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- Comment on Black Myth: Wukong producer on The Game Awards top prize snub: "I came all the way here for nothing!" 1 day ago:
I’ll also add on that, for its many many flaws, the keighleys is pretty good about being aware of this kind of thing based on a few outlets that talked about how they were judges in the past and then suddenly never mentioned it again after an acquisition or the loss of a core editor.
Is that /s?
Because that last sentence really gives me pause for thought… - Comment on Black Myth: Wukong producer on The Game Awards top prize snub: "I came all the way here for nothing!" 3 days ago:
The last three weeks or so of Chinese video game reporting has basically been:
“They’ll never shortlist us for GotY. They’ll never choose a Chinese game for GotY. It’s all a Western ploy to denigrate and deny Chinese achievement because They are jealous that the first Chinese AAA game is so good.”
It’s been tiring.
- Comment on What game surprised you with their length? 5 days ago:
I love it when a game is about exploring and half of the content is optional.
- Comment on US rep asks Valve to remove ‘Oct. 7’ game from Steam 1 week ago:
I recall from the interview when the UK blocked it the creator said “you do nothing in it you don’t do it Black Ops. But only mine is terrorism, it’s purely political.” (paraphrased)
I’ll confess that I’ve not played either of them, so I don’t know how true that holds. But I do know that a lot of those console shooters are very political and the world seems fine with it when it’s a US avatar shooting up Arabs.
- Comment on Elon Musk says too many game studios are owned by giant corporations so his giant corporation is going to start a studio to 'make games great again' 2 weeks ago:
Woke is also an exonym, so it doesn’t really have a hashed out definition people who it’s used to describe would agree with.
On the more pertinent issue, yes - AI can’t create new things or really do anything that hasn’t been done before. And yes, no one really plays an engine, as much as the Occulus Rift fanbois wished about a decade ago.
I think the article flows reasonably well, though is more a hit piece/jokey opinion piece rather than an actual interrogation of anything Musk said. It’s the lowest kind of news, someone’s musings on someone saying something about someone saying something. The main push is his hypocrisy, with the whole “too many big corporations, so my big corporation should do it” lines.
But yes, it’s just brainless easy dunking on Musk without giving the whole thing anymore thought than Elon himself has. - Comment on Dying Is a Form of Education - On Elden Ring 2 weeks ago:
Really good article. This is the best kind of games journalism. Thoughtful and engaged. Doesn’t really address the headline much, but that’s headlines for you. Still a very nice read.
- Comment on Causes of Death in London (1623) 2 weeks ago:
Scrofula.
Anyone checking for a actual executions should look about 3/4 down the first column.
- Comment on Causes of Death in London (1623) 2 weeks ago:
You would be correct.
- Comment on Elon Musk says too many game studios are owned by giant corporations so his giant corporation is going to start a studio to 'make games great again' 3 weeks ago:
I don’t agree with you, but you are onto something.
Your use of “wokeness” is a good description for the way “Woke” is used to keep minorities in their place, c.f. Simpsons writing Apu out, despite dozens of subcontinent ethnicity comedians all openly saying they’d love the role, or streaming companies just stopping access to “problematic” content for an easy headline, c.f. Many streaming services and Community’s first D&D episode.
It is shown in people too, usually comorbid with a white saviour complex, where the being seen in the act of “helping” is more important than listening to the voices of whoever is being helped and the actual effectiveness, or desire, for the “help” given.
I wonder how neatly it maps onto a Liberal/Leftist divide… Probably not especially as everyone has blindspots and hangups over Race and Class that can be buried quite deep in the subconscious.
- Comment on BACK IT UP 3 weeks ago:
You can’t see them without a microscope, duhhh.
That’s why they’re called MICRO-chips.
- Comment on What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head? 3 weeks ago:
Only lines with voice work for me, even though there are plenty of great unvoiced lines across games. Sorted by game… I think this post certainly puts me of a generation.
