I’d have probably thrown some horror titles in, like Silent Hill 2 or 1. Maybe even both Condemned games, not sure why they always make me think of fall. Edith Finch and Firewatch get a nod too, along with Gone Home.

So ya’ll had Ghost of Tsushima staring you in the face, and you picked the Sabrina the Teenage Witch point-and-click CD-ROM game instead?

The parts of Skyrim that aren’t snowy and mountainous were pretty fall-ish. It was nice to wander around the southern half of the map and soak in the ambience when you weren’t getting ambushed by dragons.

I’m just going to put this out there, Square are not a good publisher. They really cannibalise their studios and have unrealistic performance expectations. They really don’t support their teams and with the exception of a handful of games they don’t seem to care about properties.

Oh please it’s his views being vomited all over his store page that got him shit canned. He was also given a warning prior to this by Valve that the store page was not the place for his personal brand of garbage.

You seem to be missing the entire problem.

I think some people are forgetting that there was a sequel to Prey (2006) that was in a sort of development hell for years, with a very space/sci-fi look to it. Then it got cancelled in 2014. Two years later Prey (2017) was announced in 2016, and a lot of people were confused as to what this new Prey exactly was. Was…

Noclip made a fantastic documentary about the making of Prey, and they talk about the way the decision was handed down by Bethesda. Basically, Bethesda gave Arkane full creative control over the game and the only thing they would not budge on was the name. So they did it. It’s a pretty great documentary, and I thought…

Except it’s not generic to the creators of the game itself. Your comment completely dismisses that, shockingly, creators like to have agency over their projects down to the name that comes to represent that thing.

He’s lamenting that he felt like he erased other creators and their work while simultaneously having what…

Naming it Prey was definitely a mistake that kept many from playing the game. Out of my gaming group of around two-dozen at the time, I was the only one willing to give it a shot, as everyone assumed it was a remake of the original Prey, which none of them liked that much. Even after I played it and discovered how…

To be fair, that’s literally the exact reason I didn’t give this game a second glance when I heard about it.

I feel you but would ask you to dig deeper my friend. Imagine making something new, original (to you) and a passion project that should be seen in it’s own light and judged on it’s own terms. Now imagine some suits telling you “yeah, that’s great but your ideas don’t matter; brands matter (they kinda do but not really…

There was actually a whole process that it went through. There was originally going to be a sequel to the 2006 game, it involved the original character being a bounty hunter on an alien space station, and even had a trailer I think.

I wouldn’t say I was pissed by any stretch. But put off? Enough to overlook the game with so many others on my todo list? Absolutely. Hell I was even gifted it for free a couple years ago and I still haven’t touched it.

lol. Triggered?

In some ways but not in others.  Anything on screen seemed heavily controlled but they were absolutely fine with MERCHANDISING the shit out of Tolkien

Nope, fuck them.

especially when way worse things exist in the realm of mods

I mean, if any Skyrim mod promotes homophobia and eliminates anything that promotes equality, then yes, they should be next...

Guess all those Skyrim mods are next up