Alan Wake 2 is the first new game I’ve seen to really make use of technical improvements to make something that actually looks next-gen, while still being a very good game. It’s more worthy than Starfield just because it’s actually driving gaming foward, and not just blandly spinning wheels like Starfield.

Hogwarts Legacy at least succeeded at its core concept, which was being a playground for fans; by contrast, Starfield was meant to be a game about exploration, and it failed in that at a fundamental level.

Starfield and Tears of the Kingdom are about on the same level, so if one is nominated, the other really should be too.

Sephiroth told Cloud he’d have 5 seconds to do...something, which presumably references Aerith, so the most dramatic thing would be for Cloud to save Aerith, which means she can’t directly influence Planet (which is what Sephiroth presumably wants,) so Aerith will probably force Cloud to kill her somehow, and Zack…

The Epic exclusives weren’t exactly good enough to drive the use of the store: they were either indie games most people have never heard of, or bigger games where the people who buy it in the first year were glorified beta testers. The store also took WAY too long to get features other stores had from the start.

I remember watching somebody play the game Vaudeville (an AI driven murder mystery,) and the AI would not stop talking about all the mythological creatures going around killing people in the zoo, even though only one person was dead, and there were clearly no such creatures; the player couldn’t even punish them for…

In the US, changing a video game’s stage for non-commercial purposes is the kind of thing that would generally fall under Fair Use: the problem is that he wouldn’t be able to stream it himself at least, because then it would probably fall under being ‘commercial,” since he’s presumably trying to make money that way.

I guess they need more money to make other games Epic exclusives, since they seem to be struggling to come up with new ideas themselves. The last big Epic release was, what, Fall Guys I think? 

“ At the time of writing, the Palestinian death toll has surpassed 5,000. ”

Yeah, a lot doesn’t make sense: why did it have to be from scratch, instead of using bought assets? Why not make a more simplified game? There had to be other considerations at play here...

I wonder how lazy Nintendo’s writing has to get before its fans admit it’s a problem...

It’s around 200 lines, which is probably a fair baseline, since some dialog was probably cut or re-recorded, but a lot of it is also less than a sentence long.

The problem was that they changed the game engine twice, and as said, had no clear vision: it’s pretty much like how constant movie reshoots cause the costs to balloon.

I’ve noticed a lot of people don’t like the ending, but I think this article nails why it’s so spot on: the player needs to decide what’s important to them, because at the end of the day, most people you meet fell in love with V the hero, and running away from dealing with Mikoshi means V is no longer that person, and…

Look, Erin is a bird now, that was the best he and Mikasa were going to get, best accept that and move on. 

Honestly, Starfields big problem is that it wasn’t the school yard bully when it should have been: instead of other games needing to fear being displaced by it, it’s being displaced by other games instead.

It feels like a failure of vision: a space game where exploration and distance don’t matter, an RPG with mechanics that only ever act as a meaningless gate, a shooter where each gun somehow feels the same, and a builder with useless rewards.

Just so people know, Gaming Heads is a Hong Kong company, and I’m not sure if Sony goes by California or Japanese law, so it may not be best to assume that US or European law will matter all that much.

There was an All You Can Eat Sushi Special, so she’s decided to never leave.

Cyberpunk 2077 isn’t really about capitalism per-say, but dehumanization in general: for example, someone like Adam Smasher wouldn’t be a kind, loving person in ANY society, capitalist or not, because he only wants the thrill of power and murder. He’s not trying to escape poverty, he’s just doesn’t love or respect…