It’s not their fault. I mean fuck them, but it’s really the fault of the patent offices that allow such horseshit.

also the best thing about the minigame patent is that it lasted just long enough for loading screens to become too short to justify coding minigames for the sole purpose of filling that time.

FEAR I think is my favorite, although they have a crazy lineup. I even loved playing gruntz.

shadow of mordor was really good too, although fuck wb for preventing the one innovative part of it from being implemented in any game (other than the sequel), not repurposing it for batman which is such an obvious candidate, and also after finally giving us hope to see it again in the upcoming wonder woman game, shutting down the studio and canceling that too in the process.

seriously if the entirety of wb went down in flames I would celebrate its anniversary. fuck these vultures.

pretty much everything monolith did was fantastic. rare studio with wall to wall bangers. of course wb had to put an end to it. fucking shitstains.

self censoring bodies like pegi are there to protect the industry, so it doesn’t get actual censorship from the government. EA is the industry. of course they get special treatment.

also gambling is the blueprint of AAA gaming now, so pegi loves it. they only do this shit to small devs so they can pretend to care while protecting industry giants from the actual scrutiny that they deserve.

that’s only true because most of you motherfuckers do robotic gamified romances that don’t feel natural, heartfelt or interesting.

if strictly talking about metroid-like games metroidae also works.

umm actually it’s metroidvaniae

what, people don’t enjoy gray sludge as much as they used to?

dawncaster is enough tbh

unfortunately those take too long to produce. they will probably be long banned by the time they finish.

Get Psyched!

I wouldn’t mind a couple of blazkowiczes right now

super mario bros

at least in the realm of video games AAA only refers to funding, not quality. in fact it’s pretty consistently shit because terrible business practices almost inevitably result in late and premature releases because they have to meet arbitrary deadlines and believe they can always fix things later. to be fair the community is pretty idiotic and they consistently reward this behavior so they have nothing to lose in most cases.

games are famously terrible at boycotts. if people didn’t buy spidey2 the most probable reason is that the reviews are full of thumb downs saying it runs like shit even on the best hardware.

woohoo for Nvidia losing, fuck those cunts

W2TNC was back when they still said SJW before woke became their boogeyman word but yeah. the comments section for the trailer was full of SJW complaints because the morons who didn’t even get the obvious message the first game were suddenly aware of politics when they saw a black woman in the mix.

they already said that the last couple of games

early access. me and my kid are loving it

necktie. bowtie is the goose’s thing.

I think in most cases it could easily be replaced with fun, enjoyable or great. if you’d like something more about how you interact with it: engaging, compelling, maybe even captivating depending on the context.

you might think it doesn’t make a difference but addicting is something that a lot of big publishers deliberately aim for, and unfortunately knock it out of the park. it’s best not to relate that to small developers without that sinister goal.

yeah why do people use this as a positive? it’s literally a way for lots of AAA titles to manipulate their audience.

that being said mini metro isn’t addictive. it’s fun and chill and it can get hectic; depending on the mode you’re playing.

being good enough that you want to play more isn’t addictive.

Gabe Newell is much more likely to go down before steam does. his words mean nothing for the future.

even so they both were extremely well received

there are actual poker games that are rated lower than 18 too.

AI to determine people’s livelihoods, huh?

By the way, who’s the Brandshield CEO? Asking for a friend.

mass effect. Shepard kills many reapers, which are pretty close to eldritch gods in another setting.

except you didn’t buy all your games from blizzard. we’re talking about having your entire library depend on one company.

I’m talking user experience. egs used to be the slowest app I’ve ever used but right now egs starts and works faster for me than gog. also its video player works faster than steam’s, by like a mile. I don’t know if it’s just me because I never hear anyone complain about steam’s video player but for me it’s so goddamn terrible in so many ways I want to punch a wall every time I’m curious about a game while browsing steam because the video just takes fucking ages to get going and the controls are horrendous. I end up just searching on YouTube.

gog doesn’t have regional pricing and their launcher at this point is worse than epic’s. as an old fuck I like having old games back but it’s not convenient at all.

funny you never hear about games being ONLY on steam. it has nice features but riding so hard for a gigantic monopoly is going to bite our asses real bad when gaben retires. nothing lasts forever, and we don’t know who or what will replace the current structure at valve.

not to mention valve has had its share of anti consumer and predatory practices. most of the concessions have been in response to legal threats.

yeah… for me I was willing to give black flag a chance to see if they would find a way to make a new series, maybe with a new current day plot, but nah. people seem to dislike the current day portion of those games but to me that was the main interest, along with the mythology…

black flag’s current day portion was so goddamn awful, they turned abstergo into a parody of ubisoft? I don’t even know what they were thinking… but it was so immersion breaking. completely killed my interest.

pirate stuff was fun, and it still had a nice plot twist near the beginning… but it was clear that the overall story was going nowhere so I just quit playing after that and decided that the series ended with 3.

it ended in 3, they’ve been treading water ever since.

yeah that’s not extreme; it just doesn’t follow. you still have to have an analog. you can’t just say whatever to make an argument in the extreme. that’s just strawmanning.

no? how do you even think there’s a parallel there? gamer isn’t a race. there’s nothing essential about gaming. the parallel would be making generalizations about football fans. not a fucking race.

claiming Bethesda tried anything with starfield is pretty generous.

the first time I see it?

you think this is the first motherfucking gameplay video that I’ve seen from this motherfucking game in ten motherfucking years?

no one said anything about a time span to my liking.

either read the conversation you’re trying to contribute to or just stop talking about irrelevant shit.

I’m asking for the plan.

#where’s the plan, lebowski? where’s the fucking plan?

sorry i didnt realize you were rummaging through my comment history to find something to attack because you cant come up with a good argument in the relevant conversation so i thought you meant i was talking about this scam.

I don’t know what depths of your ass you pulled that the team of the latest prince of persia is my “favorite game studio”. I think you should be jailed for playing with people’s livelihoods despite their success merely for more profit, yes.

a time span to my liking? how about any time span? tell me when it’s coming out mate. where’s the plan? you don’t know why I’m calling it a scam, you don’t know what I criticized about it… why is it so hard for you to follow a conversation?

hate? what’s with you guys weirdly anthropomorphizing a game that’s only maybe halfway done in a decade? you got too invested, too attached maybe, that someone calling it a scam seems “hateful” however that works? rage? lol wtf have you seen anyone rage before, mate? calling something a scam is not personal, it’s not even an attack. and it’s definitely something I live on. I have called people to be jailed for swindling.

how much money has this game extracted from dummies over the past decade? how much money’s worth is “playable”? I was gonna say “out” since that was the original claim but obviously the answer is zero. the games not out. but I’ll settle for playable since apparently you guys have already given up hope on an actual release and have settled on playing half baked demos bit by bit.

pointing out that you’re being scammed is not hate. it’s a wake up call. I understand though, an alarm clock seems hateful to me too when I’m enjoying my dream too much.

you should see me talk about the cybertruck.

i don’t care about people alpha testing unfinished games. I’ve been talking about release. they said “it’s out”. where is it. what’s the plan. when was it finished. why is it not out. stop trying to feed me bullshit, you’re confusing me with someone who lives on hype alone. if I were I’d be playing the star citizen half-game myself.