The question is, why is it so big in gaming in particular? And does it have to be?
I don't think the answer is yes.
Yeah. I don't think anyone can argue that.
But it didn't really seep 'into' the community, it's always been there because the game community is an online community first and foremost and an in-person community (conventions, for example) secondarily. For that reason you get all the worst parts of internet culture as a whole as part and parcel of the online gaming community.
Whereas other communities like, say, breakdancing/popping (I us...
The whole appeal of this game is that it apes platformer collectathons from the N64-era which was BEFORE Youtube was a thing. If anything this makes the whole thing more authentic. Including a Youtuber at all just seems an odd idea.
It wasn't a concept for Breath of the Wild, but a totally unrelated tech demo.
It's been clear from the off that it's not in the same league as the Xbox One and PS4. The form factor alone should have given that away. So to frolic over it not being as powerful now is beating a dead horse -- and your justification for why the horse is being beaten (not to mention sneaking suspicions that you may well have killed the horse in the first place) don't add up as a result.
So I ask again, why do you REALLY care?
Incidentally, th...
It would be one thing if they were making their characters ugly on purpose in a way that looked visually at ease with itself, but with Mass Effect you can't quite tell if they were going for 'average' looking and ended up with 'ugly' through poor facial capture/character modelling/art direction, or if the way the character looks is supposed to be cohesive part of the aesthetic they intended.
It's like there's this uncanny valley of beauty standa...
I think there's a strong case to be made for premium/user sponsored content these days. Anything that isn't practically demands some kind of shoe-horned in clickbaiting which is a fundamental conflict of interest with quality writing. I'd happily pay for a subscription of some kind of real news and quality coverage.
'Online affairs'? Wait, so did these players not actually meet even one of the women in question in person?
Erm... If so I don't think any of these would even qualify as 'relationships'. But *shrugs* I guess this is Korean internet we are talking about, and I've heard it's amazing so...
I didn't know Trump was an expert in anything political, but here we are...
From what I've heard people have to wait 18-24 months to go through a vetting process. And some people who were nearing the end of that process have had it restarted.
Also, how can you say having certain staff not around for 3 whole months won't have an impact in an industry that has a major issue with overtime work as it is? Tell your employer you aren't going to work for them for 3 months and just vanish on them. Believe me, they won't agree that it's ...
Huh, I hadn't considered the impact this would have on game development. But given how internationalised the talent pool is for major studios these days of course it would impact things.
He's basically just saying in emphatical terms that it's super-duper powerful. There's no real news story here...
The only places that actually sell games at MSRP (in the UK, anyway) are clueless supermarkets. If there's any reason to be concerned, it should be with actual prices.
£59.99 is standard MSRP for Xbox One and PS4 games. But very few games actually sell at that price (with most settling at around £36.99-39.99) and the retailer simply accepting a smaller profit margin in exchange for shifting more copies.
@THamm Cartridges don't mean there is no loading. The 3DS and Vita have loading. So does the Switch.
That's actually a really long game.
Alien Isolation (another similar first-person survival horror) was around that long and that game felt like it went on forever, and ever, and ever... and ever, and ever.
Though part of that is that game seeming like it was going to end... and then kept going (over and over).
"If they would've made a solid powerful console we'd have great 1st party games, full 3rd party support and no gimmicks things would be different."
Here's the problem with that. Why would anyone buy that when it's essentially the same product they already own (Xbox One/PS4)? Is anyone seriously going to buy the newest Battlefield, FIFA or what have you on the Switch over those consoles?
The only way Nintendo can entice people ove...
Where you expecting some kind of detailed spec readout?
Sony and Microsoft don't even do that anymore (only sharing the broadest details), and Nintendo hasn't for two entire generations.
Yep. No way they'll have any other games other than that over the entirety of its lifetime :P
Come on, guys, get real. That's a bigger exclusive line-up than most systems have in their first year. The PS4 went ages before it even had an exclusive worth getting excited for.
Problem is that isn't what is happening now. Two groups of people could voice the exact same complaints (one who gives death threats and one that doesn't) and the devs interpret taking that criticism as tantamount to validating the death threats... so they ignore them wholesale out of a sense of taking the moral high ground.
In essence, criticisms and counter-criticisms are quickly becoming more and more about power plays and politics outside of the games rather tha...