What a lazy method to tell a story: imagine if the player couldn’t understand what was happening in Dragon Age Origins without stopping the game, let alone the developers. Heck, I barely even had to use a similar feature for Path of the Righteous to follow the story, and it’s almost more book than game, with prior…

I find it funny that Sonic Frontiers was called ugly, but Zelda has the exact same big, featureless spaces and gets called amazing for it.

The washed out look just seems really bad to me; people keep saying the game looks good, but I really just can’t see it at all.

Morrowind already did that: the infamous Cliff Racers were even meant to curtail players from jumping/flying everywhere, while still giving players the ability to do so.

“-changed how many saw open-world experiences with its freeform approach to exploration, combat, and puzzles.”

Yeah, the second game fits the tone better, since nobody in Black Hole becomes friends with their enemies at least, but the first game is very jarring.

Reddit is better than nothing, but game developers rarely visit Reddit, so if the public there doesn’t know a fix, there’s pretty much no hope of someone who might know more stepping in, or making a patch. You end up with people trying to divine answers from buried discord messages, like the soothsayers of old, to…

I’m not mad at Nintendo, I’m baffled that people still put their necks on the chopping block for clout.

Who’s ready for another round of, “Nintendo is not your friend and don’t give a !@$% about the ‘exposure’ you give them?”

The idea of NPCs actually trying to instruct you when you use them for training is actually kind of neat, but it only works because the players being bored out of their minds during the lecture fits, so the dull droning sounds of the NPC is more of a plus.

Nintendo is famous for being the Lawful Evil of modding, so I’m not really sure why Point Crow is surprised by this; especially since I’m pretty sure you can only mod Switch games on a jailbroken Switch if you disable online functionality while playing games, since you’ll get banned otherwise...

If their choice are “just be rich enough to hire lawyers,” or “never make your own company because someone might sue you, so enjoy being exploited,” then that’s completely absurd.

Monster Energy, the energy drink of choice for lawyers using the law as a weapon against the general populace! 

Sounds like it might benefit from a Combat Mission style “Everything pauses, both sides issue orders, everything resumes” style mode.

Yeah, the problems were absolutely on George and his weird dialog/pacing choices, not the actors: like, yes George, we know you want an epic adventure story with comedy, action, and intergalactic political lobbying, but ya REALLY need to pick one to focus on next time...

Wow, they managed to create a less interesting version of “I saw some Mudcrabs by the water recently. Nasty things.” Truly remarkable.

I prefer to think of it as performance arts software: you don’t play it with the expectation that it will ever be a good game, but rather, you watch to see what strange shape the end of the project will be as the madness continues.

Honestly, it’s pretty bad, yeah: you spend hours digging for stuff to learn the lore, but there’s no gameplay to apply it to, and it does nothing to contextualize the story. The ending to a game should never be, “boy, something sure happened, I assume” even AFTER you go through all that effort. 

Phrasing it as a bailout in general is also off: the Fed caused the current problems by cratering the value of Treasury securities by raising the interest rate by almost 5% in a year, despite having lowered said rate in response to Covid.

“Goblins, frustrated with being considered lesser-than, have taken to violence to gain equality, and in our society, that’s a no-no).”