I mean, that’s fair, and super fucked up. I have a lot of issues with that, including the cultural ramifications

Still, it seems a different caliber to being actively hostile to players in the game design department. Nintendo games aren’t the ones using psychological manipulation to give me a gambling addiction

That’s fair, though. It’s hella fucked up, and I’ve been wary of Nintendo’s approach to this stuff since way back when AM2R was coming out

I get that corporations are all ultimately after your money and nothing else, but I’m curious why Nintendo is on here. As far as game companies, the only thing I really see from them that’s kind of ass is their hyperprotectiveness of their own IPs. It sucks, but I don’t need a battlepass to get the full experience of the next Mario game. Zelda doesn’t require an always online connection. Metroid Prime 4 is actually gonna be finished on release instead of just shipping it in a terrible state

The game that spend 10 years removing things from AC Black Flag

I first saw a message like this on a DVD release of old Loony Toons shorts. The topic of what to do with “problematic” historical things has always been contentious to me as a person who loves history, as well as a filthy libtard cuck, or whatever we get called these days. I think historical context needs to be preserved. We learn so much from history, so removing it also removes are ability to learn from those mistakes. It also colors our current perception of those historical periods inaccurately, which makes it harder to track down the roots and causes of systemic and cultural issues. Presenting the reality with the additional clarification and context that values have changed and should be taken with a grain of salt is, in my opinion, the best way to present anything historical whenever the subject of “problematic” content comes up

“It’s not a sequel or a remake, it doesn’t take 400 hours to beat, has zero microtransactions, no pointless open world grinding…”

All of that sounds pretty great, though. I hadn’t heard of this game until now, so I’m wondering how efficient they were with that 40 mil in marketing

Or maybe the idea is good, but the execution is bad. Maybe meeting strict deadlines meant the game had to be pushed out unfinished, or concepts had to be cut or changed. I don’t know jack shit about this game, but there are a lot of things worth looking into besides “These games just don’t sell these days”

Editing to add that it’s currently 60% off on steam, sitting at a “mostly positive”

Finally got around to playing Disco Elysium. I don’t think I’m very far, but I love it so far

Besides that, also doing a first person run through Elden Ring, and occasionally a bit of Lethal Company here and there

O never played any of these games, so I don’t really know exactly how these stereotypes come off, but if you’re gonna release something old into a world with changing sensibilities, this is honestly how I think it should be done. If whatever was in the game was really all that bad, it is important to still remember how we did things. It’s important to remember the past as it was, both the good and the bad

But that’s not what’s going on here? Nintendo is suing a mod creator who modded their actual IP into the game, and furthermore locked that mod through a paywall (Patreon), so, you know, profiting off of unlicensed distribution of another’s intellectual property

Regarding genre, yeah, nintendo has no leg to stand on, and they know it anyway. You can’t claim ownership of art styles or game mechanics, but that’s neither the article nor the situation

Between this and crowsworn, I’m more interested in the latter, as it looks like it has some more polish, smoother animations, really committing to the artstyle

But, honestly, this still looks cute, and I like some of the gimmicks and mechanics it’s bringing to the table

An interesting read, especially considering I found out about it through the video. Only thing is I wish they’d release it on steam

Yeah, this is a contemporary trend I kinda dislike. It’s never enough to dissuade me from a game, but always seems little off to me

I struggle to think what that channel even did besides ZP and EP. Is Cold Take them as well?

EP is him doing the same thing, but not as reviews, more generally discussing broad topics regarding games and the industry. I personally prefer it to ZP

Well that’s an unsub. Literally the only thing from them I ever watched

In any case, I look forward to whatever he’s got cooked up. Hope he keeps doing stuff like extra punctuation as well

It was sorta supposed to be based off the books, not the games, but they made a whole bunch of… choices

But it doesn’t really matter anyway. The series’ will still have those adaptations under their belts, and The Witcher did not impress many who watched it. Haven’t heard a single bad thing about Edgerunners, and it’s honestly way better than the game IMO

1 in 5 people being mod users is not negiligible

Things like this really remind me of the beauty this world has

I don’t suspect it will, but they got the better adaptation. I love Witcher more than Cyberpunk by a wide margin, but holy shit is Edgerunners pure gold, whereas Netflix Witcher on the other hand… Just a real waste of Henry Cavill

Mod support on consoles is borderline unprecedented. The fact that the devs made sure that consoles got that goes to show just how negligible it isn’t. Skyrim is practically the face of game modding. Without any other context, if you bring up game modding, you’re most likely going to be conjuring skyrim in people’s heads. Modding is absolutely not negligible to Skyrim financially or even to its identity

Bethesda games are the only ones I can think of that have mod support for consoles. It’s way less than PC for sure, but I wouldn’t call it negligible

Considering most console games require a whole lot of work-around, even when their PC versions are more easily modded, I’d say just the existence of console mod support on Bethesda’s part is a recognition of the importance modding has on those games

Again, I’m not saying that Skyrim would have been a failure without mods, only that it’s incredible success would not have been achieved without them