Many of the angry people are mad, not because they disagree with the things that are banned, but because they have been awake and conscious through the type of moderation that occurs across every video game and social network platform. Aka, incompetent, inconsistent, completely vulnerable to bad faith attacks, etc.…

If the restaurant took 150 hours to order one “complete” dinner, then reviewers would have to make some kind of compromise. It’s almost as if “extending” that point makes for a nonsense analogy.

It didn’t feel like anime to me, but perhaps I was being oblivious. Besides the Akira reference, what else is it similar to?

Body Harvest and Space Station Silicon Valley have more to do with the success and design of the GTA series than the top down entries. They took the concept of “some degree of player freedom” and “commit crimes” from the early GTA games and everything else from their later work.

Saying you have to beat a 150 hour game (note: one of the most critical reviews here, the IGN one, actually DID do this) before you can have a fair opinion of it is... very silly. Unsupportably silly.

I actually don’t think using a real life aesthetic makes you have “a responsibility to grapple with its history.” I see the rice hat idea is being a bit more questionable, but “they didn’t insert a painful history lesson about a real life community (that had nothing to do with the story of their game)“ is... a plus?

The reason people didn’t get mad about Mass Effect Legendary Edition should be clear through comparison.

Fair point, but that doesn’t give them the green light to charge $70 since that option is too hard to do. They could offer an upgrade path of some kind, for example.

I think that’s fair, there’s no reason for YOU to get upset. Just... don’t put yourself in the middle of other people being upset. How does that help your energy at all?

The complaints should be instructive in terms of pricing, features, timing of the release, etc. You have to know the whole studio isn’t 100% on board with this, perhaps there are some doubts there about the strategy with this title. The complaints are something for them (and other companies) to take into account. You…

What is the compelling reason not to kick up a fuss? Negative feedback causes positive changes in gaming all the time. For a recent Sony example, Sony planned to charge for the Horizon Ps5 upgrade (despite promising the opposite) and only budged on this when people complained. I would recommend that YOU stay quiet…

It is malpractice to call what is happening to Ubisoft “Bad Luck” when we ALL KNOW it is catastrophically bad and corrupt management. Luck has nothing to do with it, don’t run weird smokescreens for their failures for them.

You are telling people to not post their negative thoughts about video game marketing. I am mocking you for that very bad take. So I’m joking in a way, in the sense that the joke is on you.

When a video game company posts marketing videos or screen shots in an attempt to get interest for the product they are selling, it is VERY IMPORTANT that you not be disrespectful to the video game project marketing! Responding in a negative or disinterested way is a bad thing for some reason!

What is the point until the Lego Bowser is Bowser’s Fury scale?

Kotaku still feral about Game Pass, I guess it’s hard to let it go after their Twitter got bodied so badly earlier in the year. And I say this as someone who thinks the console wars are an embarrassment, it’s just not possible to ignore Kotaku’s weird behavior on this topic.

Yeah, if an Asari teammate gets knocked unconscious in combat, it makes zero sense that they have no mental strength to maintain a mental barrier to block bullets... but they DO have the strength to maintain an illusion of their appearance. Which suggests that is exactly what they look like OR... they’ve given…

Professional manga art is never done by just one person. They have multiple assistants. It’s still a MASSIVE amount of work.

Main difference here is that the Pokemon Company has more money than God while Niantic is in financial trouble and starting to lay off people. Perhaps the latter should not be so sure of itself.

Isn’t that just kicking the can down the road? The replacement artist could easily develop injuries from doing the same work that produced the problems for the first person.