I don’t disagree that the latest GT had a worse reception than earlier games, but saying “yes, this game outsold most games on the console but didn’t outsell some of the best-selling games in the last five years” isn’t a very strong argument in favor of describing a game as “niche.” Lots of games didn’t sell as well…

GT7 (a pretty niche series to begin with)

It’s bizarre that the first place your head went to was a song, and then to also not make the connection that the song was... named after an actual thing. The Flying trapeze.
Invented by the same person the leotard is named after infact!

Except that it’s a reference to Dick Grayson being a former trapeze artist...

I’ll be honest, as someone’s who’s already pretty invested in the Sony first party ecosystem, I’m pretty wildly unimpressed.

I don’t think the issue is that she’s on a skateboard. Especially because how many Black folk did we all know growing up with skateboards and I’m not even talmbout in the burbs??? The author here just noted what was shown, without commentary, which I think is intentional because the areas that they felt were lacking, i…

I get what you’re saying but it kind of sounds like they ARE trying to write her as black--just black from a white person’s perspective, i.e.--angry at the world, frustrated at social issues, and not much else in her head.  “I’m  black and it sucks to be me in this world so I’m always angry” is, I think, the concern…

“...reserve the most criticism over representation to the media that actually makes the attempt.”

I understand this sentiment in the context that, ultimately, the ART has to speak for itself and all, but representation in an industry where representation has been all but non-existent is vital. It’s an absolutely fair question to ask just how well a group of middle-ageish white folks can write about the EXPERIENCE…

The game needs the voice over talent badly. 

Some caveats: The ranking is based on cumulative hours played across the playerbase, not on total number of players. (According to Ryan, PS5 players clocked a cumulative 4.6 billion hours.)

“Intensely mediocre” only if you just focus on it as strictly a competitive fighter (debatable, depending on who you ask that was never the intention). But it did a LOT of things right. The environments/stages. The weird % knockouts. Having universal controls for every fights that are simple and intuitive (that one…

I know yours is the ‘popular take’ but there are absolutely kart racers that do more interesting things and/or are more enjoyable than most Mario Kart titles.

The weird thing is that Diddy Kong Racing was a pretty successful thing Rare made so you’d think they’d be able to do a Kart game of their own for Microsoft.

It’s really nasty to shit on the FN@F creator by calling him a “weird Christian Dude” like that’s very insulting, if he was an Hasidic Jew or Devote Muslim and you called that weird it was be uncalled for. I’m agnostic but this weird thing where we just dump on religious belief as long as their “safe” to mock is…

It’s already got a genre name - “platform fighter.” Just like you call Mortal Kombat and Guilty Gear “traditional fighting games” rather than Street Fighter-likes.

I think the answer is that you have to have both: characters that hook people, and mechanics that make the game fun, competitive, and relatively balanced.

I mean... yeah?

It’s funny. While I didn’t necessarily care I did find myself avoiding articles and sites where the contents were being discussed till I had a chance to watch it for myself. It’s always fun to watch these kinds of presentations and I was genuinely surprised by the Act Raiser announcement. It was one of my first SNES…

I’ve been seeing this a lot since the new consoles are coming out and frankly, I don’t really understand it. You don’t have to upgrade your PC. As long as your PC is at least as good as whatever console is out that generation, you can comfortably play almost any game that comes out and it will look at least as good as…