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The first trailer of Breath of the Wild had a lot of people literally wondering whether that Link was a girl. I didn't see a lot of complaining about it, I wasn't looking for some though.

Also, Gerudo town. I'm not sure what kind of mental gymnastics you'd need to shit on "wokeness" and somehow filter out BotW completely from it.

Many diverse characters all fighting back against their unfair economic situation.

"... and that's terrible."

I also remember Portal 2 being on that list for "Most male characters are being depicted as incompetent compared to female characters" or something.

Dude. There are 4 characters in the whole game, counting one that's dead but probably has the most characterization. Two are male. One guy is definitely a moron by design, but the other was definitely not incompetent. Mad, evil, sure. But he certainly achieved stuff.

I won't. Nobody is able to define what "wokeness" really means to them because it's mostly code for "subset of people I don't want to exist around me".

Surprisingly, that doesn't sound very good when said out loud.

You've missed the part where that was actually something he said. Who cares about what the idiot's exact kink, he had to save his honour telling people it wasn't "really" porn.

No, no, you don't understand, the girl was doing a magic trick! He only consumed that just barely legal content with professional interest in mind.

That's a tornado.

This certainly sounds the right way to do this.

But I really wonder about the stuff at bungie being "just" incompetence, because their defence is "weren't aware of this, just used assets left by a former Bungie employee that's not here anymore"... And yet the art director had been following the plagiarized artist on twitter this whole time.

And they have an history of "just taking" when they think they can get away with it, as they've done with fanart. So, shitty studio culture sounds a definite possibility at that point.

Placeholder doesn't need to be anything more than basic featureless textures on cubes, and you should own them completely. If you made your placeholder to look like it fits, you're asking for it to be forgotten and left in place. Which might not be too bad if it's finally not too out of place and it's yours.

Especially in a professional studio, they should know better than using stuff they just "found" as placeholder. To me it's either terrible incompetence... or worse, they thought nobody would care anyway.

Oh. That guy. Thanks for the reminder.

Important context for whatever he has to say, between the rants about teh woke gaem jernalizm and cancel culture, and being called out as an edgy harassing asshole by his own employees.

I guess there are some cultures, especially work cultures and those enforcing them, that I don't mind being "cancelled", if only it worked.

Yeah, I guess for those wanting an exploit that was patched out it could be useful. That's not the use case I expect from the term "bad update" though.

I don't sell my games, so I see zero point in game key carts anyway. All I want is those to be identified so I know that if I want these particular games I don't buy the useless cart version.

Incidentally I absolutely never had to return to the base unpatched version of a game on Switch, and I have quite a few of them.

Uh. I was aware of Dinosaur Planet and how Nintendo had Rare rework it into a Star Fox game, but I had no idea that an almost complete beta version of it had been found.

It's lacking the ending and it was already on the way to starfoxization though it seems.

Those of us in Web3 gaming are well aware that things aren’t working

You can stop there. That's because so-called "web3 gaming" solves a problem that only exists in the mind of the dozen vocal idiots that want it to happen. And that problem is mostly "I don't really like video games, but I would play if that game was just about thinly veiled real money transactions instead".

I regularly see people angry at a game's price, whatever the price. Even when it's like a 20-30 bucks indie game. Often with absurdly specific game size/hours to $ ratios, that they use against other games of varying similarities.

Games are not a staple food. There's nothing wrong thinking, "that's not worth that much to me, I'm not buying it". There is something frankly ridiculous in the more and more frequent "that's not worth that much, company owes me that specific game at a lower price".

It's not like we're lacking options, either.

It's the game that was already said to be overflowing with shitty abandoned player bases even though it was in closed beta, right? And their answer was like, "be responsible, players, destroy your own base when you don't want it anymore".

This is going to be... interesting.

Who wants a virtual card of the Splatoon 2 World Premiere Splatfest? Or the Arms Global Testpunch? I can do that apparently.

What I can't do specifically is a virtual card of Super Mario Bros 35. Of course it wouldn't work either, but that tells me they specifically removed that possibility.

They're ashamed of what they took from us for absolutely no reason. SMB35 was the shit.

I think it's a funny way to point out how absurd that monetisation is.

Made me think of an old James Stephanie Sterling review of Dungeon Keeper (not the real one, the shitty mobile game made 20 years later by EA). It made you wait forever for the basic action of digging rooms to add to your dungeon, in order to sell you speed boosts of course.

The comparison Sterling made was something like, for the same price right now, you could dig up 20 squares in this pseudo-game, or buy several copies of the actual Dungeon Keeper .

It's a bit awkward, because I liked HZD, I completed it, DLC and all, but I don't consider it a good open world. I learned after a few hours that exploring is almost never rewarded, and you'd way better follow the few very obvious threads the game is setting up for you.

Going into a hidden path before you're sent there by a quest is just wasting time, you're going to struggle a lot, you'll get nothing at the end and you'll often even have to go back the way you came. Going outright off-road, even a little, spams you with "turn back now or I reload your save" messages. Which is baffling, I've never seen a game trying such a bad way to keep you inside the playing area. And I don't think I've ever seen a game border that's such a mess to begin with.

Great story, great characters, fun battle mechanics. But as an open-world game, I don't think it works.

I'd hope even if it exists on managed workstations, it wouldn't be able to change settings that are managed by administrators... If it can, what the fuck.