Other members of the subreddit have weighed in and pointed out that some of Larian’s official map renderings do seem to take a few liberties with its illustrations, including having mountains in places where they didn’t previously appear.

But other games still can be saved from becoming IP sandboxes

I mean, it didn’t. It came out like a wet fart and was forgotten about within a month. Probably because it was just “collect 20 X” over and over again, from start to finish, with a kind of generic plot wrapping it all in a bow.

It’s a marketing vehicle with pay to play nominations in any category not explicitly designed for indie games. So no.

I’ll bite, what’s the stereotype?

Because... *checks notes* they won’t let you orange justice on your phone? Am I reading between the lines correctly?

Was expecting gamefaqs tbh

Microsoft literally described Starfield as one of the most important RPGs ever made, and then it barely even made the list of nominees.

Not sure if you fit in there, I’m sure you’ll tell my why you don’t.

You’d have to actually be insane to nominate starfield for game of the year, even if it didn’t have so much fierce competition this year, so I’m not seeing the issue. Even “Best RPG” is a stretch, but there weren’t exactly dozens of high profile RPGs this year, so you’ve got to fill out the list somehow.

And ultimately this goes back to personal responsibility, which is at the heart of any addiction.

One piece fan spotted? I assume you meant Prospero and not this guy?

When NFT/crypto bros stop being the photo next to the dictionary definition of moron.

Not exclusively a gaming blog, man. Never has been.

Really don’t know how they fucked that up to be honest.

Prime, why do you support sales (monopolies)? Don’t you know that takes food out of the mouths of developers working in a 300+ billion dollar luxury goods industry? Instead, the guy working at walmart making 12 dollars an hour to get yelled at by a psychopath because the ham isn’t on rollback should be paying full…

It was fascinating watching the transition from “season 1" to “season 2", before the twitch ban and after. The Seinfeld aesthetic did so much heavy lifting towards making the soulless jokes and shoddy bugginess of the program seem funny. Seinfeld’s humor is already a bit lame, so whatever the next step up from knock…

No surprise that the company that held onto the NFT grift the longest has eliminated people in favor of exploiting AI for profit.

Nothing in particular jumps out as AI. That style is very common, especially amongst the artists that most AI prompters try to invoke. Like there’s a few minor issues (one of the fourth one’s fingers is a little off) but that can easily be attributed to “drawing is hard, especially with deadlines”. Everything is…

Did you also download the mod that makes junk items unlootable? There’s a lot of reasons I’ve grown from a fan to a little bit of a hater over time, but the biggest is the way they handle junk and looting and encumbrance. It’s designed to pray upon the same mental illness triggers associated with hoarding. I find…