They won’t risk it, Trumpers are a particularly... special group who would all boycott the game forever if he instructed them to and since many gamers skew right in their political values it’s just too big a risk

“The dialogue is meh / fed through google translate?”

This is just baseless. Cyberpunk has plenty of problems but the dialogue is not one of them.

This.

I want to play Fallout 4 again now and explore a world I have traipsed over every single inch of for over 1000 hours more than I want to explore any part of this brand new IP. That is so damning to me. 

Starfield is a game that tries to blow you away but fails in almost every conceivable way. It’s almost as though they felt their ambition alone would carry it through because make no mistake there are some really big ideas and some cool (in principle) mechanics but not a single bit of it is fully realised. Honestly…

The biggest challenge with this game will be having the patience to wait the 5 or 6 months for it to be fully patched. I’m not sure I have that much self control...

I love the bitterness of trying to shit on this game one last time using waning player numbers 6 months after launch as some mark of shame. A game about a book written by a woman you disagree with did really well because half the people fundamentally dispute the characterisation of her and the other half are capable…

Oh she definitely cheated

I don’t get this, isn’t the max settings with all ray tracing on already too much for literally any GPU on the market? Now we need an overdrive mode?

I actually agree. For me, by far and away the best aspect of the game was uncovering the story of what happened back in the day which I found absolutely fascinating and a wonderful concept for a sci fi film that I hope gets made one day.

My wife was 11 when the first book came out so she was literally the target audience and grew up with the series. She is absolutely loving it because it hits the nostalgia so hard and because the people that made it have very obviously gone to great lengths to sprinkle it with endless easter eggs and call backs to the…

I think the trans community is keeping her far more relevant these days than Harry Potter is. 

This might seem like a stupid question given the narrative but what is your opinion of Rowling? I ask because you seem to eschew the common narrative which is that the trans community is all aligned and foaming at the mouth over the evil that is a Harry Potter game being a potential success and it made me realise that…

If you can’t bring yourself to play a game because it is set in a universe created by someone who holds very established views on biology then don’t play it.

This. I bet the second they stopped recording she stormed out the room and went back to giving him the silent treatment.

It was always hard to care about GTA online aside from the potential harm it posed to the franchise.

Right but then the answer to your question of why would I want slower traversal is “to add MORE authenticity”

So close.

The man was in the wind for about a decade, he attended self help programmes and overcame alcoholism during that time. I’m not just blanket excusing his horrible phone call to his then girlfriend or his racist drunken rant but the man hasn’t committed actual crimes (apart from drink driving for which he was fined and…

I think they call it authenticity, otherwise why not just add flying or a jet pack.

I think it isn’t as black and white as “Fans want something smaller”. Fans just want the content to justify the size. Take Witcher 3, massive open world with tons of exploration but that exploration is always rewarded with interesting quests and compelling dialogue. I don’t want Ubi to use this “Fans want something…