Of course, there’s been similar nonsense in previous Fallout games

That’s really unsettling. Mobile, microtransaction-driven games are some of the most exploitative in the industry, with people with addictive tendencies being actively manipulated into financial oblivion; what we are witnessing are the AAA companies going all-in on that exploitative craze; and gaming journalists are…

I wear my Jordan XI Breds with my black suit.

Jason, I’m far from a Diablo fan myself (I’ve never played Diablo II and so far have only spent a few hours on Diablo III), but I take some issue with this part:

But isn’t that the point? This idea that women should never be spotted with their “natural” face on is dangerous precisely because it shapes and distorts men’s expectations (and their idea of what it’s like to be a woman) from a very young age.

Thank you for that. I wish people would just stop belittling other people for style and fashion choices. I hate this whole “- makeup is a lie! - no, not wearing makeup is a lie!” debate.

I’m kinda torn here.

Now, it’s just a theory, but considering Sapkowski has somewhat of an “arrogant asshole” reputation here in Poland (though obviously we consider him a national treasure as well), it seems to me that his negative attitude towards CDPR and the Witcher games in general may be partly due to the fact that they’ve captured…

All that is relevant is that Ciri is a pre-existingWitcher character who has been established as having a white/Slavic European appearance.

Well, I both agree and disagree. Obviously, the Witcher is deeply allegorical in a political and historical sense; in the original books, Geralt dies during what is basically a pogrom (there’s a Polish literary critic who claims that the whole scene is specifically an allegory for the 1946 Kielce pogrom).

It’s honestly very simple. Let me guide you through it:

First of all: I’m Polish, I was 14 when I first read the Witcher saga, I absolutely adore Sapkowski and all of his work. I consider myself somewhat of a hardcore fan: I still have all the handbooks and sourcebooks and what-not for the long-forgotten Wiedźmin tabletop RPG (as well as an even older RPG authored by…

Oh, and in case you’re wondering - this is no bootleg, this abomination was produced and released by the Polish public broadcasting company.

I’ll stick to the original Witcher TV adaptation, thank you very much:

Technically, you could only “queue” actions with Cooper (the gunslinger ability you’ve mentioned); for the rest of the team, you could only pre-program a single action. But it was still enough to execute some pretty nice western-like action sequences.

Well, the whole genre - Commandos, Desperados, Robin Hood, Chicago 1930, Star Trek: Away Team (does anyone remeber this one?) etc. - is notoriously hard to describe. They’re not puzzle games, although there’s a lot of sandbox-style puzzles (almost always there’s at least a few radically different approaches to any…

It may seem silly, but for me personally this is probably the best video game-themed news I’ve heard all year. Back in the day, Desperados was my favourite game of the genre (better level design, both gameplay-wise and artistically, than Commandos 1 or 2, a more interesting cast of characters, and unlike Commandos the…

That’s honestly in the top5 good news for this year. World is a much friendlier place with Fahey back at the keyboard.

Spintires: MudRunner.

And a Two Thrones reboot... In general, I wish they had enough money/manpower to do what TCA is apparently trying to do with the Total War formula - smaller, narrower, more focused games set in a more specific framework.