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- Comment on 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash 1 day ago:
Conan did a Clueless Gamer playing it and the game crashed halfway through 😂 Not even making it up, it's on YT.
- Comment on 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash 2 days ago:
TIL broken is a premium feature 😂
- Comment on Randy Pitchford Snaps Back at Borderlands 4 Criticism: 'Code Your Own Engine' 2 days ago:
Yo, Randy, eat your own shit! Don't forget to swallow!
- Comment on RFK Jr. Blames violent video games for Mass Shootings. 1 week ago:
train of thought
bobby
You got yourself in a cul-de-sac there. The worm ate the train long ago 😂
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 1 week ago:
You're pointing a finger at the Soulslike genre here, not only HK. Some games may abandon it, but this is common enough to be called a genre stable.
You should try Salt and Sanctuary, Sekiro, Bloodborne, The Surge, Lords of the Fallen, or Lies of P—all had boss runbacks, and that's ignoring HK, Silksong, and the original Souls games.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 1 week ago:
I was mostly thinking of NG2, yes. I enjoyed NGB, but NG2 is the only one I replay, and it's mostly what I'm thinking of when I bring up Ninja Gaiden.
We can even go back further and bring up Bayonetta (2007), God Hand (2006), or even DMC 3 (2005) All are tough as nails, but super fun.
- Comment on have some standards 1 week ago:
You joke, but I've never actually met any TW101 fan IRL 😂 I'm just yes and-ing the meme.
- Comment on have some standards 1 week ago:
I only sleep with The Wonderful 101 fans 😎
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 1 week ago:
Not putting checkpoints close to boss fights is not difficulty.
You're pointing a finger at the Soulslike genre here, not only HK. Some games may abandon it, but this is common enough to be called a genre stable.
Just like the "hit hit, dodge/parry, hit hit" combat pattern, losing/recovering currency, enemies respawning on bonfire use… etc.
I think this whole genre is wack, TBH. I don't even find it difficult, I just think what they test is perseverance in the face of misery and tediousness, which's a bizarre thing to test in a video game. It's almost as if it's straight up telling you: this is a serious video game, no room for fun here.
Meanwhile, Ninja Gaiden proved you can simultaneously have extreme difficulty AND fun like one million years ago.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 1 week ago:
I don't mind difficult games. I recognise that they exist as a kind of pushback against mobile games and casual games that have risen in popularity
You got that backwards: difficult games are as old as arcades. If anything, casual games exist as pushback against difficult games, not the other way around.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now 1 week ago:
TBF, you can say the same about any game if you don't enjoy the genre.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is now available on Steam - and it broke the Steam store 1 week ago:
It is a great thing. Sliksong GOG price is 60% higher than Steam in some regions. GOG needs regional pricing.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now 1 week ago:
Gog’s def the better choice here.
Depends on your region. GOG doesn't have regional pricing.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is now available on Steam - and it broke the Steam store 1 week ago:
And without regional pricing.
- Comment on Nioh 3 - Exclusive Takeda Shingen Boss Reveal Gameplay 2 weeks ago:
Question: hast his series ascended to action status yet, or is it still an action RPG?
Another way to ask this: does freedom of expression in combat come from combat mechanics or character build? I'm assuming it's still a combo, but 2 and 3 feel as if they're leaning more towards action than RPG.
I don't necessarily have any problem with action RPGs, but I'd be more inclined to add it to my wishlist if combat takes more from Ninja Gaiden than it does from Dark Souls.
- Comment on PS5 price is an ‘unexpectedly large’ barrier for Monster Hunter Wilds sales, Capcom president says | VGC 2 weeks ago:
Another one blames the beasts.
- Comment on I'm playing Gears of War Reloaded, and I have a question. Will there be some point when the Chainsaw I've had for hours actually gets explained to me? 2 weeks ago:
Capitalism + hyper consumerism. No time or patience to play around and discover. Gotta wrap up ASAP and move on to the next game.
That backlog isn't gonna play itself.
- Comment on I'm playing Gears of War Reloaded, and I have a question. Will there be some point when the Chainsaw I've had for hours actually gets explained to me? 2 weeks ago:
Damn, you should steer clear of Japanese action games then.
Further, yes, I expect all products to tell me about their features.
Oh, really? I should get my money back from 20th Century Fox… they didn't tell me Fight Club had the twist feature at the end. Thank you for pointing that out.
