I can't wait to experience the legally-distinct adventures of Firm Serpent in his decades-long battle against Large Leader, Pistol Lynx, and Moist Serpent!

For exactly that reason. They’re inane chore list simulators. Lot of em you can toss them into peaceful/semi peaceful and just do something without really needing to focus.

I’m a little bit confused. You’re dinging BG3 for not doing anything particularly innovative, but the only praise you have for AW2 is its writing, music, and graphical quality. All of those might as well be qualities of cinema these days and don’t inherently say anything about it as a game.

Counterpoint: Alan Wake 2 is good but overrated.

BG3 is the peak of its genre.

I do still think it’s nonsense to put Cyberpunk 2077 in the Ongoing Game category, particularly when the only reason it was really “continuing” is that they had to continue to fix their shit, and now they’ve announced they’re done. Somebody really wanted to give CD Projekt Red a consolation prize.

These articles drive clicks and they’re as desperate to stay relevant as she is.

What’s extra weird about this article is that Kotaku doesn’t shy away from calling out how billionaires suck and capitalism is making our lives worse in almost anything else.

I’m glad you raised Playstation, because it was originally going to be in my reply but I cut it for brevity.

You’re conflating the Steam platform with the Steam store. Steam keys activate on the Steam platform. The Steam platform does no trade and makes no revenue. The platform is funded exclusively by the store.

Or people just trying to live their lives and trying to enjoy the view and the normal las vegas experience that F1 is fucking up lol.

if players have to disable half the game to make it competitive + they somehow feel entitled to complain about that— as if nintendo are the ones making the mistake—then i’m sorry to say the players are the ones who are mistaken in their complaints. there’s absolutely nothing wrong with making up your own rules, but…

Nintendo has made it very clear they don’t want it to exist and designed the game in such a way that half the game’s content has to be disabled in order for it to be competitive in the first place

Honestly it’s a miracle that Smash even still has a competitive scene given that Nintendo has made it very clear they don’t want it to exist and designed the game in such a way that half the game’s content has to be disabled in order for it to be competitive in the first place.

three decades?  games were 50 until the ps3 360 generation.  MS held first party titles at 50 for like the first year or so, but everything else went to 60.

So don’t make stupidly expensive AAA games, then. Stop facescanning Keanu Reeves and Idris Elba and contracting 13 different studios.

Hard disagree, tbh. BG3 absolutely should be used as a weapon, as it proves an incredibly specific point, which is that publicly traded, shareholder run companies are almost always the enemy of quality. The developers I’ve seen that are preemptively complaining are not wrong, in that players will expect more, and they …

BG3 should absolutely be used “as an example of what fans should expect in terms of quality, creativity, and ambition in the “AAA””

The executives are absolutely the ones who need to be answering for an industry that in recent years has been defined by the repeated release of broken or unfinished products that had no business being put up for sale, blatant cash grabs, and documented instances of workplace abuses. But until people stop giving these…

I’m thinking, based on “it was our hosts PC streaming the match and his responsibility”, that the PC with the mod was just spectating and streaming the match (essentially a middleman for outside spectators), and so the only mods that could apply would be visual in nature.

Don’t sweat it. Not liking The Last Jedi is how I discovered that I was apparently a racist incel.