I guess I could have said it nicer, but it’s also true. There was no reason whatsoever to expect that a DBZ RPG would be anything but the formula crap Ethan is describing - but as long as you guys with no standards keep buying it there will be more, so you win in the end.

DBZ is a a franchise defined by shit games because the fans have very low standards, so why bother? It’s less a creative venture and more a soulless corporation that is built on pushing out low quality stuff, from manga to anime to games.

It’s not a lot of time for literally thousands of bugs. And I know thousands is plausible because Witcher 3 had thousands. Most of them are small (‘typo in this conversation’ ‘NPC x looks weird when y’) but they all take time to 1) find in the game, 2) find the problem in the code/resources, 3) fix it, 4) check it in,…

They probably got it feature complete then realized they have 10,000 bugs to fix (that number’s not hyperbole for something this complex).  And I’m sure they have some extra Polish-ing they want to do. There’s always extra Polish-ing.

It’s also been a big issue that every fratboy douchebro thinks he’s funny and don’t think they need a writer - and those are the sort of people who wrote Matt Hazard and Duke Nukem/Forever. It’s just random people in the company, usually especially the dbag owner who always thinks he’s fucking hilarious, like Randy…

It’s always interesting seeing these completely gleeful ads from a place which is by all accounts completely straitlaced, starched, and kind of miserable to work for... but I guess you could say exactly the same about Disney.

That ‘tiny mouth on the side of a giant snout’ thing does not work for Shazza.

Assuming you do FPSes, you really need to do Control. Brilliant, gorgeous, funny, meticulously designed and gated, and a complete blast.

You’re telling me his normal movies aren’t deliberately bad on purpose?

This game was very obviously kicked out the door by EA six months too early.

I wonder just how long you guys are going to put up with tediously typing ‘XBox One Series X’ for an entire generation.  Maybe XBoxSex?

I want to care, but for some reason I just can’t give any.

If you go that way, then it’s just a truism and there are no examples of non-capitalist societies larger than a village. Even North Korea has capitalism. Cuba has capitalism. Soviet Russia had capitalism. So yes, the apocalypse will be capitalist because statistically everything human on the planet is capitalist.

I don’t even think you need capitalism, it’s just the dominant paradigm so its excesses are clear and many happen under its umbrella.

> Maybe in 10 years when someone’s writing another Kotaku article, it won’t just be about the same problems.

Maybe we’ve just approached a soft limit on how many crap releases it’s worth for the shovelware people to crank out a year.

I hadn’t tried that one - I guess that modeler was doing things the ‘traditional’ way.

Movies have a different logic... Consoles: +1 is better. Movies: +1 is (usually) worse.

I noticed while playing that she wasn’t a typically sexy design video game female character. She’s built like a moderately fit normal person, and her body and especially face are too square for the rounded sexy/protect me look that designers like, even for female characters that are badasses like Aloy in Horizon Zero…