I know it sounds bad to say it now, but games journalism has always been terrible. You can find examples decades ago of access journalism and journalists who didn't even play the games they reviewed. Sure, back then they were usually harsher than they should have been, but i feel like that was healthier for the industry.
Either they have an unshakeable faith in the game, or they have so little faith it isn't even worth protecting to them. And i don't see a reason to have faith.
Someone recently talked about the next mass effect, and honestly with the way this is going i think they should shelve that talk until they're sure they aren't going under. They clearly don't have the talent/drive they used to have and EA has always been trigger happy.
I feel that way only about the fan games tbh, i love the reborn series of games, but high level Pokemon really shows the holes in the system. Gamefreak meanwhile genuinely seems like they are bad at their jobs, and they certainly haven't put effort into it in a long time.
Iirc that is only true in the sense that being queer does the same. It isn't anywhere near comparable in severity of course, I've never had a single person rant at me for being awake at 3am, but it's still a constricting society that punishes people for sticking out in big and small ways that causes compounding issues in people.
Stupid, but maybe stupid in a good way? Right wing grifters target kids all the time, if a moderate acknowledges them maybe they'll be less likely to fall into a pipeline.
I mean, this trailer really papers over the bad parts. If i didn't already see the original trailer and the gameplay i could be taken in by it. That said, i did see those, so I'm just gonna watch EA put bioware down from a distance.
An idea i had that i imagine would turn out pretty well is Japanese speaking forums for westerners specifically. It'd have a buy in that no one interested in only trolling would go in for (learning a language, especially one far from English).
Some pirate coves protect themselves by requiring an invite from someone already in the community, that could work really well too.
Generally, just requiring a little work to get someplace would make communities a lot nicer.
Consoles have gone almost nowhere since the xbox, of course they aren't going to be generating infinite growth. The ps5 controller is the first change in consoles I've seen in years that was genuinely interestingv outside of graphical quality. Nintendo is, of course, an exception to that. Every console they release is either genuinely different to the last or meaningfully upgraded, other business practices aside.
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I know it sounds bad to say it now, but games journalism has always been terrible. You can find examples decades ago of access journalism and journalists who didn't even play the games they reviewed. Sure, back then they were usually harsher than they should have been, but i feel like that was healthier for the industry.