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I've yet to see a journalist who was good at a videogame in the sense that we've come to expect from streamers and youtube and whatnot. But I reckon they don't really need to be.
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babypolis posted:They dont need to be pro players but I feel like at least a decent level of understanding of game design and logic is neccesary to be a good reviewer. Like if you review a game and say "such and such was confusing and badly designed" but then it turns out the design was perfectly fine and it was you being a moron, thats a failure as a critic True. That's typically when I avoid bylines with that particular name attached to it.
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Jun 6, 2017 15:39
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lmao if you live for anything but spite
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Jun 7, 2017 16:25
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Schreier does good work at Kotaku.
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Lurdiak posted:I can't believe there still isn't a good and easy way to play dungeons and dragons on the computer. Roll20 is my go-to. It even has official D&D support, but you shouldn't support D&D.
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the new wolfenstein trailer showing a nazi soldier palling around with a pair of klansmen is pretty effective imagery. hopefully we get some payoff on that.
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Captain Invictus posted:I know it'd never happen but I'd love to see some more well known game podcasts just put out an all-politics episode where they talk about how hosed things are right now. It's very easy to get stuck inside a bubble of distraction and be insulated from the dire state things are in. Waypoint is probably your best bet on that front. they seem to be the most likely to start talking about real-world politics (something I'm always a fan of). i just hope the game isn't pure rah-rah america good bullshit. it seems like it won't be, with bj talking to that maybe-communist guy who talks about fighting american imperialism.
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Lurdiak posted:Feminism is a self-defeating ideology that is collapsing in on itself and will never win, and also we must stop feminism from winning because it is an insidious and unstoppable threat. this is straight up one of umberto eco's methods for identifying a fascist
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there is something deeply ironic about a game developer who is afraid of the idea of universal basic income
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CJacobs posted:I dunno, that Notch guy seems pretty fuckin miserable! we should take his money
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Jun 12, 2017 16:18
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ubisoft is not gonna have a game where you confront the seething racial animus that boils just underneath the surface of american culture because that would actually be interesting
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Jun 12, 2017 17:43
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CJacobs posted:Deus Ex Mankind Divided tried it and it turns out it's a terrible idea the "mechanical apartheid" is one of the dumbest things i have ever seen. do it right, not dumb and bad
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Jun 12, 2017 17:52
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CJacobs posted:I don't think video games have enough space and time to provide the nuance to say anything other than "maybe both sides are bad..........." pretty narrow way of thinking about an art form
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Jun 12, 2017 17:55
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CJacobs posted:It's more about what's feasible than what's possible. Yeah it's probably possible to make a nuanced story so complex that it provides an interesting social commentary and a message that can be easily understood while also saying a lot of poignant stuff. But it's not feasible because the game only has a small amount of time/space to deliver that message to you, not to mention the skill it'd take to implement such a message. as they say, rome wasn't built in a day. it's not like they'll start making this sort of game tomorrow, but there are clear attempts at attempting to better the medium, and i believe they'll keep working at it. and not all social commentaries need to be deep af or anything. look at the new wolfenstein games for instance. "nazis should be shot" isn't particularly hard to do but it is nevertheless correct
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self-censoring is the funniest thing. like these people have lived in a time and age where censorship is a thing that doesn't happen for so long that they have no idea what it is
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an actual dog posted:I'm curious to see if there's gonna be any differences between the JP and NA versions of Xenoblade 2. After all the backlash they might be keeping everything the same this time. hopefully they make it look less bad
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Raserys posted:I WANNA MUNCH SQUAD
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In Training posted:10 year old me really Rogue the Bat's knockers i accidentally the whole sonic oc
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i mean hell yeah
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drakengard owns
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capitalism has broken us each in our own way
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I would take the combat in classic FF games over what 15 had any day. I liked 15, but man the combat was just not my thing.
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MGS2 was probably the most prophetic and relevant Metal Gear game and I will always love it for that despite the fact that snake eater is the best.
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Snak posted:What is "START theory"? if i had to guess, i think they mean the START treaty, which is about reducing the nuclear stockpiles of the united states and the former soviet union
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codenameFANGIO posted:This is correct and I did not mean to use the word "theory" to be fair recognizing what the START treaty is means you're either a metal gear solid nerd or a politics nerd, so i'm not exactly proud of myself for knowing this right off the dome
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