A series with 2 entries and 3 remasters

This is a really surprising take considering they actually turned the cheese down if anything. Some of the most important lines are kept, like Bingo, but for the most part the camp is diluted thanks in part to Saddler and Salazar not calling in with Leon to chat. I also don’t get the hair/face complaints either lol.

It might be a bit myopic to ignore the controversy (which, frankly, I had forgotten about), but I’m not aware of any awards show that bases its criteria on copies sold, Metacritic ratings, user reviews, or number of people who saw the thing. That’s just famously not a thing, so it’s a bit weird to insist that other…

Hogwarts was a mediocre game that had inflated reviews because many people just wanted an HP game where they could make their own character and be a Hogwarts student. Yeah, I guess it delivered on that for those people, but from an actual game design perspective, it was ridiculously mediocre and shallow and is by no…

Or, it’s because nobody cares about the game outside of the controversy surrounding the IP’s creator.

I’ve heard about this issue a couple of times today, but no article has bothered to fully articulate the problem other than “dodgy deals were made”.

Regardless of the controversy, Hogwarts was a pretty mediocre game and it sold because of the IP it was attached to. To imply that it was “snubbed” for awards is to forget that awards are for the actual game delivered, not for the marketing campaign or sales quantity.

It wasn’t misunderstood and there wasn’t any hidden…

This article goes on and on and never really details what the sponsorship issue actually is. Oh, they filmed here, then there was a strike, which is over, none of which is relevant to the story.

It was snubbed about as much as Robocop: Rogue City was snubbed.

Cyberpunk 2077 is an “indie” game.  That term is basically meaningless.

I think the definition of “indie” is vague enough that anything big enough won’t be considered “indie” and anything small enough will be considered “indie.” See Dave the Diver’s inclusion in the “best independent game” category and Baldur’s Gate 3's exclusion from it. Any “indie” game that’s good enough to win GotY…

I have no idea what you are talking about the game uses mostly the same map and graphics but it plays completely differently. The building elements of the game may not have been your cup of tea but are some robust and complicated that the game is sort of a masterclass in design. 

Yeah, it’s kind of under the radar (people are mostly able to get their stuff) but also kind of terrifying in that the supply chain as a whole is rather precarious. There’s not a lot of resiliency if the wrong factory goes down due to a typhoon - that kind of stuff.

Decent article about it here: https://www.techrepubli…

There is still a general shortage of chips on the global market. With the generative AI boom in full swing, demand for chips will likely always outpace supply meaning the costs to manufacture consoles isn’t likely to come down anytime soon.

Yeah, there’s an entire generation of gamers who’ve grown up with paid skins. They don’t know any different, it’s totally normal to them. Add to that I can’t help but thinking a large part of that generation just play a few games a year. As a 40 something gamer, I’ve never bought a skin and hopefully never will. That,…

So the answer here is that as far as we know the PS5 is no longer sold at a loss but the margin of profit is slim. The XSX and XSS are still sold at a loss, and we dont have any clear window on how much of a loss. We know some of this information because of all the lawsuits and FTC things.

So where the fuck are devs compensations then? The lay offs?

Also your math is bullshit. A 80 dollar game that would cost 181 today also sold to a tiny fraction of the audience games have today.

My company refuses to let me hire anyone in at anything other than the base pay for position under me without getting…

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I liked Andromeda well enough in spite of how tedious it was, but man, it is just hard for me to trust Bioware to make a competent game with a halfway decent story.

Like, how many people were actually tweeting from their PS5s?