When I’m older, have a family and a busy life and maybe even failing eyesight, I probably won’t have the time devote to reading Grrm’s billion page fantasy novels. I’m not going to write a think piece telling him that he needs to release a short summarized version that doesnt use any big words for all the people out…

I suppose I ended up more ‘against’ it than I intended to be, because what I’ve seen is also a lot of complete gloss-over that software development, testing, etc. is not free nor timeless. To put it simply: difficulty modes cost you content. Well-done difficulty modes, that get you to the point where you have a solid…

I would love to ask him all about it, but EA/BioWare declined my requests for an interview with him or anyone else on the leadership team.

The stress of Sekiro is in the timings though. Failure and death in sekiro is largely irrelevant. In many instances you can just throw yourself at the bosses and retry as often as you want. Some require lesser enemy picking off here and there. Yes people get rot but its manageable due to items you can purchase and…

But the emerging truth from all of them, and your book, is that the basic structure of designing games is broken. People have this desire to build these awesome worlds for us to enjoy. And in too many cases that desire, and the joy that must come with it, is turning into this nightmarish scenario.

The experience is kinda...the difficulty though.

These articles, while absolutely incredible, all become depressingly similar after a while. And again, I don’t mean that as a knock on you, because I love your work and look forward to your deep inside looks.

Other than Frostbite, Bioware seemed to be their own biggest enemy on this one.

Don’t get me wrong, EA sucks, but from reading the article, this really doesn’t seem like EA’s fault. EA set a hard deadline, but it really seems like the problem was a lack of leadership within BioWare.

Nice job as always, Jason; thanks for confirming a lot of what we all feared. A game that was rushed out and built with a toolset that at the very least wasn’t an ideal fit. And not learning from Destiny’s missteps because they couldn’t talk about Destiny is pretty galling.

Was waiting for this. Will read later on but just wanted to say continue doing the lord’s work.

I’ve been waiting for the Schreier breakdown of how this fell apart far more than the game itself.

Folks think I made it purple to trick them into seeing a fleshlight. I just made it purple to make it pop more and because those our Kotaku’s colors. lol But whoops!

I mean... I’m a fucking know-nothing person who was in the Army once, so maybe I’m not as smart as these vaunted officers of the law, but if the dude has a gun on his lap and you’re so damn concerned about him maybe reaching for it, maybe you should back the hell up and give him space? Like sure: block his car in and…

It seems to me that the quality of Subway’s food has taken a huge nosedive over the last 10 years or so. Any time I end up stuck in one, it seems like the lettuce is brown, the tomatoes are grey, and the rest of the toppings are just meh - and usually somewhat mixed with each other, thanks to sloppy handling.

AMP pisses me off so bad when I’m just browsing the Internet, whenever a page on my phone has broken comments sections or weird formatting issues I immediately check to see if it’s an AMP page. And of course there’s usually no easy way to get from the AMP page to the regular page. If I could disable it entirely I…

I guarantee you this is not driven by programmers; this is driven by someone who uses synergize unironically.

This is completely idiotic. An e-mail is a fucking text message. We’ve been going down this path ever since HTML emails started becoming the norm, leading to tracking pixels, remote code injections from malicious retrieved resources, and so forth. By making emails more “interactive”, you’re essentially implementing a…

I think a lot of people don’t realize that tariff’s are implemented everywhere. It’s how they are implemented that can make or break an economy. The overzealous, protectionism tariffs that Trump is proposing will only hurt us as the Chinese will increase their tariff’s as well. Tariff wars are bad for everyone…