I will give Eric/ConcernedApe all of the patience and grace he asks for. Man is a good guy and legend of game development.

The only right answer is:

“I mean she’s not my top pick of your friends for a threesome, but if you can’t talk Ashley into it then yeah I guess she’s fine.”

My friend, have you seen Megan Fox lately?

It might be time to update your reference for hotness

I don’t get this reference.

Conversational language should inherently be different than journalistic prose. It was considered good form (really necessary form) for the vast majority of my life to fully define any non-ubiquitous terms in the text before using them. It only seems recently to me, and especially in games journalism, that they’ve decided to eschew the defining part of the process and just give the reference undefined.

Like it’s okay, useful even, to say things like “Like ARK, Palworld utilizes X mechanic to achieve Y by doing Z.” That’s a great way to use a touchpoint for increased clarity to readers! But to just say “Palworld’s combat is ARK-like,” without defining what ARK-like is, is lazy and unhelpful to anyone outside the know already.

God I wish we could force game journalism to never use to comparison again. It’s basically impossible these days to parse the media on any given game without having to know an entire library of previous games first.

In this case, I know Bioshock, but my point still stands. Remember when Palworld came out? It was effectively impossible to find any review/preview/commentary on the game that didn’t include something like “Palworld isn’t a Pokemon-like, it’s actually ARK with cute pals,” which is worth exactly fuck all to anyone who isn’t familiar with ARK.

Like I know we’ve been calling games journalism lazy for a long time, but it’s gotten to the point where people don’t even talk about game features or mechanics, they just list a bunch of other games with similar ideas instead.

Fuck, I might even prefer crappy ChatGPT articles to modern game discourse.

Important caveat: I did not watch the video and am only responding to the headline which clearly got under my skin for some reason, apparently.

Blizzard has been dead for at least a decade. Anyone who is still interacting with the ghoul that is inhabiting Blizzard’s corpse is a fool.

All AAA games and AAA studios are garbage.

Long live the indie game developer

Okay but who cares about the gross TERF wizard game for babies?

Bro what do you think those Steam levels and experience are for? Obviously they’re gonna divest the company across the playerbase and divvy it up based on Steam levels!

/s

FF7 continues to be one of the greatest games of all time and I suspect the FF7R series will continue its path of being totally fine but mostly unremarkable

I refuse to believe there are that many lame people on earth.

Seriously what kind of diaper wearing loser wanted a fucking Harry Potter game? Have none of you fucks seen even one other fantasy series?

Why do adults watch other adults kicking a ball?

For what it’s worth, I think both things are a stupid way to spend your time, so this retort isn’t the slam dunk you think.

That being said, as a general rule I don’t begrudge adults for any of the harmless ways they choose to spend their time. If you think watching grown-ups in matching costumes playing ball like children or watching grown-up make boner and fart jokes while playing GTA with 12 year olds online, well neither of those are any of my concern and I’m just happy you’ve found something to occupy your time with that you find fulfilling even if I don’t.