I’m seeing an utter lack of anyone commenting who seems to have actually played this game, and glaring omissions and/or a lack of details from Zack. So let’s clear this up a bit (this coming from someone who has been playing a lot of this game for the past two days):

So many hot takes here assuming the worst stuff on behalf of the developer, so I’ll offer a differing take. The progression system of unlocks lends itself to a possible exploitation with cheats and offline single player, where players could grind, or just cheat to bypass the requirements altogether getting into the…

The reactions to this—especially towards Hasan—have been hilarious to watch people freak out over easily discoverable information.

Oh, that’s easy. Because Japanese developers think that Japanese games are inherently superior (“I don’t think westerners can make good games” - Shigeru Miyamoto) and if we westerners don’t react like they want, clearly we’re not understanding something. And this is coming from someone who generally vastly prefers…

I think the original plot went that the Fiends send Garland back so that he can become Chaos and create the Fiends, who then wait for Garland to show up so that they can send him back and...
Missing from this whole equation is what happens to Chaos in the past during the loop, since he’s seemingly not present in the…

Unless they’re revamping FFI, Chaos wins… right?

Despite all the meming about the “emo boy band” or whatever, XV was actually fairly breezy for its first two thirds. There was definitely a sense of fun and adventure to it, even if the background stakes were high.

The fact that they both failed to anticipate the memes and were also bothered by them seems like a real bad sign for this game. The only way this can work is if they lean into the cheese, but this makes it sound like the bullshit/buttrock scene was supposed to be 100% serious. Which, uh oh!

The subtitles themselves aren’t terrible, the author of the tweet was watching the English CC for the dub instead of the English subtitles. There were people replying to the tweet author about it. The subtitles for the scenes she references in this video were actually close to what she translated them to when I…

Watched in a single sitting. And I’m sure I’m not alone.

It’s a testament to how well the show is written, acted, shot and directed that it still tells a story amazingly well even with sub-par subtitles.

I watched the pilot last night, and hot damn, that was a great hour of television. Definitely going to keep going.

However, as a non-Korean speaker, I was a bit bummed to see this Twitter thread from someone fluent in both Korean and English who says the subtitles are pretty bad.

If you click through to the thread,…

I wouldn’t call it pointless by any stretch. It gave the audience the ability to peek behind the curtain and discover the inner workings of the game - the way it’s organized, the hierarchy of the workers, the VIPs, and of course the identity of the Front Man (whose reveal admittedly fell a bit flat to me).

I’ve seen plenty of “murder game” shows and movies, but few have stuck with me like Squid Game. Without giving any spoilers, Episode 6 is one of the most harrowing things I’ve ever watched and it still invades my thoughts.

He interacts very significantly with a very major character.

It’s simple: Overwatch 2 is a PvE game with RPG-like character upgrades.

It is long, but often I would reach for that scan bar and just stop, because so pretty.

There’s a thematic reason for the theme change, though. 1-3 was because the station was a distant outpost, away from the rest of the fleet. It was a frontier. Then, later, when the dominion showed up and DS9 became the front lines, the theme reflected that.

Personally I almost completely agree with the rankings, except I would put DS9 higher. I’m sorry, I get what you’re saying about Enterprise’s opening and visually it was GREAT. But the music, just no, no no. I really liked the severity of DS9’s opening, its sternness actually went really well with the themes of the…

Anyone who ranks the Deep Space Nine intro as anything not first or second is wrong.