- Comment on Sony is reportedly planning a Nintendo Switch-style PlayStation 6 portable | VGC 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, isn't the Switch very close to becoming the highest selling console of all-time or something?
PC handhelds are booming, but the Switch is on a completely different level.
- Comment on ‘I would like for us, when we fail, to fail early and cheaply’: PlayStation Studios head says Concord taught a big lesson | VGC 3 weeks ago:
He's talking to board members, isn't he 😂 "Won't happen again, I promise!"
Fuck capitalism.
Release Gravity Rush on Steam you coward #freegravityrush
- Comment on Infinite Backlog | A Video Game Collection Tracker 3 weeks ago:
Does it actually help you find others with similar taste? I'm yet to find any app that actually does this well.
- Comment on Infinite Backlog | A Video Game Collection Tracker 3 weeks ago:
Hmm… so how do you know you're going to enjoy the games you're buying if they sit in your library past the refund window? Do you not worry they may end up being unplayable bloat "polluting" your library? Or do you have a super broad taste and you enjoy everything?
I ask because I have a small library not because I'm worried about a backlog or whatever, but because I'm trying to make sure (1) I'm not needlessly spending money on games I don't enjoy and (2) I really enjoy looking at my library and going: "Damn, I could launch any of these games right now and have a great time!" which wouldn't be true if I have a bunch of shit I don't enjoy playing and can't refund.
I suppose I could permanently delete them from my library, but doesn't give me my money back.
- Comment on Let's discuss: God of War 3 weeks ago:
Hmm… sure, yes. I wouldn't say it's flawed, but I'd say it's different, and I much prefer the Japanese way of doing things here where it feels I'm precisely choreographing a movie fight instead of doing as much damage as possible to anyone in my immediate vicinity.
I'd still say GoW3 is peak western action, and quite fun to play. I would not rank it on the same level as DMC5, Ninja Gaiden II, or Bayonetta, but I'd rank it fairly close—like a step or two behind.
As of the franchise as a whole, yeah, it's not the best, but many franchises aren't, TBH. I love Bayonetta, for example, but that franchise is all over the place. It's almost GoW backwards… higher peak than GoW, for sure, but still messy overall.
- Comment on Let's discuss: God of War 3 weeks ago:
I don't particularly love the floaty, sloppy "just put some damage in this 180 degree arc" basis of the combat system much.
I'm not sure what this means, to be totally honest.
I am also not at all on board with most of the early teenage edgelord narrative stuff in there. Maybe I was a bit too old by the time these came out.
I don't care what anyone says, narratives in character action games are shit 😂 I'm never gonna defend it, and always find it odd that people cared about their stories. They're not good vehicles for storytelling, IMO.
There's a reason GoW (2018) had to change genre to shift focus to storytelling, for example.
I would much rather spend time in the more expressive, free-flowing Devil May Cry side of things if I'm going for snappy, precise combat
Hmm… this makes me wonder how much time you spent playing around with GoW3's combat system because it clearly takes a lot of inspiration from DMC.
- Comment on Let's discuss: God of War 3 weeks ago:
Frankly, I don't think any of the originals are particularly good
In terms of what? And what's your relationship like with the character action genre?
- Comment on NINJA GAIDEN 4 - Official Story Trailer 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, it's a jarring shift to this Zone of the Enders/MGR look, NGL. Kinda feels like Batman Beyond or something 😅
- Comment on NINJA GAIDEN 4 - Official Story Trailer 4 weeks ago:
I'm not sure what I think about the full cyberpunk aesthetic but who plays these games for the story anyway?
I've read children books with more coherent stories than Ninja Gaiden. I doubt any fan will care as long as the gameplay is good.
Story trailers are to hook new players, I suppose.
- Comment on NINJA GAIDEN 4 - Official Story Trailer | Gamescom 2025 4 weeks ago:
Story trailer for an action game is wild 😂 You'd think among KOEI TECMO, Team Ninja, and Platinum someone would think to drop a Combo MAD trailer or something to showcase the cool action—the freaking selling point—instead.
- Comment on [Discussion] Ranking the highest-grossing video games 4 weeks ago:
Damn… I barely played any of these games… somebody had me try LoL like a decade ago, and I tried PUBG and Pokémon GO on my phone when they were hot, that's it.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Then who is? Millions of people are gonna buy the new Call of Duty on release. Who are they?