God, I loved these games. I was a huge Genesis fanboy at the time. With Phantasy Star 2-4, how could you not be?

I’m definitely one of those “the voice actor makes the character” type of people.

I was initially pissed when I learned that David Hayter would not play Snake in MGS V (once I learned the truth about “Snake” in said game, I chilled the hell out, because the decision made sense).

I played—and enjoyed—the most recent Splin…

or even Dogmeat in Fallout 4?

I constantly run over this dog because the dog-AI isn’t smart. It constantly walks around my vehicle when I try to make a break for it. I’m not going to stand still and keep shooting all the enemies every time. It’s a good dog, but I rather use the humans as they are a bit more useful and a tiny bit smarter. :shrug:

You should probably ask yourself whether men are “portrayed in a manner that even remotely resembles reality”. And you should also try reading more shojo manga.

In an era of anime that struggles to portray women in a manner that even remotely resembles reality, this sounds like an incredible breath of fresh air.

Buzzfeed list the movie meets Member berries the web series.

Not always.

In a capitalist system, the employee that is willing to work himself to death is at a competitive advantage relative to those that are not. The workaholic wins. Just about every industry has this dynamic in it.

Right now workers have no leverage whatsoever. If people unionized, that would change.

Sorry, Jason, but do you think this is an American issue? Those “overseas” companies are as much a part of the games industry as Bay Area techies. Why the hell would you assume that “experienced leads and designers” can’t be found outside the US?

Do you feel unionizing will actually make the cost of video games sky rocket? We see this with many positions that are unionized. Infrastructure repair, shipping and receiving, law enforcement, teachers and the list goes on and on and on. My fear is video games are either definitely going to rise or we are going to…

You’re free to move to Venezuela. Why don’t you go hang out with those socialist’s and let us know how it works out.

This. I’m an employment and labor attorney that almost exclusively represents employers. I’ve gotten a reputation among my friends as being anti-union due to my work and what I say about it. That simply isn’t the case. I usually deal with teamsters in the Midwest. Most of them have been completely mismanaged to the…

Maybe you should look at the raw data of how unions stifle innovation and hurt the companies competitiveness rather than attempting moral superiority based on a bombastic strawman.

As a fact of history, the US did stop producing good cars because of workers organizing.

It should also be noted that this happens across the tech/software industry not just game development. In terms of time and impact engineers and designers spend/have, they’re not looked after and compensated in a remotely sensible manner. The mechanisms that allow this to occur are integrally part of the capitalist…

“Publishers are already trying to cut costs and maximize profits at every turn”

It’s time to stop the crunch.

There are some things, like crunch, that need to end. But if they take it too far, consumers may not like it.