You know what sucks? Working a 12 hour day on freelance rates to single-handedly run a website, and spending most of that time trying to highlight unknown indie games, to then find the only comment under a review of a properly great game deserving of wide attention is some sneering wankery complaining about a slightly…

This. Personally I read the review and was super sad, as I enjoyed XC1 and love RPGs. Finding out XC2 was a failure really bummed me out. Then a few months later I noticed people were still talking about it and I saw its metacritic score was great - I found that odd, decided to give it a shot out of curiosity. Loved…

Wonderful.

I understand how it may feel for victims of domestic abuse to watch this defamation trial and see how it ended. However, to equate the results of this particular trial with erasing the progress that has since been made from Gamergate and the Me Too movement is absurd.

Imagine a Kotaku writer ever admitting that a woman other than JK Rowling can suck

With all due respect, no. She didn’t tell the truth, she was also an abuser, and was found guilty in a court of law. This has NOTHING to do with Gamergate. It’s not that she’s imperfect. She did bad stuff and got caught.

It costs nothing, but to these mentally deficient shitbags, its never a win-win - if you acknowledge someone else’s rights, that means you MUST have taken some from me. Never mind that recognizing someone’s fundamental rights that have been denied to them is just the right thing to do, but also costs nothing, to these…

I played on 1060/6GB + Index (which sees 1060 as ‘not ready for index’) and the vanilla game still runs smoothly.

And Chappelle IMMEDIATELY blames it on trans people.

“this is a free-to-play game being developed by mobile specialists Gameloft” is a better quote from the article.

Bro, dunno if you heard, but you can’t use humor to help you deal with the world’s problems anymore. You gotta just be mad and stay mad 24/7. Just lookin’ out my dude.

Or to put it a different way, “too much”.

I’ve been a professional game developer for over 20 years at this point and how much the artists and designers need to crunch varies quite a bit in my experience. I think it is largely about genre and what the content needs of the game are. I’ve worked on projects that were very data and tool driven and the engineers…

Do you internet people ever get exhausted hating cool stuff

Some of that money does go towards the developers. Salaries, bonuses, raises, benefits, stock options, etc. If you’re talking about straight up royalties, then probably not but that’s true of most jobs.

“Tokens are now practically worthless”

This is extremely well said. Death doesn't matter. Thats literally the point of most of the Souls games. Stop worrying about losing souls, and just enjoy trying.

You have a very restrictive view on what constitutes narrative and world building. RPGs have traditionally relied on very simplistic and straightforward methods of communicating with the player. The player is given a gods-eye view of the plot via scrolling text (or something equally forced) that informs them what…

Being sympathetic to the characters or understanding the plot doesn’t have anything to do with the world. The “bespoke universe” with “every corner has something to see” is world-building. Read some item or spell descriptions.