Man, I wish Lost Ark was a bit less heavy handed with its stuff, or at least provide players with a lot more cosmetic options for gender locked classes.

Yeah “I can decide that I get creepy vibes from you” pretty much nailed it. I mean people can do it but it’s a bit of a creepy perv vibe.

Like if I went to a persons house and they were playing Elden Ring and decided that this was something they wanted to show me as a cool part of the game, I’d laugh it off but file it…

i love the guy giving advice on how to get laid and then immediately proving his expertise by relaying the very plausible and relatable experience of women seeing you maskless at walmart and immediately feeling the uncontrollable biological urge to give you slurp

Also, as a woman, I find a guy who is still masking in public places to be incredibly hot. The mouth-breathers in my state ditched masks last June, more or less. I was in the grocery store last week, and a guy about my age was wearing an N95 mask like me. We made eye contact and I could tell he smiled as he gave a bit…

the logo is just so generic, it’s obvious that there would be similar stuff around, I would never get that it’s about a fighting game

After reading the horror story published here about how cumbersome and strange it was to get the saves from PS4 FF7R to PS5 FF7R I had some anxiety. There was even a 7 paragraph “how-to” explainer posted by Kotaku for it. All of 30 seconds later, all I could think was “THIS was deserving of a fearmongering article?”

“Some people like to see an interesting world deeply realised”

As a woman and gamer who has been playing games for over 20 years, my first reaction is to be like so what? They won’t be touching my actual face/body, but after a few moments thought, you make a really good point. Over the years, the vast majority of my interactions with other players have been positive. I make a…

Do durability mechanics affect gametime much?

Shoddy VR implementation, convoluted sales packages, lack of cross-progression with the EGS version, server instability preventing people from playing, lack of discount parity with the EGS version, absurd regional pricing... the Steam launch has been a bit of a disaster all around.

I mean I get that it’s Japan, but it’s a high school. They almost certainly don’t serve sake.

I can confirm this. As someone that’s been in the game industry for many years, including some time at EA, it was a good working environment with superior benefits compared to a number of other game companies I’ve worked for. And when I did get let go (was between projects at the time), EA gave me the most generous…

I was an administrator on Zeldapedia for a while and yeah, we hated the management and platform even then. This was probably back around 2012-2013 and the big drama was, first, the removal of the Monaco skin, then making their new skin (which I think was “codenamed” Oasis for a while) the default, then removing the…

Yeah, you’d think there’d be at least one monster girl nerd that also knows how to host a mediawiki or something.

I get what you’re saying here, but again, I’d challenge the point that Microsoft’s line-up is ‘almost entirely games like FH5'. I’d say what’s more accurate would be ‘Microsoft’s line-up lacks games like Horizon Zero Dawn’ - which is absolutely a concern, especially if that’s your favorite ‘type’ of game, but it…

I see where you are coming from, as I feel the same. But funnily enough, at the same time I feel the opposite about Sony. I love their narrative-driven exclusives, most of them, anyway (HZD didn’t click with me, that’s the only exception).

Isn’t the incentive to actually try supposed to be because you love decorating tho

Garrus is sexy, smart, and has saved my ass countless times. He might be BioWare’s best character ever.

“I work at a AAA studio, fewer than 1 in 10 CVs we get are from women. Not everything is caused by the patriarchy ffs”

Not everything is caused by the patriarchy, but the fact that you get so few women applicants definitely is. 

I’m going to agree with you, but realistically it would make me look like a beast. Back when I played these games I never got many kills but I did get a shit ton of assists. I’d die like 3 times in a match, get 1 kill, but 12 assists. The old way I would look like shit even though my team would win. Now I wouldn’t…