1) changing cultural mores. Things in the past are certainly different from now. You might also remember western games getting pilloried for sexual content—for instance the now infamous GTA San Andreas hot coffee mod kerfuffle.

Are you saying the orcas were taking the piss?

Programming a computer to do calculator math is easy. That’s not what they’re talking about here. The computer doesn’t have any understanding what it’s doing in that case; you’ve just built in the mechanics to do it and it’s just using those mechanics. If a machine learning AI has been taught to do math, that’s a…

I was gonna say, 15 years ago you would have unlocked them by just playing the game in the first place

Don’t. 👏 Pay. 👏 For $#!&. 👏You. 👏 Don’t. 👏 Need.

Fake currencies are such a flagrantly scummy monetization scheme. They’re very clearly designed to both obscure the actual cost of MTX while also forcing you to spend more money than you should need to. Developers and publishers should absolutely be called out for it.

“¡Cien dolares! Jesús! Jesús! Aha ha haaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!”

I’m always baffled by this line of thought. He’s the wealthiest man in the world, who uses his immense wealth to put his thumb on the scale of so many aspects of our lives, just by the lobbyists he employs alone, not to mention the privilege and connections that money gives him access to. He is not above reproach or…

Because it’s a single player game and over time people become done with them and move onto other stuff? And it also didn’t review as well as their previous games and less people are into it.

Not everything is a live service, it’s ok to be done with a game.

Because the game is derivative, repetitive, ugly, and boring?

The fact that text bubble colors is brag/shame worth thing is kind of scary. Hardware aside, Apple is definitely selling the best Kool Aid.

So you didn’t read the article. He already acknowledged the old-man-yells-at-cloud thing. He also said he doesn’t care. Thirdly, the issue isn’t just that the cosmetics are available for purchase, but that in most games who have them, you don’t have the option to turn them off. So no, even if you don’t buy them…

>Yes, in a year that’s in the running for the best ever when it comes to new games, a remake managed to beat out Bethesda’s ultra-hyped space epic Starfield, amongst other games.

Where are you reading these conversations? Of all the criticisms I’ve read, either on places like this or the Starfield Reddit, nothing strikes me as “console war nonsense”. And as someone who is slogging through it at the moment just out of a weird need to be DONE with it, I can assure you that none of my criticisms…

You know it’s a slow year for RPGs when Lies of P (possibly the worst name for a video game in history) makes the list. No disrespect to P as it’s a very competent and interesting Soulslike, but that seems like a stretch.

What, there’s no category for ‘game that managed to completely meet everyone’s expectations both positive and negative?’ No award for ‘game that contained not a single surprise’? Voted number one in the category of ‘sure is the kind of game you’d expect this company to make in 2023 without any internal shakeups or…

I know folks keep saying to parent their kids, but it goes beyond that even. These games are intentionally designed to be psychologically manipulative. It’s how they get the money and play time that they do.

Holowka’s death had nothing to do with anyone but himself. He was an incredibly sick individual in more ways than one.

I don’t know if a trophy hunter “deserves” to be killed by an animal or a billionaire “deserves” to get crushed inside a flimsy submarine, but just like when that happens, these fuckers did it to themselves in pure cause-and-effect idiocy rofl

Oh my Goddess, the magic lamp worked! My wish that stupidity be painful has come true!