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  • It's already annoying when I swipe up and get a static image with music playing. I do not want this feature. Just let TikTok stay a video app. Why do these companies keep copying each other's features rather than focusing on what they're good at? smh

  • I think there's a tendency in professional reviewers, of any content medium where they become desensitized and jaded. Perfectly good things come out, but they just blend in with the thousand others they experienced before. Something quirky and unique comes out, it grabs their attention and they overlook its flaws, perhaps overhyping it too. And then for big name projects they try to bring the claws out and show they can be hard hitting.

    This is why reviews from actual, regular people are so important to offset this. Many of us can still come at a new piece of art with wonder and fully experience it, and we don't have all the baggage that comes from simply being in that line of work.

    I miss EGM's Fun Factor category. I want to know the usual stuff, is it technically good, runs well, looks good, has a good story, etc sure. But we also need to specifically focus on is it fun to play.

    If you want to critique something, let's examine flaws in gameplay. Are the mechanics clunky? Does it try to utilize every single button on the controller and is over complicated? Do the jumps feel right? Is the crafting system a PITA with little payoff? That's what they should be criticizing the most in modern games.

  • I subscribe to Polygon, Kotaku, and Engadget Gaming on RSS feed. Watch SpawnWave on YouTube in case I missed something (he does a good daily roundup). And then there's Lemmy (formerly Reddit)

  • Final Fantasy 16 - I haven't had a lot of time to play it lately, but really enjoying it. Story and world feel like classic SNES era Final Fantasy, but darker, a little more adult. Graphics are great, it's a beautiful game and looks next gen. And the gameplay is fine... It's just button mashing, casting spells from range over and over till you finally stagger a powerful enemy, or a quick time event. But it does feel like an action beat-em-up taking place within a Final Fantasy world. Would love if it were more turn based, or at least party based like FF7 Remake, but it's fine. Good game so far 👍