“My emperor! I’ve failed youuuu!” “Fox, get this guy off me!” “You’re good, but I’m BETTER!” “Never give up, trust your instincts!” “IF THIS DOES NOT WORK!”
Honestly one of the most quoteable games ever made.“Stay a while and listen.”
“My hotel’s as clean as an Elven arse!” “Whaaaat?!” “Tiax shall smite ye.” “Heya, it’s me Imoen.”
“MASSACRE!” “Not yet!” “hyut hyut hyut”
“My fists never betray me!” “Don’t stand behind me.” “I’m gonna sleep well tonight!” “The feeling… It’s… coming back!” “Good vibrations!”
“Hello brother! […] I live on in this arm!” “Laugh, and grow fat!” Love a good ham. We need more of them in video games.
“I’mma Luigi, number 1.” “Falcon PUNCH!”
“You’re going the wrong way!” “Retired!”
“You require more vespene gas!” “All crews operational.” / “Battlecruiser operational.” ? “En’taro Adun executor.” “I do this for Auir, not you!” “Your base in under attack.”
“So what shall it be? Will you join the Unity or will you die here? Join… DIE! Join… DIE!”
“Doctor required in inflator room.”
“[…] to the last place uncorrupted by Capitalism! SPACE!”
- Comment on Show Us the Gay Kiss Scenes Cut From ‘Gladiator II,’ You Cowards 4 weeks ago:
This is where all the rude and lewd graffiti comes in handy!
- Comment on Metaphor: ReFantazio's success is further proof that politics are good in videogames, actually—no matter what reactionaries tell you 5 weeks ago:
We acknowledge that the game is a work of fiction. Historical fiction, but fiction none-the-less.
If every fifth character is also black, I think there is a point that can be made about verisimilitude and taking liberties; but since we know he really existed and that there has been debate on what he did, having a work of fiction that portrays him as a samurai under Nobunga doesn’t seem unreasonable.
To compare, we know that Leonardo Di Vinci didn’t hand out guns to people or build functional flying machines - but we know he designed all sorts of stuff ahead of its time, so it kinda fits in a fictional story with him in.
But only one of those seems to draw huge amounts of complaints online… And it’s actually the less historically accurate one.
- Comment on Veilguard Isn’t the First Dragon Age Game to Face ‘Woke’ Criticism 1 month ago:
That’s a potentially interesting definition.
Dream Daddy, the daddy dating sim isn’t a woke game in this context because the conceit of it being an LGBT friendly town with a bunch of single gay dads makes it all make sense.
But a game set in 1300s Japan with a lesbian white protagonist would be woke because that seems incongruous?
- Comment on Veilguard Isn’t the First Dragon Age Game to Face ‘Woke’ Criticism 1 month ago:
But Dragon Age was never good, either.
The first one was mediocre at best with some good ideas, and it was all downhill from there.
- Comment on Lifestyles of the Bronze Age Famous 1 month ago:
Actually, octopi is the “erroneous” one. Although it is a very common mistake so might make the shift to recognised before too much longer.
Everyone still understands it, so it doesn’t matter.
- Comment on Robert Downey Jr Speaks Out About Elon Musk "Cosplay" Of Tony Stark-The Tech Billionaire 1 month ago:
The writer here, rereporting another interview seems fairly Musk tolerant.
RDJ probably is too. But at least he’s calling him on a few things.
- Comment on Penguins 🐧 1 month ago:
By most accounts they were large and slow, but also curious me friendly birds that would waddle over to check what sailors were doing.
- Comment on Nostalgia and remake culture 1 month ago:
Fair enough.
Be the change you want to see and all that.I personally love the mad spelling, but I can understand that other folks don’t.
- Comment on Nostalgia and remake culture 1 month ago:
They’re old English letters used for writing the two different “th” sounds English has, which are fairly rare phonemes.
