I love your integration of philosophy in game design exploration. You should totally make this a series.

All I want is the option to spend real money to buy skins individually (at reasonable prices, obviously).

You can clearly hear the enemy Widow ult at the beginning and he was completely out in the open, hopping, scoping, unscoping, and generally not paying attention, so yeah that was definitely a legit and deserved death.

The first and last game I ever pirated was Dishonored back in 2012. Played through the entire game and, to be frank, it was one of the best single-player games I’ve had the pleasure to experience. Bought the game immediately after. Didn’t even care that I was hemorrhaging for money at the time.

Yooka-Laylee should have taken a pagie (I’m sorry) out of Shovel Knight’s book. Shovel Knight highlights the nostalgia of the 16-bit era without relying on it. It takes everything we loved about games from that time, enhances it, then throws out everything that we don’t realize actually sucked.

Is there a reason why the first part of this trailer is so similar to the fanmade Mother 4 gameplay trailer?

We need to do something about this NOW!

That frying pan story really had me at the edge of my seat. Thanks for sharing!

There’s a joke about high-quality bait somewhere here.

While the art is incredible, this oddly reminds me of those Chinese bootleg mobile ripoffs of popular games. Also Rein as a wizard doesn’t work for me... Shouldn’t hebe a paladin? Ah well, artistic license I guess.

All it does is allow players to get loot boxes without buying them.

Our team needs a Rein.

I’m getting spirits within flashbacks.

Karma ain’t a bitch. Sometimes she’s just too good at her job.

Symmetra controller out of a Microwave.

Sounds like the “Non-standard game over” trope on TvTropes

How could diversity for diversity’s sake be a bad thing? For what “sake” exactly should their be diversity? Why can’t we have diversity just because? I’m pretty content with Tracer being lesbian just because. because why? Because lesbians exist goddammit.

It’s why much of the MMORPG community has moved to MOBAs. Not everyone has the time or patience to get up to speed to do the latest content in an MMORPG, let alone the fact that you now have to get your friends up to speed to play with them.

Holy shit. If there is a better raven cosplay I haven’t seen it.

Hahaha what a great read. Excellent article.