post my position, as I in no way think the intent on Sony’s part was to create a racist caricature. In creative pursuits it’s common to accidentally make reference to something offensive completely unintentionally, and that is the case here. However, if something like that does…