Sadly, the management who made all the decisions will probably keep their jobs while the guys without a say but who did what they were told will be looking for jobs.

I met a hiring supervisor at a major video game company a few years back at GDC. When I asked him about writers, he said that all of their writers were programmers, or artists, or producers. Not one person was there solely to write.

Fuck this guy.

Dark Souls

Thanks for contributing your original opinion about how much video games should cost you, it really spiced up the article.

Having worked on one modification of a game for five years, and releasing precisely zero games, Dean Hall has decided that all of this success is too much for him, and he wants to start his own game studio with none of his former Bohemia Interactive resources.

I'll take decent games in any form on any platform.

It's not your fault...

It blows my mind that people actually bother to get flustered when something like Kotaku posts something that doesn't directly affect them in the slightest. I imagine the dialog in your head goes something like:

"Fuck me! Is that something that I could easily just ignore and not bother with? Of course it fucking isn't!…

WE HAVE TO GO BACK!

The great experience of HL2 will always be burned into memory atop 1000's of titles I have played.. Games like Bioshock sit right next to it. Been a long time since a game took me were HL2 did. Too bad the experience wasn't same for you.

"Luckily a friend of mine really wanted it and wouldn't listen when I told him how bad it was, so I traded him this for a copy of Zelda II. "

it sounds to me like everyone is missing the point. fuck off with your gone home rants. he said narrative driven highly replayable to me that sounds more like the witcher than gone home. with that said, it does sound shitty to lay off a bunch of people but that happens all the time in game development. i'm willing to…

I love how people accuse you of being a PR person or shill for Microsoft. God forbid you enjoy a console exclusive game that's worthy of praise.

Oh fuck you steam! DmC was a good game!

You fanboy trolls are all the same. Nintendo is done, they won't last another year. Xbox is done it won't last another year. 1080P this and 60 FPS that. Really? At what point do you get tired of wasting all that time with stupid comments? 99% of you trolls complain and bitch so hard it's ridiculous. Why not take that…

It's almost as if humor is subjective.

It's comforting to know there are people like you that just want to see others fail.

After thinking long and hard on this, do you think it's possible to only assign FF games to writers who are guaranteed to love it unconditionally? If I'm gonna read a review it better be reinforce my undying love for a franchise

Of course we're talking about opinions Super Arppis, that's a given and I'm not gonna argue with a person if they didn't like the games. As I said, they are not my cup of tea.
However, as a game designer (in fact, also just as a gamer), I think you can observe certain trends or identify certain elements that at the…