The real tragedy to me is that I think it was a good game in most of the same ways the original was, but with much better gameplay. It served to lay down a foundation for future installments that could have built on it in really interesting ways (which the original trilogy mostly failed to do by focusing instead on…

MIGHT have bought this close-ish to launch - I got the first one late and on sale, but it was quite fun - but the microtransaction stuff is a huge turnoff. Also the “Shelob is a sexy lady” nonsense bugs me.

Which means you (and me too, it must be said) pretty much aren’t their target market. Nintendo made a very deliberate choice a long time ago to stick to being a “family friendly” company. They very occasionally let 3rd parties make more adult-oriented games for their platforms, but they pretty much never do it…

Different things can be hard for different people (this is not meant to be an excuse for bad behavior, just a fact - bad behavior still needs to be stopped and corrected regardless). And a lot of people have trouble with the concept that others on the internet are real people - it’s like the absence of a face and…

Have there been changes to how it handles inventory? My understanding is that when it came out, anytime you got an upgrade to either your ship or your carried gear, it consumed some of your inventory, and managing inventory was already problematic, since there’s so many different resources to gather.

I’m not opposed to this game, but I still really want a new Saints Row - and one that builds on the super-powered gameplay of IV, especially. I’ve played a bit of II and The Third from time to time, but IV was/is my jam. I got obsessed with it when I first got it, played every mission, maxed out my Boss, collected…

Kudos to you for being thoughtful and self-reflective, but unfortunately lots of people just don’t do that. Becoming an “adult” takes almost no effort at all - just the application of sufficient time, and some people don’t pay a lot of heed to how that time changes what’s expected of them.

When you’re interacting with people you’ve met because of your job, whether you’re acting in a professional capacity at the time or not, the persona and reputation you have as a result of that job are a factor in your interactions. It really doesn’t matter what that job is, it’s going to play a role - but when that…

He’s a legal adult. I expect him to behave with decency and respect. I expect the same of everyone, regardless of their job description.

Please explain that to the journalism industry as a whole. Supply and demand doesn’t work very well when part of the demand is “I expect it for free.”

Demand that pays, though? And to enough of an extent to support a team of dozens? Cuz that’s what it would take to sort through the firehouse that Steam keeps posting. There’s just too much of it for any one person to keep up with, even as a full time job, and if it isn’t done by a team (or, rather, several, since…

Well, given that I’d expect most people who seek to actually review games professionally probably do so out of a love of the hobby, I rather doubt many of them - Sterling included - actually enjoy playing terrible shovelware games for the purposes of mockery and diatribes. Jim even says as much - he’s been on a…

I can’t speak for anybody else, but the flood of crap has definitely turned me off. I used to browse periodically through categories that interested me and look for games that seemed fun - particularly at sale time. These days, though, I pretty much don’t even try. Unless I see a glowing review from someone I trust,…

Yes, Reagan was the previous record-holder for oldest ever elected, and he was only about a year younger when he took office for his first term than Tr*mp is now. Given how much less was known about Alzheimer’s at the time, and how much easier it would have been to hide the early symptoms, it’s entirely possible he…

Dude, he’s 71. He’s not “getting older” - he’s old - he is, in fact, the oldest man ever elected President. He doesn’t have “early onset” dementia - he’s well within the age demographic for garden-variety Alzheimer’s.

“Cuck” is short for “cuckold.” It’s a term used by the alt-right to denigrate men they feel are insufficiently macho. It’s rooted in the “men’s rights” reactionarily hyper-sexist subculture.

I get that sometimes things go wrong and you’ve got to make adjustments. And the decision-makers at the time deserve kudos for having the guts to scrap what wasn’t working and commit to doing so much more work to make something worthwhile instead. But as I said elsewhere, if you’ve got that much work ahead, then the…

I’m sure there were reasons. My point is that reasons like that are almost always insufficient, no matter how seemingly compelling they may be. Protracted crunch burns people out. It reduces their effectiveness and actually lowers their hour-for-hour productivity. If a project is so far behind - for whatever reason -…

On the whole I agree. 6 months was more of an absolute upper limit under exceptional circumstances than something that should be done routinely.

Good to know. That does sound like a very different topic than the teaser text suggests.