MolochAlter

Here’s to a multi-year long process to port the campaigns from BG1 and 2 into 3.

Disco Elysium, which plays really well on deck even with very low TDP, great for long lazy days.

I mean, would you? It looks like the most generic checklist driven product I’ve seen yet.

It’s so spineless it may be more lobster than game.

If anyone’s got a code they’re not using I’d happily take it off their hands 😇

Henry and Hans are going on a lads holiday. Awesome.

LMAO way to assume shit about me.

I only go by steam reviews and gameplay videos/demos, if the games aren’t recommended by someone I know personally.

Game journalism has always been essentially marketing, the publications are way too tied to the industry and way too dependent on advertising from the same companies and products they’re supposed to be criticising, hence why big titles that get less than an 8 are equivalent to normal games getting a 2 or a 3.

Good games will rise to the top organically, some might get lost in the shuffle but it won’t be the perennially 2 weeks late big budget crap apologists at whatever game “”“news”“” publication you care to name to fix that.

That’s all mainstream reviews have been for AAA games for the last decade+ anyway.

Can’t have clever satire reinforced by mechanics, people might be too stupid to get it!

I fucking hate that we successfully fought the right’s obsession with media being meant to be emulated only to get the left’s version of the same.

He’s objectively not that important of a person.

He’s the EIC of a tiny journalistic outlet that basically lives off of one or two of its content creators’ clout (one of whom was Frost), and a terminally online asshole on his own time.

Good for Frost for getting rid of that albatross, basically; Calandra is about as useful as a sawblade made of dicks, his survival in the public sphere is entirely predicted on people wanting to work for him, and any one person deciding not to is a step in the right direction.

He’s a culture war brained team sports guy who has his own doxing server and has sent actually organized harassment campaigns against the families of people he is beefing with online.

That guy shouldn’t manage a Target, let alone have a platform.

Good to see Calandra getting blasted publicly, the man is a humongous piece of shit so I hope yahtzee follows suit and I can go back to watching his stuff too.

Gonna sub to frost meanwhile.

They really should have called this “the palworld company”

Must have been the bass player.

Almost done with Persona 3 Reload, still the best story out of the 3D personas, and I’m starting on Manifold Garden, which is very interesting and quite trippy.

It hasn’t been. It’s just as clunky as it’s ever been.

It’s Ubisoft, they’ve been allergic to finishing shit for decades now.

I love that this comes out of Dragon age’s dev team, as if they weren’t part of the reason why people started being so aware of reuse and just general laziness.

Also, nobody cares about reuse, we care about reuse that makes the game worse.

The fact that dragon age 2 had 6 dungeon tilesets they reused super lazily with a very mediocre random generation algorithm and they got shat on for it doesn’t mean all reuse is bad, it means the ratio of content to playtime has to be higher than whatever that fucking was.

But most of all, going from a completely bespoke, no repetitive side quests, all killer no filler CRPG to whatever the fuck DA2 thought it was going to be? Step down, no matter how much of it would have been original assets, it was just worse design and a lower overall level of craftsmanship. I could throw that gameplay loop together in a day of work, it’s just not interesting.

The words change, the business stays the same. Been that way since mass effect 3 and dragon age 2, at least.

Hidetaka Miyazaki has eyes and ears, more at 11.

Game journalism is a marketing tool. When pieces come out preemptively defending a product (any product) from some specific criticism, it’s because the company is both confident that those criticisms will be levied, and that they won’t shake out favourably.

That’s it, that’s the whole reasoning.

They know they won’t come out looking in any way comparable in terms of scope, quality, etc, and they’re putting their hands forward through their connections with the press, hoping at least some people will buy this obvious attempt at ass covering and refrain from publicly criticising their product.