And this is why they don’t care about putting out quality.

I largely agree, but you will never convince me that the combat ever rose above serviceable. It’s clunky and then eventually becomes easy in a very boring way. There is no room for experimentation or skill, but rather the boring timed clicking of the mouse. Ugh. At least in the beginning of the game, it’s sort-of…

The Witcher 1 was a fantastic game in a lot of ways. I loved the plot, and there’s a lot of thematic subtleties there as well as a few “boot to your face” moments that really make it shine. The combat is pretty decent, once you get used to it.

But what I really loved was the consequence in the game. Lots of decisions…

My oldest son has joined the PC gamer team after realizing just how great sales can be on Steam, GoG, and Epic. The fact that Nintendo rarely runs sales on their digital games and even when they do they are no more then 20% off sucks.

The vital question is, can I bar all male crew from the bridge? I demand bridge bunnies.

I don’t know. The characters look to be more like Voltron characters to me.

The theory that this is an AI is my favourite because the implications are far worse than if it’s a corporation pulling the strings.

Yeah, how dare Dunkey have a sense of humor? Who does he think he is?

I mean not to blunt but practically all nerd shit is a bubble. This isn’t housing or grain or steel: it’s little bits of coloured paper with drawing and text on them. Its as true with anime figure as with Pokémon cards: spectualive bubbles based on totally artificial rarity, exchange value at its most naked. As…

If it only negatively impacts the “value” of speculative collectors’ collections I don’t think I see the problem.

A video game journalism and review website. Exactly the people responsible for holding game companies to standards. Bad comment, Straw Man.

You do realize that the majority of sales for the FF series, especially post-FFVII, have come from outside of Japan, in particular US and EU sales?

Further, with increased development costs, SE (and most developers/publishers) cannot depend on home market sales alone for big budget titles. Sure, certain genres of games…

Something I noticed a while back: Australians like talking a lot of shit about how humble they are. It’s funny.

“Our egos usually don’t demand it though.”

“You’re not allowed to have opinions about video games if they’re Japanese” is one hell of a take.

didn’t realize anyone was still thinking comments like this are funny

You do know that other people have different backgrounds, perspectives, visions, and goals, yes?  It’s fine that your hype for this game is dead and I would absolutely encourage you to play Skyrim if you, you know, want to play Skyrim. 

if you haven’t yet, check out Mappa’s adaptation of Dorohedoro. Very similar violent psychedelic insanity feel.