- Comment on Nostalgia and remake culture 1 month ago:
It’s certainly simpler, I’ll give you that.
It takes too much mental energy to read that document.Can I ask why at all?
- Comment on Colours of Blood 1 month ago:
Thanks for the callout and link! 🙏🏽
Nature is fascinating.
- Comment on Colours of Blood 1 month ago:
Many of the comments being “penis worms!”, but no one is asking about that Red blood is only in the “majority of vertebrates” leaves me wondering which vertebrates have what other colour(s) of blood.
- Comment on Nostalgia and remake culture 1 month ago:
There is a baseline of quality that is hard for a plucky individual to match outside of mono-medium media.
While it is possible for good video games to be produced by a single indivudal or very small team, it is a lot of work on their part and hard to do if worried about paying for food, rent, etc.
Filmic media (is there a good noun that joins movies and fiction TV shows as a unified object?), a solid level of difficulty above that.
- Comment on Nostalgia and remake culture 1 month ago:
Or maybe in a post-modern world we use (mostly empty) signifiers to give ourselves meaning and show allegiance to a subculture. Its why we pepper our speech with allusions and cultural in-jokes - but where in the past they were tied to more concrete ideology, now they are simply signs that one has consumed the same media as someone. And the existing signifiers have more cultural clout than new ones, except to signify an interest in non-mainstream cultural products. For the self has become simply a vessel for consumption. There is nothing beyond the consumption of product. Especially as public allegiance to a non-neoliberal ideology is seen as uncivil. Unsurprisingly more peaceful Left-wing ideologies less civil and more incorrect that violent far Right ones, because the Left will always be more critical of consumption as the purpose of life.
Despite being wrong, Fukuyama’s inflammatory title has polluted the mind of the Anglophone and European cultural zone.
- Comment on Nostalgia and remake culture 1 month ago:
Do you plan to do all digraphs, or just th?
Will you split out the different vowel phonemes to their IPA?
I’m just intrigued by the thought process behind your choice of typed characters.
- Comment on PC Gamer: The top 100 PC games 2 months ago:
That’s fair.
I’m a massive nerd for level design, and in my mind massive sprawling (especially proceedurally generated) maps/levels are a scourge on modern gaming.
I don’t think it’s hugely controversial, but I view E1M1 as possibly one of the best levels ever designed. But then again I also view Doom as more like a dungeon crawler RPG that just happens to be first person and real time, so who knows?
I think I also tend to be more into simpler games than ones with too many bolted on systems, which might also be why I tend to favour older ones (or indie ones).
Maybe that’s the point? Newer Doom games aren’t especially top tier FPSs, and you can find better examples of them (Bioshock (not so modern anymore), the alien-dinosaur-robot spaceship thing, and probably others). So they don’t make the list, and then Doom holds the classic place and genre defining status. (Hexen and Strife were never gonna make the list).
I agree that Super Mario Bros could do with a new lick of paint (and think Nintendo has given it more than a few of them) to bring it up to par. Doom, I’m less sure needs updated graphics, but I don’t think it’d hurt if it kept everything else the same.
(Favourite Doom levels are probably E1M8, E2M9, and some D2 and TNT and Plutonia levels I can’t call to mind off the top of my head.)
I’ve come to the conclusion I’m incredibly biased on this matter and also that you’re entitled to your own opinion, and appreciate that you’ve responded kindly and patiently.
- Comment on PC Gamer: The top 100 PC games 2 months ago:
You sound unsure.
What are your specific feelings on Knee Deep in the Dead level design? Do you enjoy inventory management?
What’re your views on original Super Mario?
- Comment on PC Gamer: The top 100 PC games 2 months ago:
In which aspects?
I think the level design holds up incredibly well, and in fact is an example of what to do. It’s also not overencumbered by modern bloat.
Have you played it?
- Comment on PC Gamer: The top 100 PC games 2 months ago:
Quick question: have you played original Doom?